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Tanabata is a Japanese summer star festival when people make wishes that they hope will come true. These festivals and traditions were important ways for forcibly-relocated Japanese Americans in Arkansas to remain connected to their heritage while confined to internment camps during World War II.
Plantation Agriculture Museum is using the holiday as an opportunity to celebrate the last weekend of the temporary exhibit Muttsu no Kazoku: Six Families' Journey from Internment to Scott. Join museum staff to hear the story of Tanabata and decorate a paper fan (an essential for summer festivals in Japan as well as Arkansas!), followed by a guided tour of the temporary exhibit. Throughout the day, anyone visiting the museum is invited to write a wish on a strip of paper called a tanzaku and hang it on the bamboo branches at the front of the museum, as we celebrate the summer and say goodbye to our spring exhibit.
Who
Ages 8+
Cost
FREEHow
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