OCA-OC Visits the Bowers Museum; Special Lunch with Author Oliver Chin March 4, 2007

OCA-OC Visits the Bowers Museum; Special Lunch with Author Oliver Chin
Sunday, March 4, 2007
11 am: Museum and Festival Opens
1 pm: OCA-OC Lunch with Author Oliver Chin
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art
2002 North Main Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706
Cost: See below
RSVP: [email protected]

Join OCA-OC as we spend a day at the Bowers Museum. There's
something for everyone that day! Meet in the courtyard for the
festival at 11 am, and then meet at Tangata (the restaurant)
at 1 pm for lunch!

1) Chinese New Year Family Festival (Location: Bowers Museum Courtyard)
"Begin the morning with Oliver Chin, Harvard graduate, super Dad and
children's author from San Francisco, as he reads from his delightful
books. Take part in the bountiful art activities and learn how to make
Chinese knots and paper cuts and watch how paper lanterns are made.
Enjoy a tea demonstration. View performers in a Chinese dance and
listen to Chinese music. Celebrate the Year of the Pig!" Admission to
festival: Free; nominal fee for art projects.

3) Lunch with author Oliver Chin (meet at the Bowers Museum
restaurant, Tangata, at 1 pm)
Just for OCA-OC, we're having lunch with visiting author Oliver Chin.
In the midst of a tour to promote his new children's book, "The Year
of the Pig," Oliver will talk about his experiences as an artist and
author, and working in the publishing business. In addition to his
children's books, Oliver is the author of "The Tao of Yao: Insights
from Basketball's Brightest Big Man," and the graphic novel "9 of 1: A
Window to the World," and has worked for Simon & Schuster, Viz
Communications (a publisher of Japanese comics) and International Data
Group. Lunch with Oliver Chin: Pay for what you eat.

3) Visit the Bowers' newest special exhibit: "Treasures from Shanghai:
5000 Years of Chinese Art and Culture." This features 77 sets of
objects from Neolithic times (circa 3000 B.C.) to the Qing Dynasty
(1644-1911 A.D.). This incredible collection portrays the evolution
of Chinese technology, art and culture utilizing the finest examples
of bronze vessels, oracle bones, polychrome potteries, sculptures,
porcelains, paintings, jade/bamboo carvings and lacquer works in the
new state-of-the-art Dorothy and Donald Kennedy Wing. Admission: $19
adults, $14 students.