The University Archives & Museum, in partnership with the Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum, will present a series of events to celebrate Chinese New Year.
The public is invited to attend variety of programs on Feb. 18. First, a cooking demonstration and tasting will begin at 1:30 p.m. inside Ewing Hall’s Ada Swindle Mitchell Food Lab. To reserve a ticket for the cooking event, contact University Archives (ejones@deltastate.edu) or 662-846-4780. Each ticket is $8.
Also on Feb. 18, the Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum will host an open house beginning at 2 p.m. inside the Capps Archives & Museum building. On the first floor, visit the temporary exhibit of photographs selected from the museum’s permanent collection featuring ‘man’s best friend,’ curated to support 2018’s Year of the Dog.
Enjoy complementary hot teas and almond cookies and try your hand at drawing some of the more popular Chinese characters. Stop on the second floor to tour the museum’s newest traveling exhibit, “Grocery Stor[i]es.” Supported by a major grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council, the exhibit tells the stories of the lives lived behind the counters in many of the Delta’s grocery stores. The exhibit will travel to Boston, Chicago, Seattle, New Orleans, Houston and San Fransisco throughout 2018. For information on how to host the exhibit in your town, contact University Archives.
Throughout the month, in honor of the Chinese men and women who made the Mississippi Delta their homes, and in memory of the strong commitment to community engagement they instilled in their children, the museum will collect food, supplies and toys to be donated to the Cleveland Animal Shelter and Paw Prints Rescue. All collected donations will be evenly shared with these two local organizations.
“The University Archives and Museum, along with the Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum, appreciate the generosity of Delta State’s QEP program and the Mississippi Humanities Council in their support of these programs and projects,” said Emily Jones, university archives. “On behalf of the MHC, these events are made possible by a grant from the MS Humanities Council, through support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.”
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibit and program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the MS Humanities Council.
Learn more at https://www.deltastate.edu/library/departments/archives-museum/guides-to-the-collection/ms-delta-chinese-heritage-museum/.
