Day of Discovery: Weaving Tales

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Venue:	Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Hours:	Saturday, March 15, 11:30am-4:00pm
Ages:	Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	$ see below
Category:	Special Events

Join us for a day of programs and activities designed for all ages around the special exhibition Luxury for Export: Artistic Exchange between India and Portugal around 1600. Discover stories, imagery, and history within the museum’s remarkable large-scale embroidery made in India, then make connections with throughout the museum with art-making and art-looking activities designed for all ages.

Schedule of Events
11:30-4:00pm: Art Activity: Sketching and 'Foil Surprise' around the courtyard

11:30am: 'Taal Tales' by Tara Ahmed
Taal Tales offers a brief history of classical South Indian dance and performance of lively dance pieces. Tara Ahmed conveys vivid stories from Hindu mythology and intersperses performance with lecture and audience participation. Taal Tales presents dance as both an intrinsically beautiful art form and a kinetic way to communicate culture.

1:30pm: Indian Dance performance by Triveni Dance, with live traditional music
Discover the vibrant music and dance of India in this performance by the talented young dancers from the Triveni Dance Ensemble.Through this performance of Indian classical dance discover intricate rhythmical patterns and a stylized system of gesture and facial expressions choreographed to praise and tell the stories of the gods and goddesses of the Hindu pantheon.

2:00-4:00pm: Embroidery Demonstration and Workshop
Learn a few stitches and embroider unique images of fish, mermaids, kings, and other animals that can be discovered in the Gardner Museum's embroidered textile featured in 'Luxury for Export.' Space is limited and available on a first come, first served basis.

2:30pm: 'Apples from the Sky' a gallery performance by Artist-in-Residence Serra Yilmaz
Artist Serra Yilmaz will delight audiences of all ages with this performance created in conjunction with 'Luxury for Export:'
Once upon a time there was, and once upon a time there wasn’t, in ancient times, when the sieve was in the straw, when fleas were camels and camels postmen, when I rocked my mother’s cradle, after having crossed mountains and valleys, a little woman came from far away to stay in Isabella’s house. The entire time she was a guest in this house she wondered how she could share a bit of what she knew how to do with all of Isabella’s friends…..she decided to offer up her voice and her stories... as her grandmother once used to do...Then three apples fell from the sky, the first on the head of the one who was telling the story, the second on the head of the one who was listening and the third on the head of the characters in all her tales...

3:00pm:'Taal Tales' by Tara Ahmed
A repeat performance for afternoon visitors of Tara Ahmed's delightful and educational discussion and performance of Indian classical dance.

COST

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FREE with museum admission. Adults: $12 Children under 18: FREE Museum Members: FREE

WEBSITE

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www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/detail.asp?filtid=822

LOCATION

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25 Evans Way, Boston, MA map
Phone: 617-566-1401

Via Public Transportation: Green 'E' Line, get off at 'Museum of Fine Arts' stop, walk down, cross Huntington Avenue, walking down Louis Prang Street on The Fenway. The Isabella Stewart Gardner museum is located at 280 The Fenway, beside Simmons College.