Oh Origami!
The Maridon Museum will host origami crane making classes on Saturday at the museum, 322 N. McKean St.
A class for adults will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. followed by a class for children from 1 to 3 p.m.
Participants will make a sample crane, a crane to keep and a crane to send to Japan in collaboration with Allegheny-Clarion Valley School students’ project, “1,000 Paper Cranes.”
The worldwide project is based on the story “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.”
Born in 1943, Sadako Sasaki was in Hiroshima, Japan, when the atom bomb was dropped on that city during World War II.
She was diagnosed with leukemia, and her friend, Chizuko, made her a gold paper crane and told her of the Japanese legend of the paper crane that the person who makes a thousand paper cranes, will live forever. Sadako made 644 paper cranes before she passed away in 1955.
Every year people from all over the world send strings of 1,000 paper cranes to be placed at a statue of Sadako, dedicated in 1958, in Hiroshima Peace Park.
The fee for the class is $7 per person; additional attendees in the same family pay $5.
Reservations are required. Call 724-282-0123.
Regular museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays; closed Mondays.
Museum admission is $4 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and students, and free for children younger than 8; children must be accompanied by an adult.
Tours are led by trained docents and are available with advance notice.
