Creative sessions for kids

Kids is a project that introduces families and children to contemporary art with instruments and ideas that arouse curiosity and an understanding of the thoughts and techniques of today’s artists, through materials and experiences that are new and different every time.

New activities and workshops for children and teens designed to explore and discover the temporary exhibitions, Anselm Kiefer's permanent installation, and eL Seed's new mural await you: follow us to learn about all the news!

Winter is Coming!
On Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 December
Pirelli HangarBicocca offers free activities to explore the themes and artworks of the exhibition dedicated to Jean Tinguely:
- creative sessions of experimentation in theatrical practice for kids 6-10 years old (booking required) curated by actress and singer Virginia ZIni
- a multi-sensory activity open to all throughout the weekend designed by illustrator and artist Anna Resmini

Active Sessions

Saturday 21
December 2024
10.45am

6-10 years
Max. 25 participants
about 90 minutes

T-TI-TIN-TING-TINGU-TINGUE-TINGUEL-TINGUELY (6-10 years)

Designed and led by the actress and singer Virginia Zini and the illustrator Anna Resmini

Free workshop for Winter is coming! 2024 held at 10.45 AM and 3.30 PM.

Let’s embark on a creative journey to create our very own living gear. We’ll create costumes using different shapes and colours, and a variety of recycled materials. Through theatre exercises, we will then try out ways to make our bodies move and resonate. Like on an assembly line, the various pieces will come together to form a single huge body-machine made of voices, sounds, shapes, and colours. Each cog will thus be vital to keep our device running. So, what sort of machine are you?

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Saturday 21
December 2024
3.30pm

6-10 years
Max. 25 participants
about 90 minutes

T-TI-TIN-TING-TINGU-TINGUE-TINGUEL-TINGUELY (6-10 years)

Designed and led by the actress and singer Virginia Zini and the illustrator Anna Resmini

Free workshop for Winter is coming! 2024 held at 10.45 AM and 3.30 PM.

Let’s embark on a creative journey to create our very own living gear. We’ll create costumes using different shapes and colours, and a variety of recycled materials. Through theatre exercises, we will then try out ways to make our bodies move and resonate. Like on an assembly line, the various pieces will come together to form a single huge body-machine made of voices, sounds, shapes, and colours. Each cog will thus be vital to keep our device running. So, what sort of machine are you?

Book now

Sunday 22
December 2024
10.45am

6-10 years
Max. 25 participants
about 90 minutes

T-TI-TIN-TING-TINGU-TINGUE-TINGUEL-TINGUELY (6-10 years)

Designed and led by the actress and singer Virginia Zini and the illustrator Anna Resmini

Free workshop for Winter is coming! 2024 held at 10.45 AM and 3.30 PM.

Let’s embark on a creative journey to create our very own living gear. We’ll create costumes using different shapes and colours, and a variety of recycled materials. Through theatre exercises, we will then try out ways to make our bodies move and resonate. Like on an assembly line, the various pieces will come together to form a single huge body-machine made of voices, sounds, shapes, and colours. Each cog will thus be vital to keep our device running. So, what sort of machine are you?

Book now

Sunday 22
December 2024
3.30pm

6-10 years
Max. 25 participants
about 90 minutes

T-TI-TIN-TING-TINGU-TINGUE-TINGUEL-TINGUELY (6-10 years)

Designed and led by the actress and singer Virginia Zini and the illustrator Anna Resmini

Free workshop for Winter is coming! 2024 held at 10.45 AM and 3.30 PM.

Let’s embark on a creative journey to create our very own living gear. We’ll create costumes using different shapes and colours, and a variety of recycled materials. Through theatre exercises, we will then try out ways to make our bodies move and resonate. Like on an assembly line, the various pieces will come together to form a single huge body-machine made of voices, sounds, shapes, and colours. Each cog will thus be vital to keep our device running. So, what sort of machine are you?

Book now

Friday 27
December 2024
11.00am

7-10 years
Max. 27 participants
about 90 minutes

FAMILY LAB | Look, Learn and… Invent! (7-10 years)

An exciting adventure in a world of sounds, lights and colours in search of the elements that make up the great kinetic works of the artist Jean Tinguely. For each solved problem, the adults and children will receive the materials they need to invent something new, unique, bright—and mobile!

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Friday 27
December 2024
3.30pm

6-10 years
Max. 20 participants
About 90 min.

From Gears to Movement (7-10 years)

How do you make a mechanical sculpture and how does it work? What can it do? Come and explore Jean Tinguely’s moving artworks, and have fun yourself using gears and mechanisms to make your very own playful, animated robots. And with the Pirelli HangarBicocca arts tutors, you can give your creations funny looks.

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Saturday 28
December 2024
11.00am

5-8 years
Max. 27 participants
about 90 minutes

FAMILY LAB | Yes, you can play with sculptures! (5-8 years)

The wheels and mechanisms in Jean Tinguely’s creations hold hidden treasures: objects and toys that, like gears, form part of the most amazing, whimsical machines! Join the arts tutors and have fun finding them all, and then turn them into brand-new moving toys.

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Saturday 28
December 2024
3.30pm

8-12 years
Max. 25 participants
about 90 minutes

Viva Jean Tinguely! (8-12 years)

An exciting adventure in search of sounds, lights and colours, exploring the components that make up the amazing kinetic works created by the artist Jean Tinguely. Join Pirelli HangarBicocca’s arts tutors and have fun solving a whole series of riddles, questions and timed challenges!

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Friday 03
January 2025
3.30pm

7-10 years
Max. 25 participants
About 90 min.

Turning Wheels (6-10 years)

 

Great big colourful wheels turn along with colanders, shark bones, garden gnomes and much more besides. Come and see the huge mechanical installations by the artist Jean Tinguely and unleash your creativity as you have fun making your own sculpture of shapes and colours. And bring it to life with simple mechanisms, lights, sounds, and boundless imagination.

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Saturday 04
January 2025
11.00am

6-10 years
Max. 27 partecipanti participants
About 90 min.

FAMILY LAB | Fantasy in Motion (6-10 years)

This is a great opportunity for both young and old to plunge into the world of the artist Jean Tinguely and explore his works as they light up and move and make noises. Together with the Pirelli HangarBicocca arts tutors, we’ll have fun creating animated machines and bringing to life colourful characters made by fitting together mechanisms and gears…

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Sunday 05
January 2025
11.00am

5-6 years
Max. 20 participants
About 90 min.

On the Move (5-6 years)

Come into the exciting world of sound and movement created by the machines, objects, lights, and gears of the kinetic sculptures made by the great artist Jean Tinguely. Together, we’ll explore all the different ways we can move our bodies to the rhythm of a whole range of surprising sounds, melodies, and noises.

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Sunday 05
January 2025
3.30pm

6-10 years
Max. 25 participants
about 90 min.

Landscapes and Dreams (6-10 years)

According to a Central Asian tradition, dreams are shared with the waters of rivers: immerse yourself in Saodat Ismailova’s artworks and discover how she transformed this ancient custom into films, sculptures and installations. Have fun with Pirelli HangarBicocca’s Arts Tutors creating new landscapes which combine the world of dreams with the world of nature!

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Saturday 11
January 2025
11.00am

6-10 years
Max. 20 participants
About 90 min.

From Gears to Movement (7-10 years)

How do you make a mechanical sculpture and how does it work? What can it do? Come and explore Jean Tinguely’s moving artworks, and have fun yourself using gears and mechanisms to make your very own playful, animated robots. And with the Pirelli HangarBicocca arts tutors, you can give your creations funny looks.

Book now

Sunday 12
January 2025
11.00am

5-6 years
Max. 20 participants
about 90 minutes

First, Then and Now? (5-6 years)

Rivers, forests, caves, skies and mountains of Central Asia are just some of the wonders of nature you will see among the works of artist Saodat Ismailova who, experimenting with films, sculptures and installations, tells stories and legends about landscapes in constant transformation. Come discover them with Pirelli HangarBicocca’s Arts Tutors and have fun creating fascinating new narratives about the passage of time!

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Sunday 12
January 2025
3.30pm

6-10 years
Max. 27 participants
about 90 minutes

FAMILY LAB | Tell Me a Story! (6-10 anni)

Saodat Ismailova keeps alive the memory of Central Asian traditions and landscapes through storytelling: combining words, images and sounds, she weaves stories about the past to take care of the future. An opportunity for adults and kids to discover legends of faraway places and times and to create new and unique tales!Inspired by the artist’s works, let’s try to unleash imagination and creativity to transform a simple shape into a large book that tells stories hidden among its pages.

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