Sat, Nov 21
Autumn Festival 2026 — Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach
Your grandmother tried to teach you something once — a paper-folding thing, a dance step, the right way to hold the brush — and you were eleven and bored and did not pay attention, and now she is not around to ask. That small, specific regret is more common than anyone admits, and it is the reason events like this stay full.
For its twenty-fifth year, the aquarium hands its halls over to the traditions of China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines for one weekend. Craft demonstrations where somebody will actually put the material in your hands. Music and dance on a stage a few feet from the sea otters. Storytelling sessions where the storyteller is usually somebody's actual grandmother.
The detail worth knowing: because it is inside an aquarium rather than on a closed street, the whole thing happens at conversation volume. Nobody is shouting over a sound system. You can ask the woman doing the calligraphy what the character means, and she will tell you, and the fish will drift past behind her while she does it.
Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Included with general admission; reservations required. 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach.
Your grandmother tried to teach you something once — a paper-folding thing, a dance step, the right way to hold the brush — and you were eleven and bored and did not pay attention, and now she is not around to ask. That small, specific regret is more common than anyone admits, and it is the reason events like this stay full.
For its twenty-fifth year, the aquarium hands its halls over to the traditions of China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines for one weekend. Craft demonstrations where somebody will actually put the material in your hands. Music and dance on a stage a few feet from the sea otters. Storytelling sessions where the storyteller is usually somebody's actual grandmother.
The detail worth knowing: because it is inside an aquarium rather than on a closed street, the whole thing happens at conversation volume. Nobody is shouting over a sound system. You can ask the woman doing the calligraphy what the character means, and she will tell you, and the fish will drift past behind her while she does it.
Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Included with general admission; reservations required. 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach.
For its twenty-fifth year, the aquarium hands its halls over to the traditions of China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines for one weekend. Craft demonstrations where somebody will actually put the material in your hands. Music and dance on a stage a few feet from the sea otters. Storytelling sessions where the storyteller is usually somebody's actual grandmother.
The detail worth knowing: because it is inside an aquarium rather than on a closed street, the whole thing happens at conversation volume. Nobody is shouting over a sound system. You can ask the woman doing the calligraphy what the character means, and she will tell you, and the fish will drift past behind her while she does it.
Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Included with general admission; reservations required. 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach.
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Your grandmother tried to teach you something once — a paper-folding thing, a dance step, the right way to hold the brush — and you were eleven and bored and did not pay attention, and now she is not around to ask. That small, specific regret is more common than anyone admits, and it is the reason events like this stay full.
For its twenty-fifth year, the aquarium hands its halls over to the traditions of China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines for one weekend. Craft demonstrations where somebody will actually put the material in your hands. Music and dance on a stage a few feet from the sea otters. Storytelling sessions where the storyteller is usually somebody's actual grandmother.
The detail worth knowing: because it is inside an aquarium rather than on a closed street, the whole thing happens at conversation volume. Nobody is shouting over a sound system. You can ask the woman doing the calligraphy what the character means, and she will tell you, and the fish will drift past behind her while she does it.
Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Included with general admission; reservations required. 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach.
For its twenty-fifth year, the aquarium hands its halls over to the traditions of China, Japan, Korea and the Philippines for one weekend. Craft demonstrations where somebody will actually put the material in your hands. Music and dance on a stage a few feet from the sea otters. Storytelling sessions where the storyteller is usually somebody's actual grandmother.
The detail worth knowing: because it is inside an aquarium rather than on a closed street, the whole thing happens at conversation volume. Nobody is shouting over a sound system. You can ask the woman doing the calligraphy what the character means, and she will tell you, and the fish will drift past behind her while she does it.
Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Included with general admission; reservations required. 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach.
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