Enjoy a musical montage of live performances and melodic art making at this month’s FREE Family Day at Mia! Make your own instruments, join a band, and sing and dance along.

Activity Schedule:

Art-making: Cardboard Castanets
11AM–4:30PM
Feel the rhythm and create a colorful percussion instrument.

Art-making: Cubist Collage
11AM–4:30PM
Craft a music-inspired collage in the style of Cubists like Braque and Picasso.

Gallery Hunt: Musical Museum
11AM–5PM
What’s that you hear? Find marvelous musical instruments of all kinds in Mia’s galleries.

Preschool Tour: Feelings
11:30AM & 12:30PM
Explore feelings in art on a tour designed especially for little ones.

Play: Sound Garden
Noon–2PM
Come grow, play, and make music with the whole family! Join Sound Gardeners Jayanthi Kyle, Heru “Truth Maze” Harris, and Mankwe Ndosi to grow music of the moment. They’ll have seeds and tools, instruments and guidance. Bring your curiosity, hands, voices and sense of adventure!

Dance: Afoutayi
Performances at 12:30PM and 2:30PM
Workshop at 1:30PM
Join dancer and COMPAS teaching artist Djenane Saint Juste and company for dance performances and an interactive workshop featuring music and movement from Haiti.

Music: Ticket to Brasil
Performances at 1PM and 3PM
Embark on a musical journey through Brazil with COMPAS teaching artists, and explore the sounds and rhythms of one of the richest musical cultures in the world.

Tour: Music and Art
2PM & 3:30PM
Meet in General Mills Lobby, first floor

 

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