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Family guide DUMBO Arts Festival 2014

Our top picks for this year’s free celebration of art on the waterfront in DUMBO
September 26 – 28: Fri 6 – 9 pm, Sat 12 – 9 pm, Sun 12 – 6 pm:

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Foam City / Empire Fulton Ferry / All weekend: Geodesic domes and shapes, rectilinear forms, and decahedrons come together to form a pliable and playable cityscape on the grass at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The foam noodles can be pushed, pulled, squeezed, and twisted and reconfigured to your heart’s content.

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Creatively Wild Art Studio kids program / 33 Washington Street / Sat & Sun 12 – 6 pm: Sat & Sun: Kids can create a Brooklyn Bridge mini canvas using cardboard, paint and found objects and paint scenic views of DUMBO. Saturday: Robot and bug assemblages. Sunday: Cartoon Portraits – ask an artist to draw a cartoon portrait of yourself, then paint and decorate it with found objects.

Circle Circus /1 Main Street Festival Lounge / All weekend: Circle Circus is an interactive sculpture, an enlarged children’s toy, a spirograph, accompanied by two giant pencils and large sheets of paper. The audience is invited to work together on the drawings.

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Mother’s Dream Quilt  / 111 Front Street / All weekend: Mother’s dream quilt was created by gun control activists Moms Demand Action. The quilt contains meaningful fabric from victims and survivors of gun violence, and is meant to show how gun violence has become part of the fabric of America.

The Big Head Brigade / Roaming throughout DUMBO / Sat & Sun 12 – 6 pm: The Big Head Brigade is an artist collective who uses imagery and personas from history, myth, popular culture and more, to create wearable, big heads sculptures and perform in them.

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The Fishing Pond / Manhattan Bridge Archway/ All Weekend: The Fishing Pond will be located in front of the Watergate mural under the Manhattan Bridge Archway. Inpsired by elementary schools games, audience members will be able to throw a line behind a wall of water, catching custom fortune cookie fortunes.

Jumbo DUMBO Puppy / Main Street between Plymouth & Water / All weekend: Jumbo DUMBO Puppy is a large puppy structure made from cardboard boxes. It is three-dimensional art pieces deconstructed into nostalgic 8-bit cubes.

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Barter Town / Water Street between Main & Washington / Sat & Sun 12 – 6 pm: Barter Town believes art should take an active role in shifting cultural values. Take a visit and enjoy face painting, performance, film, raffles, costume making and more.

For more information: dumboartsfestival.com

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