Special performances celebrating two new exhibitions

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January 11, 2019 Visit Us | More Exhibitions | More Events | Support Us | Accessibility | Membership | Museum Tours CELEBRATE TWO NEW EXHIBITIONS Gods in My Home: Chinese New Year with Ancestor Portraits and Deity Prints Opens Saturday, January 26; 12:00 pm Free with Museum admission Bringing together Chinese ancestral paintings and traditional popular prints, this ROM original exhibition examines the unexplored connection between these two seemingly separate genres in the context of Chinese Lunar New Year.  Find out more Exhibit Patron E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation ROM SPEAKS Gods in My Home: Opening Celebration Concert & Exhibition Preview Wednesday, January 23; 7:00 pm Separately ticketed Celebrate Chinese New Year and the opening of the ROM original exhibition, Gods in My Home with a lively New Year's Lion Dance followed by a rare concert performance by Chinese erhu virtuoso George Gao.  Let's celebrate Being Japanese Canadian: reflections on a broken world Opens Saturday, February 2; 12:00 pm Free with Museum admission Explore a series of artworks interspersed throughout the Sigmund Samuel Gallery of Canada, and encounter personal perspectives on the exile, dispossession, and internment of Japanese Canadians during the 1940s.  Plan your visit ROM SPEAKS Being Japanese Canadian: Opening Program and Concert plus Exhibition Preview Thursday, January 31; 7:00 pm Separately ticketed Join Grammy-nominated Japanese Canadian flutist Ron Korb and celebrated Japanese Canadian author & playwright Terry Watada for an evening of spoken word and musical performance to mark the opening of the exhibition Being Japanese Canadian. Buy tickets All photos courtesy of ROM unless otherwise noted. For Gods in My Home: Enjoy Music (happiness) Together, Republic of China (1912-1949), Yangliuqing, Tianjin. Woodblock print, ink and colours on paper. Each size: 53 x 29.6 cm. For ROM Speaks Chinese New Year: Image courtesy of ElectriCity Events. For Being Japanese Canadian: Painting of young girl (Lillian Michiko Blakey) - "Reiko, Alberta 1945 by Lillian Michiko Blakey, acrylic on canvas, 2009. Photo credit: Nikkei National Museum, 2013.57.1.6." For media inquiries please contact media@rom.on.ca The ROM relies on the generous support of donors to bring our programs, exhibitions and research to life. You can help ensure the future success of the ROM by making a donation today. giving@rom.on.ca | 416.586.5660 The ROM is an agency of the Government of Ontario.  You are receiving this email because you expressly consented to receive ecommunications from romnews@rom.on.ca or because you have a recent business relationship with the ROM. Please add romnews@rom.on.ca to your address book to ensure we land in your inbox. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link at the bottom of this email.

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