PEM Pals: Lunar New Year with Limin Mo

Name: PEM Pals: Lunar New Year with Limin Mo
Start: 2025-01-03T10:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-03T11:30:00-05:00
Location: Peabody Essex Museum

Schedule

Fri Jan 03 2025 at 10:30 am to 11:30 am

UTC-05:00

Location

Peabody Essex Museum | Salem, MA

Friday, January 3, 2025 from 10:30—11:30 am
In-person event
Location: Main Atrium
Included with admission
Join us in preparing for Lunar New Year celebrations with a special PEM Pals! Enjoy traditional storytelling by an award-winning writer and artist who brings Chinese tales to life, and learn how to make your own snake bookmark for the Year of the Snake. Recommended for children 12 and under – older siblings and friends are welcome for this PEM Pals!
Designed for children (5 and under) and their caregivers, PEM Pals aims to engage and excite all of the senses through books, movement, music, art and hands-on activities. Held on the first Friday of the month at 10:30 am.
Limin Mo is an award-winning writer and acclaimed artist and storyteller. She creates performance art incorporating painting, singing and writing into video productions. Mo was born in Shanghai and made her way to the U.S. in the 1960s. For four decades, she has lived and worked in Cambridge, MA, where she raised three children. She previously worked with Peter Schuman's Bread and Puppet Theater and studied with Reality Theatre-Gurdinieze, Japanese Kyogen Players and Joan Halifax. She holds an MA in Theater and Education from Goddard College and an MFA from Emerson College in Creative Writing. She is also a passionate gardener and an accomplished chef