Attending a Renaissance Faire with Juilliard Graduate Florence Paget by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
During one of Laurent’s cruises, Florence and I headed out to the Renaissance Faire sponsored by the Norfolk Public Schools and the Hermitage Museum in Norfolk (Virginia).
Florence
and I went through the Hermitage Museum twice before going out to the
Renaissance Faire.
The
three-way mirrors in the dressing room interested Florence. I showed her the Chinese bronze vessels, but
she asked, “Can we look at something more interesting?”
I
showed her the Renaissance Museum’s Kuan Yin downstairs. She recognized the goddess of mercy and said,
“That’s like the statue I broke by mistake at home with my beach ball.”
Despite
the remark, the tour guide let Florence handle the lacqueur boxes with fifty
sons on them and some cloisonné birds.
Outside
on the huge lawn, the Chrysler Museum set up an art activity for kids to make
Chinese fans. The children used popsicle
sticks for the handles and inserted red tassels through a hole in the bottom of
the popsicle stick.
Then,
the children colored a round cardboard with Asian motifs and pasted this to the
handle. Florence chose a bamboo design
that I liked, too.
More
multicultural exhibits and events rounded out the fair. On the outdoor stage, a group of children
performed a healing dance from Ghana.
Another
exhibit had imitation canopic jars from Egypt.
“In
Egypt, they kept body parts like hearts in jars like this after a person died. Their spirit called a “ka” was supposed to be
in these body parts. Doctors could also
check if the person died of poison,” I told Florence.
“That’s
gross,” Florence remarked.
We
laughed about goopy guts all the way back to the car and went to
air-conditioned Pizza Hut for lunch.
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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