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On Sunday, March 14th, the Portland Art Museum and the Northwest Film Center invite families to enjoy film with a free afternoon of Celebrating Film.

With games and art activities, kids can create animations, watch films, and even compose their own film soundtrack to a 1960’s Japanese monster movie live on stage with the group Filmusik.

The NW Film Center says:

This blockbuster event will reel in the family fun with do it yourself animation, interactive play spaces, improvisational theater games, film screenings, kid-friendly food, and motion themed-gallery tours. Activities take place throughout the day from 12-5 p.m.

Northwest Film Center faculty will be teaching kids of all ages the principles of motion using zoetropes and thaumatropes, which spin and whirl simple drawings into animated moving images. Visitors can also make their own flipbook, play with digitally projected butterflies, and help create the soundtrack for a 1960s Japanese monster movie, live on stage, with the group Filmusik.

For those interested in acting for the camera, Oregon Children’s Theater will be leading high energy interactive theater games such as Zip, Zap, Zop!, Whoosh I am a Tree, and Complaint Counter. Outdoors in the Museum’s sculpture court, families can enjoy snacks from food and beverage carts or head in with their snacks to watch kid-created films and shorts from local filmmakers in the Fields Ballroom. In the Museum’s permanent collection galleries families can take docent led tours throughout the day that focus on the photographic lens.

Museum Family Day: Celebrating Film

When: Sunday, March 14, 2010 12-5 p.m.

Admission: FREE

Where: Inside and outside at the Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon

Schedule:

12-5 p.m.
Animate Your Artwork-Spin and twirl your drawings into animated moving images with Northwest Film Center faculty.

Interactive Playspace- Digital butterflies land on your shadow in this interactive environment provided by Mine-Control.

Make Your Own Flipbook- Record and take home “seven seconds of your life in a book,” presented by Fliptography

Family Time Cinema- A program of kid-created films and shorts by local filmmakers, curated by the Northwest Film Center. Popcorn provided by Hollywood Video. Beer by Laurelwood Pizza.

Food- Superdog hot dogs and sausages, and Tastebud wood-fired pizza

Family Gallery Tours- Join guest docents for all ages tours of motion-related artworks in the Portland Art Museum galleries.

2 & 4 p.m.
Soundtrack Serenade- Help create the soundtrack to a 1960s Japanese monster movie live on stage with the group Filmusik

1, 2, 3, & 4 p.m.
Theater Games- A half hour of high energy interactive theatre games with professional actors from Oregon Childrens Theatre.