Kids Culture 01.14.16
Student Art Show Opens
The first part of Guild Hall’s annual Student Arts Festival, featuring work by students in kindergarten through eighth grade, will open on Saturday. The colorful showcase of student talent will be on view through Feb. 21.
The museum is open Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5. There will be free open studio time for children up to eighth grade all day on Saturdays and Sundays. A reception is planned for Jan. 23.
PechaKucha for Teens
The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is planning a teen version of its popular lightning-round PechaKucha talks in February and is accepting applications through tomorrow from teens interested in presenting 20 slides, each of which they can discuss for 20 seconds.
Ten teens will be chosen to present talks on Feb. 26. To submit an entry, prospective speakers have been asked to send three sample images in JPG format, along with a one-paragraph description of the presentation topic, by email to [email protected]. Applicants must include the name of the school they attend and their grade level.
Live From the Red Planet
Families can get an inside look at Martian landscapes and the work of NASA’s Curiosity Rover during a presentation this afternoon at 4 at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton. Horton Newsom, a professor of geochemistry and Mars Science Laboratory researcher, will join participants via Skype for a discussion about the Red Planet, and kids will get to watch a live video feed from the planet’s surface. The cost is $10 and includes museum entry. Members get in free.
On Saturday at the museum, kids 3 to 7 can listen to a reading of Wong Herbert Yee’s “Tracks in the Snow” at 10 a.m. and then learn how to make air-dry clay “tracks.” The program costs $17 including admission, $5 for members.
Reservations are required for both.
Yellowgold Alights
Morgan Taylor’s “Gustafer Yellowgold,” a multimedia performance centered on a creature who comes to Earth from the sun, will land at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 11 a.m. The production is part of the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre productions and is ideal for children of all ages. Tickets cost $15 through the Bay Street box office.
On Sunday at 2 p.m., the theater will screen the 2015 animated film “Inside Out,” about a girl whose emotions are all conflicted after a move to a new city. Tickets cost $5.
Library Action
Fiorella Vassallo, a local artist, will work with kids at the Montauk Library on Saturday at 2 p.m. to create a kid-size winter wonderland mural that will be displayed through the rest of the season. Those wishing to take part must register in advance with the circulation desk and wear painting clothes.
At the Amagansett Library, kids can speak up and speak out during a Lions Roar story time on Saturday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. After a reading of Michelle Knudsen’s “Library Lion,” kids will work on a craft celebrating Martin Luther King’s Birthday. Materials for a drop-in paper flower craft will be on hand at the library all day on Sunday.
The East Hampton Library has three movies on the schedule for the younger set this weekend. The classic “Mary Poppins” will be screened for families this afternoon at 4:30. On Tuesday there will be a teen screening of “Avatar” in 3-D at 4 p.m. Next Thursday, families can get lost in “Tangled” at 4:30 p.m.
Kids in grades six through eight can enjoy cupcakes while chatting about new books during a book club gathering on Wednesday at 4:45 p.m.