Bon Festival at the Morikami Museum

Performers

Drummers (Musicians)

Fieldwork

Festivals

Holidays and festivals

Japanese Americans

Arts, Japanese

Asian Americans

Asian American arts

Arts, Asian

Clothing and dress

Kimonos

Ullambana

Festivals Japan

Lanterns

Drums

Percussion instruments

Eighteen color slides. The Bon Festival is the Morikami Museum version of Obon (Ullambana), a traditional three-day Japanese festival to honor the dead. Traditionally, the day ends with lighted lanterns to guide souls back to the afterlife. In additions to the lanterns, images of the Bon Festival feature folk dancing, street performers, Japanese cultural demonstrations, and Taiku drumming. The festival was held each August. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1685

1987-08-16

Florida Folklife Program

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1685

v. 5

Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Rosenberg, Jan

Japanese American

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