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2010 – LUNAR NEW YEAR FESTIVAL – Saturday, February 27th
Saturday, February 27, 2010 Time: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
5:00 p.m. Registration, Silent Auction, Orchid Sales and Calligraphy
5:30 p.m. Cocktails and Viewing Exhibits
6:00 p.m. 50-Foot Firecrackers, Martial Arts Demonstration and Lion Dance
6:30 p.m. Chinese New Year Buffet
7:30 p.m. Chinese Music & Dance Performances
8:30 p.m. Announcement of Silent Auction Winners, Best Costume Prizes and Lucky Red Envelopes for Children
Tickets are available at the Museum and at Calypso Café/Half Price Books
Adults: (Pre-Sale) $35 (At the Door) $40
Children 6-12 years of age and students:(Pre-Sale) $15 (At the Door) $20
Children 5 years of age and under: Free
Texas State Museum Of Asian Cultures & Education Center 1809 N. Chaparral St., Corpus Christi, TX 78401 (361) 882-2641 / Fax (361) 882-5718 www.asianculturesmuseum.org
Chinese Lunar New Year 2007
Beat the ceremonial drum! It’s nearly time to celebrate the Year of the Boar!
The Chinese year 4705 begins on February 18, 2007. Food, fun, and a fantastic silent auction will be some of the many highlights as the Texas State Museum of Asian Cultures & Education Center hosts its annual Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration on Saturday February 24 (5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m).
Gao Feng Art Exhibit
The artist, Gao Feng, was born in 1928 in Xiang Yun County, Yunnan,
P.R.C. In 1949, Gao, age 21 began working for the Yunnan Third Engineering
Construction Company. He was a teacher and then the principal of the
high school attached to the company for 38 years. After retiring in 1987,
he devoted himself to the study and practice of Chinese calligraphy and
since 1996, the Dongba culture of Lijiang, in particular, their
pictographic script. His 3 series, Worship Heaven, Worship Dragon, and Worship
Wind, incorporate Dongba pictographs into calligraphy drawings to
narrate for Chinese readers three ancient Naxi myths interpreted by living
Dongba shamen from their ancient pictographic books.
Published by Yunnan Nationality Press in December of 2000, the texts of
all three were translated into English for the 2005 publication
accompanying the U.S. Exhibition of Gao Feng’s Worship Heaven at the Texas
State Museum of Asian Cultures in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. Other Gao
publications —— Dongba Pictographic Reading Book for Pupils and A
Workbook for Translating Names of Modern Things into Dongba Pictographic
Scripts, and others —— are in progress.