#KidSpace Museum

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Kidspace Children's Museum Hosts Summer Campout

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Fic Idea 911

Was looking up some things for kids in LA for a fic and discovered this kid's museum that also does a Pride thing. Maybe a double date that is HenRen with Mara and Denny and BuckTommy who bring Jee (or if a future fic their own kid).

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Lisa Blanc has been coming to Kidspace for the last ten years. Watch as she remembers her experience on the day she became Kidspace’s one millionth visitor!

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Miley Cyrus attending the Disney - ABC Television Group All Star Party at the Wisteria Courtyard at Kidspace Children's Museum on July 19, 2006 in Pasadena, California - with Tish Cyrus

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Celebrate New End of Year Tradition at Pasadena Tournament of Roses SIP & SAVOR!

Celebrate New End of Year Tradition at Pasadena Tournament of Roses SIP & SAVOR!

A new tradition is sprouting up in Pasadena this year that will combine some of Southern California’s best foods, wines, craft brews, and entertainment! The Pasadena Tournament of Roses SIP & SAVOR is an end of year celebration for all ages that will be taking place in the Arroyo Seco, next to the Rosemont Pavilion just south of the Rose Bowl Stadium.

The event takes place on December 28-30…

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Playing with the outdoor musical instruments at @kidspacemuseum #kidspace #fun #toddler #toddlerlife #toddlerapproved #toddlersofinstagram #toddlersofig #instatoddler #instafun #momlife #motherhood #museum #outdoorfun #music (at Kidspace Children's Museum)

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Getting a library card in Los Angeles is pretty easy

Any California resident with current identification may obtain a Los Angeles Public Library card in moments.

After reading this fantastic list of benefits associated with an LA Library card I immediately pre-registered online. A few minutes later I walked into my local branch and the Librarian was very easily able to finish the process and hand me a card.

LAist:

Here are a few extra-awesome highlights:

Free or discounted admission to L.A. cultural institutions like The Broad, the Autry Museum of the American West, Kidspace Children's Museum and more. Most put a limit on how many free passes you can get per month or per year. In most cases, you must make a reservation and print out a pass to show when you arrive. Find a full list of participating places at the library's Discover & Go site.

The New York Times and The Washington Post: Free access to both newspapers' digital sites. The access only lasts 24 hours, but you can log back on immediately. If the logging in and out doesn't bother you, this is a serious money-saver.

Octavia Lab, a new space at the Central Library in DTLA that is full of all kinds of technology and gadgets to help users create. The lab is 3,000 square feet, and includes a 3D printing machine, virtual reality gear, a laser cutter, Final Cut Pro, Logic and much more.

Language learning apps, including the popular Mango. By entering your library card number and PIN, you can log in and start learning at no charge.

DIY digitation for your old photos, videos, recordings and more. Part of the Octavia Lab, The Memory Lab lets you digitize all the pics of your parents in the old days, yourself in the old days, the videos your great-uncle took on his VHS and more. You'll need to attend an hour-and-a-half orientation before you can reserve a spot in the lab.

Independent, documentary, classic and international films streamed free through Kanopy. The library offers access to 26,000 such movies, including titles like Lady Bird, Eighth Grade, Moonlight, The Florida Project and 25,996 more.

https://boingboing.net/2019/12/18/getting-a-library-card-in-los.html

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You Can’t Afford to Miss These When Travelling to Australia with Kids!

Planning for the holiday-of-a-lifetime with your kids? Make your way to the beautiful province of New South Wales in Australia. Bustling with theme parks, lovely beaches and pristine nature getaways, we promise, your kids will have an entertaining vacation etched in their memories.

Here’s a quick round-up of the must-do things with your kids in New South Wales.

Hit the Famous Bondi Beach

A world-famous Australian attraction, the Bondi Beach draws in large number of tourists all through the year. Known for a myriad of tourist activities, the beach also has special provisions for indulging your little munchkins.

Your kids can take beginners’ surfing lessons, have fun wading in the salt-water, play beach ball and relish beachside barbecues and ice-creams here. And the best part, the beach is alcohol-free, and thus, perfect for kids.

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Go Museum Hopping in Sydney

With a plethora of museums and an abundance of kid-special programs, Sydney is a paradise when it comes to little scientists-in-the-making.Take your kids to the Australian Museum and encourage them to feel all the specimen around Kidspace, teach them about our solar system in The Sydney Observatory where they can meet real astronomers as well; have their curiosity satiated at the Museums Discovery Centre and let them admire the science behind the first moon mission at the Powerhouse Museum.

Greet the Australian Marine Life at Sydney Sea Life Aquarium​

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Childhood is the best time to acquaint your kids with the world around them and introduce them to various life forms on earth. And nowhere better than the Sydney Sea Life Aquarium to get them started!

Ride a glass bottomed boat and teach your kids about the underwater beauties, play with penguins, say hello to lazy tortoises and have fun spotting gorgeous starfishes here. Your kids would also love meeting the dugongs, participating in the zoo talks, checking out the various exhibitions and marvelling at the array of marine species on display here.

Visit the Circular Quay

No visit to Australia is complete without visiting the famous Circular Quay!

Treat your kids to some local ice-cream and snacks while admiring the Sydney Opera House, bond while walking hand-in-hand across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, relax in the arms of nature at the many gardens and parks here, and end your trip with a bang by splurging on a speedboat ride with your little ones.

Hop Around with a Marsupial at the Taronga Zoo Sydney​

Commanding sweeping views of Australia’s iconic landmarks, the Taronga Zoo Sydney is also home to local and foreign wildlife.

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Your kids would be left spellbound by the hopping kangaroos playing with their little ones, surprised by the majestic tigers curiously peering at them, fascinated by the friendly chimpanzees, excited for feeding the elephants and delighted by the nocturnal platypus here.

You can also teach them about wildlife conservation efforts, and encourage them to be empathetic towards animals here.

Take in Million-dollar Natural Views at Kiama​

Full of interesting landscapes and natural wonders, Kiama will prove to be a practical Geography class for your kids.

Your little darlings would be left speechless by the waterjets at the Kiama Blowhole and the Little Blowhole, while you introduce them to the basics of tectonic movements. Experience a movie-inspired setting at the Budderoo National Park and the Minnamurra Rainforest Centre, and let them try their hands at nature photography in the Freycinet National Park.

You can also take your kids whale watching near the Cathedral Rocks in Kiama, and visit the Pilot’s Cottage Museum here.

Wow Your Kids with the Aboriginal Legends of the Three Sisters​

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There is no better way to introduce our kids to the local Aboriginal culture than taking them through the sites replete with legends and myths. The Three Sisters are an unusual rock formation in the Blue Mountains area, and are said to be humans-turned-mountains with magic.

While your kids immerse in the magical world of the Three Sisters and admire the stunning views everywhere, you can also take them to the nearby Mount Solitary viewpoint, walk them across the Giant Stairway, swing by the famous Katoomba Falls and treat them to a memorable ride on the Katoomba Scenic Railway!

Spend a Day at Sydney’s Luna Park​

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Soak in Sydney’s sun and majestic harbour views from the famous Luna Park – one of the city’s oldest and most visited tourist destinations!

Your kids would love wading in the waters here, taking a thrill-ride on the enormous Ferris wheel, exploring the Magic Castle, touring the Whirly Wheel and playing around Coney Island.

What’s more? The park grants free entry for all, so it’s definitely a must-visit place when in Australia!

Excited?

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kidspace children’s museum gets a 8/10 from me

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#Farah & #Osama @kidspacemuseum #Los_Angeles #USA🇺🇸 #october #2022 (at Kidspace Children's Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkEquQzPQIp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Thanks, @elasticmonk! I hope these make sense. Our artistic director took us out for drinks so I am typing from more than one shot of tequila. :P 

36: Talk about your guilty pleasures: 

Hoo boy, okay. :P I guess the main one is writing fanfic, but that doesn’t count on tumblr because everyone knows that about me, lol. I LOVE B-grade creature features. Like, give me a terrible CGI shark movie where everyone dies hilarious deaths and I am LIVING. I also collect novelty mini rubber ducks? Like, you think I’m kidding, but I’m not. So. Many. Ducks. 

32: Talk about a place you remember from your childhood:

I was (and still am) I HUGE nerd and my two top places when I was a kid were KidSpace and the California Science Museum. I loved anything interactive that I could get my hands on and I loved explaining the exhibits to my moms. I still go to the Science Museum when I visit home and I always visit the human body exhibit. It’s just SO COOL. There’s a station where you can compare your heart rate to the heart rate of different animals and I could spend years there. There’s also a simulated earthquake room that I used to be terrified of an it was an amazing day when I conquered my fears and went inside. If I ever have kids, they’re going to spend a stupid about of time there. 

8: Talk about the thing you are most proud of:

I love to put myself down, and I’m really good at it, but honestly, I think I’m most proud of the fact that I’m making a living as a performer when everyone in my life told me that was impossible. I may not be anywhere close to famous (and I don’t want to be, quite frankly), but I’m making a steady living doing what I love and that’s more than a lot of people who go into this business can say, so I think that’s pretty cool! 

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Shaun Leonardo’s Stark Images Of Police Brutality Leaving MASS MoCA, Without Incident, Headed To The Bronx

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Shaun Leonardo’s Stark Images Of Police Brutality Leaving MASS MoCA, Without Incident, Headed To The Bronx

Shaun Leonardo ‘Rodney King,’ 2017. Charcoal on paper, with mirrored tint on frame, 30 x 45 in.

Before Phillip Guston, there was Shaun Leonardo.

The postponement of Guston’s retrospective scheduled to open this summer at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. made international headlines, provoking curiosity far outside insular art world circles.

“This additional time will allow us to slow down, get past COVID, and bring the Gallery’s community together in person for challenging conversations that will help inform how we rethink the exhibition,” Kaywin Feldman, director, National Gallery of Art, said in a statement released November 5 announcing the exhibition will now debut May 1, 2022 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Similarly, in March, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland cancelled the presentation of Leonardo’s “The Breath of Empty Space” exhibition, “after people both inside and outside moCa expressed concerns that the museum was not prepared to support the show responsibly and that its impact could be harmful to our community,” the institution said in a statement, adding, “these concerns included ethical questions about the representation of Black trauma and death, and criticism that moCa was not in a position to center the lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color before tackling issues such as anti-Black, state-sanctioned violence.”

Leonardo wasn’t buying it.

The artist released his own statement in response to the cancellation which read, in part, “I must make it clear that I was never given the opportunity to be included in outreach, and therefore, never had a moment to engage any community member regarding the show. What has become evident to me… is that after grave mishandling of communication regarding the exhibition, institutional white fragility led to an act of censorship.”

It is important to note that two of the most prominent voices in Cleveland speaking out against the presentation of Leonardo’s work there were Black women, Amanda King, a local artist and activist, and Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice. Tamir Rice was 12-years-old when he was shot and killed by police in Cleveland in 2014, one of the most infamous examples of murder perpetrated by law enforcement in America.

Leonardo depicts the park where Tamir Rice was killed in a drawing on view in “The Breath of Empty Space.”

Guston (1913-1980), a white artist, had the brakes put on his retrospective when organizers became uncertain of their ability to display his paintings depicting members of the Ku Klux Klan in their appropriate context.

Both situations beg the question: if America’s art museums, tasked with interpreting the culture, staffed by countless PhD’s who’ve dedicated their lives to studying these artists and their output, are ill-equipped to carefully lead their communities through difficult times by presenting difficult artwork, what, exactly, do they exist for?

Shaun Leonardo, ‘Freddy Pereira (3 of 3),’. 2019. Charcoal on paper with mirrored tint on frame.

Fortunately, there are institutions who’ve stepped up to the challenge of presenting difficult art through difficult times, assuring the work has context to engage and enlighten, not merely provoke. One such place is the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). It, along with the Bronx Museum of the Arts, opened their doors to “The Breath of Empty Space” following cancellation in Cleveland. MASS MoCA presents the exhibition through December 2o; it will open in the Bronx on January 10.

MASS MoCA credits its history of working with Leonardo previously for being able to take on the show with short notice while making sure the artwork on view was thoughtfully contextualized.

“I believe that challenging artwork should be shown, with the caveat that the museums should be well prepared and transparent about the problems, and sensitive to audiences in their interpretation, display and programming efforts,” Laura Dickstein Thompson, Director of Education Curator of Kidspace at MASS MoCA, told Forbes.com. “Shaun’s work is important, as is Guston’s, and for that matter many challenging artworks, because they slow us down so that we can more fully bear witness.”

Slowing viewers down to bear witness is what Leonardo hopes to achieve with works in this exhibition.

“For these drawings, I take some of the most widely disseminated images of police violence, both recent and historical, and make choices that I think will slow down our looking,” Leonardo said. “I wish to literally create space in these images, so that we can sit with them differently, even in the hurt.”

Shaun Leonardo, ‘Trayvon,’ 2014-2017. Charcoal on paper, with mirrored tint on frame, 22 ½ x 30 in.

In addition to a history of working with Leonardo, MASS MoCA has also made it a priority to work with its community–all members–giving it the “street cred” to authentically take on this material. That’s less common across the sector than should be the case.

“We have been doing anti-racism work already with the schools, creating an annual social justice curriculum, and with the community on tours, artist talks and a community advisory network; we felt Shaun’s exhibition would contribute to, and deepen, our existing platform,” Thompson explains. “The exhibition fit into what was already going on in the museum and the work we were already doing; we have at least three exhibitions currently on view that also are delving into race and identity including by artists Wendy Red Star, ERRE, and Ben Ripley.”

There’s an old saying, “when you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.”

When looking at the industry as a whole, it’s hard to argue against an opinion that art museums were not “ready” for the racial tumult 2020 has wrought.

Shaun Leonardo, ‘Jonathan,’ 2014-2017. Charcoal on paper, with mirrored tint on frame, 30 x 20 5/8 … [] in. As installed in the exhibition, “The Breath of Empty Space,” at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Part of MASS MoCA’s community outreach around “The Breath of Empty Space” featured a “curriculum takeover.”

In the past three months, 14 local high school students worked over Zoom with Leonardo and Amanda Tobin, Associate Director of Education at MASS MoCA, to discuss his exhibition and design a Black Lives Matter curricular intervention. Instead of having teachers tell the students how and what they should learn, these students suggested to their teachers projects that would correct and expose where and how Black lives have been omitted from history. They presented their ideas to an audience of local teachers, a representative from the county’s district attorney’s office, the president of the Berkshires chapter of the NAACP and other community leaders.

“One student commented that ‘it is important to start with kids our age,’ and another, ‘I had to teach myself about aspects of history not covered in school,’” Thompson recalls. “It was an inspiring event and gave evidence to the motivation and leadership of young people to bring about change during these very difficult times.”

Additionally, Leonardo conducted training with the museum’s front of house staff. He is also working with Erica Wall, Director of the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, and Thompson, on designing a series of talks called “In Session,” panel discussions on anti-racist work in museums streamed live on MASS MoCA’s YouTube chanel and Facebook page.

MASS MoCA’s relationship with Leonardo will continue after his exhibition leaves. He is scheduled to be a featured artist in Kidspace’s 2022 Defining Moments exhibition. Kidspace is the museum’s child-centered art gallery and hands-on studio presenting exhibitions and educational experiences in collaboration with leading artists.

Lastly, the museum recently received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to work with Leonardo on organizing a social practice project titled You Walk… for a dedicated interactive community space within the museum to open in May 2021.

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