KQED KTEH Family Fun Adventures
Get ready for a fun-filled summer with our Family Fun Adventures!
We are partnering with fun places in the Bay Area to offer exciting adventures for the entire family. Show your KQED or KTEH MemberCard to receive a special discount on admission and save money.
You must have your KQED or KTEH MemberCard (found on the back of Preview), so if you’ve lost yours, or need to rejoin, call Member Services at 415.553.2150 and mention Family Fun Adventures, or call KTEH Member Services at 408.795.5411.
June 15-June 21
Bay Area Discovery Museum
557 McReynolds Road
Sausalito (415) 339-3900
www.baykidsmuseum.org
Show your KQED or KTEH MemberCard for one free child admission with paying adult
Visit the Bay Area Discovery Museum for a close up experience of China today in the new Children of Hangzhou: Connecting with China exhibition. Explore school, home, theater, library and a farm, all set against a beautiful backdrop of traditional Chinese paintings. Through the viewpoint of four young people, families can try out some of their everyday activities: write Chinese, cook with grandmother, explore computer games, plant rice, and perform in a traditional Chinese opera! Hangzhou combines the best of old and new, rustic countryside and modern urban center. Open through September 13, 2009.
June 22-June 28
Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose
180 Woz Way
San Jose (408) 298-5437
www.cdm.org
Show your KQED or KTEH MemberCard for $1 off admission
CURIOUS GEORGE™ LET’S GET CURIOUS!
Based on the familiar characters in H.A. and Margret Rey’s classic stories published by Houghton Mifflin, the new Curious George exhibit inspires young children’s natural curiosity as they explore early science, math and engineering through hands-on interactive play. The immersive exhibit environment takes place in the neighborhood where Curious George lives with his friend, The Man with the Yellow Hat. Visitors will recognize familiar characters and places featured in the classic stories and the new television series produced by Imagine Entertainment, WGBH Boston and Universal Studios Family Productions that launched last fall on PBS KIDS. Visitors can operate wheels to help George climb a building, sort and weigh fruits and vegetables at the produce stand, use science skills to putt a hole of mini golf, climb the rocket from George’s space adventure, build a whirligig in the country, and visit the Museum within the Museum.
June 29-July 5
Chabot Space & Science Center
10000 Skyline Blvd
Oakland (510)336-7373
www.chabotspace.org
Show your KQED or KTEH MemberCard for 1 free child admission with paying adult
Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Blastoff! Get a glimpse into the life of an astronaut and experience the mixture of exhilaration, adventure, and confinement that is living and working in space. Located just minutes from downtown Oakland, Chabot Space & Science Center invites you to their newest exhibit Beyond Blastoff: Surviving in Space. See how astronauts cope with the challenges of space; take a photo of yourself in a weightless environment, and much more. Stay Close and Go Far at Chabot Space & Science Center.
July 13-July 19
San Francisco Zoo
At the Pacific Ocean between Skyline and Sloat Boulevards
San Francisco (415) 753-7080
www.sfzoo.org
Show your KQED or KTEH MemberCard for one free child with one paid adult/senior
The San Francisco Zoo is the place for summer fun adventures! Check out Baby Bonanza – now through Labor Day – to see the Zoo’s newest babies such as Hasani, our baby gorilla. Roam around the Zoo and look for special baby announcements to learn more about him and our other little ones. Plus, kids receive afree, take-home activity guide filled with games and baby animal facts. Also, come celebrate the Zoo’s 80th Anniversary June 27-28 during this special weekend. Watch the Fisher-Price® Little People® Musical Show, a special family-friendly show celebrating 50 years of Little People! While here, experience some roaring 1920s-style fun as the Zoo turns back the clock to its earliest days. Meet our wonderful bears during the annual Teddy Bear Festival, on July 18-19, and enjoy the fun during this exciting weekend. If that’s not enough, check out our Keeper Connections in July and August. This is your chance to learn more about the amazing Zoo Keepers and the animals they care for every day. So come out to the San Francisco Zoo this summer to start your summer adventure. For more information on these and other events, visit www.sfzoo.org or call 415-753-7201.
July 20-July 26
Children’s Fairyland
699 Bellevue Avenue, Oakland
Oakland (510) 452-2259
www.fairyland.org
Show your KQED or KTEH MemberCard to receive $1 off admission
Children’s Fairyland is a magical place on the shores of Oakland’s picturesque Lake Merritt where young children can create, imagine, play and learn. Children’s Fairyland features rides, puppet shows, children’s theater performances, farm animals, talking storybooks, plus 30 storybook sets. On Saturday July 25 meet Sid the Science Kid.
July 27-August 2
Lawrence Hall of Science
UC Berkeley
Centennial Dr., Berkeley (510) 642-5132
www.lawrencehallofscience.org
Show your KQED or KTEH MemberCard admits one child or youth free with paying adult
Over the course of the past 40 years, programs at the Lawrence Hall of Science have evolved to bring kids and parents some of the best science and mathematics learning experiences that UC Berkeley has to offer – this summer is no exception. Family Fridays: The Hall will be open Fridays until 8 p.m.through August 21, and if you arrive after 5 p.m., admission is just $5. Animal Grossology exhibit: Laugh and learn about the (impolite) side of animal science from blood slurpers, dookie lovers and slime makers. Summer Fun Days: Any Wednesday from June 17 to August 19. Depending on which Wednesday you visit, you can make and eat your own ice cream, build a metropolis, recreate the solstice on a six-foot globe, get into the science of sound and percussion, train for a mission to Mars, make and race your own miniature boat, or try walking on a tightrope and stilts in a circus. Summer Camps: The Lawrence Hall of Science offers over 45 summer camps for ages 4 through 17. Where else could you create a chemical reaction, work with a chinchilla and build a solar car, all in the same place. Learn what summer is all about at Lawrence Hall of Science. Saturday, August 2 meet Sid the Science Kid.
lawrencehallofscience.org/summer
August 4-August 9
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin St. San Francisco
(415) 581-3500
www.asianart.org
Show your KQED or KTEH MemberCard to receive $2 off one adult general admission (usually $12)
Lords of the Samurai
Asian Art Museum
June 12 – September 20, 2009
Brilliant warriors. Artistic masters.
More than just professional soldiers, samurai of the highest rank were cultivated artists, writers, and philosophers. Drawn from the collection of the Hosokawa family in Japan — a clan with a 600-year-old lineage — Lords of the Samurai gives you a personal introduction to samurai culture. Superb examples of armor, swords, paintings, tea wares, lacquerware and more reveal how these men balanced the precision of the blade with the perfection of the brush.
August10-August 16
Oakland Zoo
9777 Golf Links Road
Oakland
510.632.9525
www.oaklandzoo.org
Show your KQED or KTEH MemberCard admits one free child admission with paying adult
The Oakland Zoo is nestled within the rolling hills of 525-acre Knowland Park. With more to see and do than ever before, the Oakland Zoo is the perfect venue for the whole family...a place where families explore together, learn together and make memories together! Visit animals from Africa and the rain-forest as you stroll the 45-acre zoo. Oakland Zoo is a leader in education and conservation, offering a variety of on-site and outreach programs. Oakland Zoo, it's your zoo!
August 17-August 23
Monterey Bay Aquarium
886 Cannery Row
Monterey
831.648.4888
www.montereybayaquarium.org
One free child admission with the purchase of a full-priced adult admission. Limit one free child admission per party.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is revealing the most intimate secrets of the amazing and mysterious seahorse in The Secret Lives of Seahorses. Learn why seahorses change colors, how shrimpfish and sea dragons are related, and ALL the amazing details of a courtship dance. Discover the secrets of more than 15 kinds of seahorses, sea dragons and pipefish in this brand-new, interactive exhibit.