ART ACTIVITY: PAPER MARIGOLD FLOWERS 6–10 PM | Arbor Walk, 2nd Floor Marigold flowers are made up of multiple layers of FRIDAY, overlapping petals with the petals getting smaller and more condensed towards the flowers center, similiar APRIL 18 to that of a carnation. The blooms may be single or double colored and can be varying hues of yellow, 2014 | FREE orange, red and maroon. In India, marigolds symbolize 6 PM to Midnight passion and creativity. It is known as the ‘Herb of the Sun’ and symbolizes a trust in the divine and a will to overcome obstacles. This is also why the flower assumes such importance on PEACE, LOVE, ASIA Vijayadashami, the day Lord As Buddha tells us, Rama prevalied over Ravana, a victory of good over evil. Show “Peace comes from your creative side while arranging within.” Celebrate the tissue paper to make your own healing power of art and marigold. community, find peace, love, creative expression, PRINTMAKING DEMONSTRATIONS and Asian art. BY THE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON FREE TIBET CLUB GONGFU TEA CEREMONY & SAMPLING 6–11 PM | East Balcony 6–10 PM | Jade Room, 2nd Floor The Booker T. Washington High School for the The gongfu tea ceremony is also known as the Performing and Visual Arts Free Tibet Club is a Chinese tea ceremony. It is a Chinese cultural activity cultural exchange-based group of students who use involving the ritualized preparation and presentation printmaking primarily as a means to fund education of tea. The original term gongfu cha literally means and sponsorship of Tibetan children, Drepung Monks, “making tea with effort.” Today, the approach is used and schools in and outside of China. The students popularly by teashops carrying have designed prints that symbolize Peace, Love and tea of Chinese or Taiwan origins, Asia and will be printing their woodcuts on shirts and and by tea connoisseurs as a way posters. Stop by and get a one of kind Peace, Love, to maximize the taste of a tea Asia shirt for $5 or a poster for $3. selection, especially a finer one. Enjoy an authentic gongfu tea PERFORMANCE: GUZHENG ceremony and sampling provided 7–8 PM | Grand Gallery, 2nd floor by Kyle Stewart with The Cultured Guzheng is a traditional Chinese plucked zither, Cup. or musical string instrument. The guzheng is the ancestor of several Asian zither instruments, such as ART ACTIVITY: BAMBOO POTTING the Japanese koto, the Korean gayageum, and the 6–10 PM | West Plaza Vietnamese dàn tranh. Among all Chinese traditional Bamboo has long been the Chinese symbol for musical instruments, guzheng has the most beautiful strength. Many admire the bamboo’s qualities of sounds. Enjoy the beautiful melodies of a Chinese fast-growth and resilience. In Chinese, lucky bamboo harp performed by Anita Hu. is known as fu gwey zhu (fu: luck and fortune, gwey: power and honor, zhu: bamboo). The meaning of PERFORMANCE: JOURNEYMAN INK lucky bamboo plays an important role as a living 8 PM & 9:30 PM | Grand Gallery, 2nd floor example of the feng shui elements of water, wood Will Richey and Alejandro and earth. Take a little feng shui home with you by Perez, Jr. (AP) engage learning how to plant and care for your very own audiences with their lucky bamboo. infectious and kinesthetic call and response ART ACTIVITY: GYOTAKU approach to the art 6–10 PM | West Balcony of Spoken Word as Gyotaku, from gyo “fish” and taku “rubbing,” is the expressed through original traditional method of Japanese fish printing, dating stories, poetry, and song. back to the mid-1800s. This form of nature printing Their mastery of the “Melody Memory Method”, was used by fishermen to known for its low risk/high success effects and record their catches, but interactive “see it, say it, do it” style, invites the crowd has also became an artform to become an instrument themselves through various on its own. Using fish molds, rhythms and vocalized mantras. Their dynamic create your own gyotaku print connection is not only shared through their Puerto to commemorate your prize Rican heritage, but in their desire to cross cultures, catch here at the Crow. creeds, and races by awakening the creative soul. They are the founders of DaVerse Lounge, were WRITING ACTIVITY: HAIKU featured on the TEDxSMU 2013 stage, and have 6–10 PM | Arbor Walk, 2nd floor been nominated for a Dallas MasterMind Award for A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem Innovation of Art and Culture in North Texas. Take with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable part in Journeyman Ink’s spoken word experience, count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku which transcends cultures, creeds, emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness and races by awakening of expression. In honor of National Poetry Month, the creative soul. become your own haiku poet and learn how to master this poetic form using a piece from our 2010 Flora Street collection as your inspiration. Dallas Arts District crowcollection.org.