Hi everyone,
August is almost here and hope you ready for another exciting weekend in NYC!
This weekend is the first of Summer Streets and don’t worry if you are out of town there are 2 additional days! This weekend you can also head to Owl’s Head Park for NYC Parks Summer Movie Series: Spy Kids 3D Game Over, listen to the Suzie Shelton Show in Norman & Jules backyard, make animal masks during Family Sundays at Rubin Museum Of Art and check out Cirque Du Soleil: Varekai at the Barclay’s Center!
Also happening this weekend is Arty Hours at the High Line and Little Makers: Ice Cream, You Scream at the New York Hall of Science and that is just some of the events so check out the calendar and see what else is happening this weekend in Brooklyn & NYC! Please remember to check with venues to see if weekly drop in classes are happening due to the holiday weekend. Remember to like us on Facebook for last minute events and news!
Happy, happy weekend!
~ Deirdre (mom to O & C)
Friday August 1st
Music with Yo Re Mi at The Stomping Ground (Crown Heights)
Fridays 1030a-1115a. $5 for members & $8 for non members.
Yo Re Mi is a musical yoga program for children. In each fun-filled session, we journey to exotic destinations using our bodies, voices, and imaginations.
Unsung & Heroes at Tada! Youth Theater (Chelsea, Midtown West)
Friday August 1st 12n & 2p Tickets $8-$25.
Unsung (part-one) is a world-premiere dance theater piece about the most daring thing for every kid: coming of age. Part two is Heroes, a new musical based on the play by Tom Keegan and Davidson Lloyd. When the sun disappears, a group of kids learns what it means and what it takes to be brave.
NYC Parks Summer Movie Series: Spy Kids 3D Game Over at Owl’s Head Park (Bay Ridge)
Friday August 1st 8-10p. Free.
See our city one movie at a time. Throughout July and August, NYC Parks is showing free movies in its parks and recreation centers! No RSVP required, just bring yourself and a blanket to sit on. In Spy Kids 3D Game Over, the Spy Kids’ nemesis traps Carmen in a virtual reality game, and Juni must race to save both his sister and the world before time runs out! Rated PG.
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Saturday August 2nd
Summer Streets (Manhattan)
August 2nd, 9th & 16th 7a-1p. Free.
Starts at the Brooklyn Bridge and goes up Lafayette & Park Ave to Central Park/72nd St. With nearly 7 miles of open streets, 5 rest stops and a seven-block-long art installation in the Park Avenue Tunnel – there is plenty to explore at Summer Streets. And remember, everything at Summer Streets is free! See website for more details.
Arty Hours at the High Line
Saturdays 10a-12n. Free. 23rd Street Lawn. In the event of rain, or when the 23rd Street Lawn is closed, Arty Hours will take place in the 14th Street Passage, on the High Line at West 14th Street. Check back or follow @highlinenyc on Twitter for updates on Saturdays by 8a.
Every Saturday in July and August (except August 30) reuse and re-imagine during Arty Hours! Kids and their caregivers are invited to create sculptures that turn, move, and roll inspired by site-specific works from Archeo, a High Line Art group exhibition. Transform everyday objects into masterpieces you can take home. At each Arty Hour, young builders can create one-of-a-kind vehicles, forts, structures, and machines with the High Line Children’s Workyard Kit, a crate of kid-friendly planks, nuts, bolts, and other custom materials by industrial designer Cas Holman. August 2: Personal Potions – Create a potion that represents who you are.
Animation Takeover in the Drop-In Moving Image Studio at the Museum Of The Moving Image (Astoria)
Saturday Aug 2nd 12n-5p. Free with Museum admission. Ages 7+ accompanied by an adult (12+ on their own)
The Museum offers free drop-in studio sessions for young visitors and families every Saturday. With the opening of the exhibition What’s Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones, animation activities will take over the studio. Working with Museum educators, children will make their own media projects inspired by the exhibition. Using pencils, crayons, cameras, computers, and tablets, they will be able to create a character sketch, draw a flipbook, make a short animated video, and more.
Hindu Lamp Ceremony at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Sat Aug 2nd 4-8p at Pebble Beach. Free.
Help Aeilushi Mistry bring peace and harmony to our shoreline as she performs the traditional Hindu Aarti Ceremony at the park! This will be an unforgettable evening. In the best way possible.
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Sunday August 3rd
Little Makers: Ice Cream, You Scream at the New York Hall of Science (Flushing)
Sun Aug 3rd 1030a-1230p. Materials Fee: $8 per family (with paid general admission) $5 per family (with NYSCI membership). To buy tickets click here. Invent your own flavor as you shake up a small batch of healthy homemade ice cream.
Suzie Shelton Shows at Norman & Jules Backyard (Park Slope)
Sunday August 3rd 11a. Fee $15/child.
Enjoy Norman and Jules’s Magical Outdoor Playspace with award winning and local kindie favorite Suzi Shelton as she performs a solo show with songs from her latest release “Smile in My Heart.” Perfect for families with kids ages 0-6 years old.
Family Sundays at Rubin Museum Of Art (Chelsea)
Sundays this summer. Drop-in anytime between 1pm and 4pm. $5 per child; adults pay regular Museum admission; discounts for members.
Sundays are for families! Bring your family to the Museum for a Sunday afternoon full of family-friendly activities. Drop into the Education Center for some art-making, enjoy our 2 p.m. family exhibition tour, or go on your own thematic gallery search. Sundays in August theme: Animal Masks – Real and imagined animals are everywhere in Himalayan art. Explore the animal artworks in the Masterworks exhibition and drop by the art studio to make your own animal mask inspired by Himalayan animal tales!
Astoria Park Shore Fest
Sundays Aug 3rd, 10th & 17th 1-630p. Free. Shore Boulevard between Astoria Park South and Ditmars Boulevard.
Shore Fest continues to evolve as a showcase for the potential of Shore Boulevard as a multi-use public space. Shore Fest is a place to meet new people, enjoy old friends, and carve a river of life out of a car-filled street. August 3rd: We Like to Move It! Stretch, bend, move and learn during free classes along the boulevard. Enjoy physical fitness activities, games and plenty of fun for all ages with the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop.
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All Weekend
Cirque Du Soleil: Varekai at the Barclay’s Center
Wed July 30th-Sun August 3rd various times. See website for information. Adults:$45 to $125,Children (12 & under): $36 to $101.
Deep within a forest, at the summit of a volcano, exists an extraordinary world – a world where something else is possible. A world called Varekai. From the sky falls a solitary young man, and the story of Varekai begins. Parachuted into the shadows of a magical forest, a kaleidoscopic world populated by fantastical creatures, this young man sets off on an adventure both absurd and extraordinary. On this day at the edge of time, in this place of all possibilities, begins an inspired incantation to life rediscovered.
A Virtual Hudson Line at the New York Transit Museum (Downtown Brooklyn)
Sat & Sun Aug 2nd & 3rd 130p. For all ages. Free with paid museum admission.
Experience a virtual train ride on Metro-North Railroad’s Hudson Line in the Museum’s R42 Screening Room. With sights and sounds rushing past, we’ll assign conductors, ticket punchers and station announcers as we tell stories and speed along the tracks on a magical journey north!
Cultural Connections: Mbira with Kevin Nathaniel Hylton at Brooklyn Children’s Museum (Crown Heights)
Sat & Sun August 2nd & 3rd 12n-1p. For all ages. Free with museum admission.
Hear the peaceful sounds of the mbira, an African thumb piano, with Kevin Nathaniel Hylton. Having played mbira since 1982, Hylton is the founder of the Spririt Ensemble, a group that pioneered the use of mbiras on the New York world music scene. This program is organized by Cumbe: Center for African and Diasporan Dance.
Theatreworks USA Presents: The Lightning Thief at Lucille Lortel Theatre (West Village)
Performances Monday July 21-Friday August 22nd at various times (no shows on Sat) See website for full schedule. Free. For ages 7y+
Let Theatreworks take you into a world with gods, monsters, and heroes! The Lightning Thief is a new musical adapted from the book, “Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief”, by Rick Riordan. With the rights provided by Twentieth Century Fox, and through a special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Theatreworks is excited to bring this new musical adaptation to children and families in New York, with book by Joe Tracz and music and lyrics by Rob Rokicki, choreographed by Sam Pinkleton and directed by Stephen Brackett. The Lightning Thief features Percy Jackson, the 12-year-old son of Poseidon, who gets pulled into an unfamiliar, mythological world full of treacherous encounters and challenges thrust upon him by the Greek Gods. Percy struggles with dyslexia and ADHD, coming to terms with a father he has never known, and solving the mystery of Zeus’ stolen lightning bolt, alongside his two best friends Grover and Annabeth. Since this is a free event please read the information on the website about how to get tickets.
Victorian Garden at Wollman Rink (Central Park)
Daily until Sun Sep 7th various times and admission & ride prices varies by day. See website. Enter park from 59th St. and 6th Avenue.
Victorian Gardens will open its gates Memorial Day Weekend! Opening weekend times: May 24th 10a-9p, May 25th and May 26th 10a-8p. Victorian Gardens is a traditional family amusement park featuring one-of-a-kind handcrafted rides, games of chance, classic concessions, face painting and live entertainment.
Bessies’s Big Shot at Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre (Central Park)
M-Sun now until August 24th M-F 1030a & 12p, Wed 1030a, 12p, & 230p, Sat-Sun 1p. Tickets: $7 children under 12y & $10 all others. For all ages.
Based on the famed PuppetMobile show of the same name, this popular production makes its Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre debut! Directed by Bruce Cannon and co-written by Douglas Strich, Alexander Bartenieff and Bruce Cannon, this version of the beloved show will feature several new puppets in addition to new and extended scenes. It’s a bird … it’s a plane … no … it’s Bessie the cow! CPF’s original production, Bessie’s Big Shot, follows Bessie the cow’s dream of joining the circus. Can she lift more than Ziegfried, the strongest man in the world? Fly on a trapeze high above the crowd? Train Munson the Monkey? This variety show cheers Bessie on as she attempts the impossible and searches for her special talents.
CMA/Free Arts Island Outpost on Governors Island
Sat-Sun now until Sep 28th and Labor Day Sep 1st 11a-3p. For ages 1-15y. Free.
Join us as we spend the summer amongst the trees, with the crickets and cicadas, dreaming of far away spaces and surreal surroundings! Places with wonderful surprises and strange twists, where not making sense makes the most sense! Be prepared for theater games and film-making; painting, collage, and found object art; costume and prop-making; up-cycling, recycling, and re-purposing! And don’t forget: The Flubber Experience! Location: Governors Island, Outside Buildings 11 & 14 in Nolan Park.
Kids Corner at Habana Outpost (Fort Greene)
Saturdays & Sundays until August 24th 11a-3p.
Drop in for FREE, fun arts & crafts every Saturday and Sunday in the courtyard of Habana Outpost. August 2nd & 3rd: Egg Carton Bugs
Dinosaur Safari: Mysteries Revealed! at the Bronx Zoo
Now until November 2nd 10a-5p. Admission included in total experience ticket price. Dinosaur Safari: Mysteries Revealed! Nine new dinosaur species have been added this year including the deinonychus, prodohadros, stegosaurus, and edmontonia. Returning for the Dinosaur Safari: Mysteries Revealed, the ever-popular 40-foot long tyrannosaurus rex will send chills up the spines of Bronx Zoo adventurers. At the end of the experience, there is a field site that includes a fossil dig for children; a Tyrannosaurus rex photo-op; a paleontologist’s tent that includes a fossil museum; and an interactive robotic dinosaur that illustrates how the animatronics work.
Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History (UWS)
Now until January 4th 10a-545p. Free with General Admission Plus One
In the new exhibition Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs, rare fossils, life-size models, and hands-on interactives bring these ancient animals to life. Step back in time to see pterosaurs, including giants such as Tropeognathus mesembrinus,with a wingspan of more than 25 feet, and find out how they moved on land and in the air. Get a first-hand look at the rare pterosaur fossils that have helped paleontologists learn all that we know about these animals. In a virtual flight lab, use your body to pilot a pterosaur over a prehistoric landscape. Encounter the exceptional creatures that flew in the age of dinosaurs.
Prospect Park Carousel Summer Hours
Now until September 1st 2014 Thu–Sun: 12n–6p. $2 per ride, $9 for a book of 5 tickets.
Kick off spring with a ride on the Park’s beautiful 102 year-old carousel. Located in the Park’s “Children’s Corner,” the Carousel features 51 magnificently carved horses, a lion, a giraffe, a deer, and two dragon-pulled chariots. Carved in 1912 by Charles Carmel, one of the foremost carousel designers of the time, and restored by the Prospect Park Alliance in 1990, the Carousel promises that classic summertime amusement will be available for generations of fun. In addition, the Prospect Park Carousel is one of the few in the world that is wheelchair accessible.
Pop-Up Audubon in Prospect Park
Saturdays & Sundays until October 19, 2014: 12n–5p. Free.
The Prospect Park Alliance presents Pop-Up Audubon, now in its second season, which invites families to directly engage with nature through outdoor learning in locations around the Park. JUNE: Incredible Invertebrates. Location: Entrance to the Ravine, downhill from the Picnic House
The Art of the Brick at Discovery Times Square (Hell’s Kitchen, Midtown West)
Now until Sep 7th. Sun-Tues 10a-7p, Wed & Thur 10a-8p, Fri & Sat 10a-9p. Tickets: $19.50/adult, $16.50 kids age 4-12y. The return of The Art of Brick!RT OF THE BRICK, and will feature a newly introduced gallery that showcases artist Nathan Sawaya’s In Pieces collection, a multimedia collaboration produced in tandem with award-winning photographer Dean West.
Sawaya’s original Art of the Brick exhibition is a critically acclaimed collection of intriguing and inspiring works of art made exclusively from one of the most recognizable toys in the world — LEGO® bricks. The Discovery Times Square exhibit will be the world’s biggest and most elaborate display of LEGO® art ever and will feature brand-new, never-before-seen pieces by Sawaya. Don’t miss the show named one of CNN’s Top 10 ‘Global Must-See Exhibitions.’
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