Here are some events and ideas to get you out and moving in this beautiful weather! (Don’t forget your sunscreen!)
ArtsCetera Open House, Parades, Robots, Cherry Blossoms! [A Child Grows in Brooklyn]
Irish History Walking Tour, Coastal Cleanup, Girls & Women in Sports — ALL FREE [NYC Parks]
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WE ARE BACK! Here are some great links for the weekend: articles, recipes and plenty of things to do over the weekend that will keep you green, keep you healthy and get you moving! Be well!!
All events are free unless otherwise indicated.
Kick It! At the National Girls and Women in Sports Day [NYC Parks]
That’s So Funny I Forgot It Was Written in the 17th Century [NY Classical Theatre]
Sing the Clean-Up Song at Prospect Park! While You Green Your World [NYC Parks]
K-12 Education Expo [Linkeducation]
Recipes for Health: Pantry Clean-Out [NY Times]
Rise in Preschool Cavities Prompts Anesthesia Use [NY Times]
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Here are some great links for the weekend: articles, recipes and plenty of things to do over the weekend that will keep you green, keep you healthy and keep (or get) you moving! Be well!!
Winter Scavenger Hunt: Be a Bird! [NYC Parks]
Supertall! (Extended Exhibition) [The Skyscraper Museum]
Anchors Aweigh… or Just Some Really Cool Model Ships [Intrepid Museum]
BAM Kids Film Festival [Brooklyn Academy of Music]
Go Back In Time… and Play! [ProspectPark.org]
Recipe: Spicy Stir-Fried Tofu with Kale and Red Pepper [NY Times]
Hand Over the Dinner Apron to Your Kids and Reap the Rewards [NY Times]
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Here’s our newest list of family-friendly ways to keep moving, stay safe & keep healthy. We try to list mostly events that are free or low-cost so that everyone can enjoy. Have fun & be well!
Saturday, Jan 28
Chinese New Year: Mini-Celebration at the Sunset Park Recreation Center
(A lower-key celebration at the Sunset Park Recreation Center; the dragon dance, music, performances and more!)
Michele Wong McSween reads at Apple Seeds [A Child Grows]
The author of the “Gordon and Lili” book series does a book reading, and guests from Mandarin Tree House will entertain the kids with theme-related activities!
Apple Seeds, 10 West 25th Street, Manhattan; 11 am
Celebrate Chinese New Year in Chinatown in Manhattan! [BetterChinatown]
And in the General Fun & Wellness Category…
Hot Peas n’ Butter; Interactive Concert [Brooklyn College]
This children’s musical group combines an interactive, invigorating approach to performance with multicultural music, blending jazz, R&B, folk, rock and Afro-Caribbean tunes that will have your kids dancing in the aisles.
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A little late this weekend– sorry! Here’s our list of family-friendly ways to keep moving, stay safe & keep healthy. We try to list mostly events that are free or low-cost so that everyone can enjoy. Have fun & be well!
New York City Kids’ Food Festival [Citi Pond]
Free Fun: The Best Sledding Sites in NYC [A Child Grows in Brooklyn]
Little Dragon Chinese New Year Celebration [Mini Jake]
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The Inventgenuity Festival is in its third year and is presented by Beam Camp, a New Hampshire summer camp for the applied arts, technology and collaboration. The festival serves as a launch event for Beam’s new Brooklyn-based Inventgenuity Workshop, an after school program for kids in grades 2-8 enrolling for classes starting in March 2012, and will feature a range of activities led by Beam’s staff of artists, engineers and thinkers.
The weekend’s big Project, “The Dis/Assembly Line,” is an evolving decomposition and aesthetic reprocessing of an entire room of everyday objects. Kids will join kinetic art mechanic Steve Gerberich and sculptor Nathaniel Lieb as they dissect, sort and reconfigure artifacts into 2D and 3D sculpture. Attendees may also sign-up for one of the rotating slate of 45-minute workshops. Scheduled workshops will explore the Dis/Assembly theme through sound (Natalie Elizabeth Weiss), puppetry (Jonny Clockworks), food (Kathryn Wallem), electronics (Ed Bear), language in 3D (Eun Jung (EJ) Park), craft (Julie Schneider), video (Allen Riley and Jeff Sisson), and painting (Adam Matta).
Inventgenuity Festival: Jan 21-22 (FREE registration, $5 materials fee for some programs)
at The Invisible Dog Art Center
51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn
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Not using a landline anymore, eh? Your old cordless phone (and base!) are sitting in your closet, mocking you. Same story with that old monitor that you meant to get fixed but now gathers dust. What to do? Here’s your answer! Bring your old computers, monitors, fax machines, copiers, DVD or VCR players, telephones, cell phones, televisions, cameras and stereo equipment to Prospect Park tomorrow– to Prospect Park West & 3rd Street– and get it properly recycled with the help of the Lower East Side Ecology Center & Tekserve.
The components in many electronics can be vastly hazardous to the environment– while electronics are said to be 1% of landfill content, they contribute up to 70% of landfill toxins– so it’s truly important that they be recycled properly.
Don’t let your electronics be the 1 percent!
Recycle Your Tech at Prospect Park Sunday, 1/15; Win a MacBook Air?!? [TekServe]
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