Hi everyone!
Another busy weekend is coming! September is such a fun month since the weather tends to be cooler and we can enjoy outdoor events!
This weekend the more weekend the New York Bike Jumble is at the Old Stone House, there is a Kite Festival at Brooklyn Bridge Park, enjoy Extreme Kids & Crew’s Special Day for Special Kids at the NY Transit Museum, Circus Amok in Prospect Park, a Free Shadow Puppet Show at NYRP’s Heckscher Community Garden and the Annual Badass Brooklyn Fall Festival.
Also happening all weekend is the The 33rd Annual Great Irish Fair of New York and starting up this weekend are the family events at The Jewish Museum like the Drop-In Art Workshops! That is just some of the events so check out the calendar and see what else is happening in Brooklyn & NYC! Please remember to check with venues to see if there are any schedule changes. Remember to like us on Facebook for last minute events and news!
Happy a great weekend!
~ Deirdre (mom to O & C)
Friday September 12th
Sing-Along with Miss Nina at Two Moon Art House & Cafe (Park Slope)
Fridays at 10a. $10/family.
Miss Nina’s Friday Morning Sing-Along Fridays at 10 am Miss Nina’s background as a Preschool Teacher, Party Entertainer, Singer-Songwriter and former professional dancer all come through in her sing-alongs, performances …
13th Annual Cannoli Eating Competition at the 88th Annual Feast of San Gennaro
Fri Sep 12th 2-3p. Free. The Fiat Performance Stage at the northwest corner of Grand and Mott Streets will be the site of this eating competition.
The International Federation of Competitive Eaters will determine who can eat the most cannoli within a given six-minute period? The winner will be recognized as The World’s Champion Cannoli Eater. Trophies will be awarded to the 2nd and 3rd Place finishers. See website for additional events.
Josie and the Fourth Grade Bike Brigade at Barnes & Noble (Park Slope)
Fri Sep 12th 530p. Free.
Josie Garcia is a feisty, optimistic 9-year-old girl from Brooklyn who becomes a crusader for preventing disastrous climate change and other environmental threats. Josie takes simple, ingenious actions that bring real changes to her neighborhood.
Free Shadow Puppet Show at NYRP’s Heckscher Community Garden (Williamsburg)
Friday Sep 12th at dusk. Free.
Free Shadow Puppet Shows Enliven Brooklyn Community Gardens & Parks this Fall. Midnight Radio Show takes audiences of all ages on a magical journey exploring nature in Brooklyn’s lesser-known green spaces. Midnight Radio Show (MRS), a Brooklyn-based shadow puppet and fairytale theater company, is proud to announce the launch of “Twilight in the Garden Shadow Shows” a series of free, family-friendly performances in parks and community gardens throughout the borough this autumn. September 12th: Captain Mira and her brother Paolo are in danger when they sail too close to Mermaids. For information on additional Shadow Puppet Shows please see the website.
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Saturday September 13th
New York Bike Jumble at Old Stone House/JJ Byrne Park (Park Slope)
Sat Sep 13th 10a-4p.
Join us again at the Old Stone House at Fifth Avenue and 4th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn for back-to-school bargains, replacement parts, and new and used bicycles. Gear up for commuting season, test out a new ride, and buy your children early holiday gifts. Park Slope will be buzzing with the sound of happy cyclists!
Kite Festival at Brooklyn Bridge Park
Sat Sep 13 11a-3p. Harbor view lawn. Free.
Watch your kite soar above the Manhattan skyline! Kites will be available for purchase or you can bring your own. Don’t forget your camera, this is a magical day for photos!
The Funny Bones Mime Trio at Lincoln Center David Rubenstein Atrium (UWS)
Sat Sep 13th 11a. At the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, Frieda and Roy Furman Stage. Free.
Meet the Artist Saturday – The Funny Bones Mime Trio: “The History of Modern Mime”. The Funny Bones Mime Trio presents a hilarious yet educational travelogue about how mime evolved into the modern form we know today. Join them on a journey that begins in Italy with commedia dell’arte mask theatre, then travels to France, where you’ll meet the creators of modern mime and discover the invisible world of silence. Arrive at last in the U.S. to experience mime as it’s performed today.
88th Annual Feast of San Gennaro Grand Procession
Sat Sep 13th 2p. Free. Will begin at the Baxter Street entrance to the church and will proceed north on Mulberry to Houston, then move south on Mott to Grand, where they will turn right on Grand to Baxter Street. A colorful parade with floats, marching bands, musical entertainers and the Statue of San Gennaro through the streets of Little Italy. This year’s Grand Marshal is New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. See website for additional events.
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Sunday September 14th
Extreme Kids & Crew’s Special Day for Special Kids at the NY Transit Museum
Sun Sep 14th 10a-1p. Free admission for kids with special needs and their families. All ages welcome!
The Transit Museum is thrilled to be partnering with Extreme Kids & Crew for the fifth Special Day for Special Kids, a day to welcome and celebrate special needs families. Special needs children and their family members will receive exclusive access to the Museum one hour before general admission on Sunday, September 14, from 10 am to 11 am, with free admission extending throughout the morning. An art workshop will run from 10:30 to 11:30 am, and a costumed interpreter will bring transit history to life on the platform level as visitors explore vintage subway cars. Light refreshments will be served. The Transit Museum is wheelchair accessible via a lift that must be operated by staff. Call 718-694-1794 to make arrangements for using the lift.
Annual Badass Brooklyn Fall Festival
Sun Sep 14th 11a-5p. At President Street at 3rd Avenue. Free. Donations welcome.
The Badass Fall Festival is a large-scale street festival for the local Brooklyn community – and beyond! There will be activities for adults, kids and dogs – including a pitbull kissing booth sponsored by Mr. Bones and Co, an agility course with The Doggie Academy, wonderful shopping with local craft vendors, amazing food, live music, Smuttynose Beer specials at Canal Bar, as well as a Badass Raffle, and much more.
Drop-In Art Workshop at The Jewish Museum (UES)
Sundays 1-4p at Floor 4 Studio. For ages 3 & up. Free with museum admission.
Paint, draw, sculpt, or craft a work of art inspired by exhibitions on view. Projects explore new themes each week. This week: create a striking poster using large block letters and ink after viewing Mel Bochner: Strong Language.
Circus Amok in Prospect Park
Sun Sep 14th 1p & 4p showtimes. Free. Behind the tennis house.
From the worlds of Ringling brothers Circus, Bread and Puppet Theater, the Judson dance theater, the new burlesque, and the Theater of the Ridiculous springs Circus Amok!! In this extravaganza not to be missed, the multi-talented, seven-member troupe and five-piece Circus Amok Band will amaze and astound audiences with a thrilling escapade of climate chance, dystopia vs. utopia, and the future of our own New York City. This bona fide traveling circus, which tours public parks from Coney Island to Harlem, will delight and incite audiences throughout the city.
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All Weekend
The 33rd Annual Great Irish Fair of New York (Coney Island)
Sat & Sun Sep 13th & 14th 1030a-8p. Location: Surf Avenue & West 21st Street – Coney Island, NY. Adults: $12 per day & children 12 years and older (children under 12 are free) Family: $30 – 2 adults and their children. There is a fee of $15.00 for unlimited use of the rides.
A Family Friendly Event Celebrating New York City’s Great Irish-American Heritage & Culture
Join us and enjoy a day filled with: Annual 5k Run/Walk on the Riegelmann Boardwalk, Saturday, September 13th at 10:30 am, Traditional and Contemporary Irish Music, Local Irish Bands, Great Food /Pubs, Irish Dancing, Irish Goods, Children’s rides, activities and attractions. Local musicians will be playing both traditional and contemporary Irish music both days. As in the past vendors and neighborhood pubs will recreate their venue for two days on the Fairgrounds offering great food and drink. A separate area at the Fairgrounds will be set up with children’s rides and attractions. The children will enjoy: Rides, Magic Shows, Face Painting, Balloonists and more…
Depot Time! At the NY Transit Museum
Sat & Sun 6th-7th & 13th-14th 130p. Free with museum admission. For ages 5+
New York’s 4,431 buses roll out from 30 different depots spread across the five boroughs, and return at the end of their day at work. Learn more about these special homes for buses – where to find them and some of the unique features of these giant bus garages. We’ll design our own depots and create “dispatch schedules” for your own bus fleet!
Bessies’s Big Shot at Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre (Central Park)
Weekends until September 21st at 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 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.
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 Fall Hours
Now until October 26th 2014 Thu–Sun: 12n–5p. $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 14th. 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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