Events · Family Night
Second Friday. Pizza. A very loose talent show.
Every month, one site stays open late, the pizza arrives at 6, and whoever wants to can do three minutes on a small stage.
- When
- 2nd Friday
- Time
- 5:30–7:30
- Where
- Rotating
- Cost
- Free
Family Night is the lowest-effort, highest-return thing we do. One site stays open until 7:30. Pizza arrives at 6. Board games come out of the library cabinet. The stage is a corner of the auditorium with a mic and a lamp. Whoever wants three minutes gets three minutes.
| Time | What happens |
|---|---|
| 5:30 | Doors. Board games and open studio. |
| 6:00 | Pizza. There is always a vegetarian option and a gluten-free option. |
| 6:30 | Talent show. Sign-up sheet at the door, no audition, three-minute limit, a real bell. |
| 7:15 | Cleanup together. Kids help. Then pickup. |
The talent show, honestly
It is not good. That is the appeal. We have had: a kid reciting the first 40 digits of pi, a grandmother doing a magic trick that did not work, two brothers performing a fight choreography with obvious errors, a staff member singing opera surprisingly well, and one three-minute silence in honor of Nothing. The audience claps for all of it. The applause is the program.
Why monthly
Because families who only see us at pickup do not know each other, and a program where parents do not know each other is a program without a safety net. Family Night is where a parent finds out that another parent lives two blocks away and can do pickup on Tuesdays. That has happened at least twenty times.
The talent show is the only place I have ever seen a thirteen-year-old and a forty-year-old be equally bad at something and equally fine with it.
Come to Family Night
Second Friday, 5:30–7:30, rotating sites. Free. Bring a kid or come alone.