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CONEY ISLAND IN MANHATTAN The Children’s Museum of the Arts will be decked out like the Coney Island boardwalk for a family benefit and art auction. There will be Nathan’s hotdogs, steel drumming by Dane Gulfson, carnival rides, and games, and, for parents, beer from the Brooklyn Brewery. Kimberly Marrero conducts a fine art auction that benefits the museum’s education programs. Friday, 4-8 p.m., Children’s Museum of the Arts, 182 Lafayette St., between Grand and Broome streets, 212-274-0986 ext. 11, $75 general, $25 children.
TRIBE TO-DO The New York branch of the National Museum of the American Indian presents a weekend of family events. Louis Mofsie (Hopi/Winnebago) gives a talk inside a 25-foot tipi and Mary Louise Defender Wilson (Hidatsa/Dakota) shares storytelling from the Plains. There are also workshops in native dancing and tipi decoration. Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., National Museum of the Amierican Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, U.S. Custom House, 1 Bowling Green, Broadway and State Street, 212-514-3700, free.
TIME FOR DESIGN Cooper-Hewitt presents a design festival for families. Attendees can enjoy a clock-making workshop, architectural tours of the Carnegie Mansion and environs, music, and storytelling. Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden, 2 E. 91st St., between Fifth and Madison avenues, 212-849-8349, $20 general, $15 members’ children, free for one accompanying adult, $10 additional adults. Rain date: Sunday.
COURTYARD CONSTRUCTION The next installment of the Metropolitan Museum’s drop-in program “How Did They Do That?” focuses on the Chinese Garden Court. The museum’s garden court is a replica of a 17th-century courtyard in Suzhou in southern China. Saturday, 1-4 p.m., Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd Street, 212-570-3961, $15 general, $10 seniors, $7 students, free for children under 12 and members.
SHORTS FOR SHORTIES Ocularis presents an afternoon of early short films for children. The program includes George Melies’s “A Trip to the Moon” (1902), an excerpt from the Charlie Chaplin film “The Circus” (1928), and the Laurel and Hardy short “The Music Box” (1932). The associate curator of the Department of Film and Media at the Museum of Modern Art, Charles Silver, introduces the screening. Sunday, 3 p.m., Galapagos, 70 N. 6th St., between Kent and Wythe avenues, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 718-782-5188, $6.
