Target Family Free Day, San Francisco — Target wants you and your family to see more of the arts while spending less. So they’re sponsoring “Arts and Wonder” family events with free admission to arts and culture nationwide on July 16-18, 2010. The free family events are happening nationwide and include the following San Francisco museums and performing arts institutions.
Be sure to check with the venues for details and updates before you head out.
WHAT’S THE DEAL: Target Arts & Wonder Free Family Days.
WHEN: Friday, July 16; Saturday, July 17; Sunday, July 18, 2010.
WHERE: Seven San Francisco venues.
Friday, July 16, 2010 — 5pm to 8:45 pm
de Young Museum – 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
Saturday, July 17, 2010, 10 am to 5 pm
Asian Art Museum — Journey from India to Japan as you stroll through the galleries. Take a storytelling tour and learn about gods, goddesses, emperors, philosophers and more
Sunday, July 18, 2010 TIME: 11am to 4pm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) — Go BIG — see for yourself how larger-than-life artworks transform the ordinary into the EXTRAordinary. Create your own enormous art.
Contemporary Jewish Museum — 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) — Tour the exhibition African Continuum: Sacred Ceremonies and Rituals. Try your hand at Haitian tooled metal sculpture.
Zeum: San Francisco’s Children’s Museum — Sculpt and film your own clay animation. Ride the historic Zeum Carousel.
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival — Come in costume and join the conga line to celebrate the international spirit of carnaval with non-stop performances in Yerba Buena Gardens from 12-3 pm.
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