Création en famille: a free weekend for young audiences at the Centre Georges Pompidou in October

After the Mini-Party, traditionally organized every winter vacation, the Centre Georges Pompidou is offering a new family weekend: so, the date is set for Saturday, October 26 and Sunday, October 27, 2024 for a weekend as festive as it is creative, in one of the most important cultural venues in all of Paris.

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For two days, parents and children can enjoy - and please, as many as they like - visits, special tours, workshops, encounters with artists and other fun activities based around modern and contemporary art. The good news is that all activities are free and open to all.

On the program for this 2024 Family Creation weekend:

Workshop and performance with a duo of artists on paper pop-ups, by illustrator Gérard Lo Monaco

• When? Performance at 11:30 am, paper form parades at 12:30, 3 and 5 pm
• For whom? 5 years and up

Station 0.2 "Dans la forêt" by Marion Barraud

Illustrator and cartoonist Marion Barraud has designed a plant landscape for toddlers, like a strange forest, soft and welcoming. Walking on a carpet of leaves, hiding in a tree house, gathering plants - the artist invites children and parents to plunge into the discovery of a world of materials and sounds. This artistic installation offers babies a cocoon of nature, a moment suspended in Marion Barraud's drawn universe.

• When? All weekend long
• For whom? 0 to 2 years
• Registration at the children's workshop reception desk

Ceci n'est pas un sablé breton" workshop by Hopla Studio

Inspired by André Masson's dripping technique - in which glue-coated canvases were sprayed with sand, which adhered to the surface - young and old are invited to create a miniature edible work using Breton shortbread, letting their imaginations run wild as they choose the colors, transforming the cookies into sand, or adding a delicious coulis as a finishing touch.

• From age 4 upwards
• Registration subject to availability at group reception, level 0

Morphing" show by Antonin Leymarie

Morphing, a veritable dancefloor for young and old alike, takes up the challenge of appealing to the very young by stretching out African and Caribbean sounds in an acoustic and hyper-dynamic mix.

• When? Saturday 26 at 3:30pm and Sunday 27 at 2pm and 3:30pm
• For whom ? 3 years and up

In the museum, levels 4 and 5 :

• At children's level (cartels for young visitors)
• Alerte couleurs, investigation dans le Musée" (color alert, museum investigation), ages 5 and up, registration required at the museum and in the Petit Salon (level 5).
• En gestes et en mouvements" tour, ages 5 and up, registration required at the museum and in the Petit Salon (level 5)
• Place au fantastique" tour, ages 7 and up, registration required at the museum and in the Petit Salon (level 5).
• Tête-à-tête" workshop, ages 4 and up, ongoing in the Grand Salon, level 5
• Station 0.2 "BB bOunce Station" by Studio smarin, ages 0 to 2, continuous, museum room 26 (level 4)

This special weekend will also be an opportunity to discover the exhibition of the moment at the Galerie des Enfants: Tenir Tête, an immersive creation byartist Marion Fayolle, on view until January 6, 2025.

Tenir tête, the immersive exhibition in the Galerie des Enfants at the Centre Georges Pompidou
Until January 6, 2025, the Galerie des Enfants is transformed in the colors of Tenir tête, the exhibition by illustrator Marion Fayolle that takes you on a journey of discovery through nomadic encampments. [Read more]