FREE with Suggested Museum Admission

For more than 3,000 years throughout East Asia, families celebrated the Harvest Moon Festival by listening to stories of the Moon goddess and Jade Rabbit while savoring moon cakes, pomelos and ginger tea.  Come celebrate this special occasion at the Newark Museum with your family and friends.  Enjoy a fun-filled day with dance and music performances, storytelling in the galleries, and hands-on activities—such as lantern making and papercutting—and even lunar explorations with the Museum's Astronomer.

Performances:

1:30 pm  P'oong-m'ul-Nori (Farmer's Dance)
                Poong Nyun Ga (Harvest Song of Fruitful Year)
                Presented by Sounds of Korea, the premier performance group of

                     the Korean Traditional Performing Arts Association, Inc.

2:45 pm  Celadon Youth Music Ensemble & Theatrical Group

4 pm        Huxia Edison Dance Troupe


Also don't miss our new gallery installation, Red Luster: Lacquer & Leatherworks of Asia. 




Image (above):

Chang'er Moon Goddess, attributed to T'ang Yin (1466–1524), China, c. 1520, Ming Dynasty, colors on silk, Collection of the Newark Museum, Gift of Mrs. Frank L. Babbot, 1954