The New Children's Museum

Have you voted today? Vote for The New Children's Museum! ✨ We're honored to be nominated in the San Diego Reader's "Best of 2024" awards and we need your help to take the title! ☑️ To vote for NCM, click here: https://lnkd.in/gpmQVWPD You can vote once a day until Friday, August 30. Thank you for your support! #ThinkPlayCreate #VoteForNCM #VoteToday

Join us for our next 🌱 Seeding Futures: Author Visit on September 14 from 10am-12pm in Museum Park, featuring Zetta Eliott (she/her), author of The Oracle’s Door. 📚 This free event will include a reading and Q+A by the author, an art activity led by our NCM team and attendees will receive a take home art kit to create their own fire-breathing dragon! Releasing on September 14, The Oracle's Door is a stand-alone fantasy novel for young readers that weaves a magical tale while subtly revealing conditions in early twentieth-century Chicago that led to the 1919 Race Riot. When main character, Lavinia “Vinny” Robinson, hears a faraway voice inviting her to open a rainbow-edged door in the sky, Vinny enters a world filled with dragons! But can magic keep her family safe when chaos descends on Aldine Square? Join us, and find out! Museum admission is included with free registration to this book signing event, and the first 10 registrants will receive a complimentary copy of the book (limit 1 per family)! Joyride Bookshop will also be selling copies of The Oracle’s Door. The Oracle’s Door is geared towards upper elementary and middle school students, but all are welcome! Funding for "Octavia E. Butler: Seeding Futures" is provided in part by Prebys Foundation, The Getty Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the NEH, and the City of San Diego. Special thanks to the Octavia E. Butler Estate, Octavia E. Butler Enterprises for in-kind support.

"If you're looking for a very special, imaginative, enchanting and entertaining place to enthrall your kids when traveling in San Diego, California, there aren't many children's museums or contemporary art spaces quite like The New Children's Museum... NCM is a collaboration with the best contemporary artists of our time to create an immersive art space that kids can touch, feel and experience. It delivers magnificently..." 🔗 Read the full article by Nicola Bridges: https://bit.ly/3ySF20o

Last winter break our family took our first trip via airplane as a family of 6. The pandemic and many other factors delayed travel for us for so long and this year we were determined to make it happen. We spent 5 days in the sun and warmth of San Diego, hit all the highlights- zoo, safari, and the The New Children's Museum. I saw this painted on the wall and thought “we are trying to teach our children these things but how many do we do for ourselves?” Parenting is hard. Parenting well is even harder. So many of these require community and connection- the whole reason AND/BOTH exists ❤️

Have you voted today? Vote for The New Children's Museum! ✨ We're honored to be nominated in the San Diego Reader's "Best of 2024" awards and we need your help to take the title! ☑️ To vote for NCM, click here: https://lnkd.in/gpmQVWPD You can vote once a day until Friday, August 30. Thank you for your support! #ThinkPlayCreate #VoteForNCM #VoteToday

Have you heard the news? The New Children's Museum is growing! “The New Children’s Museum is, really, a space for everyone,” said Elizabeth Yang-Hellewell (she/her) executive director and CEO of The New Children’s Museum. “As our audiences grow, so must our organization grow to nurture the creative space our visitors need to explore their creativity and fulfill their curiosity at new levels.” https://bit.ly/3xzEc86

We are thrilled to announce an exciting ✨ new program for educators ✨ at The New Children's Museum, introducing the Seeding Speculative Futures: Educators Institute! 🌱 This two-day program invites educators who work with children, youth and/or college students to explore ways in which the writings of award-winning author Octavia E. Butler (she/her) and speculative fiction can inform our work as educators. During the program, we will make space for participants to dream, plant seeds, and focus on worldmaking our collective futures as educators and worldbuilders in our communities. This program is a collaborative project created and designed by Octavia E. Butler: Seeding Futures advising curator Dr. Ayana Jamieson (she/her), Andrea Fullington (she/her) from The Black School, and The New Children’s Museum. PROGRAM + APPLICATION DETAILS Deadline to Apply: Sunday, September 15 📅 The program takes place over two days: Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 10am-4pm and Friday, October 11, 2024 from 10am-2pm 🍴 Lunch will be provided for participants on both days. KEY DATES 📆 Application is open now and it will close on Sunday, September 15 at 11:59pm. 📆 Accepted applicants will be notified via email by Monday, September 23. ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY: To participate in this program you must be a community or classroom educator who works with children, youth, and or college-aged students; an organizer or educator working in schools and/or outside of school spaces (for example: a library, community garden, K-12 classroom, community organization or independent school.) ▶️ Apply Here: https://bit.ly/4cAdkn0 * Once you have clicked the application link, you will add "1" under the "Adult" ticket selection. Click "Next" and the application will appear. If you have any questions, please reach out to Iyari Arteaga (she/her) at iarteaga@thinkplaycreate.org Please note that all who meet the eligibility requirements are welcome to apply and this institute will prioritize the participation of educators who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. #ThinkPlayCreate #SeedingFutures Funding for "Octavia E. Butler: Seeding Futures" is provided in part by Prebys Foundation, The Getty Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the NEH, and the City of San Diego. Special thanks to the Octavia E. Butler Estate, Octavia E. Butler Enterprises for in-kind support.

Have you voted today? Vote for The New Children's Museum! ✨ We're honored to be nominated in the San Diego Reader's "Best of 2024" awards and we need your help to take the title! ☑️ To vote for NCM, click here: https://lnkd.in/gpmQVWPD You can vote once a day until Friday, August 30. Thank you for your support! #ThinkPlayCreate #VoteForNCM #VoteToday

📅 Plan ahead: The New Children's Museum will be open on Labor Day, Monday, September 2 from 9am-4pm and closed beginning on Tuesday, September 3 - Friday, September 6, 2024 for annual maintenance. During this time our installations are evaluated, deep-cleaned, and repaired if needed. We will reopen on Saturday, September 7 at 9am, and we can't wait to see you! See you there to think, play and create! ✨

Heads up, marathon notice! The America’s Finest City Half Marathon & 5K is this Sunday, August 18 and will pass through downtown San Diego. Please plan ahead to anticipate surrounding road closures from 6am-10am. The New Children's Museum will be open for our regular hours from 9am-4pm on this day. See you soon! https://lnkd.in/gG__AaCs