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Program Name | Performer / Company | Virtual | AudienceNum | Audience | Description | Last Modified |
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Music for Young Children | Dale Freeman | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Throughout New England - children, parents and librarians truly enjoy this program! (Read the outstanding reviews by librarians at Dale's website!) For over 10 years, Dale has performed his own songs...Full Description |
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A Little Groove Band | Little Groove Band, A | No | 1,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Performing Award-winning children's music (2008 NAPPA & Parents' ChoiceAwards), Little Groove is groovy, fun, educational music that includes a lotof audience participation. They will...Full Description |
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Cuba and the "Last" Baseball Season | 1945 | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | The story about the sacrifice Cuban baseball players and their families endured when professional baseball was abolished in Cuba by the Castro Regime in 1961....Full Description |
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Defining Moments | 1945 | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | A Cuban Exile Story about Discovery and the Search for a Better Life. Leaving Cuba as an unnacompanied fifteen year old, living in a refugee camp and foster homes and ultimately reunited with his parents...Full Description |
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Maggie's Juggling and Magic Show | 1966 | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | I love that what I do 100% versatile. I can perform for any age and incorporate entertainment suitable for that age. I can also perform OUT of make-up, although I wear VERY friendly and fun clown...Full Description |
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Magic and Juggling Show | 1966 | Yes | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | I offer a very fun, interactive action packed comedy magic and juggling show. I can perform as a clown or not. My clown show can also include a make up demo which the kids love as they get to...Full Description |
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A Cultural and Historical Reflection of the 1960s through the Music of The Beatles | 4EverFab | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Live musical performance integrated with spoken word narration that describes the relationship between the music of The Beatles and the culture of the 1960s. Each song in the program is selected for...Full Description |
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4th. St. String Band | 4th. st. string band | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | 4th.St.String Band, an acoustic quartet featuring guitar, twin fiddles, harmony vocals, bass, er-hu (chinese folk fiddle) & a variety of other unique instruments, enjoys playing everything from Celtic...Full Description |
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Spirit of Spain | Aaron Larget-Caplan | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Tour Spanish history, culture, and music with Aaron Larget-Caplan and his guitar. Students learn about the geography, literature and poetry, vocabulary and culture of Spain, as well as the building...Full Description |
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Music of the East & West | Aaron Larget-Caplan | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Music of the East & West From the songs of Schubert & Gershwin to myths and dances of contemporary Japan & India, Aaron explores the sounds, poetry and aesthetics of classical music...Full Description |
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Latin Travels | Aaron Larget-Caplan | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Latin Travels A rousing journey via music & poetry through wild jungles & rainforests, gorgeous cathedrals, & bustling colonial cities of Latin America with Aaron Larget-Caplan &...Full Description |
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Spirit of Spain, Guitar & Spanish dance | Aaron Larget-Caplan | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Spirit of Spain with ¡Con Fuego! Spanish history, culture & music are on display in this rousing & interactive performance by ¡Con Fuego! (With Fire!) Guitarist...Full Description |
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Lon Cerel's MAGIC-Palooza | Ab'cadabra Lon Cerel Magic Shows | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Family-fun magic show featuring comedy magic, audience participation and always a live bunny rabbit. Voted RI's Best Family Entertainment by the RI Parents' Paper Three years in a row!...Full Description |
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The Magic of Reading | Ab'cadabra Lon Cerel Magic Shows | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | The Magic of Reading promotes the FUN of recreational reading and the use of the library. Children's literature is used as a stepping-stone to each magical illusion. Utilizing the techniques of stage...Full Description |
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Pre-School MAGICpalooza | Ab'cadabra Lon Cerel Magic Shows | No | 3,4,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Adults (18+) | This program is specifically geared towards the creative imaginations of children 3 1/2 to 6 years oid. The show is replete with comedy, magic, tons of audience participation and always a live bunny...Full Description |
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Dance, Drum, Story | Abigail "Ifatola" Jefferson | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Through a unique blend of story, dance, song, and rhythm, Abigail brings to life traditional stories from around the globe with an emphasis on stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. Her performances...Full Description |
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Abigail Brings the Trail of Freedom to You | Abigail by Gail: A Colonial Experience | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Using the real experience's of a colonial family who is connected to many of the sites along Boston's Freedom Trail, each stop of the trail is both historical and personal. The trail is brought...Full Description |
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Abigail Whitney and Family: Eye-Witness to the Events of April 19th 1775 | Abigail by Gail: A Colonial Experience | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn about the personal experiences Abigail and her family had on the day America's Revolution began. What was it like for her to have her home invaded by the British soldiers and for her husband...Full Description |
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Colonial Life for the 18th Century Family: The Tools of Survival | Abigail by Gail: A Colonial Experience | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Using primary sources such as the probate inventory and family account, this program explores how Abigail provides for her family. What can her husband produce at home and what does she need from...Full Description |
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Music of Colonial New England: Bay Psalm Book to Regimental Ball | Abigail by Gail: A Colonial Experience | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Audiences have enjoyed and learn from this colonial musical program. Learn about composers, music, instruments, and dance of New England in the colonial era. How does it compare with what...Full Description |
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Abigail Whitney Invites You for Tea | Abigail by Gail: A Colonial Experience | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn about how the colonial tea ceremony is carried out. How and why are tea so important in New England in the 18th century. What tea paraphernalia did Abigail have? This program...Full Description |
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The Hearth of the Home: Colonial Style | Abigail by Gail: A Colonial Experience | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This interactive cooking program is very fun and informative! Audience members may participate in creating a colonial bread, using utensils available in a colonial home. Learn about the...Full Description |
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Abigail Brings the Pilgrims and Plymouth to You | Abigail by Gail: A Colonial Experience | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower and arrival of the Pilgrims to Plymouth, this session will excite, educate, and emerse you into 1620! Presented...Full Description |
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Abigail Takes You from Revolution to Declaration! | Abigail by Gail: A Colonial Experience | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | What does it mean to be truly Free? How does the American Revolution motivate our nation’s greatest leaders to create a profound Declaration of Independence? Join Abigail as she...Full Description |
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Abigail as a Historical Appearance | Abigail by Gail: A Colonial Experience | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Abigail is available to appear for an event, business gathering, conference, convention, or special occasion.There is ample opportunity to customize an appearance, just perfect for your gathering! ...Full Description |
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Amazing Magical Potter's Wheel | About Clay by Pied Potter Hamelin | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Pottery Wheel Demonstration with Optional Hands-On Pinch Pottery Workshop60 min. or 90 min. workshop This is an all ages, family-friendly pottery wheel demonstration program...Full Description |
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A Time to Spout Off - Teapots from Around the World | About Clay by Pied Potter Hamelin | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Pottery Wheel Demonstration with Optional Hands-On Pinch Pottery Workshop60 min. or 90 min. workshop This workshop is a celebration of the similarities and differences...Full Description |
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The Shape Shifter | About Clay by Pied Potter Hamelin | No | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Pottery Wheel Demonstration with Optional Pinch Pottery WorkshopRock to Clay - Clay to Imagination - Imagination to Creature60 min. or 90 min. workshop Out...Full Description |
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Throwing Back, Massachusetts Pottery History | About Clay by Pied Potter Hamelin | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Pottery Wheel Demonstration with Optional Hands-On Pinch Pottery Workshop60 min. or 90 min. workshop Tales of the unusual, the unknown and the unpredictable are told at...Full Description |
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Faces of Clay, a Universe of Stories | About Clay by Pied Potter Hamelin | No | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Pottery Wheel Demonstration with Optional Hands-On Pinch Pottery Workshop60 min. or 90 min. workshop The indigenous people of the Southwest have a saying "Every piece of...Full Description |
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The Librarian and the Saturday Evening Girls Molding Success One Pot at a Time | About Clay by Pied Potter Hamelin | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Pottery Wheel Demonstration with Optional Hands-On Pinch Pottery Workshop60 min. or 90 min. workshop Patrons will experience the studio of the SEG (Saturday Evening Girls)...Full Description |
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And One Good Turn Deserves Another - Open Air Demonstration | About Clay by Pied Potter Hamelin | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Festival Open Air Demonstration - 60 min. or 90 min. workshopThis is an informal performance due to the casual nature of the strolling audience. I produce pots and/or animals...Full Description |
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All About Poets and Potters | About Clay by Pied Potter Hamelin | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Pottery Wheel Demonstration with Optional Hands-On Pinch Pottery Workshop60 min. or 90 min. workshop Writers have alluded to clay and the potter at work in numerous poems...Full Description |
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Creativity Builds a Better World | About Clay by Pied Potter Hamelin | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Pottery Wheel Demonstration with Optional Hands-On Pinch Pottery Workshop60 min. or 90 min. workshop This is an exciting program where the pottery wheel will connect our...Full Description |
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Fairy Tales Clay Creatures - 2019 Summer Reading Program | About Clay by Pied Potter Hamelin | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Hands-On Workshop - No Pottery Wheel DemonstrationIdeal for the 2020 Summer Reading Program!This is an all ages, family-friendly hands-on workshop, exploring...Full Description |
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Fantasy Clay Figures, Hands-On Workshop | About Clay by Pied Potter Hamelin | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Hands-On Workshop with Short Pottery Wheel Demonstration60 min. or 90 min. workshop Hands-on: The participants will learn how to make a pinch pot...Full Description |
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Under the Sea | About Clay by Pied Potter Hamelin | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Hands-On Workshop - No Pottery Wheel Demonstration(choice of creatures or tiles workshop)This is an all ages, family-friendly hands-on workshop, exploring creativity and...Full Description |
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Act!vated Story Theatre | Act!vated Story Theatre | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Act!vated Story Theatre stages two multicultural folktales before a giant oversized book, encouraging reading and the love of theatre. Presented with physical comedy, mime, dance, music and audience...Full Description |
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Virtually Act!vated | Act!vated Story Theatre | Yes | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Two stories theatrically performed and filmed from multiple camera angles that bring the viewing audience in on the action. Performed before a giant book with costumes, creative props and lots of physical...Full Description |
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Creepy Crawly Critter Tales | Act!vated Storytellers | No | 1,2,3,4,5 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Professional performers present a multicultural theatrical production full of nonstop action. American Sign Language, acrobatic tricks (including a grown woman squeezing through a tennis racket),...Full Description |
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Shakespeare Shazam | Act!vated Storytellers | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | A 45-minute musical for audiences who like to rock out. A fun show with a variety of characters from Shakespeare's classics, some jammin' tunes, an electric guitar and even the Bard himself.The...Full Description |
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Young Author Program | Act!vated Storytellers | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Zephyr's dynamic Young Author Workshop turns on imaginations, excites young writers and gives them the tools to publish their own books.Teen author Zephyr Goza wrote "Tales From Under...Full Description |
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The Making of an Author | Acting for YoungSTARS!, JapeScape Productions | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Jape performs a dramatic reading of his hit adventure series, Jape the Grape Ape from Outer Space.This workshop is fortified with loads of action, singing, games as the children experience a...Full Description |
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Acting for Teens | Acting for YoungSTARS!, JapeScape Productions | No | 6 | Teenagers (13-17) | I.Improvs:For the quick witted! A fast and fun workshop patterned after the T.V. Show "Whose Line is it Anyway?II. Monologues:Take center stage and express yourself! Big stories told...Full Description |
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Babies Play Music | Active Music With Sarah | Yes | 1 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2) | Babies get to play instruments for tiny hands while Sarah plays guitar and sings to get them into the groove. This interactive music for the very youngest library partons lets them explore and caretakers...Full Description |
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Fall Songs With Sarah | Active Music With Sarah | Yes | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Little ones get to play along with instruments for Fall Songs about bats, leaves, pumpkins, trick or treating, with fun recognizable melodies. Also classic songs adapted for Halloween such as Twinkle...Full Description |
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Jazz For Little Jumpers | Active Music With Sarah | Yes | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This show features joyful hopping dixieland songs to get humans tapping their toes. Introducing jazz music to the younger generation through happy tunes, Sarah Gardner combines her knack for children's...Full Description |
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Warm Winter Sing A Long | Active Music With Sarah | Yes | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Warm up the winter with frolicking snow songs, and dance the Snowman Pokey. We'll flap our flippers for the Penguin Dance and there will be plenty of jingling and jumping. (Song list is customized to...Full Description |
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Sarah's Summer Rockin' Tots | Active Music With Sarah | Yes | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Kids get to rock out on instruments for little hands while Sarah plays guitar and sings to get them into the groove. This interactive program introduces basic band concepts such as counting off, playing...Full Description |
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Pennies From Heaven | Active Music With Sarah | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Sarah Gardner performs favorites from the 1920s-50s (American songbook, movies, singalongs, and old standards) accompanied by her father Jazz musician Herb Gardner on piano, to help bring good vibes...Full Description |
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Rocketship Run! Summer Space Songs | Active Music With Sarah | No | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Kids get to rock out on instruments with Sarah as she plays guitar and sings to get them into the groove with space songs! This interactive program introduces basic band concepts such as counting off,...Full Description |
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Kids Jam with Sarah | Active Music With Sarah | Yes | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | This is a fully involved family jam with ukeleles, percussion, bells and drums. Everyone gets to join the library band led by Sarah for kids songs, folk and pop sing a longs. We also stand up and dance....Full Description |
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Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Actors Company, The | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Headless Horseman Rides Again! Storyteller J.T. Turner portrays Washington Irving telling his most famous tale, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Taking on all the roles of this Halloween tale, Turner...Full Description |
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Robert Frost, Light and Dark | Actors Company, The | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Hear the stories behind Frost's work - the tragedy as well as the humor - as he shares some of his most popular poems, including Mending Wall, Birches, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Late Walk, Desert Places,...Full Description |
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The Adventures of Benjamin Franklin | Actors Company, The | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Printer, Scientist, Inventor, Author, Ambassador, Patriot - Benjamin Franklin has been called "the First American." His rich and colorful life is recounted in this wonderful one-man show. Meet...Full Description |
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Shakespeare's Ghost | Actors Company, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | What if......William Shakespeare, famed playwright and poet, has spent the last 400 years haunting theaters? And what would happen if he decided one evening to speak with you? J.T. Turner, in...Full Description |
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Will's World | Actors Company, The | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | What if......William Shakespeare, famed playwright and poet, has spent the last 400 years haunting theaters? And what would happen if he decided one day to speak with you? Join J.T. Turner in...Full Description |
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A Visit with Aesop | Actors Company, The | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | The greatest storyteller in the world would like to visit with you! Aesop shares the story of his own life, which is mixed in with his classic fables such as the Tortoise and the Hare, The Lion and...Full Description |
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A Visit with C.S. Lewis | Actors Company, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Join professional actor J.T. Turner in this funny, engaging, and fascinating look at the varied and rich life of C.S. Lewis, author of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe series, famed lecturer, and...Full Description |
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Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol | Actors Company, The | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Witness the classic tale of A Christmas Carol come beautifully to life as actor J.T. Turner portrays Charles Dickens and every single character from the story in this one-man show. Charles Dickens was...Full Description |
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Meet Mr. Dickens | Actors Company, The | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A young reporter (played by your student or volunteer) interviews Charles Dickens just before a performance in Boston. Dickens relates his life story using excerpts from his major works. The program...Full Description |
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Fitzgerald and the Great Gatsby | Actors Company, The | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Award-winning actor, writer, and teaching artist J.T. Turner appears as F. Scott Fitzgerald to discuss the author's own life, times, and work, with specific focus on The Great Gatsby and its protagonist...Full Description |
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Qigong: Mindfulness in Motion | Actors Company, The | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Through a combination of gentle movement, mental concentration and breathing, Qigong helps to balance energyand improve participants' focus, circulation, mobility, and sense of well-being. This...Full Description |
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Animal Tai Chi: The Journey of Chen | Actors Company, The | Yes | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | In “Animal Tai Chi: The Journey of Chen,” with teaching artist J.T. Turner, you will hear an original animal-based story while learning fun, easy to follow exercises that are based...Full Description |
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Spooky Seasonal Stories: Miller, Poe, Irving, or Traditional Ghost Stories | Actors Company, The | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Choose from our popular American literature and history focused programs especially suited for October (but fun for any season)!: a) WITNESS: Miller's The Crucible and the Salem "Witch"...Full Description |
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Hero Stories | Actors Company, The | Yes | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Award winning actor and storyteller J.T. Turner shares exciting folktales and fables about unlikely heroes, like a little mouse, a spoon, and a shy boy and his dog. You will have a chance to be part...Full Description |
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Stories from Around the World | Actors Company, The | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Customize a set of traditional stories from around the world, based on your current season, learning themes, and audience, all brought to life by award-winning professional actor J.T. Turner. All...Full Description |
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JoHn Muir: Father of Our National Parks | Actors Company, The | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | John Muir was a brilliant inventor who went through a life changing to become one of the world’s most recognized and impactful conservationists. His writings have inspired...Full Description |
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Going to Extremes: A Travel Journalist's Tour of the Globe's Most Adventurous Outposts | Adventure travel journalist ; children's book author | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | An award-winning adventure travel journalist for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, and National Geographic Kids, Peter Mandel hunts his stories...Full Description |
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Write Your Children's Book (And Get It Published!) | Adventure travel journalist ; children's book author | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Having a children's book published in today's tough market can seem like an impossible dream. But in reality, getting your book idea into shape and into print can hinge on just the right advice from...Full Description |
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Making Your Book a Reality: Inside Tips For Conquering the World of Publishing | Adventure travel journalist ; children's book author | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Having a book published in today's tough market can seem like an impossible dream. But, in reality, getting your book idea into shape and into print can hinge on just the right advice from a pro. Do...Full Description |
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Origami-Beginning Forms | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Origami is the art of folding paper to create decorative or functional forms. It is magical to see paper take shape with each fold to become something new and wonderful. Origami teaches...Full Description |
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Bookbinding-Environmental Journals | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Create a fabulous journal recording your thoughts and experiences in the great outdoors! Participants will make a flag book structure and illustrate their journal with recycled papers...Full Description |
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Bookbinding-Nature Themed Coin Envelope and Tag Book | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Create this wonderful book from coin envelopes and shipping tags. We use recycled papers and rubber stamps to collage our illustrations around a nature theme with pages that can be pulled out, rearranged,...Full Description |
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Origami-Practical 1 | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | We explore the world of functional origami. Beautiful and practical objects are created in a relaxed atmosphere. We use both traditional and recycled papers....Full Description |
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Origami-Practical 2 | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | If you want MORE practical origami, this workshop adds more fun and creative adventures for the folding enthusiast!...Full Description |
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Origami-Modular1 | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Modular origami is the art of folding multiple units and joining them to form a more complex construction. Create boxes, cubes, and ornaments. Each finished piece is a different work of art as paper...Full Description |
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Origami-Modular 2 | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Adventure into the world of modular origami kicked up a level. For the folding enthusiast who wants more modular fun!...Full Description |
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Origami-Bugs, Birds, and Flowers | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Origami, the art of folded paper, lends itself to the creation of wonderful birds, bugs and flowers in this spring/summer workshop. These forms can be enjoyed by themselves or as illustrations...Full Description |
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Origami-Fall/Halloween | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Have fun with this Fall/Halloween origami workshop. Bats, spiders, and more take shape to amaze and reward the folding artist....Full Description |
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Origami-Holiday | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Origami, the art of folding paper, takes shape with a December holiday theme. Symbols of Christmas and Hannukah are represented in cards, ornaments, wreaths and more....Full Description |
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Bookbinding-Nature Journals | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Stop. Look. Listen. So much to see and hear. Create your own personal journal to record your experiences outdoors - days at the beach, walks in the woods, a quiet sunny day or wherever your mind wanders....Full Description |
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Bookbinding-Creating the Decorated Page for Journals | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Such beauty. Such texture and color. Nature unfolds before us. Learn different techniques for illustrating and representing your observations in your personal nature journals....Full Description |
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Amazing Fairy Houses | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Have fun using your imagination creating your personal Fairy House from natural materials. The workshop can be presented as a parent and child program or for just the children. This program...Full Description |
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Hemp Jewelry | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 6 | Teenagers (13-17) | Create two hemp bracelets learning the spiral and square knot patterns. Personalize your jewelry with a variety of beads....Full Description |
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CD/Record Clocks | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Have fun creating a unique clock from recycled cd's, records and objects of a musical theme! Great for a shorter drop in program!...Full Description |
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Creative Light Switch Covers | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Unleash your imagination creating unique light switch covers from a wide assortment of recycled materials to personalize any room. Great tweens and teens program!...Full Description |
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Awesome Magnet Mania | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Using recycled materials, unleash your imagination creating fun and funky magnets! Great for your room, locker, gifts, refrigerator or wherever you want to put these personalized magnetic pieces of...Full Description |
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Bookbinding- Fun and Funky Hand Bound Books | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Unleash your imagination creating fun and funky hand bound books. Participants will create and decorate 4 amazing styles of books: star, purse, flag and matchbook. ...Full Description |
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Space Origami-Come Fly with Us! | Adventures in Art with Cheryl Carlson-Perrow | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | We have a universe of stories to share as we travel through space and time! In this beginning origami program, we will learn to fold things that fly and imagine the rich experience of the journey...Full Description |
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How to Get Started Homeschooling | Advocates for Home Education in Massachusetts, Inc. | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The nitty-gritty of how to get started for those new to homeschooling or just considering it. Topics covered include an overview of homeschooling, deciding whether or not to homeschool, getting...Full Description |
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Nuts and Bolts of Homeschooling in Massachusetts | Advocates for Home Education in Massachusetts, Inc. | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | For those writing an education plan for the first time. This workshop will cover Massachusetts homeschool guidelines; the history of homeschooling in MA; writing your education plan; choosing a form...Full Description |
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Counting Out the Trees | Agnes Novak | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A Fairy Tale with a modern twist: Famous fairy tale characters wonder why and how the Trees of Fairy Land are disappearing. Because trees are missing, Pinocchio, Hansel and Gretel, Peter and Piggy and...Full Description |
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The Waltzing Alphabet | Agnes Novak | No | 2,3 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | An educational program teaching young children the letters of the alphabet. Performed with a group of string marionettes, engaging music, song and sets.Perfect for early childhood programs,...Full Description |
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The Tango of Numbers | Agnes Novak | No | 2,3 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Stringed marionettes want to learn what children learn in school and Lily Rose teaches them how to count to ten.Using music, song, beautiful sets and hand carved wooden marionettes, this program...Full Description |
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The Magic of Bonaparte | AlaKazam Magic by Bonaparte | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The program features Amazing Magic, Hilarious Comedy, Oodles of Audience Participation plus the unbelievable appearance of a fluttering white dove and an adorable fuzzy bunny. For library events, Bonaparte...Full Description |
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Interactive Zoom Magic Show | AlaKazam Magic by Bonaparte | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This Interactive Zoom Virtual Programs includes an adorable bunny and beautiful white bird, plus several of your guests will be the featured ‘Spotlight Guest Stars’. The presentation...Full Description |
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Alastair Moock: Shake Your Roots! | Alastair Moock | No | 1,2,3,4,5 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Alastair Moock is a 2014 Grammy Nominee, Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner, and three-time National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Gold Award Winner. Long one of Boston's premier folk artists,...Full Description |
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Alastair Moock: Music and Social Change | Alastair Moock | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | In this structured, educational program, award-winning songwriter Alastair introduces the music that shaped and connected three of America's most important movements for social change: the Labor Rights...Full Description |
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Alastair Moock: The Language of Song | Alastair Moock | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | In this structured, educational program, award-winning songwriter Alastair Moock brings his guitar and his passion for American folk music to teach language arts skills in this lively, interactive workshop....Full Description |
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Alastair Moock: Playing with Tradition | Alastair Moock | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | American folk music, like all folk music, is rooted in tradition. But the form is constantly evolving, with songwriters reworking older songs to tell new stories. In this lively, upbeat performance...Full Description |
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Alex the Jester | Alex the Jester | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This past year, numerous libraries reported breaking crowds when Alex the Jester performed his hilarious act. Inspired by the medievil fool, this delightful mischief maker will also motivate readers...Full Description |
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Oliver's Animal Adventure | Alex Thomas and Friends | Yes | 1,2,3,4,5 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Join our puppet host Oliver as he learns about real live animals! This program mixes the silliness of puppetry with a series of live exotic animals for an educational and entertaining virtual program!...Full Description |
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Virtual Caricature Drawing Workshop | Alex Thomas and Friends | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Our Caricature Drawing Workshop, is taught by our very own Oliver! Oliver will take the participants step by step through drawing several different caricatures of well known characters that go with...Full Description |
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Dewey The Dragon's Puppet Story Time | Alex Thomas and Friends | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Join Dewey the Dragon and his puppet friends while they read and act out a few of your favorite fun filled fairy tales! ...Full Description |
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Learn to Animate | Alex Thomas and Friends | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ever wanted to learn how to create 2D animation? Participants will use free, open source animation software and will learn to create several different animations in the traditional style of animation....Full Description |
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Among Us Sculpture Workshop | Alex Thomas and Friends | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | This program is offered live via Zoom. It is a one hour workshop that will teach basic sculpting techniques to create three-dimensional figures. Will your tweens & teens sculpt Crewmates or Imposters?...Full Description |
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NUTCRACKER - Lecture & Recital | Alfred Watson | No | 5,7 | Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Lecture & Piano Recital: Classical: Alfred will perform selections from the music of the Nutcracker Suite Ballet by Tchaikovsky. In addition he will tell the story of each scene, providing interesting...Full Description |
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CHOPIN - Thru Chopins' Eyes | Alfred Watson | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Lecture & Piano Recital: Classical Romantic Music:Chopin:Join us for an unusual view into the history of Poland and Paris through the eyes of Chopin in the 1800's. Through his aristocratic Polish...Full Description |
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DANCING Around The World | Alfred Watson | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Lecture & Piano Recital: Classical Music: An introduction to the world's greatest and most loved classical dance music. Have you ever wondered which country the waltz really came from or what...Full Description |
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The World's Greatest Classical Romantic Music | Alfred Watson | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Lecture & Piano Recital: Classical Music:The program includes the story behind Valentine's Day; stories about the love interest of some of the composers and what inspired their love songs and...Full Description |
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Swan Lake Ballet | Alfred Watson | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Lecture & Piano Recital: Classical:Alfred will perform selections from the music of the Swan Lake Ballet by Tchaikovsky. In addition, Mr. Watson will tell the story of each scene, provide interesting...Full Description |
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INSPIRATION | Alfred Watson | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Lecture & Piano Recital: Classical:Alfred will talk about inspiration and how some composers were inspired to write their own music. Interesting anecdotes on the composers will also be included....Full Description |
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EASTERN EUROPEAN COMPOSERS | Alfred Watson | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Lecture & Piano Recital: Classical:Alfred will perform works by Eastern European composers. He will speak about his Polish background and some Polish history as well as his travels to Poland....Full Description |
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PATRIOTIC | Alfred Watson | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Lecture & Piano Recital: Classical:The program will feature Alfred's award winning CD entitled "America", and many more Classical favorites. Alfred will tell the story of how each composer's...Full Description |
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POLAND | Alfred Watson | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Lecture & Piano Recital: Classical:Who better to speak to the music, culture and history of Poland, than a man who's heritage is in the Tatra Mountains of Poland? Who better to play the beloved...Full Description |
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ALICE, WHERE ARE YOU GOING? | ALICE, WHERE ARE YOU GOING? | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO GREAT ART AND LITERATURE. Sing the timeless words of Benjamin Britten, Sir William S. Gilbert, William Blake, and Robert Louis Stevenson. This is a musical tribute to great literary...Full Description |
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Travels with Pierre | Alicia Quintano | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Alicia and her Koala puppet, Pierre, entertain children and families with stories from American and international folklore, original humorous songs, and on-your-feet fun....Full Description |
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Who Wrote the Whodunit? YOU DID! | Alicia Quintano | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Alicia uses exciting games and exercises in this writing workshop to invite upper elementary and middle school age students to create their own strange tales of mystery and adventure....Full Description |
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99.9% True | Alicia Quintano | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A workshop in storytelling/memoir writing. Participants are encouraged to tap their memories (and imaginations) to create short, memorable pieces from their own experience....Full Description |
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How the Stars Came to Be and Other Stories | Alicia Quintano | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | For hundreds of years people have looked around at the earth and the universe and created imaginative stories to explain how things came to be the way they are. “How and Why”...Full Description |
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How Did Thunder Come to Be? You tell me! | Alicia Quintano | No | 5 | Tweens (9-12) | Using entertaining games and exercises storyteller Alicia Quintano invites participants in grades 4 and up to create their own stories of how things came to look and be the way they are....Full Description |
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All 4 Music and Music 4 All | All 4 Music | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | The purpose of this one hour workshop/presentation is to encourage creativity in kids through music. The presenter - Yury Shenkar goes over a few of the most basic concepts of music in a simple, entertaining...Full Description |
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Sea Inspired Jewelry - Nautical Knotting | All Artists!!!! Get Inspired .. Be Creative!! | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Using soft all cotton cord children learn several different knots to create their own jewelry. Ex: necklace- bracelet - anklet - bookmark - key chain.Shells from local beaches are added for...Full Description |
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Pastels Workshop - Everyone is an Artist! | All Artists!!!! Get Inspired .. Be Creative!! | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Get Inspired by the "Masters Museum" - Let creativity flow with soft pastels.Prepare your work for the "New Artists Museum"Event is in several parts... participants must be on time...Full Description |
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Paper Bead Making | All Artists!!!! Get Inspired .. Be Creative!! | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Hand painted rolled paper beads with a matte finish. Leave with a unique piece of jewelry made from your handiwork. Great for all ages....very creative project......Full Description |
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Learn to draw what you see !!! | All Artists!!!! Get Inspired .. Be Creative!! | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn perspective... how our eyes distort what is... I learned perspective when I was 7 and love to teach it to children and adults!!!Great for a once a month class! ...Full Description |
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Gift Making Workshop | All Artists!!!! Get Inspired .. Be Creative!! | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Choose a workshop of specific gift making - can be a parent child event or a teen thru adult event.. or a childrens event. ...Full Description |
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Allegretto Musical Outreach | Allegretto Musical Outreach (for Elementary Schools and Libraries) | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This is a whimsical, but also a personal chat, using our musical instrument demonstration with a hands-on approach! Our mission is to inspire children to become musicians. We offer a description of...Full Description |
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Printmaking Kitchen Party | Allegretto Musical Outreach (for Elementary Schools and Libraries) | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | I bring my etching press and printmaking supplies to teach this fun art of the monoprint with it's painterly uniqueness. I love this process because it is loose, and leads to the creation of a series....Full Description |
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Food Allergies, What's the Big Deal | AllerWare, LLC | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Young children with allergies need a special level of protection, as they may not be aware enough of the issue to monitor risk. Food Allergy advocate, Marci Komssi will talk about the importance of...Full Description |
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Heading Back to School with Food Allergies | AllerWare, LLC | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Young children with allergies need a special level of protection as they may not be aware of the issue enough to monitor risk. Food allergy advocate Marci Komssi will talk about the importance of understanding...Full Description |
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MUSICAL MYSTERY TOUR / FUN WITH MUSIC | Alpha Music / Greg Cooney | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Greg uses songs and stories that will get your audience up and involved with the performance. Music is a mystery. What makes us tap our toes and sing along? IT DOESN"T MATTER! KIDS WILL JUST GET INVOLVED...Full Description |
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Earth Shares / Water, Land, and Air | Alpha Music / Greg Cooney | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Greg uses fun and heart warming songs, stories and demonstrations that encourage young people to respect the earth and each other. What goes up, must come down.What is thrown on the ground...Full Description |
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A Summer Reading Celebration Family Concert | Alpha Music / Greg Cooney | No | 1,2,3,4,5,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Fun for the entire family. Begin the summer with a celebration of music and fun that encourages kids to read. OR End the summer with a tribute to all of the kids that made reading a fun part of their...Full Description |
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A is for Apple, B is for GREEN | Alpha Music / Greg Cooney | No | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | A is for Apple, B is for GREEN.What ever letter of the alphabet you are on, it is important to think GREEN.Greg Cooney has been using crazy original songs and stories for 30 years to teach...Full Description |
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Educational Hip-Hop Show for Pre-K-2nd Grade | Alphabet Rockers | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Performing Award-winning children's music (2008 NAPPA & Parents' Choice Awards), Alphabet Rockers gets kids and families singing, moving, grooving, counting and spelling with this interactive show....Full Description |
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Introduction to Sewing | Alterations by Elizabeth | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The 3 class days include the basics of hand sewing, and sewing machine operation. I can provide sewing tools, Machines and fabric if not available. In the class attendees will...Full Description |
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Your Sewing Workroom | Alterations by Elizabeth | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This is an open workspace set up for sewers to start or complete projects with machines and other sewing tools provided. Attendees are welcome to bring their own machines and join the community of other...Full Description |
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Groove and Flow Yoga | Always Be Dancing | Yes | 2,3,4,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Adults (18+) | Groove and Flow Yoga is a special blend of yoga styles where the participants can explore and experience the joy of movement and freedom of expression within a supportive, creative environment, regardless...Full Description |
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Boost Mental Wellness With Tech | Amber P. Knight | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In times of quarantine and social distancing, technology can be a blessing and/or a curse. From psychiatric hospital to public speaker, Amber shares a lively presentation filled with stories...Full Description |
Yes |
Amy Conley: Songs & Puppets | Amy Conley | Yes | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Amy Conley presents movement songs, dances, fingerplays and humorous puppets with guitar, banjo, harmonica and leads parents with young children to experience the joy of singing and family music-making,...Full Description |
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Ukulele Playshop For Beginners | Amy Conley | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Amy Conley started Ukulele Revolution in 2013, teaching classes to teens and adults. She now teaches online (Zoom platform) as well, with classes in Beginner, Advanced Beginner, Intermediate,...Full Description |
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Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters Americana Music Presentation | Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Formatting difficulties on this page; please see description at: www.amygallatin.com/promo.htm....Full Description |
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Andy & Judy - New England Folk In Concert | Andy & Judy | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | During a concert we play guitars, mandolin, banjo, ukulele, harmonica and other instruments. We tell stories through our songs. Even though our songwriting style has its roots firmly planted in traditional...Full Description |
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Comic Art and Manga Workshops | Andy & Veronica Fish Cartoonists | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Andy and Veronica Fish are professional working artists-- Andy is even listed on Wikepedia-- who have worked extensively in comics, film and animation. In addition, both are faculty members of...Full Description |
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Roman Legionary - Roman Empire | Andy Volpe: Art & History | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Online Program: Students (and Teachers) can email me a set of questions that I then answer, making use of my collection of historical replicas, as well as presenting while wearing...Full Description |
Yes |
Medieval - Renaissance Artist | Andy Volpe: Art & History | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Online Version: I am working on a virtual presentation "podcast" style where I show images of Old Master artwork, and have a "live" demonstrations of techniques. I am also...Full Description |
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Printing Arts: Intaglio 1500 - 1800 | Andy Volpe: Art & History | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Online Programs: Working on pre-recorded vignettes on major developments in Printing techniques and styles, artistic movements, impact of prints, and other topics. A pre-recorded...Full Description |
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Angela Easterling | Angela Easterling | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Angela Easterling is an Americana singer-songwriter based in Greenville, SC who tours frequently to the northeast for concerts. She presents a performance of her own original songs interspersed with...Full Description |
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Live Animal Traveling Educational Programs | Animal Adventures, an educational experience! | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Staffed by professional educators, animal handlers, show presenters and volunteers, Animal Adventures is dedicated to teaching people about the world we live in and the diverse animal life we share...Full Description |
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Story Hour | Animal Adventures, an educational experience! | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Join us for an exciting animal-themed story hour .... and meet the animals from the book! Reservations are REQUIRED. Please call 978-779-8988 to put your name in for one of these exciting events!...Full Description |
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Nocturnal Nights | Animal Adventures, an educational experience! | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Come catch a glimpse of the animal night-life at one of Animal Adventures Nocturnal Night:A one of a kind opportunity to witness our many nocturnal creatures at their most active. Following...Full Description |
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Animal Adventures Anti-Bullying Presentation | Animal Adventures, an educational experience! | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ed Laquidara is excited to announce our new, cutting-edge bullying and self-esteem programs. With the use of our premium exotic animals to captivate the attention of children and adults and to illustrate...Full Description |
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Animal Experiences | Animal Experiences | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | The most hands-on show anywhere with approximately two dozen animals at each show. Includes turtles, lizards, snakes, tree frogs, hedgehog, chinchilla, bunny, and alligator (where allowed). A fixture...Full Description |
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Wild Edibles Plant Walk & Slideshow | Animal Man Survivor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Join the Animal Man for a 1 hour interactive slideshow and Q&A all about local wild edible, medicinal and utilitarian plants. After the slideshow, the group will venture outside for a 1 hour wild...Full Description |
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Basic Wilderness Survival Course | Animal Man Survivor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Be a hero to your family! Learn basic wilderness survival skills that may someday save your life or the lives of loved ones. Learn the construction of the warmest yet simplest shelter on the...Full Description |
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Emergency Preparedness Course | Animal Man Survivor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Come learn how to get you and your family more prepared for emergencies! But why, you say? It will never happen to me! People tend to get very comfortable in their day-to-day routines and...Full Description |
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Bug Out Bag Course | Animal Man Survivor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | What is a Bug Out Bag? It's a bag that you keep packed and ready to go for an emergency, that's what! Your Bug Out Bag is not really for the "Zombie Apocolypse" or "The End Of The World" like on TV....Full Description |
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Flint Knapping: The Art Of Making Stone Tools | Animal Man Survivor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn the ancient art of making stone tools such as arrowheads, knives, drills, scrapers and axes! We will cover material selection, tool selection, & safety. Participants will then learn several...Full Description |
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Primitive Archery | Animal Man Survivor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn the sport & skill of primitive archery! The "Animal Man" will walk you through the basics of primitive archery tackle, techniques and safety. Then we have a practice session shooting real...Full Description |
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Zombie Survival Course | Animal Man Survivor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Teens & adults get the chance to come learn how to survive the zombie apocolypse! This 2 hour workshop is designed to be an extremely fun, engaging, workshop style program where everyone gets involved!...Full Description |
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Hunger Games (Basic Survival Course) | Animal Man Survivor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Calling all tributes! Welcome to the 74th annual Hunger Games! The time has come to say goodbye to loved ones and journey to the capitol to begin your training. Learn to create life-saving shelter...Full Description |
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Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Advanced Techniques) | Animal Man Survivor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | You have survived the arena, but the odds are never in your favor! Now you have been selected for the lethal Quarter Quell. Pitted against a deadly pool of other victors, this Hunger Games will not...Full Description |
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Hunger Games: Mockingjay (City and Suburban Survival) | Animal Man Survivor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Join the Mockingjay and the rebels as they storm the capitol and unite the districts! In this 2 hour workshop, participants will learn city and suburban survival skills that go way beyond our Hunger...Full Description |
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Variety Educational Program | Animal World Experience | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Meet a variety of exotic animals from around the world in our most popular program ever! Children get to truly "experience" mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertibrates like never before. All ages...Full Description |
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Going Green with Your Pets | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Going Green with Your PetsIn this imaginative program, children will discover why it is better to "adopt" their pets rather than buy one or catch a wild animal from outdoors. As always, we will...Full Description |
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Going Green around the World | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | What in the world does helping animals have to do with Going Green? Actually, more than you would expect! In this program featuring live animals, we show kids how an ecosystem is made up of plants,...Full Description |
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Going Green in Your Backyard | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Imagine if there was a way for your backyard to benefit wildlife while still being beautiful and functional to you. There is! In this intriguing and interactive program we discuss why animals have...Full Description |
Yes |
Global Safari | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Join Animal World Experience for our newest program option, Global Safari! This program, developed for the 2011 summer reading theme World Culture/World Travel, takes children and adults alike on a...Full Description |
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Jackson's Wild Journey | Animal World Experience | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | "Jackson's Wild Journey" is a children's book written and illustrated by Matt Gabriel from Animal World Experience. The story is about a little boy who falls asleep and dreams he travels the world...Full Description |
Yes |
Nocturnal Nights | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Nocturnal Nights is meant to showcase our night-time animals. We will explore all of the great reasons animals come out at night such as lack of predators, availability of food, better weather conditions,...Full Description |
Yes |
Dino Discovery | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This one of a kind program is a blast from the prehistoric past! Meet our most ancient animal friends in person and you even get to touch and hold real fossils that are millions of years old!...Full Description |
Yes |
Wild Purpose Beneath the Surface | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Meet an array of our amazing animal friends as we learn why some of them hang out underground. From nesting to hunting and everything in between, you will find out that the world underground is as...Full Description |
Yes |
Can You Dig It? | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | These crafty critters give the saying down to earth a whole new meaning! Come learn the reasons why so many different animals dig, and the various ways they do it....Full Description |
Yes |
It is Great to Communicate | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn the many unique ways that animals communicate with each other, as well as people. You may come to realize that animals really do talk, just a little differently than us....Full Description |
Yes |
Home is Where the Heart Is | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | From lizard lounges to millipede mansions, learn about a variety of different shelters animals build and use. You will begin to understand the many ways in which they are very similar to as well as...Full Description |
Yes |
Water World | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | It is true; the world is mostly water, and us land dwellers sometimes have to find creative ways to get enough of it!...Full Description |
Yes |
Winter Wonders | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ever wonder what animals do in the winter? Join us as we explore the many ways that animals survive in, and thrive in the winter. What you find out will shock and amaze you!...Full Description |
Yes |
Myths are for Monkeys | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | You will have more fun than a barrel of monkeys as you learn the truth about common animal myths....Full Description |
Yes |
The Scoop on Poop | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Discover the wonderful world of poop like never before as you learn how to be a "Poop Detective" and you will even get to meet some real-life super poopers!...Full Description |
Yes |
Amazing Adaptations | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Meet amazing animals that can climb just like spider-man, survive sub-zero temperatures, use their tongue as a fishing lure and more!...Full Description |
Yes |
Locomotion Commotion | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | What's all the commotion? Animals move in many different ways, and we'll explore how they slither, crawl, hop, climb and swim...Full Description |
Yes |
Sensational Senses | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Find out how to expand your own senses by learning from our animal friends....Full Description |
Yes |
Dependable Defenses | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Meet interesting animals that defend themselves by showing their tongue, dropping their tail, vibrating, peeing and many more!...Full Description |
Yes |
Your Big Backyard | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Right in your own backyard lies a secret world of animals that are seldom seen or heard....Full Description |
Yes |
Desert Animals | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn about different desert animals as they all prove one thing: You've gotta be tough to survive in the desert!...Full Description |
Yes |
Rainforest Animals | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Meet a menagerie of exotic animals that help to paint a unique picture of life in the rainforest....Full Description |
Yes |
Creepy Crawlies | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn about all things that slither, creep and crawl! This program includes plenty of reptiles, amphibians & bugs....Full Description |
Yes |
Radical Reptiles | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Experience reptiles like never before in this program great for junior reptile wranglers and adults alike!...Full Description |
Yes |
Fantastic Furries | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This is our all-furry animal program perfect for the furry fanatic!...Full Description |
Yes |
The Adoption Option | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This program will warm your heart right from the start. Meet some of our adopted animals while you hear their stories and learn why adoption is the best option. ...Full Description |
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The Hunger Games Basic Survival Course | Animal World Experience | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Calling all tributes! Welcome to the 74th Annual Hunger Games! The time has come to say goodbye to loved ones and journey to the capitol to begin your training.Learn to create life-saving shelter...Full Description |
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The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire Advanced Techniques and Primitive Skills Course | Animal World Experience | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | You have survived the arena, but the odds are never in your favor! Now you have been selected for the lethal Quarter Quell. Pitted against a deadly pool of other victors, this Hunger Games will not...Full Description |
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Wild Heroes | Animal World Experience | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Spiderman! Batman! Aquaman! Just like many famous superheroes have animal powers, every animal has the power to be a superhero. In our newest children's program, "Wild Heroes," children get the opportunity...Full Description |
Yes |
Basic Wilderness Survival (Teen/Adult Course) | Animal World Experience | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Be a hero to your family! Learn basic wilderness survival skills that may someday save your life or the lives of loved ones. Learn the construction of the warmest yet simplest survival shelter...Full Description |
Yes |
Ani-Motion! | Animal World Experience | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Come walk on the wild side and learn how animals stay fit and healthy. Whether it’s digging like a degu, eating healthy like a tortoise, or soaking up the sunshine like a lizard, we all have a lot to...Full Description |
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Zombie Survival Course | Animal World Experience | No | 6 | Teenagers (13-17) | Our most exciting program to date, teens get the chance to come learn how to survive the zombie apocolypse! This is designed to be an extremely fun, engaging, workshop style program where everyone gets...Full Description |
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The First Big Dig | Anne O'Connor | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | The Hoosac Tunnel took 25 years to build, went bankrupt three times and came in ten times over budget. You'll be amazed at the similarities of this 19th century transportation project with a more recent...Full Description |
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Dreamed, Created and Crafted in New England | Anne O'Connor | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | An anecdotal look at ideas, projects and products that were imagined, stolen, manufactured, developed, or otherwise associated with New England over the centuries. Includes songs....Full Description |
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Drilling to New York | Anne O'Connor | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Kids learn best by doing. Teams will drill through solid rock and porridge stone, fake obviously. We'll also sing songs about the railway accompanied by a kid-friendly ukulele as we learn about the...Full Description |
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Warp and Weft | Anne O'Connor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The rise of the textile industries across New England meant a changing population and lifestyle. Each audience member will weave on a hand loom to take home and all will sing a labor song....Full Description |
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Everyday is Earth Day | annie and the natural wonder band | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | "Every Day is Earth Day" is a fun-filled, interactive concert about the wonders of nature and what we can do to preserve them. Topics such as global warming, overflowing landfills, water pollution,...Full Description |
No |
Whales and Tales | annie and the natural wonder band | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Discover the wonders of marine life in "Whales & Tales." Annie & the Natural Wonder Band will take you on a musical cruise from the depths of "Welcome to the world of Benthos" to the heights of "Flying...Full Description |
No |
On Safari with Annie | annie and the natural wonder band | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | "On Safari" is a fun-filled, interactive concert full of original songs about the rainforest.Get ready to dance along to the "Hippa Hippopotamus", become a "Beautiful Frog", act like a "Real Cool Cat"...Full Description |
No |
Totally Bugged Out | annie and the natural wonder band | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Don't get bugged, get totally bugged out! How? Why, hop like a green grasshopper, follow the journey of the monarch butterfly, learn the waggle dance of the honeybee field worker and celebrate pollination...Full Description |
No |
Pre-School Greatest Hits | annie and the natural wonder band | No | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Upbeat, interactive songs for the pre-school set about colors, shapes, letters, numbers, sequencing, animals, parts of the body, and music, itself. Annie will play guitar and joyfully share her bags...Full Description |
No |
The Memory Masterclass | Architect of The Mind | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Memory Masterclass - How to Remember Everything, and Never Forget a Thing! How good is your memory? Do you often misplace items? Do you have a hard time remembering people’s names,...Full Description |
Yes |
This Business of Fighting: A Human Face on World War II | Arnie Pritchard | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A few years ago I inherited my father's World War II Army foot locker. It turned out to contain hundreds of letters and other documents from his Army service and his time working with displaced persons...Full Description |
Yes |
Art Adventures by Let's Gogh Art-Western MA/CT | Art Adventures by Let's Gogh Art-Western MA/CT | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Let's Gogh Art is a mobile arts and crafts studio. We bring any of our more than 150 arts and crafts projects, themes and activities to your location. We supply all of the materials and instruction...Full Description |
No |
Around the World Creativity Tour | Art Adventures by Let's Gogh Art-Western MA/CT | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Let's Gogh Art will take you on a whirlwind tour of the world, traveling among different countries. Artists will get a lesson in geography, culture and art, creating: watercolor hot air balloons, Puerto...Full Description |
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Art-ventures and StoryArt | Art Adventures by Let's Gogh Art-Western MA/CT | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | A combination of literacy education and creative enrichment. Our expert story teller reads a popular children's book and follows with hands-on art activities related to the story. We have dozens of...Full Description |
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Creating and Donating | Art Adventures by Let's Gogh Art-Western MA/CT | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Stuff a furry 8" friend with fluff, love and a heart and decorate a t-shirt for it. Then stuff a 4" bear to donate to a sick child at your local hospital. After the stuffing is done, write a note to...Full Description |
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First in Flight Creative Workshop | Art Adventures by Let's Gogh Art-Western MA/CT | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Kids will really sprout wings in this art-rageous workshop. Everyone will paint a wooden plane, design a rocket and decorate and assemble a kite.This is a great workshop for large groups, extended...Full Description |
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ABCs of Art | Art Adventures by Let's Gogh Art-Western MA/CT | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Get ready to 'create some fun'! Creatively educational, inspiring,whimsical and unconventional, this series of workshops exposes children to a world of artistic wonder and ignites their imaginations....Full Description |
No |
Adventures with Animals in Art | Art Adventures by Let's Gogh Art-Western MA/CT | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | These Art-rageous Art-ventures explore the world of critters. choose the whole series of workshops or just one. During each workshop we create a different animal, fish, reptile or insect usinga...Full Description |
No |
A Time to Play with Clay | Art Adventures by Let's Gogh Art-Western MA/CT | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Play with clay and paint some ceramics in this popular workshop. Children learn how to make different types ofpots (coil and pinch), while discovering different types of clay. They also paint...Full Description |
No |
illustration demonstration | art by sorrento | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A session that deals with the interpretation of the written word into a visual image. Either poetry, a narrative, or personal thoughts can be deciphered, and recreated into an illustration, during a...Full Description |
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Your Life is About Learning | Art of Rob Bolster | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Students will experience over 275 selected images in less than one hour. A message about the importance of education and life-long learning is woven through lessons about art, children's books, and...Full Description |
No |
Solstice Lantern Making | Art with Renée | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | What a great way to prepare for the shortest day of the year - make your own decoupaged solstice lantern. Learn to create silhouettes. Dress for the mess for this one! ...Full Description |
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Digital Photography For Teens | Artie Fasciani Photography | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | This popular and well-received workshop focuses on the most important aspect of photography, developing one's "eye." Using simple examples and entertaining exercises, we'll enrich the participants'...Full Description |
Yes |
Traditional American & Celtic Folk Music and Dance | Atwater-Donnelly | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | From Warren, Rhode Island, the internationally acclaimed husband-wife duo, Atwater-Donnelly, presents an enthralling blend of traditional Appalachian, Celtic and original folk music sung with gorgeous...Full Description |
Yes |
The Addiction Nobody Will Talk About | Author | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | "The Addiction Nobody Will Talk About" is a look at the state of pornography addition in today's world of the Internet. As noted therapist Tony Overbay has said, "It's not a matter of if...Full Description |
Yes |
Hidden Gems of New England | Author Speaker Alison O'Leary | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Have you ever wandered through the woods and wondered who’d been there before? New England’s woods and wild places are full of stories: cannibalism in Vermont, Thoreau’s cold...Full Description |
Yes |
So Close to Home: A True Story of WWII | Author Speaker Alison O'Leary | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | So Close to Home is a fascinating look at an American family's experience during World War II when the ship they were traveling on was torpedoed by a German submarine in the Gulf of Mexico. A surviving...Full Description |
Yes |
Hikes Through History | Author Speaker Alison O'Leary | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Hikes Through History is a popular library program based on the author's recent Appalachian Mountain Club book, Best Day Hikes Near Boston. The program uses maps and photos to discuss land use...Full Description |
Yes |
Go Wild | Awesome Robb | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | An Ecological Look at the Magic in Our Own Back Yard. Robb and his wacky cast of Characters take your readers on a wild imaginary tour of their own backyards and parks. Through Magic and Puppetry they...Full Description |
No |
Wizards Workshop | Axel the magic mutt and Greg | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | A magic class based on the Harry Potter Books. The children will learn how to perform magic and they will get everything they need to perform the magic including magic wands!...Full Description |
No |
Fizz,Boom,Read | Axel the magic mutt and Greg | No | 1,2,3,4,5 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Fizz,boom,Read presented by The Greg and Axel Show will be the most talked about show this year!Your young library goers must help Secret agents Greg and his trusty dog Axel (yes a real dog)...Full Description |
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Greg and Axel save halloween...safety show! | Axel the magic mutt and Greg | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Greg and Axel Save Halloween from the zombie book worms and teach kids how to be safe when they go trick or treating plus we talk about books!This 40 minute program featuring magic, comedy, audience...Full Description |
Yes |
Recycle Rangers | Axel the magic mutt and Greg | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Greg and Axel the magic mutt will teach your library friends the importance of recycling! Axel the magic mutt wants all your young friends to help him save the environment and help save wildlife!books...Full Description |
Yes |
Baby Kneads Baby Sign Language | Baby Kneads | Yes | 1 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2) | The participants will learn everything that they need to know to start using sign language with their babies right away. Sheryl has been teaching these classes for 20 years at more than 80 libraries...Full Description |
Yes |
Baby Kneads Baby Sign Language Series | Baby Kneads | Yes | 1 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2) | Each week Sheryl models signing with the babies for 30 minutes with props to engage them. Handouts are provided each week with 20 new signs learned weekly. Parents are given detailed ways...Full Description |
Yes |
Baby Kneads Baby Sign Show | Baby Kneads | Yes | 2 | Three Year Olds | Sign language show for babies through age 4. Sheryl brings a bag of props and signs with stories, rhymes and play....Full Description |
Yes |
Baby Kneads Baby Massage | Baby Kneads | Yes | 1 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2) | In this introductory class the parents will learn everything that they need to know to start massaging their babies. Sheryl has been teaching these programs in more than 80 libraries since 1999....Full Description |
Yes |
Baby Kneads - Parent as Teacher - Birth through 12 months | Baby Kneads | Yes | 1 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2) | The class will teach parents how to be their baby's first teacher from newborn through 12 months. They will be guided in all areas of the babies growth and development; social, emotional,...Full Description |
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Ageless Mindfulness for ages 3-6 and Adult by Baby Kneads | Baby Kneads | Yes | 2 | Three Year Olds | The class is designed to practice mindfulness with the children while modeling for the adults how to get the children to be more aware and in the present moment. Mindfulness can help children increase...Full Description |
Yes |
Baby Kneads Baby Massage Series | Baby Kneads | Yes | 1 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2) | Baby Massage can help with gas, constipation, bonding, soothing, and sleep. Sheryl will model the strokes on a doll as the parents practice the techniques on their babies. ...Full Description |
Yes |
Ageless Mindfulness for Moms with babies/toddlers by Baby Kneads | Baby Kneads | Yes | 1 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2) | The participants will learn how to practice Mindfulness in their lives through relaxation exercises, breathing techniques and baby massage. Moms feel refreshed after some well deserved self care....Full Description |
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Balinese Arts | Balinese Arts | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Balinese Arts opens the door to the centuries old tradition of topeng pagegan, a mask dance theatre that presents the history, religion, and philosophy of Bali, the Indonesian island known as the "Morning...Full Description |
No |
Balloon Twisting | Balloons by Ciel | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | I am a balloon twister available for parties or special events. I have worked for the town of Norton doing their Founder's Day as well as the public library. I have also worked for Roche Bros. for special...Full Description |
Yes |
Bamidele Dancers and Drummers | Bamidele Dancers and Drummers | No | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Travel across the globe with Bamidele Dancers and Drummers and experience the dances, rhythms, folklore and songs from West Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. This program includes audience participation,...Full Description |
No |
Band-Aid the Balloon Man | Band-Aid the Balloon Man | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ballooning (making balloon animals): This event is for all ages. I create balloon sculptures of dogs, teddy bears, crazy hats, swords, and much more. This event prices at: $45.00 for the first...Full Description |
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A Suffrage themed documentary: BORDERLAND (Virtual Screenings) | BCN Productions | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | She was born in the 19th Century, worked to change the 20th century and her wisdom still resonates today, in the 21st century. Blanche Ames, a 20th century activist, resided in Massachusetts and fought...Full Description |
Yes |
A Beautiful Future | Beautiful Future, A | No | 2,3,4,5,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | An interactive multicultural music program for children of all ages. With joyful songs and games, movement and laughter, the Beautiful Future Band guides children young and old on a lively musical...Full Description |
No |
Amazing Virtual Shows: Puppets, Crafts, Magic, Ventriloquism: Ages 3-10 & Family Audiences | Bee Bee the Clown - Jackie the Magician | Yes | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Three twenty minute videos combine magic, ventriloquism, puppets, songs, jokes and a simple craft or magic trick using common household items in a joyful, engaging format. Bee Bee's “Noodle...Full Description |
Yes |
A Virtual Ventriloquism Puppetry Workshop | Bee Bee the Clown - Jackie the Magician | Yes | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Participants bring their own puppets to this video class and learn the basics of ventriloquism. Jackie Reynolds, has taught the ABC's of ventriloquism to both school aged children in summer camps, and...Full Description |
Yes |
Fun Crafts on Video | Bee Bee the Clown - Jackie the Magician | Yes | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | For Makers! Here are fast, fun, easy craft projects with balloons, pennies, tape, plastic cups and other common things. This combines a bit of science, and learning by doing. Download the craft instructions...Full Description |
Yes |
Beatrix Potter: The Woman Behind The Rabbit | Betsy Bray | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Peter Rabbit and Squirrel Nutkin fans take note: Betsy Bray, an international authority on Beatrix Potter presents a lively look at the remarkable life of this acclaimed children's author/illustrator....Full Description |
Yes |
Cape Cod Modern House Architecture | Betsy Bray | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Betsy's a Chatham, MA resident, Zoom illustrated talk is about the evolution of Cape Cod residential architecture, from traditional Cape Cod homes to mid-century modern houses built on the Outer...Full Description |
Yes |
Presentation of "Star Crossed" | Bette Isacoff | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Bette Isacoff's entertaining and captivating thirty-minute presentation begins with the story of how she and her husband met, and describes the climate and adversities they faced on their path to marriage....Full Description |
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Big Joe The Storyteller | Big Joe The Storyteller | Yes | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Storytelling featuring props, puppets and audience participation. Stories range from classic and multicultural tales to my own original works! I am now featuring a Virtual Storytelling show for...Full Description |
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Big Ryan's Tall Tales | Big Ryan's Tall Tales | No | 1,2,3,4,5 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Storytelling, Music and Movement, Puppets and Interactive Play!...Full Description |
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WOOF Blasts Off! - A Celebration of Astronomy | Bill Wellington | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Celebrating astronomy in the exuberant style of Radio WOOF, Bill Wellington leads his audience on a merry adventure in Outer Space. Using songs, stories, and fantastic images from the Hubble Space...Full Description |
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Radio WOOF | Bill Wellington | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Radio WOOF is fast-paced, fun adventure in the world of folklore. Storyteller and folk musician (banjo, fiddle, guitar, and Irish flute) Bill Wellington presents a show filled with funny songs, stories,...Full Description |
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Digging For Treasure | Billy Bee Productions Inc. | No | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | The opportunity for students and teachers to observe the combined talents of author and illustrator is very rare... until now!Author, Peter Thomas, and illustrator, John Mahomet, of the children's...Full Description |
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Extreme Spirituals | Birdsongs of the Mesozoic | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Atlanta-based African-American spiritual singer Oral Moses joins Birdsongs of the Mesozoic for an exciting and moving musical collaboration between the traditional and the experimental...Full Description |
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A Life of Sorrow - the Life and Times of Carter Stanley | Bluegrass Productions of Virginia, LLC | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | "A Life of Sorrow" is a one-man show that uses storytelling and music to bring to life the saga of an Appalachian Mountain Music Legend. As an architect of the genre of music known today as bluegrass,...Full Description |
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Bob Carroll Magic and Ventriloquist Show | Bob Carroll | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | This is a complete comedy magic and ventriloquist show. It can be tailored for any venue.Library shows a specialty. Audience participation. Bob Carroll,Guinness World Record Joke Teller, can perform...Full Description |
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Family Folklore Books | Bookmaking - Jeannie Hunt | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Join us on a bookmaking expedition to explore the territory closest to home: your own family history! Come prepared with a story to tell, or join us for word games that will spark your memory and uncover...Full Description |
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Personal Map Books | Bookmaking - Jeannie Hunt | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Map-making allows us to explore our world and our imaginations. Some maps are geograpical (a map of your bedroom, or your neighborhood); some are poetic (a map of your heart) or thought-provoking (a...Full Description |
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Story-Keeper Travel Pack | Bookmaking - Jeannie Hunt | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | This two-session project combines a passport-travel journal and a magic fold-out map book that both fit into a folded paper wallet. Use this travel pack full of books to tell a story about a journey,...Full Description |
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Magic Scrolls | Bookmaking - Jeannie Hunt | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Learn about bookmaking around the world, and the magic scroll books from Ethiopia. We will create our own scroll book with our wishes and hopes, and build a case for it, covered with magic symbols,...Full Description |
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Passport--Travel Journals | Bookmaking - Jeannie Hunt | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Build a simple book and use it to tell a story about a journey. Write about a place you have been to, or have always wanted to visit. It can be a real place on Earth or a mysterious world that exists...Full Description |
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Wish on a Star Book | Bookmaking - Jeannie Hunt | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | This pentangle-shaped coloring book open like a lotus flower to reveal 5 petal-shaped pages with geometric patterns or coloring-book nature designs for you to color. Or if you like to write, use your...Full Description |
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Name Game Pocket Books | Bookmaking - Jeannie Hunt | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Explore your inner powers and multiple identities with this popular teen project. After a game to build a personal word pool, you will create new names for yourself and design power symbols to match....Full Description |
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Fun with Pop-up Books | Bookmaking - Jeannie Hunt | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In this workshop, we'll first make a series of models to learn the basic skills of pop-up engineering. Then we'll choose our favorite designs and make pop-up cards and simple books, and decorate them...Full Description |
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Artist Journals | Bookmaking - Jeannie Hunt | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Teens and adults will enjoy making a blank journal that can be used as a sketchbook or a mixed-media artist journal. The book structure has multiple pages of drawing paperand a soft cover with...Full Description |
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Mindful Mandalas | Bookmaking - Jeannie Hunt | No | 5 | Tweens (9-12) | Spend a relaxing few hours learning how to design and color freehand Mandalas. These circular designs are found in many cultures and spiritual traditions. We'll look at a variety of examples...Full Description |
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Haiku Books | Bookmaking - Jeannie Hunt | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In this workshop, we'll explore two creative traditions from Japan: Asian bookbinding techniques and Haiku poems. Using both pictures and words,we'll create a side-sewn book and fill it...Full Description |
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Classical Moves | Boston Ballet | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Classical Moves is a great introduction to ballet, classical music, and their important relationship. Interactive demonstrations foster a look inside the creative process and help students understand...Full Description |
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The Bubble Guy | Boston Bubble Guy-Laughs On Us | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Mike Dorval has Mike has been performing for, with, and around kids for the past 15 years all around the world! He was a part of three international Children's Tours. The Wizard of OZ, The Pied Piper,...Full Description |
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Falling For Dance | Boston Dance Collective | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Boston Dance Collective's program offers an exciting and entertaining introduction to dance and choreography. Dances are created from falling, sports, gestures, martial arts, newspapers, and telephones....Full Description |
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Moving Words | Boston Dance Collective | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Poetry and Dance have much in common, from rhythm and meter to metaphor. Dance Collective brings physicality and feeling to the words of many poets, such as William Carlos Willams and e.e. cummings....Full Description |
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Boston Dance Collective's Student Workshop/Residency | Boston Dance Collective | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Students will explore self-expression through movement. The workshops focus on the creative process of dance and choreography. The workshops and residencies can be tailored to meet the curriculum...Full Description |
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Airbrush Tattoo's | Boston Face Painters, The | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The children have a choice of a stencil/tattoo design. It can be applied to the face or the arms. It is done with airbrush face and body paint. It is easily removed with soap and water. ...Full Description |
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Glitter Tattoos | Boston Face Painters, The | No | 2 | Three Year Olds | Glitter tattoos are very popular today. An adhesive tattoo is attached to the skin and a medical adhesive is applied, then dried, then glitter is applied. We then remove the stencil and see a beautiful...Full Description |
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Learn How To Face Paint | Boston Face Painters, The | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Children will learn basic face painting skills. I will provide all that is necessary for this educational program....Full Description |
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a cappella Chorus | Boston Jazz Voices | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Boston Jazz Voices is one of New England's premier jazz, a cappella singing groups, using eighteen voices and six-to eight-part close harmonies to produce a uniquely beautiful sound. Boston Jazz Voices...Full Description |
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Box Out Bullying: Student Performances and Parent Workshops | Box Out Bullying | No | 3 | Preschoolers (4-5) | Box Out Bullying is committed to the highest standards of quality education that employes research based bullying prevention techniques with interactive live theater as its medium. Our assembly...Full Description |
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Classical and Pops Brass Quintet | Brass Connection | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Brass Connection is a professional brass quintet that performs many styles of music, including classical, ragtime, dixieland, blues, latin and swing. We can offer your audience an all-classical program,...Full Description |
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Ventriloquist Brian Tiernan | Brian Tiernan | No | 4,7 | Young Children (6-8), Adults (18+) | A ventriloquism and music show featuring world class ventriloquism and classic musical hits from the fifties and sixties. Brian presents two different types of shows. One is a G/PG rated adult...Full Description |
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Life Aboard a Whaling Ship | Brief History, A | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The morning of November 25th, 1856, Mary Chipman Lawrence set sail aboard the whaling ship Addison bound for the Pacific on a voyage that would last three and a half years. In this performance, Mary...Full Description |
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The FIRST First Lady | Brief History, A | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In 1759, Martha Dandridge Custis married the handsome and successful soldier George Washington, a decision that would lead her from the battlefields of the American Revolution to the highest echelons...Full Description |
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Belva Lockwood for President! | Brief History, A | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Meet the first woman to run a full presidential campaign, in 1884! Belva Lockwood, the first woman to be admitted to the Supreme Court Bar, will delight your audience with a lively campaign speech detailing...Full Description |
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Victorian Christmas Traditions | Brief History, A | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | "Victoria Yule" welcomes you into her parlor and shares her plans for the 1895 Christmas season. Learn the history of many Christmas traditions, passed down to her from "Grandmama and Grandpapa." She'll...Full Description |
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Short Skirts, Oh My! History of Women's Rights | Brief History, A | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment ratifications! When Abigail Adams begged her husband to "remember the ladies" in drafting a new code of laws, John wrote back that he "could...Full Description |
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Coast to Coast in 48 Hours! | Brief History, A | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Charles Lindbergh's vision of coast-to-coast travel by plane and train in just 48 hours was only a dream until July 7th, 1929, when Transcontinental Air Transport's inaugural journey left New York City....Full Description |
Yes |
Rounders to Baseball | Brief History, A | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | If you miss the baseball season and long for a taste of it, here's a chance to learn about the game's history. Variations of baseball have been played for hundreds of years, including a rousing...Full Description |
Yes |
Hollywood: Wild West to Movie Mecca | Brief History, A | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Discover how Hollywood evolved from a small, conservative community into a glittering movie mecca full of glamorous stars and eye-popping scandal. See clips of the early films that launched the...Full Description |
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An 18th Century Clairvoyant | Brief History, A | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Lynn clairvoyant Moll Pitcher's predictions of an ill-fated voyage were so powerful that they could render a ship crew-less if word got out. This 17th century sybil is said to have made predictions...Full Description |
Yes |
Virtual Magic with Matt Roberts, As Seen At Boston's Symphony Hall | Bright, Professional Magic Show: Matt Roberts , A | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | As Seen On PBS, NBC's Today Show And Annually At Boston's Symphony Hall For His "Music & Magic" Series: Matt Roberts Presents An Unforgettable, Professional Show That Will Make Your Next Family...Full Description |
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Playing with Pollinators | Brilliant Botany | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Learn about the exciting and varied world of pollinators! From bees to lemurs, pollinators are an important part of our ecosystems. Participants will learn about the basics of pollination, the life...Full Description |
Yes |
Brilliant Botany: Careers in Plant Science | Brilliant Botany | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | From tiny wildflowers to towering redwoods, the planet is covered in plants. This one hour seminar introduces students to the importance of plant science and potential careers in the field. We will...Full Description |
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Bruce Kalver Magic Shows | Bruce Kalver - Magician - Balloon Artist | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | With an easy going manner, Bruce charms his audience with colorful, visual magic tricks. Lots of audience participation and comedy Bruce can entertain any audience. Bruce is an expert at working...Full Description |
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Revlak School of Magic and Wizardry | Bruce Kalver - Magician - Balloon Artist | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | The wizard headmaster of a magic school entertains the audience with an introductory demonstration in magic wizardry! This show takes on the "Harry Potter" theme and presents very colorful/visual magic...Full Description |
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AIRNIMATIONS Balloon Art | Bruce Kalver - Magician - Balloon Artist | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | An entertaining balloon art show. To music, Bruce creates unbelievable balloon creations. These are not your poodles and giraffes. He includes cartoon characters, storybook charaters and unusual fun....Full Description |
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Magic With Everyday Objects | Bruce Kalver - Magician - Balloon Artist | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A workshop for those interested in learning how to perform some magic tricks to amaze their friends. Magician/magical inventor/magic author Bruce Kalver will teach participants how to create magic with...Full Description |
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Balloon Art Display | Bruce Kalver - Magician - Balloon Artist | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | World famous balloon artist Bruce Kalver will come into your library and create an art show entirely out of balloons! His dioramas have included themes such as: Outer Space, Cartoon Classics, Life in...Full Description |
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ABRACADABRA - Stories from the History of Magic | Bruce Kalver - Magician - Balloon Artist | No | 4,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This multimedia presentation entertains and educates as you learn about the history of performance magic. Houdini was not the only great magician who performed. Learn about the magician that stopped...Full Description |
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The Magic of Reading | Bryan Flint | No | 1,2,3,4,5,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Family entertainer Bryan Flint of Showtime Productions in Connecticut will magically motivate young people to want to read after experiencing "The Magic of Reading" program.Bryan travels all...Full Description |
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Bryson Lang - The Cure For the Common Show! | Bryson Lang - The Cure For The Common Show | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Bryson lang has entertained thousands around the world with his creative, high-energy, family-frendly Comedy-Juggling Act. His versatility as an entertainer has put him in hotel-casino shows, night...Full Description |
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A Puppet Passport: Global Legends | By Ty: Puppets ETC | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This show is a collection of six multicultural folk tales brought to life with a tabletop rod puppets. The cast of animals, dressed in brightly colored stylized international clothing brings to life...Full Description |
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Edward Wonderful | By Ty: Puppets ETC | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | From the moment he meets her, Edward Wonderful knows Myrtle doesn't believe in magic. He knows he must prove her wrong. With a little help from Mother Nature and a contrary grasshopper, Edward's mysterious...Full Description |
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The Tale of Juan Bobo | CactusHead Puppets | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Meet Juan Bobo! He always tries to do the right thing, but often makes mistakes. For Juan, even the smallest task can lead to the silliest of results. But can Juan Bobo's seemingly foolish actions end...Full Description |
Yes |
Bremen Town Musicians | CactusHead Puppets | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | What can a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster do when they have to leave their farm? Become world famous musicians, of course! CactusHead Puppets brings to life the hilarious tale of four farm animals...Full Description |
Yes |
The Pied Piper of Hamelin | CactusHead Puppets | No | 3 | Preschoolers (4-5) | The town of Hamelin has a rat problem, and there's only one person who can help! CactusHead Puppets brings the story of The Pied Piper to life in this comedic, updated adaptation of the traditional...Full Description |
Yes |
Little Red Riding Hood | CactusHead Puppets | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Little Red Riding Hood goes off through the woods to visit her grandmother, but to make it there safely she will have to outsmart the tricky Big Bad Wolf. Join us for our sly and silly adaptation of...Full Description |
Yes |
Magnificent Monster Circus | CactusHead Puppets | Yes | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Magnificent Monster Circus Come one, come all, to a circus like no other! Encounter magnificent creatures from the wilds of your imagination as their quirky human caretaker tries to teach them...Full Description |
Yes |
Puppet Making Workshop | CactusHead Puppets | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Learn how to make your own puppet with household materials! ...Full Description |
Yes |
Celtic Concert | Caera | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Caera is a Celtic musician from the Boston area, who is very passionate about the music, languages, and history of her ancestors. She plays a clairseach, a brass-strung harp modeled after historical...Full Description |
No |
Irish Gaelic Children's Songs | Caera | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Easy traditional Irish Gaelic children's songs can be taught to adults as well as children. Lyrics and translations are available to those who can read. Some songs involve extra fun, such as accompanying...Full Description |
No |
Irish Gaelic Lullabies | Caera | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Traditional Irish Gaelic lullablies can be taught to adults as well as children (I can also just sing and play them for a nap time event, but that would be as a performance, not a class). The songs...Full Description |
No |
Basic Intro to the Celtic Languages | Caera | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This class can answer questions such as: What are the Celtic languages? What's the difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic? How is Gaelic related to Welsh? What did the ancient Celts speak?...Full Description |
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Introduction to the Gaelic languages | Caera | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This class teaches what the three modern Gaelic languages are and the languages they are descended from. Participants will learn pronunciation and a very small vocabulary. Discussion often moves according...Full Description |
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Yoga PJ Storytime | Caitlin Borsini Yoga Barre Pilates | Yes | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Calm down from the day with Yoga. We will read some stories, move our bodies, stretch, breath and reset. You will need a mat, towel or blanket. Stuffed animals and comfy clothes welcome...Full Description |
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Journal and Yoga for Teens and Tweens | Caitlin Borsini Yoga Barre Pilates | Yes | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Establish mindfulness wirh journaling, music, and movement. We will use yoga concepts, postures, and meditation to help with stress, improve posture, and provide connection....Full Description |
Yes |
Hands on STEM at home | Caitlin Borsini Yoga Barre Pilates | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | We will use home or easily accessible materials to explore a scientific topic such as Chromatography, Water cycle, pH/Chemistry. Children have a chance to interact and learn via different mediums....Full Description |
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Preschool Yoga Storytime | Caitlin Borsini Yoga Barre Pilates | No | 2,3 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Play, move, dance, balance and learn with yoga. We will do yoga poses related to a theme and a book to support that theme. Kids will dance, stretch, play and relax. ...Full Description |
Yes |
Sensory Play and Storytime | Caitlin Borsini Yoga Barre Pilates | Yes | 2,3 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Together we will make a sensory material, and then kids will play with the material while I read a corresponding story to the theme. Getting messy can build hand muscles for writing/pre writing, and...Full Description |
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Restorative Yoga at Home | Caitlin Borsini Yoga Barre Pilates | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Using props from home we will support our bodies for restorative yoga postures. Restorative yoga helps relieve muscle tension, allows for deep relaxation, reduces anxiety and stress, and supports better...Full Description |
Yes |
Barre for Beginners | Caitlin Borsini Yoga Barre Pilates | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | No studio, no problem! Use home items for a full body workout that is energizing and fun. Modifications are available for all fitness levels. Barre uses pilates, ballet and strength training components...Full Description |
Yes |
Flex and Flow | Caitlin Borsini Yoga Barre Pilates | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Strengthen and lengthen muscles using yoga and pilates movements. Class can be done with bodyweight only and a mat or using light weights or soup cans. ...Full Description |
Yes |
Family Yoga | Caitlin Borsini Yoga Barre Pilates | Yes | 2,3,4,5,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Strengthen family bonds and strengthen your muscles as you play, laugh, and stretch together. Family yoga can provide a positive family interaction in a challenging time. ...Full Description |
Yes |
Virtual Family Magic Show | Cameron Zvara - Comedy Magician & Entertainer | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Cameron Zvara brings his popular Comedy Magic Show to your living room! Get ready for mind blowing magic, comedy, juggling, music, and audience participation... You don't want to miss out!...Full Description |
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Comedy Magic Family Show | Cameron Zvara - Comedy Magician & Entertainer | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Cameron Zvara performs in 140+ libraries across the state of Michigan each year. Cameron combines mind blowing magic, laugh out loud comedy, juggling, music, and TONS of audience participation into...Full Description |
Yes |
Back to Brassics | Cantabrigia Brass Quintet | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | No instruments are more suggestive of power and triumph than those in the brass family. The superb quintet, now with Young Audiences of Massachusetts for over thirty years, explores a rich brass repertoire...Full Description |
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Sounding Brass | Cantabrigia Brass Quintet | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Sounding Brass is for older students or for those who have seen the "Brassics" program. This program includes performances on early brass instruments, examples of early and contemporary jazz, and a...Full Description |
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The Science of Sound | Cantabrigia Brass Quintet | No | 6 | Teenagers (13-17) | In this program, science, technology, and history are all wrapped into one! Students will hear a chorus of garden hoses, view the vibrating rope, listen to early brass intruments, and discover how they...Full Description |
No |
Timeless Tales | Caravan Puppets | No | 1,2,3,4,5 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Timeless Tales Caravan's "best of" collection of world tales and original skits. Audiences are treated to a wide diversity of puppetry styles with beautiful staging and original music. Some stories...Full Description |
Yes |
Aesop's Fables | Caravan Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | A hilarious take on the ancient fable spinner's greatest hits. From a crabby crow to dancing grapes, Caravan brings Aesop's positive lessons to life with wildly creative hand made puppets, interaction...Full Description |
Yes |
Tales Of Mystery (Halloween) | Caravan Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Caravan's Halloween program focuses on the wonder and mystery of the holiday, with puppet, witches, fantastic fantasy creatures and music (not TOO scary!). "Tales Of Mystery features hand crafted puppets,...Full Description |
Yes |
The Season Of Lights (winter holidays) | Caravan Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | All over the world people light up December's darkness with holiday's, festivieties and traditions. THE SEASON OF LIGHTS is a secular celebration of winter holidays around the world. Christmas,Hanukkah,...Full Description |
Yes |
The Emerald Isle | Caravan Puppets | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Celebrating Irish culture with with classic tales, music and poetry. Audiences meet leprechauns, magical creature and wonderous people from irelands rich past and legends. ...Full Description |
Yes |
From Page To Stage! | Caravan Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Caravan brings beloved children’s literature and characters to the puppet stage. “From Page To Stage” brings young readers (or soon to be) to the joys of reading and drama....Full Description |
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Around The World | Caravan Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Join Caravan Puppets on a globe trotting journey with world tales, hand crafted puppets, beautiful staging and original music. Programs feature four stories from our huge repertoire to highlight different...Full Description |
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Getting Along! | Caravan Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Audiences are treated to a wide diversity of puppets and puppetry styles with beautiful staging and original music. GETTING ALONG blends classic original, and world tales (four stories in a show) and...Full Description |
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Getting Along! | Caravan Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Audiences are treated to a wide diversity of puppets and puppetry styles with beautiful staging and original music. GETTING ALONG blends classic original, and world tales (four stories in a show) and...Full Description |
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Journey To The Moon | Caravan Puppets | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Join (puppet) Astonaut Alta on her epic trip to the moon! This fact filled musical fantasy comes complete with interactive music, spaceships and (some of our wildest puppets!) aliens! “Journey...Full Description |
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Jurassic Journey | Caravan Puppets | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | In “Jurassic Journey!”, the esteemed (puppet) Professor Diggins journeys back in time with rocking songs, creative movement and dino puppets galore! Jurassic Journey, a fast-moving...Full Description |
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Jurassic To Mammoth | Caravan Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Featuring Professor Diggins and His Time Travelin' Band, “Jurassic to Mammoth!” tells the rollicking tale of Professor Diggins journey to the land of the dinos! The good professor...Full Description |
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The Four Season Bear | Caravan Puppets | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | “Four Season Bear” is The delightful tale of the year of a young bear with memorable songs, beautiful puppets, storytelling, and movement. Audiences are treated to a beautiful hand...Full Description |
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Our Flying Friends | Caravan Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Imaginations take flight with Caravan's "Our Flying Friends!" We've combed our repertoire and found a wealth of stories and puppets to celebrate flight. From the prehistoric, to the avian to the skies...Full Description |
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Caribbean for Kids | Caribbean For Kids | No | 2,3,4,5,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Caribbean for Kids performs particpatoryshows which include calypso, reggae, andsoca beats with steel drum, limbo dancing, and many call and response songs. Audiences of all ages will...Full Description |
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Canciones Para Los Ninos | Caribbean For Kids | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | This participatory sing a long presentation is half in Spanish and half in English. The goal of this performance is to teach children simiple words and songs in another language. At times, the same...Full Description |
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Hands on Geography | Carol Cohen | Yes | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Hands on Geography workshop utilizes an oversized world map and manipulatives to enhance geographic learning. Now Voyager has designed several versions of this learning experience to satisfy educational...Full Description |
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An evening with Eleanor Roosevelt | Carol Cohen | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | "An Evening with Eleanor Roosevelt" Join author and historian Carol Cohen for a look into the life of EleanorRoosevelt. During this presentation, meet Eleanor Roosevelt at...Full Description |
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Eleanor Roosevelt and the Declaration of Human Rights | Carol Cohen | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Join Eleanor Roosevelt at her home in Val Kill as she takes you on a journey throught the history of Human Rights from Ancient Times to the present. Emphasis is on the Declaration of Human...Full Description |
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A Walk in the Garden with Eleanor Roosevelt | Carol Cohen | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Meet Eleanor Roosevelt in backyard of her home called Val Kill located in Hyde Park NY. It is the summer of 1949. Eleanor has gathered together friends relatives and colleagues for a garden picnic where...Full Description |
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Life in Colonial Times | Carol Cohen | Yes | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Colonial School Days : Living History Program - Prudence Gray – owner of a dame school in Colonial America ( 1700's Virgina ) invites students into her home for lessons and...Full Description |
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Begin with a Box : Creative teaching and learning during quarantine! | Carol Cohen | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | BEGIN WITH A Box Creative teaching and learning during quarantine!Join educator, historian and author Carol Cohen as she shares her unique approach to hands-on learning through her favorite tool...Full Description |
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MEET THE AUTHOR! | Carol Weis ~ Children's Author | No | 2,3,4,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Adults (18+) | Carol Weis is the author of the picture book, WHEN THE COWS GOT LOOSE, which was given a starred review by Kirkus, and was illustrated by the best-selling artist, Ard Hoyt. In...Full Description |
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THE TALE BEHIND THE STORY: PICTURE BOOKS AND HOW THEY'RE MADE! | Carol Weis ~ Children's Author | No | 5 | Tweens (9-12) | Carol Weis is the author of the picture book, WHEN THE COWS GOT LOOSE, which was given a starred review by Kirkus, and was illustrated by best-selling artist, Ard Hoyt. In this...Full Description |
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POEMS HAVE FEELINGS, TOO! | Carol Weis ~ Children's Author | No | 5 | Tweens (9-12) | Carol Weis is the author of the picture book, WHEN THE COWS GOT LOOSE, as well as a collection of poetry for adults. In this program, Carol explores the feelings of children...Full Description |
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COWS IN SPACE | Carol Weis ~ Children's Author | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Carol Weis is the author of the picture book, WHEN THE COWS GOT LOOSE, which was given a starred review by Kirkus, and was illustrated by the best-selling artist, Ard Hoyt. Dressed in her Cow-lady...Full Description |
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The Science of Sound | Caryn Lin | Yes | 0 | The Science of Sound LIVE STREAMING from STUDIO STEAM-ARAMA THE SCIENCE of SOUND is a LIVE STREAMING Multi-Media Interactive S.T.E.A.M. Extravaganza!! Sound is transformed through...Full Description |
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Songwriters and American Music | Casey Abrams | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Casey Abrams is a songwriter and acoustic jazz/folk guitarist with two albums receiving international sales and airplay. He performs his songs, as well as works by traditional american writers (from...Full Description |
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BubbleMania: Comedy...with a Drip! | Casey Carle | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Casey Carle, soap bubble consultant to Cirque du Soleil, presents "BubbleMania!" a fusion of clean humor, big-band swing music and "the untamed, often unbelievable qualities and beauty of spherical liquids....Full Description |
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Virtual Bubble Workshop: Be A Bubble Artist! | Casey Carle | Yes | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Bubble Master Teaches The Basics of Controlled Bubble Art. Gather a bunch of bubble enthusiasts and enjoy a live, liquid lesson with internationally recognized, award-winning bubble master Casey...Full Description |
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(Virtual) BubbleMania: The Wonderful World of Trapped Gas! | Casey Carle | Yes | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | A virtual-only presentation featuring Casey Carle, professional comic bubble-ologist. Wash your hands to stay healthy! Good idea...but Why and How does soap work?? In "Bubble-Mania: The...Full Description |
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Bullet Journaling 101 | Casual Study | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Dynamic presentation/workshop for up to 20 people. Each participant gets a journal to work on and take home. The program runs 2 hours and is a presentation for half the time and hands-on time working...Full Description |
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Magical Food | Casual Study | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ever wonder what a pumpkin pasty tastes like? Find out in our Magical Food program! We'll demonstrate how to make pasties-both sweet and savory and attendees will have a chance to taste them. ...Full Description |
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Catch the Science Bug | Catch the Science Bug | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | We help children learn science! Catch the Science Bug has been offering entertaining and educational science programs to schools and libraries since 2000. 25 different science programs are offered...Full Description |
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The Melding of Music, Myth, and Memories | CelloTales | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | CelloTales is the unique and special collaboration of two art forms: music and storytelling. Award-winning Master Story Performer Leeny Del Seamonds and virtuoso cellist Gideon Freudmann invite students...Full Description |
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Mother Goose | Characters/Young Audiences of Massachusetts | No | 3 | Preschoolers (4-5) | Young children get to meet Mother Goose, the beloved author of nursery rhymes. Children join Mother Goose as she recites nursery rhymes, sings songs, plays a circle game, and tells a story....Full Description |
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Beatrix Potter | Characters/Young Audiences of Massachusetts | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Beatrix PotterMrs. Heelis (Beatrix Potter's married name) sits among your students to have a cozy chat. During the course of her visit, the following topics are brought forth:- Contrasting...Full Description |
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Caroline Ingalls | Characters/Young Audiences of Massachusetts | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Many children have grown up reading the "Little House" books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. This program gives students a chance to meet her mother, Caroline, and to learn more about pioneer life. Caroline...Full Description |
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Molly Pitcher | Characters/Young Audiences of Massachusetts | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Mary Hayes was but one of many "Molly Pitchers" who followed their husbands to war during the American Revolution. These women were not allowed to fight (though Mary claims she did), but they forfeited...Full Description |
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Madame Curie | Characters/Young Audiences of Massachusetts | No | 6 | Teenagers (13-17) | Madame Curie's discoveries of radium and polonium had a tremendous impact in the scientific world. She is best known for receiving two Nobel prizes in her lifetime, but in this program students will...Full Description |
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Ellen Craft | Characters/Young Audiences of Massachusetts | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In 1848, Ellen Craft and her husband William made a most remarkable escape from slavery in Georgia to freedom in the North. Rather than travel via the Underground Railway, they took the "above-ground"...Full Description |
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Three Mill Girls | Characters/Young Audiences of Massachusetts | No | 6 | Teenagers (13-17) | Meet three mill girls who have different perspectives on their work in the mills. Mary Paul is "pro-mill," Sarah Bagley participates in turn outs and strikes, and Mary Harvey is an Irish immigrant worker....Full Description |
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Jill and the Beanstalk | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Marionette show running approx. 35 minutes followed by questions and answers or meet and greet the puppets depending on the size of the group. Puppet show is an adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk,...Full Description |
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The Three Dreams | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 2,3 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | 25-35 minute puppet show followed by meet and greet the puppets. This Marrionette show is about a lonely princess who teaches a naughty bird the true meaning of friendship and the value of honesty....Full Description |
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The Sea Story | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | Yes | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Adventure under the sea with a marionette show bringing you pirates, a mermaid and all kinds of sea creatures. Choose one of two versions of this show. 1)An old fashioned "fairy tale" version with an...Full Description |
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In Search of the Unicorn | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | See the unicorn in this enchanting Marionette show about dreams and imagination. A princess loves to read books and look at the clouds but her uncle wants her to do her chores. What happens when a...Full Description |
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Goldilocks and the Three Dragons | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 3,4,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Adults (18+) | Mummy, Daddy and Baby dragon live happily in the forest till naughty Goldilocks arrives to cause a commotion. Enjoy an original take on the Goldilocks story. Show uses marionettes, singing and audience...Full Description |
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Aunty Goose | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | Yes | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Not your grey haired "Mother Goose" but her younger "Aunty" with her own Goose and other hand puppets to tell stories. In full costume Charlotte Dore is "Aunty Goose", using hand puppets, pictures a...Full Description |
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Rosalita and the Giant Bugs | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | When Rosalita ( a marionettte)drinks a bottle of something strange she shrinks to become the same size as the bugs in her garden. She meets Mr Bob the Catepillar, Queen Ant, Mummy ladybug, the big spider...Full Description |
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Rumpletoadstool and the Drum | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Marionette puppet show adapting the traditional tale of Rumplestiltskin. In this show a poor girl plays on her drum. The music delights her mother so much that the mother says the music is like gold....Full Description |
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The Enchanted Forest ( ideal for Go green theme) | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 4,5,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | King Leopold protects the fabulous creatures of the forest from the imp and his two knights Hanz and Franz. The imp and the knights want to take over and cut down the trees. Who will save the day? Will...Full Description |
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The Tale of Two Brothers (or X marks the spot) | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 4,5,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Two seafaring brothers (pirate marionettes, I might add) are washed up on a treasure island unaware that the other has survived. Will they find the treasure and will they find each other? And what will...Full Description |
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The story of Purim | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A marionette show re-telling the story of Purim. Appropriate for families....Full Description |
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Rudolph the Red Nosed Dragon | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Rudolph the red nosed dragon is teased by all the other dragons. When Santa's reindeer fall sick, it is Rudolph who pulls the sleigh and saves the holidays. For a non-denominational version (without...Full Description |
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It's A Lovely Holiday with Grandma | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This delightful marionette show tells the story of Grandma's dinner party. During the Holidays everyone is invited to grandmothers house for a wonderful meal. However when some of the guests are sent...Full Description |
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The Space Show | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Marionette show with audience participation and songs. In this story Rosalita discovers a new planet in her telescope. She then travels on an adventure into space to find it. Enjoy watching Rosalita...Full Description |
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Aesops Fables | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Four short marionette stories presenting Aesops fables. : " The Fox and the Crow", "The Fisherman and his catch", "The Town mouse and the Country mouse", " The Donkey and the Lap dog" can also replace...Full Description |
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The Three Singing princesses | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | An original musical performed by three singer/actors. Puppetry by Charlotte Dore of Rosalita's puppets help tell the story. Also includes live singing in harmony. Three sisters go on an adventure to...Full Description |
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The Egyptian Adventure | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Rosalita visits Egypt and ends up on an adventure into the pyramids where she meets a mummy and Anubis. Great marionette show adventure...Full Description |
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Stories by Charlotte | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | Yes | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Professional actor , storyteller, puppeteer and audio book narrator can visit your library and tell a selection of stories many completely original. Some traditional. She has selections of short stories...Full Description |
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The Dollmakers Ghost and Other Stories | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Proffesional actor and storyteller, puppeteer and audio book narrator presents 3 chilling ghost stories in full Victorian gothic costume using real antique props and handmade dolls, objects and mementos....Full Description |
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Little Red Riding Hood | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Using marionettes Rosalita's Puppets presents the story of Little Red Riding Hood. The show includes Grandma, the Wolf the huntsman. The dialogue is spoken live and there are songs and audience participation......Full Description |
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The Haunted Woods | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Great marionette show for October. In the Haunted wood all must do good. As the cauldron boils to make soup the princess is challenged by the three sisters who need her help. Will the princess break...Full Description |
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The Enchanted Castle | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | Yes | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Family show. Godmother glitter hosts her enchanted castle filled with 3 short puppet shows . The stories include a dragon, a wizard, a Unicorn, a fairy, a princess This show has been recently re crafted...Full Description |
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Fairy Tale Olympics | Charlotte Dore/ Rosalita's Puppets | Yes | 2,3,4,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Adults (18+) | Marionette show ideal for a family audience. Queen Emerald decides to have an Olympics for all the fairy tale creatures of the kingdom. As they compete the Queens freind Simon, learns about what it...Full Description |
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Friends Forever Concert | Cheryl Melody Baskin, LLC | Yes | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Educational, imaginative, character-building and interactive concerts, with themes on Inclusion, diversity celebration, self-esteem, kindness, empathy, friendship, love, and concrete ways to...Full Description |
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The Musical Imagination Adventure Concert | Cheryl Melody Baskin, LLC | Yes | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Interactive, positive messages for self-esteem, music, movement, storytelling, puppets and imagination. Fun, joy, expert pacing,. 40 years of experience as a music movemetn and imagination educator,...Full Description |
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Musical Magical Baby, Toddler and Me! | Cheryl Melody Baskin, LLC | Yes | 1,2 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds | Joyful interactive singing, stories, clapping games, finger plays, bounces, tickle chants, listening skills, dancing, musical concepts within songs, puppets, stuffed animals, peek a boo's, instruments,...Full Description |
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Rock concert | chibi kodama | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | We call it "all-rock" - we're a family of seven and we play big, fun, electronic rock. Our focus is on emotional health, singing songs that will make both parents and the kiddos think, and hopefully...Full Description |
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Acoustic Concert | chibi kodama | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Chibi Kodama is the Cullimore family, a family of 7 who typically plays big, loud, fun electronic rock that we call "all-rock." It's rock for all ages, but just a bit off of the beaten path. We...Full Description |
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Toddler Town: Valentine's Day | Children Strong & Community Strong | No | 2 | Three Year Olds | Toddler Town™ (STREAM for Toddlers) Set up as a town, Toddler Town™ toddlers and their guardians will navigate through each station to learn and experience...Full Description |
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Making a Time Capsule: Virtual Program | Children Strong & Community Strong | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Virtual Program: Wonderful Weekend Family Fall Activity!!! Create a “2020-Time...Full Description |
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Arithmetickles | Children's Theatre Center | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Arithmetickles is a highly interactive program that combines storytelling, mime and games with the everyday application of basic math concept. On stage participation allows selected audience members...Full Description |
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Children's Voices | Children's Voices Theater | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Promote Literacy and Celebrate the Imagination With Children's Voices Theatre. Children's Voices Theatre transforms stories and poems written by students K-6, into a magical theatrical experience...Full Description |
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Chris Culkeen Disc Jockey / Music and Entertainment | Chris Culkeen Disc Jockey / Music and Entertainment | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | I will play familiar and fun songs for kids to sing and dance to. Mom and dad might even join in to the limbo, loco-motion, the twist and more. Holiday music is especially fun for shows at Christmas,...Full Description |
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Story & Song Celebrations! | Christopher KAVI Carbone | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Come gather around with Christopher 'Kavi' Carbone,the musical storyteller of lightness and warmth! Participate in songs and stories to help you find your inner smile and bring it bubbling...Full Description |
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Musical Celebrations! | Christopher KAVI Carbone | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | 'Come gather around with Christopher 'Kavi' Carbone,Musical Troubadour of light and warmth! Participate in music and movement geared towards the Whole Familyas we "Catch the Beat" and...Full Description |
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Namaste! Family Yoga Celebration! | Christopher KAVI Carbone | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Come celebrate the joys of Yoga!Program offered in two formats:For large audience: songs and experiences about Yoga: breathing, moving, taking care of ourselves and others.For smaller...Full Description |
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Celebrating the Imagination! | Christopher KAVI Carbone | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | We come together with Stories and Songs and Imagination exercises, to celebrate the Creative spirit within each one of us, as individuals, as families, and as community. Using our Minds and...Full Description |
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Catch the Beat! - Celebrating with Music, Rhythm, Story & Song! | Christopher KAVI Carbone | No | 1,2,3,4,5,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | 'Come gather around with Christopher 'Kavi' Carbone, Musical Troubadour of light and warmth! Participate in Music, Movement, Interactive Storytelling, Fun Songs, Rhythms, & More - geared towards the...Full Description |
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The Wild Wild World of Animal Tales | Christopher KAVI Carbone | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Through a dynamic blend of Interactive Storytelling and Music and Song, we'll explore the Wild Kingdom of Animals together! Come gather around with Christopher 'Kavi' Carbone, the musical storyteller...Full Description |
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Honoring the Earth and Each Other | Christopher KAVI Carbone | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Honoring the Earth and Each Other: with Stories and Songs from around the globe we celebrate the Earth and all the natural world. Excellent for ecological themes and for encouraging respect and care...Full Description |
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Animal Tales | Cindy Rivka Marshall | Yes | 5 | Tweens (9-12) | All cultures tell stories about animals, often with human voices and feelings that everyone can relate to. This entertaining program of folktales from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas encourages...Full Description |
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Puzzle Stories | Cindy Rivka Marshall | Yes | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Children have a strong sense of fairness and justice. These multicultural stories present characters in predicaments and pose questions about making choices about how one should act. There...Full Description |
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Generous Helpings | Cindy Rivka Marshall | Yes | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Some people are inherently generous, others need to be shown the way to opening their hearts to others. These stories from many lands lift us up with examples of communities coming together and generosity...Full Description |
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The One-Man Circus in-a-Suitcase | Circus Minimus - The One-Man Circus in-a-Suitcase | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | SPECIFICALLY FOR ZOOM AUDIENCES: In response to Co-vid we're providing an edited a digital version of The One-Man Circus in-a-Suitcase with two new bookends - Intro of the show in the time of Co-vid...Full Description |
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The History and the Adventures of Tom Thumb | City Stage Co. | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | "The History and the Adventures of Tom Thumb" is a lively comedy where the audience takes a bow. 22 adults and children from the audience will play various parts in the show including fairy queens...Full Description |
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Folk Tales East & West | City Stage Co. | No | 2,3,4,5,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | "Folk Tales East & West" is a 40 minute show that dramatizes three traditional tales from European, Chinese and Native American cultures. All three of the tales ("The Tale of the Three Little Pigs",...Full Description |
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Folktales North & South | City Stage Co. | No | 1,2,3,4,5 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | "Folktales North & South" is fully participatory play composed of three traditional tales from three different cultures. The tales are:"The Little Red Hen & Chicken Little" from the British...Full Description |
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Irish and Scottish Music, Song & Storytelling | Cliff McGann/Folklore in Action | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Being half Irish and half Scottish, I come by my love of Scottish and Irish music naturally.My mother hails from Nova Scotia, where the Scottish Gaelic language is still spoken today. I began learning...Full Description |
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New England Folksong | Cliff McGann/Folklore in Action | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn about our collective New England history in this entertaining and educational folksong presentation. Stories of the Lowell Mill Girls, Maine Lumberman, Nantucket Whalerman, Gloucester Sailor are...Full Description |
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E-Bay Buying & Selling | Cliff McGann/Folklore in Action | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | As the internet has become safer there are still people reluctant to use E-Bay, one of the safest and most popular auction sites on the face of the planet.I've used E-Bay since 1998 to save money...Full Description |
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Tales and Songs from The Barnyard | Cliff McGann/Folklore in Action | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | I spent my summers as a kid living on my grandparents dairy farm in rural Nova Scotia. During this program I share stories and songs about life on the farm. The humorous and participatory songs...Full Description |
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Nova Scotia Kitchen Party | Cliff McGann/Folklore in Action | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Boston Kiltics are guitarist Cliff McGann, fiddler Doug Lamey and stepdancer Christine Morrison. We offer an old time Irish/Nova Scotia Kitchen party with music/song/story and dance. We also can...Full Description |
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A Fascinating Rhythm - Afro-Latin Drums, Dance & Culture | Coley Communications | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Using his drumming, dance and cultural anthropology training, a wealth of African, Afro-Cuban and Brazilian percussion, award-winning teaching artist Cornell Coley, M. Ed. "edu-tains" audiences of all...Full Description |
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The Not-So-Good Life of the Colonial Goodwife | Colonial Goodwife | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Perhaps women need to be reminded of how far we’ve come in order to see how far we still can go. Discover what life was really like for New England's colonial women - because we've always been...Full Description |
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The Not-So-Good Old Days: Childhood in Colonial New England | Colonial Goodwife | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | The Not-So-Good Old Days is a hands-on history program for kids. As a teacher, I know that students are more engaged and focused when they're working on hands-on projects. What could be more hands-on...Full Description |
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Comedy on The Move! | Comic Mime Robert Rivest | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Highlights the best of Robert Rivest's 20 year career as a master mime performer, comic actor and improv artist. Through humorous mime stories, spoken word physical comedy and a zany cast of characters,...Full Description |
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The Alphabet Show | Comic Mime Robert Rivest | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Alphabet Show is an amazing synthesis of movement, imagination, and laughter. With a different comic mime/story for each letter of the alphabet, Robert Rivest hilariously animates the joy...Full Description |
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Science in Motion | Comic Mime Robert Rivest | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Science in Motion is a mesmerizing blend of comedy and science that captivates both children and adults! Robert Rivest's creative use of movement, imagery, and audience participation allows...Full Description |
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Healthy Choices | Comic Mime Robert Rivest | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Happiness is a Healthy Body and Mind is a high-energy comedy program in which health and humor go hand in hand. Robert Rivest's humorous insights connect deeply with Children, Teens,...Full Description |
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Learn, Laugh and Let go - The Stress Management Show! | Comic Mime Robert Rivest | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn, Laugh, and Let Go: Interactive Stress Relief Show! Robert Rivest takes a humorous look at modern day stress and what we can do about it. Using mime, comedy, insight, and interaction Robert offers...Full Description |
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A Comic Celebration of Reading! | Comic Mime Robert Rivest | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This Comic Celebration of Books, Reading and Literacy! Â is a quick moving fun-filled enrichment program that gets children, teens and adults excited about reading. Through a fast paced...Full Description |
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Every Hero Has a Great Story! | Comic Mime Robert Rivest | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Every Hero Has a Story New library program for summer 2015! Every Hero Has a Great Story! Comic mime, Robert Rivest leads family audiences on a fun, upbeat journey of everyday heroes,...Full Description |
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Staff Stress Relief | Comic Mime Robert Rivest | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Give your staff members and co-workers a positive, shared experience filled with laughter! Enjoy the Ride! is Robert Rivest's most popular staff development and staff appreciation program ever!...Full Description |
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West Indian and American Music Song and Dance | Conroy Warren | No | 0 | West Indian and American Music Music Pepper Pot : An educational, cultural and entertaining program that is interactive, with group participation. The audience is always invited to sing, dance, ask...Full Description |
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Blues & the Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance | Cooked Goose Productions | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This program explores how Delta and Piedmont blues informed the poetry of Langston Hughes. It also talks about poetic devices and their use in blues music, as well as dabbling in songwriting if the...Full Description |
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Tap & Blues--Rhythm Dialogues | Cooked Goose Productions | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Riding the waves of a spacious backbeat, Robin O'Herin and Stefanie Weber are two women who've paid their dues. O'Herin's pounding Delta beat is the motor that drives this rhythmic conversation...Full Description |
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Interactive blues and gospel concert | Cooked Goose Productions | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | 2013 Boston Blues Finalist Robin O'Herin specializes in historically rich, often interactive concerts that include original and traditional American music, for small listening rooms, libraries, festivals,...Full Description |
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Songwriting Workshop | Cooked Goose Productions | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn the basics of songwriting. This is a workshop open to all ages and abilities. We will talk about songwriting, write songs, and perform them at a concert for family and friends....Full Description |
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Rhythm & Roots for Kids | Cooked Goose Productions | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Blues for kids of all ages. Come explore the rhythmic roots of blues music in an interactive event that follows blues music from its African inception through the '20s and '30s ....Full Description |
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The Melting Pot of American Music | Cooked Goose Productions | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Melting Pot of American Music with Marylou Ferrante and Robin OHerin This musical and interactive program explores early American instruments, songs and songwriters: where they come...Full Description |
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Cool Banana Wig LIVE | Cool Banana Wig | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Cool Banana Wig children’s band offers LIVE concerts where kids are invited to join the band by playing a variety of unique homemadeinstruments built by the band! Cool Banana Wig supports...Full Description |
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Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | "I wonder where that came from?" Ever wonder where those everyday items came from, superstitions, fairytales, songs, customs, expressions and more. Fun facts are explored using humour, music and storytelling....Full Description |
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Jazz for All Ages | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A relaxing hour of tradional, contemporary and original jazz. Sit back and let us take you on a musical journey from 1920's to the future of music is explored....Full Description |
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MAKING MUSIC IS FUN | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Interactive program designed to lead children through the fundamentals of making a song and music together. A song will actually be composed by the audience using a variety of hand instruments to include:...Full Description |
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GUITAR WORKSHOP FOR BEGINNERS | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Participants will explore fundamentals of music theory, instrument tuning, basic chords and writing and playing songs. Fun and informative, learn to play that guitar you've put away. On completing...Full Description |
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GUITAR WORKSHOP INTERMEDIATE | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Participants with some knowledge of guitar playing will expand their horizons. They will explore different musical scales, patterns, techniques, playing styles, more advanced chords. Playing songs as...Full Description |
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GUITAR WORKSHOP ADVANCED LEVEL | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This workshop will cover chord scales, more advanced note scales, modern hammering techniques, group improvisation will be explored. Various styles including jazz, rock, country, blues and more....Full Description |
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WORLD BEATS TOUR W/ COSMIC MOXA | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Tour the world of beats and music with Cosmic Moxa. Using an array of ethnic instruments i.e. Jambe (african drums), Native american drum, Latin American Conga drum, rain shoot, Russian Balalaka, wooden...Full Description |
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WILD LEGENDS AND MYTHS | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Legend of the Loch-Ness, Big foot, and other wild legends are explored with humor, song, and music. ...Full Description |
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LEGEND OF THE CHRISTMAS PICKLE AND OTHER TALES AND MYTHS | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Engaging storyteller Nancy Valois, weaves her magic telling stories from her upcoming book "The Legend of the Christmas Pickle and other tales" "Hella's Christmas Tree Surprise" "Mr. Mean and His Potato...Full Description |
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WILD WORLD BEATS | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Take a trip around the world exploring WILD WORLD BEATS, African, Asian, Spanish and more are played. Audience participation using a variety of ethnic instruments. First part of program we describe...Full Description |
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CHRISTMAS LEGENDS FROM AROUND THE WORLD | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Storyteller Nancy Valois weaves magical legends from around the world, the legend of the pickle (Germany) the legend of the spider (Finland) the legend of the Rose (Mexico) and more. A beautiful hour...Full Description |
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WILD STORIES WILD BEATS | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Performance storyteller Nancy Valois weaves her stories and draws the audience in so completely that you'll find yourself saying, more more. Stories are told in dramatic form without using book to the...Full Description |
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STARSHIP ADVENTURES IN OUTERSPACE | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Storyteller Nancy Valois weaves her magic and takes you on wild adventures through outer space. Tales of other worlds, fantastic creatures, and even some legends of our own universe, planets etc. Accompanied...Full Description |
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DOES THE MILKY WAY SERVE ICE CREAM? How those constellations and planets got their names | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Myths and legends of outer space and our solar system. Marvelous tales that have you on the edge of your seat, laughing until you cry, and learning more than you thought you would. Storyteller Nancy...Full Description |
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SCANDINAVIAN CHRISTMAS TALES | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Storyteller Nancy Valois weaves her magic once again telling the tale from Finland of "The legend of the Christmas Spider" accompanied by John Salonen on guitar and keyboards a magical hour is assured....Full Description |
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GO GREEN TREASURES LET'S MAKE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS FROM RECYCLED EVERYDAY ITEMS | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Going GREEN what does it mean? Engaging storyteller Nancy Valois reveals the origins of everyday items, and along with musician John Salonen sings and tells amusing tales, and then the fun really begins...Full Description |
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Native American Tales, Legends and Crafts | COSMIC MOXA Nancy Valois and John Salonen | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Discover tales from Native Americans, how constellations were named, myths of forest creatures, how thunder came to be, culture, legends, clothing, shelter and more, plus we'll make an authentic native...Full Description |
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Anansi, Spiderman of Africa | Crabgrass Puppet Theatre | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Crabgrass Puppet Theatre presents Anansi Spiderman of Africa.This clever performance is a side-splitting selection of famous folktales from Africa, starring Anansi the Spider, whose appetite always...Full Description |
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Mr. Punch's Christmas Carol | Crabgrass Puppet Theatre | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Crabgrass Puppet Theatre presents a lighthearted adaptation of Dickens' famous tale, starring Mr. Punch as Scrooge. Beautifully crafted puppets tell the tale of the man who hated Christmas and put...Full Description |
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The Day It Snowed Tortillas | Crabgrass Puppet Theatre | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Crabgrass Puppet Theatre presents a delightful Mexican folktale in which creative problem-solving is the key ingredient that helps a poor couple outwit a gang of bullies. A poor woodcutter and his wife...Full Description |
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Jack and the Beanstalk | Crabgrass Puppet Theatre | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Crabgrass Puppet Theatre's hilarious retelling of the tallest tales is full of fun and loaded with laughs. Sent to the market to sell his old cow, Jack returns home with a measly handful of beans....Full Description |
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Haiku, HipHop and Hotdogs | Crabgrass Puppet Theatre | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Crabgrass Puppet Theatre invites you to thrill to the adventures of "Fearless Flying Hotdogs!" Dance with the "Funky Snowman!" Watch as "The Goblin" overcomes his fear and makes friends with the terrifying...Full Description |
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The Lion & the Mouse and Other Tales | Crabgrass Puppet Theatre | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Can a tortoise win a tug of war with a mighty elephant? Can a mouse help an enormous lion? Can a jackal outwit a terrifying tiger twice his size? With beautiful puppets and their signature hilarious...Full Description |
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The Pirate and the Pea | Crabgrass Puppet Theatre | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | A swashbuckling pirate and princess adventure!A pirate's life isn't all "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of grog," ya know. But it's worth it when ya haul in that treasure chest . . . but the treasure...Full Description |
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African Adventure Tales | Crabgrass Puppet Theatre | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | African Adventure Tales!Two funny folktales from Africa come to life with stunning puppetry, spectacular scenery, and infectious music. In "Koi and the Kola Nuts," the young son of a chief sets...Full Description |
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BOTS! Amazing Robotics Projects | Crafts For Learning | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Get kids thinking, inventing, and creating this summer with a workshop that lets them design and build their own robot to take home! Kathy Ceceri is an award-winning educator and author who brings...Full Description |
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Build Your Own Waterwheel! 2010 Summer Reading Program - Go Green at Your Library! | Crafts For Learning | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Kids can learn about one of the earth's most plentiful renewable energy sources -- hydropower -- by building a waterwheel that really works! In this program, participants will see how water power has...Full Description |
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Make Stuff with Kathy Ceceri -- Virtual Online Invention Workshops | Crafts For Learning | Yes | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Join STEAM and homeschooling expert Kathy Ceceri (kathyceceri.com) for hands-on Maker workshops for kids and teens! I offer virtual at-home or group workshops,...Full Description |
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Celltography | Craig Norton Media | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Experience a hands on workshop to learn how to take stunning photos with any cell phone, tablet or device with a camera. Craig Norton has been a photographer for over 30 years and he's been teaching...Full Description |
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Cooking and Gardening with Herbs | Creative Feast, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Slide presentation and Cooking Demonstration of 2 recipes with samples. Liz will take you on a slide presentation tour through her cottage sized gardens. Learn how to use every inch of a small...Full Description |
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Feasting From our Local Farms: The Benefits of Eating Locally and Seasonally | Creative Feast, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Feasting From our Local Farms: The Benefits of Eating Locally and SeasonallySlide Show followed by a cooking demonstration The modern movement of eating locally grown and raised seasonal...Full Description |
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Feasting from Literature | Creative Feast, The | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Feasting from Literature: Discussion and Cooking Demonstration Think about all the times you have been engrossed in the pages of a novel. You join the characters and become a part of the scene,...Full Description |
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Feasting with Recipes Then and Now: An Exploration of Recipes from the Revolutionary War Period | Creative Feast, The | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Feasting with Recipes Then and Now: An Exploration of Recipes from the Revolutionary War PeriodSlide presentation and cooking demonstration with tasting Join Creative Feast chef Liz Barbour...Full Description |
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New Traditions for Thanksgiving | Creative Feast, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | New Traditions for Thanksgiving: Slide Presentation, Cooking demonstration and tasting Learn the art of creating a Thanksgiving menu that is easy, artistic, and delicious. Liz will talk you through...Full Description |
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Edible Landscaping: The latest garden design | Creative Feast, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Edible landscaping is the newest gardening trend that answers the old question of how to utilize your limited garden space so it can be productive and beautiful at the same time. Chef and gardener...Full Description |
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Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day | Creative Feast, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | This no-knead 5-minute artisan bread is truly the easiest bread you will ever bake-even if you have never baked bread before! This class will focus on the "Master Recipe" from the best selling cookbook...Full Description |
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Cocktails & Mocktails | Creative Feast, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Cocktails & Mocktails Secrets to the Perfect Summer Drinks UnlockedLiz will unlock the secrets to creating inspired flavors for summer drinks with a demonstration of seasonal syrups, herbal...Full Description |
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Feasting from your Pantry | Creative Feast, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Cocktails & Mocktails Secrets to the Perfect Summer Drinks UnlockedLiz will unlock the secrets to creating inspired flavors for summer drinks with a demonstration of seasonal syrups, herbal...Full Description |
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Introduction to Intermittent Fasting: A Lifestyle Not a Diet! | Creative Feast, The | Yes | The Intermittent Fasting (or Time Restricted Eating) lifestyle is less about what you eat and more about when you eat. It is known as the health plan with the side benefit of weight loss. Chef Liz Barbour...Full Description |
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If I Ran the Rain Forest | Creature Teachers, The | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | This wonderful program introduces a number of strange rain forest creatures while we read the book "If I Ran the Rain Forest." This Cat in the Hat Learning Library book takes a whimsical romp through...Full Description |
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Live Animal Programs | Creature Teachers, The | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Enjoy an entertaining, informative and interactive live animal program provided by experienced wildlife educators! Birthday parties, schools, libraries, senior centers, scout troop meetings, and summer...Full Description |
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Magic Carpet Ride with the Crescent Dancers | Crescent Dancers | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | With colorful, dazzling costumes and a wealth of cultural and historical information the dances are inspired by the rich music and dance traditions of the Middle East. Programs are for all ages, are...Full Description |
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Belly Dance for Fun and Fitness | Crescent Dancers | No | 6 | Teenagers (13-17) | Middle Eastern belly dance is fun and good exercise! A brief performance will be followed by a dance class introduction to the art of Middle Eastern dance, including warm-up and an easy to follow routine....Full Description |
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Gudrid the Wanderer: First Viking Woman in the New World | Crosscurrents Music | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This enthralling retelling of traditional Icelandic saga in song tells the story behind the archaeology of the only documented Norse site in the New World. gudridthewanderer.lynnoel.com The...Full Description |
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A Woman's Way: Time-Traveling Songs for Unsung Heroines | Crosscurrents Music | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | How did she do it? How can I do it? Sail, paddle, and row with adventurous women through the first thousand years of Vikings, voyageurs, navigators, and other traditional women's roles.awomansway.lynnoel.com...Full Description |
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Lisette's Journey: Crossing the Continent by Canoe in 1819 | Crosscurrents Music | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Paddle three thousand miles with the voyageurs from the Pacific Northwest to the Northeast Kingdom. 2019 is the bicentennial of Lisette's Journey from Fort Saint George, BC to Fort William, ONT...Full Description |
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Songs of the Sagas: What Did the Vikings Sing? | Crosscurrents Music | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | How do we know what Vikings sang a thousand years ago? What instruments did they play? What kind of songs did they sing? How did they write them down? Sing and chant along to ancient lyre in Old Norse,...Full Description |
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From Boston Harbor: Sea Chanteys and Maritime Ballads Old and New | Crosscurrents Music | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | From Boston Harbor we set sail! Traditional New England sea chanteys and original ballads in the maritime tradition from Lynn's home port of Boston. frombostonharbor.lynnoel.com Raise...Full Description |
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Melodias y Danzas de Cuba | Cubanana | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | When Cubana presents world famous Cuban music and dance, everyone loves to sing, dance, clap rhythms, and play instruments! Students get a glimpse of life in Cuba throughstories and songs. This assembly...Full Description |
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Curious Creatures | Curious Creatures | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Live, Interactive, Educational programs for the young and old. We bring a collection of exotic and unusual creatures to you to touch, hold and learn about their habitats and behaviors....Full Description |
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Run Along! | dadams | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Run Along! is a musical movement show designed for children and their caregivers aged 4-8. During the program, the audience and I set a goal to take 5,000 steps (projected from a pedometer)...Full Description |
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Historical Swordsmanship Demonstrations | Dan Burns, Swordsman | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | I have been sword fighting professionally for 6 years as an instructor, entertainer, and educator and I love bringing the excitement of historical and fantasy combat to adults and children through real...Full Description |
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Lightsaber Training | Dan Burns, Swordsman | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | An interactive lighsaber training session!Using safe-for-contact foam weapons, participants learn lightsaber combat by exploring historical swordsmanship techniques and the potential physics...Full Description |
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Living Characters | Dan Burns, Swordsman | Yes | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A variety of costumed living characters to fit historical and fictional themes are available; Characters from literature, Pirates, Knights, Vikings, Jedi, etc. Available for a wide varieties...Full Description |
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Interactive Sword Events | Dan Burns, Swordsman | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Swordsmanship training and duels using safe-for-contact foam swords. This event can be tailored to any age group, however only a single age group should participate. Costuming and theme can be adapted...Full Description |
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Fencing Demonstration | Dan Burns, Swordsman | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | "The sport of Fencing is comprised of three disciplines: the foil, the épée, and the sabre; One of the first sports to be played in the Olympics, fencing is based on the traditional skills...Full Description |
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STEM with Swords | Dan Burns, Swordsman | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A unique presentation that combines historical swordsmanship with physics: A discussion of Newton's 3 Laws of Motion, Levers, Gravity, Friction, Potential and Kinetic energy, human physiology,...Full Description |
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A History of Jazz | Dan Faulk/Ugli Fruit Productions | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | a. In this popular presentation, Dan gives an overview of jazz history and the major jazz styles. b. (If desired, Dan performs solo or with ensemble to illustrate the lecture.)...Full Description |
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Great Figures in Jazz | Dan Faulk/Ugli Fruit Productions | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | a. There have been many great musicians in jazz. Every so often, jazz artists come along that change the direction of the music and set the standards for others to come. In this well-received presentation,...Full Description |
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Some of My Favorite Jazz Recordings | Dan Faulk/Ugli Fruit Productions | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This exciting presentation serves as a great introduction to listening to jazz. In this lecture, Dan shares recordings from various periods/jazz styles and discusses the following: a. Why certain...Full Description |
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Jazz Anecdotes--From the Past to the Present | Dan Faulk/Ugli Fruit Productions | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Jazz isn't just music, it's a lifestyle! It has its own slang, for example. 'Cats' use phrases like 'the eagle has flown"--phrases the average person doesn't understand. The jazz arena has its own...Full Description |
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Journeying Through the Jazz Styles | Dan Faulk/Ugli Fruit Productions | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Jazz encompasses many different styles-a feature that has allowed jazz musicians great flexibility and has helped jazz music to endure. a. In this well-loved presentation, Dan discusses the development...Full Description |
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Jazz Journeys Through the Songbook | Dan Faulk/Ugli Fruit Productions | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Known not only as a stellar performer, but also as a jazz composer, Dan will discuss and perform original tunes from his latest all- originals CD, The Dan Faulk Songbook, Vol.1. Songbook has been praised...Full Description |
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dos FAULK | Dan Faulk/Ugli Fruit Productions | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Dan and vocalist Robin Ellis maintain an outstanding, well-respected duo called "dos FAULK." The duo uses midi/computer sounds as well as having Dan perform on sax, keyboards, midi wind horn, and Robin...Full Description |
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Dan Faulk's Funky Jazz Trio | Dan Faulk/Ugli Fruit Productions | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This very popular group wowed the audience in performance at a recent concert in the JPMorgan Chase Summer Series. The funky jazz trio has the following instrumentation: sax, organ (keyboard), and...Full Description |
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The Dan Faulk Quartet | Dan Faulk/Ugli Fruit Productions | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This is the renowned straight-ahead quartet featured on Dan's Songbook CD. Songbook has received rave reviews from Japan's Swing Journal, the UK's JazzReview, the US' All About Jazz, and just recently...Full Description |
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Specimen Faulk | Dan Faulk/Ugli Fruit Productions | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A high-energy exciting ensemble (vocals, sax, keyboard, drums) specializing in funk, fusion, and R&B. The group has performed to great acclaim at the Randolph Township's Music Series (August 2004)...Full Description |
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Dan Kennedy, Live in Concert | Dan Kennedy | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Hear a dazzling and heartfelt Solo Piano concert. Dan Kennedy is an award-winning composer, pianist and recording artist whose music has been lauded across the country for its style...Full Description |
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Daniel Forlano | Daniel Forlano | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Forlano Does A Back-roll As he’s waiting for the cat, moving an inordinate pile of books, dying of thirst, or attempting a backward tumbling roll, his desire for comfort...Full Description |
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Music with Dara | Dara VanRemoortel | Yes | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | With keyboard, felt board, finger puppets, and other engaging visual props, Dara weaves songs (old and new favorites), finger plays, rhythmic activities, creative movement, and simple instrument playing,...Full Description |
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A Halloween Visit With David Hyde Costello | David Hyde Costello | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | David Costello is the author and illustrator of Here They Come, a story about two young monsters at their first Halloween party. School Library Journal declared, 'readers will be grabbed, teased and...Full Description |
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I CAN HELP: A Pattern of Kindness | David Hyde Costello | No | 1,2,3,4,5 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Centered around David's book I CAN HELP, a combination of reading, drawing, music, and puppetry expand on the theme of a community formed by the spirit of helpfulness....Full Description |
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Little Pig Joins the Band: A Musical Author Visit | David Hyde Costello | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | One of the messages of LITTLE PIG JOINS THE BAND is that everyone has something to contribute to a group endeavor - especially when the endeavor is making music. In this mostly-musical program, David...Full Description |
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The Author's Sketchbook | David Hyde Costello | No | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | People often ask an author, "Where do you get your ideas?" For David Hyde Costello, it often starts with a sketch. In this program, it starts with a scribble. Audience members provide ideas for how...Full Description |
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Laughter in the Library | David S. Polansky | No | 1,2,3,4,5,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Award winning composer, David Polansky presents a fabulous rainbow of original song styles (funny and serious) explaining how he creates each work. David improvises songs on the spot. Song subjects...Full Description |
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Animals - Their countries; Their songs | David S. Polansky | No | 4,5,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | The very educational program features award winning original songs aboutanimals from all over the world. I'll introduce each song with some information about the country where the animal lives. Camel:...Full Description |
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Family Holiday Singalong | David S. Polansky | No | 2,3,4,5,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | This concert gets the entire audience singing. I've written award winning songs for Christmas, Hannukah, and Kwanzaa and, as a result of being a musician for so many years, my repertoire of standards...Full Description |
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Erin Go Bragh (St. Patrick's Day Concert) | David S. Polansky | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | ...songs to steal your heart away; favorites that take you back a hundred years or more. Many are singalongs that have become part of the great American Songbook. A couple are hysterically...Full Description |
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From the Shtetl to The Promised Land | David S. Polansky | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | David's Jewish/Yiddish repertoire is expansive and features songsin Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ladino. Some of it comes from Eastern Europe.Some of it comes from Yiddish Theater of the early...Full Description |
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Halloween Family Sing | David S. Polansky | No | 2,3,4,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Adults (18+) | A delightful program in which David presents some original Halloween Songs (Bones, Bones, Hear the Pitter Pat of Little Feet, and others) as well as the songs that have become Halloween Standards (e.g....Full Description |
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Dixieland Band Concert | David S. Polansky | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Music for young and old alike.......Music that makes it impossible for one to sit still.......Music whose chestnuts endure as classics....Music that makes you smile....bigtime. All of these phrases...Full Description |
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Music Through the Decades | David S. Polansky | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | MUSIC THROUGH THE DECADES Recently the Norman Rockwell Museum commissioned David Polansky to develop MUSIC THROUGH THE...Full Description |
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Poems that Go Bump in the Night | David Zucker/ Young Audiences of Massachusetts | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The skills that David brings to inspiring young people's interest and love of poetry in Poetry in Motion he also applies to Poems that Go Bump in the Night. He makes use of children's natural enthusiasm...Full Description |
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Poetry In Motion | David Zucker/ Young Audiences of Massachusetts | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In "Poetry in Motion," now in its 17th year with Young Audiences, David Zucker brings to vivid life the best of English language poetic literature. This participatory program recreates the fine tradition...Full Description |
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Odyssey of the Mime | David Zucker/ Young Audiences of Massachusetts | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | For over 30 years, David has been delighting audiences with Odyssey of the Mime. He has performed across the United States, in England and in Greece. Mime knows no barriers of language or culture. David...Full Description |
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MythMasters | David Zucker/ Young Audiences of Massachusetts | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | David Zucker-1996 National Young Audiences' Artist of the Year-and award winning actor, Richard McElvain, blow the dust off centuries of stories from ancient Greece, bringing the power, majesty and...Full Description |
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Under One Sky: Stories and Songs from Around the World | Davis Bates & Roger Tincknell | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Participatory stories and songs from around the world presented by two Parents' Choice award winning performers with over 50 years of combined performing experience. Roger plays guitar, banjo, mandolin,...Full Description |
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Earth Rhythms: Stories and Songs for the Whole Earth | Davis Bates & Roger Tincknell | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Earth Rhythms is an exciting music and storytelling program that celebrates and teaches environmental awareness and responsibility. Lively songs, interesting facts and humor combine with audience participation...Full Description |
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Celebrating the Season | Davis Bates & Roger Tincknell | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Participatory stories and songs celebrating the season and adaptable to a wide variety of age groups. Can focus on Halloween, Thanksgiving, the Winter Holidays of the Solstice Season, Spring or Summer....Full Description |
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Under One Sky: Stories and Songs for Everyone | Davis Bates: Songs & Stories for Everyone | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Participatory stories and songs from around the world presented by a Parents' Choice award winning storyteller. Instruments played include limberjack and spoons. Adaptable to a wide variety of ages,...Full Description |
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Earth Rhythms: Stories and Songs for the Whole Earth | Davis Bates: Songs & Stories for Everyone | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Earth Rhythms is an exciting music and storytelling program that celebrates and teaches environmental awareness and responsibility. Lively songs, interesting facts and humor combine with audience participation...Full Description |
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Celebrating the Season | Davis Bates: Songs & Stories for Everyone | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Participatory stories and songs celebrating the season and adaptable to a wide variety of age groups. Can focus on Halloween, Thanksgiving, the Winter Holidays of the Solstice Season, Spring or Summer....Full Description |
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Imagine That: A Summer Reading Celebration | Davis Bates: Songs & Stories for Everyone | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Celebrating families, the imagination and the 2020 Summer Reading Program, the performance involve's the audience, through song & story, in a variety of cultural traditions. Hear how stars...Full Description |
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Halloween Harvest | Davis Bates: Songs & Stories for Everyone | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Traditional folklore, ghost stories, seasonal songs and tales of the supernatural. Celebrating Halloween and the harvest season. Lots of sing-alongs, spoon playing and other traditional...Full Description |
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The Silly Laughing Musical Fun Poetry Show ---A family program for libraries and schools | Day With Award-Winning Author, Jeff Nathan , A | Yes | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Get kids and families laughing and excited about reading. Humorous poetry, music, laughter and fun abound in this magical session for families. There's a parent-kid contest, a family project, and more...Full Description |
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CurricuLaughs (for Schools) | Day With Award-Winning Author, Jeff Nathan , A | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Learning language arts through HUMOR and music. Gets the right brain to help in traditionally left-brained subject areas. See www.IncredibleAssemblies.com for details on these incredible programs. A...Full Description |
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Inside the ADHD Mind | Day With Award-Winning Author, Jeff Nathan , A | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Award-winning children's author and poet Jeff Nathan provides unique ADHD insight, delving into why the inattentive mind wanders (and to where). He shares specific ideas to help ADHD (and non-ADHD)...Full Description |
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Dazzle Dogs Entertainment | Dazzle Dogs Entertainment | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Dazzle Dogs are a unique, fun and exciting group of doggies, consisting of three clown like Pembroke Welsh Corgis, Winston, Checkers, and Charm,a silly but beautiful Australian Shepherd,...Full Description |
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Sing Along Live with Debbie and Friends | Debbie and Friends | Yes | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | From the moment the Debbie launches into her first song, “I’m Glad You’re Here,” the children understand their role: to participate, sing, dance, jump and interact with Debbie...Full Description |
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The Ins & Outs of Writing a Mystery | Debi Graham-Leard | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | I share my writing journey as I created my debut mystery 'The Uninvited Guest'. From initials idea through character creation, plot contrivance, writing groups, and publishing, I share amusing anecdotes...Full Description |
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Three Billy Goats Gruff and other Tales | Deborah Costine Nature Puppets | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Longtime professional puppeteer and artist Deborah Costine of Gerwick Puppets has her own unique and engaging style of puppetry especially for the young child. Each story has integrity and fun drawing...Full Description |
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A Woodland Cinderella | Deborah Costine Nature Puppets | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | In this new version of the classic story, Cinderella is a fairy who lives with her stepmother and stepsister in an enormous old Oak Tree. The King of all woodland fairies wants his son to marry a fairy...Full Description |
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The Twig Family in the Oak Tree | Deborah Costine Nature Puppets | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | In this original story by Award Winning puppeteer/artist Deborah Costine, one meets "The Twig Family": "Leaf", "Fern" and their daughter "Mossy" who live in an Oak Tree in Harmony with nature. Also...Full Description |
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Turtle's Wetland Quest | Deborah Costine Nature Puppets | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | This original story by Deborah Costine is about a wetland habitat and some of the animals that live there. It includes the Blandings Turtle, the North American Beaver and a Blue Spotted Salamander....Full Description |
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Lizzie Borden and the 40 Whacks | Delvena Theatre Company, Inc. | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Lizzie Borden was accused of the vicious ax murders of her father and stepmother. Did she do it? The audience must decide. The actors portray characters from the Borden trial. The audience hears...Full Description |
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Where Ya Been, Amelia Earhart? | Delvena Theatre Company, Inc. | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Famed flyer, Amelia Earhart's plane was lost without a trace in 1937. Many theories have sprung up over the years as to what actually happened to Amelia and her navigator. Using an old-style radio...Full Description |
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A Christmas Carol | Delvena Theatre Company, Inc. | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens enacted complete with period costumes, by a narrator and two professional actors. With the help of 3 ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge transforms himself from miser to...Full Description |
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Music for all ages | Denise Doucette | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Denise is a singer/songwriter/guitarist and entertainer. She will play the guitar and sing along with wonderful background accompanyments. Music will include, but is not limited to Traditional favorites,...Full Description |
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Family Dance and Sing-a-Long | Dennis Caraher | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Catchy, original melodies and stories that incorporate movement. Easy to sing choruses. Songs range from very humorous and fun to how to deal with issues of feeling different....Full Description |
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Cowgirls and Cowboys | Dennis Caraher | No | 2,4 | Three Year Olds, Young Children (6-8) | Songs about the old west. Some original, some as hold as them thar hills. Easy to sing along with....Full Description |
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Dennis The Magician | Dennis The Magician | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Our shows consist of magic, comedy, live animals, audience participation and fun for all ages. We can tailor our show to meet any needs or budget from a magician alone for 30 minutes to a magician and...Full Description |
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Seymour The Magic Library Dragon | Des Productions | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Using storytelling, ventrilloquism and magic, the following story unfolds:Seymour is a homeless dragon looking for food and shelter when he comes to a library late at night.He enters the...Full Description |
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Des and her Wildlife Friends | Des Productions | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Through storytelling, ventrilloquism and magic, the following stories unfold:Vinny the vulture becomes too careless with his friends. He is held accountable for the problems he causes by being...Full Description |
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Adventures in Space | Des Productions | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | An exceptional adventure of three children on a journey to a distant planet....Full Description |
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Three Wishes | Des Productions | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | A magician's magic brings forth three wishes....Full Description |
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Diamond Family Circus | Diamond Family Circus | Yes | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Professional circus performers and teaching artists Marci & Marisa Diamond (Diamond Family Circus) will demonstrate fun circus arts skills like juggling and balancing, and show you what you...Full Description |
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Tea with Mrs. Dickens | Diamond Family Circus | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | In "Tea with Mrs. Dickens", Catherine Hogarth Dickens welcomes you into the Dickens Family Home at Tavistock in December 1852. During your visit, Mrs. Dickens shares stories, from her early life...Full Description |
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Beyond Books | Diana L. Kane/Creative Connection | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | An interactive storytelling time - the children will become involved in a variety of stories from around the world - an exciting time for all as the storyteller uses puppets, props and songs....Full Description |
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Insect Comedy | Diane Edgecomb | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | See the world of BUGS in a whole new way with Diane’s fun-filled stories. In her original tale, Kate’s Acorn, we meet a fast-talking earthworm, pill bug, and centipede...Full Description |
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Digging Dinosaurs | Diane Edgecomb | Yes | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | These popular dinosaur adventures complement their scientific facts with a happy dose of humor. Dinosaur lovers of all ages will enjoy the colorful posters, Dinosaur Sign-Language and participation...Full Description |
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Tales for the Earth: Entertaining Eco-Tales | Diane Edgecomb | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Diane's entertaining original stories explore vital topics like Recycling, Water Conservation and Habitat & Wildlife Protection in the most engaging way. Enjoy: What Now, Cloacina?!!...Full Description |
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Night Lights! | Diane Edgecomb | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | In “Night Lights” entertaining stories of stars take us on a multi-cultural voyage across the heavens. These favorite tales and songs celebrate our starry skies and luminous planets as well...Full Description |
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Rainforest Legends | Diane Edgecomb | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | From the banks of the Amazon River to the heart of the West African jungle avorite folktales and songs about the animals and birds tell why the Amazon Birds grew feathers as brilliant as the colors...Full Description |
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Welcome in the Spring! | Diane Edgecomb | Yes | 5 | Tweens (9-12) | 'Welcome in the Spring!' with the very best of spring folklore, nature tales and contemporary stories. We'll meet Kate in 'Kate's Acorn', who gets...Full Description |
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Tall Fall Tales | Diane Edgecomb | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Tall Fall Tales brings alive the autumn world of nature with original stories and songs sure to delight both young and old. In Diane's hilarious original tale Plenty of Nuts,...Full Description |
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Once Upon A Halloween! | Diane Edgecomb | Yes | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | What would Halloween be without some chillin’ tales for the spookiest time of the year? Once Upon a Halloween! is a fun-filled, Halloween event – complete with...Full Description |
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Once Upon A Wintertime | Diane Edgecomb | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Warm your hearts and your imaginations with this performance of tales from long ago. These stories of wintertime magic and fun are drawn from many cultures ranging from the lyrical Grimms tale of Snow...Full Description |
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Native American Nature Tales | Diane Edgecomb | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Native American Nature Tales brings to life tribal myths and legends of the animals and birds of North America. Ranging from the humorous to the heart-felt, these stories celebrate native culture and...Full Description |
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A Fire in My Heart: Kurdish Folktales | Diane Edgecomb | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Featuring Diane's first book: A Fire in My Heart: Kurdish Folktale, this lively performance introduces families and students to this pivotal Middle Eastern culture....Full Description |
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Fairy Legends of Ireland with Storytelling and Celtic harp | Diane Edgecomb | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | There is plenty of laughter and delight in this animated retelling of Ireland's best-loved gems. The storytelling includes Irish favorites like the tale of Gilly Blackfoot where a young lad's aversion...Full Description |
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Tales of the Supernatural | Diane Edgecomb | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Diane Edgecomb presents an unusual collection of eerie tales and story-songs- definitely not for kids! This evening event features a true ghost story Edgecomb collected about the misshapen standing...Full Description |
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The Winter Solstice in Legend and Song | Diane Edgecomb | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Master Storyteller Diane Edgecomb accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Tom Megan offers a fascinating look at the legends behind our holiday traditions. Classic evergreen lore, haunting legends of light...Full Description |
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Midsummer Magic: Storytelling and Celtic Harp | Diane Edgecomb | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The magical time of the Summer Solstice resonates in folktales and songs from many lands told by master storyteller Diane Edgecomb accompanied by Celtic harper Margot Chamberlain Midsummer...Full Description |
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In the Groves: World Stories and Songs that Celebrate Trees | Diane Edgecomb | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Immerse yourself in nature with this story and music event celebrating the deep spirit of trees. This exquisitely crafted collection of myths, folktales and songs from around the world ranges from the...Full Description |
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Folktale Superheroes Around the World | Diane Edgecomb | Yes | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | What do China, Africa, and South America all have in common? Superheroes!!! Before Spiderman, there was Anansi the cunning Spider from Africa. Watch him weave a web to the sky, tricking Nyame...Full Description |
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Once Upon a Fairy Tale! | Diane Edgecomb | Yes | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Master storyteller Diane Edgecomb entertains young and old with this delightful performance of unusual fairy tales. From enchanted bears, to determined princesses, to Jack’s hilarious adventure...Full Description |
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Great Virtual Programming for Libraries!! | Diane Edgecomb | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Virtual Offerings are here! If you’re a librarian looking to create community I have you covered with videos tailored for your library that are sure to make you smile! I’ve...Full Description |
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The Language of Flowers | Diane Edgecomb | Yes | 2 | Three Year Olds | The Language of Flowers A delightful weave of story, music and song that brings to life the dramatic myths that surround favorite garden flowers. In this enchanting performance...Full Description |
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Animal Tales! for Tails and Tales - Summer Reading 2021 | Diane Edgecomb | Yes | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Diane has a wonderful performance just for Summer Reading 2021 - booking for in-person outdoors events! She can also deliver it as Zoom-live or as top pre-recorded content you can have for the length...Full Description |
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Pirates and Tales of the Sea | Diane Kordas/Music and Puppets | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Shadow and hand puppet show: Long John Silver and his parrot, Flint are lost at sea with just a sea chest full of stories: "How the Whale Got His Throat" a Rudyard Kipling tale, "A Little Mermaid" based...Full Description |
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Aesop's Fables | Diane Kordas/Music and Puppets | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Check my website for more information, video clips and photos! www.dianekordas.com Puppet show description: Children from tots to teens and their families will cheer...Full Description |
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Hungry Caterpillar and Bear and the Beehive | Diane Kordas/Music and Puppets | Yes | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | HUNGRY CATERPILLAR AND BEAR AND THE BEEHIVE: 2 stories included in one show! “The Bear and the Beehive”, an Aesop’s Fable; and the “Hungry Caterpillar”, the metamorphosis...Full Description |
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A Silver Dagger: Exploring Women's History Through Folk Songs | Diane Taraz | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Folk songs give us a glimpse into the lives of ordinary women in centuries past, who left behind few written records. In a clear, vibrant voice, Diane sings compelling songs used for centuries to speed...Full Description |
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Songs of the Revolution | Diane Taraz | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Diane presents the music enjoyed by both sides during the American Revolution, exploring the fascinating world behind the lyrics. In colonial dress, she sings and accompanies herself on dulcimer and...Full Description |
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Home, Sweet Home: A Civil War Sampler | Diane Taraz | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Diane sings beloved classics from a dark yet inspiring time, exploring how people from all walks of life responded to a war that tore at the nation's heart. She accompanies herself on dulcimer and guitar...Full Description |
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A Victorian Christmas | Diane Taraz | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Many of our holiday traditions and much of our Christmas music was revived or created during the Victorian era, in the mid-1800s. Diane presents beloved carols and stories about their origins, accompanying...Full Description |
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Didgeridoo Down Under Show: Australian Music, Animals, Education, Entertainment! (for kids & all ages) | Didgeridoo Down Under: Amazing Virtual & In-Person Programs! | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The DDU Show is an energetic fusion of Australian music, culture, puppetry, comedy, storytelling and audience participation. The didgeridoo has been played by Aboriginal Australians for at least 1,500...Full Description |
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Aussie Funk Jam: Didgeridoo Workshop (great for tweens & teens) | Didgeridoo Down Under: Amazing Virtual & In-Person Programs! | Yes | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | The Aussie Fun Jam (Didgeridoo Workshop) is a unique musical and cultural experience. The didgeridoo is an Australian Aboriginal instrument with a funky, fresh sound that’s as exotic as its name....Full Description |
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Music & More from Down Under and Beyond (for adults) | Didgeridoo Down Under: Amazing Virtual & In-Person Programs! | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Virtuoso didgeridoo player Rob Thomas takes the audience on a musical journey to Australia and beyond, as he plays an assortment of didgeridoos and worldly percussion instruments. The didgeridoo, usually...Full Description |
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Protect the Planet: Earth Science & Ecological Entertainment! (for kids & all ages) | Didgeridoo Down Under: Amazing Virtual & In-Person Programs! | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Join us on an epic adventure, from the birth of the universe to the age of the dinosaurs to the modern world. With awe-inspiring visuals, we’ll explain how the air we breathe was created; we’ll...Full Description |
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Adventures of the Wild, Wild Wolf: Unleash Your Inner Author! (for kids) | Didgeridoo Down Under: Amazing Virtual & In-Person Programs! | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Deep in the mystical mountains of western North Carolina, if you listen quietly at night, you might hear the ancient and enthralling sound of … a wolf! Although wolves no longer live in the wild...Full Description |
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Dinoman-dinosaurs! | Dinoman Science Series | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Dinosaur tracks and they lead right to your library. Join Dinoman and his pet raccoon Reflex on an up to the minute kid-fun scientific romp through the world of dinosaurs. Through mystifying magic,...Full Description |
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Dinoman-space | Dinoman Science Series | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | What possible connection could dinosaurs have to our solar system? More that you would think. Dinoman-space!, a fun-filled exploration of the heavens. From Mercury to meteors, from planetoids to...Full Description |
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DINOSAURS ROCK Virtual Fossil Adventure | DINOSAURS ROCK & Other Science Fun! | Yes | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Join a DINOSAURS ROCK expert for a fun and educational Jurassic journey—complete with museum-quality, life-size and genuine specimens as the backdrop to exploring the world of dinosaurs and fossils. ...Full Description |
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GEMS ROCK Virtual Rock & Mineral Adventure | DINOSAURS ROCK & Other Science Fun! | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Join a DINOSAURS ROCK expert for this fun and educational geological journey, exploring of the world of Rocks & Minerals, complete with real, massive museum quality specimens as the backdrop! Plus...Full Description |
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SHARKS & OCEANS ROCK | DINOSAURS ROCK & Other Science Fun! | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Join us for an under-the-sea adventure to explore the world of sharks, oceans, and sealife with a DINOSAURS ROCK expert - learn about awe-inspiring topics related to Sharks & Oceans through visual...Full Description |
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INSECTS ROCK Virtual | DINOSAURS ROCK & Other Science Fun! | Yes | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Join a DINOSAURS ROCK expert for this Virtual exploration of the insect world, with the backdrop of a Museum exhibit filled with unusual insects (taxidermy under glass or acrylic). Learn about prehistoric...Full Description |
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Keeping Yourself Safe Online | Doilian Programs for STEM | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Learn the facts to keep yourself and your identity safe online....Full Description |
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How to Troubleshoot Windows Computers | Doilian Programs for STEM | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Computer beginner friendly! Learn the magic of basic computer troubleshooting and impress your family and friends....Full Description |
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Build Your Own Computer | Doilian Programs for STEM | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | For those enthusiasts who want to try a hand at building their own desktop computer, and want a chance to practice before they get started....Full Description |
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Build a Webpage: HTML & CSS Basics | Doilian Programs for STEM | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Get started learning HTML and CSS, and build your own webpage with nothing but Notepad! We will cover the anatomy of a .html document, using CSS in-line vs stylesheets, and a number of important tags....Full Description |
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Fast & Easy WordPress Website for Non-Techies | Doilian Programs for STEM | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Everyone needs a website now-a-days, but diving straight into HTML can be daunting. Thankfully there are CMSs (Content Management System) that can do the heavy lifting for those who have no interest...Full Description |
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Learn to Solder | Doilian Programs for STEM | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A hands-on opportunity for participants to learn how to solder electronics. When participants arrive they will sign in, and the instructor will go down the list, giving each person instruction as they...Full Description |
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Fizz Boom Read - Magic Show | Domino The Great | No | 0 | Each summer, I offer a new summer reading magic show that is themed for the national CSLP theme.For the summer of 2014, I am presenting an all-new program titled Fizz Boom Read Magic Show, which...Full Description |
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Just 4 Fun Magic Shows | Domino The Great | No | 0 | Domino The Great is a New England-based rising star and hilarious comedy magician for kids and families. His Just 4 Fun Magic Show is perfect to entertain your patrons and have your library filled with...Full Description |
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The Ukulele and You! | Don Rovero | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Ukulele and You is an exciting and engaging workshop for beginner ukulele players. We learn how to hold and strum an ukulele, a few chords, and everyone will be playing fun songs in no time. Ukuleles...Full Description |
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Musical Instrument Making | Don Rovero | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | In this workshop we will use PVC pipe and other materials to construct working musical instruments. We will learn the science behind sound production and how the instruments work. Workshop...Full Description |
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Ventriloquism - How Do You Do That? | Donna Marie & Friends | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ventriloquism never stops amazing children or adults. Donna Marie and Her Friends provide that amazement and a whole lot more. Beginning as a singer and dancer, she soon discovered ventriloquism,...Full Description |
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All Around the World! | doriastories | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Come travel together, while Doria tells stories from countries all around the world! Enjoy stories told in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and also by the native peoples of North...Full Description |
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Scary Stories | doriastories | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Not for the very young or faint of heart, Doria's programs of scary stories from around the world will enthrall, amaze and terrify. Treat yourselves to a memorable screen-free thrill, as we...Full Description |
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Spooky Stories | doriastories | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Let's enjoy some spooky - but not overly scary - stories for PreK and Elementary Schoolers! Enjoy a screen-free experience as we travel the world, exploring ghosts and sea monsters and more! These...Full Description |
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Tea the First Wicked | Dory's Historicals Edge of Empire Series | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Tea: The First Wicked WeedWomen’s Role in Revolutionizing the Colonies. In December, 1767, the Town Meeting of Harvard, Massachusetts voted to discourage the sale and purchase of...Full Description |
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Songs of Stage and Screen | Doug Schmolze | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Doug Schmolze, singer and guitarist with his own classy style. Doug sets the stage for some of the great American songs from the Broadway composers, many of whom also wrote for the movies....Full Description |
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Sentimental Journey-Songs of the 1940's | Doug Schmolze | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | “Sentimental Journey”- Songs of the 1940’s Doug Schmolze, voice and guitar, revisits some of the great songs of the swing era. Works by composers such as Duke Ellington, Rogers...Full Description |
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Songs of the 1950's- Something Old, Something New | Doug Schmolze | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Songs of the 1950’s, “Something Old, Something New---“, Doug Schmolze, singer and guitarist, presents some favorites that he remembers from childhood. A...Full Description |
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Patriotic Americana | Doug Schmolze | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | “Patriotic Americana” Doug Schmolze, singer and guitarist, presents a lively and stirring program of American patriotic music spanning our country’s history from the Revolution...Full Description |
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Dr. Janet's Science Planet | Dr. Janet's Science Planet | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Real science fun from a real science PhD! Choose amazing hands-on programs with topics from sound to light to fingerprinting and forensics...Full Description |
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The Bombing of Laos and the Continuing Tragedy of Cluster Bomb | Dr. Walter Haney | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Bombing of Laos and the Continuing Tragedy of Cluster BombsDr. Walter Haney, Professor at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College offers to give a talk on "The Bombing of Laos and...Full Description |
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Puppet Show Rumpelstilskin | Dream Tale Puppets | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Once upon a time there was a miller who bragged that his daughter Kathleen could spin straw into gold. When the King heard about this, he commanded the girl to spin for him. He had a lot of reason to...Full Description |
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Puppet Show Jack and the Beanstalk | Dream Tale Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Jack and the Beanstalk is a joyous, original adaptation of the classic tale about poor Jack who went to sell his cow and came home with three magic beans. Jack's daring adventure up the huge beanstalk...Full Description |
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The Seriously Fun Theatre and Puppetry Production Workshop | Dream Tale Puppets | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The workshop invites children to participate in a production of the play "The Joseph's Boat," an original adaptation of a Cape Cod folktale from Elizabeth Reynard's book: "the Narrow Land: Folk Chronicles...Full Description |
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Discovering Secrets of Life: Puppetry and Performance Skills Workshop | Dream Tale Puppets | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Puppeteers can bring entire worlds to life using nothing but imagination, movement, and simple materials. Want to know their secrets? In this workshop students will work together as an ensemble to tackle...Full Description |
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Puppet Show Alice, or the Red King's Dream | Dream Tale Puppets | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Dream Tale Puppets is working on its next production which invites to a world of fantasy, make-believe, and play. As two vagabond-like characters banter and tease each other, they find and bring to...Full Description |
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Nourishing Your Health Through Sound: Stress & Anxiety Relief | DRIFT: Sound Meditations | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn about a variety of sound-based techniques which can help you foster a creative routine for improving your health. Sound has a deep connection to the human mind and in this workshop you'll learn...Full Description |
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Nourishing Your Health Through Sound: Sleep & Immune Health | DRIFT: Sound Meditations | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In this workshop you'll learn how to apply research-based sound techniques to your life that will help improve your sleep cycle and boost your immune system. Participants will also have access...Full Description |
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Drumming With Dummies | Driscoll Productions | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Kids learn better when they laugh™ When we perform WITH children, we bring our clown car full of dummies, drums and percussion instruments for the children to play WITH our dummies. Children...Full Description |
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Learn Ventriloquism | Driscoll Productions | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Can you talk? Almost anyone can become a ventriloquist! This introductory course provides step-by-step instructions and reveals the secrets to this amazing and rewarding art form. Bring...Full Description |
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No Bully Zone | Driscoll Productions | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | The Driscoll Dummies NO BULLY ZONE interactive ventriloquist show helps students identify bullies and bullying behaviors and provides effective strategies in coping and dealing with bullying. Through...Full Description |
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TheRealBeardedSanta and Friends | Driscoll Productions | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Invite TheRealBeardedSanta, his wise-cracking 40" elf Jerry, Doug the Talking Dog, and Willie the Singing Whiteboard to your event. Holiday themes customized per your requirements. ...Full Description |
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The St. Patrick's Day wise-cracking Leprechaun | Driscoll Productions | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | How about something completely different for St. Patrick’s day? Please consider inviting a Leprechaun to your St. Patrick’s Day events. The 40" mischievous, wise-cracking Leprechaun...Full Description |
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Imagine Your Story - Fairy Tales, Mythology & Fantasy | Driscoll Productions | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Invite Harry Potter, Hermione, Dumbledore, and all the fantastic fantasy figures/puppets from DriscollProductions.com “Imagine Your Story, focusing on fairy tales, mythology & fantasy.” ...Full Description |
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Virtual Weekly Wacky Wednesdays are Free | Driscoll Productions | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Children ages 2 to 102 are invited to join the free INTERACTIVE facebook LIVE fun and drum along VIRTUALLY with our Driscoll Drumming Dummies... using anything at home that you hit, shake, or scrape...Full Description |
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Tails and Tales VIRTUALLY | Driscoll Productions | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Doug The Talking Dog and Shelly The Sheepdog have been entertaining children and seniors VIRTUALLY for free since March 2020. They helped ventriloquist Kevin Driscoll write "The Corona Virus Blues",...Full Description |
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Drum Away The Blues: Relieving stress | Drum Away The Blues | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Percussionist, educator, storyteller, and host of a weekly radio show, Craig Harris provides a key to stress relief and emotional success through percussion and rhythm. ...Full Description |
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A Journey into America's Musical Roots | Drum Away The Blues | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Percussionist, educator, storyteller, host of a weekly radio show, and the author of "Bluegrass, Newgrass, Old-time, and Americana Music," Craig Harris leads an insightful, informative, and fun multimedia...Full Description |
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The Heartbeat of Amerindian Music: Breaking Stereotypes | Drum Away The Blues | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Jimi Hendrix a Native? Hank Williams? This stereotype breaking multimedia program celebrates the diverse music of America's First People...Full Description |
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Rockin' & Rollin': the Early Days | Drum Away The Blues | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This fast-paced multimedia program combines archival audio tracks, rare video footage, and behind-the-scenes stories. It's the rapid fire of rockabilly and the sweet harmonies of doo-wop. Remember Elvis...Full Description |
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DRUM TO THE BEAT | DRUM TO THE BEAT: Otha Day, Drum Circle Facilitator | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Drum Circles are a perfect fit for the 2008 "Wild Reads" Summer Reading Program.DRUM CIRCLES are completely interactive events. I share fun songs and rhythms, body percussion and percussion...Full Description |
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DRUMMING ABOUT YOU | Drumming About You | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | “Bob was fantastic. The crowd thoroughly enjoyed the program. We ended up with 98 people. I especially loved the hands-on aspects and the fact that every child had a chance to use 3 different...Full Description |
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DRUM DOGS | Drumming About You | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | DRUM DOGS© Creative Writing Meets Interactive Drumming Age 8 to Senior Citizen This presentation of creative...Full Description |
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DRUM TEAMS ROCK | Drumming About You | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This hands-on program engages teens as a musical team, "The Drum Riders". As the "Ride Leader", I engage the Drum Riders to be musical with full-size, professional-quality hand drums. The...Full Description |
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MAKE IT, SHAKE IT, TAKE IT | Drumming About You | No | 3 | Preschoolers (4-5) | Participants keep what they create. They make and decorate a "ganza", a Brazilian-style musical shaker instrument. All of the construction materials are provided. To enjoy playing...Full Description |
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TAKE A DRUM RIDE | Drumming About You | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Bob provides a colorful cargo of professional-quality drums for entire groups and audiences to get their hands onto at this interactive drumming hoot. Everyone plays with Bob as he launches legendary...Full Description |
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SING ALONG WITH STICKS | Drumming About You | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Everyone gets their heart and hands around Bob's cargo of melodic drums. Bob leads them to sing legendary songs and play along with lovable drumsticks with cool, musical patterns to the catchy lyrics. ...Full Description |
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Salsa Drumming | Drumming About You | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Entire audiences are captivated by Salsa rhythm patterns that have roots in the Caribbean Region. They partner with the artists to enjoy playing the patterns. Together, they launch legendary and contemporary...Full Description |
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Penguins! Fascinating Facts & Tantalizing Trivia | Dyan deNapoli - THE PENGUIN LADY | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | This lively program, presented in a fun game-show format, is appropriate for children of all ages. Find out how deep penguins can dive, how far they can shoot their guano (penguin poo!), how they feed...Full Description |
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Penguin For a Day | Dyan deNapoli - THE PENGUIN LADY | No | 2,3 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | This program highlighting penguin behavior is tailored for younger audiences. Using photographic examples, The Penguin Lady has the children mimic her as she demonstrates various penguin calls and behaviors....Full Description |
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Penguin Parade | Dyan deNapoli - THE PENGUIN LADY | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | It's the 'March of the Penguins' for kids! This presentation, featuring beautiful images of penguins, tells the amazing story of the Emperor penguin's unique breeding season, including their incredible...Full Description |
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Penguin Rescue! | Dyan deNapoli - THE PENGUIN LADY | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This compelling presentation tells the incredible story of the massive rescue and rehabilitation of 20,000 African penguins that were oiled when a ship sank near their breeding grounds. Dyan was a key...Full Description |
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Global Warming: A Problem for Penguins | Dyan deNapoli - THE PENGUIN LADY | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Penguins are an indicator species, alerting us to the state of the environment they live in. They are the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine'. It is now clear to scientists that penguins are being...Full Description |
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Learn to Sell on eBay | eBay Education Specialist | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Covers the basics of selling on eBay. Participants will learn how to:1. establish a seller's account2. research what products to sell3. create great item listings4. create...Full Description |
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Basics of Selling on eBay | eBay Education Specialist | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | This program introduces participants to the essentials of buying wisely and safely on eBay. Included is discussion of how to search for items, how to evaluate a listing, how to evaluate a seller, bidding,...Full Description |
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Touchable Tales | EcoTarium Traveling Education Programs | No | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | How do animals find their homes, food, and friends? Learn about animals through a themed storybook reading, touchable bones and pelts, and visit with a live animal....Full Description |
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Turtles in New England | EcoTarium Traveling Education Programs | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | How do turtles to survive in different habitats and through seasonal changes? Meet a live turtle, touch turtle biofacts and gather information about turtle adaptations and life cycle in this interactive...Full Description |
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Build Your World | EcoTarium Traveling Education Programs | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | What properties make a structure stand or a bridge span? Discover your inner engineer as you manipulate materials in a real-life building design challenge....Full Description |
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Animal Adaptations | EcoTarium Traveling Education Programs | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | What structures and behaviors do animals exhibit that help them survive? Observe live animals, bones and animal pelts. Draw conclusions about how structure and function influence evolutionary success...Full Description |
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Threatened Species | EcoTarium Traveling Education Programs | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | What happens to the animals that live in an ecosystem when humans move in? Take on a real-world conservation issue as you work with classmates to develop a parcel of land. Meet a local animal most often...Full Description |
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Designing for Wind | EcoTarium Traveling Education Programs | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | How can you design an efficient wind turbine that converts wind energy into electricity? Build a working wind turbine, measure its performance, and learn firsthand how the design process can create...Full Description |
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Understanding Weather | EcoTarium Traveling Education Programs | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Why does the weather change from day to day and season to season? How are weather and climate different? What variables affect the weather? Experience the forces driving weather through interactive...Full Description |
Yes |
Ed Popielarczyk's Magical Moments | Ed Popielarczyk's Magical Moments | No | 2,3,4,5,6 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | My name is Ed Popielarczyk. I am a professional magician, balloon sculptor, and storyteller. I have been entertaining children and family audiences for over 30 years. My magic show is a comedy...Full Description |
Yes |
Ed Popielarczyk's Amazing Flea Circus | Ed Popielarczyk's Magical Moments | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | My Flea circus is an entire big top circus in miniature! My fleas perform on the high wire, they do a high dive into a pool of water,and Fernando gets shot out of a cannon and into a volunteers hand....Full Description |
No |
Storytelling & Art Adventures | Educator/Trainer | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Storytelling & Art Adventures take children on exciting and engaging adventures into the world through picture books and art projects. These workshops emphasize the process of creative...Full Description |
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Women in King Philip's War | Edward Lodi | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Edward Lodi profiles a number of remarkable women who played major roles in King Philip's War: making history-changing decisions, performing heroic deeds, enduring hardships, chronicling their experiences,...Full Description |
Yes |
The Angel of Hadley: A Legend of King Philip's War and the Strange History Behind It | Edward Lodi | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn about the Indian attack on Hadley on September 1, 1675, when a mysterious stranger suddenly appeared to save the day, then just as suddenly vanished, causing the settlers to believe that he was...Full Description |
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Who When Where in King Philip's War | Edward Lodi | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Edward Lodi (author or editor of more than a half dozen books pertaining to King Philip's War) talks about his book, Who When Where in King Philip's War. Lodi spent years researching material for his...Full Description |
Yes |
The Pequot War | Edward Lodi | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Edward Lodi talks about his latest book, The Pequot War. In 1637 the Puritans waged a genocidal war against the Pequots, the most powerful...Full Description |
Yes |
Massasoit, the Pilgrims, and a World in Conflict | Edward Lodi | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Hear Edward Lodi talk about his latest book, Massasoit’s Town Sowams in Pokanoket Its History Legends and Traditions. In the1620s...Full Description |
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Benjamin Church in King William's War | Edward Lodi | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Edward Lodi talks about his most recent book Benjamin Church in King William’s War. King William’s War (1689-1697) was the first in the series of bloody conflicts known collectively...Full Description |
Yes |
Pabon El Salsero | edwin pabon | No | 5,7 | Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | percussionest, salsa dancer and teacher, singer...Full Description |
No |
Sing, Dance and Drum Along Stories | Elisa Pearmain | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Participatory folktales from around the world to sing, dance and drum along with. Help Anansci Spider Drummer teach a lesson on sharing. Play the Cat Drum. Dance with the Rainforest Monster and save...Full Description |
No |
For All to Share | Elisa Pearmain | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Participatory folk tales from around the world. Be a Monkey in Caps for Sale, Help Brer Rabbit outsmart the greedy tiger, help make the rain storm in a story about inclusion. Sing, chant, and move with...Full Description |
No |
Not Too Scary Multicultural Halloween Tales | Elisa Pearmain | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Participatory, fun and just a wee bit scary tales from around the year to delight young audiences, without any nightmares! ...Full Description |
No |
Spine Tingling Tales from around the World | Elisa Pearmain | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Folk tales from around the world of monsters, ghosts and goblins and how they are vanquished and appeased often by young people, using creativity, and cooperation. Program of scarier stories for preteens...Full Description |
No |
A Trunk Full of Tales | Elisa Pearmain | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Personal and family stories shared by the storyteller/author followed by a workshop for audience members to remember and share their own personal and family stories. Great for Turn Off the TV week and...Full Description |
No |
Once Upon a Caring Community | Elisa Pearmain | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Bullying prevention through multicultural folk tales. Tales speakto respect, gossiping, shared responsibility, inclusion, standing up for oneself and others, and knowing the behaviors of bullying....Full Description |
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The Herbs of the Samhain (Halloween) Festival | Ellen Evert Hopman | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The herbs and trees of the Samhain Fire Festival, including their medicinal and spiritual aspects. Communication with the dead, protection, purification and entering the Fairy Realm are made possible...Full Description |
Yes |
An Introduction to Animal Spirit Medicines | Ellen Evert Hopman | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ellen Evert Hopman, author, Herbalist and Druid Priestess, shares the basic concept of “Animal Spirit Medicines”. For the Ojibway and other nations, plants were classified according to their...Full Description |
Yes |
The Doctrine of Signatures | Ellen Evert Hopman | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Learn an ancient plant classification system that was developed in a time before most people could read. Did the plant grow in sun or shade? In damp soil or in a dry area? The shape of a leaf, the color...Full Description |
Yes |
Tree Divination Using the Ancient Celtic Ogham Alphabet | Ellen Evert Hopman | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Irish Ogham alphabet pre-dates the Latin alphabet. Instead of letters like A-B-C-D the alphabet uses tree names like Birch, Rowan, Elder, Oak, etc. Each letter of the alphabet is couched in symbolism...Full Description |
Yes |
Scottish Fairy Lore | Ellen Evert Hopman | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Who are the Good Neighbors and how do they live? What kinds of offerings are suitable to them? Learn the basics of polite contact with the Sidhe Realm (the Fairy Realm). Make a wee charm and take home...Full Description |
Yes |
Who were the Druids? | Ellen Evert Hopman | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A lecture exploring the roots of Druidism, its origins in the ancient proto-Indo-European homeland of the Black Sea area, it's full blossoming in the Celtic cultures of Europe, its demise and rebirth...Full Description |
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Tree Medicine Tree Magic | Ellen Evert Hopman | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A slide show of trees that are easily found in North America, and a discussion of their medicinal uses, mythology and spiritual significance....Full Description |
Yes |
The Pagan Wheel of the Year | Ellen Evert Hopman | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A showing of the video and a discussion about the Pagan wheel of the year. This video was designed as a teaching tool for schools, libraries, and public education. Filmed entirely in beautiful rural...Full Description |
Yes |
Herbs of New England | Ellen Evert Hopman | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A Medicinal Herbs Slide Show A lecture and slide show of common medicinal plants, their uses and preparation....Full Description |
Yes |
Emil Altschuler, violin | Emil Altschuler | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | classical violin and piano recital....Full Description |
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The Garden Tourist | Enchanted Gardens | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Do you enjoy touring beautiful gardens? We will show you the best public gardens, nursery display gardens, and private gardens open to the public in the Northeast to visit for inspiration! Learn about...Full Description |
Yes |
Pots with Pizzazz | Enchanted Gardens | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Jazzy containers are the “jewelry” of a garden, elevating it from “good” to “great”! Learn how to brighten shady spots with pops of color, create focal points for...Full Description |
Yes |
Design a Sunny Perennial Border | Enchanted Gardens | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | How do you create a sunny perennial garden that will delight you with colorful blooms and flowers for cutting from spring through fall? Learn about plant layering, new and reliable perennials, companion...Full Description |
Yes |
Artists' Gardens in New England | Enchanted Gardens | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Some of our most beloved painters, sculptors and authors were inspired by the gardens they created. Visit the private havens of Edith Wharton, Julian Alden Weir, Childe Hassam, Daniel Chester French,...Full Description |
Yes |
Gardens of Cornwall and Devon | Enchanted Gardens | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Warmed by the Gulf Stream, the magical gardens in Cornwall and Devon are home to some of the most exciting, rare, and beautiful plants in the British Isles. Enjoy an armchair tour of twelve historically...Full Description |
Yes |
Gardens of the Scottish Highlands | Enchanted Gardens | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Scotland is home to amazing public and private gardens. Enjoy an armchair tour of 10 very different gardens in Scotland—from castle and historic estate properties in the Highlands to botanic gardens...Full Description |
Yes |
Finding Peace in Times of Chaos | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | What do we do when the world turns upside down? Life is filled with chaos, some of which we cause ourselves and some of which we have done...Full Description |
Yes |
Thanks For the Pink Slip: the Upside to Being Downsized, Fired, Let Go, Laid Off, Eliminated, Terminated, etc. | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Whatever your boss calls it, you’ve been fired. Instead of holding the infamous “pity party,” try hosting a celebration bash for yourself. After all, you are now FREE to...Full Description |
Yes |
Spring Clean Your Life: Three Steps to the Life You Want | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | We have all been thrown into the reality of the unknown by the pandemic. We often feel we have little or no control of how we live our own lives. However, there will come a time when all this fear,...Full Description |
Yes |
An Optimistic Approach to Job Seeking | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Optimistic people are more likely to present themselves effectively on their resume and during job interviews than those who exude negativity and lack enthusiasm and passion. Optimistic people are also...Full Description |
Yes |
Resume Writing | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | The key to getting every interview you seek is an effective resume, one that maximizes your strengths and minimizes your weaknesses. You are the product and your resume is your No. 1 marketing...Full Description |
Yes |
Network Your Way to Your Next Job | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Finding employment is often a challenge, even in the best of times. The current pandemic is compounding an already stressful situation. Job-seekers must take advantage of every contact they have, especially...Full Description |
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Twenty Timely Tips for the Baby Boomer Job Seeker | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | If you were born between 1946 and 1964, the baby boom years, and are finding it increasingly difficult to land an interview, let alone a job, you are encountering the reality of ageism, the most subtle...Full Description |
Yes |
Marketing Yourself in a Tight Job Market | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | If you are now unemployed, or soon will be, due to the current pandemic, you need to revamp your job search strategies. Since many companies are downsizing or closing completely during this time of...Full Description |
Yes |
Interviewing and Negotiating Successfully | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Whether you are unemployed or under employed, whether you “see the handwriting on the wall” or the pandemic has seriously limited your employment options, landing your next job may prove...Full Description |
Yes |
The Library: A Universal Memoir | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Libraries Change Lives Prequel from the Presenter: The seeds for this webinar have been floating around on the periphery of my consciousness...Full Description |
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Be the Author of Your Own Life's Story | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | We have all been thrown into the reality of the unknown by the pandemic. We often feel we have little or no control of how we live our own lives. However, there will come a time when all this fear,...Full Description |
Yes |
Become an Optimist and Change Your Life Forever | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | How we live - and, most importantly, enjoy - our life depends upon how we view the events we experience and the relationships we develop. Some people cower under an umbrella of pessimism while...Full Description |
Yes |
Discover the Treasure Within | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Each one of us is a unique gift manifesting in the form of a special human being. The universe is blessed by the presence of a diverse population of ever-evolving spiritual beings. No matter how...Full Description |
Yes |
How to Start a Freelance Business from Home | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Be your own boss and work at home! Sounds great, doesn’t it? More than 600,000 people start businesses each year; unfortunately, approximately 20% of these businesses fail within two years,...Full Description |
Yes |
Network Your Business to Success | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Starting and managing a business is a challenge. Business owners must take advantage of every contact they make. This means NETWORK. This webinar provides a clear understanding of...Full Description |
Yes |
Introduction to Meditation | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Meditation is being discussed and practiced everywhere these days: doctors’ waiting rooms, boardrooms, locker rooms, classrooms. Scientific study provides evidence that meditation reduces stress...Full Description |
Yes |
Mindfulness: A Meditation Technique and a Way of Life | Entrepreneurial Center for Small Business Development/Spirit Seminars, The | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Meditation appears to be a passive activity, it is actually a very dynamic practice leading to new ways of thinking. Your belief system, your understanding of how the universe operates,...Full Description |
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"Dance Your Tale Off" | Erica Sigal | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | A Children's Story Book, Fairy Tale or Poem is used for each session as the jumping-off point for children to use their creativity, body, and senses to explore the joyful world of movement via literature....Full Description |
No |
Escape Artistry by Peter V. | Escapes/Magic for Children | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Show utilizes audience participation and comedy. Performer escapes from cuffs, ropes, animal trap, tape, and straight jacket....Full Description |
No |
Asia Fantasia | Eth-Noh-Tec | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | In an indescribably unique style of storytelling, San Francisco's master storyteller Robert Kikuchi-Yngojo introduces students to folk tales and myths from Asian cultures, including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia,...Full Description |
No |
A Trip Around the World with Dora | Ethnic Arts Center | No | 2,3 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Take an imaginary journey around the world with Dora through Puppet Show, Folksong, Artifact-sharing, Folkdance, Craft, Game, and Reenactment. Based on your constituencies or interests, choose cultures...Full Description |
Yes |
Cultural Theme Puppet Shows-over 100 choices! | Ethnic Arts Center | Yes | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Folktales from around the World are brought alive with authentic artifacts and figures. All continents are represented. Each show features a strong positive moral message, as folk characters...Full Description |
Yes |
The Etiquette Expert of 1890 | Etiquette Expert of 1890, The | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Mrs. Russell Parsons escorts guests on a factual yet tongue-in-cheek promenade through her life as a proper Victorian lady. Topics include tea etiquette, fashion, fan language, calling-card protocols,...Full Description |
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Klezmer music with Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band | Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band | Yes | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band, winners of the Audience Prize at the International Jewish Music Festival and Young Audiences of Massachusetts teaching artists, has been delighting audiences around the...Full Description |
Yes |
Rosh Hashanah with Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band | Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band | Yes | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ring in the Jewish new year with Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band, winners of the Audience Prize at the International Jewish Music Festival and Young Audiences of Massachusetts teaching artists. Rosh Hashanah...Full Description |
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Chanukah with Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band | Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band | Yes | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Sing and dance along to the story of Chanukah with Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band, winners of the Audience Prize at the International Jewish Music Festival and Young Audiences of Massachusetts teaching...Full Description |
Yes |
Purim with Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band | Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band | Yes | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Sing and dance along to the story of Purim with Ezekiel's Wheels Klezmer Band, winners of the Audience Prize at the International Jewish Music Festival and Young Audiences of Massachusetts teaching...Full Description |
Yes |
Down To The Last Ten Gallons: The Saga of Flight-19 | F2T | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | My name is Kevin MacKenzie, and I would like to invite you and your patrons to participate in the unique opportunity to join me in marking the 75th anniversary...Full Description |
Yes |
Gorgeous Gardens of New England | Fair Haven Photographs | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Sit back and enjoy a visual tour of some of the most gorgeous gardens in New England. This lively presentation features a colorful slideshow of some of my favorite public and private gardens in the...Full Description |
Yes |
Garden Photography - A Deeper Dive | Fair Haven Photographs | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Take a deeper dive into the photographic techniques that will help you take better photographs of your garden and the gardens that inspire you. We will delve into the art of “seeing” a garden...Full Description |
Yes |
Garden Design - A Deeper Dive | Fair Haven Photographs | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | What makes for a great garden? With beautifully photographed showcase gardens as our examples, we will explore and dissect garden design and the hardscape and softscape elements that make a design shine....Full Description |
Yes |
Fragrance in the Garden (New for 2020) | Fair Haven Photographs | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Perhaps you have smelled the lovely fragrance of a peony and were immediately transported back to a time long ago in your grandmother’s garden. Have you ever wondered why that is? Unlike how we...Full Description |
Yes |
Gorgeous Gardens of New England Part 2 | Fair Haven Photographs | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | We have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to the number of beautiful gardens in New England, so many in fact that I’ve added this ‘Part 2’ to my lineup. Like my original and...Full Description |
Yes |
The Fairy Princess Chronicles Author Talk | Fairy Princess Chronicles, The | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This is an informative talk by the Author of The Fairy Princess Chronicles series. It will cover some of the content of the series with several exerpt readings as well as an overview of the author's...Full Description |
Yes |
fiddlingals | fiddlingals | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Fiddlingals is made up of two fiddle players & their assorted instruments. Together they play dulcimer, mandolin, chinese yeewoo, drums, celtic harp, & of course their two Fiddles. They play & sing...Full Description |
No |
Fireman Jim Safety Tips Program | Fireman Jim | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | It's a rock n' rollin' good time as Fireman Jim teaches basic safety through easy to learn songs and live demonstrations. Children will enjoy singing along as they learn how to stop drop and roll,...Full Description |
No |
Read Yourself Silly | Flow Circus | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Juggling & magic performance that inspires children to read about subjects that interest them. Based on the performers true story of how one book leads to the next and then leads to a life-long dream....Full Description |
No |
Skill Toys From Around the World | Flow Circus | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Flower sticks, Japanese kendama, diabolo, and spinning plates. Hands-on workshop explores skill toys from around the world and includes a set of flower sticks and instructional DVD for the library....Full Description |
No |
Juggle Me This | Flow Circus | No | 6 | Teenagers (13-17) | Three ball jugging is broken down into simple, easy to learn steps. Participants will be given individual feedback by an instructor as well as learn how to give constructive feedback to peers. By the...Full Description |
No |
Twisted Fun | Flow Circus | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Tweens & teens are introduced to basic balloon twisting skills to make dogs, giraffes, and other sculptures. Teams then face a challenge that incorporates brainstorming, creative thinking, performance,...Full Description |
No |
Nourishing the Nervous System: Herbs to Relieve Stress and Anxiety | Flower & Frequency LLC | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | We could all use a little stress relief these days. Luckily, the plants are here to help! Join Nora Toomey, Clinical Herbalist of True Bloom, to dive deep into a handful of plants that nourish and support...Full Description |
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Show Off | Fly by Night | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Book a 45 min. Juggling/comedy show.Or a 45 min. show and an hour juggling workshop.Or a 45 min. show and an all day workshop.Or a 45 min. show followed by a week long circus arts...Full Description |
No |
Food Explorers | Food Explorers | No | 3 | Preschoolers (4-5) | Preschoolers will learn the basics of healthy eating from a Registered Dietitian, using interactive sensory food games and activities, followed by a hands on healthy snack. They'll get to play with...Full Description |
Yes |
Food Explorers | Food Explorers | Yes | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Children will learn the basics of nutrition and healthy eating with a Registered Dietitian! Explore the five food groups of MyPlate through interactive games and activities, and follow along to make...Full Description |
Yes |
Oh, Sugar! | Food Explorers | Yes | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Children will learn all about sugar from a Registered Dietitian. They'll explore how much sugar is in common foods using sugar packets and hands on games. The program will end with a low-sugar snack...Full Description |
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Harry Potter Food Explorers Fun! | Food Explorers | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Whip up some magical treats with a Registered Dietitian! Kids will have the chance to make Hogwarts inspired foods with a healthy twist, while exploring the exciting world of nutrition and healthy eating....Full Description |
Yes |
ToBe Fit - The Juggling Nutrition Magician Show | FoodPlay Productions | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | ToBe Fit, The Juggling Nutrition Magician Show Live and VIRTUAL! Bringing the power of live...Full Description |
Yes |
Janey Junkfood's Fresh Adventure! Video Story Book | FoodPlay Productions | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | A great way to easily connect with your families at home! Celebrate Reading and Healthy Eating with FoodPlay's newest Video Story Book - bringing fun-filled healthy messages directly to children and...Full Description |
Yes |
Emmy Award-Winning Author Visit - Make Nutrition Come Alive! | FoodPlay Productions | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Barbara delivers a fun-filled nutrition education presentation, complete with juggling, music, magic, and audience participation, to help kids and families make good eating - great fun! Storper...Full Description |
Yes |
FoodPlay Presents: ToBe Fit, The Juggling Nutrition Magician Show | FoodPlay Productions | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | ToBe Fit, The Juggling Nutrition Magician Show Live and VIRTUAL! Bringing the power of live theater...Full Description |
Yes |
Janey Junkfood's Fresh Adventure! Video Story Book | FoodPlay Productions | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | A great way to easily connect VIRTUALLY with your families at home! Celebrate Reading and Healthy Eating with FoodPlay's newest Video Story Book - bringing fun-filled healthy messages directly to children...Full Description |
Yes |
For The Nonce | For The Nonce... | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Five costumed Pilgrims (employees of Plimoth Plantation) perform a lively revue of English country songs and dances from the 17th century. They perform in full costume and period character with...Full Description |
No |
Concerts for Children and Families | Fran Friedman | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | CONCERT: Music for the family that focuses on how special children are, how much we love them, how they should treat others (with respect and kindness), disability awareness (sign language taught)....Full Description |
No |
Monthly Sing-alongs | Fran Friedman | No | 1,2 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds | This is a very interactive music program. I hand out toys related to the songs, and have instruments for a great parade! It is very educational as well as a lot of fun! This is the program I conduct...Full Description |
No |
Comic Construction | Free Lunch Studios | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Developed by Free Lunch Studios founders Matt Ryan and Steve Kanaras, Comic Construction is an educational program focusing on all the skills required to create comics and graphic novels in their myriad...Full Description |
Yes |
King of Monster Mountain | Free Lunch Studios | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Every year, creative individuals of all ages have participated in the Annual Free Lunch Studios King of Monster Mountain Tournament, a creative gaming event where the players design their own monster...Full Description |
Yes |
The Cultures, Wars and Characters of Westeros | Free Lunch Studios | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Join Anthony Baumann as he discusses the different cultures of Westeros, how the show aims to separate childhood fantasies from the realities of Knights and War and how the story creates humans instead...Full Description |
Yes |
funDrum community building and character trait programs | Fun Drum | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Inspiring - Uplifting - Touches the Heart - Everyone Participates - FunWatch a video at: www.fundrum.orgHighly interactive community building programs through collaborative...Full Description |
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Art of Photography | Gabrielle Charbonneau, B.F.A. | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Explore the art of photography with artist, Gabrielle Charbonneau.Learn techniques of famous photographers while developing one's own style. Students bring camera of choice, or a disposable may...Full Description |
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Creatures of Our Mind's Eye: Creating Kindness and Concern | Gail N. Herman, PhD, Storyteller and Teaching Artist | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | The storyteller uses stories to teach kindness and concern. Some stories are told with mime or puppets, and often with folk percussion sound effects she brings in her suitcase. Many of...Full Description |
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Badger Meets the Fairies | Galapagos Puppets | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Badger is digging potatoes in the garden when a lovely fairy comes to seek his help for a fairy building project. Enjoy traveling to the land of the fairies with the Badger. This original hand puppet...Full Description |
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Trolls in the Kitchen | Galapagos Puppets | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | When the helpful tomte who keep Trinka's kitchen neat and tidy realize that she doesn't appreciate them, they move out. Two messy, greedy trolls move in. The story is based on Swedish folk-tales and...Full Description |
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Monkey Wreaks Havoc in Heaven | Galapagos Puppets | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The magical Monkey King makes mischief in the Heavens, eating all of the Jade Emperor's peaches ad Lao-tze's elixirs. This show is performed with traditional Chinese puppets and intricate "Chang Chung...Full Description |
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Clap Your Hands | George W. Russell, Jr. & Co. | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Explore gospel, one of America's most popular musical genres, through highlights of its various styles throughout history. The program demonstrates the rise and function of gospel music in the African-American...Full Description |
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The American Songbook | Gerry Johnston, guitarist | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Solo jazz guitar performances of selections from "The American Songbook". These are the great 'standards' by composers such as George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Ann Ronnell, Cole Porter, etc. ...Full Description |
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Inside the Haunted House | Gerwick Puppets | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | In this orginal story by longtime puppeteers Deborah Costine and Len Gewick, a boy and girl decide to explore an old mansion that is said to be haunted! Many funny and slightly scary surprises await...Full Description |
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Midwinter Magic | Gerwick Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | This elaborate, winter fantasy takes place as puppet children "Mary Lou" and "Bruce" fall asleep on the longest night of the year. They are guided through a dream of enchanting music and puppets by...Full Description |
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Aladdin and the Magic Lamp | Gerwick Puppets | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | This ancient story from "The Arabian Nights" shows the struggle between good and evil. The evil magician, the ominous secret cave, the magic flying carpet and the all-powerful genie of the magic lamp...Full Description |
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Adventures From Thornton Burgess | Gerwick Puppets | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | This is a much loved production bu the award-winning Gerwick Puppets. It is adapted from the nature stories of Massachusetts author Thornton Burgess. Characters such as Reddy Fox, Hooty Owl, Peter and...Full Description |
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The Case of the Missing Woodpile | Gerwick Puppets | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | In this musical mystery, Mary Lou and Bruce are on summer vacation, planting a garden and building a treehouse. Suddenly the wood for the treehouse disappears and the audience gets to help solve the...Full Description |
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Tales Best Told In The Dark | Ghosteller | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Let storyteller David Mello chill, thrill, and thoroughly entertain you with his diverse collection of ghostly stories, poems, and lore from around the world. Tales Best Told In The Dark will entertain...Full Description |
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CelloBop | Gideon Freudmann | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | In the program, CelloBop, students meet the music, musician, and maker of the music: both the traditional cello and the modern day electric cello. Gideon Freudmann classical charm with powerful contemporary...Full Description |
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Sound Science | Gideon Freudmann | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Both the artistic and scientific aspects of music are explored through an examination of acoustics, sound waves, intervals, rhythms, and chord progressions-exploring the acoustic properties of cello...Full Description |
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A Post-Operation Demonstration | Gladius | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | In this multi-cultural audience engaging program, students learn about different types guitars, musical genres, and musical elements, as well as the vital role of the human nervous system as pertains...Full Description |
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A Flamenco Guitar Concert | Gladius | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | All Ages Concert Program (Adults & Children) Determined to entertain as well as inspire audiences of all ages, this award-winning ‘musical mad-scientist’ explores a multi-cultural...Full Description |
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Live Virtual Concert | Gladius | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | All Ages Concert Program (Adults & Children) Determined to entertain as well as inspire audiences of all ages, this award-winning ‘musical mad-scientist’ explores a multi-cultural...Full Description |
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Songs & Humor from Ireland & The British Isles | Glenshane Irish Folk Duo | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Jean & John Nesbitt form Glenshane. John hails from County Derry in No. Ireland, and Jean is a native New Englander. Their songs run the full gamut of emotions - from the most touching to the most rollicking...Full Description |
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Maritime Music for Families | Gloucester Hornpipe and Clog Society | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Gloucester Hornpipe and Clog Society has performed throughout New England and twice in Ireland in libraries, museums, outdoor maritime celebrations, aboard the U.S.S. Constitution and other historic...Full Description |
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Traditional Irish Music | Gloucester Hornpipe and Clog Society | No | 2,3 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | The Gloucester Hornpipe and Clog Society has performed throughout New England and twice in Ireland. Our concerts are family- or holiday-oriented, for example for St. Patrick's Day, Independence...Full Description |
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Voyages & Voices: A Multicultural Journey | Good Heart Productions | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Voyages & Voices is an interactive fun-filled adventure to foreign lands. Your imagination is your passport to laugh, dance and sing your way across the globe. The itinerary includes folktales, songs...Full Description |
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The Snow Queen | Good Heart Productions | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | The Snow Queen is an enchanting, magical character who welcomes you to the wonders of winter through stories, poems, fingerplays and songs. ...Full Description |
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Once Upon A Medieval Time | Good Heart Productions | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Once Upon a medieval Time is a Medley of Myth, Merry & Mischief.An interactive performance packed full of stories, songs, dance & mime that explore the fun and folklore of the Middle Ages. ...Full Description |
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Mother Nature | Good Heart Productions | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Mother Nature is a gentle, costumed character that enhances children's awareness and appreciation of the natural world around them. An adventure through stories, songs poems and puppets. ...Full Description |
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Rhythm 'n' Rhyme Time | Good Heart Productions | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Children will delight in this interactive performing arts experience offering them the opportunity to explore natural & musical rhythms, rhymes & wordplay. Through the use of stories, chants, poems...Full Description |
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That Was A Good Wun | Good Wins/ That's A Good Wun | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Songs and stories from around the campfire for campers of almost all ages. Excellent for families. Connects with summer reading themes and multicultural literature, and a new program Good 41:...Full Description |
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Good Wins | Good Wins/ That's A Good Wun | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Good Wins are group building games and cooperative play led by storyteller and games leader Todd Goodwin at your library, school, or camp or any place people of mixed ages want to gather and play. Also...Full Description |
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Great Rolando Magic Show | Great Rolando | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | The Great Rolando has a unique blend of comedy and magic that is fun for the whole family! His show is based in audience participation....Full Description |
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Pastel Painting Workshops | Gregory John Maichack | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Paint the Starry Sky in Pastel: Explore how to use pastels to create beautiful skies in landscapes as well as more earthly cosmic wonders. Greg's hands-on art workshop was nominated for a Mass. Cultural...Full Description |
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DIY Ginger Ale & Vanilla/Almond Extracts | Grounded Goodwife | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Gingerly Adjust to a New Normal – DIY Ginger Ale A super easy healthy homemade Ginger Ale recipe. It’s not only delicious,...Full Description |
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DIY Kimchi | Grounded Goodwife | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Hippocrates said, "all disease begins in the gut." History has proven Hippocrates to be a pretty smart guy, and science is now linking poor gut health with a myriad of health problems. Staying...Full Description |
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DIY Kombucha | Grounded Goodwife | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | “Booch” flows at coffee shops and health food stores. It’s become extremely trendy, but many people still don’t know why it’s good for them. Kombucha’s bacteria—the...Full Description |
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Maple-Pumpkin Sugar Scrub & Banana Mask | Grounded Goodwife | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Occu-pie my thoughts! DIY Maple Pumpkin Sugar ScrubOver time, our skin cell’s turnover rate slows down causing it to look...Full Description |
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Inside the Green Witch Cauldron | Grounded Goodwife | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | The vast majority of medical approaches in our health-care system are directed at treating symptoms from the outside-in, but your body has a tremendous ability to heal itself from inside-out. When it...Full Description |
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Historical Weapons Demo | Guard Up! Guardian Adventures | No | 6 | Teenagers (13-17) | Interested in Medieval Weapony? Let us come to you with this interactive demonstration. Our costumed instructors will engage your guests in a way that makes learning not only fun but...Full Description |
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A Knights Tale | Guard Up! Guardian Adventures | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Our costumed and armored Knight arrives and tells a tale about life in Medieval times. He brings with him pieces of armor for kids to try on, sample (unsharp) weapons and if you wish, some foam swords...Full Description |
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A Samurai Tale | Guard Up! Guardian Adventures | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Our Samurai arrives in costume and talks of what it was like to live in the time of the Samurai. He will bring sample (unsharp) weapons and Kendo armor for the audience to touch and try on. Optionally,...Full Description |
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Imagine Your Story | Guard Up! Guardian Adventures | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Ever wondered how to bring your reading program to life and leave a bigger impact on young readers? Guardian Adventures will come to you, bringing story and learning to life! Our...Full Description |
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Acoustic Third Stream/World Folk Music | Guy Mendilow | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Guy Mendilow performs music inspired by the places he has lived and traveled, from the walls of Jerusalem to the cobblestone streets of old Salvador, the highlands of Chiapas and the harsh, parched...Full Description |
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I Promoted Myself | Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti Woventales Productions | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | I Promoted Myself - recount the rise of a washerwoman, entrepreneur, a dedicated woman, who was committed to giving her time and money to her community and led an anti-lynching campaign all the way...Full Description |
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I Can't Die But Once | Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti Woventales Productions | No | 6 | Teenagers (13-17) | I Can't Die But Once - one of the most daring and effective spies during the Civil War were none other than Harriet Tubman. During the forty-five minute presentation, Harriet Tubman weaves a tale of...Full Description |
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Taylor Freedom | Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti Woventales Productions | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Taylor Freedom - During the fall of 1796, George Washington's final months in office, Oney Judge Staines, a slave, escaped the Executive Mansion in Philadelphia. There is always an underside - hidden...Full Description |
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Scheherazade | Hadama | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Story, song and dance by the legendary Persian Queen and storyteller Scheherazade introduce audiences of all ages to the rich cultures and history of the Middle East. Audience participation....Full Description |
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Alice in Wonderland VIRTUAL! | Hampstead Stage Company, The | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Tumble down the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, Alice in Wonderland. Join Alice as she searches for the White Rabbit and tries to find her way out of Wonderland. Things get curiouser...Full Description |
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Alice in Wonderland VIRTUAL! | Hampstead Stage Company, The | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Tumble down the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, Alice in Wonderland. Join Alice as she searches for the White Rabbit and tries to find her way out of Wonderland. Things get curiouser...Full Description |
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Voices of the Stage | Handel & Haydn Society/ Young Audiences of Massachusetts | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Members of the renowned Handel & Haydn chorus present a unique, lively musical program to approach storytelling through various musical styles, including opera, oratorio and musical theater. There are...Full Description |
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Community Drum & Dance | Hands on Drumming | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | All of our programs are participatory for families and we offer a variety of multicultural themes. Our community drum, dance & storytelling programs are perfect for libraries. We have our own sound...Full Description |
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Virtual Educational Library Presentations! | Hands on Nature | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Join us for our virtual educational nature and science programs for libraries! We can now do all of our library programs as live online programs for your patrons. Choices are available on...Full Description |
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Hands on Nature - Backyard Birds (now virtual!) | Hands on Nature | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | In our Backyard Birds program we will learn about the local birds in our yards and how to start identifying them. Learn which birds are common in Massachusetts and which ones are fun to study!...Full Description |
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Hands on Nature - Frogs & Salamanders (now virtual!) | Hands on Nature | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Join us online through Zoom for a live presentation on our local frogs and salamanders! Come learn about our different species, and where each of them can be found. This is such a fun time...Full Description |
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Creepy Crawly Creatures | Hands on Nature | Yes | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | In this fun program we will discover some of our fascinating local bugs - such as beetles, worms, ladybugs and caterpillars! Through learning about them, we will gain a better understanding and...Full Description |
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Incredible Earthworms! | Hands on Nature | Yes | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | In this program we will learn about earthworms and the important role they play in our environment. We will discover an earthworm’s anatomy and learn how it has adapted to its life underground....Full Description |
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Our Local Birds of Prey | Hands on Nature | Yes | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | In this program, we will be discovering the fascinating world of our local raptors! Come discover which species we have in Massachusetts, and learn about each of their unique characteristics,...Full Description |
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Magical Fireflies! | Hands on Nature | Yes | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Join us as we learn about these special nocturnal insects that brighten our night sky! Discover the habits and lifestyles of these luminous insects, and learn what makes their ‘cool light’...Full Description |
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Underground Mammals | Hands on Nature | Yes | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Come join our Underground Mammals program as we learn about our local mammal species which spend most of their lives underground. Discover some of the special characteristics of underground mammals,...Full Description |
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Life in the Pond | Hands on Nature | Yes | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Join this favorite program to discover the many exciting forms of life in a Pond! Come discover the mammals, amphibians, invertebrates, fish, reptiles, birds and plants that make the pond their...Full Description |
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Sing with your Baby! | Happy Dan the Music Man | No | 1 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2) | A gentle yet exciting program of fingerplays, songs, movement and instrument exploration for babies and their caregivers. ...Full Description |
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"Rock with your Tot!" | Happy Dan the Music Man | No | 2,3 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | A high energy, creative experience for toddlers including fingerplays, participatory songs, creative movement and lots of fun. Depending upon the group we might have a puppet show, scarf dancing, instrument...Full Description |
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Music around the World | Happy Dan the Music Man | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | A entertaining and educational program introducing instruments, dances, songs and customs from cultures around the world. Many instruments to be heard and passed around. Group dances, participatory...Full Description |
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Introducing American Folk Music | Happy Dan the Music Man | No | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | A fun and musical journey into the history of American Folk Music incorporating many and diverse instruments, dances, customs, jokes, history and stories. This program is fun, educational and funny....Full Description |
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Early Music | Harper and The Minstrel, The | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | THE HARPER AND THE MINSTRELEarly Music ProgramFeaturing Music from the 13th through the 18th Centuries Traditional and Early Music from 13th Century Spanish Cantgas de Santa Maria...Full Description |
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An Early Music Holiday Concert | Harper and The Minstrel, The | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | An Early Music Holiday ConcertFeaturing: Christmas Music from The Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Periods. Accompanied by a variety of Musical Instruments including:The Traditional Gaelic...Full Description |
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A Celtic Concert | Harper and The Minstrel, The | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Enjoy a Concert of Music from the Celtic Lands with talented and versatile Multi-Instrumentalists Jay and Abby Michaels - The Harper and The Minstrel.Their unique sound is influenced by Celtic,...Full Description |
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Pickling: The Traditional, Easy, Probiotic Method | Health and Hearth | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Old fashioned pickles can't be beat. They are easy to make, full of flavor and health promoting probiotics. Ditch the heat and work of water bath canning. Learn to make fermented vegetables including...Full Description |
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Moisturizer and Face Cream | Health and Hearth | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Is your skin dry from the cold of winter or the summer sun? Learn to make herbal moisturizers and face creams and to custom blend your product with oils and scents of your choice. We'll go over herbs...Full Description |
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Staying Healthy Through the Winter | Health and Hearth | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | With winter cold and flu season upon us, don't be at the mercy of whatever bug is going around. Explore ways to strengthen your immune system and learn how to make herbals with anti-viral properties....Full Description |
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Defying the Laws of Gravity | Henry the Juggler | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A comic attempt to defy the laws of gravity: Henry Lappen tries the impossible, and sometimes succeeds! He juggles any number of balls, clubs, rings, flaming torches, and items from the audience....Full Description |
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High Peaks Juggling Show | High Peaks Juggling Show, The | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The High Peaks Juggling Show is a highly interactive comedy juggling performance with emphasis on learning from our mistakes, team-work & cooperation, confidence building, and learning as play. It...Full Description |
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Historia Antiqua | Historia Antiqua | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Enrichment presentations on ancient Egypt, Greece & Rome containing museum quality reproductions of artifacts, model war machines, full-scale Roman body armor, replica clothing, PP presentations, role-playing...Full Description |
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Abigail Adams: Revolutionary Mom | Historical Entertainments | No | 5 | Tweens (9-12) | Abigail Adams did it all! Separated from her husband John for almost ten years, Mrs. Adams ran their Quincy farm, educated their children and wrote John letters describing the tumultuous events of the...Full Description |
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Abigail Adams: Birthing a Nation | Historical Entertainments | No | 6 | Teenagers (13-17) | Have you ever wished that your young audiences could understand first hand the tremendous political and social changes that occurred during the American Revolution? Mrs. Adams traces the slow and unpredictable...Full Description |
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Historical Perspectives For Children | Historical Perspectives for Children, Inc. | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Historical Perpsectives for Children presents one-woman shows on the lives of famous women in history, all of whom are portrayed as strong character role models for children. Characters' lives are...Full Description |
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN: American President | Historical Perspectives for Children, Inc. | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | This is a delightful portrayal of Abraham Lincoln's full life from his early childhood growing up in Kentucky through his rise to the presidency. The program is accented with slides, sound effects...Full Description |
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HELEN KELLER: Champion of the Disabled | Historical Perspectives for Children, Inc. | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | In this delightful and very moving portrayal, Helen's full life is portrayed from her early childhood through her adulthood. Through learning about Helen's life, children will understand and accept...Full Description |
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MARIE CURIE: Scientist, Mother, Humanitarian | Historical Perspectives for Children, Inc. | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Marie's fascinating story is very vividly brought to live from her early childhood growing up in Poland to her ground-breaking work in science in Paris. Throughout the program, Marie will present several...Full Description |
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BEN FRANKLIN: Statesman and Inventor | Historical Perspectives for Children, Inc. | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Ben Franklin's life will be vividly portrayed from his early childhood growing up in colonial Massachusetts though the tumultuous period which led to the founding of our country. Additionally, children...Full Description |
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Live Animals | Hitchcock Center | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Let us bring the joy and amazement of live animals to your library. We have giant millipedes, hissing cockroaches, roly-polies, and Speedy the Box Turtle to observe and have fun with. We have activities...Full Description |
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Animals in Winter | Hitchcock Center | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Using hands-on materials such as fur, bones, rubber scat and chewed plant parts, we'll explore the world of animals in winter. Who's sleeping, who's gone, who's active and surviving in the cold? We'll...Full Description |
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Incredible Insects | Hitchcock Center | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Using tools to observe live insects in the lab, children will get hands-on experience as entomologists. We will discover adaptations of insects, why they are important to people and what scientists...Full Description |
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Bungee Jump Barbie | How Cool Is That?! (Hands-On Science) | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Learning objectives: Students will:- collect data using rubber band bungee cords and Barbie dolls- construct graphs to analyze results- predict how many rubber bands are needed...Full Description |
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Musical Baseball Show | Howie Newman | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Local singer-songwriter (and former sportswriter) Howie Newman performs a unique, interactive and highly entertaining program, singing baseball songs, offering up baseball trivia and telling stories...Full Description |
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Folk and Fun | Howie Newman | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Howie Newman, who plays guitar and sings, is one of the most engaging performers on the New England acoustic music circuit. He performs funny original songs (suitable for all ages) and classic...Full Description |
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Knock on Wood, acoustic folk-rock duo | Howie Newman | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Knock on Wood consists of Howie Newman (guitar and vocals) and a partner, who adds fiddle, mandolin and backup vocals. Knock on Wood performs funny original songs (suitable for all ages)...Full Description |
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Music for Seniors | Howie Newman | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Singing guitarist Howie Newman plays great songs of yesteryear, including standards, show tunes and material from artists like Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond and...Full Description |
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Unleash the Magic in Books | Illusionist David Garrity | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Launched in 2004, this program uses visual magic, juggling and comedy to encourage students to read better and more often. Program objectives include teaching appropriate library behavior, illustrating...Full Description |
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Magic&Beyond - One Man Illusion Show | Illusionist David Garrity | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | "Magic & Beyond" '“ One-Man Illusion ShowThe most popular of David's shows as it can be performed almost anywhere. This 45-minute show features unique theatrical magic, audience participation,...Full Description |
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IllusionQuest - Full Stage Spectacular | Illusionist David Garrity | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | When you want to make an impression on your audience this presentation is the choice! This show can run up to 70-minutes, with or without an intermission. David and his illusion team will perform stunning...Full Description |
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Madcap Magic - Vaudeville Style Show | Illusionist David Garrity | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | David originally created this show for Six Flags New England's 2001 summer season. This act is very versatile and can run within any time frame, up to 30-minutes. The show is extremely effective for...Full Description |
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Fables of Friendship | Imagination Celebrations LLC | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Stories from around the world that reflect bravery, kindness, diversity, and of being a GREAT friend! A wonderful way to kick off a new school year. All stories come to life with the use of whimsical...Full Description |
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The Silliest Kind of Spooky! | Imagination Celebrations LLC | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Hysterical stories of ghosts and witches will be sure to get the whole crowd in ghastly giggles! All stories come to life with whimsical props and fabulous costumes!...Full Description |
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Fall Festival! | Imagination Celebrations LLC | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Hear stories all about the Autumn season, from what the animals do to prepare for winter, to the fun of bobbing for apples and picking pumpkins! All stories come to life with whimsical props and fabulous...Full Description |
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So Thankful | Imagination Celebrations LLC | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Celebrate Thanksgiving with tales of the first thanksgiving. Also, through story, meet a very unhappy turkey who knows the real meaning of thanksgiving! This fun program is enhanced by the use of whimsical...Full Description |
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The Royal Summons | Imagination Celebrations LLC | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Hear stories that will transport you back to a time of princesses, knights, castles...and maybe even a dragon, or two! Through dazzling props and costumes, children of all ages are entertained and engaged....Full Description |
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From Seed to Plate | Imagination Celebrations LLC | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Celebrate our great environment in this delightful performance that shares stories of seeds, plants, and the farmer. Great for children of all ages. ...Full Description |
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Improv 4 Kids | Improv 4 Kids | Yes | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | The cast of EIGHT IS NEVER ENOUGH IMPROV delivers interactive Musical Comedy improvised based on audience suggestions and participation. This show tours schools, camps, libraries and family events. ...Full Description |
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Improv 4 Kids Comedy Performances | Improv 4 KIDS! | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Improv 4 Kids comedy shows feature talented professional performers who present a series of original stories, skits, songs, characters and dances based on audience suggestions. The artists create...Full Description |
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Inca Son: Music & Dance of the Andes | Inca Son: Music & Dance of the Andes | No | Musical, Dance & Lecture Workshops, and Performances-Exploring the Richness and Beauty of Andean Culture. Inca Son is an internationally acclaimed Peruvian music and dance ensemble with numerous performance...Full Description |
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Peter and the Wolf with the Woodwind Family | Infinity Chamber Ensemble | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Music comes alive for our youngest audiences with Infinities! While the elements of melody, harmony, bass, and countermelody become walking. talking characters, your students will learn the fundemental...Full Description |
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Oh the Magical Places to Go! Magic Show Tribute to Dr. Seuss | Inspector Magic | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This program will take children on a journey around the world in search of Inspector Magic's vacationing bunny. They will learn that reading is fun while they learn geographical information about our...Full Description |
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Books Give You Wings | Inspector Magic | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A literacy program that proves 'Reading is Magic.' The goal of the program is to aid you in your efforts to motivate your children by promoting the fun of recreational reading and the use of the library....Full Description |
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MAGIC: IMPOSSIBLE | Inspector Magic | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This fun program will transform children of all ages into the secret world of the Secret Agent. Inspector Magic will provide magical comedy that might be seen on 'Get Smart,' 'the Pink Panther,' and...Full Description |
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SURVIVOR Bully-proof Program | Inspector Magic | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | The SURVIVOR School Assembly Program is full of fast-paced magic, music, drama, comedy, and audience involvement. Throughout the show, messages about Courage, Respect, Responsibility, Caring, Community,...Full Description |
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A Journey Through Illustration | Instant Illustrations | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In this interactive program, participants use their imaginations to provide the background to a story about a journey to an unknown destination. The storytelling turns into story illustrating, under...Full Description |
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Zoom/Online/Facebook Live Mindfulness Drop-In | Institute for Integrative Mindfulness and Movement | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Mindfulness Drop-In The Mindfulness Drop-In can be an ongoing series of classes meeting weekly for 30 minutes, or 45 minutes or 60 minutes, either ONLINE virtually or in-person. The intention...Full Description |
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Zoom/Online/Facebook Live Mindful Movement Drop-In | Institute for Integrative Mindfulness and Movement | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | The Mindful Movement Drop-In This is an ongoing class which can start at anytime during the week for a duration of 30min, 45min or 60 minutes. The intention is to provide a class...Full Description |
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Phebe Emerson: Eyewitness to a Revolution | Inter*Act Performances with Jan Turnquist | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Join Phebe Emerson on April 19, 1775-the fateful day when the Redcoats marched into Concord from Lexington. Mrs. Emerson, the wife of Concord's minister in 1775, witnessed the famous battle that took...Full Description |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Catalyst for Civil War | Inter*Act Performances with Jan Turnquist | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Travel back in time with Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), who Abraham Lincoln called, "the little lady who made this great war." This famous abolitionist and author speaks about her life, her dedication...Full Description |
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Louisa May Alcott: Dynamic Author | Inter*Act Performances with Jan Turnquist | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Meet Louisa May Alcott, author of the much loved autobiography, Little Women. Louisa introduces students to important 19th century issues, including suffrage, abolition, equal education, and the Underground...Full Description |
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Games, Pranks, and Stories from the Childhood of Louisa May Alcott | Inter*Act Performances with Jan Turnquist | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | While learning about life a hundred years ago, children can step into the Victorian childhood of Louisa May Alcott and identify with a naughty little child who tried to be good....Full Description |
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Creation of Quabbin Reservoir | J.R. Greene | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Narrated slide program outlining history of Metro. Boston water system and the construction of Quabbin Reservoir. Bulk of program shows what the towns flooded by Quabbin looked like and what life in...Full Description |
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Life of Calvin Coolidge | J.R. Greene | No | 5,6,5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the U.S. (1923-29). He was a native of Plymouth, VT, but graduated from Amherst College, and became a lawyer in Northampton, MA.Coolidge rose up in...Full Description |
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Mass Central RR or Quabbin's Rabbit RR | J.R. Greene | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This is a choice of narrated slide programs about the history of two different Mass. railroads The Mass Central RR (1869-83) was the predecessor of the more famous Central Mass Division of the Boston...Full Description |
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Comic Book Creation | Jack Purcell | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | There are two different focuses that each library can choose. 1) the most popular of the two; sessions focus on basic drawing techniques and allow an understanding of the process in which a comic...Full Description |
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Bridging the Generations | Jack Radcliffe | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Many people know a snatch or two of 'Ain't Misbehavin'' or 'Honeysuckle Rose.' Some may even know that Thomas 'Fats' Waller wrote the music for both tunes. But did you know that the...Full Description |
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Legomania | Jack the Lego Maniac | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Do you love Legos or know children who love building with Legos? If so, this is the event for you! I am a 5th grade teacher during the school year and I have a lifelong love for Legos. During...Full Description |
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Levity in Motion | Jackson Gillman | No | 2,3,4,5,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Mime, song and stories for the young and young-at-heart; airborne exploits and other flights of fancy...Full Description |
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The Magic of Rudyard Kipling: Just So | Jackson Gillman | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Sprightly, faithful interpretations of the "Just So Stories". (Framed with cameo appearances of Rudyard Kipling for older audiences.)...Full Description |
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Riot in the Garden | Jackson Gillman | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Fun-filled farm science, interactive song and story; awarded Most Educational at Maine's Common Ground Fair...Full Description |
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BUGS! | Jackson Gillman | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Doodlebugs, spiders, ants and other crawlies are featured in this low-life revue...Full Description |
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Nature in Action, Story and Song | Jackson Gillman | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Wild things - nature in action, story and song...Full Description |
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The Dancing Man | Jackson Gillman | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Lively, interactive songs and stories to move and groove with, featuring the title story by Ruth Lercher Bornstein...Full Description |
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Awesome Autumn Wonders | Jackson Gillman | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A rich tapestry of colors, sounds and smells in a heartwarming, story and song-filled celebration of the season...Full Description |
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Harlequin and other stories of friendship | Jackson Gillman | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Stories of friendship performed with sign language. The program also includes sing/sign-alongs....Full Description |
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Holiday Revels | Jackson Gillman | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Heartwarming celebrations of the seasons, holidays and human spirit...Full Description |
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Halloween Silly Willies | Jackson Gillman | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Lively, fun Halloween songs and stories that will engage the whole family and not give anyone nightmares. ...Full Description |
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On a Wing and a Song | Jackson Gillman | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | A birds-eye view of the cycle of seasons. Includes nest building, hatching, feeding, learning to fly, migration. Ideal for pre-school to primary grades with interactive poems, stories, finger plays,...Full Description |
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Moon Crazy | Jackson Gillman | No | 2,3,4,5,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Put on your imagination caps, fasten your seat belts, and blast off with Jackson on his outer space adventures to the moon. Songs and stories to take you far away and pilot you happily home....Full Description |
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Songs and Stories for a Small Planet | Jackson Gillman | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | A celebration of nature with an eye to where we fit in and how we can help sustain our world. (Different versions for school ages to adult.) ...Full Description |
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Wreath Making Workshop | Jacqueline Shaw | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Make your own small decorative wreath using all natural materials with crafter/instructor Jacqueline Shaw. Suitable for beginners or experienced wreath makers. Use dried flowers, seashells, nuts, berries...Full Description |
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Tea Cup Arrangements | Jacqueline Shaw | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | You'll never look at a tea cup the way you used to. Join this class where tea cups will be showcased as one of many common yet unusual vessels for a dried flower arrangement. Make one for a small table...Full Description |
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Centerpiece Workshop | Jacqueline Shaw | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | A centerpiece can be an eye catching statement in a room. In this class we will use materials such as dried flowers or grasses to create lovely arrangements. Attendees will view centerpieces of various...Full Description |
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Oh, Put Your Hands Together! | Janice Allen | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Participatory program where I will teach some history of the African and African-American Culture through music, dance, games, and stories. Many of the Folk Songs are from the Georgia Sea Islands....Full Description |
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The Way of Tea | Japanese Tea Ceremony | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Join us for a Japanese tea ceremony performance. Kyoko Wada will share "the happiness of the tea ceremony" with you and invite you to take this opportunity to leave your worries and problems at the...Full Description |
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Balloons and Stories/ Witch Willie Lilly/ Winter Lady/ Storybook Lady/ Switch off TV & Switch on Your Brain | Jeanne Donato The Storyteller from Joy-O-Loons | No | 1,2,3,4,5,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Balloons & stories offers a delightful mix of folktales and balloon creations.Witch Willy Lilly ranges from "Happy Pumpkin to truly terrifying tales for the brave of heart (from folk lore). Winter...Full Description |
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Fun with Children's Songs | jeanniemack...performer for kids | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | jeanniemack presents a program of interactive songs designed to draw out even the most shy of children and thoroughly engage them. She plays guitar and harmonica and sings songs which include the traditional...Full Description |
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Halloween Fun | jeanniemack...performer for kids | No | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | "Halloween Fun" is a participatory musical program chock full of action-packed Halloween songs, tongue-twisters, seasonal humor, and one not-too-scary Halloween tale with eerie sound effects. A few...Full Description |
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Not a Fright in Sight | jeanniemack...performer for kids | No | 1,2 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds | This Halloween program is designed for the really little kids who just want to enjoy each other in their costumes and be entertained with some unfrightful Halloween songs, simple rhymes, and some of...Full Description |
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Christmas Sing-along | jeanniemack...performer for kids | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | jeanniemack shares all of the traditional Santa-Rudolph-partridge-in-a-pear-tree-sleigh-bell songs you can imagine. The more reverent Christmas carols may be added too, as well as Hanukkah songs. This...Full Description |
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Science Shows For Kids | Jeff Danger, Science Ranger | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | * PHYSICAL SCIENCE SHOW - most popular, auditoriums or classrooms - presents many important scientific ideas with flabbergasting demonstrations of natural forces that children (tailored to audience...Full Description |
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American Sampler | Jeff Davis | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Travel with Jeff Davis into the history of rural America. With humor, warmth, and scholarship, Jeff invites your students to relive our nation's heritage through songs of Revolutionay war heroes, Appalachian...Full Description |
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The Oregon Trail | Jeff Davis | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | In 1846, Bostonian and historian Francis Parkman, then 23 years old and just graduated from Harvard, traversed the continent, returned, and then wrote his famous first book, The Oregon Trail. This program...Full Description |
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Sing-Along With Jeff Jam | Jeff Jam | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Family favorite Jeff Jam is a friendly, goofy guy with an acoustic guitar, who leads a sing-along of classic kids songs (The Muffin Man, Hokey Pokey, Wheels On the Bus, Bingo, etc.) and his own tunes...Full Description |
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The Softer Side of Celtic | Jeff Snow | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Softer Side of Celtic combines the music, stories, and history of Scotland, England, and Ireland in a way that will keep your audience on the edge of their seats. There will be singing, laughing,...Full Description |
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Painting Class with artist Jen Niles | Jen Niles Art | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Jen Niles is a self-taught artist known for her bold, bright and whimsical acrylic painting style. Her favorite subject is animals, and in her library classes, Jen shows students how easy it is to create...Full Description |
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Introduction to Writing Picture Books | Jennifer E. Morris Author/Illustrator | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Have you always wanted to write a children's book? Award winning children's book author and illustrator Jennifer E. Morris can help you get started. Whether you are interested in being published or...Full Description |
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What's the Buzz in Your Back Yard | Jerry Schneider | No | 4,5,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | This program, designed for the 2006 SRP in MA, includes a talk and slide show about such "buzzy" creatures as dragonflies, beetles, cicadas, katydids, bees, and crickets that inhabit our back yards...Full Description |
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Intro to Jewelry Making--Earrings | Jewelry by Paula | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Students will learn basic wire wrapping techniques and create a pair of earrings. Tools, wire, beads, etc. are provided by instructor. Students will be able to keep earrings that they create. Sterling...Full Description |
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The Measure of the Year: Seasonal Concerts Series Measure of the Year: Seasonal Concerts Series | Jim & Maggi Dalton | No | 5,7 | Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | The Measure of the Year: Seasonal Concerts SeriesMusical performance, historical commentary, myth, storytelling drawn from a variety of traditions & time periods.SpringSongs ...Full Description |
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What a weapon is the ballot!! | Jim & Maggi Dalton | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Since the introduction of this program in November 1988, it has proved to be one of our most popular, featured on Ct. Public Radio's 'Open Air New England,' offered as part of a special seminar at...Full Description |
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We are amused - songs and stories of victorian america | Jim & Maggi Dalton | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This exceedingly popular program features music beloved by the society of 19th-century America. Illuminates what was important to the American heart in Victorian & Edwardian times. One of our three...Full Description |
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Market lass the myriad roles of Elizabeth Poe | Jim & Maggi Dalton | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Elizabeth Poe, the mother of Edgar Allan Poe, was a singing actress active in the United States from the late 1790s to 1811. This program, built around the music she sang & material from some of the...Full Description |
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Some of these days -- roarin’ tunefully through the ‘20s | Jim & Maggi Dalton | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The password is "music" and the secret knock will be "fun."Take a musical and historical tour of the American 1920s. Hearken to the sounds and story of the triumph of the temperance movement...Full Description |
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Seasonal programs | Jim & Maggi Dalton | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Seasonal programs Most programs include storytelling. Each program includes information on myth, legend, & history of the season or celebration Jim & Maggi's seasonal programs...Full Description |
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Joe Leary's Songs of Ireland | Joe Leary's Acoustic Classroom | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Ballads, original music, humorous song and anecdotal stories from Ireland performed as a solo vocalist with guitar....Full Description |
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Celebration of Story & Song | John Porcino Storyteller-Musician | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Covid-19 Program Description Since covid-19 I have done a little live online performing and I have been surprised at how well it worked. One 1st grade student listening,...Full Description |
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One Earth: Environmental Stories and Songs | John Porcino Storyteller-Musician | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Covid-19 One Earth Program Description Since covid-19 I have done a little live online performing and I have been surprised at how well it worked. One 1st grade student listening, took...Full Description |
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Character Counts | Johnny the K | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Nationally acclaimed and award winning musician and teacher, John Kelleher, along with his 12 string guitar and his unique collection of costumed hats, masks, and disguises, educates and inspires his...Full Description |
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Large Build | Jonah's Twisters | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | During this time Jonah will build a large scupture with balloons for display. The scupture design can match the libraries event theme or summer reading theme. This style of event is more of a pass through...Full Description |
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Balloon Twisting Workshop | Jonah's Twisters | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In the balloon twisting workshop participants will learn how to create balloon sculptures. Depending on length the workshop can teach just sculptures or do techniques and types of balloons. This program...Full Description |
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Live Balloon Twisting | Jonah's Twisters | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This is Jonah's signiture offering. Jonah will entertain by creating balloon sculptures on demand. Depending on need he can make up to 30 an hour. This is perfect for events such as fairs, festivals,...Full Description |
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Teen/Tween Balloon Workshop | Jonah's Twisters LLC | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Want to learn how to create your own balloon sculptures? Join Jonah and a small group in learn proper techniques. Sculptures will be taught to show students how to use the techniques taught. After showing...Full Description |
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Balloon Workshop Team Build | Jonah's Twisters LLC | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Do you want a way to have a balloon sculpture class with an amazing sculpture as the outcome? Well, look no farther. This class teaches a couple of techniques that the group then uses to put together...Full Description |
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Balloon Entertainment | Jonah's Twisters LLC | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This is event entertainment where balloon are created for anyone who wants their own unique sculpture. About 30 can be created in 1 hour. ...Full Description |
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Virtual Balloon Workshop | Jonah's Twisters LLC | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In this workshop Jonah explains how to twist balloons. The workshop can be run as a demo or as workshop by providing the participants with balloons. Jonah starts at what balloons are made of, different...Full Description |
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Catch the Beat at Your Library | Jose Narciso Costa | No | 3,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | SEMLS' 6th Annual Performer's Showcase, 11/2/2006...Full Description |
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Crystal Healing | Journey Women, The | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Participants will learn how crystals- semi-precious stones can help heal on the emotional and spiritual levels. How to select stones, cleanse stones, charge stones, and use stones for healing. This...Full Description |
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Lavender Bliss | Journey Women, The | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This program provides information on growing and using lavender for aromatherapy, crafts, and culinary purposes. Participants will make a glass Lavender aromatherapy amphora necklace. Sampling of Lavender...Full Description |
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Medicine Wheel Gardens | Journey Women, The | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Medicine Wheel Garden program provides a background on the significance of the circle in various cultures and traditions, and primarily its significance to native Americans. Participants will get...Full Description |
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Mandalas | Journey Women, The | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Circle of life, creation, developing intuition. This workshop gets the creative juices flowing as participants artistically work within a circle shape to create a Mandala that reflects their hopes and...Full Description |
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Meditation | Journey Women, The | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Explore meditation basics, and various forms of meditation. Guided meditation, sound meditation, Japa meditation and other lesser known but meaningful forms of meditation....Full Description |
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Nature Travel talk: The Wilds of Southern Belize | Joys of Nature, The | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Located in Eastern Central America, Belize shares borders with Guatemala and Mexico. From the crystal blue ocean waters and inland to the nearby mountains, it is amazingly diverse. Wildlife along the...Full Description |
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The Joys of Nature Live Animal Program: Sensational Snakes | Joys of Nature, The | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Some people fear snakes, but we often fear what we do not understand. Snakes look very different and move very differently from many other animals, but anything that is different can be amazing too....Full Description |
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The Joys of Nature Live Animal Program: Terrific Turtles | Joys of Nature, The | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | What is the difference between a turtle and a tortoise? How big can a sea turtle grow? Are all turtle shells the same? Find out for yourself! Learn more about our wonderful shelled friends and meet...Full Description |
Yes |
The Joys of Nature Live Animal Program: Leaping Lizards! | Joys of Nature, The | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | From a tiny anole and a huge Komodo dragon to the venomous Gila monster, lizards can look very different. How are they similar? How do their differences actually help lizards survive around the world...Full Description |
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The Joys of Nature Live Animal Program: Wild World of Reptiles | Joys of Nature, The | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | What is the difference between a lizard and a snake and a crocodile and an alligator? Can turtles really leave their shells like they do in the cartoons? Are snakes really slimy? Learn more about our...Full Description |
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The Joys of Nature Live Animal Program: Creepy Crawlies | Joys of Nature, The | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | How do you move if you don’t have legs? Hiss without using your mouth? Eat by using a built-in straw? Learn about some of the strange and creepy critters from our wild and wacky world of animals....Full Description |
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New England Nature Talk: Dragonflies, Damselflies and Spreadwings: Beautiful and Beneficial | Joys of Nature, The | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | What is the difference between a dragonfly and damselfly? What are they doing in our yards? How do you tell males from females? Enjoy beautiful images of these animals and learn more about these amazing...Full Description |
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New England Nature talk: Beautiful Butterflies | Joys of Nature, The | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | From the large Eastern tiger swallowtail and colorful monarch to the tiny spring azure, there is a huge range of size, color and patterns in local butterfly species. What makes a good butterfly habitat?...Full Description |
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Nature Travel talk: New Zealand: Penguins, Parrots & Pods | Joys of Nature, The | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | New Zealand is home to many rare birds and marine mammals including the comical yellow-eyed penguin. Watch and listen as the yellow-eyed penguin returns from the ocean to feed its chick and the Antipodes...Full Description |
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New England Nature Talk: Native Plant Gardening for Wildlife | Joys of Nature, The | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Are you a butterfly or bird lover? The best way to attract local wildlife to your yard is to plant native plants! Animals need plants for many reasons including shelter and food. Many even have preferred...Full Description |
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Nature Travel talk: The Netherlands: Land of Wind, Water and Wildlife | Joys of Nature, The | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | To many, windmills are the iconic symbol of the Netherlands. For many centuries, the Dutch have controlled the flow of water with dykes and windmills in order to reclaim land from the sea. In more recent...Full Description |
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Nature Travel talk: Alaska, Bears and Beyond | Joys of Nature, The | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Alaska is often regarded as a last frontier and one of the last places to see numerous large wildlife. Through the Kenai fiords, small boats allow close access to thundering, calving glaciers, breaching...Full Description |
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Nature Travel talk: Exploring the Sky Islands | Joys of Nature, The | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Sky Islands of Arizona are among the most diverse ecosystems in the world and contains the highest biodiversity in the US. Due to their rapid elevation from the desert below, some areas remain temperate...Full Description |
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Nature Travel talk: Maldives: Paradise in the Indian Ocean or Dubai to the Maldives: Travels from Desert to Paradise | Joys of Nature, The | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Maldives is made up of a series of low lying coral atolls in the Indian Ocean, just south of Sri Lanka and India. A lush tropical paradise, it is also known for its amazing marine life. From massive,...Full Description |
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Nature Travel talk: Beautiful Bahamas | Joys of Nature, The | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Bahamas are a group of 700 islands, and many smaller islets, made from the remnants of coral reefs in the northern Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. Formerly a British colony, their economy has...Full Description |
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The Joys of Nature Animal Program: Fun Flyers: Dragonflies & Damselflies | Joys of Nature, The | Yes | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | What is the difference between a dragonfly and damselfly? Are dragonflies dangerous? Do they breathe fire? Find out how they even help people! Learn more about these amazing animals through beautiful...Full Description |
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The Joys of Nature Animal Program: Wild about Horses! | Joys of Nature, The | Yes | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Before we had cars, horses were one way people could travel long distances. Now horses are often considered more of a partner with their human riders. From the small Icelandic horse to a large Cheval...Full Description |
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The Joys of Nature Animal Program: Working with Alligators & Crocs | Joys of Nature, The | Yes | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Crocodilians like alligators, crocodiles and caimans are amazing animals. Powerful, smart and resilient, they have survived since ancient times, despite over hunting and habitat loss around the world....Full Description |
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The Joys of Nature Animal Program: The Furry and Fuzzy: Our Backyard Mammals | Joys of Nature, The | Yes | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Various mammals live in and around our backyards. What makes a mammal different from other animals? How do you know which mammals are spending time in your yard? Learn more about our rabbit, chipmunk,...Full Description |
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Meet Lucy Stone | Judith Black - Storyteller | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | LUCY STONE IS COMING TO TOWNThere was a time in our national history when a married woman did not have legal rights to the money she earned, the property she inherited, or the children she bore....Full Description |
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Oops MA! | Judith Black - Storyteller | No | 3,4,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Adults (18+) | Oops Ma! Songs and Stories of Family Life:From the crack of dawn until sleep draws us reluctantly from life's pulse, these tales reflect the laughter and tears that emerge from our authentic...Full Description |
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Blooming: Stories for Girls to Grow On | Judith Black - Storyteller | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In the summers heat, Paloma Holman, of the Young Women's Health & Leadership Program, has invited me to share tales in the wilds of New Hampshire. The program she runs for at risk preadolescent girls...Full Description |
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Stories for Adults | Judith Black - Storyteller | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Storytelling can open your gates of perception and allow tears and laughter to issue at a velocity that would out pace a spring rainfall. Consider an evening for the big people. My performance material...Full Description |
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Glad to be Who I Am | Judith Black - Storyteller | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | When a child hears a story they allow themselves to become its hero or heroine. Whether they must overcome incredible odds, perform a good deed, or show courage beyond their years, the child emerges...Full Description |
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Pinching a Giant: Tricksters of the World | Judith Black - Storyteller | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Tricksters are as common to the folklore of cultures as spices are to their diets. Though beauty, strength, or wealth might not be in your providence, a strong set of wits can be developed and used...Full Description |
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History Alive | Judith Black - Storyteller | No | 5,7 | Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Stories shaped from authentic history have the power to open the heart, teach, and entertain. Judith's stories have been created for the USS Constitution Museum, the US Dept. of the Interior, National...Full Description |
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Stories for the Big People | Judith Black - Storyteller | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | From bedrooms in Brookline to kitchens in Boca Raton, these original tales of love, parenting and coming to peace with family life will leave you in gales of tears from laughter. There are many program...Full Description |
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WAR: Collierville TN 1863 | Judith Black - Storyteller | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This story, commissioned by The Morton Museum of Collierville History and the town of Collierville explores one family's life in the midst of a war that tore apart the fabric of this nation. The tale...Full Description |
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That Fading Scent: A Sediious Comedy About Women and Aging | Judith Black - Storyteller | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | This is a rowdy show that through two rants, one song, and three stories explores the effects of menopause and aging. From Snow White's mothers, who share how they were really attempting to save their...Full Description |
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Songs of the Lumbermen | Judy Cook | No | 6,7,5 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+), Tweens (9-12) | Share the hearty laughter, outrageous boasts, and some poignant recollections from leisure hours of the lumbermen from American north woods. A mix of chorus & narrative; serious & light-hearted. ...Full Description |
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All Creatures Great & Small: Animals for All Ages | Judy Cook | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Songs for all ages about animals of all sorts. Mix of chorus & narrative. Mostly light-hearted songs....Full Description |
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Maid on the Shore | Judy Cook | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ballads and songs of women and the sea. Mix of chorus & narrative; serious & light-hearted. ...Full Description |
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A Sudden Chill: Ghost Ballads | Judy Cook | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Great narrative songs about ghosts, witches, giants, and fierce scary things. Superb songs of the supernatural!...Full Description |
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Songs of America's Early Days | Judy Cook | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | An entertaining and informative mix of songs from and about of the women and men of America's early days: cowboys, sailors, pioneers, lumberjacks, soldiers and farmers. Late 18th to early 20th century....Full Description |
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Songs of Lincoln's America | Judy Cook | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The audience will travel across Abraham Lincoln's America with songs from and about his lifetime. The songs take us from Lincoln's birth in 1809 to his death in 1865; and from Kentucky to California....Full Description |
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One Man's Civil War | Judy Cook | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | You will see photos of the day, the letters themselves, and lyrics of the choruses projected on a large screen. Judy, in costume, will read the letters, play tunes of the time, and sing songs tht were...Full Description |
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Songs of Mark Twain's America | Judy Cook | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The audience will travel across Mark Twain's America with songs from and about his fascinating lifetime. Samuel Clemens lived in an America full of famous heroes and grand adventures. Mark Twain's...Full Description |
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Women of the Civil War | Judy Cook | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | You will see photos of the day, the letters themselves, and lyrics of the choruses projected on a large screen. Judy, in costume, will read the letters, play tunes of the time, and sing songs that...Full Description |
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Hijinks and Home | Judy Cook | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | You will see photos of the day, the letters themselves, and lyrics of the choruses projected on a large screen. Judy, in costume, will read the letters, play tunes of the time, and sing songs that...Full Description |
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The Book Club Cookbook | Judy Gelman & Vicki Levy Krupp | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | What are book clubs across America reading '“ and eating? How do successful groups create exciting meetings? And how can food add a unique and delicious dimension to discussions of literature? Join...Full Description |
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The Kids' Book Club Book: All About Kids' Book Clubs and Writing a Nonfiction Book | Judy Gelman & Vicki Levy Krupp | No | 5 | Tweens (9-12) | How do you get an idea for writing a book? How is writing a nonfiction book different from writing fiction? What did our research teach us about kids' book clubs in America? What exciting foods and...Full Description |
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The Kids' Book Club Book: Reading Ideas, Recipes, Activities, and Smart Tips for Organizing Terrific Kids' Book Clubs | Judy Gelman & Vicki Levy Krupp | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Are you a librarian, teacher, community leader, or parent interested in starting a book club for kids? Do you already run a kids' book club and want to inject new life into meetings? Judy Gelman...Full Description |
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Libraries Rock with Judy Pancoast | Judy Pancoast | Yes | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | My Judy's Tune Room library concerts are filled with original, upbeat songs of many styles, and this program will give children the opportunity to make up the words and tune to a song on the spot...Full Description |
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Once Upon A Time | Judy Pancoast | Yes | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Perfect for the 2020 Collaborative theme, and designed to 'get kids into books,' this concert tells the musical tale of a princess who wanted to do more than 'lead the Princess life,'and decided to...Full Description |
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Reading Our Way Across the USA | Judy Pancoast | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Buckle up and join Judy as we make our way out from Maine across the US on a road trip that includes upbeat songs, tons of interaction and dancing and a great geography lesson! Judy engages children...Full Description |
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Take Me To Your Reader (A Universe of Stories) | Judy Pancoast | Yes | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | ! Judy's high-energy, interactive concert tells the story of friendly alien who comes to earth to learn to read. Featuring lively, interactive songs which are extensions of popular children's...Full Description |
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Julie Garnett presents Animal Songs (A Sensory Book & Musical Event) | Julie Garnett Musical Books | No | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Julie performs her "Animal Songs Book Sing'n Signing". She uses a small sound system, and back-up music, for her musical, interactive, literacy program to promote her multi-award...Full Description |
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Learn Ukulele for Kids | Julie Stepanek | No | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Want to try an instrument that is fun and easy to play? Join Julie Stepanek as she shows the fundamentals of ukulele playing. You'll learn how to tune, strum and read chords. After a short lesson, you'll...Full Description |
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Sing with Your Baby | Julie Stepanek | No | 1,2 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds | Sing with Your Baby is a participatory music program for children 0-3 and their caregivers. This program features fingerplays, singable songs and integrated...Full Description |
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Learn Ukulele for Adults | Julie Stepanek | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Want to try an instrument that is fun and easy to play? Join Julie Stepanek as she shows the fundamentals of ukulele playing. You'll learn how to tune, strum and read chords. After a short lesson, you'll...Full Description |
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Music and Movement | Julie Stepanek | No | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | For kids old enough to move and groove. We’ll stretch and sway, jump and zoom, practice our finger plays and put it all together in integrated movement songs. Add the ukulele, some bubbles and...Full Description |
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Musical Story Time | Julie Stepanek | No | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Is your usual story time provider out sick or in need of a vacation? I am happy to jump in with books, finger plays, songs and integrated movement. ...Full Description |
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Juliette Fay, Author of Shelter Me | Juliette Fay | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | I speak about my novel, Shelter Me, answer questions an sign books....Full Description |
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Jumpin' Juba in concert | Jumpin' Juba | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Jumpin' Juba: Steve Hurl, guitar and vocals; Bruce Ward, piano; Brian Flan, drums. The group mixes regional blues from Chicago, Memphis, and New Orleans together with roots-y rock & roll, jazz, calypso,...Full Description |
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Jumpin' Juba in concert | Jumpin' Juba | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | JUMPIN' JUBA offers a concert program that contains a variety of blues-based traditional (and some contemporary) American music. We feature traditional barrel-house / boogie-woogie piano, several examples...Full Description |
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Jungle Encounters | Jungle Encounter, A | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | By inviting Jungle Encounters to your library to put on amazing Small Wild Cat Show, you will be able to attract new clients as well as captivate your existing client database! We provide interactive...Full Description |
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Jungle Encounters Virtual Show | Jungle Encounter, A | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Enjoy our popular small wildcat show via the computer! This is a great way to learn about small wildcats and how they survive in the wild. This show is for libraries who don't have a lot of funding,...Full Description |
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Wild About Reading Balloons Virtual Balloon Magic Show | Jungle Jim's | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Live Virtual Program - Jungle Jim’s “Imagine Your Story” Balloon Magic Show (30 minutes and all ages friendly): Join Jungle Jim on a comical reading adventure! This engaging performer...Full Description |
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Star Wars Jedi Knight Training | Jungle Jim's | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Star Wars Jedi Knight Training is a great program for libraries to offer their younger patrons. We offer Star Wars fans a chance to interact with a real Jedi Knight. Ideal for ages 4 '“ 9, this interactive...Full Description |
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Harry Potter Hogwarts Academy Training | Jungle Jim's | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | The Harry Potter Hogwarts Academy Training is a fully-interactive party that prepares participants to become wizards themselves! Professor Jungle-Flick delights and entertains with his special brand...Full Description |
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Virtual Wild About Balloons Magic Program | Jungle Jim's | Yes | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Recorded Virtual Program - Jungle Jim’s Wild About Balloons Magic Show (30 minutes and all ages friendly): Giant animals, silly magic, zany humor and of course, the 6-foot balloon! This professionally...Full Description |
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"Real Men Don't Rehearse" | Justin Locke | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | The Boston Pops is gearing up for its spring concerts, and now you can bring a piece of this grand New England tradition to your patrons. Justin Locke spent 18 years as a professional bass player in...Full Description |
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"Principles of Applied Stupidity" | Justin Locke | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | This humorous book was the focus of an entire Chronicle HD episode! Sometimes, to move into a better future, you have to "stop thinking" about the past. This is a fun and eye opening look at how to...Full Description |
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Story of the Jaguar (Amazon), or Story of the Crow (Africa) | Kamishibai Japanese Storytelling: South America, Africa, China with STEM activites | Yes | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Kamishibai (paper theater) is a traditional form of Japanese street theater and storytelling where author illustrator Yumi Izuyama uses her original artwork to tell folktales from arouond the world,...Full Description |
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Kamishibai Japanese Storytelling, Story of Sunflower (Amazon), Rolling Rice Balls (China) coding concept activities | Kamishibai Japanese Storytelling: South America, Africa, China with STEM activites | Yes | 3 | Preschoolers (4-5) | Author Illustrator Yumi Izuyama presents a folktale from the Amazon in Brazil (where she grew up) via the Kamishibai Japanese paper theater. Using colorful original artwork, these stories come...Full Description |
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Kamishibai Lady Storytelling | Kamishibai Lady Storytelling | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Kamishibai is a unique storytelling experience from Japan. Â The stories are presented through a traditional, built to travel, wooden "stage" using beautifully painted storyboards that the audience...Full Description |
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Jaws, Claws and Paws | Karen Chace | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Don't be afraid; these stories don't bite! Come join us on an imagination safari with animal stories from around the world. ...Full Description |
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The Spirit of the Season | Karen Chace | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Stuff your stocking with multicultural stories that celebrate the holiday spirit. ...Full Description |
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Spooktacular Stories | Karen Chace | No | 3,4,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Adults (18+) | Stories of silly spooks; a balance of fright and delight. ...Full Description |
No |
The Treasure Chest | Karen Chace | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | A timeless treasury of fairytales and folktales from long ago. ...Full Description |
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The Trickster Tour | Karen Chace | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Quick-witted tricksters from Africa to the United States try to trick you with their crafty tales. ...Full Description |
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Book A Trip Around the World! | Karen Chace | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Buckle up, and book a trip around the world. Travel to six continents on the wings of stories without ever leaving home. ...Full Description |
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Winter Wonderland | Karen Chace | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Let the fire of imagination warm you as you listen to these frosty folktales from long ago. ...Full Description |
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Storytelling With Ease | Karen Chace | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn how to tell a good story; become more confident with public speaking. This lifelong skill will benefit both children and adults. ...Full Description |
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Tales With Scales ~ Fish Stories From Around the World | Karen Chace | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Strap on your snorkel and set sail with stories, songs, and lots of audience participation. Karen will take you on a journey filled with fish, fun, humor and enchantment. ...Full Description |
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Pathways to Peace | Karen Chace | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | "You can't hate someone if you know their story." Stories from around the world to help children connect and respect cultural differences, and learn how to resolve conflicts peacefully. Humourous,...Full Description |
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Reach for the Stars! | Karen Chace | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Let your Summer Reading Program shine as we celebrate the sun, moon and stars. Delight in multicultural folktales, myths and legends from West Africa, Mexico, Native America, India, Japan, Norway and...Full Description |
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Bethenia Owens-Adair, First Woman Doctor in the West | Kate Carney's "Heroic Women Talk" - Living History programs | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The First Woman Doctor in the West is an historical role playing encounter with the adventurous, outspoken Bethenia Owens-Adair, MD. The doctor meets and talks with listeners as if they were back in...Full Description |
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Rachel Walker, Paul Revere's Mother in Law | Kate Carney's "Heroic Women Talk" - Living History programs | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Travel back in time with Kate as she tells stories, in costume and character, from the lives of some extraordinary American women. These interactive historical programs will give your group a moving,...Full Description |
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Annie Sullivan, Teacher | Kate Carney's "Heroic Women Talk" - Living History programs | No | 4,5,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Travel back in time with Kate as she tells stories, in costume and character, from the lives of some extraordinary American women. These interactive historical programs will give your group a moving,...Full Description |
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Mary Antin, Russian Immigrant | Kate Carney's "Heroic Women Talk" - Living History programs | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Travel back in time with Kate as she tells stories, in costume and character, from the lives of some extraordinary American women. These interactive historical programs will give your group a moving,...Full Description |
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Mary Lyon of Mount Holyoke | Kate Carney's "Heroic Women Talk" - Living History programs | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Travel back in time with Kate as she tells stories, in costume and character, from the lives of some extraordinary American women. These interactive historical programs will give your group amoving,...Full Description |
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Greek Myths and Aesop's Fables | Kate Carney's "Heroic Women Talk" - Living History programs | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Greek Myths and Aesop's Fables: Children act out Aesop's talking animal fables, and hear thrilling, funny misadventures of heroes, gods and goddesses. (Grades 2-6)...Full Description |
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Living History Stories | Kate Carney's "Heroic Women Talk" - Living History programs | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Choose to hear stories from your favorite time in American history -- the Revolution, the Oregon Trail & Frontier, or the Lowell Mills -- told for younger children by a costumed character of the...Full Description |
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Mother Earth's Multicultural Tales | Kate Carney's "Heroic Women Talk" - Living History programs | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | "Mother Earth's Multicultural Tales" are folk stories from around the world, tailored to your group's interests. Youngsters join Kate in sound and movement and discover a wealth of cultures other than...Full Description |
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Juliette Gordon Low, Founder of America's Girl Scouts | Kate Carney's "Heroic Women Talk" - Living History programs | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Travel back in time with Kate as she tells stories, in costume and character, from the lives of some extraordinary American women. These interactive historical programs will give your group a moving,...Full Description |
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Lois Larcom, Lowell Mills Boardinghouse Keeper | Kate Carney's "Heroic Women Talk" - Living History programs | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Travel back in time with Kate as she tells stories, in costume and character, from the lives of some extraordinary American women. These interactive historical programs will give your group a moving,...Full Description |
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"Kathy's Kid's Show" | Kathy Earabino/ | No | 1,2,3,4 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | "Kathy's Kid's Show" is a fun, musical sing-a-long show for the young and the young at heart. Kathy plays guitar and leads the children in their favorite tunes. In addition to singing, the kids do...Full Description |
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Travel Round the World with Stories | Katie Green, Storyteller | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Katie selects and folktales from around the world. Highly participatory, chants, songs, adaptable for youth or adult audiences. ...Full Description |
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Stories For and About Friends | Katie Green, Storyteller | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Katie tells a collection of original stories and folktales expecially selected for young listeners and their adult friends. Theme of friendship, acceptance, and co-operation....Full Description |
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Hans Christian Andersen - The Man, His Times, His Stories | Katie Green, Storyteller | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Stories from the world's most loved storyteller, Hans Christian Andersen, are told with references to his travels and life experiences. Adult or family programs are available....Full Description |
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Keeping History Alive | Keeping History Alive | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Today I may be MARK TWAIN, some days I am CLARENCE DARROW, other days, JOHN BARRYMORE, ANDREW CARNEGIE, or SHAKESPEARE. I have been presenting these one person shows for audiences at libraries,...Full Description |
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Mad About Math | Keith Michael Johnson | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Math is more than numbers. It's shapes, estimation, patterns, problem solving, measurement, telling time and spending money. Kids have been using math skills since before they could talk, and their...Full Description |
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Science Isn't Always Pretty! | Keith Michael Johnson | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Why? How? Curiousity. Investigation. That's what science is all about. Why would Sir Isaac Newton be shocked by Silly Putty? Why are owl droppings so fascinating? In fifty minutes, kids are challenged...Full Description |
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Wild Wild Weather | Keith Michael Johnson | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Like the weather here in New England, Keith's latest show is wild and unpredictable. From "Atmosphere" to "Zeus" this is an integrated, cross curriculum romp, and it is appropriate for all elementary...Full Description |
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Bubbleology | Keith Michael Johnson | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Explore solids, liquids, films, tension and pressure in Keith Michael Johnson's Secret World of Bubbles. Using inventive tools and techniques, Keith makes bubbles like you've never imagined before....Full Description |
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Keith Munslow - children's storyteller | Keith Munslow | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Keith's highly interactive show will delight everyone with a unique mix of funny and original songs and stories, tongue-twisting poems, oddball characters and on-the-spot cartoon drawing. Keith's rhythmic...Full Description |
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Keith Sullivan Songs and Stories | Keith Sullivan Songs and Stories | No | 2,3,4,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Adults (18+) | An interactive fun filled program based on traditional song favorites. Emphasis on sing a longs and audience participation. As one observer commented, "it's difficult to tell who's having more fun:...Full Description |
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Solo saxophone with looping electronics | Ken Field | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Ken Field is an internationally acclaimed saxophonist, flautist, and composer. Leader of the improvisational second line brass band the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, Field is also a longtime member...Full Description |
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Imagine That! The Art of Writing and Illustrating | Kevin Hawkes | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Experience an engaging journey through the process of writing and illustrating a book. Using sketches, dummy books, original paintings and proofs, Kevin Hawkes will walk students through the steps of...Full Description |
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Inside the Studio - A Family Event | Kevin Hawkes | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | From the wildly imaginative to the historically accurate, Kevin Hawkes' work spans a wide range of subjects and genres. Take a closer look at the books and the process of creating them in this presentation...Full Description |
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Kidz Cooking with Miss Debbie | Kidz Cooking with Miss Debbie | Yes | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | I lead hands on zoom cooking classes for kids 4-9 with an adult in the kitchen as a chaperone. Recipes are sent out at least a week before the class In order to gather the ingredients and tools needed....Full Description |
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Pre-Teen Cooking with Miss Debbie | Kidz Cooking with Miss Debbie | Yes | 5 | Tweens (9-12) | Pre-Teens are given recipes at least a week before the class so they can gather the ingredients and tools needed. I am available to lead one class or a series of classes. Using Zoom I work with the...Full Description |
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Teen Cooking with Miss Debbie | Kidz Cooking with Miss Debbie | Yes | 6 | Teenagers (13-17) | Teens are given recipes at least a week before the class so they can gather the ingredients and tools needed. I am available to lead one class or a series of classes. Using Zoom I work with the teens...Full Description |
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Kidz Cooking with Miss Debbie | Kidz Cooking with Miss Debbie | Yes | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Zoom Parent Child classes. Families are given recipes at least a week before the class so they can gather the ingredients and tools needed. I am available to lead one class or a series of classes. Using...Full Description |
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Watch Me Now | kidzlovemusic | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | This enchanting program for early elementary school children is full of songs meant to promote healthy self-esteem in the young audience. Through a series of "What I'm Learning" songs, kids celebrate...Full Description |
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Stranger Danger | kidzlovemusic | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Children learn about the basics of how to protect themselves against strangers in a fun and interactive environment where the lessons of the day leave with them in the form of a few entertaining and...Full Description |
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Feel Good About Yourself | kidzlovemusic | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | The elementary school years bring about an array of social issues that can tax even the most self-assured child. This program addresses these hurdles, and in a gentle but empowering way helps the students...Full Description |
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We're All Americans | kidzlovemusic | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | For many years, DAVID GROVER and his Band have traveled across this land singing and teaching children in every conceivable venue, from Indian reservations to bandstands; from shelters for hurricane...Full Description |
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A Jewish Musical Journey | Klezamir | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Klezamir presents a fun Jewish musical tour of various genres of Jewish music, an energizing interactive experience. Two - 5 musicians play 9 instruments: flute, piano, clarinet, mandolin,...Full Description |
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KLS Magic Castle Puppet Theater | KLS Magic Castle Puppet Theater | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | The KLS Magic Castle Puppet Theater brings exquisite and musical puppet shows to libraries, schools and events.Themes include Oceans, Dinosaurs, Animal Hibernation, Spring and Halloween. The...Full Description |
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Ocean's Away | KLS Magic Castle Puppet Theater | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Ocean's Away is a colorful and musical story about ocean characters who want to protect their habitat from pollution.Dolphins, whales, sea turtles, and penguins will entertain and educate audiences...Full Description |
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Puppets Who Love to Read | KLS Magic Castle Puppet Theater | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Colorful puppets teach children the value of reading and the love of books. There's music, interaction and a creative , entertaining way to help motivate children so they might further explore the...Full Description |
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The Pirate's Missing Pumpkin (Halloween) | KLS Magic Castle Puppet Theater | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | A pirate ship pulls into shore......Why ? He's not only searching for his buried treasure but his Magical Pumpkin !!! Great entertainment for Halloween !!!Fun for all ages !!...Full Description |
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A Long Winter's Nap | KLS Magic Castle Puppet Theater | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | This show is a great winter treat for children who enjoy learning about how different animals survive the winters. Animal hibernation is a great topic during the cold winter months. This is all worked...Full Description |
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Make Friends with the Dinosaurs | KLS Magic Castle Puppet Theater | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Magic castle travels back in time to find two young dinosaurs waiting for their mother to return with their food. T-rex and Little Triceratops discover they can overcome their differences with kindness...Full Description |
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The Amazing Life Cycle of the Butterfly | KLS Magic Castle Puppet Theater | No | 2,3,4,5,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Animal characters present a mystery to solve for the audience. An egg has been found on a leaf. It disappears. Then a caterpillar is seen crawling and munching away. A chrysallis is found hanging from...Full Description |
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A Pirate's Missing Pumpkin Halloween Show | KLS Magic Castle Puppet Theater | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A Pirate has pulled his ship to shore looking for a magical but missing pumpkin who finds him many treasures in the sea. Meanwhile, Frances the Fish is caught in some netting and all the sea creatures...Full Description |
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Rubber Duckie Soap - with an assortment of duckies | Kulina Folk Art | No | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Getting little ones to wash their hands isn't always an easy task.That's sure to change after they create their own rubber duckie soap.This workshop is...Full Description |
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Aquarium Goldfish Soap | Kulina Folk Art | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | It will be a lot easier to get little ones to hop in the shower after they create their own goldfish soap! This is a workshop for all age groups. Each participant will make...Full Description |
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Build a Better Soap - with an assortment of rubber duckies | Kulina Folk Art | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Have fun and learn by hands-on experience in this soap making class for adults! This workshop is designed for adults and we will be exploring soap making and discussing the...Full Description |
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Bunny Duckies in Baskets - Spring Theme | Kulina Folk Art | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Flip-flop, hippety-hop, make a soap that’s over the top! This is a workshop for all age gropus. Each participant will make their own creation using glycerin based soap...Full Description |
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Cut It Out! Soap | Kulina Folk Art | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This workshop is designed for teens and adults. Each participant will make their own soapy creations using white and clear glycerin soap and a variety of templates to create the shapes....Full Description |
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D.E.A.R. Duckies Excited About Reading | Kulina Folk Art | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ideal for “Drop Everything and Read” program, the April national month-long celebration of reading or anytime of the year!This workshop is designed for all ages. Each...Full Description |
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Funky Duckie Fairy Tails - 2019 Summer Reading Program | Kulina Folk Art | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Fairytale characters in a soap! This workshop is for all ages. Participants will make their own creation using glycerin based soap and adding colors, glitter and scents. There...Full Description |
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Count Duckula and Friends | Kulina Folk Art | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | It’s a perfect treat for the month of October! This is a workshop for all age groups. Each participant will make their own creation using glycerin based soap and adding colors,...Full Description |
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Feliz NaviDuckie | Kulina Folk Art | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Q: What do you get if you cross Santa with a duck?? A: A Christmas Quacker! This is a workshop for all age groups. Each participant will make their own soapy creations using...Full Description |
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A Whale of a Time | Kulina Folk Art | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Each participant will make their own creation using glycerin based soap and adding colors, glitter and scents. The process does not involve traditional soap making techniques, so there is no lye exposure....Full Description |
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Curly Rainbow Soap | Kulina Folk Art | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Each participant will make their own fun and quirky swirl soap using a glycerin based soap, colorful soap curls, color, cosmetic glitter and a variety of scents. We will discuss the process of making...Full Description |
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Floral Soaps | Kulina Folk Art | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This workshop is designed for teens and adults. Each participant will create a soap using white and clear glycerin based soap and a variety of templates to create the shapes. There...Full Description |
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Funtastic Tails Animal Soaps (assortment of animals) | Kulina Folk Art | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Q: Where should a monkey go when he loses his tail? A: To a retailer! This workshop is designed for all ages. Each participant will make their own soapy creation using glycerin...Full Description |
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Candle Making Spring Fresh Fragrances | Kulina Folk Art | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ideal for the beginner! You’ll be surprised at how much you don’t know about candles! This workshop is an introduction to fresh spring fragrances candle making. We will...Full Description |
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Candle Making Summer Florals | Kulina Folk Art | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ideal for the beginner! You’ll be surprised at how much you don’t know about candles! This workshop is an introduction to floral summer fragrances candle making. We will...Full Description |
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Candle Making Fall Fragrances | Kulina Folk Art | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ideal for the beginner! You’ll be surprised at how much you don’t know about candles! This workshop is an introduction to warming fall fragrances candle making. We will...Full Description |
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Candle Making Warm Up Your Winter | Kulina Folk Art | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ideal for the beginner! You’ll be surprised at how much you don’t know about candles! This workshop is an introduction to winter holidays fragrances candle making. We will...Full Description |
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Multi-layered Colorful Soap | Kulina Folk Art | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | They are so adorable, you won’t want to use them! Each participant will make their own bubbly, colorful pieces of art using transparent and white glycerin based soap by adding...Full Description |
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Soap Attack! | Kulina Folk Art | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Bath time will never be the same with a colorful shark soap in your bathtub. Perfect for all ages! This workshop is designed for all ages. Participants will make their own creation...Full Description |
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Soap Blossoms | Kulina Folk Art | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Year round blossoms for your bathtub! This workshop is designed for teens and adults. Each participant will make their own two step multi colored creation using white and clear...Full Description |
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Happy Birthday Rubber Duckie | Kulina Folk Art | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | January 13 is rubber duckie’s birthday - Let’s celebrate!This workshop is designed for all ages. Each participant will make their own soapy creation using glycerin...Full Description |
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Sweetheart Soap Making Workshop | Kulina Folk Art | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ideal for Valentine’s Day!Each participant will make their own bubbly, colorful pieces of art using transparent and white glycerin based soap by adding colors, glitter and...Full Description |
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Candle Making Clean Fragrances | Kulina Folk Art | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ideal for the beginner! You’ll be surprised at how much you don’t know about candles! This workshop is an introduction to fresh spring fragrances candle making. We will...Full Description |
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Candle Making Food & Drink Fragrances | Kulina Folk Art | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Ideal for the beginner! You’ll be surprised at how much you don’t know about candles! This workshop is an introduction to fresh spring fragrances candle making. We will...Full Description |
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Colorful Candles | Kulina Folk Art | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This workshop is designed for all age groups but is ideal for very young children. There will be no hot wax, no fumes and can easily be assembled by the very young. During this workshop...Full Description |
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A Look at Black Holes | KWK Explorations | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | When exploring black holes we encounter warped space, quantum particles, and other topics once found only in science fiction. We will gain a better understanding of these once theoretical objects while...Full Description |
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Incredible Insects | KWK Explorations | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Insects are our hidden neighbors. They are the largest major group of animals and are found in all major habitats except the oceans. By some estimates there are more kinds of insects than all other...Full Description |
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Dark Matter-Dark Energy | KWK Explorations | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Over the recent decades, findings show the possibility that the atoms and particles we commonly know as matter are just a small portion of the total mass in the universe. Because of their still unknown...Full Description |
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Life Underground | KWK Explorations | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | At first, the idea of life underground may seem impossible. It is dark, damp and surrounded by dirt. Yet, many creatures call the underground their home for all or part of their lives. We see and admire...Full Description |
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Microworlds | KWK Explorations | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Discover the hidden world in a drop of pond water and other micro marvels. We use photographs and illustrations to preview the expedition ahead, then we journey into the microscopic world with live...Full Description |
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Nature's Designs | KWK Explorations | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Discover the many patterns, shapes, and designs in nature. The plants and animals around us are design engineers. We’ll see how some of their solutions are related to the famous Fibonacci Numbers....Full Description |
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Solar System Tour | KWK Explorations | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Our solar system has a variety of intriguing worlds with unique characteristics. Enjoy a ramble through the solar system with NASA images featuring highlights from the latest missions. Learn about conditions...Full Description |
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Stories of the Land | KWK Explorations | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The land is a storybook, telling tales of the wanderings of animals and the lives of people who lived long ago. The stories vary in scale from days to decades to epochs of geologic time. We will use...Full Description |
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Stories of the Night Sky | KWK Explorations | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn about the stars, constellations, and planets in your night sky. We will focus on what is visible in the season the program is given, and then give a preview of the coming seasons. This program...Full Description |
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The Magnificent Milky Way | KWK Explorations | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Embark on a digital journey through the galaxy. Using NASA images and computer effects we will visit wonders such as black holes, pulsars, and nebulae. We also take a close-up look at the variety of...Full Description |
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Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance | Laban Carrick Hill | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A multi-media presentation with dramatic visuals and period music that is based on his National Book Award Finalist history, Harlem Stomp!...Full Description |
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Ladies' World | Ladies' World | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | An interactive performance by Mrs. Christine Galanis, a modern Victorian woman. She will teach you the unspoken language that guided the culture in Victorian times. Authentic ladies garments and accessories...Full Description |
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Learning Lark Journey Around the Marsh | Lark Learning STEM | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Story telling with STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) view of a Massacusetts Meadow as told by Learning Lark and characters she meets such as Trekkiing Turtle and Tricky Trout all around the...Full Description |
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Have Fun, Learn & Connect Through The Magic of Laughter | Laughter Pharmacist, The | No | 4,5,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Have Fun, Learn & Connect Through The Magic of Laughter A Simple Interactive Program...Full Description |
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The Shaking Tent: Emerson's First Sermons from the First Industrial Town in America | Laurence A. Green | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Historian Laurence Green discusses "The Shaking Tent" and Ralph Waldo Emerson, exploring the roots of "Nature" and "Self-Reliance" as reactions to the first industrial mills in North America, built...Full Description |
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American Music History Lecture / Performance | Lead Foot Music | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Mark is a internationally recognized musician and entertainer who has performed in numerous venues throughout the United States and Europe. His fancy fingerpicking and flatpicking guitar work has generated...Full Description |
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Kudos for Courage and Kindness | Leeny Del Seamonds | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Soar around the world with heroic tales bursting with kindness, inspiration, bravery, and courage to overcome adversity and make a difference! Master Story Performer Leeny Del Seamonds is an award-winning,...Full Description |
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Stories of Color From Around the World | Len Cabral | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Using poetry, song, movement and humor as well as audience participation, Len tells folk tales, legends, myths as well as family and personal tales....Full Description |
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Les Sampou Singer Songwriter/Blues | Les Sampou Music | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Les Sampou is an award-winning singer-songwriter in the Americana genre with seven albums of original songs. She has toured internationally, has opened for such legends as Aretha Franklin, Heart, and...Full Description |
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Les Sampou & The Dirty Martinis Jazz Duo (Band) | Les Sampou Music | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | "The Dirty Martinis" is a musical project featuring Rounder Records recording artist and bluesy songwriter Les Sampou. With her four octave range, Les moves into the world of the American...Full Description |
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Karaoke Kamp for Kids! | Les Sampou Music | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | "Karaoke Kamp for Kids" is a singing workshop for children and a "Fun with Friends" event. This library program is the perfect platform for children who like to sing! "Kampers" will...Full Description |
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Books, Books, Books! | Lesléa Newman | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Lesléa Newman's enthusiasm for reading and writing is contagious! Using her most recent picture books about animals as examples, she shows students how a book is created from start to finish. Her presentation...Full Description |
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Wan Wan Means Woof Woof: The Story of Hachiko Waits | Lesléa Newman | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Lesléa Newman's novel, Hachiko Waits is based on the true story of the famous Akita who lived in Japan from 1923 until 1935 and spent the last ten years of his life waiting at Shibuya train station...Full Description |
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It Takes a Village to Raise a Children's Book Writer | Lesléa Newman | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Lesléa Newman loves to quote her favorite statistic: "One-hundred percent of all authors had, at one time in their lives, never published a book." How does one move from writer to author? With a little,...Full Description |
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You're the Poetry Lady! | Lesléa Newman | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | You're the Poetry Lady!In this experiential workshop, Lesléa Newman releases the natural poet that lives in every child. After explaining that we already have what we need to be poets (something...Full Description |
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Inspirations: Stories About Women Artists | Leslie Sills | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | With slides and interactive discussion,Leslie Sills will excite and fascinate young people with the art and lives of 20th and 21st century women artists, such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo,...Full Description |
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Clear Your Thoughts, Clear Your Clutter | Less Cluttered Life, A | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | If decluttering was just about tossing things in trash bags, chances are that your home would be clutter-free. Instead, your thoughts and feelings get tangled up in your stuff, making it hard to let...Full Description |
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Get Control of those Piles of Papers | Less Cluttered Life, A | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Learn how to control and eliminate (or at least, greatly reduce) incoming paper, decide what papers you want and need to keep in your files (and what to do with tricky papers such as greeting cards,...Full Description |
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Declutter and Organize Your Closet | Less Cluttered Life, A | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Intimidated by the idea of pulling everything out of your closet? Have no fear, we'll use a minimal mess technique that allows you to declutter your closet without worrying aobut ending the night with...Full Description |
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Deconstruct the Junk (Drawer) | Less Cluttered Life, A | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Learn the basics of decluttering and organizing by working in the microcosm "fondly" known as the junk drawer. While working through this drawer(s), you'll learn the steps to tackling any decluttering...Full Description |
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Organize Your Practical Pantry | Less Cluttered Life, A | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Your pantry is more than just a place to store food; it’s a space that can support your goals – from eating healthier, creating a snack station for kids, or stocking up on supplies without...Full Description |
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Curate Your Sentimental Items | Less Cluttered Life, A | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Throughout your life, you’ve saved items connected to a variety of events, experiences, and people. If you’re decluttering or downsizing, you probably realize that you can’t keep everything...Full Description |
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Organize Your Photos | Less Cluttered Life, A | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Curating your photos allows you to tell a story about your, your children's, or your family's life. While it seems to make sense to hold onto all your photos, trying to look through a glut of print...Full Description |
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Organize Your Kids' School Papers and Artwork | Less Cluttered Life, A | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Get control over all those papers by learning to create systems (that you can keep up with) for dealing with both the current influx of school papers and art projects (and their digital counterparts)...Full Description |
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Develop Habits for Staying Organized | Less Cluttered Life, A | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | It’s easy to think that if you put in the time and energy decluttering and organizing your home or office then everything will stay tidy. But organizing your desk or kitchen counter isn’t...Full Description |
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Let's Gogh Art | Let's Gogh Art | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Let's Gogh Art is an art and craft studio on wheels! We bring any of our more than 150 arts & crafts projects, themes and activities to your location. We supply all of the materials and instruction...Full Description |
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StoryArt | Let's Gogh Art | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | A combination of literacy education and arts & crafts enrichment. Expert storytelling and thematic art projects. More than 40 themes to choose from. Each child will see the characters come to life...Full Description |
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Around the World Creativity Tour | Let's Gogh Art | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Let's Gogh Art will take you on a whirlwind tour of the world, traveling between two-four different countries in the span of 60-180 minutes (depending upon your budget and interests). This educational,...Full Description |
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ArtBlast to Gogh | Let's Gogh Art | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Have an ArtBlast with this unique program from Art to Gogh. Several stations will be offered to participants where creativity can really take off: collaborative murals, clay play, tissue art, friendship...Full Description |
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DanceBlast to Gogh | Let's Gogh Art | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Join your friends and family and have a creative DanceBlast with this unique program from Let's Gogh Art. Enjoy world music, color your own guitar, dance, create CD mobiles, play instruments, musical...Full Description |
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Art Dudes | Let's Gogh Art | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Come on y'all and join Cowboy B'Art and his faithful sidekick, Polka Dot for a western art-venture. Everyone will paint a wooden cowboy plaque, make a Wanted poster and get a real sheriff's badge....Full Description |
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Paintbrush Princesses & Pirates | Let's Gogh Art | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Princesses and pirates will use a paintbrush, paint and palette to paint their very own canvas princess and pirate pictures. Each canvas comes with a pre-drawn outline of a princess or a pirate for...Full Description |
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Life's a Beach | Let's Gogh Art | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | A summer fun workshop where everyone will try some sand painting, decorate a pair of sunglasses and a pair of flip-flops with all kinds of fun paint, glue-ons and more. ...Full Description |
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All About Me Scrapbooks | Let's Gogh Art | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | We'll create a one of kind scrapbook in this great workshop for kids. Bring summer memory pictures and create a treasure to last a lifetime. We offer some amazing supplies and an amazing instructor...Full Description |
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Teddy Bear Bash | Let's Gogh Art | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Come and stuff a furry 8' friend with fluff, love and a heart and decorate a t-shirt. Stuff a 4' bear to be donated to a sick child at Emerson Hospital. After the stuffing is done, write a note to...Full Description |
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Daddy & Me or Mommy & Me StoryArt | Let's Gogh Art | No | 2,3 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Bring daddy or mommy for a special story, an art project and fun & games. A special time for both parent and child. Let's Gogh Art curriculum offers more than 40 unique and educational themes. A great...Full Description |
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Outta This World With Art | Let's Gogh Art | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Outta this World with Art is a complement to the 2009 statewide summer reading theme, Space. Children will listen to the story, Postcards from Outer Space and then choose to complete two projects (out...Full Description |
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Color. Learn & Play | Let's Gogh Art | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | In this unique presentation, young athletes will be introduced to the basics of (4) different sports: soccer, basketball, baseball and football, while learning about the concepts of sportsmanship, teamwork...Full Description |
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Let's Gogh Drama | Let's Gogh Art | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | This workshop will be set up in stations where each girl will learn about the world of drama, with an art "skit" thrown in for fun. Children will learn about Greek theater at their first stop on this...Full Description |
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Art from the Heart | Let's Gogh Art | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In this workshop, it's all about creating and giving your art away to those in need. The workshop can be customized for your group. The group can make special get well cards for children or adults in...Full Description |
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It's All About Me | Let's Gogh Art | No | 2,3,4,5,6 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | In this 'me' workshop, children will build on their self esteem and create positive self images using art. Projects include: 1) a self portrait; 2) a life size me doll; 3) an All About Me poster; 4)...Full Description |
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Edible FunShop for Starving Artists | Let's Gogh Art | No | 2,3,4,5,6 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Yummy fun for starving artists!! Literally "make your masterpiece and eat it too" in this very creative and edible workshop. Taste the best that art has to offer. Please come with your imagination and...Full Description |
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Time to Clay | Let's Gogh Art | No | 2,3,4,5,6 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | In Time to Clay, children learn how to make different types of pots (coil and pinch), while discovering different types of clay. What else can you make with clay'¦ how about a square tile or a clay...Full Description |
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PLAY WITH ART LIBRARY WORKSHOP | Let's Gogh Art | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Gogh Art's unique PLAY WITH ART workshop allows children 5 and up an opportunity to exercise their creativity while making art, reading, and learning about various sports. The workshop also supports...Full Description |
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Fabulous Faces | Let's Gogh Art | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Let's Gogh Art creativity crew is really good at face painting. Just ask the Brookline Library. They have us face paint every year at their Fall Festival. We offer libraries a discounted rate....Full Description |
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Health Information | Librarian | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | This program assists users in finding, evaluating and using health information for their own use, and for loved oned. Utilizing the Cycle of Bias Framework this presentation helps users to learn...Full Description |
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Back on Course - Live/Virtual Computer Classes | Library Computer Tutor | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Computer Instructor and author Mike Wilson’s passion has been helping 1000’s of adults and seniors learn computers in over 40 cities. Mike’s live/virtual classes are great if students...Full Description |
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Library LEGO Lady | Library LEGO Lady | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | I bring hundreds of thousands of LEGO bricks and over five-hundred mini-figs (little people), plus loads of wheels, castle parts, windows, horses, and other fun elements. Many of the LEGOs are...Full Description |
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Various writing workshops-see website | Linda Crotta Brennan | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Various alternatives:*Stories to Go:Brainstorming fiction with props*Faces of the Black Regiment of the American Revolution *Writing Nonfiction*Critique without tears*So you want to write...Full Description |
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There's Something About Mary | Lindapeckproductions.com | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Join Linda Peck as Mary Poppins in her magical mayhem of whimsical illusions with a dose of zany psychology as she brings you into her world, of a London street, complete with umbrellas and hat magic...Full Description |
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Lindsay and Her Puppet Pals | Lindsay and Her Puppet Pals | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Lindsay's highly interactive, comedic performances delight the young and the young at heart! These larger-than-life, handcrafted puppets charm even the most timid audience members and provide memorable...Full Description |
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The Reluctant Dragon | Lionheart Puppet Co. | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | What happens when Harold, a young village boy, discovers a dragon in the mountains? Can Harold convince the villagers that the dragon just wants to be friends? Based on the story by Kenneth Grahame,...Full Description |
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The Emperor's New Clothes | Lionheart Puppet Co. | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | A new tailor promises that he can help the Emperor distinguish which of his knights are foolish and which are noble and true. Will poor Sir Humphrey make the cut? And if he does, can he stop a local...Full Description |
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The Little Red Hen | Lionheart Puppet Co. | Yes | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | So much to do and little time to do it in!! How is Ms. Hen ever going to get her famous cookies made in time for the bake sale? Maybe if she could get her friends to help.... Based on the classic...Full Description |
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The Brave Little Tailor | Lionheart Puppet Co. | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | A loyal bird, a two-headed ogre, a wicked giant, seven flies and a jar of jam! It all adds up to a fantastic journey that one young man must make to show the princess that he is worthy of her affections. Based...Full Description |
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Jack Tuesday: Fairy Tale Investigator | Lionheart Puppet Co. | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep and doesn't know where to find them But Jack Tuesday's the guy who can figure out why someone would try to hide them. On a chase through...Full Description |
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America in the Philippines: Our First Empire | Little Brick Books | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Hotly contested stump speeches on transpacific trade, immigration, and national security are not new to American political discourse. Join historian, teacher, and author Jennifer Hallock to learn...Full Description |
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Creative Drama | Little Spark Theater | Yes | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Come discover theatre with your little one! In this class we'll explore theatrical play and learn to express ourselves using our face, voice and body. These classes feature fun theatre games and creative...Full Description |
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Advanced Creative Drama | Little Spark Theater | Yes | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Creative drama is a process-focused form of theater that establishes the building blocks of performance. In this class we focus on senses, feelings, and movement through fun and imaginative play. Children...Full Description |
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Theater Games | Little Spark Theater | Yes | 5 | Tweens (9-12) | This class is perfect for either the theater pro or newbie. We’ll explore the basics of improvisation and acting through games, so get ready for some antics, shenanigans, and a ridiculously fun...Full Description |
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Loony Loon Behaviors for Kids | LOON LADY, THE | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | It's Loony Loon Behaviors for kids! This presentation, featuring spectacular close up images of the common loon, while telling the amazing true story of "Adventures With Grapenut" Chronicling a loon...Full Description |
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Common Loons! Diving Into Their World | LOON LADY, THE | No | 4,6 | Young Children (6-8), Teenagers (13-17) | An interactive fun game program sure to engage and captivate all audiences with unusual behaviors of loons. Learn about how loons talk to one another and what that haunting cry really means, find out...Full Description |
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Loon For A Day | LOON LADY, THE | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Tailored for younger audiences, The Loon Lady takes children on an enlightening journey into the fascinating behaviors of the common loon. Children will have great fun and delight in following along...Full Description |
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Loon Rescue | LOON LADY, THE | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Get an in-depth and eye opening account of all the many challenges loons face today in propagating their chicks and living to full adult hood. For example did you know that a seemingly innocuous little...Full Description |
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Adventures With Grapenut | LOON LADY, THE | No | 5,7 | Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | You don't have to be a kid to enjoy the very entertaining and true story of "Adventures With Grapenut" View a spectacular slide show, chronicling the life of this amazing four day old chick till...Full Description |
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What Does a Scientist Look Like? | Loree Griffin Burns, Author | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Drawing on the content of all three of her published books, Loree explores the concept of a scientist with students. The goal of this program is to open young minds to the idea that scientists come...Full Description |
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Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe | Loree Griffin Burns, Author | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Drawing on the content of The Hive Detectives, Loree introduces students to the amazing world of a honey bee colony, and to the dream team of scientists scrambling to understand the mysterious...Full Description |
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Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion | Loree Griffin Burns, Author | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Lots of kids have heard the story: 29,000 rubber bathtub toys fell from a cargo ship in the Pacific Ocean and floated, quite literally, around the world. What they may not know is that this fleet of...Full Description |
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What's Your Angle? | Loree Griffin Burns, Author | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Writers are storytellers, and we have been telling and re-telling the same stories for ages. How do we keep these stories interesting? By telling them from our own unique point of view, that's how....Full Description |
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Writing Adventures | Loree Griffin Burns, Author | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | In this program, Loree shares the tools she has used to conduct field research for each of her books '¦ and asks students to guess what the book in question was about. This interactive presentation...Full Description |
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Handle with Care | Loree Griffin Burns, Author | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Based on the picture book Handle With Care, Loree brings students on an unusual journey. Starting in the artificial swelter of a live butterfly exhibit at the Museum of Science, this presentation...Full Description |
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Rise and Shine | Lucille LePage, Storyteller | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | A joyful, gentle, lively and interactive blend of stories, songs, seasonal elements and join-along fun. Marigold Puppet keeps us company in her own shy but friendly way. The effect is both energizing...Full Description |
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Standing Strong | Lucille LePage, Storyteller | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | At the heart of this program is the tale of a boy enduring a life-threatening ordeal by focusing on a distant light tended by a friend. It inspires thinking about inner strength, fairness, interdependence...Full Description |
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Celebrating Together | Lucille LePage, Storyteller | No | 2,3,4,5,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | All ages join in with their imaginations, voices and movement in this festive, fun program of stories, songs and more. There is something for everyone....Full Description |
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Halloween with a Heart | Lucille LePage, Storyteller | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | If you are looking for a "spirited" children's Halloween program - with gentle shivers, wonder and laughter - this one offers delight without nightmares....Full Description |
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A Visit with Old(er) Friends | Lucille LePage, Storyteller | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | This program is a very flexible, interactive mutual sharing. Along with brief and upbeat tales of my own, I encourage participants to share their own stories and thoughts. And, of course, we sing a...Full Description |
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LuckyBob....Interactive Variety Performer | Luckybob | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | LuckyBob performs many juggling stunts and lots of FUN magic. His show is also interactive, teaching children the fundamentals of balancing props, performing simple magic tricks and self esteem. LuckyBob...Full Description |
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Making Connections: Peace is More than Non-Violence | Lui Collins | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Original and traditional songs, accompanied by guitar and banjo. Lui uses her songs and black bear puppet Ursa as a bridge to the children, with the objective of furthering the prevention of violence...Full Description |
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Making Family Music | Lui Collins | No | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Music and movement for newborns, toddlers and pre-schoolers with their families. Introducing fun ways to interact with your child musically, weaving music throughout your daily routine. No musical...Full Description |
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Alive and Picking: The Living Tradition of American Folk Music | Lui Collins | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Traditional and contemporary folk music featuring the music of the Appalachian mountains, from New England to the southern end of the range, with its origins in the traditional music of the British...Full Description |
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Love Your Mother: Songs for the Earth and Her Peoples | Lui Collins | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Lui uses her songs and her scruffy black bear puppet Ursa as a bridge to the children and their lives, to further environmental awareness through pro-active teaching of respect and appreciation for...Full Description |
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Folk Music Concert | Lui Collins | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Lui presents a concert of her original songs and poetry mixed with a few of her favorites by other composers, from her 8 solo recordings. Accompanying herself on guitar and banjo....Full Description |
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Basketball Character Education and Motivational Presentation | Luneaus Basketball Family, The | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Basketball Tricks and volunteer involvement. Talk about setting goals, working hard, keeping a good attitude, never giving up and practicing kindness....Full Description |
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Yours for Humanity - Abby | Lynne McKenney Lydick | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | "Yours for Humanity - Abby" is an inspiring one woman play about fiery Abby Kelley Foster, the 19th century radiacal abolitionist and women's rights activist. ...Full Description |
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Follow the Cannon: Clara Barton's Civil War Letters | Lynne McKenney Lydick: Actor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Follow the Cannon: Clara Barton's Civil War Letters is a poignantly powerful one-woman play. Hear Clara's own words describe her trials and tribulations as she becomes the Angel of the Battlefield....Full Description |
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To My Dearest: The Civil War Letters of George and Emily Ward | Lynne McKenney Lydick: Actor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In August 1861, George Hull Ward left his wife, Emily, and their two small children to go to war. 116 letters survive in the collection of the Worcester Historical Museum detailing the pain of prolonged...Full Description |
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Yours for Humanity - Abby | Lynne McKenney Lydick: Actor | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Yours for Humanity - Abby is a one woman play about 19th century radical abolitionist, woman and human rights activist, Abby Kelley Foster. She dedicated her life to social...Full Description |
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Family Letters of Abby Kelley and Stephen S. Foster | Lynne McKenney Lydick: Actor | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | As radical abolitinist lecturers for the American Anti-slavery Society, Abby Kelley and Stephen Foster experienced long periods of separation. Deeply researched and based on their original letters,...Full Description |
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Science Show | Mad Science of Southern MA & RI | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Mad Science offers several different performances intended to "edutain" elementary school age children. We use hands-on inquiry based interactions to stimulate the children and "Spark Imaginative Learning"! ...Full Description |
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Science Workshop | Mad Science of Southern MA & RI | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Mad Science offers a variety of workshops in diverse subject areas, all intended to provide hands on FUN learning. All workshops are age appropriate to the audience. Visit our web site for more information....Full Description |
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Virtual Science Show | Mad Science of Southern MA & RI | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Mad Science offers virtual performances intended to "edutain" elementary school age children. We use minds-on inquiry based interactions over Zoom to stimulate the children and "Spark Imaginative Learning"! ...Full Description |
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Virtual Science Workshop | Mad Science of Southern MA & RI | Yes | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Mad Science offers "Education wrapped in Entertainment" (Edutainment) via a variety of virtual workshops in diverse subject areas, all intended to provide minds-on FUN learning. All workshops are age...Full Description |
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Starship Adventure- Hands-on Science fun | Mad Science of Western New England | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Rocket to Adventure! As Mad Science has an official partnership with NASA you can choose from several well researched options: Your young adventurers can build their very own rockets to take home,...Full Description |
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Up, Up, and Away! | Mad Science of Western New England | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Did you ever wonder about the power of air and how it affects our lives? We demonstrate the force of the 'ocean of air' that surrounds us at all times. 'Magically' we crush a soda bottle by removing...Full Description |
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Jazz: America's Music From New Orleans to New York | Made in the Shade | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Made in the Shade will capture the imagination of and delight of young listeners as they embark on a musical journey throughout America. Starting in New Orleans with Dixieland, they will make stops...Full Description |
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Magpie Puppets | Maggie Whalen/Magpie Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Imagine questioning a conceited Emperor at his Royal Press Conference! Or helping Pooh Bear remember birthday protocol. Magpie Puppets performances get children involved. Through structured verbal...Full Description |
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Leopard Learns a Lesson | Maggie Whalen/Magpie Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Based on an African folktale from Malawi, LEOPARD LEARNS A LESSON tells the story of a mother leopard and her son, who have been bullying smaller animals. The leopards learn, along with the audience,...Full Description |
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Moccasin Stew | Maggie Whalen/Magpie Puppets | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Moccasin Stew tells the story of a not-so-wily Coyote, who is always outwitted by the creatures he wants to eat. The cast includes Hank, the rabbit chef; a Bluefish who sings the blues; a tricky Magic...Full Description |
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Eeyore's Birthday | Maggie Whalen/Magpie Puppets | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Based on A.A. Milne's beloved Winnie-the-Pooh story, this show features Chris Robin, a little girl with a big imagination whose stuffed toys come to life; Pooh Bear, a friendly, philo-sophical she-bear...Full Description |
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The Emperor's New Clothes | Maggie Whalen/Magpie Puppets | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | This updated version of Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale of peer pressure and cowardice features two courageous women determined to save their country from ruin. Greta and Rebecca sew an outfit...Full Description |
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Maggie Whalen/Magpie Puppets | No | We all know the story. Goldilocks stumbles upon an empty house, gobbles up porridge, breaks a chair, and takes a snooze. She's awakened by three bears and runs home to her mother. In the Magpie Puppets...Full Description |
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Classical Conjuring | Magic of Ryan Lally, The | No | 5,6 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | A unique magic and comedy show featuring classics of magic updated for the modern age! Magician and millennial Ryan Lally presents some of the great illusions of old with a youthful charm that...Full Description |
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Magic of Science | Magic of Science, The | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Experience the magic of science as you learn how magicians use science to trick your brain. You'll be amazed by how you can be tricked by forces, images and sleight of hand. Magicians don't do magic,...Full Description |
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Dollhouse Engineering | Magic of Science, The | No | 0,4,5 | , Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Children will design and build dollhouse additions from recycled materials and everyday items. We will employ the engineering/design cycle as each child can leave the workshop with a self-designed,...Full Description |
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I Dare You! Engineering Challenge | Magic of Science, The | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Given the materials offered, can you and your friends creatively meet the challenge, solve the problem and save the day! ...Full Description |
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I Love Reading | Magic Works | No | 3,4,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Adults (18+) | Entertaining program that motivates children to read. Full of magic, comedy, and puppetry this educational program is geared toward children grades K-4 (siblings and parents are welcome).Themes...Full Description |
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The Magic of Reading | Magic Works | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | "The Magic of Reading" picks up where "I Love Reading" left off. Geared toward an older group of children, this inspiring program covers:* How to learn a magic trick from a book. (And how to...Full Description |
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The History Mystery Magic Show | Magician Debbie O'Carroll | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Magician Debbie O'Carroll's History Mystery Magic Show takes a fanciful look at our founding mothers as it involves young audiences in our fascinating history! We'll share the biographies of Phillis...Full Description |
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The Railroad Magic Show | Magician Debbie O'Carroll | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Children love trains and magic shows! This innovative program features participatory stage magic, zany comedy, and some superheroes, renowned heroes, animal heroes and everyday heroes and heroines who...Full Description |
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The Celebrate the December Holidays Magic Show | Magician Debbie O'Carroll | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Magician Debbie O'Carroll created this exciting and colorful program to delight all with stage magic, dance and holiday lore. The audience will actively participate in Debbie's merry celebrations of...Full Description |
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The Fun & Games Magic Show | Magician Debbie O'Carroll | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | The Fun and Games Magic Show is perfect for the 2016 Collaborative Summer Library Program's theme On Your Mark, Get Set, Read. Full of amazing magic, zany comedy and lots of audience participation,...Full Description |
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The Irish Magic Show | Magician Debbie O'Carroll | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Magician Debbie O'Carroll created "The Irish Magic Show" to introduce the audience to a lively clan of classical characters from Celtic literature. They will meet a comical, ghostly pooka, participate...Full Description |
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The Trick or Treat Magic Show | Magician Debbie O'Carroll | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Magician Debbie O'Carroll uses stage magic, physical comedy, and lots of audience participation to make "The Trick or Treat Magic Show" perfect for young Halloween revelers! The audience will imagine...Full Description |
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Tom & Debbie O'Carroll's Irish Magic Show | Magician Debbie O'Carroll | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Magician Debbie O'Carroll and Irish-born folk singer Tom O'Carroll created this magic show to introduce youngsters to the many different aspects of Irish culture. They use stage magic, music, comedy,...Full Description |
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Make Your Own Magic Workshop | Magician Debbie O'Carroll | No | 5 | Tweens (9-12) | Get your favorite magic word ready! Participants will learn to craft and perform some amazing magic tricks to astound their friends and families. Debbie will supply all the materials necessary for the...Full Description |
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The Flower Power Magic Show | Magician Debbie O'Carroll | No | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Magician Debbie O'Carroll created "The Flower Power Magic Show" to highlight a day in the life of a honeybee. Debbie uses stage magic, zany comedy and audience participation to illustrate the social...Full Description |
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Budget Magic Shows | Magician Debbie O'Carroll | No | 4 | Young Children (6-8) | Magician Debbie O'Carroll's amazing magic tea pot is the centerpiece of a delightful participatory magic show for ages 3 to 7. These shows have fabulous costumes, colorful props and are a perfect fit...Full Description |
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The Small World Magic Show | Magician Debbie O'Carroll | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Magician Debbie O'Carroll's magic hat is on the fritz! Where in the world can she find a new one? Will she choose a wizard's hat from England, a sorcerer's turban from India, a conjurer's cap from China,...Full Description |
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The Wonderful World Magic Show | Magician Debbie O'Carroll | No | 2,3,4,5 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Magician Debbie O'Carroll and Musician Tom O'Carroll will delight your young patrons with a fun and funny interactive magic show that highlights the art of music. Tom's lively songs and tunes on the...Full Description |
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The Loony Lunar Magic Show | Magician Debbie O'Carroll | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | In this delightful presentation for the 2019 CLSP Summer Reading Program A Universe of Stories about outer space. Musician Tom O’Carroll joins Magician Debbie O’Carroll in a celebration...Full Description |
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3D Design & Printing, and Robotics | Makerspace Worksops | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Our specialty is "cool technology" with focus on teaching participants how to use 3D software to create + print 3D objects. The Makerspace hands-on DIY approach empowers participants to learn, create,...Full Description |
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Virtual Reality | Makerspace Worksops | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Virtual Reality cannot be experienced virtually using video conferencing software. (Please check out our 3D Design and Printing program for a virtual program). Our specialty is "cool technology"....Full Description |
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Virtual Program- 3D Printing Workshop | Makerspace Worksops | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This program is available Virtually using video conferencing software!. Our specialty is "cool technology" with focus on teaching participants how to use 3D software to create + print 3D objects....Full Description |
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Making Music | Making Music | No | 1,2,3 | Babies and Toddlers (0-2), Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5) | Blurring the lines between storytelling and music, rhythm and reading, music and movement, and instruments and imagination, preschool music teacher Ellen Hoffman brings her guitar plus bags of instruments,...Full Description |
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Manguito | Manguito | No | 4,5,6 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Experience the joyous music of Latin America such as the rumba, bomba, plena, and Dominican merengue. Five internationally known Latin American musicians take students on a musical tour of the Caribbean...Full Description |
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American Sign Language | Manuel Martin / American Sign Language Academy | Yes | 5 | Tweens (9-12) | Introduction to American Sign Language. This fun and informative presentation will explain how American Sign Language got its start. The ASL alphabet will be taught and those attending...Full Description |
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American Sign Language for children | Manuel Martin / American Sign Language Academy | Yes | 4,5 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | American Sign Language for children will introduce young students to the alphabet of ASL. Students will learn to spell their names. They will learn counting number, and be able to tell their age. They...Full Description |
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The Signing Community on Martha's Vineyard | Manuel Martin / American Sign Language Academy | Yes | 7 | Adults (18+) | Are Deaf people disabled or are they a cultural-linguistic minority group? We will let the history of Martha's Vineyard answer this question. What happened there in a period of 250 years...Full Description |
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American Sign Language fingerspelling | Manuel Martin / American Sign Language Academy | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Learn the manual alphabet system taught by an expert. Where did it come from? How is it used in American Sign Language? Tips for becoming a smooth and clear fingerspeller. Tips...Full Description |
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History of the 1950's and 60's through Popular Song | Marc Black | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Join New York Blues Hall of Fame inductee, Marc Black, for a musical tour through these two historically defining decades. You’ll sing along with wonderful songs as diverse as Itsy Bitsy, Teeny Weeny...Full Description |
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Halloween Stories/Tales of the October Moon | Marc Levitt | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Tales from the October Moon is a collection of primarily original stories set in the landscape of New England. Some of these stories are on the award winning tape, of the same name, produced by August...Full Description |
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Johnny Appleseed, Gentle Hero | Marc Levitt | No | 4,5,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Johnny Appleseed, Gentle Hero is a one person play based on the life and myth of this American hero...Full Description |
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A New York City Childhood | Marc Levitt | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | These memoirs are about age appropriate issues of childhood...getting lost, sibling rivalry, first dances etc. The are both poignant and humorous...Full Description |
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Marcus the Magician & Magicompany | Marcus the Magician & The Magicompany | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Marcus comes in a tuxedo and performs a very visual, high-energy, 45 minute comedy magic show, geared for ages 3-12 . He uses the children to assist him, while parents and peers watch these assistants...Full Description |
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Science Puts Magic at Your Fingertips | Marcus the Magician & The Magicompany | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | If you’re looking for an outstanding way to enhance your reading program? Do you need an affordable and entertaining program that excites kids about the possibilities within their own library?…have...Full Description |
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Storytelling Around the World | Marianne Donnelly | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Blending carefully researched stories as well as cultural touchstones (props from the cultures) Marianne makes the audience laugh, learn and understand the gentle fabric of many cultures including Native...Full Description |
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LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: BEYOND LITTLE WOMEN | Marianne Donnelly | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | ACCURATE, EXQUISITELY COSTUMED, CHAUTAUQUA QUALIFIED, PORTRAYAL OF LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, AS LOVED BY DESCENDANTS OF HER FAMILY AS WELL AS THOUSANDS OF AUDIENCES Since 1995 LATEST FEATURED ON PBS-NH: http://nhpr.org/post/marianne-donnelly-beyond-little-women https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7kxxNmWBV0 Fruitlands...Full Description |
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HOW THE WEST WAS FUN; CALAMITY JANE | Marianne Donnelly | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | THIS PROGRAM HAS TOURED BY INVITATION TO THE ARIZONA LIBRARY SYSTEM (JAN ELLIOT CAN REFERENCE TWENTY SHOWS) AMERICAN HISTORY CURRICULA LINKED HAS HISTORY, SONGS, GAMES, MAGIC AND COSTUMED PORTRAYAL...Full Description |
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JANIS JOPLIN AND THE 60'S | Marianne Donnelly | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | TALKING ABOUT THE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS OF THE 1960'S INCLUDING CIVIL RIGHTS AND ALSO JANIS' LIFE, SPOKEN IN CHARACTER, THREE SONGS IN HER VOICE-STYLE WITH Q AND A AFTER IN CHARACTER: Mdonnelly00@gmail.com...Full Description |
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CELTIC STORIES | Marianne Donnelly | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | SING ALONG AND HEAR WB YEATS INSPIRED CELTIC TALES OF HUMOR,KINDNESS AND MORE. WORKSHOP FOR BRIGITS-WEAVE, JIG DANCING AND CELTIC CUSTOMS OPTIONS. "Hudden, Dudden and Donald O'Neary" "Leprechaun...Full Description |
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HOLIDAY CELEBRATIONS | Marianne Donnelly | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | SEASONAL PROGRAMS WITH WELL RESEARCHED STORIES, SONGS, FOR WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER AND AUTUMN. PLEASE email mdonnelly00@gmail.com IN COSTUME WITH MUSIC, MOVEMENT AND MORE....Full Description |
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Powerful Women: What can we learn from them | Marianne Donnelly | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Positive thinking, cooperation, innovation, accountability and other self improvement themes are explored for teen and adults for conflict resolution, personal growth, and more. Using examples of Women...Full Description |
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Russian Matryoshka Nested Doll Painting: Illustrated presentation and Workshop | Marina Forbes | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This unique illustrated and interactive presentation/workshop provides a wonderful opportunity for families with children (age 6 and up), teens and adults to learn about the rich folk tradition of...Full Description |
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THE RUSSIAN FIREBIRD: Storytelling and Workshop | Marina Forbes | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The Firebird is a magical winged "bird of light" that appears as a thematic element in many Russian legends and fairy tales. She represents the ephemeral, elusive, and sometimes dangerous lure of unattainable...Full Description |
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THE BABA YAGA TRADITION in RUSSIAN FOLK ART: Storytelling and A Hands-on Workshop | Marina Forbes | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Baba Yaga, the wicked witch of the forest, appears in many traditional Russian legends and fairy tales. She surrounds herself with magic and spells, and children who encounter her must use all of their...Full Description |
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FABERGE EGGS: FROM FINE ART to FINE CRAFT. Storytelling and Workshop | Marina Forbes | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This unique program combines a beautifully illustrated presentation on the life and remarkable work of Russian master jeweled egg artist, Peter Carl Faberge;, with a hands-on workshop where participants...Full Description |
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Silly Stories for any Season - online or in person | Mark Binder - Author and Storyteller | Yes | 2,3,4,5,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | You'll smile and laugh when you hear Mark Binder tell Silly Stories (and songs). Mr. Binder, an author and story performer, loves a good story and loves making kids (and adults) grin. Your patrons...Full Description |
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Tales for Peace - online or in person | Mark Binder - Author and Storyteller | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | When does a conflict begin? What are the consequences of violence? Can problems be solved peacefully? There is an alternative to war. Combining storytelling skills with martial...Full Description |
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Misadventures in Chelm and other Jewish Stories - online or in person | Mark Binder - Author and Storyteller | Yes | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The villagers of Chelm are known as Wise Fools. These stories acquaint students with Jewish customs, and the challenges of change. Stories include: "The Chelm Mitzvah", "Why the Bride and Groom are...Full Description |
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Cinderella Spinderella and other Stories of Diversity - online or in person | Mark Binder - Author and Storyteller | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Based on the award-winning illustrated ebook, this program is an eclectic collection of traditional and original stories and songs encouraging reading listening and enjoying stories. The message...Full Description |
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A Holiday Present - Multicultural End of Year Stories | Mark Binder - Author and Storyteller | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | A great way to bring families together in the winter months.Multicultural holiday stories and songs for: Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Diwali, New Year's and Solstice....Full Description |
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Spooky and Funny Stories - online or in person | Mark Binder - Author and Storyteller | Yes | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Mark Binder is the author of THE ZOMBIE CAT and IT ATE MY SISTER. He's got age-appropriate spooky and funny stories that will make you shiver, jump and laugh. Kids...Full Description |
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Telling and Reading Stories with Children - a training program for caregivers - online or in person | Mark Binder - Author and Storyteller | Yes | 2,3,4,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Adults (18+) | Reading and telling stories to young children helps them learn how to read, yet parents can be nervous and frightened. This program will help parents learn to overcome any anxieties they have and snuggle...Full Description |
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Imagine Your Story - Author Storyteller WebConcert - - online or in person | Mark Binder - Author and Storyteller | Yes | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Once upon a time… When these words are spoken, the connection between books and libraries, listeners and patrons is established. Mark Binder's story programs transmit joy to listeners...Full Description |
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Being Mark Twain | Mark Twain Education Society | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | What is it like to be famous? Alan Kitty is well known (not quite famous) for his performance work as Mark Twain, which he has been doing since 1979. He knows how Twain must have felt from reading...Full Description |
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A Conversation with Mark Twain | Mark Twain Education Society | No | 7 | Adults (18+) | Alan Kitty appears in the character and visage of Mark Twain to deliver prepared comments and anecdotes that are appropriate to the age and type of audience. When he is finished, he opens the floor...Full Description |
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Brutally Brief Biography of Mark Twain | Mark Twain Education Society | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This popular program in part one of a series on the life, work and times of Mark Twain. it is designed to enrich the reader's appreciation for the Father of American Literature and America's first Modern...Full Description |
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Mark Twain Themes | Mark Twain Education Society | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | This is part two of a series. Part one is an overview of Twain's life, work and times. Part two is designed to depend appreciation for the works of Mark Twain. We discuss recurring themes in his fiction,...Full Description |
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Mark Twain Politics | Mark Twain Education Society | Yes | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | The GOP was born in 1854, and Mark Twain was a charter member of its Connecticut Chapter by 1874. But he support Democrat Grover Cleveland as a "Mugwump". This lecture follows his political evolution...Full Description |
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Mark Twain on Race and Religion | Mark Twain Education Society | Yes | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Race and Religion have always been American obsessions. Mark Twain's views on both changed during his lifetime, and his evolution is explored in many of his works. This lecture will illuminate his evolution...Full Description |
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Dr Marmalade and Her Emerge-and-See Wagon | Marmalade Productions | No | 2,3,4 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | Dr. Marmalade has traveled the world helping animals in distress. Her gentle, empowering methods leave everyone with a sense of well-being and adventure. She introduces the children to many puppet...Full Description |
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The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women & the Dream of Space Flight | Martha Ackmann | No | 6,7 | Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of Sally Ride's historic launch into space. Yet few people know that in the early days of the US space program, 13 American women were secretly tested to be astronauts....Full Description |
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Marvelous Marvin's The Magic Of Science | Marvelous Marvin | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | THE MAGIC OF SCIENCE demystifies the scientific process, from the art of experimenting to the creation of an invention. With experiments that kids can try at home, they learn about air pressure, carbon...Full Description |
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Marvelous Marvin's How The Body Works | Marvelous Marvin | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | HOW THE BODY WORKS brings to life the wonders and fun of physiology. Included in the show is a 6 ft. tall house that unfolds to 20 ft. wide. Behind each panel is a surprise: human-cell micro-photographs,...Full Description |
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Marvelous Marvin's Bugging Out | Marvelous Marvin | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | BUGGING OUT is all about bugs. In rhyme, Marvin teaches about fascinating bug habits, bug archaeology and the importance of bugs to humans. Write and recite your own bug poem on stage in front of everyone!...Full Description |
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Marvelous Marvin's Circus Arts Workshop | Marvelous Marvin | No | 2,3,4,5,6,7 | Three Year Olds, Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Marvelous Marvin's "Circus Arts Workshop" allows children to learn how to juggle scarves, balls, clubs, spin plates, walk on stilts, master the rhythm sticks, twirl rings, and discover your own balancing...Full Description |
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Books Are Celebrations | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,4 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8) | A funny folk variety show that celebrates reading. MJ tells funny multicultural folktales; sings songs that School Library Journal called "interesting, useful and beautiful" about the joy of reading;...Full Description |
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The People Could Fly/African-American Tales & Tunes | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Stories & Songs of African-American Experience. Book early for January's celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. and February's Black History. This show is very popular. The message? Share, be fair,...Full Description |
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Sun, Moon, Stars, Shine! | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Perfect for Summer Reading Club 2009! Multicultural Myths to Illuminate the Cosmos--Here is a light-hearted sampler of stories with original songs (guitar accompaniment) to celebrate light. "Raven Brings...Full Description |
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Or Would You Rather Be a Fish? | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | Folklore & Songs of the Sea--This is a joyful romp that includes the funny "How the Sea Became Salty," with a sorcerer's apprentice motif and kids chanting as they turn the handle of an imaginary magic...Full Description |
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Howlarious Halloween | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Spooky, very funny ghost stories, songs (guitar accomp.) and jokes from the crypt give listeners the shivers and jittery laughs they crave at Halloween--or any time. Kids LOVE ghost stories! Mary Jo...Full Description |
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Greek Myths Alive | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | It's always surprising to see these ancient stories engage even very young listeners. Then again, there's nothing like a three-headed dog (sorry, Harry, you didn't get him first!), trip to the underworld...Full Description |
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Skunk Grease & Turpentine/American West Tales & Tunes | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Tales & Tunes of the American West--From the hilarious tall tale of "Old Sally Cato," who bests the giant Billy Bally Bully with her feather duster and no help from her boys L'il Jack and Big Tom, to...Full Description |
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Clever Maidens | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,4,5,6 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17) | Stories & Songs to Celebrate Girls & Women. Great in March for Women's History Month or anytime. Multicultural stories of heroines provide entertainment and food for thought. "Little Daughter" charms...Full Description |
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The Minstrel's Revels | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,4,5 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12) | Medieval Romp in Song & Story--Perfect for students studying this period of history, or just as a comic romp, all ages enjoy this lively intro and celebration of the Middle Ages. Dressed as a minstrel,...Full Description |
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Teens' Legends: Wild, Weird & Creepy Tales for Teens (and Tweens if desired) | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 5,6,7 | Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Also known as "Urban Legends," this is a straight storytelling program with classic creepy tales that teens really enjoy. Adults with a taste for the absurd giggle along and often recognize these personalized...Full Description |
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Native American Tales | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,4,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | A selection of different regional Native American stories, told interactively, sung, drummed, even drawn. Told with a professional storyteller's respect and sensibility: gently, engagingly, with humor...Full Description |
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A Cosmic Folk Adventure--Sun, Moon, Stars, Shine! | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,5,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Tweens (9-12), Adults (18+) | An interactive and entertaining mix of multicultural folktales and tunes about the sun, moon, and stars. Learn how the face got onto the moon (China/Korea/Japan), what thief made the milky way (Kurdish),...Full Description |
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Fairy House Make & Take Craft | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | All supplies (natural things like pine cones, twigs, acorns, moss, etc., sundries such as cloth or sparkly stuff, containers) provided so all can make and take fairy houses in containers. All make...Full Description |
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A Winter's Tale: The Legend of the Silver Pine Cone Folktale, Craft & Stage Lesson | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 4,5,6,7 | Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | I field tested this program many times and was blown away by its sweetness--and especially, that even really young readers or preschoolers with their grown-ups loved it and did it proudly! Here’s...Full Description |
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A Universe of Stories: Make & Take a Mini Moonscape Puppet Theater of Paper & Popsicle Sticks | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | NEW Summer Craft & Story Program to Make & Take Mini Moonscape Puppet Theater of Paper & Popsicle Stick Puppets--see web site for color image of this very cool...Full Description |
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Awesome Mother Goose in Person | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3 | Preschoolers (4-5) | I come in a pretty costume as Mother Goose, with a large basket containing Tillie the Goose, an adorable rod puppet that looks real, especially when she turns her head. I bring a bag of cut finger puppets...Full Description |
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All Voices on Deck! Learn How to Tell a Story | Mary Jo Maichack | No | 3,4,5,6,7 | Preschoolers (4-5), Young Children (6-8), Tweens (9-12), Teenagers (13-17), Adults (18+) | Plunge right in with me as I tell and teach at the same time. Practice great little folktales--some are told with fingers as characters, with repetition and gestures that aid in memory--all FUN and...Full Description |
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King Frost & Chilly Tales for Chi |