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KIDSDAY
A Day-long Celebration Presented by
The Rotunda Gallery, The Brooklyn Historical Society,
the Brooklyn Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library
and The New York Transit Museum.
Thursday, June 6, 2002 from 11:00 AM - 4:45 PM
Free activities for parents and children

Locations
BHS = Brooklyn Historical Society (at Library)
BPL = Brooklyn Public Library/Brooklyn Heights Branch/280 Cadman Plaza West
RG = Rotunda Gallery/33 Clinton Street
TM = The New York Transit Museum/Boerum Place at Schermerhorn Street

ALL DAY
11:00 - 4:45PM View KIDSART, RG’s annual exhibition of artworks created by children participating in the Gallery’s Education Program. This kid’s eye view of contemporary art features drawing, sculpture, and artist’s books by New York City School children.

1 - 6PM Explore the Children’s Room of the BPL. Browse through the Library’s collection of books, magazines, videos and audio-books. Use a computer; register for library cards and view children’s artwork. Sign up for the Summer Reading Program: Splish Splash Read! (June 24-August 30).

11:00 - 12:15PM RG POP GOES THE WEASEL Art Making Workshop Create your own pop-up book! Using paper, cardboard, fasteners, markers, and pencils children (6 and up) and adults work together to bind, assemble, illustrate and assemble your own masterpiece. CALL FOR RESERVATIONS: 718-875-4047 x16

11:00 - Noon TM BUILDING THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE MODEL MAKING WORKSHOP Come out to Cadman Plaza, in Downtown Brooklyn, and help create a working model of the Brooklyn Bridge. Learn the history of this famous 120 year-old bridge and build your own suspension bridge out of cardboard and string. CALL FOR RESERVATIONS AND LOCATION INFORMATION 718-694-5139

Noon - 1:00PM Lunch Hour

1:00 - 2:00PM BPL MARCO THE MAGICIAN AUDITORIUM (1st Floor)

1:00 -2:00PM BHS HISTORY HUNTERS: DISCOVERING BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS Meet in the children’s room of the library (2nd floor) Can you recognize your neighborhood 25, 50, 100 years ago? Using visual clues in old photographs try to figure out which Brooklyn neighborhood is which. Take Home a Brooklyn Heights Walking Tour guide or try it today!

1:30 - 2:45PM RG ORAGAMI "ACTION FIGURES" Art Making Workshop Create your own pint sized menagerie of movable birds, frogs and foxes using the ancient technique of Japanese paper folding. Children (6 and up) and parents. CALL FOR RESERVATIONS: 718-875-4047 x16

2:00 - 3:00PM BPL OYFINK THE CLOWN CHILDREN’S ROOM (2nd Floor) Just clowning around with balloons and songs and funny things; ARTS & CRAFTS and FACE PAINTING with SHARON and RIF GIVEAWAY -- Sign up for the Summer Reading Program and get a free book.

3:00 - 4:00PM BHS HISTORY HUNTERS: DISCOVERING BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS Meet in the children’s room of the library (2nd floor) Can you recognize your neighborhood 25, 50, 100 years ago? Using visual clues in old photographs try to figure out which Brooklyn neighborhood is which. Take Home a Brooklyn Heights Walking Tour or try it today!

3:00-4:00PM BPL SHOWTIME ! AUDITORIUM (1st Floor) A special showing of all time video favorites

4:00-4:45PM RG KIDSART RECEPTION End the day with a juice and cookie reception while you view the KIDSART exhibition at the Rotunda Gallery! Refreshments provided courtesy of Morgan Stanley.

The Rotunda Gallery, a not-for-profit contemporary art space showcasing the work of Brooklyn artists, has an important educational mission. Established in 1984, its Education Program annually reaches 6,000 children -- pre-kindergarten through high school -- by introducing them to a broad range of contemporary art, September through May. Classes attend the Gallery's School Visit program each day an exhibition is on view. The artists' work inspires discussion and hands-on art projects based on the artwork in the exhibition. The Rotunda's Mini-Museum outreach program integrates art instruction with school curricula through a series of gallery visits and classroom lessons, and culminates in the creation of a Mini-Museum or installation project in the participating school. In addition, the Gallery conducts professional development workshops in the visual arts, training teachers throughout Brooklyn. KIDSART includes examples from all these projects. Located in Brooklyn Heights, just over the Brooklyn or Manhattan Bridges, the Gallery is also easily accessible by public transportation. It's a short walk from the 2,3; 4,5; M; N or R trains at the Court St./Borough Hall station; or the A, C to High St.

The Rotunda Gallery is a project of BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture. The Gallery is grateful to the Sally and Milton Avery Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, with support of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and the Brooklyn Delegation to the City Council, Con Edison, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Times Foundation, the Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, the Underwood Foundation, Verizon, and the Friends of the Rotunda Gallery for their support of the Education Program.