Of Particular Interest 

Sasha Stone

Mirror Contrubuting Writer

Archaeology Day Camp at the Skirball Cultural Center / August 23-27, 1999 / 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

   Children ages 8 to 12 will have the unique opportunity of becoming "Junior Archaeologists" when they participate in "Adventures in Archaeology" on August 23-27 at the Skirball Cultural Center. 
   Using the same methods as professional archaeologists, day campers will experience first-hand the thrill of a dig, solve prehistoric mysteries, and trace the path of an artifact through its creation, excavation, analysis and finally its display in the Skirball Museum. 
   They will also spend a "week in the life” of an archaeologist investigating Near Eastern culture by exploring the authentically-recreated sites where nomads dwelled. Day campers will smell what these tribes smelled, hear what they heard and taste their food. Activities will include, among other things, making Cleopatra's perfume/Caesar's cologne, creating musical instruments of the time, building tile mosaics and clay pots, dyeing and weaving wool and preparing Bedouin bread, along with scavenger hunts and relay races. It is a unique opportunity for kids to experience a culture that is at once vastly different yet fundamentally similar to their own.
   At the end of the program, participants will receive aspecial certificate of completion. 
   Skirball members pay $225, and non-members pay $250 with a 10% sibling discount, includes a T-shirt, snack and all program materials. Participants are instructed to brng a lunch, hat, water and sunscreen.
   Enrollment is limited. For a brochure or moreinformation, call (310) 440-4636.

Depth Comes To The Tiffany

   "Aliens in America," written by and starring Sandra Tsing Loh 8 p.m., Sunday 3 and 7 p.m. Tiffany Theater, West Hollywood (310) 289-2999.
   "Looking vaguely Hispanic, we were given Chinese middle names and hustled off to kindergarten in Heidi of the Alps-type dirndls and clogs." -Sandra Tsing Loh
   Performance artist/essayist/NPR commentator and musician Sandra Tsing Loh brings "Aliens in America," a semi-autobiographical look at life as a Chinese-German American growing upin Southern California, to the Los Angeles stage.
   "Aliens in America," directed by David Schweitzer, first played in New York at the Second Stage Theatre in 1996. Loh and Schweitzer followed it up with "Bad Sex With Bud Kemp,"