Family Day 2011

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Join us for  FAMILY DAY on Saturday, April 30!

 Performances, Art Activities, Face Painting, Cake & Lemonade, Carousel Rides, and more...
  11 am - 4 pm

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This fun-filled, annual event celebrates the opening of the Dentzel carousel and offers a full day of activities for families. The Carousel operates from

12 - 6 pm, $1.25 per ride.

 

Read all about this year's festivities below!

 

Enjoy many free activities:

 

  • Magic Shows with Barry Wood and Alex Wohl
  • Irish Dance Performances by the Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance
  • Ballet Petite and Youth Performing Arts School presents "Cinderella"
  • Gamelan Wrhatnala USA dance performances
  • Word Dance Theater presents Isadora Duncan
  • Family Dancing with Ann Fallon and Gypsy Meltdown
  • Art Projects: Create a Pencil Critter or a lollipop Bouquet
  • Make a Flower Necklace or add an animal to the Carousel Mural
  • Exhibit: A Pictorial History of Glen Echo Park
  • Youth Art Exhibition - Glen Echo Park Students
  • Face Painting, Hula Hoop fun
  • Metropolitan Ballet - LOGIC vs. INTUITION
  • Balloon Animals with Alex Wohl
  • Batter up with T-Ball Extreme!
  • National Park Service Tours
  • Metropolitan Ballet - LOGIC vs. INTUITION
  • Cake and Lemonade

 

 

Resident Artist activities:

 

  • Art Glass Center gallery exhibition, sales
  • Bonnie Lee Holland, Art & Creativity Lab, open studio
  • Living Classrooms family programs
  • Feather Tree Hill Calligraphy Studio, open studio, art activities
  • Glen Echo Glassworks demonstrations, sales
  • Glen Echo Pottery gallery, sales
  • Jordan Bruns Studio, open studio
  • Photoworks Studio exhibition, activities
  • Popcorn Gallery exhibition: "An Evening with the Arts"
  • The Puppet Co. performances, activities
  • SilverWorks Studio & Gallery, open studio
  • Washington Conservatory of Music, performances, music for families
  • Yellow Barn Studio & Gallery exhibitions, sales
  • Young Creative Spirit children's art project

 

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

Download the current Schedule of Activities here. Activities are subject to change so you may want to check back again for the latest schedule.

 

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Youth Art Exhibition

 

As part of this year's Family Day Festival, we are planning a Youth Art Exhibition to showcase work from young students in Glen Echo Park classes. We will display two-dimensional and three-dimensional artwork in the Spanish Ballroom lobby during Family Day from 11am to 4pm. Download the entry form here. For more information, please email Meredith Forster.

 

Family Day 2011 is sponsored by


 

 

 

 

The Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, Inc. is funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive, and also by funding from the Montgomery County government and the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County. All programs are produced in cooperation with the National Park Service and Montgomery County, Maryland.

 

In addition, Family Day is made possible in part with generous support from the Bernstein Family Foundation.