From CSULB, CSULA, the Huntington & the Japanese American National Museum
With the promise of a dry, sunny and increasingly warm weekend, there's lots to get out to see and learn about, including:
- In Long Beach, Native Americans will gather Saturday and Sunday for the 40th annual Pow Wow, which also will help commemorate 41 years of American Indian studies at the school, which asserts it has the oldest such scholarly program west of the Mississippi. There will be feasting, art and craft sales, dancing and competitions at the free, public event.
40th annual Long Beach Pow Wow also marks 41 years of Native American studies
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- In San Marino, scholars from across the country will gather to examine 19th Century Americans' fascination with ruins -- from Native American cultures, Egypt and Cyprus, among other spots. Why and how did the fledgling nation need its real and imagined ties with long lost civilizations and how did those earlier experiences shape contemporary U.S. life? There is a fee and registration required for the program that begins this (fri) morning and runs through Saturday. Click on the link contained in the brief blurb describing the program for the registration form and speaker list.
Session scrutinizes 19th Century Americans' fascination with ruins, antiquities
- In East LA, experts on Mesoamerica will gather Sunday for their free, public conference at which they will take up such topics as the Maya, caves and ancient warfare, new views on Aztec human sacrifice and the ancient peoples' religious practices and gender ideologies. Refreshments will be provided and reservations are recommended.
A springtime exploration of all things Mesoamerican
- In Little Tokyo, it's worth catching up with 'Textured Lives,' an exhibit of painstakingly collected textiles that illuminate the unique connections between Japanese immigrants and their new lives in their new world -- the plantations of Hawaii. Some of the newcomers made use of their knowledge of fabric, sewing and design to create clothes to protect them in the fields, garments that melded Japanese, Portuguese and Chinese styles; others carried to their new American lives treasures of their Japanese heritage in fine kimono and other stylish clothing or textiles.
'Textured Lives' tells tale in fabric of ties between Japanese immigrants, life in Hawaii
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