Events: Top Kid-Friendly Activities For The Week

Sonia De Los Santos will perform this Saturday during Spring Family Day at Carnegie Hall! Photo by Jason Arber via Flickr.

With spring winding down and summer just around the corner (one month away as of Friday!), the city’s family-friendly events kick into high gear. This weekend boasts a teen night at the most famous museum in town, a Disney movie concert with one of the world’s best symphonies, a stupendous spring family day, a dance celebration for the ages, and a movie-lovers fest in Queens. Enjoy!

Friday, May 20

Teen Night: Teens Take the Met!
Metropolitan Museum of Art
5pm-8pm
Teens ages 13 through 18 can stop by the Met this Friday evening for a night of art, performances, music, craft-making, and more! This free event will feature a dance party with Abby the DJ, a modern dance workshop with Mark Morris Dance Group, a Shakespeare rap battle with TITAN Theatre Company, and poetry and songwriting workshops. This event is free for middle school and high school students with a valid student ID.

Friday, May 20-Saturday, May 21

Disney’s “Fantasia” Live in Concert
Lincoln Center
Friday: 7pm; Saturday: 1pm & 7pm
Love Disney films and live classical music? Then head to Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall this weekend to see the New York Philharmonic Orchestra perform music from Disney’s “Fantasia” and “Fantasia 2000.” Scenes from both movies will be displayed above the orchestra creating a live concert experience unlike any other. Families with children ages 4 and up will enjoy the music of Beethoven, Stravinsky, Debussy, Tchaikovsky, and others. Tickets start at $45.

Saturday, May 21

Spring Family Day
Carnegie Hall
12pm-4pm
Carnegie Hall will host its Spring Family Day this Saturday! During this fun-filled afternoon kids can participate in songwriting workshops, create and play their own instruments, listen to musical stories, explore a digital musical playground, and more. There will also be performances by Sonia De Los Santos, Elena Moon Park, and The Itty Biddies! Recommended for ages 3 through 10. This event is free; reservations are required.

10th Annual Dance Parade & Festival
Parade: 21st Street & Broadway; Festival: Tompkins Square Park
1pm-7pm
Boogie on down and celebrate the rich tradition of dance! The 10th Annual Dance Parade shakes, twists and slides through NYC streets as parade participants showcase traditional forms of dance as well as modern and contemporary moves. Starting at East 21st Street and Broadway, the parade will go down University Place to 8th Street, where a turn east will bring it to its final destination, Tompkins Square Park. Join the myriad of dance groups and companies that will dance in the parade, or come watch and cheer from the sidelines. This year’s grand marshals include street dancers Kwikstep and Rokafella and Tony and Olivier award winner Garth Fagen. This event is free.

Sunday, May 22

New York on Location: Street Fair and Celebration
Various locations throughout Queens
11am-5pm
Go behind-the-scenes of the motion picture industry with the Museum of the Moving Image, Theatrical Teamsters Local 817, and Kaufman Astoria Studios during New York On Location. This day-long street fair will show visitors how movie magic is created and grant access to star dressing rooms, special effects trucks, hair & makeup trailers, and more. Plus, stunt performers will demonstrate street fighting and other tricks of the trade! Food will be available for purchase from movie catering trucks. Admission is free.

Instituto Cervantes

Children and teenagers learn to understand and express themselves in Spanish, while improving their communication skills through a dynamic immersion program taught by NATIVE TEACHERS that combines CLASSES, ARTISTIC WORKSHOPS and FUN ACTIVITIES! All of our high-qualified teachers are native Spanish speakers who adapt the structure of the class to the needs and levels of each group while conducting the classes entirely in Spanish. We offer both Spanish Summer Camps and Regular Courses for children along the year to foster language learning and multicultural understanding.

The Language Workshop For Children

After offering both group and private lessons for many years and analyzing the results over&nbsp;time, The&nbsp;Language Workshop for&nbsp;Children, founded&nbsp;in1973, has decided&nbsp;to emphasize private remote lessons at shorter intervals.&nbsp;Our skilled educators&nbsp;will&nbsp;focus their attention exclusively on the&nbsp;unique needs, learning style, and interests of your child.&nbsp;This allows a&nbsp;bond&nbsp;to develop&nbsp;between teacher and student, which&nbsp;has been&nbsp;shown to&nbsp;drastically improve retention.&nbsp; OUR METHOD&nbsp; Developed by the pioneers of language education for children, our programs bring decades of&nbsp;experience to your living room with individualized, active language classes. Each lesson is based on proven methods and materials perfected to capture your&nbsp;child&rsquo;s attention during the ages when he/she absorbs information the fastest. &nbsp;&nbsp; While other online language classes rely on videos for passive learning, we deliver interactive, and engaging lessons with native-fluent teachers. In addition, all our teachers are certified in the Thibaut&nbsp;Technique which has been featured&nbsp;in the New York&nbsp;Times, the&nbsp;Wall Street Journal, and many other well-respected&nbsp;publications.&nbsp;&nbsp; Our short one-on-one lessons give kids the chance to focus, hear pronunciation clearly, and practice speaking in their target language.  THE PROCESS&nbsp; First, students have a short meeting with our Director&nbsp;Francois&nbsp;Thibaut, in&nbsp;English, with&nbsp;their parent(s)&nbsp;present.&nbsp;Mr. Thibaut&nbsp;will determine&nbsp;the best course of study, including&nbsp;class length and&nbsp;frequency, the&nbsp;right&nbsp;teacher, lesson&nbsp;format and materials (or action games for younger students.) Then the learning&nbsp;begins!&nbsp;Mr. Thibaut will continually check in on your child&rsquo;s learning to assure they are getting the most&nbsp;of&nbsp;their&nbsp;classes.&nbsp; OTHER OFFERINGS&nbsp; We can also help your child prepare for: the French subject tests for SAT, AP &amp; CLEP, the European DELF/DALF, the Canadian TEF and other standardized testing, college entry exams, studying or traveling abroad,&nbsp;cultural changes when moving abroad,&nbsp;and much more!&nbsp; &nbsp;

Monster Mini Golf

Upon entering Monster Mini Golf, all perceptions of traditional mini golf will be spirited away by the indoor, 18-hole, monster-theme, glow-in-the-dark miniature golf course! The locations in <a href="https://monsterminigolf.com/deerpark/">Deer Park</a>, and <a href="https://monsterminigolf.com/gardencity/">Garden City, NY</a> invite guests to experience a host of family-oriented fun activities. Whether visiting for the first time or the one hundredth, mini golfers feel the excitement and adventure of playing mini golf amidst spooktacular monsters and custom, glow-in-the-dark, hand-painted artwork. While testing their skill on the fairways, lively music flows over the course from the unique &ldquo;WEIRD Radio&rdquo; station&rdquo; and an interactive DJ entertains golfers with contests, awarding cool prizes for the wackiest reasons. While the course is challenging enough for adults, it is also quite playable for children. Monster Mini Golf is open year-round and frightfully fun for the entire family. In addition to miniature golf and thrilling arcade and redemption games, the locations offer additional attractions. <a href="https://monsterminigolf.com/deerpark/">Monster Mini Golf in Deer Park, NY</a> offers a Laser Maze and a Virtual Reality experience. The Garden City location offers a Laser Maze, Bowling, and a Virtual Reality Experience. Two very posh, private party rooms are also available and are perfect for any event. Monster Mini Golf looks forward to making it a monstrous success. Monster Mini Golf is indoors, ensuring that the event will always take place, regardless of the weather. It is a climate-controlled, affordable source of family entertainment. For more details please visit <a href="http://monsterminigolf.com">monsterminigolf.com</a> or find them on Facebook.