ArtSpree is back at The Contemporary Museum, this year featuring everything from hip-hop performances and synchronized swimming to Shakti dance and aerial acrobatics, as well as improvisational comedy and juggling stilt-walking clowns.

The event has hands-on activities for the entire family, including musical entertainment in the art galleries.

Children can enjoy hands-on fun such as creating mini floral arrangements, learning about and creating gadgets that float and glide, squishing clay into little works of art and helping paint a garden mural on canvas under the supervision of 'Iolani School teacher Cheri Keefer. Face painting is also available by theater artist Hui-Mei Chang, who is experienced in Chinese opera face-painting.

Wally Amos, Mermaids Hawaii, Giinko Marischino, Youth Speaks slam poets, Les Peetz and Rachel Gonzales are among the entertainers.

The 16th annual ArtSpree is free from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the Makiki Heights museum. Call The Contemporary Museum at 526-1322 or go to www.tcmhi.org for more information.

Special-assistance parking is available in the museum lot by calling 526-1322, ext. 10. Parking for everyone else is free at Punahou School, with shuttles running all day, taking people to and from TCM.

AT ARTSPREE TODAY

Ringmaster MC See of Ong King Arts Center will be telling rhyming children’s stories throughout the day and introducing performers: Movement Center youth: 10:20-10:40 a.m.
Synchronized swimming by Mermaids Hawaii: 10:45-11:05 a.m. and 2:20-2:40 p.m.
Interactive storytelling by MC See: 11:10-11:30 a.m.
Shakti Dance Movement: 11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Fools and Fairies Procession: 12:15-12:33 p.m.
Aerial acrobatics by Samadhi: 12:35-12:45 p.m.
Michael Hamilton Kung Fu Martial Arts demonstration: 1-1:20 p.m.
On the Spot comedy improv: 1:30-1:55 p.m.
Loco Moco, juggler, stilt walker and unicyclist: 2-2:15 p.m.
Youth Speaks Hawaii slam poetry: 2:45-3 p.m.
Fools and Fairies Closing
Procession: 3:10-3:40 p.m.
MC See, closing remarks: 3:45-4 p.m.
MUSIC
In the galleries: Beau Albrechtson and Keanu Lockwood: 10-11 a.m.
Max Bergmanis on piano: 11 a.m.-noon
Rachel Gonzales and Les Peetz: noon-2 p.m.
TJ and Micah Ukulele Duo: 2-3 p.m.
Randy Ruff, solo vocal pianist: 3-4 p.m.
In the TCM Café:Beau Albrechtson and Keanu Lockwood: 11:30 a.m.-1: 30 p.m.
On the lawn: DJ BBQ and Trav15 (Michelle Yokota & Travis Tokuyama): 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Closing ceremonies by MC See: 3:45-4 p.m.