FREE ALL DAY!

Celebrate the summer with our Natsumatsuri Family Festival. Our Natsumatsuri will have crafts, cultural performances and activities, and so much more!

ALL DAY ACTIVITIES:
• Celebrate Portraiture Now with a self portrait.
• Beat the heat by decorating and constructing a cool fan.
• It’s a JANM summer festival tradition! Make a wacky paper hat to show your style.
• Ruthie’s Origami Corner: Fold a hopping frog!
• Bounce around in our fun bounce house.
• Toddler Room: A fun place for our youngest guests to hang out in.
• Making wishes during the summer is a Japanese tradition. Make your own with our fun activity!

SCHEDULE:
11AM: Doors open.

11AM-3PM: Grow Your Own Media will screen print a special JANM Natsumatsuri tote bag just for you! For children only, while supplies last.
11:30AM&12:30PM: Taiko is a Japanese American tradition! Learn how to play taiko drums with JANM docent Hal Keimi.

12PM & 12:30PM – 1PM & 1:30PM – 2PM & 2:30PM: Take a family tour of our historical exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community with our experienced docents and learn how to fold a new origami shape!

12PM-5PM: We’ve brought back the popular activity from the kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa exhibition. Take a picture and respond to the question “What Are You?”

1PM: What is Obon all about? Rev. Bill Briones of Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple will discuss the history and traditions of Obon in Japan and the United States.

1PM-5PM: Let Party Faces give you a cool airbrush tattoo! For children only, line ends at 4:30PM.
2PM-5PM: Suehiro Kimono Agency will show you how to wear a yukata! Yukata are traditional Japanese garments worn during the summer to keep cool.

2:30PM: Get ready to dance! Los Angeles Hompa Hongwanji Buddhist Temple will show you how to dance traditional Japanese folk dances.

4PM: Rigo, the Japanese Mariachi and Lupita will delight you with their bilingual mariachi performance!

4:30PM: Enjoy a fun taiko performance by L.A. Matsuri Taiko!

5PM: Doors close.

Generously sponsored by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.