This document outlines various cultural events and activities for children and teenagers in New York City occurring over the weekend and the following week. Highlights include a Purim celebration at the YIVO Institute, a Jedi academy event at Symphony Space, and a performance of 'The Ugly Duckling' at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Additionally, it features the Tilt Kids Festival focusing on themes of inclusion and tolerance, showcasing various performances and workshops.

1. Our guidebook to cultural situations in New York City for youngsters and teenagers occurring this weekend and
from the week in advance.
Little ones’S Working day at the Center for Jewish Background (March seventeen, 11 a.m.-one p.m.). While some
religious holiday seasons are significant and somber, Purim isn’t. Commemorating the foiling of a plot against the
Jews in historic Persia, this 24-hour observance (commencing this 12 months at sundown on Wednesday) requires
dramatic skits, pleased feasting and boisterous celebration — all of which younger visitors can look ahead to in
certain type at this free of charge Purim-themed celebration. Offered by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Study, the
pleasurable will incorporate a singalong of Yiddish folks tunes (lyrics might be furnished), a magic demonstrate by
Shane Baker, festive treats plus a general performance of “Lyzer the Miser,” a puppet adaptation from Fantastic
Tiny Will work of the story by Isaac Bashevis Singer. In the tale, a clever guy outwits a stingy a single, a plot greatly
in keeping with the spirit of the vacation.212-246-6080, yivo.org
JUST KIDDING: ‘JEDI ACADEMY’ at Symphony Space (March 16, eleven a.m.). Though Obi-Wan Kenobi is now not
all over to teach aspiring Jedi masters, David Engel has taken up the sword — or, alternatively, the lightsaber.
Showing up as Panniken Moonjumper, Engel provides a show that combines wide comedy, many movement (for
younger viewers customers along with himself), “Star Wars” lore and, of course, classes in lightsaber procedure
and in utilizing the Power. He encourages all aspiring Jedi knights to come back to the general performance
dressed as a favourite character from one of the films. (Tickets are restricted.)212-864-5400, symphonyspace.org
‘OLIVE PEARL’ at BAM Fisher (March fifteen and 18, 10:thirty and eleven:45 a.m.; March sixteen-seventeen, 11 a.m.).
Grandmothers don’t get Considerably spryer than Pearl. She twirls about the stage, does the jig, builds fires and
embarks on an imaginary journey for the moon with her granddaughter, Olive, in this presentation from
Treehouse Shakers, a corporation specializing in dance theater for that youthful. Published and directed by Mara
McEwin and choreographed by Emily Bunning, the clearly show welcomes its supposed viewers — These ages two
to 5 — into an intimate, homey atmosphere that’s also populated by puppets, between them a mouse, a fish and
fairies. (The business will supply an hourlong relatives puppetry workshop, which demands a individual admission
rate, at 12:fifteen p.m. on Saturday.) Incorporating Anthony Rizzo’s Are living Irish fiddle and bluegrass tunes, the
creation gives comfortable performances (Friday and Monday at 11:forty five a.m.) for children about the autism
spectrum or with other disabilities.718-636-4100, bam.org/oliveandpearl
‘SHENANIGANS! IRISH CELEBRATION’ at the Actors Temple Theater (March 16, 3:30 p.m.; March seventeen, eleven
a.m.). These are definitely the kind of shenanigans during which youngsters ten and youthful can properly take
part. Combining shamrocks, superheroes, spying plus a smidgen of feminism — March is Ladies’s Heritage Month
— this generation from Funikijam Globe Audio characteristics the corporate’s very first female lead, Ashton
Parrack. She portrays Captain Jam, head of an espionage group on a St. Patrick’s Working day mission. Prepared
by Brian Barrentine, the creator of Funikijam, which offers entire world-tunes lessons and programs for youngsters,
the hourlong show claims Celtic lore and track, along with fancy footwork from your Aherne Sheehan College of
Irish Dance.347-913-5267, funikijam.com
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TAP EXPLORATIONS: ‘REMEMBERING MABLE LEE’ in the American Tap Dance Centre (March 16, 5 p.m.). Young
children don’t really need to know who Mable Lee was to get a kick — or possibly lots of kicks — out of the
program. Portion of Faucet Explorations, a whole new family series from the American Faucet Dance Foundation,
this function will celebrate Lee, an extraordinary performer who died very last month at 97 — and was happily
hoofing as lately as July. The sequence, which incorporates movie clips, discussions and demonstrations by artists
like the Faucet City Youth Ensemble, also incorporates viewers participation, so use your dancing shoes. (An
R.S.V.P. is requested.)646-230-9564, atdf.org
TILT Children FESTIVAL at various spots (by March 31). If this monthlong occasion hasn’t already presented Your

2. sons or daughters new angles from which to look at the whole world, they continue to have time to dive in.
Introduced with the Cultural Products and services of the French Embassy and the French Institute Alliance
Française, the festival this year focuses on inclusion and tolerance. Witness “Adaku’s Revolt,” on the Abrons Arts
Middle, which plays on Fridays at six:30 p.m., Saturdays at 3 and six:thirty p.m., and Sundays at three p.m., by
means of March 24. Commissioned with the French Institute within the Nigerian-American MacArthur fellow
Okwui Okpokwasili, who also stars in it, this drama chronicles a black girl’s rebellion towards things to do Western
ideas of elegance. Adaku, whose title means “just one who brings prosperity for the family” inside the Igbo
language, views her unstraightened hair as a type of cultural richness. Created and directed by Peter Born, the
display celebrates her individuality with no reducing the battle it entails. The Tilt agenda also incorporates far
more theater (March 23-31) and also a absolutely free system that is offered in English but looks quintessentially
French: Philosophy for children (March 24). tiltkidsfestival.org
‘THE UGLY DUCKLING’ in the Borough of Manhattan Neighborhood College Tribeca Performing Arts Heart (March
16, eleven a.m.). The titular character of the Hans Christian Andersen adaptation positively glows — and not
Simply because he eventually discovers that he’s genuinely a beautiful swan. Lightwire Theater, the present’s
production enterprise, builds puppets from recycled supplies like aluminum rods, skateboard wheels, fishing rod
and cloth, and defines these sculptures’ outlines and features with electroluminescent wire. Dancers manipulate
the battery-driven creations in total darkness to new music that ranges from classical to pop. The result is often a
style of neon ballet.212-220-1460, tribecapac.org