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Once a month, on the third sunday, visitors are invited to participate in a range of art-making activities that highlight our current exhibitions. These workshops are free and welcome families with children of all ages.

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Sunday, November 16, 2008 from 1-3pm
CHILDREN & FAMILY DAY WORKSHOPS: YOUTH WORKSHOP DROP-IN - PRESS/PLAY: KIDS IN THE NOW

MOCAD will be honoring many organizations that are currently working with the youth through art, music and performance. Please join us in a two hour live broadcast of 15 different youth art organizations from around the world on November 16th, 2008.

This broadcast will feature 15 five-minute performances from 15 cities around the world. Each performance will be streamed live, projected onto a large wall in front of an audience and will broadcast onto the internet. This broadcast is an attempt to bring together the knowledge of the creative youth in the world. We have decided to focus on organizations that are working with the youth in nations that are currently in political conflict; in attempt to communicate positive relationships and memories within the youth of each nation including our own.

If you are interested in participating please contact Kt Andresky at: kt@555arts.org

The Press/Play Broadcasts were originally created by Kt Andresky to bring international arts information to the art community of Detroit. It has grown into an informative real-time documentation of what is happening within unrelated parts of the art world at one specific moment. She hopes to gather many young national and international artists and create interaction through telepresence that is not able to take place elsewhere.

Sunday October 19, 2008 from 1-3pm
CHILDREN & FAMILY DAY WORKSHOPS: YOUTH WORKSHOP DROP-IN—"HISTORY IN THE MAKING"

Jamel Shabazz, photographer featured in Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, leads this Family Day Workshop called "History in the Making". This workshop focuses on portraiture and will involve parents taking photos of kids and kids taking photos of parents. This will also be an open platform for kids to interview parents about family history.

Photo by Jamel Shabazz

Sunday, September 21, 2008 from 1-3pm
CHILDREN & FAMILY DAY WORKSHOPS: YOUTH WORKSHOP DROP-IN
Free admission, materials provided, all ages welcome

Everyone is invited as MOCAD presents some exotic world music instrument demos and live music for the whole family.

Instrument demos from:
Marko Novachcoff, a multi-instrumentailst who has worked with countless Detroit-area ensembles, including Odu Afrobeat Orchestra, Immigrant Suns
Orchestra, THTX, and Only a Mother, as well as working as a sideman to avant garde luminaries such as Eugene Chadbourne, Can's Damo Suzuki, Frank
Pahl, and Detroit's own, Faruq Z. Bey. On top of being a busy performer Marko is a musicologist and renowned collector of exotic instruments from
around the world.

Aside from receiving instrument demos from Marko Novachcoff, participants will partake in an instrument making workshop lead by him as well.

Don't miss the live performance at 2:30pm by
The Don't Look Now Jug Band, ubiquitous folkies exploring rootsy Americana from the depths of the Cass Corridor. Featuring considering Detroit participating artist Maurice Greenia Jr. and a myriad of other Detroit artists, writers, eccentrics and oddballs. Over the course of it's 20 year existence the Jug Band have become a staple at area street carnivals, art shows, and outdoor events. Unquestionably long enough to be considered a genuine Detroit institution.

Visit the Don't Look Now Jug Band's Myspace page.

From top: Marko Novachoff; The Don't Look Now Jug Band


	Sunday, July 20 from 1-3pm CHILDREN & FAMILY DAY WORKSHOPS: YOUTH WORKSHOP DROP-IN Free admission, materials provided, all ages welcome Fabric Scraps Construction Workshop Teacher: Sarah Lapinski, Wounds Menswear Fashion designer and TIME STEREO collaborator Sarah Lapinski leads a workshop for all ages, constructing sculptures and other artworks from fabric scraps – exploring colors and textures.


	Sunday, June 15 from 1-3pm CHILDREN & FAMILY DAY WORKSHOPS: YOUTH WORKSHOP DROP-IN Free admission, materials provided, all ages welcome Electric Kalimba Conference Teacher: Warn Defever, UFO Factory: TIME STEREO Join in for free drop-in workshop led by TIME STEREO artist Warn Defever as he leads a cacophonous symphony using thumb pianos. All materials provided. Large groups please call ahead.


	Sunday, May 18 from 1-3pm CHILDREN & FAMILY DAY WORKSHOPS: YOUTH WORKSHOP DROP-IN Free admission, materials provided, open to the public, all ages welcome Bicycle Parts Re-Construction Workshop Teacher: Sarah Sidelko Using discarded, re-furbished, leftover, or abandoned bicycle parts, Sarah Sidelko leads a drop-in workshop in constructing Found-Object Sculptures. Large groups please call ahead.


	Sunday, March 16 from 1-3 pm CHILDREN & FAMILY WORKSHOPS: Portraiture, Graffiti Art, Self-Fashioning & Recycling Kids of all ages are invited to join in hands-on creative workshops related to the Holy Hip Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid and ReFusing Fashion: Rei Kawakubo.

A family day workshop participant at MOCAD. Photo by Alyssa Mullen.


	Sunday, February 17 from 1-3 pm CHILDREN & FAMILY WORKSHOPS: Portraiture, Graffiti Art, Self-Fashioning & Recycling Kids of all ages are invited to join in hands-on creative workshops related to the Holy Hip Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid and ReFusing Fashion: Rei Kawakubo.

A family day workshop participant at MOCAD. Photo by Alyssa Mullen.


	Sunday, February 10 from 1-3 pm CHILDREN & FAMILY WORKSHOPS: Portraiture, Graffiti Art, Self-Fashioning & Recycling Kids of all ages are invited to join in hands-on creative workshops related to the Holy Hip Hop! New Paintings by Alex Melamid and ReFusing Fashion: Rei Kawakubo. Special workshops will be led by Chazz Miller (Graffiti Art) and Patrick Kelly (Portraiture).

A family day workshop participant at MOCAD. Photo by Alyssa Mullen.


	Sunday, January 20 from 1-3 pm "FUN WITH WORDS" KIDS CRAFT & ACTIVITY DAY LAST ACTIVITY DAY FOR WORDS FAIL ME EXHIBITION! Parents can enjoy a cup of coffee from MOCAD's brand new caf� while kids craft away and explore art with words. Kids can create their own buttons, magnets and work booklets that include word games, collage space and questions to connect kids with the current exhibition WORDS FAIL ME and help them explore the relationship between language and art. This event is free and open to the public. All materials are provided. Please call ahead for large groups. The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) invites kids of all ages (that includes parents too) to pick up a glue stick, some coloring markers, and indulge your creative impulses.