NEW YORK, NY.- Teens Take The Met! will return to The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, May 15. The annual event welcomes teens from New York City's five boroughs to the Museum for a night filled with a range of dynamic programs. This year, over 60 local community partners will offer programs, including performances, hands-on activities, and dancing. Teens Take The Met! is free for all teens (ages 13 or older) with a middle school or high school ID. Advance registration is recommended but not required.
“The Met has a long tradition of deepening its relationship with our city’s teens in various ways, from our paid internship program and peer-to-peer conversations to our drop-in Teen Fridays, where teens come to create, move, listen, and discuss,” said Heidi Holder, Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Chair of Education at The Met. “Every year, Teens Take The Met! celebrates our commitment to being a place where our city’s young people can engage with art in a variety of forms—visual, literary, performance—as a way of understanding themselves and the changing world around us. This year, we invite them to the Museum for science, poetry, pop-up podcasts, and a silent DJ battle and dance party on the roof. To our teen community, we can’t wait to see you again at The Met!”
To participate, teens will need a special-event wristband, which they can pick up upon arrival at either of the Museum’s two Fifth Avenue entrances (at 81st and 83rd Streets). The wristbands will provide access to activities throughout the building starting at 4 p.m. The event will kick off at 5 p.m. with a performance by the Bard High School Early College Panthers Step Team outside the Museum.
The event will offer more than 75 programs and activations throughout the galleries, ranging from art making and writing to activities and demonstrations led by The Met and partner institutions. This year, there will be a new series of performance showcases in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, featuring teen dancers, singers, actors, DJs, and more from across New York City. Additional highlights include a new 360-degree photo booth in The Charles Engelhard Court; a silent dance party at the Temple of Dendur; a series of jazz performances featuring Belongó and Jazz House Kids; sustainable seed tape making with the New York Botanical Garden; a chance to create your own personalized set of tarot cards with the Morgan Library & Museum; a pop-up podcast with the New York Public Library; activities created and led by Met Teen Interns inspired by the current exhibitions Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Drafsmanship and Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930; and many ongoing activations and giveaways from multiple organizations.
