7 awesome things to do at Free Family Festival at Woodruff Arts Center

By Helena Oliviero

Aug 19, 2016

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Free Family Festival at Woodruff Arts Center

1-4 p.m. Sept. 11 Free. Woodruff Arts Center. 1280 Peachtree St., Atlanta. 404-733-4254, www.woodruffcenter.org/CREATE-ATL.

The Woodruff Arts Center will host its sixth Free Family Festival Sept. 11 featuring everything from live performances from Jamaican musicians and storytellers to scavenger hunts inspired by Eric Carle's children's book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," and interactive musical experiences.

The festival, which will take place from 1-4 p.m. Sept. 11, brings together programming by the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art.

The festival is part of the “CREATE ATL Family Fun” at the Woodruff Arts Center, an initiative that offers art-making, interactive musical storytimes, composers-in-training sessions, and much more, for free, from 1-4 p.m. every Sunday.

(CREATE ATL is sponsored by a $6.6 million grant by the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation, which is part of the family of foundations that also includes the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation. The Lettie Pate Evans Foundation is an independent private foundation that invests primarily in education, arts and culture.)

Families are encouraged (but not required) to register for the Free Family Festival; go to www.woodruffcenter.org/CREATE-ATL.

Here are seven awesome things to do at the Free Family Festival:

The High Museum of Art will offer free admission and free scavenger hunt guides based on the exhibition "I See a Story: The Art of Eric Carle." Children of all ages will also be able to work with High Museum of Art teaching artists to make their very own wire leaf sculptures, inspired by the colors of fall.

"Toddler Tours" at the High Museum will take toddlers and their caregivers on a physically interactive experience with art where they will experience dance- and drama-based strategies to interpret works of art and learn about museums.

Alliance Theatre's Kathy and Ken Bernhardt Theatre for the Very Young will present a free sneak peek at the upcoming production "From Head to Toe," which is based on the beloved Eric Carle children's book of the same name. Performances will invite the youngest audience members to think, observe and move like their favorite animals.

Master Jamaican musicians and storytellers (storytellers and healers from the Maroon settlement of Moore Town, Jamaica) will be on the Sifly Piazza (the outdoor square between the High Museum of Art and the Memorial Arts Building) at 1, 2 and 3 p.m.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will present an instrument petting zoo: violins, a cello, a flute and a trumpet will be on hand for children ages 5 and older to touch and try.