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Construction paper, glue, and markers will keep kids entertained for hours, but these supplies were merely the rudimentary materials available for use at the Bunch Family Salon on Sunday afternoon. On top of those fundamentals, the five hundred youngsters and their oh-so-intrigued parents who attended were provided with laptops, digital cameras, stuffed toys, and so much more so that they could both build and think about unique aspects of their city.

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PHOTOGRAPHY: Georgette Peters has been photographing the elaborate bicycle bell creations of Toronto cyclists this year. She shares her tiny finds with us in her new "Does This Ring a Bell" exhibit opening at Side Space Gallery today. Clay and Paper Theatre make an appearance at the opening with performances of Bicycle Revolution Cantastoria at 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Side Space Gallery (1080 St. Clair Avenue West), 3–6 p.m., FREE.

You know, for all the talk of the wonderful and awful things that Toronto has planned and is planning for its future, it's easy to forget that far too often one group's ideas are neglected from that dialogue altogether, shamefully excluded or pushed to the margins of any discussion, dismissed as idealistic, puerile, or childish. That group? Kids. Really awesome kids.

Fact: All kids like playgrounds. Also a fact: Though it may seem to take forever, kids grow up. In just a few short years, innocent days of monkey bars and spiral slides turn into nights of double vodka-sodas and cocaine. Enter CiRCA―a virtual jungle gym for adults. So what happens if you put the real kids in the adult playground? Take a second to imagine―hundreds of unaffected kids partying in a playground stimulating enough to keep jaded adults entertained until the wee hours of the morning. It's like feeding a school-wide birthday party of five-year-olds two pounds of Cherry Blasters and a case of Red Bull and then turning on a strobe light. And since CiRCA's already chock-full of alien cartoon figures and futuristic dolls, it won't take much re-modeling to make it seem like something from another planet. At least, that's what we think the Bunch Family must have been thinking when they decided to organize a day of child's play at the oversized night club.

For family fun, you can't beat the sheer adorableness of kids wise-cracking from an open mic. That'll be just one of the activities happening this weekend for kids in the latest edition of the always amazing Bunch Family Salon. Adam Growe, a headlining comedian and father of three, will be on hand to mentor the aspiring comics, in keeping with the annual event's goal of bringing major players from the local arts community—last year's special guests included Broken Social Scene's Jason Collett and Kevin Drew among others—together with the city's kidtelligentsia (and their parents) for tons of eclectic and creative fun.

Andy Warhol's Factory parties were the ultimate hot spot for an elite cabal of celebrities, radicals, drag queens and porn stars. There has never been a better place to rock out while on an amphetamine high amid mass-produced silkscreen paintings and a fleet of floating silver balloons.