San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

Reservoir
Reservoir showcases an extraordinary group of contemporary art quilts from the private collection of advocate and champion of the contemporary art quilt movement, John M. Walsh III. Reservoir includes a selection of 29 quilts based on water and nature-inspired themes, a focus of Walsh's collection because of his own connections with water as owner of a water purification business and of a property with a waterfall.

Blue Planet Run
Blue Planet Run brings the global community together to provide safe drinking water to over 1 billion people in need. Brynn Harrington, one of the 2007 Blue Planet Run Around-the-World-Relay runners, will be on site June 5th to share her 95-day, 15,200 mile relay experience, and to autograph the book voted "Most Likely To Save The Planet," Blue Planet Run: The Race To Provide Safe Drinking Water To The World.

Corinne Okada Takara
Artist Corinne Okada Takara has gathered plastic bags and bottles from schools and Guadalupe River and Coyote Creek clean ups to be used as materials for creating small sculptures on June 5, 2009 by South FIRST FRIDAYS' SubZERO festival-goers. These small sculptures of algae and diatoms will be integrated into large 3-D banners to be installed across the façade of the Museum. By knitting together disposable artifacts commonly polluting our waterways, this community art project muses on the clogging of our creeks as well as on creative repurposing of the materials around us.

Dancer Christina Braun and Composer Jeffery Scott Perry
Enveloped in plastic grocery bags and an illuminated diatom hat, San Francisco butoh artist Christina Braun will dance two performances centering on the water themed tapestries of Corinne Okada Takara. Her eerie and playful movements will reflect upon plastic bags clogging waterways and algae blooms flourishing in the stagnation. Contemporary music representing sludge and water pollution created by composer Jeffery Scott Perry. Costuming will be elements which remove from Takara's large water tapestries in front of The San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.

Okayama Sister Cities
San Jose established its sister city relationship with Okayama, Japan, on May 26, 1957. The San Jose-Okayama sister city affiliation was the third such linkage established in the U.S. following the Sister City program's inception in 1956. Educational linkages has long been a central theme of the sister city relationship, with numerous San Jose and Okayama high school and college students having enrolled as exchange students through the sister city partnership dating back to 1958.