Family Day | Playoffs

About the Event

Play to win on the final Family Day of the season while exploring Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom. Join us for a variety of fun activities, including a game of loteria deportiva (sports bingo) celebrating Mexico’s sports, facilitated by the Mexican Consulate of Chicago.

About the Artists

Chicago Dance Crash is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary dance company existing within the intersection of street dance, concert dance, and physical theater. Their fusion-style works and performing ensemble embodies a dedication to being an accessible and innovative dance company, creating intensely physical, authentic, and narrative-driven art.

HOOPcycle is a mobile art installation designed to inspire connection through play. The mobile hoop combines contemporary basketball, the vertical rim of its pre-Columbian precursor (2500-100 BCE), and a tricycle. This remix transforms the rules of the game as well as how players score points, slam dunk, and alley oop. Created by artist and Senior Researcher at MIT Marisa Morán Jahn and architect and MIT professor Rafi Segal, HOOPcycle is designed to spark a dialogue around equity, space, and community-building. This innovative installation invites people of all ages to rethink and reclaim public spaces, transforming streets and common areas into inclusive zones for gathering, play, and cross-cultural connection. Outside the museum, Marisa Morán Jahn’s interactive ground mural OOPS celebrates the history of street games in public housing communities, and their role in bringing people together.

The National Public Housing Museum is the only cultural institution dedicated to telling the history of public housing in the United States. Its mission is to preserve, promote, and propel the right of all people to a place to live and prosper—a place to call home. The museum is located at the historic Jane Addams Homes at 919 South Ada Street in Chicago’s Near West Side, and is open 10 am–5 pm, Wednesday through Sunday.

Esperanza Rosas, also known by her creative moniker of Runsy, is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist specializing in drawing and design. Her work encompasses the layered intersectionality of her identity as a Mexican-American woman from the Southside of Chicago.

Rocío Santos aka Roxyo Sounds is a Mexican-Chicagoan music curator, host, and lead content producer of Domingos en Vocalo, the exclusive Spanish-language program on Chicago Public Media’s Vocalo Radio 91.1FM. Rocío intertwines the rich tapestry of Latin-American identity through sounds and stories to showcase indie music, arts, culture, and activism through the lens of local and international creators. Driven by a mission to amplify the presence of women in the music industry, Rocío hosts the monthly podcast Músicas al frente: a collaborative venture connecting Chicago, Lima, and Mexico City, offering deep insights into, and recognition of, women-fronted Latin-American music acts worldwide. Rocío is also an active member of the Mexican collective Ellas Resuenan, a group of journalists, artists, and music researchers advocating for gender equity on both stage and media, shaping a more inclusive and representative cultural landscape.

Bailey Taylor is a transdisciplinary digital artist whose practice centers on pedagogy and civic engagement through the collaborative creation of visual media. Drawing on their experience as an artist, organizer, and educator, Taylor works to expand access to art-making by developing community-driven curricula. Their practice, rooted in arts-based research, focuses on creating accessible entry points for people of all skill levels to express their perspectives through visual and semiotic language. Embracing a human touch, their work values sincerity over polish, favoring the rough edges and shared authorship that emerge from collective art-making in an era of aesthetic oversaturation.