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Touch a Truck event on Saturday, September 26th
9:30 am – 12:00 pm
2 Wells Avenue
Newton, MA
Category: Activities for Kids
Activities for children in Newton, Massachusetts.
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3rd Annual Newton Children’s Book Festival!
Meet 100+ Children’s and Young Adult Authors and Illustrators at the 3rd Annual Newton Children’s Book Festival.
They will be selling and signing their books.
We have a NEW LOCATION at American Legion Nonantum Post 440, 295 California Street in Newton.
For more information, go to our website.
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Free 3-Week Kids Kung Fu Class (Ages 4-8)
Free 3-Week Kids Kung Fu Class
Boost your child’s strength and confidence!
From August 23 to September 6, Master Huan Zhang and Sifu Stephanie Gellar are hosting free self-defense and kung fu sessions at GBCCA at 437 Cherry Street in West Newton.
Perfect for learning self-protection and standing up to bullies.
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Incredible Writing Tutor & Guitar Teacher Available!
Posting for my daughter’s boyfriend. He’s an incredible writer and can help with college application essays or tutor in English essay writing. He also gives guitar lessons.
Hi! My name is Ben, and I am a Brown University alumni. I graduated with a 4.0 GPA with a double major in English and Music. While at Brown, I won two first-place Preston Gurney prizes— Cultural Criticism and Literary Criticism—awarded to the best undergraduate senior essays in each subject.
I was also the Editorial Director at WBRU, an editor at the Brown Political Review, and TA’d music production courses. I attended The Lawrenceville School (top 10 high schools nationwide) where I won the fifth form English Prize, received the Emerson Prize for a published paper in the Concord Review, and scored 1590 on my SAT. I currently work part-time at a documentary studio as a Writing Assistant for two Emmy-nominated directors.
I mentor students on private/boarding, undergraduate, and graduate school application essays. I can also tutor students in essay writing and research in English, history, political science, poetry, and film.
In my free time, I play in two indie-rock bands, Bogus Rex and The Rug (on Spotify and Apple Music), performing around the New York area. I have experience teaching beginner/intermediate guitar, songwriting, and music production for small groups and individuals.
I am available both on Zoom and can travel around the Williamsburg/NYC area.
Please reach out if you’re interested – my email is benjamin_cunningham@alumni.brown.edu
Thank you!
Ben Cunningham
photos by Zoe Lee
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Story Starters Winter 2024 Registration is now Open!
Story Starters Winter 2024 Registration is now open through January 19!
Meet author Kaija Langley at our program kickoff!
Our eight-week Family Conversations Program is designed for parents who want to start and strengthen conversations about race with their young children. Join our Winter 2024 Cohort and be the first to receive our brand new book bundles, along with updated supplemental book lists!
Our program provides families with:
- A bundle of 6 books tailored to your children’s ages
- 5 caregiver guides full of research, resources, and family activities to support and deepen family race conversations
- 4 curated book lists to support further exploration and conversation
- 2 in-person family events and 2 virtual caregiver workshops
- 2 virtual office hours
- Support from a network of current families and alumni to lean on and learn from
- Special events to facilitate community connection
The program kickoff is Sunday, January 28 from 3:00-4:30 pm at Jammin’ With You. For additional program dates and details, visit: www.story-starters.org/
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GBH Kids Scriptwriting Fellowship
The GBH Kids Scriptwriting Fellowship is a program designed to mentor early-career writers, who are members of underrepresented groups in the greater children’s media industry (including individuals of African American, Asian, Latinx/Hispanic, Native American, and Pacific Islander descent), in writing scripts for a GBH KIDS animated series focused on STEM learning. The goal is to diversify the pipeline of writers for both this show, and the greater children’s media industry with a hands-on learning experience in television writing for children and an opportunity for their scripts to be produced for this new series.GBH Kids looking for 5 exceptional scriptwriting fellows to participate in this 4-month writing workshop. Applications will be accepted until Friday, November 12th at 5 pm EST. More information about the program and application requirements is available at https://www.wgbh.org/gbhkidsfellowship -
Slammin’ Sunday Circuits this Sunday: 7/19, 9 am in Nonantum
Slammin’ Sunday Circuits with Suzanne
When: 9 am, Sunday, 7/19
Where: 417 Watertown St. (you can park on the street in front or, if you pull back to the parking area, park on the right side next to my white Chevy. Note, I have some new neighbors in the back unit, so they may have a couple of the parking spots.
Format: Warm-up; 8 stations using bands, agility ladder, jump ropes, TRX, etc. – 1 minute at each station with 30-second rest (3 rounds). If we have time, we’ll finish with some abs or an extra cardio HIIT session.
Note: I have a couple of new kettlebells to throw into the mix! 😀💪💪
What to bring: Water bottle, face covering, your own jump rope (if you have one that you prefer)
Cost: $10 cash (unless you already have a pre-paid package).
Safety: I will provide disinfecting wipes, hand sanitizer, and disposable gloves (if requested). Even though this is an outdoor workout, I do ask that everyone where a face covering. Because we are sharing equipment and because aerosol droplets released during heavy breathing (such as when you’re working out) can carry up to 12 feet, I choose to err on the side of caution for everyone’s safety.
I encourage you to pace yourself and to step away and take a few breaths without your mask between sets.
For more advice on how to safely breathe with a mask, you can check out this YouTube webinar from Patrick McKeown from the Oxygen Advantage; Patrick trains professional and elite athletes how to optimize oxygen use through breathing techniques, which includes working with masks and altitude training.
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SMILE Bingo Challenge from Soccer Without Borders
Soccer Without Borders (ideas to stay connected and practice soccer at home):
“We created an interactive SMILE Bingo challenge. The card is pictured below, in case it inspires you to create a similar tool for your remote-workplace.
Watch the Around-The-World-Juggle video from Trevor, our Development Operations Associate, that awed us all!
Links:
Jurgen Klopp and Marta on Player’s Tribune
USWNT Latest
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WGBH Family Event: Day of Exploration
Unfortunately, because of the very hands-on, personally interactive nature of this event, we have decided that for everyone’s health and safety we will cancel the event.
On Saturday, March 14, WGBH will host the second annual Day of Exploration, a kids and family event featuring a range of activities, craft projects, costumed characters, music and more at WGBH’s Brighton studios.
As a part of WGBH’s mission for accessibility, the event will feature a sensory-friendly hour from 10-11 am, designed for guests with special needs and sensory-friendly preferences.
From 11 am-1 pm and 1-3 pm will be two separate general admission sessions for $10 per person (or $30 for a family of four). The event was a hit last year and we are excited to bring it back with even more to offer.
You can find more details here, and tickets can be purchased at this link.
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New Music and Puppet Theater at First Church Boston
Dinosaur Annex pairs new music with puppet theater to tell traditional stories through a contemporary lens
On Friday, March 6, 2020 at 7:30pm, Boston-based Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble presents Untold //New Music and Puppet Theater at First Church Boston. This concert features music and storytelling through puppetry, drawing inspiration from traditional cultural sources with a modern perspective.
Composer Bahar Royaee and shadow puppet artist, Deniz Khateri, are an Iranian artistic duo who derive elements from their traditional and modern art forms to address contemporary issues around immigration, diaspora, and feminism. They will bring Leylie to life with shadow and light – a feminist telling of the Persian folktale of Majnoun and Leylie, through the perspective of the female protagonist, giving Leylie a platform to reclaim her story.
Puppeteer Anna Wang joins forces with composer and co-artistic director Hubert Ho to premiere Filial, a new work based on 13th-century Confucian Filial Exemplars, ancient Chinese parables intended to model children’s proper behavior towards the parental generation and beyond. These texts are paired with reflections of filial identity in contemporary Asian-American experience.
This program features musicians from Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, led by Tiffany Chang, conductor, and featuring co-artistic director Felicia Chen, voice.
When: Friday, March 6, 7:30 pm
Where: First Church Boston, 66 Marlborough Street
Cost: $25 general / $15 students & seniorsProgram
Bahar Royaee with Deniz Khateri – Leylie
Hubert Ho with Anna Wang – Filial
Daniel Bernard Roumain – FilterThis program is supported in part by grants from the Alice M. Ditson Fund; the Aaron Copland Fund for New Music; the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency; and the Boston Cultural Council, administered by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture.
