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Jump to Japan: Discovering Culture through Popular Art
Date: 16/01/2010 - 08/05/2010
Time: 10:00 am - 05:00 pm
Kids can hop on the magical Cat Bus from the film My Neighbor Totoro. Children and adults can be a shopkeeper or customer in a modern manga store, and create their own manga drawings and animation. Visitors can take off their shoes and step into a traditional tatami (woven floor covered) room for a tea party, try on kimono, yukata or happi (traditional Japanese clothing) and play the ancient card game karuta.
Japanese animation and manga have become immensely popular among North American youth. Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! are familiar animated television icons of Japanese pop culture influenced by traditional Japanese art. Jump to Japan: Discovering Culture through Popular Art explores both traditional art forms and popular icons in a fun and educational exhibit.
Jump to Japan features three main exhibit areas that invite visitors to explore the art forms featured inside. In Fantastic Animation, kids will explore feature film animation. Visitors can discover manga (Japanese comics) and anime (Japanese animation) in Manga Mania. Children can explore Artful Traditions and learn about woodblock printing and scrolls.
The exhibit is composed of immersive environments and activities where visitors encounter the complexity of Japanese culture (traditional and contemporary, rural and urban, and realistic and fantastic) through art. Visitors are transported to a fantasy world as they step into a larger than life “Cat Bus” from Hayao Miyazaki’s film, My Neighbor Totoro. Children and adults can enter a small shop filled with manga and anime related goods and activities. In a traditional Japanese house, visitors can engage in time-honored Japan activities, dress in kimono and serve a tea, or discover the fine art of woodblock printing. Two art-making stations invite visitors to create their own animation and manga. Jump to Japan’s activities encourage visitors to explore and learn about Japanese culture.
Location: Grey Roots Museum & Archives
Address: 102599 Grey Rd 18 Owen Sound , ON N4K 5N5Website: http://www.greyroots.com/exhibitions/
E-mail: lara.javalyn@greyroots.com
Contact name: Lara Javalyn
Phone: 519-376-3690
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