Jazz 'n Families Fun Days at The Phillips Collection

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This highly popular free, weekend-long event celebrates the synergy between jazz and the visual arts. Presented in partnership with The Phillips Collection, Jazz ‘n Families Fun Days features dynamic entertaining and interactive programs where visitors can create and enjoy performances and activities, like an instrument petting zoo, storytelling, family jazz band portraits, and face-painting. In the galleries, art inspires musical interpretation as musicians interpret art through improvised sound. Children have opportunities to create their own art surrounded by masterpieces by Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keefe, and many others. Featured jazz artists in the past include the Berklee World Jazz Nonet; Michael Bowie Trio; Charles Rahmat Woods Quartet, Reginald Cyntje, and the DC Jazz Collaborative.
 

Jazz ‘n Families Fun Days is part of the annual Dupont-Kalorama Museum Walk Weekend.

Reviews:
"An event unique to the DCJF featuring performances story-telling, hands-on art workshops and an instrument petting zoo, this is the perfect way to introduce little ones to the world of jazz."
~Sriram Gopal, DCist