Calling all Harry Potter fans! Join us for this exciting event and build a mini Hogwarts Express train to take home with you. While supplies last. For more information and to sign up, contact your local store.
Date: Saturday, August 3rd
Time: 2:00 pm
Location: 97 Warren Street (Barnes and Noble Tribeca)
Age: All ages
Cost: Free
For more information and participating location information, please visit their website HERE!
NYC’s biannual Restaurant Week is back, and it’s just in time to try all of the new restaurants popping up in our neighborhood! Dining out is New York City’s most fabulous pastime, and NYC Restaurant Week is the only invitation you need. This summer, you’ll find special prix-fixe menus at hundreds of restaurants across town.
Date: July 23 — August 17
Time: Lunch and/or Dinner
Location: Various Locations
Fee: 2-course lunch $26; 3-course dinner $42
Age(s): All ages.
For more information please visit their website HERE
Every weekend, the Apple store at the World Trade Center’s Oculus has a 1-2 programs per day specifically catered for kids to celebrate creativity. Today’s feature is the Sphero Maze Challenge. Kids will explore coding with Sphero robots by programming simple movements, loops, and more. Then they’ll design a maze and navigate their robot through the obstacles. Kids can bring their own iPad and Sphero Sprk+ robot, or borrow one from the Apple Store. Kids Hour is designed to spark imagination and creativity through fun, hands-on projects.
Date: Sunday, July 29th (Usually recurring Saturday & Sundays)
Time: 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Location: 185 Greenwich Street – Apple World Trade Center
Fee: Free
Age(s): Recommended for ages 6 to 12, but my 5 and 2 year olds enjoyed it.
For more information please visit their website HERE
FiDi Families are invited to a FREE advance screening of the new family film “ALPHA”!
Synopsis: An epic adventure set in the last Ice Age, ALPHA tells a fascinating, visually stunning story that shines a light on the origins of man’s best friend. While on his first hunt with his tribe’s most elite group, a young man is injured and must learn to survive alone in the wilderness. Reluctantly taming a lone wolf abandoned by its pack, the pair learns to rely on each other and become unlikely allies, enduring countless dangers and overwhelming odds in order to find their way home before winter arrives. Rated PG-13.
FiDi Families Insiders: We always recommend arriving early!
Date: Saturday, July 28th
Check-In Time: 10:00 am
Film Start Time: 11:00 am
Location: 247 West 42nd Street (Regal E-Walk)
To register for FREE movie passes, please visit the website HERE
“Sufi Songs” offers an evening of Persian and Turkish classical music. Amir Vahab, called the “ambassador for a silenced music,” by the New York Times, is joined by his Ensemble for an evening of Sufi poetry and song. They will perform classical Persian and Ottoman pieces, including works by Rumi, Hafiz, Baba Taher, Yunus Emre, and more.
FiDi Families Insiders: There is no charge for this event.
Date: Tuesday, July 24th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: 10 River Terrace – Poet’s House
Fee: Free
Age(s): All ages welcomed.
For more information please visit their website HERE
City Parks Foundation Presents: “The Big Good Wolf” Puppet Mobile. The puppet mobile is making its way around Manhattan for performances of “The Big Good Wolf” for FREE! There are a couple opportunities to catch the show that require leaving the hood, but it is worth it!
The modern-day fairy tale stars characters from the classic story, “Goldilocks and The Three Bears”. The Big Good Wolf takes audiences on a journey into the enchanted forest where the wolf seeks the help of his fairy Godmice to change from bad to good. In order to change, the Fairy Godmice send the wolf on an adventure to help Baby Bear and her friend Goldilocks. Can the wolf complete his mission and change in time to become The Big Good Wolf?
Dates/Times/Locations:
Friday, July 20th (St. Vartan Park @ 11 AM)
Thursday, August 2nd (Union Square @ 11 AM)
Sunday, August 12th (Corlears Hook Park @ 4 PM)
Cost: Free
Age(s): All ages welcome
For more information please visit their website HERE
