It’s a day of hands-on museum activities for the entire family at MOA, where children and teens will be inspired to make change! At lunchtime, you’ll find a host of hands-on art workshops for all ages, followed by a performance by RupLoops. Later in the afternoon, creative youth leaders dedicated to racial and climate justice will take the stage to share their work.

This event is open to children and youth—see program schedule below for age-appropriate activities. Kids under 12 should be accompanied by an adult. The event is free with museum admission, or with the Kids Take Over UBC All Access Pass.

Plus, there’s many more family activities at Kids Take Over UBC, happening all across the UBC campus. Find more info here.

Program schedule at MOA

Courtyard Tent
12 – 1:30 pm
Mural-Making — A Collective Call: A drop-in workshop where kids of all ages are invited to make their mark on a new mural. Help create a large-scale work of art that imagines what a healthy future planet and home might look like. Constructed from recycled canvas from MOA’s past exhibitions, the completed mural will serve as a colourful backdrop to the afternoon’s performances in the Great Hall.

Learning Lab
Rhythm Stick Styling: In this drop-in workshop, kids will decorate a pair of rhythm sticks created from reclaimed wood from MOA’s past exhibitions. After the workshop, participants can join a special group performance and use their newly personalized beat-making instruments!

Textiles Research Room
Line x Line – Word Play Workshop with Ruby Smith Diaz: Create rhymes and verses that capture our transforming world. This poetry workshop with artist and musician Ruby Smith Diaz will encourage youth and teens to stretch their lyrical imagination through prompts and collective writing activities. Participants will help imagine a future of collective care and mutual aid through the power of words. No poetry experience necessary.

Great Hall
2 – 2:30 pm
Performance by RupLoops: Audience members are encouraged to participate in this performance of rhythm and movement with interdisciplinary artist and facilitator RupLoops (Ruby Singh), whose creativity crosses the boundaries of music, poetry, visual art, photography and film.

Haida House
2:30 – 3 pm
Afrofuturism Poetry and Passion Youth Showcase with Ruby Smith-Diaz

3 – 4 pm
YOUth Speak Panel: The issues of racial and climate justice are at the forefront of international public discourse today. Both represent crises that youth have no choice but to experience and combat as they face the future. This panel discussion featuring local youth activists will be an opportunity to bridge these two critical conversations. Witness local youth speak their truth on matters affecting their lives in the complex world they are inheriting, and in so doing, opening the door for intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue.