Middle schoolers screen Edward Scissorhands with a costume contest and art-making; free with registration.
The Walker Art Center is screening Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands on Saturday, October 31, as part of its Middle School Movie Club. It's a Halloween afternoon for middle schoolers: the film runs from 1 PM to 4 PM, and there's a movie-inspired costume contest in the cinema right after. If you want to get there early, there's drop-in art-making from noon until 4 PM, so you can hang out and make something before the movie starts.
Edward Scissorhands is the 1990 American classic—105 minutes, rated PG-13—and the whole session pairs the screening with hands-on art-making and gallery access. The costume contest follows the film, so it's a full afternoon rather than just a movie. A quick heads-up on content: the film includes alcohol use, scenes of violence, sexual innuendo, and cursing.
The club is run by the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC), a group of teen creators and advocates from across the Twin Cities. WACTAC started in 1996 to make space for teen voices in a museum context, and since then it's helped develop teen exhibitions, brought in resident artists to lead classes, and planned regional film festivals—work that's inspired teen councils at museums nationwide. Its members meet weekly during the school year.
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The session is part of the Walker's Moving Image program, one of only a few of its kind in the country. It goes back to the museum's 1948 screenings, formed a Film/Video department in 1971, and began collecting film in 1973. Admission and film tickets are free for middle schoolers and their caregivers or family members, and the whole thing is at the Walker Art Center, 725 Vineland Pl, Minneapolis, MN 55403, on Saturday, October 31, from 1 PM to 4 PM.
