Target Family Day - Yerba Buena Alliance

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TARGET ARTS and WONDER
JULY 16-18, 2010
Yerba Buena's Free Day is July 18th - 11am-4pm!!

The following San Francisco venues take turns welcoming families with FREE general admission, FREE hands-on art making activities and FREE family-friendly performances over one weekend in July (see below for specific dates and times):

Friday, July 16, 2010 TIME: 5 to 8:45 PM

de Young Museum* www.deyoungmuseum.org

Turn the Target mascot Bullseye into a work of Andy Warhol-inspired Pup Art

Get a lift as you watch a ballet performance celebrating the Impressionist painter Degas

* Please note that all de Young exhibitions are free except Birth of Impressionism. A special timed ticket for $15 adults, $10 children ages 6-17 is required for entry to this exhibition only. Children 5 and under are free.

Saturday, July 17, 2010 TIME: 10 AM to 5 PM

Asian Art Museum* www.asianart.org

Journey from India to Japan as you stroll through the galleries

Take a storytelling tour and learn about gods, goddesses, emperors, philosophers and more

* Please note that all Asian Art Museum exhibitions are free except Shanghai. A ticket for $5 for ages 18 and older is required for entry to this exhibition only. Youth 17 and under are free.

Sunday, July 18, 2010 TIME: 11 AM to 4 PM

Five locations downtown San Francisco:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) www.sfmoma.org

Go BIG -- see for yourself how larger-than-life artworks transform the ordinary into the EXTRAordinary

Create your own enormous art -- make an everyday object into something 10 times its size

Contemporary Jewish Museum www.thecjm.org

Celebrate the everyday in the whimsical exhibition Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)

Marvel at the magic of ordinary objects by crafting fabric buttons, decorating bags and watching Sweet Can Productions make brooms dance and more

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) www.moadsf.org

Tour the exhibition African Continuum: Sacred Ceremonies and Rituals

Try your hand at Haitian tooled metal sculpture

Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum www.zeum.org

Sculpt and film your own clay animation

Ride the historic Zeum Carousel

Yerba Buena Gardens Festival www.ybgf.org

Come in costume and get ready to join the conga line as we celebrate the international spirit of carnaval with non-stop performances in Yerba Buena Gardens from 12-3 PM by Fogo Na Roupa, Sambadá, Loco Bloco, Bahia Bahia, Chelle! and Friends, Pi Clowns, and more.

Participating Institutions:

Contemporary Jewish Museum
(736 Mission Street, 415/655-7800)
Museum of the African Diaspora
(685 Mission Street, 415/358-7200)
SFMOMA
(151 Third Street, 415/357-4000)
Zeum
(221 Fourth Street, 415/820-3320)

All Target Family Day venues are easily accessible by BART and are a short 1-2 block walk from either the Powell or Montgomery Street stations on Market Street.

The Yerba Buena Neighborhood is also easily accessible by MUNI, Golden Gate Transit, SamTrans, and Caltrain. Ample parking is available.