FREE admission, hands on activities and performances for children and families at the following venues within 1-2 blocks of each other in the Yerba Buena arts district at 3rd Street and Mission Street in downtown San Francisco.

Sunday, October 18, 2009 TIME: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Five locations downtown San Francisco:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)* -- 151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard) www.sfmoma.org

  • Explore the new Rooftop Garden
  • Make your own sculptures, mobiles and more
  • Marvel as acrobats turn themselves into living sculpture

Contemporary Jewish Museum -- 736 Mission Street (between Third and Fourth) www.thecjm.org
  • See the exhibition There's a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak and be where the wild things are
  • Enjoy live performances inspired by Maurice Sendak's books by the Magik*Magik Orchestra and musicians Jonathan Bayer and Brian Gelfand
  • Decorate your own book bag to take home

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) -- 685 Mission Street (at Third) www.moadsf.org

  • Design your own screen print
  • Bebop to live jazz music by the Terrence Brewer Sextet and Oaktown Jazz Ensemble
  • Take a hip hop workshop with Rashad Prigden

Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum -- 221 Fourth Street (at Howard) www.zeum.org

  • Dress up and create a rockin’ music video
  • Ride the historic carousel
  • Meet Bullseye, Target's cuddly canine mascot

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival – Mission Street (between Third and Fourth) www.ybgf.org

Enjoy these performances:

  • Circus Bella at 12 and 2:15 PM
  • Prescott Circus Theatre with the Unique Derique at 1:10 PM
  • World music with Chelle! & Friends and The Venezuelan Music Project from 12 to 3 PM

For recorded information about this event, please call 415-614-3216

* Please note that all SFMOMA exhibitions are free except Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004. A special timed ticket for $5 is required for entry to this exhibition only. Children 12 and under are free.

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