{"id":3950,"date":"2011-05-17T14:34:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T18:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2014-12-30T21:56:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T21:56:48","slug":"event-recap-apahm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/event-recap-apahm\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Recap: APA Heritage Month Family Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/apaprogram\/sets\/72157626588012485\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left:20px;margin-right:0;clear:right\" title=\"From top: handmade storybooks, clay fortune cookies, and Q&amp;A session Derek Shimoda (right) moderated by Cedric Yeh (left).\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2011\/05\/APAHM-Recap.jpg\" alt=\"From top: handmade storybooks, clay fortune cookies, and Q&amp;A session Derek Shimoda (right) moderated by Cedric Yeh (left).\" width=\"275\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a>Families and children of all ages came to the National Museum of American History to commemorate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianeducation.org\/Heritage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Asian Pacific American Heritage Month<\/a>. This day of activities centered on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/2011\/03\/04\/sweet-and-sour-showcase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sweet &amp; Sour<\/a><\/em>, a display that traces the evolution of Chinese food in the United States and the long history of Chinese immigration.<\/p>\n<p>There were many hands-on activities for children, including working with artist <a href=\"http:\/\/handmadestorybooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sushmita Mazumdar<\/a> to create handmade storybooks. Children also made clay fortune cookies, explored Asian spices, and learned how to use chopsticks. Visitors watched the film, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pingpongplaya.com\/fortunecookie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Killing of the Chinese Cookie<\/a><\/em>, and participated in a Q&amp;A discussion with director Derek Shimoda. Teens from the Hirshhorn\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/artlabplus.si.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ARTLAB+<\/a> video production program\u00a0 interviewed children and recorded their kitchen stories. These videos of the families can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianeducation.org\/heritage_month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.SmithsonianEducation.org\/Heritage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can <strong>listen and download<\/strong> the audio for Derek Shimoda&#8217;s <em>Killing of the Chinese Cookie<\/em> Q&amp;A.<a href=\"http:\/\/apa.si.edu\/downloads\/APAHM-Derek_Shimoda-Q&amp;A.mp3\"><br \/>\nClick here to download the MP3 file<\/a> (19mins, 23mb)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/apaprogram\/sets\/72157626588012485\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">View more photos<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/2011\/03\/31\/apa-heritage-month-family-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">View the original post about this event<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/indianamericanstory.wordpress.com\/2011\/05\/09\/apa-heritage-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Related <em>HomeSpun<\/em> Blog post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"www.SmithsonianEducation.org\/Heritage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Smithsonian Education Heritage Month Website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/apaprogram\/sets\/72157626588012485\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"From left: Storybook artist Sushmita Mazumdar, clay fortune cookies, and chopsticks game.\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2011\/05\/APAHM-Recap-2.jpg\" alt=\"From left: Storybook artist Sushmita Mazumdar, clay fortune cookies, and chopsticks game.\" width=\"595\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families and children of all ages came to the National Museum of American History to commemorate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. This day of activities centered on Sweet &amp; Sour, a display that traces the evolution of Chinese food in the United States and the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7904,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/7904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}