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Kids Calendar
 Catch a free screening of Disney's Beauty and the Beast this Saturday at Seward Park Library. This Saturday, get the family out of the cold and watch Beauty and the Beast at the Seward Park Library. Part of the library’s Saturday Afternoon Family Movies series during February, the free movies are screened in the community room at 2:30. … Continue reading  
 Lion Dancing 2012. Photo by Florence Eng Thanks to Florence Eng for sending us these photos from the Lion Dance activities that took place the day before the big parade. She writes: I love the publicity (the float parade on Sunday) receives but the lion dancing on Saturday received zero coverage. It is a much more … Continue reading
 The "Festival of the Vegetables" at the Metropolitan Playhouse this weekend. Do your children turn up their noses at vegetables? Perhaps showing them a land of life-sized talking vegetables will help win them over. The “Festival of the Vegetables” is series of short poems, piano pieces and dances that explore the secret lives of vegetables, as seem through the imagination of a child. The … Continue reading
This Saturday take the kids to the the New Museum’s First Saturday for Families, where Nicolás Paris will lead a hands-on drawing workshop. The program is recommended for kids aged 4 to 15 and includes free New Museum admission for two adults per family (children under 18 are always free). Workshops take place in the 7th Floor Sky Room, from 10 … Continue reading
 The Nature Conservancy presents a birding lesson for kids at Park Here this Saturday. The Nature Conservancy in New York presents a birding lesson for kids at Openhouse Gallery’s pop-up park (Park Here) on Mulberry Street this Saturday. From 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., kids will hear a story, ”Feathers for Lunch,” have a discussion about local birds, and then make their own ”binoculars” … Continue reading
 Photo by Erin Egan Rodriguez for thelodownny.com. TLD contributor Erin Rodriguez noticed this school crossing signage painted on the asphalt — right outside the Marta Valle High School on Stanton Street. Her take: “Really people? The proper spelling is on the building 5-yards away from where the DOT was painting the word!” We’ll see how long it … Continue reading
 A Cool Culture outing. Photo courtesy of coolculture.org We’d like to welcome our newest Lo-Down contributor, Erin Egan Rodriguez. Erin is a local resident, a working mom, a part-time student and a real estate agent. She sent us this story after leading fundraising efforts for a program that was in danger of being lost at her … Continue reading
 Basketball City's new facility at Pier 36. The operators of Basketball City are shooting for a March opening date for their new facility on Pier 36, at the end of Montgomery Street. The company, which hosts corporate recreational leagues, has run into a lot of construction delays and other complications. But as the debut of the … Continue reading
 The annual parade returns Sunday, Jan. 29; there are lots of other interesting events to celebrate the Year of the Dragon between now and then. 2011 file photo by Stephen Spera The Year of the Dragon officially begins on Monday, Jan. 23, and the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration begins this weekend around Chinatown and the Lower East … Continue reading
By Jennifer Strom in chinatown, Community Organizations, Featured, Kids on January 19, 2012 11:33 am |
 0 Comments   Mario the Magician performs at Space on White this Sunday. Take your budding magician to see Mario the Magician for a show and magic lesson. From 3 to 4pm this Sunday, at the Space on White, 81 White Street (between Broadway and Lafayette). $10 for children, $20 for adults. Recommended for ages 3 to 11. For more information about … Continue reading
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