13th Annual Midwinter (early spring!) Coffeehouse: April 6

Better late than never! The Midwinter Coffeehouse returns just in time for early spring on April 6, 2013 at the First Unitarian Society in Newton for a fun evening of live folk and acoustic music.

This year’s show will feature award winning singer/songwriter Oen Kennedy, emcee Eric Moore, Rob Siegel, Barb Cassidy, and other Day Middle School community members and friends.

Beer, wine, and soft drinks will be available for sale along with light refreshments. Profits benefit the F.A. Day Middle School.

Tickets are $20 in advance through the Day cheap auto insurance PTO website or $25 at the door if available (Adults over 21 only, please). Doors open at 6:30, music starts at 7.

More information is available on the Day PTO website or via email.

Tickets available for “The Pajama Game” at Watertown Children’s Theatre

Tickets are now on sale for the Watertown Children’s Theatre presentation of “The Pajama Game” in mid-March.  Tickets are $12 and are available through the WCT website or by calling 1-800-838-3006.

Performances: March 15 at 7 pm, March 16 at 2 pm and 7 pm, March 17 at 2 pm
Location: Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown.

A Broadway musical-comedy classic, featuring the hit musical numbers Steam Heat and Hernando’s Hideaway! Relations at the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory are anything but peaceful, between bosses and workers. Everything comes to a head when the employees strike for a 7 1/2 cent pay increase, making sparks fly in the factory! A cast of 4th-9th graders including many from Newton, bring this musical comedy smash to life.

 

February vacation program at Jackson Homestead

Newton Community Farm and the Jackson Homestead are teaming up to offer a Kids on the Farm-Then and Now, Vacation Week Program Feb. 21, 2 – 4 pm 

Want to know what life on a farm would have been like for kids in Newton in past centuries? Using real artifacts from the Museum’s collection and real stories from the Angino family who lived on what is now the Newton Community Farm, we will explore how kids would have helped on the farm. Participants will also plant some seeds which will then be transplanted into our garden in the spring. Location: Jackson Homestead, 527 Washington Street, Newton

Co-sponsor: Jackson Homestead, Cost Per Family (4 people maximum, 1 adult required)  $30 general public, $20 Friend of Farm or Historic Newton member

Visit the farm’s website for more details and to register.

 

Feb. vacation program at Watertown Children’s Theatre

Watertown Children’s Theatre has a few openings remaining for a NEW half-day vacation program for middle schoolers.  Students will explore theatre and performance styles from Shakespearean Stage Combat to Commedia Clown Fighting!

 

Tuesday to Friday,

Feb. 19-22
1:00 – 4:00pm
Location: Arsenal Center for the Arts

Practicing conventions of theatre and performance through each style and learning how actors keep each other safe, students will ‘fight for applause’ in a final perfomance for family and friends.

More details and registration are online.

Family seeks after-school help

Oak Hill family is seeking after-school care

for grade-school girls (2nd and 6th graders). Perfect opportunity for teacher aides/student teachers who work mornings in NPS, drive & have own transportation. Hours are 2:30 to 5:30 or 6:00 M,W,Th,F and 12:30-5:00pm Tuesdays. Immediate start, commitment until end of academic semester needed. Please send qualifications or questions via email  or call 508-333-3500.

February Vacation programs at Newton Free Library

Comics & Cartooning Workshop, Tuesday, February 19, 3:30 pm
Born out of comic strips in the 1930s, comic books became increasingly popular with GI’s during WWII and have grown and developed in the 80+ years since they first appeared. Teens ages 13-17, come to a workshop on Tuesday, February 19 at 3:30 pm at the Newton Free Library to learn about the history of comics and cartooning, and participate in a how-to workshop/demonstration on techniques and tricks for storytelling. The program will be held in Druker Auditorium.

Teen Crafternoons, Wednesdays, February 20, 3:30 pm
Get creative on Wednesday,

February 20 at 3:30 pm in the second floor Teen Area of the Newton Free Library where we will be hanging out, working on crafts. This week we’ll be making candy sushi! Open to grades 6-12.

“Moonrise Kingdom” Movie Screening, Saturday, February 23, 2:00 pm
Set on an island off the coast of New England in 1965, “Moonrise Kingdom” tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact and run away together into the wilderness. The program is open to ages 13 and up and will be held at the Newton Free Library on Saturday, February 23 at 2:00 pm in Druker Auditorium. The movie is rated PG-13 and runs for 94 minutes.

Join Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger, May 5

Do you want to help feed hungry people in Massachusetts? Food insecurity is a very real problem – more than 750,000 people (many of them children and elders) experienced some kind of hunger in Massachusetts last year. Project Bread works with 430 community food programs to provide more than 61 millions meals a year to hungry people. Project Bread

is also working to improve the quality and sustainability of Massachusetts food programs, especially in schools, so that a healthy and nutritious lifestyle can be available to everyone. Because Project Bread believes that the opposite of hungry isn’t full, it’s healthy.

You have the ability to change the world, just by taking a few steps. Visitwww.projectbread.org/walk to get more information, register an individual or a team of walkers, or sign up to volunteer. Join over 40,000 people on Sunday, May 5, as we walk 20 miles around Boston, raising almost $4 million to help feed hungry people throughout Massachusetts. We can’t do it without you!

New Art Center Vacation Art Program for kids & teens

The New Art Center’s vacation program offers students the opportunity to try a variety of art projects in a fun, safe, and supportive environment. These popular programs are a great way for your child to have fun and stay engaged during the school vacation.

Your child will enjoy four art classes each day including drawing, painting, ceramics and theater, as well as a 20-minute snack time and 50-minute lunch/recess time.

Monday, Feb. 18 – Friday, Feb. 22
9:00 am – 4:00pm

Children are grouped by grade in small groups no larger than 15 students. They stay with their group all day for the full week. In addition to our professional and experienced teachers and office staff, each group has an individual counselor who attends classes, snack, lunch and recess. More information and registration details is on the New Arts Center website.