Teachers from the Milpitas Indian Community Center introduce India's cultural festivals, dance traditions, and art activities. Learn to dance bhangra like a Bollywood star, make a traditional drum, or create your own colorful floor art. Themes change every month. This program is offered in partnership with the India Community Center.

Leta Bushyhead, Asian Art Museum Storyteller, tells a Chinese folktale inspired by objects in the museum's collection. Note: The objects in this video are used to enhance this telling of The Magic Paintbrush and were not created by the artists specifically to illustrate this story.

A renowned master of Arabic and Chinese calligraphy, Haji Noor Deen brings shows known sini (Chinese Islamic calligraphy) in this video from the Asian Art Museum. In addition to using traditional sini, he also transforms Arabic script into Chinese-looking characters, bringing two cultural traditions together in his own way.

An introduction to Shinto, Japan's earliest religion.

Travel through 6,000 years of history, trek across seven major regions, and sample the cultures of numerous countries with these fantastic videos from the Asian Art Museum. For more videos and educational resources, visit: http://education.asianart.org

Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Miriam Mills, tells the Chinese folktale, 'The Dragon's Pearl' in the Asian Art Museum collection galleries. This video features artworks from the Asian Art Museum&'s permanent collection.

Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Miriam Mills, tells an excerpt from The Ramayana (The Life of Rama) in the Southeast Asian galleries at the Asian Art Museum. This video features artworks from the Asian Art Museum's permanent collection.

Linda Lei, Asian Art Museum Docent, discusses the symbols of Chinese New Year with teachers at the New Years Celebrations Teacher Workshop at the Asian Art Museum on February 4, 2012.

Video for the Hokusai and Hiroshige: Great Japanese Prints from the James A. Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts exhibition that took place at the Asian Art Museum (filmed at former museum location in Golden Gate Park) from September 26 - December 6, 1998.

An introduction to the art and architecture of the Hindu temples of India.

Explore Hinduism through clips of significant sites in South Asia and interviews with members of the Bay Area South Asian community. For Part 2 follow link.

Her Highness Princess Gouri Parvathi Bayi of the Travancore Royal Family will introduce the history of her family -- an illustrious dynasty that governed, using a sacred concept of trusteeship, one of the most progressive princely states of pre-Independence India. Her Highness will share the history of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple, a Hindu Temple with close associations to the royal family and recently much in the news as India's 'wealthiest temple.'

Explore Buddhism through clips of significant sites in South Asia and interviews with members of the Bay Area South Asian community.

On December 10, 2011, ten Bay Area taste-makers give five-minute presentations about the impact of Indian culture and art on their creative work. From Bollywood to yoga, street food to poetry and art, South Asia has inspired creativity across the world. Speakers include: Pixar animator Sanjay Patel, poet and psychiatrist Ravi Chandra, artist Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, LACMA curator Julie Romain, artist Ranu Mukherjee, musician Cory Combs, India West editor Lisa Tsering, contemporary art collector Dipti Mathur, yoga instructor Monica Desai Henderson, and music and dance professor Nalini Ghuman.

This program is co-presented with Pallavita ( http://pallavita.org/ ).

Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Miriam Mills, tells the story of Gecko: A Balinese Folktale (adapted by Miriam Mills). Note: This story was inspired by 'Go to Sleep, Gecko!' by Margaret Read MacDonald (2006) and a Balinese tale in 'Folk Tales from Bali and Lombok' by Margaret Muth Alibash (Jakarta:Penerbit Djambatan, 1990). The story also is retold by Balinese storyteller Made Taro in his 'Lagu-Lagu Permainan Traditional Bali' (Denpasar:Upada Sastra, 1999).

Scholar, Nasrin Naraghi, discusses Nowruz: The Persian New Year Celebration as part of the Asian Art Musuem's New Years Celebrations teacher workshop on February 4, 2012.

Asian Art Museum Storyteller, Leta Bushyhead, tells a Lunar New Year story about Nian, the beast, with artworks in the museum's collection.

Learn more about hidden meanings in Chinese art from Asian Art Museum docent, Linda Lei. This talk was given to teachers from the Chinese American International School (CAIS) for their professional development day at the Asian Art Museum on August 23, 2011.

Learn about Bodh Gaya, one of several sights in India associated with the birth of Buddhism.

An introduction to Zen, a form of Buddhism that emphasizes seeking one's own Buddha nature through meditation.