Explore a range of activities and art-making on Free First Saturday! Spin tales, create poems, and more in activities designed to get you looking closely at art.

Enjoy free gallery admission and family fun for all on the first Saturday of each month. Activities designed for kids ages 6 to 12 are offered from 10 am to 3 pm.

Performance: The Ugly Duckling–My Life as a Fairytale, 11 am and 1 pm

Walker Cinema
Hans Christian Andersen and his tale The Ugly Duckling are brought to life in this imaginative and playful performance that features quacking scissors, transforming coffee pots, and an assemblage of other found objects. Director Michael Sommers and performer Kimberly Richardson of Open Eye Figure Theatre collaboratively created this inventive play.

Art-Making: Stories to Remember, 10 am–3 pm

Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab
Learn the basics of book-making as you illustrate a journal with rubber stamp letters and shapes.

Art-Making: Type Face, 10 am–3 pm

Cargill Lounge
Make a typographic self-portrait by mixing and matching old-school transfer letters with graphic designer Kindra Murphy of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Film: Rabbit and Deer, 10 am–3 pm

Lecture Room
Rabbit and Deer are happily living in a flat, cartoon world. Their friendship is put to the test by Deer’s new obsession with finding the formula for the 3rd dimension. Hungary, 2013, 17 minutes. Directed by Péter Vácz.

Workshop: Junior Tour Guides, 11 am–2 pm

Bazinet Garden Lobby
Children become junior tour guides by learning top-secret tips from art experts and reciting an oath. Newly initiated guides try out their skills by leading a gallery tour guaranteed to captivate family and friends.