Events: Children

Bass Babies

Next date: Mar 20, 2019 - click here for time schedule - English

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Ages 2-4

A weekly art program designed for our youngest visitors and their caregivers, to foster new discoveries in sensory awareness, creativity and pre-literacy skills through hands-on art activities. This program will sell-out.

*Classes held on the same week repeat topics and activities. Participants are encouraged to sign up for one class per week.

• Members (Dual/Family & above): $8 per class
• Non-members: $10 per class

Become a member to access priority registration and special discounts on all Creativity Center programs.

Look! Talk! Create! Free Family Days at MOAD MDC

Sunday, Mar 31, 2019 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM - English

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Family Days is on the last Sunday of every month at the Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College offers free admission to families with children and hands-on educational activities designed with the whole family in mind. This monthly event features artist-led workshops, interactive gallery tours, and other activities sure to be fun for everyone!

Family programs are tailored for children ages 5 to 12 and their families or adult companions. MOAD MDC's Family Days will enhance your experience ofthe museum's current exhibitions, as well as Miami Dade College's Special Collections Galleries at the Freedom Tower.

Come and join us for a shared learning experience, exploring ideas and creating together.MOAD MDC's Family Days Programs take place from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on the last Sunday of each month. No advance registration is required. Please check our website's events page for more detailed information. Family Days workshops take place in MOAD MDC's Educational Lab. Space is limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Look! Talk! Create! Free Family Days at MOAD MDC

Next date: Mar 31, 2019 - click here for time schedule - English

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Family Days is on the last Sunday of every month at the Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College offers free admission to families with children and hands-on educational activities designed with the whole family in mind. This monthly event features artist-led workshops, interactive gallery tours, and other activities sure to be fun for everyone!

Art in the Park with Marie

Next date: Apr 7, 2019 - click here for time schedule - English

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Bring your children and let their imagination and creativity soar! Watch them make arts and crafts under the palms and explore all kinds of mediums and materials to express their inner Picasso. Art in the Park is on Rain or Shine. Let the kids create while you rejuvenate with yoga $10. Art in the Park is free and open to the public with registration. Suggested donation $15 per family for cost of supplies.

Sunday Stories | “Dream Big Little One”

Next date: Apr 7, 2019 - click here for time schedule - English

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Ages 1-5

Visit MOCA for a live reading of “Dream Big Little One” by Vashti Harrison with a follow up art project “Grown Up & Me Hand Prints” in the Pavilion Gallery. Offered the first Sunday of every month.

Free with purchase of admission from front desk.

O'Miami presents “poetry in Pajamas”

Friday, Apr 12, 2019 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM - English

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Back for a 2nd year, it's a family-friendly evening with inspired young poets. Staged in a giant bed under the banyan tree, Poetry in Pajamas is an open mic for children to recite poetry in their pajamas, led by brothers Sam and Simon. Afrobeta provides music, snacks from Edible South Florida, and a Dreamcatcher installation by fiber artist, Kandi Stirman. Storytell-ing, lawn games and tons of creativity.

Free With Registration.

Schoolhouse Rock LIVE!

Next date: Apr 27, 2019 - click here for time schedule - English

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• Book by George Keating, Kyle Hall and Scott Ferguson
• Music and Lyrics by Bob Dorough, Dave Frishberg, George Newall, Kathy Mandry, Lynn Ahrens and Tom Yohe

The Emmy Award-winning 1970’s Saturday morning cartoon series comes to life onstage in Schoolhouse Rock LIVE! This pop culture phenomenon follows Tom, a nerve-wracked schoolteacher, who is extremely worried about his first day of school tomorrow. While watching a TV show for inspiration, he drifts off to sleep and magically the characters from the show he was watching begin to come to life before his very eyes! He joins them as they share their inspiration for his first day of classes with such classics as: “Just a Bill,” “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly,” “3 is a Magic Number,” “The Preamble” and “Conjunction, Junction” to name a few!

Children's Theatre Workshop 2019

Next date: Jun 10, 2019 - click here for time schedule - English

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Campers will fully participate in the process of producing an original stage play. They will learn technique training in acting, auditioning, and voice, in addition to learning about technical elements like lights, sound, masks and costumes to tell a story. They will incorporate these techniques into their own original play, using their own ideas, that will be presented in a fully-staged production on the last day of camp. Class is limited to 20 students so sign up today!

Puss in Boots

Next date: Jul 6, 2019 - click here for time schedule - English

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• Script by Earl Maulding
• Lyrics by Earl Maulding and David Nagy
• Music by Eric Alsford, David Nagy, Nate Rausch, M. Anthony Reimer, Stephen Sabbag and Earl Maulding

“All Kids Included” Sensory-Friendly Performance on July 20 at 11 a.m.

Everyone’s favorite swashbuckling “Feline in Footwear” shines in this musical retelling of the classic tale by Charles Perrault. Discover how Puss gets his Bodacious Boots and Flashy Fedora, and then join him as he helps the Miller’s youngest son go from rags to riches. Can Puss convince the King that the poor Miller’s son is the Marquis de Carabas? Can he help the Miller’s son win the hand of the beautiful Princess and trick the Ogre out of his castle? The answers await you in this terrific “tail” of intrigue and cunning.