Family Festival: Celebrating Getty Gardens
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Celebrate spring at the Getty Center with this vibrant and interactive family festival. Explore the fabulous gardens in full bloom with an artist-designed map for your quest. Decorate your own crown with colorful cardboard flowers, participate in a live model drawing workshop with the gardens as your background, and discover the joys of Hawaiian music and dance with processions that weave through the Center. It’s a day for all the senses!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
PERFORMANCES
Vanished with Conservation Ambassadors and Zoo to You
Courtyard Stage
10:30 AM | 2:05 PM
45 min demonstration
Have you ever dreamed of meeting a peregrine falcon, lemur, spider monkey, tortoise, or alligator up close? Experience a true once-in-a-lifetime encounter with animals from around the globe! As we celebrate nature, learn about animals that are currently endangered or were once endangered, and how Conservation Ambassadors saved them, giving us the privilege to see these magnificent creatures today.
Narenj and Toranj Girl – A puppet Show with Negar Estakhr and Maryam Rasekh
Courtyard Stage
11:45 AM | 3:20 PM
40 min performance
Based on one of the oldest and most beloved Persian tales, puppeteers narrate the story of Khorshid, a compassionate and valiant boy, on his remarkable journey to rescue a young girl trapped inside a narenj (a cross between a lemon and an orange). Featuring music by Arezoo and Vandad.
Hālau Hula Keali’i O’ Nalani
Courtyard Stage
12:40 PM | 4:15 PM
1 hr performance
Experience the essence of the Hawaiian Islands as you follow Hālau Hula Keali’I O’ Nalani, led by Kumu Hula Keali’i Ceballos, through the Getty grounds and onto the stage. Enjoy the beauty of both ancient and modern hula from one of LA’s most renowned Hawaiian dance troupes.
Storytelling with True Thomas
Top of the Central Garden
11:20 AM | 12:30 PM | 1:45 PM | 3:00 PM | 4:00 PM
20 min stories
Join traditional storyteller True Thomas for fun and silly tales from around the world, including trickster tales, stories of the seasons, and wild and wacky fables that will put a “spring” in your step!
ALL DAY FUN!
10:00 AM–5:00 PM
Create a Terrarium with Eros Cortes
Museum Courtyard (Next to West Pavillion)
Drop-in All Day!
Bring home a bit of nature and learn about succulents by creating your own terrarium, complete with plants and an animal figurine!
Costumed Life Drawing with Valley Art Workshop
Museum Courtyard (Outdoor Room)
Drop-in All Day!
Embrace the essence of the season with our life drawing workshop, featuring costumed models inspired by some of Getty’s most beautiful paintings.
Springtime Crowns with reDiscover Center and artist Jennifer Racusin
Front of Museum Entrance Hall
Drop-in All Day!
Create a crown fit for a goddess or god! Learn how to craft flowers from recycled materials, and make crowns inspired by Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s magnificent painting Spring.
Getty Center Garden Quest
Museum Courtyard
Drop-in All Day!
The Getty Center is more than a container for artwork—it is a work of art itself! Explore this architectural wonder using a specially drawn map by artist Kiel Johnson. Track down ten of his favorite locations and unlock their secrets!
Pick up your map in the Museum Courtyard at the information table just outside the Entrance Hall doors. When you complete your journey, come back to the information table to pick up your Garden Quest button (while supplies last).
Garden Games Pop-Up from Wise Guys Events
Bottom of the Central Garden
11:00 AM–5:00 PM
Drop-in All Day!
LA’s best party gamers, Wise Guys Events, will lead somefun new games perfect for a
springtime celebration! Animal noise guessing games, Running Charades,and the world premiere of Pollinator Tag! All are welcome to join in the fun!
Conservation Ambassadors/Zoo to You
Front of Museum Entrance Hall
11:45 AM–1:35 PM | 3:20 PM–5:30 PM
1 hr 50 min demonstration
Get up close and personal with Zoo to You’s most adorable animals ambassadors—an alligator, brown lemur and some of their feathered friends—at our meet-and-greet in front of
the Museum.