Silk Road Storytime

Pacific Asia Museum
46 North Los Robles Avenue, Pasadena, 91101
Saturday, February 6, 2010
10:30 a.m.
Ages: All
Cost: Museum Admission ($9 for General Admission; $7 for Students and Seniors;
FREE for Children Ages 11 and Under)
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Join everyone’s favorite storyteller Sunny Stevenson in the Travelers’ Tent for fabulous stories from along the Silk Road.
Afterwards, check out the exhibit Fashioning Domesticity, Weaving Desire: Visions of Filipina. “Fashioning Domesticity, Weaving Desire: Visions of the Filipina” exhibition explores the canonical visions of the early to mid 20th-century Filipina as civilized and/or wild. Through the juxtaposition of traditional textiles and ethnographic photography, as well as objects of personal adornment and popular print culture, this exhibition addresses the fashioning of domesticity and the weaving of desire as political strategies of polarization. Interrogating the body as a (dis)embodied landscape activated by the braided contexts of colonialism and democracy, the exhibition acknowledges that central to this binary of conquest and governance is the co-existence, reflection, and collision of the “modern” and “primitive.”