Join the Aquarium for its twentieth annual Pacific Island Festival. This festival features traditional music and dance, cultural displays, and craft demonstrations and celebrates Pacific Islander cultures, including Hawaiian, Tahitian, Samoan, Tongan, Chamorro, Marshallese, and Māori.
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Pacific Islander Festival
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Upcoming Events
$20
SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIAN PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE
The Norton Simon Museum houses a world-renowned collection of art from South and Southeast Asia, including examples of the rich sculptural and painting traditions that have developed in this region for more than 2,000 years.
Free
My hands are monsters who believe in magic
This exhibition showcases works by Asian diasporic artists that explore the process of unmaking and remaking the self. Focusing on art as a site of radical reimagination, the exhibition presents a cross-generational conversation about the liberatory possibilities inherent in the continuous, messy, and sometimes contradictory process of forming social identity.
$15
Victorian Christmas
Christmas Holiday display of our finest antiques, Santa Clauses, angels, choir boys, and village scenes that depict Dickens’s Victorian Christmas. Our Christmas tree will be decorated with our collection of antique ornaments and there will be a display of vintage Christmas cards.
Free
Movie Monday: Driveways
Join us for a screening of the 2019 film Driveways, starring Hong Chau and Brian Dennehy and directed by Andrew Ahn. A lonesome boy accompanies his mother on a trip to clean out his late aunt’s house, where he ends up forming an unexpected friendship with the retiree who lives next door.
Free
Free Citizenship Classes
Free Citizenship classes. Learn the civics, government, interview, and language skills needed for the Naturalization process. Students must have a green card.