Brooklyn Kids Guide
With the combination of its bucolic, tree-lined streets and kid amenities that seriously threaten Manhattan's claim to having the best of everything, Brooklyn is, perhaps, the most family friendly borough in New York City. DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, Ft Greene, Park Slope and Williamsburg are just a few of the hot family neighborhoods. If you're exploring Brooklyn, you don't want to miss the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and the Brooklyn Culture Trolley can help you get there. Explore all that Brooklyn has to offer here, for inspiration to get more out of the real thing.
Latest news from the area
Sesame Street Family Day
Submitted by Katia on November 13, 2009 - 10:27am.EVENT LISTING
Enjoy Sesame Street-inspired crafts and reading activities, as well as a screening of The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. Plus, be sure to pick up your ticket to meet and greet walkaround Elmo. Remember your cameras!
(This event is free. There is limited space so you can get a 'ticket' the day of when you show up for the event.)
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Read more »Family Disco Party
Submitted by mommy on November 12, 2009 - 11:41pm.Every Second Saturday, The Moxie spot has a family disco. Come, eat , drink and boogie down.
Read more »The Wild Boy: A Haudenosaunee Fable
Submitted by mommy on November 12, 2009 - 11:23pm.Saturday, November 14, 1:00PM
Central Library, Dweck Center
New Perspective Theater presents The Wild Boy: A Haudenosaunee Fable
A Seneca mother and father are upset over their wild little boy's bad behavior. The boy becomes lost in the woods and is adopted by a mother bear and her daughter. The bears "tame" the boy by teaching him cooperation and courtesy. He returns to his family transformed.
Read more »"The Invisible Dog" Exhibit Art Workshops
Submitted by mommy on November 12, 2009 - 9:41pm.The latest group exhibition produced by No Longer Empty, “The Dog” is a show “out of nothing” in a warmly decrepit out-of-use belt factory on Bergen Street in Brooklyn. The show presents a multitude of site-specific works reflecting both the history of the space and the profound beauty of the Invisible Dog. A rift on the 70’s gag, it’s a void object waiting for creative minds and hands to bring it to life.
Here in the factory, artists grabbed the many trimmings, reels of fabric, leather and other materials and transformed them into something new. The artist duo Steven and William created a “chandelier” of abandoned belt buckles. Guerra del la Paz amassed tons of discarded clothing, one color at a time. Here, la Paz’s “trashy” tribute becomes an imposing, yurt-shaped spectral prism. In the neighborhood spirit, Tom Sanford brings Jonathan Lethem’s novel “Motherless Brooklyn”-- which takes place on this block, to life via a fantastic, larger than life mural. Even the freight elevator is transformed: here, Giuseppe Stampone takes us on a trip from Hell to Heaven al Dante.
Saturday November 14th at 1pm, NLE and Claire's Creative Adventures will offer one or two workshop sessions for children and their parents. Children will get an hour and half tour and hands on experience of the current NLE exhibition. The multiple hands-on projects are inspired by the current exhibition and the remnants of belt materials at the Invisible Dog.
Each session is limited to ten students. First session is at 1pm. $20 per child. The Nov 14th sessions are conducted at Invisible Dog 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn NY. Please RSVP to mark your interest in this workshop and to receive future kids program notifications.
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