Registration at 1.45pm
Workshop at 2pm
Close at 4pm

Age limitation: For families with children aged 6-12 years old
Language: English

Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire of the 2nd century BCE. What do people do to celebrate Hanukkah? What is its origin? Aiming at cultivating cross cultural understanding, families can explore more about Hanukkah through creating Hanukah related arts & craft. 

Designed for families with children aged 6-12, each family workshop will begin with an interactive gallery tour led by experienced museum educators. Afterwards, families will work together to make their own sevivon for the traditional dreidel game that families play in Hanukkah, and try their hands on the exciting dreidel game. They will also decorate the ceramic oil pitcher to understand the miracle of lights. The workshop will end with typical Hanukkah food like jam donut and gold chocolates for a real Hanukkah experience. Crafted as an opportunity for quality family time, the workshop provide creative, hands-on opportunities for children to explore specific themes related to the exhibition with their parents or caregivers, encourage dialogues in families, nurturing creativity in children and adults alike.

About the exhibition:
Temple, Scrolls and Divine Messengers: Archaeology of the Land of Israel in Roman Times unravels the secrets and meanings behind the Gabriel Revelation Stone and the Isaiah Scroll, and through them, explores the significance of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period between the 1st century BCE and the 1st century CE. It not only examines the Gabriel Revelation Stone and the Isaiah Scroll within the historical, spiritual, material and social context of Judaism of the Second Temple era, but also looks at the life and times of the city’s inhabitants and the importance of their rituals and customs. In addition, the exhibition contains other rare items such as carved stone fragments from the Temple Mount complex, ossuaries and tools, glass and pottery from Jerusalem's Herodian Quarter and Khirbet Qumran in the Dead Sea region. The exhibition is on view for a strictly limited 11-week season between November 4, 2014 and January 25, 2015 at the Chantal Miller Gallery.