OK–you’ve just finished the Pacific Asia Museum’s six-month docent training program. What happens next?
Pacific Asia Museum Education Programs Manager Kabir Singh and Marketing and Communications Director Chelsea Mason provided some answers.
Have more questions on becoming a docent at the Pacific Asia Museum, 46 North Robles in Pasadena? They’re having an Open House next Tuesday morning, May 21, at 10:00, and will be happy to give you some answers!
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Photograph ©2013 Phillip Scholz Rittermann, and used with permission.
No one denies that Lani Hall Alpert and her husband, Herb Alpert, are legendary musicians.
But–did you know that she is also a gifted writer, and he’s a noted abstract artist?
This spring, Lani has just published her first book, entitled “Emotional Memoirs and Short Stories.”
In her book, Lani shares some of her memories from her early years in Chicago, skillfully relating them to ten short stories, written over a period of thirty years.
Her stories cover a wide spectrum: intriguing, unsettling, tragic, redemptive–but they’re always honest and compelling.
Meanwhile, Herb has been creating visual art since the late 1960s. He has a new exhibit, entitled “in.ter.course”, at the Robert Berman Gallery of Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station Arts Center from now through June 8th. Continue reading
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Pasadena’s Pacific Asia Museum knows how to throw a party. They’re currently planning four of them!
This Friday evening, May 17th, everyone’s invited to the first of their summer-series “Fusion Friday” celebrations, for Summer, 2013. Dancing, refreshments, entertainment with an Indonesian flavor and chances to create your own art are all part of the party plan!
Pacific Asia Museum Education Manager Kabir Singh and Museum Director of Marketing Chelsea Mason offered a preview, not only of this week’s “Fusion Friday” kick-off, but of the three others in this summer’s series. And Chelsea says they also have an exciting “Authors On Asia” series–with a presentation this Sunday that “foodies” won’t want to miss!
The first of the Pacific Asia Museum’s “Fusion Fridays” for Summer, 2013, starts at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 17th, at the museum, at 46 North Los Robles.
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Hector Tobar says he never expected to become an award-winning journalist and author.
At a recent lecture at Pasadena City College, Hector talked about his growing-up years in Los Angeles. His teachers, he said, did not encourage him in his writing. Hector recalled only once that an instructor commented favorably on something he’d written.
Fast-forward to today–when Hector has written for the Los Angeles Times for more than twenty years. Continue reading
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