It’s Family Saturday on March 7 at the Seattle Japanese Garden, and parents and kids can get a dose of theater and environmentalism as Seattle Rep hosts the Climate Change Arts Festival, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The festival will include activities, discussions and a pop-up of the Rep’s current mainstage production, “The Children,” featuring a short reading from the script. There will also be community readings of five short plays on the theme of climate change and poetry and music performances. All is included with the price of admission, which is free for children 12 and under from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Nabra Nelson, Director of Arts Engagement for the Seattle Rep, hopes that kids come away from their time in the garden knowing that the arts can provide ways to talk about climate change, and other intersecting political issues.
“Art allows them a platform to do that, and figure out what actions are best for them or their situation,” she said.
The Seattle Japanese Garden, inside the WashingtonPark Arboretum, holds Family Saturday one Saturday every month, with some kind of arts event. The next Family Saturday, on April 11, is Family Haiku.
