Free Family Events This Weekend! (July 14-16)

The 2017 Rubin Block Party will take place this Sunday at The Rubin Museum! Photo via rubinmuseum.org.

Have an amazing weekend without opening your wallet! For even more activity inspiration, check out our Weekend Planner.

Through Sunday, August 13

Shakespeare in the Park: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
8pm
Central Park
All Ages
Reserve your seat for one of Shakespeare’s most magical plays, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” A magical sprite meddles in a love catastrophe worth many laughs–just don’t drink that love potion! Tickets are distributed on the morning of the performance and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Saturday, July 15

City of Water Day 2017
10am-4pm
Various locations throughout NYC
All Ages
Hop on a boat during the 10th annual City Of Water Day Festival! This family-friendly event takes place along the New York and New Jersey waterfronts. As the region’s largest harbor festival, the celebrations span from Governors Island to Maxwell Place Park in Hoboken, NJ, and dozens of other locations in the New York Harbor. Enjoy free boat tours on small and large vessels, including tall ships and tugboats; kayak, paddle, and row; and be sure not to miss the children’s activities and Waterfront Activity Fair, which are lots of fun for the whole family.

Sprinkler Day
1-3pm
Asphalt Green (Upper East Side location)
All Ages
This Saturday, get some relief from the summer heat during Asphalt Green’s annual Sprinkler Day. Starting at 1pm, your kids can frolic in the sprinkler spray on the outdoor field of the center’s Upper East Side campus. Don’t forget to bring a towel and be sure to grab a free frozen treat on your way out!

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LC Kids Dance with Dancing Classrooms
3pm
Damrosch Park
Ages 6-10
Whether they are tentative tango-ers or mamba masters, your kids will love this dance class in the park. Dancing Classrooms provides some inspirational teachers and after teaching everyone a few moves, the crowd gets to boogie down together.

Sunday, July 16

Music in the Grove on Sunday: Rozz and Val Show
11am-12pm
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
Ages 0-8
Spend your afternoon in the park grooving to the tunes of the Rozz and Val Show in Fort Greene Park. Pack a picnic lunch and spread a blanket on the grass while your kids enjoy dancing to music catered to ages 0-8.

2017 Rubin Block Party: Sounds of the Street
1-4pm
The Rubin Museum
All Ages
Join The Rubin Museum this Sunday for its epic Block Party! The museum will celebrate its latest exhibit “The World is Sound” with an afternoon of free family-friendly activities, live performances, and food. Children can get creative with arts and crafts, participate in museum tours and family gallery searches, dance during a silent disco, and relax during an outdoor family yoga session. There will also be performances from The Blue Angels Drumline, poets John Giorno and Tenzin Dickie, and others. Museum admission will be free for the day. This event will be held rain or shine.

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Broadway Dance Center Children and Teens

With more than 35 years of experience, Broadway Dance Center Children &amp; Teens provides young movers ages 3-18 with exceptional training. BDC delivers the finest all-around dance experience for students by offering a wide variety of styles and levels, performance opportunities, and the highest caliber dance instruction that only New York City and BDC Children &amp; Teens can provide. This studio is so much more than a training course for young dancers; it is a diverse, family-friendly community for budding creatives. It has an exemplary faculty who follow the vision to not only develop a dancer&rsquo;s love and ability in dance, but to do so in a nurturing and supportive way.

Asphalt Green

Asphalt Green&rsquo;s high-quality sports programs start at 4 months old. Two beautiful facilities in vibrant Manhattan neighborhoods provide the optimal space for children to learn the fundamentals, play for leisure, or compete at the highest level. As the leading sports and fitness facility in Manhattan, Asphalt Green&rsquo;s never-before- seen training methods focus on improving your mental and physical game. Whether participating in swim, soccer, flag football, martial arts, basketball, baseball, tennis, or volleyball, coaches instill values that set athletes up for success in life and bring out their full potential in sports.

The School at the Mark Morris Dance Center

The School at the Mark Morris Dance Center offers year-round, community-based dance and music programming in a fully inclusive and nurturing environment, located in the heart of the Brooklyn Cultural District. The School&rsquo;s diverse and professional faculty provides progressive and non-competitive instruction with all of our classes accompanied by live music. Though we are a non-recital school, there are opportunities for students to perform and for parents to see their dancers in action.