Epsilon Spires is a center of communication, illuminating the relationships between creative arts, natural sciences and sustainability using multimedia platforms.

Epsilon Spires to show "Weird Animation for Kids (Of All Ages)," a kid-friendly afternoon of performance and animation, on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m.

"Weird Animation for Kids (Of All Ages)" is a 70-minute program of short films from around the world that embrace playfulness and creativity through a variety of techniques that is sure to delight.

The program will feature character animation made using the traditional hand-drawn method, such as Ub Iwerks' classic "Flip the Frog" (1930) and Priit Parn's "And Plays Tricks" (1993). Other films embrace more experimental methods, such as Al Jarnow's "Shorelines" (1977), a stop-motion film made by animating found seashells, and Ed Ackerman's "Primit Too Taa" (1988), an animated expression of a Kurt Schwitters sound poem made with a typewriter.

Co-curators Jo Dery, Leif Goldberg and Erin Rosenthal

met in the 1990's as film animation and video students at the Rhode Island School of Design. They now live in Vermont — Dery in Brattleboro, and Goldberg and Rosenthal in Hardwick.

The event will begin with a 10-minute performance by The Lovelights, a Turners Falls, Mass.-based group. The Lovelights are known for developing a children's television series that celebrates art, music, nature, friendship, kindness, curiosity, and community. The show features a family of quirky, artistic, and magical sisters, who find themselves on a series of adventures when they discover faeries living in their town.

Popcorn and snacks will be available, and the event will conclude with a dance party. A $5 donation per family is suggested, but no one will be turned away if unable to donate.

Epsilon Spires is at the former First Baptist Church, 190 Main St., Brattleboro.