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Pacific Asia Museum – Free Family Festival – May 12

Pacific Asia Museum will hold a Free Family Festival celebrating the current exhibition The Garden in Asi aon Sunday, May 12, 2013 from 12-4 p.m. Admission to the event and Pacific Asia Museum galleries is free and open to the public during that time.
Planned especially for Mothers’ Day, this Free Family Festival is perfect for an afternoon family outing. Visitors can enjoy crafts, henna art, performances and more inspired by the exhibition The Garden in Asia. In addition, the Paradise Cookies truck will be on hand with their signature ice cream cookie sandwiches and other sweet treats. 
Admission to the Pacific Asia Museum galleries is also free throughout the Festival; current exhibitions on view include The Garden in AsiaThe Art of Continuity: Revering our EldersFocus on the Subject: The Art of the Harari Collection, and the newly-opened Takashi Tomo-oka.
 
Courtyard Activities
12-4 p.m.             Make a koinobori (fish windsock)
Make a 3-D paper mini garden
Compose your own garden-inspired poetry
Take the garden animals scavenger hunt challenge
Plant your own succulent with the California Cactus Center  
Auditorium Foyer
12:30-3 p.m.        Free henna hand painting by Lotus Henna  
Auditorium
12:00-12:45 p.m. Performance by String and Bamboo Music
2:00 -2:45 p.m.    Folktale Storytelling by We Tell Stories 
 
Pacific Asia Museum’s Free Family Festivals are made possible in part by the Capital Group Company, Margaret Leong Checca, Festival of the Autumn Moon supporters, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Lon V. Smith Foundation, the Union Bank Foundation, and the Katherine Audrey Webb Foundation.
About Pacific Asia Museum
Pacific Asia Museum is among the few institutions in the United States dedicated exclusively to the arts and culture of Asia and the Pacific Islands. The museum’s mission is to further intercultural understanding through the arts of Asia and the Pacific Islands. Since 1971, Pacific Asia Museum has served a broad audience of students, families, adults, and scholars through its exhibitions and programs.

Pacific Asia Museum is located at 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, California 91101. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $10 general, $7 students/seniors, and free for museum members and children under 12. Admission is free every 4th Friday of the month. For more information visit www.pacificasiamuseum.org or call (626) 449-2742.

Pre-Grand Reopening Party at Jacob Maarse!

A pre-grand reopening party is going on at Jacob Maarse today, April 25, from 4:30 – 6:30 pm. Stop by to see the updated touches they’ve made to their already beautiful location!

Jacob Maarse
655 East Green Street
Pasadena, CA 91101

626.449.0246

Pizza and Wine… OH MY!

Did you know you can get free corkage at SETTEBELLO PIZZA when you purchase a bottle of wine at MONOPOLE WINE?

Monopole will steer you toward the best Italian wine to go with real Napolitano Pizza. Just bring your store receipt to Settebello across the street on Colorado, and you won’t be charged for bringing in your own wine.

Monopole Wine: 21 S. El Molino Ave. Pasadena 91101

Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana: 625 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena 91101

Spring Is In The Air and Galerie Gabrie is Cleaning House!

“PRIX MARKET” ON GREEN: An Outdoor Sidewalk Event

Friday and Saturday

April 26-27,2013

9:00 AM – 3:00PM

prix market

   Authentic Estate finds, artwork – originals and prints, pottery, rugs, linens, periodicals, frames, objects d’art

 

Open to the Public at Trade prices

Coming In May……

 

Charles Muench

“Conversations With Nature”

 

heart of eaton

Exhibit Opening to the public Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Artist Reception, Thursday May 9th 5:00 – 8:00pm

 

Galerie Gabrie Hours:

Tuesday – Saturday 12:00-5:00 p.m.
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 597 EAST GREEN STREET

  PASADENA, CA 91101

  626-577-1223

  www.gabrie.com

  “The Tradition of Fine Art Continues…”

Mother’s Day Brunch at Roy’s

 

Click HERE for full menu and more information.

Roy’s Pasadena: 641 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena 91101

The Playhouse District’s Famers Market is back!

Have you heard? The Playhouse District’s Farmers Market is back in a new location and with more produce! The Farmers Market has moved to 535 E. Union Street, near the corner of Oakland and Union, across the street from PMCA and next to Fuller.

The certified Farmers Market will take place every week starting Wednesday, April 17 until Wednesday, October 30 from 3:30 pm – 7:30 pm. For more information visit www.pasadenafarmersmarket.org.

Takashi Tomo-oka Opens at Pacific Asia Museum on April 19

Pacific Asia Museum presents the new exhibition Takashi Tomo-oka in the Focus Gallery from April 19 through July 28, 2013. This exhibition is the first in a year-long series of contemporary Asian art exhibitions in this gallery.

Takashi Tomo-oka features six scroll-mounted photographic works that combine the classical and contemporary. As a young artist, Tomo-oka became interested in nihonga (neo-traditional Japanese painting) but was drawn to photography, adopting the digital camera as his medium rather than a brush. Tomo-oka eliminates all extraneous visual information other than the subject itself: vegetal forms such as maples and dahlias. The resulting images display a sensibility similar to that of the Rimpa school’s nature studies in the 18th century, but replacing their gold leaf with stark white backgrounds. Each work is the result of careful study of the plant forms, including structure and color as well as their ephemerality. These spare compositions are digitally printed on washi (paper) and mounted in scroll format, further blurring the divide between his painterly sensibilities and digital methods.

Pacific Asia Museum is located at 46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, California 91101. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $10 general, $7 students/seniors, and free for museum members and children under 12. Admission is free every 4th Friday of the month. For more information visit www.pacificasiamuseum.org or call (626) 449-2742.

Vroman’s Pop-Up Clearance Shop!

Vroman’s Bookstoreis hosting a pop up clearance shop in Arcade Lane that will be open starting today, Thursday, April 4 through Tuesday, April 30 from 12pm-8pm daily.  Make sure to stop by to see what kind of treasures they have!

Located directly across the street from Vroman’s Bookstore.
 
Hundreds of books and gift items from Vroman’s and Book Soup reduced 75% or more!
Books of all genres, stationery, and decor- everything is on clearance.
New items will be unpacked daily!

Arcade Lane, 696 E. Colorado Blvd. #6, Pasadena, 91101

What are those pink trees called? TABEBUIAS!

Spring time is here and the Playhouse District’s tabebuia trees are blooming! These pink “trumpet” trees are native to the Americas  and love sunshine! Look for their pink blossoms on our streets the next time you’re in the Playhouse District!

SAVE THE DATE: Playhouse District Association Annual Meeting – April 23

RSVP at gilda@playhousedistrict.org