Is home a place, a person, a feeling, or something else? Explore expansive ideas of home and kinship through interactive activities for all ages, inspired by the exhibition This Must Be the Place: Inside the Walker’s Collection.
Free First Saturday features free gallery admission on the first Saturday of every month. Tickets are available in advance online and on-site on the event day from the Main Lobby desk. Free admission 10 am–5 pm; activities 10 am–3 pm.
To help us promote future events and programs, this event will be documented with photography. By attending, you consent to appear in this documentation and its future use by the museum.
Stop by the Idea House 3 store between 11 am–3 pm for a drop-in exploration of the work of the iconic Memphis Group. Learn more here.
Activities
Kith + Kin Chorus Performance and Sing Along, 11:30 am–12 noon
We sing together to celebrate, honor, mourn, and to delight in our own voice and the voices of others. Listen in to a fun and lively performance of pop favorites as sung by members of the chorus, then add your voice to a community sing along and hear the museum filled up with song!
Family Dance with Anat Shinar, 12:30–1 pm and 1:30–2 pm
Join Young Dance Artistic Director Anat Shinar in dance activities fit for the whole family! Build strong bonds and discover the joys of movement as you express yourself in this fun-focused environment.
How Do We Belong Together?, 10 am–3 pm
What does home, belonging, or kinship mean to you? What does it mean to your neighbors? Together we will explore these questions as we collectively create a collaged paper mural on the windows of the Walker with artist Boniat Ephrem.
Mapping Home, 10 am–3 pm
What is “home” to you? Is it a feeling? Is it a loved one? Is it a place you can find on a map? In this activity, explore ideas of home using maps as a base.
Short Film: Naissance des Oasis, 10 am–3 pm
Stop by the Bentson Mediatheque to watch a family friendly short film about a cold-blooded snake and a hot-blooded camel becoming close friends.
Tour for Families, 11:30 am
Tour for General Audiences, 1 pm
Recorrido público en español, 3 pm
Join a Walker educator for a guided family tour of artworks on view in the galleries at 11:30 am (40 min.), take a guided tour for general audiences at 1 pm (60 min.), or a tour for general audiences in Spanish at 3 pm (60 min.). Tours explore a selection of artworks across current exhibitions and include interactive discussion. Meet at the Main Lobby desk five minutes before the tour starts.
Accessibility, Sensory, and Content Notes
The short film will be captioned in English.
Content guidance: The exhibition Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody includes subjects related to politics, sexuality, and the body. Several works in the exhibition contain mature content and nudity. One room in Gallery 1 includes sexually explicit imagery. Visitors do not need to walk through this room to access the rest of the exhibition. Activities planned for this event focus on kid-friendly artworks.
Sensory note: Videos on view may include flickering effects or sounds that change in volume, pitch, and tone. One room glows with colorful light.
For information about accessibility, or to request additional accommodations for this program, call 612-375-7564, or email access@walkerart.org.
For more information about accessibility at the Walker, visit our Access page.
Bios
Anat Shinar is a Twin Cities-based dancer, choreographer, contemporary multidisciplinary performance artist, educator, curator, and Artistic Director of Young Dance. She graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BFA in Dance and a BA in Visual Arts, and completed her Master’s degree in Arts and Cultural Leadership, also at UMN. Anat’s teaching philosophy is that everybody can (and should!) dance. She believes that movement allows people of all ages to connect to themselves and those around them, and that dance is not only good for our bodies, it develops our skills to effectively collaborate, adapt, and communicate. Before taking on the role of Artistic Director in 2021, Anat worked for Young Dance in many capacities, including consulting, fundraising, development, and directing community partnerships.
Boniat Ephrem is an Oromo-American artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As she builds her artistic practice, Boniat centers the belief that art allows us to connect to the world, each other, our history and ourselves in interesting ways. She seeks to investigate, experiment, and playfully create around those nuanced connections.
Kith + Kin Chorus is an uncommon community choir in the Twin Cities, open to singers of all skill levels, and 70-plus singers strong. If you can match a pitch and carry a tune, you can join! Voices are the original instrument and few things are more unifying than voices, raised together in song. In a world that so easily divides and isolates, singing in diverse community is its own act of rebellion and reimagining. Led by founder Rachel Ries (of Her Crooked Heart), K+K Chorus aims to nurture a welcoming, joyful environment where anyone who longs to sing in a choir again (or for the first time) can. Singers don’t have to be able to read music or have theory training as songs are taught with the help of sheet music and reference recordings. The material is a wide, secular mix of classic and indie rock, pop, folk, and whatever else inspires, all arranged by Rachel and members of the choir. Let’s fill this hurting world with harmony!
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