Dalí Family Fun Saturdays

Saturdays, 11:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Join us EVERY Saturday to dilly dally with Dalí with fun games, puzzles and craft activities which educate and encourage family interaction. In addition, Dalí Family Guide brochures are available that enable families to explore the collection on their own and discover the magic of Dalí. Dalí Family Guide brochures are always available at the admission desk.

Cost: FREE with Museum admission.

Coffee with a Curator: Joan Kropf: “Dalí & Daum Glass ”

Wednesday, July 1, 10:15 – 11:00 a.m.

A special monthly tour or PowerPoint talk presented by one of the Dalí Museum’s Curatorial/Education team held on the first Wednesday of each month. Join us for complimentary Starbucks coffee and refreshments in the museum store at 10:15 followed at 10:30 by a focused, theme-oriented gallery tour with one of the Dalí Museum's curatorial staff. 

Cost: The event is free with Museum admission (admission is free to Dalí Museum Members and those with USF identification cards). Coffee with a Curator is sponsored by Starbucks Coffee Company  (http://www.starbucks.com).

Dalí & Beyond Film Series: Dimension Dalí : Dalí & Science

Thursday, July 2, 6:00 p.m.

Calling himself a “Nuclear Mystical” painter and creating artwork about the DNA molecule and the 4th dimension, Dalí possessed a lifelong fascination with the world of science. Weaving interviews with scientists and art historians, this documentary explores the vitality science offered to Dalí as a reservoir for new ideas and creations. (Spain, Spanish and Dutch with English subtitles, 2004, 75 mins; probably G)

Cost: FREE with paid admission ($5 after 5 p.m. every Thursday)

Members' Opening Reception for Summer Exhibitions & S'REAL Friday Happy Hour

Friday, July 10, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

The opening reception for the Summer Exhibitions - Mabel Palacín "Una noche sin fin", "Dalí Seen Through Glass" and "Dalí at Work and Play: The Photographs of Marc Lacroix". Members and the public are invited to view the new exhibitions, enjoy jazz by Lounge Cat, food by Chives and a cash bar. The reception coincides with the first S’Real Friday, a weekly summer staple that combines music, art and libation.

Honored guest: Mabel Palacín.

Cost: Members Free - all others Half-price admission (only $8.50) after 5:00 p.m.

Breakfast with Dalí

Saturday, July 11, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.  

Join us on in that magic hour before the museum is open to the public and the ghost of Salvador Dalí still lingers! Explore the Dalí Museum in a tour expressly designed for children age 5 - 12. This interactive tour is led by a Dalí docent who has chosen Dalí paintings and other works which specially appeal to children. The tour is followed by a scrumptious breakfast buffet. Following the tour, each child receives a souvenir of the day's experience. Dalí hands-on activities follow at 11:30. This is one of the Dalí Museum’s most popular and rewarding programs which is available once a month. Pre-registration required; the breakfast is limited to 20 children plus adult companions.

Cost: $15 per adult, $10 per child; additional non-family members $20; Member admission: $10 per adult, plus $10 per child; additional non-family members $15. This is one of our most popular programs at the Dalí Museum, so hurry to reserve a space for your family at our next Breakfast with Dalí!

To register, please contact Bethany Mead by calling (727) 823.3767 ext. 3024; or send an email to: bmead@salvadorDalímuseum.org. Breakfast with Dalí is sponsored by Starbucks Coffee Company (http://www.starbucks.com). 

Brunch with the Artist- Mabel Palacín

Sunday, July 12, 11:30 a.m. - 2. p.m.

Meet artist Mabel Palacín during this intimate brunch at the Dalí, and gain unique perspective of her artwork during a special guided our. Autographed catalogs available for purchase. Casual attire. Brunch sponsored by Delectables Fine Catering. Wine sponsored by Transatlantic Distributors/Classical Wines/Bedford Wines.

Cost: $50. RSVP required: 727-823-3767 ext 3043

Junior Dalí Docents – Children’s Summer Camp

Monday, July 13 – Saturday, July 18, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.; Tour and closing reception, Saturday, 10:00 a.m. (extended hours this year)

Learn about Dalí, make new friends and have a Surreal Adventure at our Junior Docent Camp! Offered to children ages 8 to 13, this week-long camp invites students to explore the fascinating ideas of the world’s most famous surrealist, learning about Surrealism, Salvador Dalí, and the Dalí Museum collection in order to lead their own public tour during the culminating Saturday reception. Working closely with visual art teachers, Dalí staff and Museum docents, students put the information they learn about Dalí into their own words, building self-esteem and developing personal association, with lessons emphasizing symbolic thinking and dream logic. All students participate in fun, surreal-inspired activities, make new friends, and may even have a Dalí mustache by the end of the week!

Cost: $150 Dalí Members, $200 non-members. To register, please call call Bethany Mead at (727) 823-3767, ext. 3024, or email bmead@salvadorDalí museum.org.

Dalí & Beyond Film Series: Edward James: Builder of Dreams

Thursday, July 16, 6:00 p.m.

Avery Danziger presents this film that will take you on an extraordinary journey into the world of the Surrealists as the life and the accomplishments of Dalí patron, surrealist collector, poet, and architect Edward James.  For the last 20 years of his life, aided by 40 full time laborers and craftsmen, he built one of the biggest, yet least well known architectural monuments of the 20th century, dedicated to Surrealism and hidden in the jungles of Mexico.  Although he has been called “A legend among the legendary,” few people recognize his name of know of his artist accomplishments. (1995; 60 min.) 

Cost: Free with paid admission ($5 after 5 p.m. every Thursday)

S'REAL Friday Happy Hour

Friday, July 17, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Every Friday from July 10 to August 28

A summer staple, S’Real Fridays return to the Dalí Museum with the inspiring combination of music, art and libation. Enjoy our summer exhibits, hear a variety of jazz styles in a cafe setting, view unusual silent films, and enjoy our complementary snacks and cash bar.

Band: Hot Sun Quartet – Nik Baltic’s guitar-fronted world jazz quartet featuring strong Latin percussion arrangements of jazz standards from Chick Corea and others.

Cost: Members Free - all others Half-price admission (only $8.50) after 5:00 p.m.

S'REAL Friday Happy Hour

Friday, July 24, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Every Friday from July 10 to August 28

A summer staple, S’Real Fridays return to the Dalí Museum with the inspiring combination of music, art and libation. Enjoy our summer exhibits, hear a variety of jazz styles in a cafe setting, view unusual silent films, and enjoy our complementary snacks and cash bar.

Band: Guisando Caliente Latin Jazz Quintet – Kenny Drew Jr. and Frank Piñeiro lead outstanding hot Latin jazz ensemble combining knife-edge originals with straight ahead classic jazz tunes of the 50s and 60s

Cost: Members Free - all others Half-price admission (only $8.50) after 5:00 p.m.

Junior Dalí Docents – Children’s Summer Camp

Monday, July 27 – Saturday, Aug 1, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.; Tour and closing reception, Saturday, 10:00 a.m. (extended hours this year)

Learn about Dalí, make new friends and have a Surreal Adventure at our Junior Docent Camp! Offered to children ages 8 to 13, this week-long camp invites students to explore the fascinating ideas of the world’s most famous surrealist, learning about Surrealism, Salvador Dalí, and the Dalí Museum collection in order to lead their own public tour during the culminating Saturday reception. Working closely with visual art teachers, Dalí staff and Museum docents, students put the information they learn about Dalí into their own words, building self-esteem and developing personal association, with lessons emphasizing symbolic thinking and dream logic. All students participate in fun, surreal-inspired activities, make new friends, and may even have a Dalí mustache by the end of the week!

Cost: $150 Dalí Members, $200 non-members. To register, please call call Bethany Mead at (727) 823-3767, ext. 3024, or email bmead@salvadorDalí museum.org.

S'REAL Friday Happy Hour

Friday, July 31, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Every Friday from July 10 to August 28

A summer staple, S’Real Fridays return to the Dalí Museum with the inspiring combination of music, art and libation. Enjoy our summer exhibits, hear a variety of jazz styles in a cafe setting, view unusual silent films, and enjoy our complementary snacks and cash bar.

Band: PBS – Rayzilla’s improvising esotericists mix original pop songs with world music & jazz fusion, all with a hint of insanity. Think Weather Report meeting the Latin Playboys.

Cost: Members Free - all others Half-price admission (only $8.50) after 5:00 p.m.

Dalí Family Fun Saturdays

Saturdays, 11:45 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Join us EVERY Saturday to dilly dally with Dalí with fun games, puzzles and craft activities which educate and encourage family interaction. In addition, Dalí Family Guide brochures are available that enable families to explore the collection on their own and discover the magic of Dalí. Dalí Family Guide brochures are always available at the admission desk.

Cost: FREE with Museum admission.

Breakfast with Dalí

Saturday, August 8, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.  

Join us on in that magic hour before the museum is open to the public and the ghost of Salvador Dalí still lingers! Explore the Dalí Museum in a tour expressly designed for children age 5 - 12. This interactive tour is led by a Dalí docent who has chosen Dalí paintings and other works which specially appeal to children. The tour is followed by a scrumptious breakfast buffet. Following the tour, each child receives a souvenir of the day's experience. Dalí hands-on activities follow at 11:30. This is one of the Dalí Museum’s most popular and rewarding programs which is available once a month. Pre-registration required; the breakfast is limited to 20 children plus adult companions.

Cost: $15 per adult, $10 per child; additional non-family members $20; Member admission: $10 per adult, plus $10 per child; additional non-family members $15. This is one of our most popular programs at the Dalí Museum, so hurry to reserve a space for your family at our next Breakfast with Dalí!

To register, please contact Bethany Mead by calling (727) 823.3767 ext. 3024; or send an email to: bmead@salvadorDalímuseum.org. Breakfast with Dalí is sponsored by Starbucks Coffee Company (http://www.starbucks.com). 

Dalí Teen Surreal Summer Workshop

Monday, August 3 – Friday, August 7, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Salvador Dalí: madman or genius? The surreal master of all media also walked pet ocelots, gave a lecture in a diving suit, and cracked an egg in his mouth filled with live ants. Does your mind works like Dalí’s? At the Dali Teen Surreal Summer Workshop, you will be able to answer this question and more. Explore SURREALISM, Dali and the Avant-Garde through surreal games, films, art activities and collaborations with like-minded teens. And at the end of this week you will be able to decide - madman or genius!

Cost: $150 Dalí Members, $200 non-members. To register, please call call Bethany Mead at (727) 823-3767, ext. 3024, or email bmead@salvadorDalí museum.org.

Coffee with a Curator: William Jeffett: “Mabel Palacín”

Wednesday, August 5, 10:15 – 11:00 a.m.

A special monthly tour or PowerPoint talk presented by one of the Dalí Museum’s Curatorial/Education team held on the first Wednesday of each month. Join us for complimentary Starbucks coffee and refreshments in the museum store at 10:15 followed at 10:30 by a focused, theme-oriented gallery tour with one of the Dalí Museum's curatorial staff. 

Cost: The event is free with Museum admission (admission is free to Dalí Museum Members and those with USF identification cards). Coffee with a Curator is sponsored by Starbucks Coffee Company  (http://www.starbucks.com).

Dalí & Beyond Film Series: Dalí in New York/Hello Dalí

Thursday, August 6, 6:00 p.m.

A rare treat for anyone who loves fim and the living theatre of Dalí’s surreal universe, Dalí in New York is Jack Bond’s documentary of the artist during the 1965 opening of his exhibit at Huntington Hartford’s the Gallery of Modern Art. Dalídevoted two weeks of his life to creating extraordinary scenes for this film which include performing “manifestations” with a plaster cast, a thousand ants, and one million dollars in cash. (Jack Bond. Sunrise Pictures, 2008, 57 mins., DVD)

A half-hour day-glow BBC documentary made during the height of psychedelia.  The film features interviews with Russell Harty and Dalí, quick extreme “mind-expanding” video montages of Dalí’s paintings and movies, scenes with Gala Dalí and Captain Peter Moore’s ocelots, images of the Teatro Museo Dalí during its construction, all set against the hallucinatory background of Dalí’s Port Lligat villa.

(Russell Harty / Aquarius Films, London Weekend Television, Bruce Gowers, ed., Paul O’Dell; 1973, 38 min., VHS)

Cost: Free with paid admission ($5 after 5 p.m. every Thursday)

S'REAL Friday Happy Hour

Friday, August 7, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Every Friday from July 10 to August 28

A summer staple, S’Real Fridays return to the Dalí Museum with the inspiring combination of music, art and libation. Enjoy our summer exhibits, hear a variety of jazz styles in a cafe setting, view unusual silent films, and enjoy our complementary snacks and cash bar.

Band: Stolen Idols – Drew Farmer’s Exotica band featuring smooth lounge jazz with earthy percussion, inspired by tropical locales, Tiki idols, exotic drinks and composers Les Baxter and Martin Denny

Cost: Members Free - all others Half-price admission (only $8.50) after 5:00 p.m.

S'REAL Friday Happy Hour

Friday, August 14, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Every Friday from July 10 to August 28

A summer staple, S’Real Fridays return to the Dalí Museum with the inspiring combination of music, art and libation. Enjoy our summer exhibits, hear a variety of jazz styles in a cafe setting, view unusual silent films, and enjoy our complementary snacks and cash bar.

Band: Infinite Groove Orchestra – Jeremy Powell and John Richardson lead this funky combo specializing in danceable jazz grooves, diverse musical themes, beat-a-licious jams and mind-expanding improve, looking back to Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters.

Cost: Members Free - all others Half-price admission (only $8.50) after 5:00 p.m.

Dalí & Beyond Film Series: The World of Tomorrow

Thursday, August 20, 6:00 p.m.

A wonderful documentary about the revolutionary New York World’s Fair of 1939, where America learned how to imagine the future.  Mixes nostalgic commentary and vintage footage of fair installations, including an unbelievable segment about Salvador Dalí’s Dream of Venus installation with topless mermaids.  What a fair!  Narrated by Jason Robards who was born in Chicago in 1922 and visited the Fair with his father, stage and film star Jason Robards Sr. Some of his family home movies were used in the production. (Lance Bird & Tom Johnson, 1984; 83 min.; USA; Not rated, probably PG)

Cost: Free with paid admission ($5 after 5 p.m. every Thursday)

S'REAL Friday Happy Hour

Friday, August 21, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Every Friday from July 10 to August 28

A summer staple, S’Real Fridays return to the Dalí Museum with the inspiring combination of music, art and libation. Enjoy our summer exhibits, hear a variety of jazz styles in a cafe setting, view unusual silent films, and enjoy our complementary snacks and cash bar.

Band: Bay City Ensemble – Ron Gregg leads group through straight ahead classic jazz mixing Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins with group originals.

Cost: Members Free - all others Half-price admission (only $8.50) after 5:00 p.m.

S'REAL Friday Happy Hour

Friday, August 28, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Every Friday from July 10 to August 28

A summer staple, S’Real Fridays return to the Dalí Museum with the inspiring combination of music, art and libation. Enjoy our summer exhibits, hear a variety of jazz styles in a cafe setting, view unusual silent films, and enjoy our complementary snacks and cash bar.

Band: MOD – The MOD reunion of Jim Beckwith, Willie Lawson and Henry Strange, specializing in the jazz sounds of tomorrow, a world-techno-acoustic-electro-jazz hybrid mash-up.

Cost: Members Free - all others Half-price admission (only $8.50) after 5:00 p.m.