The Horizon (Discover Nikkei Community Collage: March 2009 - The horizon)

Everyone spent a lot of time working on their contribution to the collage. This pre-teen was one of the many artistic contributors that day.
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This is a photo of a drawing contributed to Discover Nikkei's Community Collage, a special activity at the Target Free Family Saturday "Say Cheese!" event at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on March 14, 2009.

Participants were invited to help create the collage by sharing a picture, text, or item and then posting them up themselves. Our own real-time board/wall to share something with our community.

Drawing is of a horizon.

Mariele's drawings (Discover Nikkei Community Collage: March 2009 - Mariele's drawings)

All these were from one little 2-year-old girl - who's favorite part of the day was drawing for the Community Collage!
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This is a photo of a collection of drawings contributed to Discover Nikkei's Community Collage, a special activity at the Target Free Family Saturday "Say Cheese!" event at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on March 14, 2009.

Participants were invited to help create the collage by sharing a picture, text, or item and then posting them up themselves. Our own real-time board/wall to share something with our community.

All these were drawn by a little 2-year-old Hapa girl - who's favorite part of the day was drawing for the Community Collage! She came back several times to add more.

Sarah & the cat...meow! (Discover Nikkei Community Collage: March 2009 - Sarah)

Sarah's mom told us this must be a drawing of the cat Sarah recently played with.
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This is a photo of a drawing contributed to Discover Nikkei's Community Collage, a special activity at the Target Free Family Saturday "Say Cheese!" event at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on March 14, 2009.

Participants were invited to help create the collage by sharing a picture, text, or item and then posting them up themselves. Our own real-time board/wall to share something with our community.

Sarah's mom told us this must be a drawing of the cat Sarah recently played with.

JANM Love (Discover Nikkei Community Collage: March 2009 - JANM love)

Another parent posted this drawing.
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This is a photo of a drawing contributed to Discover Nikkei's Community Collage, a special activity at the Target Free Family Saturday "Say Cheese!" event at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on March 14, 2009.

Participants were invited to help create the collage by sharing a picture, text, or item and then posting them up themselves. Our own real-time board/wall to share something with our community.

One of the fathers attending the event with his family posted this drawing expressing his appreciation for the Museum and the event.

Family drawings (Discover Nikkei Community Collage: March 2009 - Family drawings)

These drawings and haiku poems were created by a family who all were very talented. They were not Nikkei, but were very interested in Japanese culture, particularly anime and manga.
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This is a photo of a collection of drawings contributed to Discover Nikkei's Community Collage, a special activity at the Target Free Family Saturday "Say Cheese!" event at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on March 14, 2009.

Participants were invited to help create the collage by sharing a picture, text, or item and then posting them up themselves. Our own real-time board/wall to share something with our community.

These drawings and haiku poems were created by a family who all were very talented. They were not Nikkei, but were very interested in Japanese culture, particularly anime and manga.

Collage-in-progress (Discover Nikkei Community Collage: March 2009 - collage-in-progress)

The collage filled up pretty quickly once people started drawing!
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This is a photo documenting Discover Nikkei's Community Collage in progress, a special activity at the Target Free Family Saturday "Say Cheese!" event at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on March 14, 2009.

Participants were invited to help create the collage by sharing a picture, text, or item and then posting them up themselves. Our own real-time board/wall to share something with our community.

The collage filled up pretty quickly once people started drawing!

Fun at JANM! (Discover Nikkei Community Collage: March 2009 - Fun at JANM!)

After this mother and her daughters had gone through the National Museum and participated in all of the special family activities, she sat down to reflect on their day with this drawing.
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This is a photo of a drawing contributed to Discover Nikkei's Community Collage, a special activity at the Target Free Family Saturday "Say Cheese!" event at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on March 14, 2009.

Participants were invited to help create the collage by sharing a picture, text, or item and then posting them up themselves. Our own real-time board/wall to share something with our community.

After this mother and her daughters had gone through the Japanese American National Museum and participated in all of the Target Free Day activities, she sat down to reflect on their day with this drawing.

Mother/Daughter pair (Discover Nikkei Community Collage: March 2009 - Mother and daughter)

These drawings were done by a mother and daughter team who drew matching images.
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This is a photo of a group of drawings contributed to Discover Nikkei's Community Collage, a special activity at the Target Free Family Saturday "Say Cheese!" event at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on March 14, 2009.

Participants were invited to help create the collage by sharing a picture, text, or item and then posting them up themselves. Our own real-time board/wall to share something with our community.

These drawings were completed by a mother and daughter team who drew the same images -- Earth and heart, and then a drawing of themselves.

Father/Son portraits (Discover Nikkei Community Collage: March 2009 - Father and son portraits)

We welcomed everyone to participate in the collage, but it was this father's son who got him to draw something and he ended up really enjoying himself!
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This is a photo of two drawings contributed to Discover Nikkei's Community Collage, a special activity at the Target Free Family Saturday "Say Cheese!" event at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on March 14, 2009.

Participants were invited to help create the collage by sharing a picture, text, or item and then posting them up themselves. Our own real-time board/wall to share something with our community.

We welcomed everyone to participate in the collage, but it was this father's son who got him to draw something and he ended up really enjoying himself.

Kyra Mizuki (Discover Nikkei Community Collage: March 2009 - Kyra Mizuki)

This lovely drawing was submitted by a little girl who, after taping it up, ran back to ask if she could write her name in Japanese on it also.
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This is a photo of a drawing contributed to Discover Nikkei's Community Collage, a special activity at the Target Free Family Saturday "Say Cheese!" event at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on March 14, 2009.

Participants were invited to help create the collage by sharing a picture, text, or item and then posting them up themselves. Our own real-time board/wall to share something with our community.

This lovely drawing was submitted by a little girl who, after taping it up, ran back to ask if she could write her name in Japanese on it also.

The completed collage (Discover Nikkei Community Collage: March 2009 - completed)

At the end of the day, this is what our community of participants created together.
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This is a photo documenting the completed Discover Nikkei Community Collage, a special activity at the Target Free Family Saturday "Say Cheese!" event at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on March 14, 2009.

Participants were invited to help create the collage by sharing a picture, text, or item and then posting them up themselves. Our own real-time board/wall to share something with our community.