11 AM–3 PM: Art Making, Gallery Tours, Storytelling with Special Guests, and Library on Wheels 11:45 AM & 1:15 PM: Puppet Show: Chanticleer the Rooster
Gaby Ramirez Howard loves volunteering at the local animal shelter. She plays with the kittens and writes adoption advertisements. Her flyers help the cats and dogs there find homes where they’ll be loved and cared for, no matter what. Gaby needs a forever home, too.
Inspired by works of Zen calligraphy in Meditation in Motion, work from image to language and back again. Explore ways of drawing words to visually express their meaning and create fragments of poetry in response to works of art.
In the spirit of Ghost Demonstration, Carlos Amorales’s mural about protest for BAMPFA’s Art Wall, make and use stencils and paint to create cutouts of people holding up signs expressing something important that you want to shout out!
To celebrate the centennial of Surrealism, poet Rod Roland and daughter Coco lead an all-ages workshop in creating collaborative drawings and pieces of writing using the Surrealist technique of the exquisite corpse. In their words, written as an exquisite corpse:
Diamano Coura West African Dance Company is a nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to the preservation, education, and appreciation of traditional West African music, dance, theater, and culture.
Anyone curious about what episodes of Sesame Street would look like if they were directed by one of the world’s greatest filmmakers should catch this collection of children’s shorts by Abbas Kiarostami, who began his career making films for an Iranian children’s cultural instit
