Newport Art Museum Family Day Is Sunday

Saturday is Family Day at Newport Harbor Art Museum and Newport Beach Public Library, with a series of free activities from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for children and their parents. There will be performances by the Opera Pacific Overture Company (“America Sings and Works”); Daion Taiko, a Japanese percussion ensemble; and Steve Mellow’s Children’s Readers’ Theatre Workshop.

Other activities will include face painting, supervised games inside a fanciful inflatable sculpture, cartooning workshop demonstrations and spin art--in which a revolving turntable transforms squirts of paint into abstract art. Mimes will perform throughout the day. The museum also will be showing art by children in kindergarten through sixth grade from the Newport-Mesa and Irvine unified school districts.

Part of Newport Beach Salute to the Arts, Family Day is sponsored by the City of Newport Beach Arts Commission. The library and museum are in Newport Center, at 850 and 856 San Clemente Drive. For more information, call the museum’s education department at (714) 759-1122.