Kids

Family Saturdays

Weekly Program

  • Week 1 | Saturday, September 28, 2024

    10:00am-11:15am: Make it Pop: Collage Family Workshop
    11:30am-12:00pm: Storytime in the Library
    12:00pm-2:00pm: Coloring in the Library
    1:30pm-2:15pm: Dance workshop with Catherine Gallant

    Make It Pop: Collage Family Workshop

    L’Alliance Skyroom

    Please join us for a hands-on, artmaking workshop for elementary school aged-students and their families.  Inspired by the exhibition Glowing Heads, we will create our own collage faces in vibrant color!  Using paper, glue sticks, and scissors, we will cut and arrange layers as we compose colorful portraits with a special pop-up element. Participants do not need to be familiar with the exhibition or techniques to participate.  The workshop will begin with an introduction to Glowing Heads and a demonstration of techniques and approaches.  Precut shapes will be available for young learners. Additional individualized support and inspiration will be provided as needed. If time permits, we will share our collages at the end of the workshop. All materials will be provided.  Students must be accompanied by their parents/guardians at all times.

    Elaine Greenstein, leading the workshop, is a professional artist and educator. She has been teaching visual art in public and private schools for over 20 years; her students range in age from 3 years to 70+. Her studio work includes printmaking, sculpture, and drawing. Ms. Greenstein is also the author illustrator of 13 published books for children.  She loves to bake and travel.

    This event is free and presented in partnership with Studio in a School.

    Creative Dance workshop with Catherine Gallant

    L’Alliance Skyroom

    Discover the contemporary movement ideas of dancer/choreographer Jérôme Bel! In conjunction with the opening of Crossing The Line, L’Alliance New York’s performance and arts festival, L’Alliance offers a family workshop inspired by Jérôme Bel’s work. Participants of all ages are invited to discover dance-making that explores the role of choreographer in the contemporary world of environmental awareness and personal vision.

    The workshop, led by choreographer and dance educator Catherine Gallant, is meant to serve as an introduction to contemporary dance and the work of Jérôme Bel. The workshop will include movement concepts from Bel’s choreography and themes specific to his work. No prior dance experience is necessary! Children must be accompanied by parents or guardians at all times.

    Catherine Gallant is the director of Dances by Isadora which, since 1989, performs, teaches, and collaborates with dancers throughout the world. She has studied and performed the work of Isadora Duncan since 1982 and is a founding member of the Isadora Duncan Archive. Ms. Gallant performed in Jérôme Bel’s Isadora Duncan, which premiered at L’Alliance’s Crossing the Line Festival in 2019.  Her own work is performed by Catherine Gallant/DANCE which has been seen in the New York City area indoors at Danspace/St. Mark’s Church, Chashama, GreenSpace, 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, American Dance Guild, and outdoors at Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out.

    This workshop is developed in collaboration with Smith Street Maternelle.

  • Week 2 | Saturday, October 5, 2024

    11:30am-12:00pm: Storytime in the Library
    12:00pm-2:00pm: Coloring in the Library
    2:00pm-2:45pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 3-7)
    3:15pm-4:00pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 7-12)

    Silent Storytelling with Broken Box Mime Theater

    L’Alliance Skyroom

    Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!

  • Week 3 | Saturday, October 12, 2024

    11:30am-12:00pm: Storytime in the Library
    12:00pm-2:00pm: Coloring in the Library
    2:00pm-2:45pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 3-7)
    3:15pm-4:00pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 7-12)

    Silent Storytelling with Broken Box Mime Theater

    L’Alliance Skyroom

    Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!

  • Week 4 | Saturday, October 19, 2024

    11:30am-12:00pm: Storytime in the Library
    12:00pm-2:00pm: Coloring in the Library
    2:00pm-2:45pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 3-7)
    3:15pm-4:00pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 7-12)

    Silent Storytelling with Broken Box Mime Theater

    L’Alliance Skyroom

    Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!

  • Week 5 | Saturday, October 26, 2024

    11:30am-12:00pm: Storytime in the Library
    12:00pm-2:00pm: Coloring in the Library
    2:00pm-2:45pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 3-7)
    3:15pm-4:00pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 7-12)

    Silent Storytelling with Broken Box Mime Theater

    L’Alliance Skyroom

    Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!

  • Week 6 | Saturday, November 2, 2024

    11:30am-12:00pm: Storytime in the Library
    12:00pm-2:00pm: Coloring in the Library
    2:00pm-2:45pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 3-7)
    3:15pm-4:00pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 7-12)

    Silent Storytelling with Broken Box Mime Theater

    Tinker Auditorium

    Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!

  • Week 7 | Saturday, November 9, 2024

    11:30am-12:00pm: Storytime in the Library
    12:00pm-2:00pm: Coloring in the Library
    2:00pm-2:45pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 3-7)
    3:15pm-4:00pm: Broken Box Mime Theater workshop (ages 7-12)

    Silent Storytelling with Broken Box Mime Theater

    L’Alliance Skyroom

    Join BKBX teaching artists in a weekly class, exploring ideas that complement L’Alliance New York’s language class curricula. Each semester, the classes will focus on a theme related to our wider cultural programs. Theater artists from Broken Box Mime will explore how we tell stories without words! In this weekly series, we will learn the basics of mime, play with body language, and learn how to tell stories as an ensemble. All levels of experience and access needs are welcome. Come play!

  • Week 8 | Saturday, November 16, 2024

    9:30am: Le Petit B 
    10:00am-11:15am: Coloring in the Library*
    11:30am-12:00pm: Storytime in the Library
    11:30am: Le Petit B 
    12:00pm-2:00pm: Coloring Hour Library
    3:30pm: Le Petit B 

    Le Petit B

    L’Alliance Skyroom

    Created especially for very young children, Le Petit B engages its audience through subtle choreography, interactive play and spatial exploration. Created by award-winning choreographer Marion Muzac and visual artist Émilie Faïf, this charming immersive experience is peopled by two dancers and warm, inviting objects. With a malleable scenic design that uses large, soft cushions to evoke the comfort of a mother’s breasts, this whimsical and poetic meditation on human bonds with material objects sets children free to frolic.

    This event is presented as part of L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival. Buy tickets.

    *Coloring in the Library will be available before and after Storytime

  • Week 9 | Saturday, November 23, 2024

    11:30am-12:00pm: Storytime in the Library
    12:00pm-2:00pm: Coloring in the Library

  • Week 10 | Saturday, December 7, 2024

    11:30am-12:00pm: Storytime in the Library
    12:00pm-2:00pm: Coloring in the Library
    1:30pm-2:30pm: Poetry & Calligraphy Workshop

    Poetry & Calligraphy Workshop

    L’Alliance New York Library

    Join us for a poetry reading and calligraphy workshop in L’Alliance New York’s library! Children ages 6+ will learn about poetry traditions and styles from around the globe, and then put their creativity to work making their own compositions. Using calligraphy pens, kids will write and illustrate their own poems in French or English.

    Poet, artist and translator Sarah Riggs will lead this engaging workshop. American-born, Riggs is now back in New York after a decade spent in Paris. She is the director of the international arts organization, Tamaas, which focuses on earth arts justice, film, and hosts an annual poetry translation seminar. Riggs has facilitated workshops with children at The American Library in Paris and in French and English at The International School of Brooklyn, as well as other libraries and bookstores in Paris, Westchester, and Massachusetts. Riggs received her Ph.D. in literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has taught there, as well as at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and at NYU and Columbia programs in Paris.

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