First Friday Family Nights
On Friday, August 7, at 6 pm Pacific, meet a few of CuriOdyssey's animals and learn about them from a professional animal keeper and enjoy music by children's music performer Renee Padgett.
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On Friday, August 7, at 6 pm Pacific, meet a few of CuriOdyssey's animals and learn about them from a professional animal keeper and enjoy music by children's music performer Renee Padgett.
Dr. Kate Biberdorf, science entertainer and author of the best selling book “The Big Book of Experiments," as she performs her amazing experiments for kids.
In solidarity with our community, CuriOdyssey’s June 5th Virtual First Friday performance will be not be broadcast as a live event but instead will be viewable on-demand in CuriOdyssey's Facebook videos for one week, June 5-June 11.
Join CuriOdyssey's Virtual First Friday Family Night on Friday, May 1, 5:30-6:30pm. Meet falconer Kenny Elvin of Full Circle Falconry and see his raptors up close.
On April 3, 5:30pm-6:30pm, meet Beetlelady entomologist Stephanie Dole, PhD, and tour her at-home insect collection. See a birdeater tarantula and Jerusalem cricket up-close. Look through a drawer full of bug molting artifacts and learn about how insects grow. Dance to songs by Joe Bug of the Bug Family Band in this virtual community event that will excite your mind and warm your heart.
Relax with live music and a cash bar while the kids meet animals and play with science! CuriOdyssey Members, celebrate March Member Madness and bring a friend for free to this event (one free admission per membership).
On the first Friday of every month, from 5pm until 8pm, parents and kids relax and celebrate the weekend together at CuriOdyssey. Enjoy a live band, cash bar and get a hot dinner while the kids meet animals up-close and play with fun science exhibits.
Welcome the new year during extended hours at CuriOdyssey’s IlluminOdyssey on January 3, 5-8pm. Electrify your child’s imagination with four levels of colorful, interactive light exhibits. Enjoy live music and a cash bar while the kids meet CuriOdyssey’s animals and learn about their defenses. Dance on swirling designs and be swept away by moving patterns of color. Control a glowing sculpture by John Edmark and watch as it appears to bloom. Explore a geometric village of light and pose with a projected image of the changing surface of the sun. Experience CuriOdyssey’s IlluminOdyssey during its final evening hours on January 3 before it closes for the year on January 5.
Play inside CuriOdyssey’s dazzling IlluminOdyssey until 8pm on Friday, December 6. Dance with a live band, purchase hot dinner and meet CuriOdyssey’snocturnal animals. Carry a color changing lantern as you wander through a radiant jungle and under an illuminated canopy of fiber optic strands. Touch a plasma ball to make electric tendrils come alive. Design a phosphorescent image using a drawing robot and create a refractive rainbow at the tip of a wand. Experience the excitement and beauty of IlluminOdyssey during these special extended evening hours.
Celebrate Dia de los Muertos as a family at CuriOdyssey’s First Friday Family Night on November 1, 5-8pm. Make a colorful tissue paper flower with The Mexican Museum and decorate a celebratory ofrenda honoring beloved animals from CuriOdyssey’s long history in the community. Meet animals that live at CuriOdyssey now and learn folklore about their species. Enjoy a live band and beer or wine from a cash bar. Grab a hot dinner as the kids explore and experiment with science in fun, hands-on exhibits.
Slither into October at CuriOdyssey’s First Friday Family Night on October 4, 5-8pm. Kids wearing costumes get free admission to this special event. Meet and learn about CuriOdyssey’s animals that slither and screech. Relax with a cash bar and live rock, rhythm and blues with a few spooky tunes mixed in. Find out how thrilling science can be as you play with fog, swirl viscous fluid, make objects appear to levitate and examine CuriOdyssey’s animals’ x-rays. Dance and play in the moonlight at CuriOdyssey’s hauntingly fun October First Friday Family Night!
Fall into science as the kids play with physics, find patterns and explore the natural world in fun, interactive science exhibits.
Celebrate summer at CuriOdyssey’s Summer Music Festival, the best monthly family night in the Bay Area!
Celebrate summer at CuriOdyssey’s Summer Music Festival, the best monthly family night in the Bay Area!
Celebrate summer and Pride June 15-16 at CuriOdyssey’s Bubbles & Rainbows!
Celebrate summer at CuriOdyssey’s Summer Music Festival, the best monthly family night in the Bay Area!
See iridescent bubbles transform into decahedron carousels and ginormous torus geometric shapes with Tom Noddy’s Bubble Magic Show.
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