Mommy Poppins Family Events Calendar

Please note, the April 19th, May 1st, and May 6th shows are sold out.

Schedule:

April 20, 21, 27, 28, and May 4, 5, 11, 18, 19 at 2 PM, 4 PM

May 17, 7 PM

Shows:

The 4th Annual Kings County Fair will include a variety of rides and games for kids of all ages, tasty treats including corn dogs, cotton candy, funnel cakes and much more.

May 18th & 19th

Schedule of events:

Make a craft to celebrate our barnyard animals.
11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

Learn the art of felt making with our Docents. Play the sheep to sweater game.
Noon–4:00 p.m.

Hear live music by the Otter Brothers.
2:00–5:00 p.m.

See our sheep get their annual haircuts.
1:30 & 3:30 p.m.

Schedule of events:

Exhibitions On View
SUPERREAL and PRESENCIA
11:00am – 6:00pm, Las Galerías

Exhibitions On View
CUENTAME! TELL ME A STORY: STUDENT ARTWORK EXHIBITION OPENING
11:00am - 6:00pm, El Museo's Cuentame Gallery

Storytelling and Music
FOLKTALES OF THE YORUBA PEOPLE
12:00pm – 2:00pm, El Café

Art-making Workshop
MANOS A LA OBRA!
12:00 – 3:00, El Taller & Las Galerías

Concert
QUEENS COUNTY CHILDREN’S CHORAL ENSEMBLE PRESENTS CHILDREN’S VOICES OF THE ANDES
5:00pm – 6:00pm, El Teatro

Discover birds of prey as they fly under your arms in the Tunnel of Talons and meet some that have been rescued. Go on a guided bird walk, learn about Monarch butterflies, and be part of a butterfly release. Make winged things at the craft table.

May 18th & 19th, 12:00 - 5:00 PM

Rain or shine. Enjoy cuisines from different countries: Poland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Japan, Thailand, and more. There will be games and activities for kids, as well as a live stage entertainment of international music and dance at 55th Street on both days.

Grand Marshall's are Louie Vega, Baba Chuck Davis, and Jacqulyn Buglisi. Over 75 diverse dance styles from ballet to break dance! Floats, live bands, and DJ's. This years theme is Unity through Dance.

After the parade hit the Dance Fest in Tompkins Square Park from 3pm to 7pm.

The new edition of this all-moms burlesque revue features a dozen burly-Q breeders exploring all sides of motherhood through striptease and song: the upside, the downside, and the backside. The show includes performances by veteran hot mamas, including Little Brooklyn, The Incredible Edible Akynos, Ginger Baker, Kat Mon Dieu, Miss Ivy League, Fritzi Collins, Suga' Bomba, Cosmic Girl, Camillicious, Dot Mitzvah, and Niki Tiki. Hosted and conceived by our Mommy Poppins own Raven Snook. 

Bluegrass Family Dance
Saturday, May 18, 6:30-8pm
James Reams and the Barnstormers play bluegrass. Dance caller Eric Hollman leads the square dancing.

Brazilian Family Dance
Saturday, July 13, 6:30-8pm
Liliana Araujo and her band perform forro music from Brazil. Dance caller Marizete Brown and her dancers lead the dancing.

East Indian Bhangra Family Dance
Saturday, August 17, 6:30-8pm
DJ Rekha leads the music accompanied by drummers and dancers. Learn bhangra, a fusion of traditional Punjabi-style folk dance and music with Western hip hop and rock.

Bringing together a diverse palette of live music, globally sourced DJs, dancers, performers, art and workshops, our second annual Bohemian Festival will be both a culturally rich and insanely festive camp-out and non-stop party on the grounds of the historic Onderdonk House in Ridgewood, Queens. This event is for ALL AGES. The festival will feature the renowned ensemble Yuri Yunakov & The Grand Masters of Gypsy Music, local Klezmer legend Frank London,The Klezwoods, Escarioka, Amour Obscur, Radio Armada, Big Volcano, SisterMonk, The Soul Muse, Askultura, Balkan Stomp, the Burdel Dali trans-global dj collective, and many more talented musicians and performers. Other initiatives include a live music-driven body painting experiment featuring local artists and musicians, yoga workshops lead by Anastasia Nevin of the renowned Laughing Lotus Yoga studio, Tahitian dance workshops and performances, belly dance workshops, henna tattoo artists, tarot card readers, and more. The festival will take place May 17th – 19th, 2013 at the Onderdonk House (1820 Flushing Avenue, Ridgewood). Live music will begin at approximately 6PM each day, preceded by morning workshops, food, and drinks.

Dicapo Opera Theatre will continue its popular “Opera for Kids” series of Saturday and Sunday morning family presentations throughout the 2012-2013 season. Mr. Capasso introduces children to the fundamentals of opera and each of the selected scenes is sung by Dicapo’s Resident Artists in costume and with sets to the accompaniment of a piano. Either before the performance or between key events Mr. Capasso elucidates the plot, hints at the complexities of the theatre’s stagecraft, and fires children’s imagination with a taste of grit and magic. The secret to the success of these presentations lays in the fact that Mr. Capasso and his performers never resort to over-simplification. After each performance the children participate in a lively exchange with the singers and crew and are able to ask questions about what they’ve just seen and how things get done. The company’s highly popular one-hour “Opera for Kids” presentations, led with great flair by Mr. Capasso, are aimed at children four years old and up.

May 18th: 11AM and 2PM

May 9th: 11AM

Saturdays and Sundays in May

Activities:

Nature on the Go! Bird Bonanza: 1 p.m. & 3 p.m.
Observe, identify, and understand the more than 200 species of birds that pass through Prospect Park.

Nature’s Helpers: 2 p.m.
Enjoy nature while helping to keep the park clean. Gloves, garbage bags, and trash grabbers will be provided.

Discovery Tour: 4 p.m.
Learn what birds eat from trees, early spring migration, and discover the layers within the forest!

The New Acting Company Presents Sideways Stories From Wayside School  An outrageous fun adventure filled with tornado drills, talking pigtails, and wicked teachers who turn students into apples.  Wayside Elementary School is a wacky world where Myron, Dameon, Leslie, Rhondi and Bebe attend class on the top floor of their 30-story school. (An architect accidentally built the school’s 30 classrooms on top of one another rather than side-by-side, but the school is actually only 29 stories high because there is no 19th floor!) As if that wasn’t odd enough, the school day is filled with tornado drills, talking pigtails, and wicked teachers who turn students into apples. Amidst all this craziness, the students learn some wonderful lessons about life!

May 3rd - May 19th
Fridays at 7:30 pm (No Friday show 5/17)
Saturdays & Sundays at 1pm & 5pm

Saturdays, April 27, May 4, May 18, 2 pm - 4 pm

Sunday, May 12, 1 pm - 3 pm

Using the art of Jane Alexander as inspiration, create your own tableau that tells a story about your family, friends, and the place where you live. Reservations required.

Help clean up and maintain your parks and playgrounds on 3 consecutive Saturdays in May. 

Click the link above for the schedule and location of parks.

Mur-Mur reveals a world of humor, innocence, and discovery through the story of friendship among five characters.

Two shows: 11AM & 3PM