This Sunday - two free events at Getty Villa and Hammer Museum to enjoy with your family!

Family Festivals at Getty Villa and Getty Center are really good events ... the only cost involved is the $15 per vehicle parking.  However, because of the small size of the Getty Villa in Malibu, you need to obtain admission tickets via phone or online.  No tickets are needed for the Getty Center.  You may get up to 8 tickets per person, so share your tickets with another family. 

See http://www.getty.edu/visit/hours/faq.html#v5  for the frequently asked questions if this is your first visit to Getty Villa.

There are always amazing artwork to be done at Getty's family Festivals as well as dramatic or musical performances -- all free and all in one day!  Kids will enjoy getting the ART DETECTIVE pamphlets to do their art scavenger hunt!

Family Festival Celebrating The Art of Ancient Greek T

Date: Sunday, December 5, 2010
Time: 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Admission: Free; a ticket is required. Call (310) 440-7300 or use the "Get Tickets" button below.

Bring your family's entire cast of characters along to celebrate The Art of Ancient Greek Theater during this daylong festival of learning, crafts, and performance. Children and adults can fashion their own Greek theater masks, costume themselves as ancient actors, and applaud or join in pint-sized versions of classical Greek comedies onstage.

	Paint sets for the Cyclops with Liz Glynn. Photo: Aaron Paley

Planned activities and events include:

Casting Call—Greek-Theatre Clay Masks, Led by Marni Gittleman
Make authentic expressions by shaping, styling, forming, and exaggerating facial features from forehead to chin! Create palm-sized terracotta masks inspired by the traditional styles of ancient Greek theatre masks. Work with air-dry clay and use press molds and clay tools to create your own unique cast of a mask form.

Dramatic Drapery, Led by Marcus Kuiland Nazario
Create your own costume fit for the stage! Choose among Grecian prints and patterns and make your very own custom textile, which can be fashioned into a headdress, cape, or tunic. The world is your personal amphitheater.

	Meet Herakles at the Getty Villa! (Presented by Carl Weintraub, of We Tell Stories.) Photo: Aaron Paley

Building a Classical Greek Chorus, Led by Professor Michael Hackett and Students of UCLA's Department of Theater
The Greek chorus was central to ancient theater and provided the audience with insight into the dramatic action. Speaking or singing in unison, the chorus commented on the characters and themes being portrayed onstage. Watch (or even participate!) as a Greek chorus is created and performed before your eyes.

Reinventing Ancient Greek Theater, Led by Liz Glynn and Sam Robinson
Delve into the makings of Greek theater from the inside out in this ongoing, interactive workshop! Using Euripides' fantastical satyr play the Cyclops for inspiration, festival goers throughout the day can build props, paint sets, rehearse as actors, or perform a scene onstage. The Cyclops is Euripides' parody of a famous episode in Homer's The Odyssey, in which the hero Odysseus is trapped in the cave of a giant, one-eyed, man-eating monster and must outwit the Cyclops to save himself and his companions.

Special Appearance by the Famous Greek Demigod Herakles
Walk right up and meet Herakles (or Hercules, as he was called by the Romans). Zeus's son travels to the Getty Villa to share fabulous tales of his 12 labors and other mythic adventures. Presented by Carl Weintraub, of We Tell Stories.






+++++   Hammer Museum +++++++

ONCE a month at the Hammer Museum, there is a family movie that is free for all.   For 20 days in December, Hammer Museum also has free admission.   For details on the family movie event, please click on:   http://hammer.ucla.edu/calendar/detail/type/program/id/673

SUNDAY DEC 5th at 11:00am at Hammer Museum on Westwood and Wilshire

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Family Flicks: Azur and Asmar

Dir. Michel Ocelot Azur and Asmar (Azur et Asmar) 2008 35 mm, color, 99 min.

Dir. Michel Ocelot Azur and Asmar (Azur et Asmar) 2008 35 mm, color, 99 min.

Family Flicks: Azur and Asmar

Renowned French animator Michel Ocelot brings his signature silhouette style of animation into the digital realm with his first all-CG feature. Dazzling colors and stunning visuals inspired by Middle Eastern mosaic art bring to life the fairy tale of two rival princes. Appropriate for ages 6+. (2008 France/Belgium/Spain/Italy 35mm, color, 99 min. DIR/SCR: Michel Ocelot)

ENJOY!