Enjoy traditional and popular music from Africa and Latin America on drums, percussion, saxophone, trumpet, and 7 Zimbabwean marimbas…including giant marimbas!
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 Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays throughout the summer!
Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter.
Nikki Borodi and her partner Link Zampino present “Kate and the Beanstalk,” a visually stunning acrobatic, musical, and vocal performance that is guaranteed to make adults and children giggle with delight!
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 Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays throughout the summer!
Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter.
Join us for the CD Release Party for Brooklyn Baby, award-winning New York composer, performer, and recording artist Joanie Leeds’ eighth CD. Joanie is well known for toe-tapping music that appeals to children of all ages. Her crystal-clear voice and lyrics that connect to kids reflect a sense that life is a joyful adventure. Don’t miss this chance to get in touch with your inner rock star!
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 Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays throughout the summer!
Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter.
Wiley and Debbie Rankin perform popular children’s songs, fun traditional songs, and creative original tunes add up to one lively interactive show that instantly engages the audience! Named “Best of the Best” by Bay Area Parent Magazine in 2008, Jump for Joy Music won the 2007 Children’s Web Music Award for their CD “Singing! Singing!”
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 Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays throughout the summer!
Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter.
Latin Grammy Award winner, Mister G, is touring nationally to celebrate his new bilingual, environmental album, Mundo Verde. Mister G is a bilingual superstar in the children’s music world, having won three Parents’ Choice Gold Awards for dynamic, original music spanning genres from bluegrass to bossa nova, funk to folk. Don’t miss a chance to enjoy his new album, and to grab a copy of the Latin Grammy Best Children’s Album Los Animales.
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 Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays throughout the summer!
Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter.
What? Magic? This is supposed to be Music Fun Under the Sun! This clever illusionist has tricked his way into the summer lineup! Again! At least now we know he can do much more than merely befuddling CDM staff! If you like magic as much as I do, don’t miss magician Spencer Grey!
Spencer Grey is a magician/comedian who began performing magic at the age of 7. The young trickster continued to develop and grow, has been featured on local TV and stages across the country, and created his own company which provides entertainment for schools, libraries, and private functions including top Fortune 500 companies.
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 Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays throughout the summer!
Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter.
What? Magic? This is supposed to be Music Fun Under the Sun! This clever illusionist has tricked his way into the summer lineup! Again! At least now we know he can do much more than merely befuddling CDM staff! If you like magic as much as I do, don’t miss magician Spencer Grey!
Spencer Grey is a magician/comedian who began performing magic at the age of 7. The young trickster continued to develop and grow, has been featured on local TV and stages across the country, and created his own company which provides entertainment for schools, libraries, and private functions including top Fortune 500 companies.
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 Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays throughout the summer!
Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter.
For more than seven years The Not-Its! have rocked kids and families with their up-tempo albums and live concerts that give children their first “rock show” experience. With the release of their sixth studio album, Are You Listening?, this Seattle “Kindie Rock” quintet will have children and their parents on their feet screaming for more!
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 Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays throughout the summer!
Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter.
Grammy-nominee PapaHugs, aka David Sharpe, plays heart-warming songs infused with rock, blues, and country. His original music is inspired by his children and grandchildren…and the recent addition of twins to the family guarantees new songs for a long time to come!! David has been playing guitar and making music for over 20 years, often with the PapaHugs Band, who together were nominated for Best Children’s Album at the 2012 Grammys.
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 Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays throughout the summer!
Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter.
Enormously silly, creative, interactive, and educational, Doctor Noize sings and plays his award-winning interactive songz on his Big Collection of Instrumentz & Whatchama Gadgetz, interactively recording and arranging songz live with his audience of Misunderstood Geniuses. The Doc’s a Stanford-educated father, chart-topping recording artist, commissioned composer for stage and screen, live performer, author, hit app creator, award-winning teacher, speaker, studio owner, and goofball!
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 Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays throughout the summer!
Amphitheatre opens at 12:00 noon and concerts begin shortly thereafter.
Eleven Abilities United Artists pay homage to the animal kingdom through a wide range of media, from painting and photography to ceramic and mixed media sculpture. Exhibiting Artists are Daniel Arroyo, Claire Bohannon, Michael Broadhurst, Ian Douglas, Chelsey Fineberg, Nick Golick, Jazthri, Philip Ma, Matthaus, Joseph Omolayole, Jennifer Puthuff.
Since 2000, the mission of the Abilities United art program is to provide artists of all abilities and backgrounds access to the Bay Area art community by exhibiting and selling their work. Abilities United artists receive one hundred percent of the profit made from artwork sales. To learn more about Abilities United’s artists and to view their portfolios, please visit www.abilitiesunitedart.smugmug.com.
Abilities United is a Palo Alto-based not-for-profit serving over 1,000 children and adults with developmental and other disabilities living in the Bay Area. Each year people and their families use Abilities United Children, Adult, Family and Aquatic services for people with and without disabilities. For more information, please visit www.abilitiesunited.org.
Join artists Philip & Matthaus, whose works are featured in Wild!, and explore their drawing and sculpture techniques.
Since childhood Philip Ma has been fascinated with Disney characters, and spent hours drawing and painting human and animal characters. A few years ago he began more formal training in a private art studio, learning to use a variety of media. Philip believes that traditional art media and technology tools can work hand in hand to push his art to a different level of expression.
Philip Ma is a participant in the Independent Living Skills program at Abilities United. He earned a BFA in 3D Animation and Visual Effects from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Matthaus is a 21-year-old sculptor. His interest in sculpture dates from age 5; by age 9 he was making animals and imaginary creatures using paper, tissue paper, paper towels, plants, clay, and even food. He began to work in tin foil because it is more durable than paper, but flexible enough to “roam” around in his imaginary world. He also collects eraser crumbs and kneads them into lively animals and characters from animals, bugs, and dinosaurs to pre-historic beasts, humans, and imaginary creatures of all sorts. He enjoys giving his art to children and strangers to cheer them up.
Matthaus has a special talent for turning 2D pictures into 3D objects; he can make simple objects in just a few seconds and amazing creatures in minutes.
The Museum Store will be closed May 9 – 19 for a remodel. Visit our popup in the Theatre until our re-opening on Saturday, May 20, when we will feature a large assortment of Thomas the Tank Engine merchandise!
Members receive a 10% discount every day.
Call (408) 673-2840 for Store information.
Reuse Muse: learn about the ancient art of encaustic (molten beeswax and tree resin) painting, and use repurposed materials to create fun mixed-media artwork with an emphasis on protecting and preserving the environment.
Shannon Amidon is an award-winning artist from San Jose, CA, who creates mixed media artwork primarily working in the ancient medium of encaustic painting. Using environmentally safe and sustainable practices is very important to her. She incorporates natural, upcycled and repurposed materials into her artwork, breathing new life into objects that would otherwise be destined for a landfill. She also makes her own paints using natural earth pigments and binders.
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
More than 100 quality short films made by both professional independent and student filmmakers will be screened over the two-day Festival. Creative, exciting, informative, often amazing films from around the world include animation, live action and documentary. Check out a few of the films…or stay all day!
Saturday, May 27, 11:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 28, 11:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.