Metro Parent Magazine August 2014 | Page 42

[ Time Out ] En Plein Air: Pack your smocks, and perhaps a beret for this oh-so-French event on the Portland Park Blocks, right in front of the Portland Art Museum. The museum is hosting a giant outdoors art party, with nature-inspired art projects for the littles, an outdoor exhibition of the park-inspired paintings made by local “plein air” artists, and free admission to this summer’s blockbuster museum show, “The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Gardens.” The fun starts at noon and goes until 5 p.m.; big kids can stay out later for the free screening of romantic comedy Gigi in the museum’s courtyard at 8 p.m. Sunday, August 10. FREE. COURTESY OF THE DANCERS OF OREGON BALLET THEATRE AND COURTESY OF M REALTY Dance, Dance Revolution: Pack up your toe shoes, leotard and aspiring ballerina or ballerino, and head to Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown PDX, when the venerable Oregon Ballet Theater moves their dance studio to the open air. Kids and their grownups can watch the dancers rehearse for this fall’s untitled-asof-press-time premiere ballet by choreographer Nicolo Fonte, and even take a class with OBT’s faculty members and its guest artists. It’s all FREE. Monday, August 25-Thursday, August 28. Check www.obt.org/ outreach_events_exposed.html for performance times. PHOTO: COURTESY OF NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, D.C., AILSA MELLON BRUCE COLLECTION. Go. Play. Explore. August | 2014 COURTESY HIGH MUSEUM OF ART. 42 August 2014 | metro-parent.com