Art & Science Family Festival

Art & Science Family Festival

Saturday October 19 and Sunday October 20 from 10 am - 5 pm

Getty Center

Pique your curiosity at this interactive family festival celebrating Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide. See how light can dazzle and delight by making your own suncatcher and creating pictures with the power of the sun! Explore the medieval idea of the cosmos by making your own piece of wearable art based on your astrological sign. Imagine seeing Earth from outer space with a huge interactive globe where you can add elements to make the world a better place for us all to live. There is something for every curious mind at this free daylong event!

Southern California’s landmark arts event PST ART: Art & Science Collide presents more than 70 exhibitions from organizations across the region exploring the intersections of art and science both past and present. For more information please visit pst.art.

ALL-DAY FUN

10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Global Community created by Kiel Johnson | Outdoor Room

Take part in an epic global collaboration with community based artist Kiel Johnson and his 8ft cardboard replica of planet Earth. The public is invited to orbit the globe imagine visiting the International Space Station looking back at home. What do you notice? What do you miss? How do we protect our home? Who or what else live here besides us?

Using air dry clay pencils markers and cardboard realize your dreams and build those ideas for our global community. The possibilities are endless all you need to bring is your imagination.

Astrofengaiá created by Dina Fisher | Top of Runnel Fountain

Designed to embellish the beauty of our solar system's resident star this home-spun shrine to light is made from upcycled and reclaimed materials. Its glistening surfaces create a meditative space where participants are invited to step inside relax and listen to a custom soundscape.

Suncatchers Workshop with Hanabee Cartagena | South Planter

Catch the beauty of light with your own suncatcher. Tie knots and link upcycled plastics with eye-catching materials to create a luminous suncatcher that will dance with the wind and light.

Cyanotypes Workshop with Dajin Yoon & Stevie Choi | Top of Garden 

Create cyanotype prints while exploring the themes of climate change using LA’s native fauna and flora.

Astrological Embellishment with Marcus Kuiland-Nazario | Front of Museum Entrance Hall

Fashion fabulous blinged-out pendants that can be worn or displayed using your zodiac signs inspired by the exhibition “Rising Signs: The Medieval Science of Astrology”.

PERFORMANCES

10:00 AM │ 12:00 PM │ 2:00 PM │ 4:15 PM

Dublab DJ | Museum Courtyard

dublab is a Los Angeles-based community-supported internet radio station and creative collective dedicated to the growth of positive music arts and culture. Founded in 1999 dublab has been broadcasting since the “dot-com era” with the mission to share

forward-thinking freeform radio with an international audience. dublab expands curiosity experimentation inclusivity education and connection.

11:30 AM │ 1:30 PM │ 3:30 PM 

Infinite Flow | Museum Courtyard

Infinite Flow Dance is an award-winning Los Angeles-based professional dance company that employs disabled and nondisabled dancers with diverse intersectional identities. They transform expectations and perceptions of disability by physically and visually modeling the world they wish to see through their work.

12:30 PM │ 2:45 PM

Low Leaf (Saturday) presented by Living Earth| West Lawn and Lower West Garden under the Bougainvillea

Low Leaf is a multi-instrumentalist vocalist composer and producer who combines an array of genres ever-expanding in a spectrum of its own. Exploring sound healing and plant consciousness as a part of her spiritual practice has greatly influenced her approach to music painting and more recently film making. In a world of illusion she insists on using her creative gifts as an instrument of truth love and liberation. Her ability to challenge conventions and push the boundaries of artistic expression leaves a lasting impact on those who experience her work.

12:30 PM │ 2:45 PM

Alexey Seliverstov (Sunday) presented by Living Earth| West Lawn and Lower West Garden under the Bougainvillea

Russian born LA based experimental composer Alexey Seliverstov combines field recordings reel-to-reel tape recorders vintage and modular synthesizers to create the music you will hear feel and experience. Watch Seliverstov conduct this orchestra of tape decks turntables and occasionally unrecognizable machines. The result is a surprisingly soothing cacophony a meeting point between found nature sounds and the composer’s trademark artificial birdsongs.

12:30 PM │ 2:45 PM

Living Earth | Central Garden

Living Earth is an outdoor arts series that invites people of all ages to explore Los Angeles through monthly solar-powered performances. Founded and operated by local artists and organizers their gatherings blend a love for music and native ecology emphasizing deep listening as a form of reciprocity with the living world. By reimagining public art as a creative act of restoration Living Earth aims to cultivate meaningful connections with our communities histories ecosystems and the planet ultimately rehabilitating our relationship with nature and ourselves.

Listen for the soundscape Living Earth has created especially for the Festival and watch out for their flutist roaming through the Central Garden.

11:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Bubblemania and Company | Upper Central Garden East Lawn

A “hands-on” bubble making experience with a certified “bubblologist” who will assist festival goers in making all kinds of bubbles using a wide variety of wands in the shape of flowers butterflies dinosaurs dolphins and more.

12:15 PM │ 2:30 PM

Bubblemania and Company | Museum Lecture Hall

Explore the science and fun of bubbles with shimmering waves of soap films rainbow bubbles and bubbles of all sizes (and shapes!). Learn about reflection refraction surface tension and many other soap bubbles properties.

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