SUMMER WITH A BRASS BAND! Come get a taste of the holidays coming very soon to Maison des Métallos! The perfect chance to celebrate summer in style: get your face painted, make masks, learn to juggle, watch a drag show, take a reading break with a tasty snack, then head back for another round of amazing wooden games! And the best part? Everything is FREE!
Creative, sports, face-painting, and wooden game workshops, no registration required and running continuously Juggling ｜14H-17H Learn to juggle with Alejandro Escobedo, a contemporary circus artist at the crossroads of juggling and clowning. Through the handling of objects, balls, scarves, shapes in motion... Participants are invited to explore the relationship between the body, gesture, and rhythm. Objects circulate, slip away, return; the body searches, adapts, invents. → ages 5 and up Insect mask making ｜14H-17H Make your insect mask and become a funny little creature with graphic designer Mathilde Brice. → ages 5 and up Vacation notebook making ｜14H-17H Using posters from Maison des Métallos' 25/26 season, come make your vacation notebook. Fold, bind, personalize the cover, and you're done! By Maéva Donat → ages 4 and up Face painting ｜14H-17H Get your face painted and get ready for the brass band with graphic designer Pauline Escot → ages 4 and up Super Doito contest ｜14H-18H DOITO puts a new spin on an age-old soccer game! It is played by two people on a wooden board. The first person to reach ten points wins the game! By Jeanne Frenkel and Cosme Castro (La Comète) → ages 6 and up Wooden games ｜14H-17H Table football, traditional games, and other group games by Strata'j'm → ages 3 and up Show & Brass Band Drag show for kids ｜17H Hooray! It's (finally) vacation time, it's a party: come enjoy a festive, family-friendly drag show to celebrate the return of the sun with music, featuring a powerhouse duo: drag king clown-singer Jackie Fuego and France's most charismatic drag queen Clémence Trüe will be there to put sparkle in your eyes!" - With Jackie Fuego and Clemence Trü → ages 3 and up Brass band « Les Vilants Chicots » ｜17h45 This high-energy brass band has ditched sheet music and music stands to blow its wild sonic cocktail wherever the wind takes them. On the pavement of alleyways and on the floors of major stages, at Sunday-best weddings or chaotic banquets, Les Vilains Chicots electrify every audience. → ages 3 and up Story readings and coloring Reading club ｜14H30-17H (3 sessions of 20 min) Story readings by storyteller Nadia from the Libertalia bookshop → all audiences Reading corner ｜14H-18H Books available from a neighborhood library → ages 3 and up Snacks, popcorn, and drinks Free snack ｜16H Cakes prepared by Centre Social le Picoulet (a neighborhood center open to everyone). Popcorn machine ｜14H-19H Popcorn throughout the festival by Centre social Le Picoulet. Refreshment stand ｜14H-19H A drinks menu for kids and adults alike!
Price: Free, reservation recommended! Same-day access possible subject to availability.
Source: paris.fr — photo: Maison des Métallos