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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Joe's Music & Dance Academy

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" data-sheets-value="{" data-sheets-userformat="{">Private and group music lessons & dance classes for Guitar, Bass, Voice, Violin, Viola, Cello, Upright Bass, Drums, Piano, all woodwind & brass instruments, Choir, Preschool Dance, Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Tap, Step, African and Modern Dance and more. Helping thousands of students begin and continue on their musical journey since 1998!</span></p>

The School at the Mark Morris Dance Center

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" data-sheets-value="{" data-sheets-userformat="{">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’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.</span></p>

Cucu's PlayHouse

<div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: #ffffff;">Interactive, live-streaming music and movement class in Spanish for babies, toddlers and preschoolers!<br />Join us every day from Monday through Saturday at 1:30 pm EST to sing, dance and play together while learning Spanish from your home.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: #ffffff;"> </div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: #ffffff;">This class is part of a Spanish Immersion Program where your child will be introduced to basic concepts like the animals, colors, numbers and letters. All of these through the universal language of Music. Each session is fun, interactive and engaging.<br />A selection of Children Songs in Spanish guides the class from start to finish. Activities are related to the lyrics, in order to familiarize the children with the words and their meanings. Some of the songs encourage the children to dance. Nilda uses puppets, musical instruments, and props to teach children basic vocabulary through action and interaction, rather than through translation.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: #ffffff;"><br />The classes are streamed on Zoom's webinar platform. Participants (children, parents, nannies) are able to join the video from their homes and interact with us in real-time, it is a fun and engaging experience.</div>