Jacqueline Burt Wang
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Kid Stuff
Today ENTER THE DRAGON: Follow the beat of Chinese drums to the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, where you can watch traditional dragon-shaped rowboats glide across Flushing Meadows Corona...
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Today CARIBBEAN GROOVE: Save those frequent flier miles and have an island experience close to home. This month’s installment of the Target First Saturday series at the Brooklyn Museum explores...
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Today STAR SEARCH: Check out the kids strutting their stuff at the Coney Island Talent Show, where various categories will include Circus Freaks & Geeks, Creative Kids and Song &...
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Today GOOD STUFF: It’s always a good time when the Good Ms. Padgett (a k a Brooklyn’s own Pied Piper Anna Padgett) plays a signature set of sweet, silly, folk-infused...
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Today FULL SWING: It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that Midsummer Night Swing, so head over to Lincoln Center for this afternoon’s Kids Dance! session, a free...
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Today ARRR!: “Pirates of the Caribbean” is so yesterday. So how about some live buccaneers, thanks to Historic Hudson Valley’s “Pirates of the Hudson: The Siege of Sleepy Hollow” festival....
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Today PRIMARY COLORS: Help to make the summer bright at Madison Square Park’s Red, Yellow and Blue Family Art Workshop, inspired by the park’s large-scale installation of the same name....
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Today A BARD DAY’S NIGHT: Introduce kids to Shakespeare with one of his comedies — “Twelfth Night” — performed by teens. The 52nd Street Project’s production has been adapted for...
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Today HAVE A BALL: Kick off the weekend when Hip Tot Music Fest and the nonprofit Young Rock Soccer Academy join forces for the first Brooklyn Bridge Cup & Block...
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TODAY SONG BOOK: The books of a beloved children’s author become a live musical experience with the Ezra Jack Keats Family Concert presented by Celebrate Brooklyn! Wynton Marsalis and the...
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Today THE VOICE: A one-man production about a young girl who travels snowy lands and high seas to save a city? Sounds like a tall order, but “The Girl Who...
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Today ON THE BOARDWALK: Fun is in full swing at Coney Island’s Luna Park, where riding the world-famous Cyclone is a Memorial Day tradition. Not a thrill-seeker? Try some seaside...
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Today WING IT: Keep your eye on the birdies at Central Park’s On a Wing family festival, a yearly event honoring the park’s many feathered friends. Go on a bird-watching...
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Today FASCINATING FINDS: Bring that cool rock or interesting bone you found in the backyard to the American Museum of Natural History’s Annual Identification Day, where scientists will tell you...
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Today SHADOW SPECTACLE: More elaborate than most shadow puppetry, the ancient Cambodian art of Sbeik Thom involves trained dancers and giant leather shadow puppets against a lit screen, plus live...
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Today EXCELLENT ADVENTURES: Get two great tales for the price of one at TADA! Youth Theater, where “Adventures From Ezra Jack Keats” will bring the author’s “Apt. 3” and “Maggie...
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Today SWEET PEAS: As regulars on Nick Jr. and the winners of several Parents’ Choice awards, you really can’t go wrong with a Hot Peas ’N Butter show. Expect a...
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Today QUIRKY QUEEN: If you like Bjork, you’ll love Elska, a similarly eccentric Icelandic singer whose just-for-kids stories and songs feature winter bears, a “colony of lost socks” and a...
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Today EXTRA CHEESE: Who needs happily ever after? Fans of Jon Scieszka’s “The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales” know that fractured fairy tales are more fun, and...
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Today KINDUR GARDEN: Like stepping into a fairy tale, interactive performance “Kindur” at BAM invites kids onstage to explore a make-believe landscape of glaciers, volcanoes and flower-filled gardens. In case...