June 5, Friday open from 10am – 5pm and again from 6 – 11pm

South First Friday

This month it’s a very special edition of South First Friday – it’s the second annual SubZERO festival. At SubZERO beginning at 6pm you will find a major street festival with two stages of entertainment and 100 artists, performers, and musicians on site as they celebrate the indie creative spirit. Festivities will take place in the SoFA District between San Carlos and Reed Streets in downtown San Jose.

Come help us create banners for the Museum façade!

Join us at SubZERO for an exciting participatory community art project lead by artist Corinne Okada Takara. Cast-off plastic bags and bottles from schools and the Guadalupe River and Coyote Creek clean-ups will be used as materials for people to create small sculptures of algae and diatoms to be integrated into large 3-D banners to be installed across the façade of the Museum. By knitting together disposable artifacts commonly polluting our waterways, this community art project muses on the clogging of our creeks as well as on creative repurposing of the materials around us.

Also, at 9 and 10pm, Butoh dance performance by San Francisco butoh artist Christina Braun to contemporary music by composer Jeffrey Scott Perry with costuming by Corinne Okada Takara.

For more information on this participatory art experience, visit Corinne Okada's blog.

June 7, Sunday, 2 – 3pm

Kids Create

Get ready to explore the many cultures in our community with this popular program. Join us each month as we celebrate a different tradition through story and a hands-on art project. Kids Create is a multicultural arts program for children aged 5-10.
Materials fee: $7.50. Must pay materials fee in advance to confirm reservation. Fee may be paid online or at 408.971.0323 x14. Walk-ins accepted only if there is room at the session.
This month’s theme: Piecing Earth and Sky Together: Laotian legend snippet quilt
See the complete Kids Create calendar.