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From: DEAF Media - Jan 6, 2005

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Come join DEAF Media at the Oakland Museum's Family Explorations

LUNAR NEW YEAR FESTIVAL
Year of the Rooster

WHEN:  Sunday, January 30, 2005     Noon - 4   p.m.

**EVERYONE WELCOME - DEAF, HEARING, YOUNG, AND YOUNG AT HEART**

WHERE: The Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street at 10th
(1 Block East of the Lake Merritt Bart Station

Deaf Events at the Festival:

- 12-3 Art activity with Deaf artists (on going) Amelia Wong, Raine Cheng, Ron Trumble, DEAF Media staff and members of BAADA (Bay Area Asian Deaf Assn.)

- 1 DEAF Media storytelling with Nan Zhou

Plus Interpreted Festival Events:

Celebrating the Year of the Rooster with lion dancing; Taiko drumming; music and dance; cooking demonstrations; mochi pounding and tasting; artists' market place, including chopsticks by our own Ron Trumble; storytelling; and hands-on art activities. The agile Red Panda Acrobats and the Filipino dance troupe Sampaguita will perform and more...

ADMISSION: FREE with RSVP ($8 adults, $5 children/seniors without pre-registration)
Note: this includes free admission to all the museum galleries for the whole day.

RSVP: rsvp@deafmedia.org, OR (510) 841-0165 TTY, (510) 841-0163 Voice

Voice interpreters provided for non signing family members and friends.

INFO: http://www.deafmedia.org or http://www.museumca.org

DEAF Media's participation in this event is made possible in part through the generosity of the George H. Sandy Foundation; the Dorothy L. and James E. Frank Foundation. and DEAF Media donors and volunteers.

We hope to see you there!

Susan D. Rutherford, Ph.D.
Executive Director