Xavier Riddle meets Alvin Ailey: Screening and Drawing Session with Christopher Eliopoulos

Xavier Riddle meets Alvin Ailey: Screening and Drawing Session with Christopher Eliopoulos

A still from the Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum episode featuring a young animated depiction of Alvin Ailey in the foreground. He smiles and gestures with open hands, while two dancers perform behind him, raising their arms gracefully. The setting is a dance studio with large windows.
A still from the Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum episode featuring a young animated depiction of Alvin Ailey in the foreground. He smiles and gestures with open hands, while two dancers perform behind him, raising their arms gracefully. The setting is a dance studio with large windows.

Still from Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: I am Alvin Ailey.

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Floor 3, Theater

Open to families with kids of all ages

Sunday, October 13, 1:30 pm, 4:15 pm

Join us for a special screening of Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum where you'll meet an animated Alvin Ailey and travel back in time to see his childhood! Learn about Ailey’s contributions to dance and how he became a role model for generations to come. Afterward, join illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos for a sketch-along session and learn about animation drawing.

Seats are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis

Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum is an animated adventure-comedy based on Brad Meltzer and Chris Eliopoulos’s best-selling kids book series Ordinary People Change the World. Follow the adventures of Xavier, Yadina, and Brad as they travel back in time to meet famous heroes of the past and learn how to be their own heroes of the present!

Christopher Eliopoulos began his career at Marvel Comics and has worked on thousands of comics including Franklin Richards, Son of a Genius, Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers , the Eisner-nominated Cow Boy, Cosmic Commandos, and Monster Mayhem.

Along with Brad Meltzer, he’s illustrated the best-selling Ordinary People Change the World book series, which was adapted to the PBS KIDS® show, Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum.

He has also written and drawn a number of picture books, including The Yawns are Coming!, The Giggles are Coming!, A Little Emotional, and The Imaginoodles.