Bring your picnic lunch (or purchase a bite at the Museum’s FoodShed) and join us in the Museum’s outdoor Cadence Amphitheatre for a live lunchtime musical experience on select days throughout the summer!
Rock out with Twinkle and Friends! Don’t miss this colorful, high energy, educational, bilingual, pop concert for kids starring Peruvian-American Twinkle!
Cadence Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter. This event is included with Museum admission.
Bring your picnic lunch (or purchase a bite at the Museum’s FoodShed) and join us in the Museum’s outdoor Cadence Amphitheatre for a live lunchtime musical experience on select days throughout the summer!
The Raytones combine fun lyrics with energetic blues, R&B, funk, and Rock and Roll. Cool kids can listen, clap their hands, stomp their shoes, sing and dance!
Cadence Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter. This event is included with Museum admission.
Bring your picnic lunch (or purchase a bite at the Museum’s FoodShed) and join us in the Museum’s outdoor Cadence Amphitheatre for a live lunchtime musical experience on select days throughout the summer!
Jubilee Band features some of the top young acoustic musicians in California: twins Aerie (14) on cello and Tuki (14) on fiddle and vocals, and brothers Teo (11) on mandolin and vocals and Miles (14) on fiddle and vocals. Together they bring a fresh approach to traditional bluegrass and old-time tunes.
As members of other bands, they have each performed at many venues, including CBA Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival and the Freight and Salvage, as well as at IBMA. They just opened for jazz violinist Mads Tolling and Ian Scarfe at the Sound Room in Oakland.
Cadence Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter. This event is included with Museum admission.
Bring your picnic lunch (or purchase a bite at the Museum’s FoodShed) and join us in the Museum’s outdoor Cadence Amphitheatre for a live lunchtime musical experience on select days throughout the summer!
Join us for Sadza Marimba and treat yourself to a performance the danceable, joyful rhythms of Zimbabwe. This upbeat band features a blend of soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass marimbas, drums, gourd shakers, and vocals…and appeals to people of all ages!
Join us for Sadza Marimba and treat yourself to a performance the danceable, joyful rhythms of Zimbabwe. This upbeat band features a blend of soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass marimbas, drums, gourd shakers, and vocals… and appeals to people of all ages!
Bring your picnic lunch (or purchase a bite at the Museum’s FoodShed) and join us in the Museum’s outdoor Cadence Amphitheatre for a live lunchtime musical experience on select days throughout the summer!
Grammy nominees Alphabet Rockers will be playing songs from their Grammy-nominated album, “Rise Shine #Woke!” and sharing music that amplifies family fun while communicating important social messages. Honor these Bay Area musicians by joining in the fun! Kids age 3-9 and parents alike will feel right at home with their hip hop beats and moves, dancing and celebrating our diverse communities.
The Alphabet Rockers have received a Grammy nomination for Best Children’s Album, Two Parents’ Choice Awards, 4 Stars: Common Sense Media, National Parenting Publications Award, Eventbrite Performing Arts Grant, Education.com Best CD of the Year, and Red Tricycle: Best Kids Artist.
Cadence Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter. This event is included with Museum admission.
Make Music San Jose
Thursday, June 21
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Free
Join the worldwide celebration of music on June 21! Visit our beautiful outdoor amphitheater and get your rhythm on to the sounds of Peace Antz! This band not only plays jam music with rock, reggae, and funk influences, they also use solar panels to power their music! Make your own “sun” tambourine to reinforce their power and play along!
Make Music San Jose is a free, outdoor day of music held on the summer solstice with performances and music-making events happening citywide from sunrise to sunset.
FINAL TOPPLE: Saturday, June 23, 1:00 p.m.
Alex Huang and company are back to build the biggest chain reaction in California! Alex will be joined by fellow domino YouTubers Pranav Seetharaman (San Jose,CA), Alex Berlaga (Palo Alto, CA), Chase Blanchette (Ellicott City, MD), Evan Voeltner (Milkwaukee, WI), Lyle Broughton (Leominster, MA), and Carson D (Atlanta, Georgia). Check them out on the YouTube Channel, Flashdomino (Alex Huang), Berlagawesome (Alex Berlaga),TheRGMGuy01 (Chase Blanchette), EVoltageRGMs (Evan Voeltner), jackofallspades98(Lyle Broughton), and cwdreactions (Carson D).
Observe their building techniques and try them out as you build your own domino sculptures! And don’t miss the Final Topple on Saturday, June 23!
Alex started building dominoes in late 2011 after watching other domino builders on YouTube, and created his own channel, Flashdomino, in early 2012 which now has over 1,000 subscribers.
In addition to his personal projects, Alex started a domino building club at Leland high school and has been a guest builder at local museums and libraries, including Mitchell Park Library, Michigan Science Center, and Palo Alto Children’s Library.
REATICA is sponsored by Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose.
Alex has collaborated with many different YouTubers (domino builders and non-domino builders alike) and hopes the art of domino building will soon gain a wider audience that can understand the amount of work and preciseness put into creating a domino project.
Alex’s nontraditional building style is edgy, diverse, and unpredictable. Alex is skilled at freehanding and typically does not rely on intricate plans for his projects.
Come to The Shop at Children’s Discovery Museum and learn how to create masterpieces with PlayMais, a corn-based all-natural crafting toy that you can use to build sculptures! Lightly dampen the pieces and shape it with your fingers to make your visions a reality.
Starting June 5, we will also be using PlayMais in the Wonder Cabinet Art Studio. Let’s Play(Mais)!
This event is free in the The Shop. PlayMais in the Wonder Cabinet requires Museum admission.
Join us Saturday, June 2 for “A Seat at the Table,” a traveling creative space that invites children and families to come together to hear, see, and share the stories of our diverse Silicon Valley community. This pop-up art installation engages participants to explore connections between food, cultural identity, and immigrant experiences through creative expression in sculpture, poetry and performance.
This multi-sensory experience features performances by local artists and engages participants in creating food sculptures, sparking conversations, and building community poems.
“A Seat at the Table” will be outdoors in Bill’s Backyard. Featured artists include local San Jose poets Vuong Vu, Rachelle Escamilla, Pushpa MacFarlane, and the Able2Shine performance group.
This event is included with museum admission.
A Seat at the Table is proud to be included among the leading-edge multi-disciplinary exhibitions offered community-wide on the theme of New Terrains: Mobility and Migration, an initiative coordinated by San Jose Museum of Art.
Be among the first to be transported to Doc’s backyard clinic where the kids can help Doc perform check-ups and diagnose toy patients in Disney Junior’s Peabody award-winning, interactive exhibition. In addition to the 100+ exhibits offered at the Museum, your family will enjoy special doctor- in- training themed activities.
Friday, June 8th
6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
No walk-ins for this event-Tickets must be purchased online in advance. Space is limited-purchase your tickets TODAY!
Also Open
Doc McStuffins: The Exhibit is produced by The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis and presented by Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health. Disney character live appearances are not part of the exhibit. © Disney
Join us for our Animal Encounters series! Each Sunday afternoon in May, your child can get up-close-and-personal with a different type of live animal and learn about its habits and habitats. Come outside and play in Bill’s Backyard!
Animal Encounters during the months of May 2018 are presented in partnership with Animal-Assisted Happiness, Youth Science Institute, Angels for Minis, and Rolling Hills 4-H Club.
Join us for our Animal Encounters series! Each Sunday afternoon in May, your child can get up-close-and-personal with a different type of live animal and learn about its habits and habitats. Come outside and play in Bill’s Backyard!
Animal Encounters during the months of May 2018 are presented in partnership with Animal-Assisted Happiness, Youth Science Institute, Angels for Minis, and Rolling Hills 4-H Club.
Join us for our Animal Encounters series! Each Sunday afternoon in May, your child can get up-close-and-personal with a different type of live animal and learn about its habits and habitats. Come outside and play in Bill’s Backyard!
Animal Encounters during the months of May 2018 are presented in partnership with Animal-Assisted Happiness, Youth Science Institute, Angels for Minis, and Rolling Hills 4-H Club.
Join us for our Animal Encounters series! Each Sunday afternoon in May, your child can get up-close-and-personal with a different type of live animal and learn about its habits and habitats. Come outside and play in Bill’s Backyard!
Animal Encounters during the months of May 2018 are presented in partnership with Animal-Assisted Happiness, Youth Science Institute, Angels for Minis, and Rolling Hills 4-H Club.
On Sunday, February 25, from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., our Lunar New Year Celebration continues as the Beijing Cultural Troupe, a group of professional artists from China, will offer a sampling of classical arts, some hands-on, and a traditional shadow puppet performance!
Beijing Shadow Puppet
3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Don’t miss these performances by this celebrated shadow puppet troupe from China who carry on a tradition of dramatic art that began 2000 years ago, spawning many styles connected with different regions of China. Beijing Shadow Puppet is descended from the Ming Dynasty.
Opera Masks
View authentic Beijing Opera masks, and then create an image of your original mask!
Paper Cutting
Check out the designs of masters, and make a paper cutting of your own.
Painted Figurines
Enjoy a display of painted clay figurines.
Wood Block Print
Make a block print on rice paper from a traditional wood block using authentic ink.
Beijing Cultural Troupe’s visit to the Bay Area was facilitated by Able2Shine, a local group committed to helping children develop soft skills, boosting the self-confidence of women, and exposing Chinese Americans to their cultural heritage.