Kids Culture 01.26.17
Watermill Center Family Day
For kids, this will be a big weekend for arts and cultural activities. On Saturday afternoon from 1 to 4, the Watermill Center will opens its doors to families, with music and movement workshops for ages 7 to 12 scheduled with past and current artists-in-residence. The Family Day activities are free, but advance registration is required at watermillcenter.org. The artists on hand will include Brune Charvin, a filmmaker, Khesrau Behroz, a writer, and Kate Eberstadt, a composer, who recently collaborated on the Hutto Project, a music and education program for children in a refugee camp in Berlin. In a class with Matty Davis, a dancer, visual artists, and athlete who is the director of BOOMERANG, a dance/performance project, kids will move in fun and challenging ways on their own and in groups. Children who attend Saturday’s activities must be accompanied by an adult.
Parrish’s Student Exhibition
The Parrish Art Museum’s annual Student Exhibition, with work by kids from 38 schools and many more who took part in programs with artists whose work was at the museum this fall, will open on Saturday with two receptions: one for younger students from 1 to 3 p.m. and a high-school artists’ reception from 3 to 5 p.m.
All told, more than 1,000 young artists are included in the show, many of them inspired by unique techniques of the museum’s artists-in-residence, Suzanne Anker, Anne Bae, Monica Banks, Ben Butler, and Saskia Friedrich. Elementary and middle school students submitted group projects for the show, while high school students will show individual works. The older students will be recognized on Feb. 11 with awards in a variety of disciplines from costume design to painting. The show will be on view through Feb. 26. Admission is free to all the young artists and their families. During that time there will be films, art workshops, and family programs on Fridays.
“Taken together, the exhibition gives an overview of the high level of creativity and accomplishment achieved in the schools,” the museum said in a press release.
In the first of the museum’s family night programs, on Friday, Feb. 3, from 6 to 8 p.m., participants will create drawing machines called Doodle Bots, using small electric motors and found materials. Advance registration has been requested.
Art, Theater, and Guild Hall
At Guild Hall on Saturday, Tsipi Ben-Haim will lead a free Pieces for Peace art workshop for middle schoolers from 1 to 3 p.m. The executive and creative director of CITYarts will guide students to make works that answer the question: “What does peace look like to you?” Their work will then be on display in the museum’s Boots Lamb Education Center through Feb. 20.
Advance registration is required.
Starting on Monday, Guild Hall and Our Fabulous Variety Show will present From Page to Stage, after-school acting workshops for ages 7 to 18.
Kids 12 to 18 will meet weekly through March 27 from 4:30 to 6:15; 7 to 11-year-olds take over from 6:45 to 7:15. There will be no workshops on Feb. 20. The workshops will introduce and build upon foundational acting and improv skills, while also allowing kids to reflect on “what it means to be a theater-maker and an active, engaged citizen in society,” according to a release. They will create original plays and stories and present them in a performance in the John Drew Theater on April 19. The cost is $295, $290 for members of Guild Hall. Registration is required in advance with Jennifer Brondo at 631-324-4051.
Young Cowgirls
Sign-up is underway for a Young Cowgirls journaling, theater, and empowerment workshop for girls, starting next month at Guild Hall. Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls will lead the workshops for girls 8 to 12 on Tuesdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m., between Feb. 28 to May 4, to provide “a creative outlet to bravely engage and encourage” the young voices. The cost is $230, with scholarships available. Inquiries can be emailed to [email protected]. Those wishing to sponsor a child for the workshop can contact Ms. Mueth at 631-748-8307.
Homework Help
The East Hampton Library will offer young adults an in-depth look at all the homework-help options available to them through the library during Homework Help Crash Courses on Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. For those who may not know, the library offers access to free online tutoring with real teachers, a 14-hour online writing lab and question center, online databases, and ebooks and magazines, among other things. Kids can sign up in advance or just drop in on Saturday or Sunday. The family movies at the library this week are “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events” today at 4 p.m. and “The Princess and the Frog,” next Thursday at the same time. On Friday, Feb. 3, kids 5 and older can use organic ingredients to make bath bombs.
Science of Snow
Parents of 3-to-6-year-olds can explore the science of snow on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Children’s Museum of the East End, turning a few basic ingredients into the perfect stuff for a snowball. The cost is $19 including museum admission, $5 for members.
The museum’s Pizza and Pajama Night on Friday, Feb. 3, will include a reading of Caralyn Buehner’s “Snowmen at Night” and a snowman craft, not to mention pizza. The fun happens from 6 to 7:30 and costs $12. Members get in free. Advance registration is required.
Fold a Friend
Across the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike from CMEE, at the South Fork Natural History Museum, families with children 6 and older can beat the winter doldrums by making origami animals on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. There is a $3 materials fee in addition to museum entry.
Silk Painting
The Montauk Library will host a Chinese silk painting workshop in celebration of the Chinese New Year on Saturday from 2 to 3 p.m. The workshop is for kids in kindergarten and above and there is space for just 25 participants.