Yerba Buena 2013 Block Party & Free Museum Day | SoMa

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Yerba Buena Family Day is downtown San Francisco’s biggest daylong family block party with free admission, special art activities for kids, and free performances for children and families at four museums within 1-2 blocks of each other in the Yerba Buena arts district.

2013 Yerba Buena Family Day
Sunday, September 15, 2013 | 11 am to 4 pm
3rd Street and Mission Street, San Francisco
FREE

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• SF MOMA
  Go construction crazy in Jessie Square with SFMOMA Families On the Go. Be inspired under the big top to engineer a constructed creature of your own design, and don’t miss a special living sculptor that changes right before your eyes.
• Contemporary Jewish Museum
  Celebrate the abstract wonders in the exhibition Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art by creating your own see-through art box using colorful transparent shapes. Add your own twisting and turning lines to a giant Wikki Stix art installation, and groove to live performances by Alison Faith Levy’s Big Time Tot Rock.
• MOaD (Museum of the African Diaspora)
  Create sidewalk art in front of MoAD and create a collage with textiles and photographs. View Gordon Park’s film The Learning Tree from 11 am to 1 pm. Groove to the Afro-Latino rhythms of the award-winning John Santos Sextet.
• Children’s Creativity Museum
  Learn the basics of clay animation and movie making in the Animation Lab. Direct and star in your own music video, then experience the new multi-sensory, interactive LED light exhibit in Sense It. Stop by early to receive your special one-hour timed admissions sticker and return for your hour of creativity (first come- first served basis).
• Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
  Enjoy an outdoor concert on the Esplanade Stage from 1-2:30 pm by 2013 Grammy winner Lila Downs and her band who have reinvented traditional Mexican music with original compositions fused with blues, jazz, soul and more. Then delight in music, clowning and kid-friendly activities in the Yerba Buena Children’s Gardens and in Jessie Square.

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