Celebrating Children in a World Community

• Event Date: Saturday, December 13, 2008
• Time: 10:00 am–4:00 pm (CST)
• Location: Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Special Event
• Exhibit-Related tag

Spurlock visitors of all ages will enjoy this special event designed to complement the traveling exhibit “Children Just Like Me” by focusing on a variety of the community resources available to children, families, and educators in the Champaign-Urbana area.

Event Activities:

1. Explore the exhibit “Children Just Like Me,” an exciting, hands-on exhibit celebrating children from around the world. For more on the exhibit, visit our news stories (external link).

2. Talk with representatives of various community service and resource organizations that focus on education and the family:

Museums at the Crossroads
Urbana Public Library
The More Fun With Sisters and Brothers Program
Asian Educational Media Service
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
10,000 Villages
Spurlock Museum

3. Enjoy games and crafts provided by the Museum staff and community service and resource organizations.

4. View a series of films on family life and education around the world and join a panel of educators in the discussion “What’s It Like to Go to School in Asia?”

Film and Panel Discussion Schedule:
10:15 AM: “Going to School in India” (3 shorts)
10:45 AM: "Families of Korea" (30 min)
11:30 AM: “Going to School in India” (3 shorts)
12:00 PM: “Time for School” (47 min)
1:00 PM: “Going to School in India” (3 shorts)
1:30 PM: Short clips from all films with Panel Discussion
2:45 PM: “Back to School: The Ongoing Struggle to Educate the World’s Children”

Panel members:
Waunita Kinoshita,
Urbana High School and Parkland College

Indira Rajagopalan
Complex Director University Apartments

Sunny Jeong,
Korean Cultural Center

This series of public film screenings and lecture/discussion programs is organized by the Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS) at the Center for East Asian & Pacific Studies. It is planned in collaboration with the Spurlock Museum and presented in the Knight Auditorium. Among the films offered for discussion this year, several were chosen with the exhibit “Children Just Like Me” in mind because of the meaningful and often dramatic ways in which they focus on youth and childhood experiences. Guest scholars and members of the campus and C-U communities will introduce the films and lead post-screening audience discussions.