Meet Alma from Alma’s Way at Explore Your City from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm on Saturday, September 20 at the Humboldt Park Field House in Chicago! Learn about places families can explore throughout Chicago via public transportation including your local forest preserve, theatre, planetarium, zoo, culinary school, cultural center, museum, conservatory, children’s hospital, and more! Metra will offer a Q & A session for the kids will a real-life conductor and CTA will have job placement information for interested adults.

Add to a community sculpture, meet a ballerina, test baseball skills, learn double dutch, or take a shadowboxing lesson. Enjoy games, crafts, giveaways and more. Sensory friendly activities available, with a special performance by Chicago Children’s Theatre’s Red Kite Friendship Tour!

Storytime: 11:00-11:30 am

Red Kite Friendship Tour: 11:30-12:00 pm

Ballet Class: 12:15-12:30 pm

Double Dutch: 12:30-1:30 pm

Bomba: 1:00-1:30 pm

Bomba: 1:30-2:00 pm

*Schedule subject to change. Rain or shine! Majority of programming is indoors.

Explore Your City invites children and families to participate in hands-on activities while developing a curiosity to explore the city around them, and celebrating Puerto Rican culture, in the spirit of Fred Roger’s Production’s Alma’s Way, the PBS KIDS series as seen on WTTW. The series stars 6-year-old Alma Rivera, a proud and confident Bronx-born, Puerto Rican girl, who lives in the Bronx with her family and a diverse group of friends and neighbors. In each story, Alma speaks directly to the audience in her "Think-Through" moments, where she learns to think for herself, make decisions, and understand other people’s points of view — while making lots of messy and hilarious mistakes all along the way. Alma’s Way was created by actor and writer, Sonia Manzano, who positively impacted the lives of generations as “Maria” on "Sesame Street," breaking new ground as one of the first Latino characters on national television.

*While supplies last, free t-shirts, water bottles, coloring books, crayons, museum tickets, stickers, and books.

*Rainbow Cone and Limoni Belli pizza for purchase

Limited nearby street parking within 1-2 blocks—public transportation encouraged.

Partners: 40+ Double Dutch Club, Adler Planetarium, Anne & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Ballet Chicago, Chicago Baseball and Education Foundation, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Chicago History Museum, Chicago Park District, Chicago Transit Authority, Field Museum, Floating Museum, Forest Preserves of Cook County, Garfield Park Conservatory, Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, Inuit Art Museum, Jones Corner Store, Lincoln Park Zoo, Metra; Breakthrough; Office of the 26^th Ward Alderperson Jessie Fuentes, Open Books, Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Schoolhouse Kitchen, The WasteShed, We Rock the Spectrum –Franklin Park.

This event was made possible in partnership with Fred Rogers Productions through support from PNC Grow Up Great.