Tours of the "City of Miracles" will open at 9:30 am each weekday.
Groups of no more than 30 students will be scheduled each half hour until 2:30 pm. Two adults must accompany each tour.
Adults must supervise the students and are required to lead some simple group activities.
(call 415-863-1414 x 111 for reservations)

Please be on time If your group is late you may miss part of the tour.

When you arrive at SomArts Cultural Center: 
Enter the driveway to the right of the building. Assemble your class in the patio area on a seating unit. Go to the double doors on the side of the building to report for your tour. Tours should leave on time but please prepare some activity plans to fill in a short waiting period.

Your Tour of "The City of Miracles":
A docent will come to the patio area and bring your group into the Lobby Area. There will be a safe storage cart into which you may put coats and packs. Your Docent will guide your group through a media display that gives a far ranging background to 'Day of the Dead" celebrations. This part of our display will explore the broader cultural framework into which our mortality is set. From there the tour will proceed through site specific installations into "The City of Miracles'. Inside the city various artists will furnish a school house, a museum, a library, a store and other establishments with offerings and invocations to the other world. In these establishments students are encouraged to make their own contributions to the displays. In the plaza out side of the city there will be an opportunity for students to create their own display and to question the curator. At the end of the tour Students will exit to the lobby, retrieve their possessions, and return to the patio area.

Fees: 
$2.00 per visitor Tour Times: Tours will be given week days from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm. October 15 to 19, October 22 to 26 and October 29 to November 2. Tours will begin every half hour

Reservations for school tours:
Call 415 863 1414 x 111 (after September 12) Leave a message with the name of your school, your name and contact number, and your preferred dates and times. We will call your contact number to confirm or offer alternative dates and/or times. Phone hours for direct contact are Monday through Thursday 10 am to 1 pm.