Logan Center Community Arts host this family-friendly event on the first Saturday of the month (October to June, excluding January). Cultivate your child’s artistic curiosity with free thematic art workshops led by local artists, art organizations, and UChicago students. Families can sample a range of activities for ages 2–12 through hour-long sessions led by local artists.
Please join us for our first Family Saturday on October 3rd for “Griots and Giants” as we sit at the feet of the magnificent storytellers in our lives and in history at the October Logan Center Family Saturday from 2 to 4 pm.
Featured Workshops:
- Arts and Crafts guided by Desiree of Live Arts Studio (2-4p)
- Sit, Stay, Read (2-4 pm)
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- Sit Stay Read provides canine-assisted literacy programs to emerging readers in K-2nd grades. As fellow members of the CPS Literacy Community Partner Coalition, SitStayRead is excited to bring Certified Reading Assistance Dog teams to Logan Family Saturday! You can read to your favorite dog (you don’t have to bring your own dog.) Write a story, read story, listen to a story, get lit for fall.
- Storytelling through Collage with Dorian Sylvain (Part Two) (2-3p)
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- Join us for a special two-part, hands-on workshop series celebrating Dorian’s mural in Home Court at the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) and connecting with the Logan Center for the Arts exhibition Longer Than the Sky: Art of the Obama Years on view in the Logan Center Gallery through October 11th.
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- Part One will happen at 10a on the grounds of the OPC. To learn more and RSVP for Part One please visit: Collect & Collage Workshop with Dorian Sylvain | Calendar of Events | The University of Chicago
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- For Part Two (2-3p) bring your collected materials and ideas from Part One to the Logan Center. If you are joining for the afternoon session only, you can select from a shared collective supply of materials. Participants will be provided with materials to create arrangements with their collected items
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- Family Presentation by Connexíon (3-4 pm)
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- A family friendly exploration of Creole culture and identity through storytelling, music and dance, presented in partnership with artists from Réunion Island, Puerto Rico, New Orleans and Chicago as part of La Escuelita Bombera de Corazón’s 17th anniversary celebration which includes a weeklong residency from October 3rd-9th.
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Every Family Saturday is FREE, and all supplies are provided.
A suggested donation of $10 per family is appreciated
Consider spending the day on the South Side – join us at the Obama Presidential Center at 10 am, the stop by the South Side Science Festival at UChicago, and then join us for Family Saturday at the Logan Center. To learn more about the South Side Science Festival visit: https://southsidescience.event.uchicago.edu/
Logan Center Family Saturdays programming is made possible through the support of the Logan Center endowment established by the Reva and David Logan Foundation, the University of Chicago Women’s Board and friends of the Logan Center, as well as partnerships with local and national arts organizations and performing artists.
