Japanese American New Year's celebration

Fieldwork

Festivals Japan

Japanese Americans

Arts, Japanese

Holidays and festivals

Calendar rites

Writing

Rice

Cookery, Japanese

Rice (Cookery)

Games

New Year rites

Playing cards

Decorative arts

Pottery

Kimonos

Thirteen color slides. Images of a Japanese New Years celebration, including card playing, rice cooking, traditional calligraphy, craft demonstration, and traditional dress (eg kimonos). 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

1988-01

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1685

v. 7

Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Rosenberg, Jan

Japanese American

Asian American

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