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Asian Art Museum Storyteller Roopa Mohan tells a tale about the Hindu deity Ganesha with the help of an artwork in the museum’s collection.
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Personal Space (2001), a layered, dreamlike painting by Kolkata-based artist Jayashree Chakravarty, is an imaginary map built up from painted strips of paper. In this activity, create your own map based on your special place.
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Create your own paper lantern and retell “The Girl Who Used Her Wits.”
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In this activity, observe the different moon phases, learn about the lunar calendar, and research some Hindu traditions and celebrations.
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Students will draw their favorite unlikely, small hero from the Philippine folk tale “Odon the Giant.”
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The story “Tiger and Puppy” is about a village with five families, where a mischievous tiger would eat all the food. An unlikely hero, a small puppy, comes to the rescue and helps the villagers capture the tiger. Create your own paper plate animals to retell this Korean folktale.
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Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Miriam Mills, engages pre-school students in the museum’s Korea galleries by telling a Korean folktale about a tiger and a puppy using artworks from the Asian Art Museum’s collection.
Background Information
Islam has been an important cultural force in much of Asia for more than five hundred years, and in some parts for more than a thousand. Today, far more Muslims live in other parts of Asia than in the Arab areas of Asia such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Syria.
