MUSEUM ACTIVITIES UPDATE
(For bookings, ring 9662 2888 or email info@chinesemuseum.com.au)
1-18 September 2009 (for schools)
3 October 2009 (for public)
Mid-Autumn LANTERN Festival
It is known Chinese people celebrating Mid Autumn Festival by eating round mooncakes and enjoying the moon. The Festival is celebrated in the last month of the Northern summer, when the days are still warm and the moon is full and round on the fifteenth of the month.
SCHOOL
The Museum invites schools or community groups to participate in the Mid-Autumn LANTERN Festival in September. The Museum will celebrate with story telling, moon cake and lantern making workshop, singing and dancing workshop, colouring competition and other traditional activities.
School children can enter the colouring competition as well.
Download the colouring templete here.
Date: 1-18 September 2009
Session 1: 10am - 12pm
Session 2: 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Admission: $12 per student
PUBLIC
The public are invited to celebrate the festival on 3rd October 2009.
Strips of paper with riddles written on them are glued to the lanterns for children and adults to guess the riddles. There are programmes like moon cake making, story telling and lantern making workshop.
Date: 3 October 2009
Fee: $10 (Adult), $8 (Student/Concession)
*extra $3 for tea and mooncake tasting
Audio Chinatown Heritage Walking Tour
It was recently given a Commendation for Best audio-visual multimedia at the Victorian Community History Awards for 2009. Please come and join us to memorize the time in Chinatown of 1930s and 1940s with MP3.
Fee: $10 adult / $8 children
29 June - 10 July 2009
School Holiday Programme
Kids, tell your parents where to go!
Visit the Museum during school holiday and join the Heritage Treasure Hunt activities, special prizes would be offered!!!!
Fee: $7.5 adult / $5.5 concession/children
1 July 2009 & 8 July 2009
Teachers Professional Development Day
Teachers are invited to attend Teachers Professional Development Day on either 1 July (11:00a.m.-12:30p.m.) or 8 July 2009 (2:00p.m.- 3:30p.m.) with FREE brief guided museum tour and discussion of cultural development in schools
Kids of attending teachers can join the Chinese craft workshop during the session FREE.
Please call 9662 2888 for registration by 19 June 2009
