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Through Saturday, December 24
Grand Central Holiday Fair
Various times
Grand Central Terminal
All Ages
Grand Central Terminal’s annual Holiday Fair is back and better than ever! It’s the perfect place to find holiday gifts – there will be art, clothing, handbags, jewelry and other accessories for men and women, food, bath and body items, collectible toys, holiday items and home goods. The 2016 fair will feature 40 artists, craftspeople and local businesses.
Friday, November 18
Scavenger Hunt Challenge: Literacy Detectives
3:30pm
Tompkins Square Library
Ages 5 and up
Here’s your chance to be a detective! Young literary detectives search for clues around the library to solve the mysterious riddle at the Scavenger Hunt Challenge: Literacy Detectives event. Your little Sherlock Holmes will learn about the library and improve his or her literacy skills in an entertaining and fun way. May the best investigator win!
Boro-Linc Brooklyn: WeBop: ABC’s of Jazz
6:30pm-8:30pm
Center for Family Life at PS 503/506
Ages 8 months-5 years
Children can explore the ABCs of Jazz while they boogie-woogie to their favorite nursery rhymes, blow the horn like Louis Armstrong, and jam with a live quartet. This performance is sure to have the family grooving to smooth melodies all night! Registration is required.
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Saturday, November 19-Sunday, November 20
Gotham Groove
10am (Saturday)-6pm (Sunday)
Museum of the City of New York
All Ages
In honor of the grand opening of its new permanent exhibit, “New York At Its Core,” the Museum of the City of New York will host Gotham Groove, a round-the-clock 32-hour celebration! All ages are invited to view the 400 objects which capture the growth and transformation of the city over the course of its four centuries. There will also be live musical performances, a silent disco dance party, dance lessons, yoga sessions, film screenings, and more. Please note: Advance registration is required. General admission tickets are free. Special performance tickets may require a fee.
Sunday, November 20
“The Door Was Open”
2pm
Flushing Town Hall
Ages 8 and up
This Sunday the Messenger Theatre Company will present a research and development workshop for its upcoming production, “The Door Was Open.” Families with children ages 8 and up can make newspaper costumes, see the first quarter of the play, and learn how staging, costumes, choreography, plot points and characters were developed during the production’s genesis. Based on the paintings of Remedios Varo, and described as a darker version of “Alice in Wonderland,” “The Door Was Open” explores the dangers of imagination and creativity.
