Hi everyone! I publish my weekend picks on Thursday afternoons and as I am putting the list together I am getting emails notifying me of cancellations. I will try to keep the list updated but you should check with venue websites also.
Head out and enjoy Brooklyn Book Bodega at Brooklyn Navy Yard, Spellbound Theatre: Naughty Penguin at The Old Stone House, MasterChef Junior Live at Kings Theatre, BAMkids Movie Matinees: Modern Times, Pop-Up Performance: Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra at Brooklyn Museum, City Stomp at ShapeShifter Lab, Brooklyn St. Patrick’s Day Parade, The Paper Bag Players at The Jewish Museum, Pi Day Party! at Staten Island Children’s Museum and All The Ladies: Joanie Leeds’ Album Launch at Children’s Museum of Manhattan.
Don’t forget to check out the long running events like Survival: The Exhibition at NY Hall of Science, Alice in Wonderland at Puppetworks, Film Forum Jr. Matinee at the Film Forum, Ed Center in Brooklyn Bridge Park, The Industry City Ice Rink, T. rex: The Ultimate Predator at American Museum of Natural History, Take A Closer Look—At Spring! in Prospect Park Zoo and the opening of Discover the Nature of Color at American Museum of Natural History
These are just some of the weekend events so check the calendar to see everything going on. Also like us on Facebook for last minute events and updates.
Wash your hands & enjoy time with your family!
~ Deirdre (mom to O & C)
Friday March 13th
MasterChef Junior Live at Kings Theatre POSTPONED
Friday March 13th 6p (doors 5p). Tickets start at $29.50. MasterChef Junior Live! is coming to your hometown. Due to popular demand, this high-energy, interactive stage production is extending its debut tour to 40 new U.S markets in 2020 bringing the culinary hit TV show MasterChef Junior directly to fans and foodies alike…LIVE on stage! The family-friendly show will feature head-to-head cooking demonstrations and fun (sometimes messy!) challenges with past MasterChef Junior contestants, and an overall immersive audience experience fun for all ages. Bring the whole family to see MasterChef Junior Live! Limited VIP Packages are available that include a premium seat, meet and greet experience, signed show poster, photos, and more. It’s a recipe for a guaranteed good time!
Drumfolk at The New Victory Theater – CANCELLED
Fridays 7p, Saturdays 2p & 7p and Sundays 12n & 5p until March 15th. Tickets start at $17. For everyone 7 and up. Runnint time: 1 hour and 35 minutes including one intermission. Powerful. Precise. Persistent. Political. The drum is talking. The music is calling. When Africans lost the right to use their drums, the beats found their way into the body of the people—the DRUMFOLK. New percussive art forms took root and made way for tap, beatboxing and the African American tradition of stepping. From hambone to hip-hop, an extraordinary ensemble of dancers, drummers and musicians takes us from West Africa to Washington, D.C., to reveal the hidden histories and resounding rhythms that transformed America.
See all the Friday events here.
Saturday March 14th
Spellbound Theatre: Naughty Penguin at The Old Stone House (Park Slope) CANCELLED
Saturday March 14th 10a & 1130a. Individual Ticket: $22, Family Package (3 people): $49. Events begin at 10am & 11:30am with art activities followed by a performance at 10:20am & 11:50am, respectively. Domino the penguin gets in trouble…a lot. Sometimes Domino chooses to be naughty, but sometimes it happens without her realizing. There are so many rules! Domino wants to know how she can still have fun without getting into so much bother. Will you help? This interactive performance for ages 2-5 invites us to join Penguin as she navigates a tricky world filled with opportunities to be naughty…or not. Purchase tickets here.
Just Kidding: Squirrel Stole my Underpants at Symphony Space (UWS) CANCELLED
Saturday March 14th 11a & 2p. Tickets: $14 members, $17 non-members. Expected runt time is 60 minutes. Sylvie is sent to the backyard to hang up the laundry. The moment her back is turned, a mischievous squirrel steals her favorite piece of clothing and runs off. When Sylvie gives chase, an entire world emerges from her laundry basket, and curious characters show her the way through mysterious lands. Will our lonely heroine rescue her underpants and discover the magic within herself? Join us on this puppet-filled adventure to find out!
Pi Day Party! at Staten Island Children’s Museum
Saturday March 14th 12n-1p. Free with Museum admission. Hear the story of Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi. Do Circle-and pie-related crafts. Enjoy pizza pie!
All The Ladies: Joanie Leeds’ Album Launch at Children’s Museum of Manhattan (UWS) CANCELLED
Saturday March 14th 2p & 3p. Free with Museum admission. Location: 1st Floor – Inside Art. For all ages. Drop-in. Joanie’s new album All The Ladies serves up passionate and honest female empowerment folk tunes celebrating International Women’s Day, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s birthday and 2020 as the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote. All The Ladies is produced by GRAMMY Award Winner Lucy Kalantari.
City Stomp at ShapeShifter Lab (Gowanus) CANCELLED
Saturday March 15th doors 3p, concert 330p. Advance tickets: $15 (at the door $20). Purchase tickets here. City Stomp incorporates fun original songs about growing up in NYC with updated versions of traditional folk songs from other world cultures. City Stomp takes kid’s music to a new level with songs that parents not only can tolerate, but actually LIKE to listen to. Parents everywhere have said that City Stomp albums are some of the few kids albums that they are happy to play for their kids. Some even said (in confidence) that they listen to the albums when their kids aren’t even there. With live shows that Time Out Kids calls a “Time Out Kids fave,” kids and parents always have a good time when City Stomp is performing. People.com just voted City Stomp’s Banana Song number 3 on their top ten list of kid songs about foods!
See all the Saturday events here.
Sunday March 15th
The Paper Bag Players at The Jewish Museum (UES) CANCELLED
Sunday March 15th 1130a-1230p (doors 1110a). $18 General; $14 Jewish Museum Family Members. Includes Museum Admission; admission is free for children 18 and under. For ages 3-8y. See cowboys and cowgirls gallop on horseback, astronauts meet a sweet alien, and other flights of imagination in “Here We Go” a joyous journey with the Paper Bag Players. Delight in a blend of new and classic sketches with original music, signature cardboard sets, and lovable characters that will have your family giggling for more.
Brooklyn Book Bodega at Brooklyn Navy Yard CANCELLED
Sunday March 15th 12n-3p. Read, Write, BUILD! Join us at Brooklyn Navy Yard at Building 77, 141 Flushing Avenue. We will be collecting gently used children’s books and distributing free books for ages 0-18. You can take books from the bodega without giving. Free activities and programming. Bring your friends, neighbors, family! All events are free and open to the public. 1 p.m. Reading and activities with authors Louie Chin: Bodega Cat and Don’t Ask a Dinosaur and Gabrielle Balkan: Book of Flight, Book of Bones, The 50 States and her new book The DODO: 50 Odd Couples.
Brooklyn St. Patrick’s Day Parade (Park Slope) CANCELLED
Sunday March 15th 12n. Free. Parade Assembly: 12n on Prospect Park West Between 15th and 9th Street. “Re-Dedication Ceremony” to the Heroes & Victims of 9/11-WTC: 1230p. Parade Step off: 1p — Reviewing Stand: Bartell Pritchard Circle-14th Street-PPW. Parade route: starts at 15th Street and Prospect Park West and travels across 15th Street to 7th Avenue. It then goes up 7th Avenue to Garfield Place where it’s marches over to Prospect Park West and back down to 15th Street.
BAMkids Movie Matinees: Modern Times (Fort Greene) CANCELLED
BAM Rose Cinemas will operate at 50% capacity
Sunday March 15th 2p. For ages 6+. General admission: $10, children 12 and under $7. Charlie Chaplin’s final silent film—enlivened by bits of inventive sound design—is an imaginative and hilarious send-up of the modern industrialized world. His classic Little Tramp character is a factory worker tightening bolts on an assembly line, until a mishap with an automatic feeding machine sends him off course. Mixing the joyfulness of Chaplin’s comedy gags with a satire of modern bureaucracy, Modern Times remains the funniest of the comedian’s social critiques.
Pop-Up Performance: Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra at Brooklyn Museum (Crown Heights) CANCELLED
Sunday March 15th 2-330p. Free with Museum admission. Drop by Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra’s series of intimate pop-up performances, highlighting members and featured musicians as the Orchestra in Residence fills our galleries with a family-friendly range of classical music from across the globe.
See all the Sunday events here.
All Weekend
Take A Closer Look—At Spring! in Prospect Park Zoo
Saturdays-Sundays 10a-4p in March & April. Free with Zoo admission. Signs of spring are everywhere as animals at the Prospect Park Zoo and in your own backyard wake up from their winter sleep. Join us every weekend in March and April to celebrate spring and learn how to be an urban scientist.
Alice in Wonderland at Puppetworks (Park Slope)
Saturdays-Sundays 1230p & 230p until April 5th. For 3y+. Admission for a Child is $10, an Adult $11. No credit cards accepted. Reservations are suggested: 718-965-3391 (current day or advance reservations) or e-mail us: puppetworks@twcmetrobiz.com (NO same day e-mail reservations). Lewis Carroll’s English Adventure with an original song score. Adapted for Marionettes by Nicolas Coppola & Adam Kilgour.
Survival: The Exhibition at NY Hall of Science
Daily until September 13th. Hours: Monday – Friday, 930a-5p, Saturday & Sunday, 10a-6p. $7 per person, plus NYSCI admission. Free for Members. Become the ultimate survival expert. Test your survival skills. Learn how to build shelter in the forest, find water in the desert, stay warm in the extreme cold. Plus, learn water safety and emergency preparations. Survival culminates in the Adventure Zone Ropes Course and Zip Line, where visitors’ confidence and problem-solving skills are put to the test. Course obstacles and activities teach balance, focus, coordination and concentration while building resilience and determination in the face of adversity. See the website for all the details. Also check out School’s Out Week: Engineering Week at NY Hall of Science ongoing until February 23rd. See website for all the details.
The Industry City Ice Rink (Sunset Park)
Wednesdays-Thursdays 4-8p, Fridays 11a-8p, Saturdays 10a-8p and Sundays 10a-5p. Tickets will be $10 for adults and $6 for kids 12 and under, with skate rentals costing $9. Tickets can be purchased on site at IC Ice Rink in courtyard 5/6. The Industry City Ice Rink opens November 30 and welcomes guests to join for an iconic winter experience every Wednesday to Sunday with ice skating theme parties on Fridays + Saturdays. The rink is outside and uncovered, so dress appropriately for an enjoyable and comfortable skate. If you come at a popular time and there’s a line, there are plenty of other activities to fill your time while you wait. Pop into our game room, browse + shop The Makers Guild, hang by the fire pit or grab a drink inside any of our brewers and distillers. See website for all the details.
Film Forum Jr. Matinee at the Film Forum (Lower East Side)
Saturdays-Sundays at 11a until March 15th. ALL TICKETS $9. Advance tickets on sale at the box office and online. Most programs appropriate for ages 5 and up. Classics For Kids and Their Families! March 14th-15th Marx Brothers in GO WEST