Kids Culture 06.29.17
The Joys of Music
The Ellen Johansen Music Studio in East Hampton has two new classes starting next week to introduce young children and toddlers to the joys of music. Family Music: Playing Outdoors will run on Wednesdays or Fridays from next week through Aug. 24, with classes from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. for families with children between 1 and 4 years old. Families can try out a first class on Wednesday or Friday, July 7, for $25.
Baby’s Musical World, a class for parents or caregivers and babies up to 15 months old, will teach parents about “creating a fun musical environment” on Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. starting next week.
The cost for a series of eight classes is $250, including home materials. Families can try out a class next Thursday for $20. The studio is at 8 Stratton Square. Registration is required and can be done online at ellenjohansenmusicstudio.com or by phone at 631-324-9648.
Cartooning With Spacek
Cartooning in the style of Charles Addams, creator of the much-loved Addams Family characters, will be the focus of two weeklong workshops for kids 7 and up at the Bridgehampton Museum. Peter Spacek, an artist and illustrator who is also The Star’s cartoonist, will lead the workshops at the museum’s archives building in Bridgehampton. There will be two sessions: the first from July 10 through 14 and the second from Aug. 7 to 11, both running daily from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The cost is $225, and advance registration is required at 631-537-1088 or by email to [email protected]. A show of student work will take place at the end of each session.
CMEE’s Morning Kids Club
There are so many classes and workshops happening at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton this summer that it would be hard to list them all. Suffice it to say that no fewer than a dozen new offerings are on the schedule next week for kids ranging in age from 2 months to 16 years old, most of them for kids 5 and under, with more being added the week after that.
A morning kids club for ages 3 and 4, early independence programs for 2-year-olds, gardening, yoga, cooking, and clay play are just some of what’s in store. Sessions tend to run for four to six weeks. Among the workshops is computer coding for ages 7 to 16, which will teach the fundamentals of computer programming by building games, websites, apps, and robots. This one meets on Mondays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and costs $75 per class.
Another interesting one: a farm-to-table program at Bridge Gardens in Bridgehampton for parents and children 2 to 4 covering the basics of the plant life cycle and sustainable gardening, with songs and stories thrown in. It meets Tuesdays starting next week from 9:15 to 10 a.m. and costs $260 for four classes, $190 for museum members.
On Friday, July 7, parents can drop kids 3 and older at the museum for an evening dance party from 5:30 to 8 while they hit the town on their own. The cost, which includes dinner, is $55 per child and $25 for each additional sibling, $40 and $20 for members.
A more complete list of classes and workshops can be found in the children’s listings in today’s arts section or online at cmee.org.
To the Bay Street Stage
Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor has a multitude of children and teen theater programs heading to its stage in July and August. The first, My Life: the Musical, for ages 9 to 12, runs from July 10 through 14. Working with Kristen Poulakis, students will develop original scripts and receive instruction in acting, singing, dancing, and musical theater history each day from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Another session for that age group will run from Aug. 14 to 18, and one for younger would-be thespians age 7 to 9 will be held from July 17 through 21.
The summer schedule also includes Shakespeare workshops for ages 7 to 9 and 9 to 12, an introduction to theater arts for ages 4 to 7, puppetry for ages 4 to 7, and weeklong scene work and costume design workshops for teens. Bay Street will also hold single-day teen master classes in improvisation, audition techniques, singing, acting, dancing, and Shakespearean verse.
The cost for weeklong programs is $475 for one week, $850 for two, and $1,000 for three. Teen classes start at $125 for one class, $220 for two, and $325 for three. Advance registration is a must and can be done online at baystreet.org.
Hands-On 3-D Printing
At the Montauk Library next Thursday, kids 7 to 15 can try their hands at 3-D printing using the Tinkercad website and the library’s 3-D printer from 4 to 5 p.m. A program on Friday, July 7, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. will introduce all ages to bats and the importance of these flying creatures. There will be no live bats, but participants will head outside to see if they can find signs of them near the library.
Computer Coding Club
A computer coding club for ages 6 to 12 at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor will have its first meeting of the summer next Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m. Participants will learn the basics of coding as they play around on popular coding websites and will work individually or in groups. Prior experience is not necessary and laptops will be provided. Advance registration has been requested.
On Saturday, the library will bust out the same sort of green screen used to add adventure-packed backgrounds in the movies during a program for ages 3 to 6. Kids have been invited to dress in a superhero costume or borrow one from the library and see themselves soaring through a city, battling a villain, or working with other superheroes to save the day. The program runs from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m., and registration ahead of time has been requested.
Puppets, Circuits, and Beasts
At the East Hampton Library, kids 4 and older will make paper-bag puppets tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. A Pop Art portrait workshop for the same age group will take place on Wednesday at 4 p.m. Next Thursday at 3, kids 7 and older can learn the basics of electronics in a Snap Circuits workshop.
The first family movie of the summer, the 2017 version of “Beauty and the Beast,” will be shown at the library on Friday, July 7, at 2 p.m.