Weekend Planner: September 6-8

Just because Labor Day has come and gone doesn’t mean you can’t still have tons of fun. This weekend, look forward to the ever-popular West Side County Fair, a sweet honey fest, the festive Chinatown Moon Festival & Parade, and much more family fun. Enjoy!

Enjoy the last of the warm weather with an outdoor concert with family-friendly bluegrass tunes from Astrograss, loved for her wicked sense of humor. Don’t forget the picnic blanket! (Friday)

“Taliesin” revives a Welsh tale of sorcery, kings, and heroes with puppets and masks in a creative performance at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Dive in! (Friday-Sunday)

Love theater? Love discounts? 20at20, inwhich Off-Broadway shows release tickets for just $20, is back through September 22. Here’s the scoop. (Friday-Sunday)

Celebrate all things honey at the New York City Honey Festival, which brings honey and dessert tastings, candle making, hive demos, and more to Rockaway Beach. Sweeeet. (Saturday)

In the market for a new bike? The Brooklyn Bike Jumble is a bycicle-centric flea market featuring awesome deals for new and used wheels in JJ Byrne/Washington Park. Happy shopping! (Saturday)

For healthy outdoor fun, join NYC-based dance company The Indie-Ballet with its interactive creative dance, musical, and yoga performances, hits week at the Target Brooklyn Community Garden. Get moving! (Saturday)

Get swept up into an adventure of live genies, disappearing castles, and flying carpets at Puppetworks’ “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” production. Magical! (Saturday & Sunday)

Go down the rabbit hole with Alice at The June Havoc Theatre as she meets a Cheshire Cat, goes to a mad tea party, and plays croquet with the Queen of Hearts in “Alice in Wonderland.” So trippy. (Saturday & Sunday)

Coney Island is arguably at its best in the early fall. This month, Luna Park is offers a special back-to-school promotion where good grades equal free rides. Learn More Here (Saturday & Sunday)

Come see Radio Disney and New York Familyat the big annual Third Avenue Community Benefit Festival. The lively street fair will run from 66th to 86th Streets from 12-5pm, featuring live entertainment, fun games, and tons of prizes the Radio Disney station between 80th and 81st Streets. New York Family will be located on that block too.  Please come by and nominate your school–nursery through high school–for a Blackboard Award! (Sunday)

Riverside Park’s Westside County Fair is back with carnival rides, reptile shows, aerialists, live music, green activities, and other performances galore. Best goodbye to summer ever! (Sunday)

With street dance performances, kicking shuttlecock fun, lantern making, and a children’s parade, there’s nothing not to love about Chinatown’s Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Get cultured! (Sunday)

Grandparents Day at The DiMenna Children’s History Museum means intergenerational fun in scavenger hunts and collaborative poetry. Yay for bonding. (Sunday)

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Adventuring Portal

<p><a name="m_-1473885667065203258__Hlk72147528"></a>Adventuring Portal runs Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) games for kids.   We have created a safe online space for tweens and teens to learn and play D&D.</p> <p>Our D&D Summer Camp session are a one-week experience.  Monday – Friday.  Each day will be 3 hours of gaming (with 2 breaks build in).  15 total gaming hours for $180.  If you have played with us before, you are entitled to 10% off.   </p> <p>Need your kids, nieces or nephews, grand kids or neighbor’s kids to be occupied for a bit so you can get work done & take care of your to-do list? Maybe your tween or teen is still a bit isolated and craves connection with their peers? Whether your teen/tween has played D&D before or is brand-new to the experience, this safe space brings players together to have fun and solve problems as a team in ways few other online opportunities do.</p> <p>All our games focus on experiential learning.   Our players leave knowing all the basic game play as well as experiencing: teamwork, bravery, compassion, generosity, negotiation, improvisation, gamer etiquette, strategy, critical thinking, problem solving, cartography and probability - all through online D&D adventuring!</p> <p>We are an inclusive organization and welcome gamers who are LGBTQIA+ and those on any spectrum. </p> <p>All girls’ groups available. </p> <p>I am a parent, a certified elementary school and middle school math teacher and last summer in the midst of the mess started Adventuring Portal, an online Dungeons & Dragons business for kids. There are so many benefits to playing D&D and I hope you will consider us as a great way for your child to safely socialize, grow as people and have a great time.</p>

HudsonWay Immersion School

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