18th Annual Peace around the World:
Penn Museum's Free Family
Holiday Celebration
Sunday Afternoon December 1
18th Annual Peace around the World: Penn Museum’s, 2014-Sunday, December 1
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We are going since 2011.
PHILADELPHIA 2013—Get
into the holiday spirit with a “passport” for peace! Circle family and
friends and head to the Penn Museum for the free 18th annual
Peace around the World holiday
celebration Sunday, December 1, 1:00 – 4:00pm. Guests receive Museum
“passports” with itineraries to visit six cultures via six
speakers
and explore holiday traditions from around the world. The afternoon also
features storytelling, a calming yoga session, henna hand art, balloon art,
facepainting
and international family crafts which enable guests to offer their personal
wishes for peace and unity, and free treats for children!
“This joyful and distinctively international celebration is
Penn Museum’s holiday ‘gift’ to our community,” said Dr. Julian Siggers, Penn
Museum Director. “We open our doors in the spirit of cultural understanding and
in the hope we all have for a world at peace.”
The Museum’s all-volunteer Women’s Committee, the
International Classroom Program, Restaurant Associates, Penn Museum’s exclusive
caterer and operator of the Pepper Mill Café, and Wilmington Trust are sponsors
of the celebration. Guests are invited to bring a new, unwrapped toy donation
to join in the Museum’s efforts to support the Penn Volunteers in Public Service during their holiday drive for
West Philadelphia charities.
Rita Sheth and Sudha
Ganesh, Bhartiya Vidalaya Cultural Center, focus on Diwali—the
Festival of Lights. During Diwali, lights are lit to celebrate the victory of
good over evil and welcome Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity. Ms.
Sheth, originally from Gujarat, India,
introduces Garba—the folk
dance of Gujarat (a Western Indian state) and a traditional dance of Diwali.
Ms. Ganesh, originally from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India,
demonstrates the arts of sari-wrapping and Rangoli (sand art). Nrutika Sankar, Leena Chakraborty, Sonal Makwana, and children from the Bhartiya
Vidalaya Cultural Center, offer a rhythmic dance performance to
Indian music inspired by Bengali writer and 1913 Nobel Prize Laureate
Rabindranath Tagore, starting at 2:00 pm. Guests are invited to learn bhangra
and garba during the folk dance workshop.
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