Family Festivals
Target Free Family Saturday: Be Animated!
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Enjoy a day of family fun with anime and comic book activities and workshops. Keeping checking back for program schedule!
Generously sponsored by Target, these special Saturdays are filled with fun activities giving families unique ways to learn, play, and grow together.
All day craft activities:
# Put your drawings in motion by creating your own flipbook.
# It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s YOU! Become a superhero by designing your own mask and cape.
# Ruthie’s Origami Corner: Make an origami jumping frog!
All day special events and exhibition:
# A continuous screening of Spike TV’s anime sensation Afro Samurai
# View prints from Afro Samurai in our one time only special viewing
11:00 PM – Doors open
12:00 PM – East West Players Presents: Drop in Family Improv Workshop
1:00 & 3 PM – Animation & Digital Story Telling Workshop with Mar Elepaño
The Quickstory – using blank index cards and a pencil, the participants will create a short narrative using picture panels. They will then narrate it in real time recording just the panels with their voice as narration. The performance will be played back as a digital movie.
2:00 PM – Reading of The Year of the Ox with author Oliver Chin
2009 is the Year of the Ox! Olivia is a young ox eager to help but growing up is challenging. When her friend Mei gets in trouble, can Olivia rescue her adopted sister and discover her true character? Olivia's amazingly illustrated quest will delight children and adults alike. Fourth in the annual series Tales from the Chinese Zodiac, The Year of the Ox features all the colorful animals of the lunar calendar and shows how fun it is to "have a cow!"
2:30 PM – The history of Anime/Manga with Oliver Chin
Are you a fan of anime & manga? Well the world started before Bakugan, Bleach, and Naruto! Learn how Japanese animation & comics came to the USA as comics pro Oliver Chin tells how he helped make Pokemon a #1 hit (and other interesting stories) and the history of other best-selling series you might not know about. Once we're done, you'll have more titles you'll need to add to your reading and viewing lists!
4:00 PM – Doors close
ABOUT OUR FRIENDS:
Mar Elepaño
Mar Elepaño was born in the Philippines in 1954. He left for Los Angeles to study film in 1975 at the University of Southern California. He finished his degree in Film Production and stayed on to become a staff member and later adjunct faculty. He has been teaching at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in the John C. Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts since 1993 and also serves as the production supervisor for the division. He has been involved with community arts programs in Los Angeles that help young people create personal time based narratives since 1986 with organizations like Visual Communications Inc., the Heart Project, the Los Angeles Educational Partnership, the Korean Resource Center, Khmer Girls in Action.
Afro Samurai
Afro Samurai is the story of a Black samurai in a futuristic yet feudal Japan who is on a mission to avenge the wrongful death of his father. Afro is a warrior who travels a solitary path encountering a myriad of enemies, friends, and challenges beyond imagination. (From IMDB.com)
East West Players
East West Players is an Asian American theatre organization in Los Angeles, founded in 1965. As one of the nation’s first Asian American theatre organizations, East West Players today continues to produce works and educational programs that give voice to the Asian Pacific American experience.
For more information go to:
www.eastwestplayers.org.
Oliver Chin
Oliver Chin is the publisher of Immedium (
www.immedium.com) which creates wonderfully illustrated children’s books. A graduate of Harvard, he has written many books including The Tao of Yao: Insights from Basketball's Brightest Big Man, the graphic novel 9 of 1: A Window to the World, Julie Black Belt and the The Year of the Ox from the popular The Tales of the Chinese Zodiac series.
Oliver Chin helped popularize anime and manga in America by selling 1 million copies of Pokemon comics #1, which holds the US comics industry record for most printings (16). Called a “comics expert" and "an expert in Pacific Rim pop culture” by the San Jose Mercury News, he teaches people how to make their own comics at schools and libraries nationwide.
