Free Fun Friday: Juggling Fest, Irish Film Fest and Finance

3/6/08 - By Anna Fader
jugglenyccom-adultcircus.jpg Learn to juggle or just watch the fun, see Irish short films for kids, see a children's version of the opera Carmen and more all for free with our weekly list of free family activities for New York kids. NYC 7th Annual Juggling Festival: JUGGLE THIS! - NYC 2008 Friday March 7-Sunday March 9, 2008 Adults and kids can learn to juggle or just come and watch. Three days of open juggling, workshops, juggling games, and more. The main event will be the juggling spectacular

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on Saturday night. Tickets are only $10 for a show that will have much more than just juggling. A revue of ten different international clown acts will be sure to entertain. At Pratt Memorial Hall Saturday at 7:30pm. $10. See the full schedule. Pratt Institute, 200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn. Free Shabbat Saturdays at the JCC The JCC is sharing the idea of Shabbat with the entire NYC community. Shabbat, the day of rest, is a time to unplug and relax with your family, something everyone could use a little more of, regardless of religion. The JCC is opening their doors on Saturdays from 3-5pm and filling it with free fun, relaxing, family activities. There'll be free play, game room, art projects, rooftop playground, storytelling and a special family-friendly one-hour performance of Carmen by Opera on Tap Jr. at 2:30pm followed by an interactive workshop for kids aged 5 and up to create their own mini-opera with help from artists from the show. There will also be adult only activities for some adult relaxation while your children are frolicking. See the whole schedule. The Craic Festival hosts a FREE event for the kids with a film shorts program which includes Irish language and animated shorts. There will be a reception following the screening with FREE popcorn & Goody Bags! Saturday March 8, 2008 12pm at Mercury Lounge(Houston and Ave A.) Family Finance 101 TONYKids is hosting a family finance event at the new Museum of American Finance. There will be presentations by experts on the particular financial issues families face plus activities for children 5 and up. Saturday at 11am. 48 Wall Street. Color Me Mine 101 Dalmations Party Today, Friday, March 7th, from 4pm to 7pm, Color Me Mine Tribeca, the paint your own pottery place, will host a Walt Disney 101 Dalmatians Party with special guest, the North Shore Animal League and their Mobile Adoption Unit. Paint a clay Cruella or Dalmation, have Pizza, Dalmatian Cupcakes, and enjoy face painting, tattoos and games. Also the first 25 kids to enter the party will receive a free 101 Dalmatians Platinum Edition DVD. More special give-aways for everyone who adopts a pet. Call 212-941-0120 to reserve; Cost for painting $20, other items noted above FREE MORE: Don't forget to check our calendar in the left sidebar for events going on this weekend that we've written about previously. Just click on any date to see all the posts that have events happening on that day.