Did your mother play mah jongg? Mine did, every week and on summer weekends at the swim club. I did too, as a young married woman, although we were not very serious about it (we got sick from eating the yummy snacks we each put out when the game was at our house). I had a neighbor who played every day (I’ll bet she still does down in Florida). Well, a little farther afoot than the NJ Arts Maven usually travels, Museum of Jewish Heritage in lower NY has mounted a terrific exhibition about this Chinese game adopted by American Jewish women, and it has been extended to February 27. Better yet, on December 26, they are holding a program called Mah Jongg Mania:
Sunday, December 26
Mah Jongg Mania
Bring friends and family for a day of festivities, including mah jongg games, craft activities, film screenings of
The Joy Luck Club and
Mah-Jongg: The Tiles that Bind, exhibition tours and more.
Film screenings
- 11 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. Mah-Jongg: The Tiles that Bind (1998, 32 min.)
- 11:45 A.M. and 3 P.M. The Joy Luck Club (1993, 139 min.)
Games
- 1 P.M. - 3 P.M. Mah jongg games co-sponsored by the National Mah Jongg League
Crafts for Kids ages 3 to 10
- 11 P.M. - 1 P.M. and 2 P.M. - 4 P.M.
All activities are free with purchase of Museum admission.
Edmond J. Safra Plaza | 36 Battery Place | Battery Park City | New York, NY
