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So Many Make and Take Activities! Check them all out and plan your day - Adult and kids!
Mural making from 1 - 3pm sponsored by MariSol Credit Union and in their lot at 1515 W. Roosevelt Street. Watch Mario Garcia, Sabree Garcia, Erik Carrasco and Sean McArdle work their magic.
Make creative parasols at Onyx Gallery from 2 - 5pm, in the Music Lounge. There will be a step-and-repeat photo booth for capturing completed designs. Ages 10 and older. After hours from 8 - 11pm, the space will host giant Jenga, giant Uno, corn hole, and other games, along with music. 21 and older.
Kitty Krafts Korner, 15th Avenue, Roosevelt and Grand (Desert Sun Plaza corner), will host craft projects until 8pm including Walter Hive’s “Beatrice” mobile crafting bus; Jose Benavedaz’s Madonna Art Car + 3-D wire-crafting; origami by Kimberly Terasaki; Kristin Wesley’s cool cat decorating workshop. An art car creation from Walter Studios, and Burners Without Borders, will make this corner ‘the-place-to-be creative’.
Join Kyllan Maney in front of the Desert Sun Plaza, and help color-in her large chalk mural (inspired by the “hanging gardens” along Grand Avenue), while creating baked “shrink art” jewelry. The mural will glow-in-the-dark after the sun sets!
Hat-making with the Bergamot Institute in front of Bragg’s Pie Factory, 1301 Grand. Pom poms, flowers, stuffed animal parts, fabric, sequins, and all manner of bling are available to design and make the crazy hat of your dreams (or nightmares).
Joe Willie Smith, outside Barrio Cafe Gran Reserva, 1301 Grand, teaches visitors to make instruments out of recycled materials. Participants can take instruments to Fushicho Daiko Dojo, 925 Grand, to join in mini-parades at 1, 3, 5, and 7pm; to the 45 minute drum circles at Desert Sun Plaza, 1325 Grand, at 3 and 4:15pm; or just home.
Valley Metro hosts a coloring table, with artist-designed coloring pages, in front of The Lodge (SW corner of McKinley and Grand), geared toward children and adults.
Just north of Fillmore on Grand Avenue, bicycle-powered sewing-machine artist Paul Nosa will sew patches on request. Visitors give him a concept and he makes a machine-stitched patch for free. He will also have some of his own one-of-a-kind elaborately stitched artwork for sale.
Charissa Lucille, owner of Wasted Ink Zine Distro, will show visitors how to create a zine, and zines by Arizona artists will be for sale, in front of La Melgosa,1023 Grand.
Don’t miss Sarah Schweiger’s stellar creative face and body painting in the 1100 block of Grand, from 12:30 - 5:30pm. And balloon twister Joy Young, wandering the route from 1:30 - 7:30pm, will make visitors a quirky, free balloon creation.
Dragon decorating at Fushicho Daiko Dojo, 925 Grand, will take place all day until 8pm. Enjoy the sound of Taiko drummers while decorating “Bonita the Dragon”. Join the Taiko drumming mini-parades at 1, 3, 5 and 7pm (and show off any instruments, hats, parasols, painted faces, or other accessories created during the day).