Sun. Aug. 19  

You, too, can paint like a gorilla! Maybe, what you paint won't have as much cachet as a gorillia painting, but you've got to start somewhere. On Sunday August 19, the Franklin Park Zoo is inviting kids (of all ages! you, too, gramps!) to study the art made by the Zoo's best known artsit-gorillas (not to be confused the the Guerilla Girls, the feminist-politicos in New York), Okie and Little Joe ... and do your best to be like them. The showing of their work is called "Okie & Little Joe: A Retrospective." (The work pictured here is one of Okie's.) We're thinking that if your home is a zoo, you've got to find things to do so you can rise above the mundane, and art would seem a primary choice. We're thinking that many of us have mundane lives and could use a little opportunity to rise above that too and why not go with what the gorillas know? If you're not a kid, maybe it could bring a little child-like wonder back to your life and that's never a bad thing. It goes for two hours, starting at 11 a.m. Free with paid zoo admission, which is $11-$6, age dependent. The zoo is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekends, which means fingerpainting will be just a part of your animal bonding experience.

1 Frankline Park Road, 617-989-2000 www.franklinpark.zoo.org/gorillas