Kid Pass Days are back, but digital. The initiatives of the Civic Museums of La Spezia

Kid Pass Days goes digital for a first-of-its-kind cultural marathon across Italy on Saturday, May 9 and Sunday, May 10, 2020. A large, widespread event that will offer many remote educational entertainment initiatives for families with children up to 12 years old over the coming weekend.

Also this year, the Civic Museums of La Spezia will participate in the event with a rich program that will take place on the two afternoons.

The Amedeo Lia Museum will offer, on Saturday, May 9 at 3:30 p.m., Spring between the Fingers: an exploration of the museum, from the cloister garden to the still life room, in search of floral representations in paintings. The workshop will inspire the making of tactile flowers, with tempera, glue and cornmeal, to evoke sensory qualities.

On the same day, at 4:30 p.m., the Ethnographic Museum “Giovanni Podenzana” will provide Once upon a time...: children are invited to make a personal artifact, listening to folk tales and inspired by characters from stories.

And again, on May 9 at 5:30 p.m., the Seal Museum offers Seals, Letters and Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Spice: all it will take is a sheet of paper, a candle, a toothpick and some coffee to create, with the help of an adult, your own seal, to begin a journey into the past and discover eighteenth-century writing.

On Sunday, May 10, at 3:30 p.m., it will be the turn of the Castle Museum, which will offer Let’s play like the pharaohs: you will create together the senet, one of the most common board games in ancient Egypt (you need a 35x10.5 cardboard rectangle, a pencil, an eraser, a ruler, tempera and brush, das or modeling paste, ice cream sticks). Next, a demonstration video, titled Soft as Stone, will help make a necklace with a steatite and shell pendant.

At 4:30 p.m. on May 10, CAMeC Modern and Contemporary Art Center will offer An Adventure to Create: paintings from CAMeC’s Room of Wonders, which tell of worlds of water, land and sky, will inspire the creation of backdrops to set one’s own fantasy adventure among leopards and snakes, whales and pilot whales. Small backdrops to stage your own stories.

Finally, on Sunday at 5:30 p.m., the Palazzina delle Arti will provide Matrix, ink, press: discovering engraving. The first phase of the workshop will be devoted to a theoretical understanding of the many engraving techniques used from the Middle Ages to the present day. Participants will be introduced to the materials, tools and techniques that gave rise to engraved prints and matrices. In the second phase they will directly experience the preparation and making of a wooden matrix and the subsequent stages of inking and proofing at the press.

Kid Pass Days are back, but digital. The initiatives of the Civic Museums of La Spezia

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