MIDTOWN AGENDAS
Trolls The Experience
Enter the whimsical world of DreamWorks Trolls in a 12,000-square-foot immersive adventure. Follow the rainbow path toward Poppy’s Best Day Ever Celebration, a colorful 3-D dance party and sing-along with Poppy and friends. Explore the Trolls forest and Caterbus, get a Trolls makeover (for an extra fee) and interact with Troll friends. Use this link…
Lucy Sparrow: Delicatessen on 6th
Shop at a fully stocked deli where every single item – from cheese to fish – is handmade out of felt and available for purchase. Kids love the cute produce with personality (sequin eyes and other facial features) that you can play with and put into carts and buy. Vinyl murals installed throughout the concourse…
Young People’s Chorus: Big Sing
Raise your voice in shared harmony with hundreds of other fellow New Yorkers in a program of Broadway, pop, and folk favorites. Join Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez and Associate Director Elizabeth Núñez, along with special guests a cappella quartet Midtown and musical renegade Nick Demeris. Family-friendly and so much fun.
Pip’s Island: The Lighthouse Rescue
In this immersive theatrical adventure, kids and their families to become part of an empowering journey to save a mystical Island and its inhabitants from darkness. Actors guide young explorers through extravagantly designed spaces featuring live performers, puppets, interactive set pieces and animated characters, where they face fun interactive challenges and help the story unfold.…
The Pout-Pout Fish at New Victory Theater
See a silly and bubbly new musical with puppetry based on the best-selling children’s book series. When Ms. Clam’s precious pearl gets swept out to sea, everyone’s favorite frowny fishie blankets the reef with his biggest dreary-weary yet. Can our fish of little faith find the gem and save the day? By the always excellent…
Intrepid Adventures: Star Stories
Take a trip inside the Intrepid Museum’s planetarium to learn myths from around the world that explain the patterns of stars in the sky. Then create your own constellation and myth in a storytelling activity. Register online in advance.
OFF THE WALL
Interact with site-specific large-scale art within the new Hudson Yards. Comb yarn puppies, draw on sequined walls and activate pieces by 13 different artists that relate back to the site’s past, present or future.
ZeroSpace
Play in interactive digital art installations created by a collective of world-renowned new media artists. Dig your hands into a colorful augmented reality sandbox, spin among animations emitted from a rotating 20ft LED sculpture, dance on a trippy interactive floor and more.
Strike a Pose: Family Portraits and John Singer Sargent
Try a different kind of Portrait Mode. Following a lesson by Simon Levenson, National Arts Club drawing instructor, on the basics of working in charcoal, pair off with a family member to sketch each other’s portrait. Period accessories are available for those wanting to get into the spirit of Edwardian Britain and Progressive Era America.…
Pumpkin Painting Workshop at Macy’s
Turn your front door into a stylish statement for Halloween by crafting your own painted pumpkin. Personalize your pumpkin with bold patterns, bright colors or glitter. RSVP online. Part of School of Style STORY.
Travel Camp
Past a secret magic door in a toy and clothing store find an immersive retail experience that transports off 5th Avenue to landmarks around the world and back. Hosts daily free activities plus singalongs, performances, classes and themed art workshops ($23-$30). S’mores ice cream cone and other treats (plus healthy packaged snacks) availble in the…
An ABC of Equality: Book Reading and Music
Join author Chana Ewing for a reading of her inspiring new board book, An ABC of Equality, followed by music, bubbles, stickers and more. Includes a copy of the book. Takes place past in an immersive travel-themed retail experience behind a secret door. S’mores ice cream cone and other treats (plus healthy packaged snacks) availble…
Machine Hallucination
Enter a mixed reality experiment deploying machine learning algorithms on architectural images of New York City, revealing the hidden connections between unique moments in the city’s iconic architectural culture and history. BY Turkish artist Refik Anadol. The inaugural installation of ARTECHOUSE, a space featuring immersive art exhibitions at the crossroads of art, science and technology.…
Atlantic for Kids: The Big One-Oh!
See a triumphant new musical for the whole family based on the book of the same name. Charley Maplewood has never been one for parties—that would require friends, which he doesn’t have. Well, unless you count his monster friends, but they’re only imaginary. But now that he’s turning ten—the big one-oh—he decides to throw a…
Caramel Apple Pie Cupcake at Citycakes Bakery
Try Salted Caramel cupcakes with mini fresh apple pie filling topped with housemade salted caramel, pie crust topper f cream cheese frosting. If you think that’s a mouthful, it’s just like this cupcake. Also get some of city’s best cookies, which can be ordered in their signature half pound size, covered in frostings with sprinkles, halved…
En Plein Air
See freestanding, outdoor paintings by eight international artists that can be viewed in the round and in dialogue with the surrounding natural and industrial landscapes, expanding the tradition of outdoor painting.
The Haas Brothers: Madonna
Meet quirky beaded sculptures, small and big, as well as two large-scale sculptures made with Portuguese Pele de Tigre marble. Find fantastical animals and odd hybrids among seemingly rare tropical plants, connected into a cohesive environment through undulating platforms.