Family Festival
June 12, 2005

Inspired by two exhibitions featuring the art of Italy—For Your Approval: Oil Sketches by Tiepolo and Light and Water: Drawing in Eighteenth-Century Venice—this Family Festival offers a day of fun at the Venetian carnevale. All events are free; no reservations required.

Explore the day's program:

		Music and Dance
		Storytelling
		Art-Making Workshops
		Strolling Performer

Music and Dance

Alessandra Belloni and I Giullari di Piazza (the Players of the Square) perform "Tarantata: Dance of the Ancient Spider"
11:15 a.m.–noon
4:45–5:30 p.m.
Museum Courtyard Stage

Musicàntica (Enzo Fina and Roberto Catalano) performs music from Southern Italy
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Museum Courtyard Stage

Alessandra Belloni and I Giullari di Piazza (the Players of the Square) perform "The Adventure of Don Giovanni and His Servant Arlecchino"
2:45–3:45 p.m.
Museum Courtyard Stage

Storytelling

Michael Katz performs Italian folktales
10:45–11:30 a.m.
2:00–2:45 p.m.
Museum Lecture Hall

Los Angeles Opera singers perform favorite characters from Italian opera
12:45–1:30 p.m.
4:00–4:45 p.m.
Museum Lecture Hall

Art-Making Workshops

Venetian carnival mask workshop with Angel Kwan
10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Museum Courtyard

Gondola workshop with Elmira Adamian
10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Museum Courtyard

Postcard workshop
10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Getty Research Institute lawn

Frame workshop
10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Central Garden

Strolling Performer

Nathan Stein performs Pedrolino from the commedia dell'arte
10:30–11:00 a.m.
noon–12:45 p.m.
2:15–3:00 p.m.
3:45–4:30 p.m.
3:45 p.m.–4:15 p.m.
Getty Center grounds