Youth
MARCH BREAK: LITTLE RED THEATRE presents: BABAR
Friday March 16th 2012
10:30 am Library Auditorium. Suitable for ages 3 – 9. Tickets will be available on Tuesday February 21, 2012 at the Children’s Information Desk. Space is limited.
LITTLE RED THEATRE presents: BABAR
Babar by Jean De Brunhoff tells the story of a young elephant who leaves the jungle, visits a big city and returns to the jungle to share his successes and discoveries with the other elephants. He becomes a king, has children Pom, Flora, Alexander and Isabel and teaches them all his valuable lessons!
MARCH BREAK: PUPPET CRAFT
Thursday March 15th 2012
PUPPET CRAFT
1:00 -4:00 pm (will be offering snack &break)
Library Auditorium For kids ages 8+
Space is Limited. Registration will begin on Tuesday February 21, 2012 at the Children’s Information Desk.
Elmo, Grover, Ernie... Take inspiration from Jim Henson and great your very own character to come alive on your arm. Thick eyebrows, long braids, animal fur, big eyes, crazy colours...... it's your choice! Learn how to transform a recycled plastic container and some fabric into a magnificent puppet.
MARCH BREAK: PETERBOROUGH STORYTELLERS Stories & Craft.
Free Family event. Children under the age of 6 must be accompanied by an adult.
Thursday March 15th 2012
10:30 am – 12:00 pm Library Auditorium
PETERBOROUGH STORYTELLERS Stories & Craft.
Free Family event. Children under the age of 6 must be accompanied by an adult.
Dogs, Dragons and Foxes
Have fun listening to stories of dogs, dragons, foxes and other animals. Children will participate in the stories through chants, actions and guessing games. An animal craft extraordinaire will follow the stories. Come out and enjoy this fun- filled program.
MARCH BREAK: Stories & Craft with Children’s Author SARAH TSIANG
Wednesday March 14th 2012
Stories & Craft with Children’s Author
SARAH TSIANG
2:00 pm Library Auditorium
Children under the age of 6 must be accompanied by an adult. Tickets will be available on Tuesday February 21, 2012 at the Children’s Information Desk.
Space is limited.
Dogs Don't Eat Jam and Other Things Bigs Kids Know
A Flock of Shoes.
Warriors and Wailers: One Hundred Ancient Chinese Jobs You Might Have Relished or Reviled
http://sarahtsiang.wordpress.com/
MARCH BREAK: LEGO CHALLENGE!!
FOR KIDS AGES 6+
Registration will begin on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at the Children’s Information Desk.
LEGO CHALLENGE!!
Wednesday March 14th 2012
10:30 am –11:30 am
Library Auditorium FOR KIDS AGES 6+
Space is Limited. Registration will begin on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at the Children’s Information Desk.
MARCH BREAK: OCEAN’S ALIVE presented by Down to Earth Conservation
Ticket required
OCEAN’S ALIVE presented by Down to Earth Conservation
Tuesday March 13th 2012
2:00 pm Library Auditorium For ages 5+
Down to Earth Conservation Education offers fun-filled curriculum based learning experiences for elementary and secondary students - as well as Corporate Events! All presentations are based on our personal research expeditions around the world! Suitable for children ages 5+. Tickets will be available on Tuesday February 21, 2012 at the Children’s Information Desk. Space is limited.
MARCH BREAK Robert Davis Comedy & Music
Ticket required
Monday March 12th 2012
2:00 pm Library Auditorium
Robert Davis
A Family show suitable for children up to age 7. Tickets will be available on Tuesday February 21, 2012 at the Children’s Information Desk. Space is limited.
The Robert Davis Kids Music & Comedy Show takes a big hunk of music and a little chunk of comedy and turns them into a whole lotta fun! Family audiences are sure to have a good time with all the fun, catchy songs, kid friendly jokes and magical surprises sprinkled throughout this popular family music show
www.robertdavis.ca
Getting Off and Getting Down!
$10
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, PARN - Your Community AIDS Resource Network, is excited to present Getting Off & Getting Down! (for ages 19+).
This events will be facilitated by Tara McKee - 2012’s answer to ‘Sex With Sue’, in her first ever appearance to Peterborough. Tara is a sex educator and psychotherapist with a private practice in downtown Toronto, and workshop facilitator at Good For Her, Toronto’s premier women’s-specific sex store. Tara McKee is good at answering questions; the ones about sex, sexuality, health and everything in between.
Quartetto e Cento
$30 adults, $10 students
The Peterborough Singers welcome Quartetto Gelato, the renowned chamber ensemble with an eclectic repertoire ranging from Brahms to Argentinean tangos and gypsy music. The four members of the Quartetto Gelato join the 100 voices of the Peterborough Singers for an exhilarating musical feast. 4 plus 100 – Quartetto e Cento!
Tickets available at Pammett's Flower Shop, Titles Bookstore, Grainger's Cleaners, Emmaus Family Books, Happenstance Books and Yarns (Lakefield), Stewart Morrison Insurance (Lindsay), online at www.peterboroughsinger.com, or by calling (705) 745-1820.
Museum Lecture: "Nineteenth-Century Adaptation and Perspective in Peterborough's Female Immigrant Worls" by Jodi Aoki
no cost
Through an examination of the early nineteenth-century letters and diaries of six female British immigrants to the Peterborough area, Jodi Aoki explores the coping strategies employed by the women as they forged lives in the Canadian wilderness and made sense of lives ruptured through migration.
This lecture is presented as part of the Museum's "Word on the Hill Lecture Series".