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Grab 'N Go Labor Day Weekend Kids Planner

Family-friendly weekend events for Cascade Patchers.

There are several family-friendly activities to enjoy the Labor Day weekend.  Free and low-cost fun await you, Cascade Patchers.

Enjoy!


ART EXHIBITS AT THE HIGH MUSEUM

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WHEN:  Saturday, September 3; 10am - 5pm

WHERE: High Museum of Art, 1280 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309

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SPECIFICS: View all exhibits at the High Museum free of charge (for Fulton County residents) this weekend.  One very popular exhibit still showing is Radcliff Bailey's Memory as Medicine exhibit. Other exhibits showing include Modern By Design, Marin's Watercolors, and Folk Art. 

COST: Free

CONTACT: 404-733-HIGH or www.high.org

HOME DEPOT KIDS WORKSHOP

WHEN: Saturday, September 3 at 10am - 12pm

WHERE: The Home Depot, 1032 Research Center Drive,  Atlanta, GA 30331 (off Cascade Road)

SPECIFICS: Every first and third Saturday of the month, The Cascade Home Depot sponsors workshops to teach children building skills and tool safety.  Children create such items as race cars, bird houses, tool boxes, and fire trucks.  Parents are welcome as well.

COST: FREE

CONTACT: (404) 691-2077


Express Yourself – World of Children's Picture Books

WHEN: Sunday, 1pm-5pm

WHERE: The Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum, 1440 Spring Street, Atlanta, 30309.

SPECIFICS: Children can play dress-up, shoot hoops, compose music on instruments, or read in a tree house surrounded by art work from well-known children's books. 

COST: Adults: $12; Students: $6; Children (3-6): $4; Seniors (62 & over): $8

CONTACT: 678-222-3700

 

Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy

WHEN: Tuesday – Saturday, 10am-4pm; Sunday 12pm-4pm

WHERE: The Carlos Museum, 571 S. Kilgo Circle, Atlanta, GA 30322

SPECIFICS:  View a rarely seen Egyptian Mummy acquired from a Middle Egypt site in a 1920 excavation.  The excavation will also focus on the mummification and burial process, as well as the social and political changes that marked the end of the Pyramid Age.

COST: Adults: $8; Children (6-17), Students, and Senior: $6; Free for museum members, Emory faculty and staff

CONTACT: 404-727-4282 or visit www.carlos.emory.edu

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