Opening Ceremony - Colton Lawn Free

Site 1: Colton Lawn

3:00 - 4:00 PM

Traditional Aztec dancers provide an Opening Blessing and Invocation to the Four Directions to mark the closing of the old year and the beginning of the new. The Taiko Drummers complete the ceremony with their drums calling us with their ancient and compelling harmony... Bringing us together as we open FNM 2010 the 17th Celebration of the Arts in Downtown Monterey. Please join us on Pacific Street at Colton Lawn.

2010 Resolution Sculpture

Site 24: Conference Center Colton 1 Button Venue

3:00 - 10:15 PM

It's our portal to the evening's celebration and to the new decade! Walk through our colorful interactive kaleidoscope and capture the fragments of color and light. Artist, Kira Corser, designed this room, and the Arts Council for Monterey County hosts this sculpture. Our "Kaleidoscope" we feel encompasses the true spirit and experience of First Night "fragments that come together to form a beautiful whole, indicating a diversity of experience or piecing together the parts of a symbolic puzzle."

Hexayurt Mural - The Art Room

Site 6: Colton Lawn Art Room

3:15 - 5:30 PM

Become a Picasso and help paint this hexayurt, as the night progresses the work of art unfolds! Hexayurts are made using simple tools from standard 4x8 sheets with zero waste. They are made from plywood, OSB, coroplast, composites, hexacomb cardboard or polyisocyanurate insulation boards. Hexayurts are in the public domain with no patents, originally developed as a disaster shelter and widely used at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada. Our hexayurt is made of light polyiso boards called Thermax, and has six-foot tall walls rather than the standard four-foot walls. It has been set up twice at Burning Man. Meet the Hexayurt owner, find out how he constructed the structure and join us as we paint a mural on this unusual building!

Henna Tattoos

Site 6: Colton Lawn (closes at parade)
Site 19: Conference Center

3:30 - 5:00 PM
6:00 - 10:00 PM Button Venue

Creative Henna artists are staged throughout the footprint ready to paint a temporary work of art. Please note, this is a popular activity, waiting line will be formed.

Artful Objects - Kaleidoscope

Site 22: Conference Center Upstairs Lobby

4:00 - 10:15 PM

Children and adults can create their own works of art by decorating or making kaleidoscopes!

Celebration Hats

Site 6: Art Hexayurt, Colton Lawn Button Venue

3:00 - 5:30 PM

Turn a paper grocery bag into a top hat with pizzazz using tulle, beads, pipe cleaners, colored paper, prismatic mylar strips and more! Fun for all ages - and an absolute must for First Night participants with flair!

Chalk Art "Bringing in the New Year"

Site 4: Pacific Street - Free

3:00 - 5:30 PM

Pacific Street becomes a community canvas for First Night Monterey 2010. Leave your mark on the street by growing our chalk drawing using art and your creative expression as our tools.

Bubble Stomp

Site 4: Pacific Street - Free

3:00 - 5:30 PM

Pop! Pop! Pop! Who can resist squishing and twisting bubble wrap? Jump, hop, stomp, do the electric slide or break dance your way to popping every single bubble!

Drums and Shakers, Sound OFF! Rattles, Shakers and Drums!

Site 7a: Monterey Art Museum, Lower Level

3:30 - 7:00 PM Button Venue

Create a drum or rattle to play with the drummers on the lawn, puppet show or the parade. It's a fun project for little ones, but they'll need some help from their grown-up.

Marylee

Marylee (FK, CH)

Site 20: Conference Center Ferrante

4:00 - 4:30; 4:45 - 5:15 PM

One of Monterey's best-loved children's entertainers, Marylee is the winner of four Parents' Choice Awards and two American library Notable Children's Recording Awards. Her performances delight and entertain with songs and audience participation.

Twistyman Balloons and Tattoos

Twistyman and Friends

Site 5: Colton Lawn

3:30 - 5:00 PM

Site 19: CC Mezzanine

6:00 - 10:00 PM

Watch for Twisty Man and Friends making balloon sculptures and doing face painting. Also check out the Henna Tattoo station in the Conference Center – get in line early!

Richard Myer Magic Show

The Magic of Richard Myer and Phil Ackerly (Magic, CH)

Site 17a: Conference Center Serra Ballroom

4:00 - 4:30; 4:45 - 5:15; 6:15 - 6:45 PM

A family magic show filled with visual wonder, gasps of astonishment and peals of laughter. Children of all ages will enjoy this entertaining performance.

UnSpoken Word

Site: 18: Conference Center

4:00 - 10:00 PM Button Venue

Express YourSelf! Take a literary break from the evening's festivities, and create some of your own poetry. Let your creative juices flow, and invent your own unique poem by arranging the stick on words.

New Year's Blinkys Sales Booth

Sites 3, 19, 16: Colton Lawn, Portola Plaza, Alvarado Street

3:00 - 11:00 PM

First Night® Monterey takes pride in providing New Year's Eve novelty items at family friendly prices. Blinky lights and glow in the dark wands will add a magical sparkle to anyone's New Year's Eve look. All proceeds benefit First Night® Monterey.