Art and Music in Durham (3/18/12)

No sunny Sunday this weekend, so why not head out to Durham for a half day of art and music. The Nasher Museum of Art has a free family day on Sunday 12pm-4pm. No specifics are given for this coming Sunday other than the date – you might want to call ahead. Kids activities are for ages 3-12, but all kids are welcome.  A children theater group is scheduled for 1pm.

Parents – use the opportunity to at least catch a glimpse of the current Calder exhibit!

BigBangBoom (c) BigBangBoom

Big Bang Boom

When you’re done with the museum and getting hungry, head over to Broad Street Cafe where Big Bang Boom is performing children’s music at 4:30pm. Big Bang Boom is “a power pop trio that writes and performs parent-friendly children’s music” according to the Broad Street Cafe website. No admission is charged, but please be courteous and show your appreciation by purchasing their food and drinks.

Both Nasher Family Day and Broad Street Cafe Kids are recurring events to keep in mind for future Sundays…

Bug Songs by the NC Symphony (Sat, 3/10/2012)

NC Kids Series (c) NC SymphonyFor me this is the highlight of the weekend. As part of the excellent NC Symphony Kids series, the symphony is performing Bug Songs  and will “imitate the sounds of the greatest musicians in the bug world“. To add color, the symphony will be joined by the Triangle Youth Ballet, and staff from the museum of Natural Sciences will be there as well and bring along a few creepy crawlies.

The program is “designed for” ages 4-12, and the concert will last about an hour. More information can be found here, and tickets are stil available (as of Friday morning) for both shows.

Bug Songs! (2/18/2012)

What's the buzz?

Take a few bugs, take a symphony orchestra, mix well, and out comes Bug Songs. The NC Symphony, under their NC Symphony for Kids program (ages 4-12) will be performing songs about insects on March-10. We’ll feature that event here as well, but go ahead and mark your calendars just in case. (I want to go just to see what else they come up with beside Rimsky-Korsakov and Saint-Saens.) To get a preview and some hands-on exposure to the instruments, head down to Marbles this Saturday, 2/18 between 11am and 2pm. Kids can see and touch instruments, a ‘real clarinet player’ will be there and more. Music Makers, a joint effort between Marbles and the Symphony sounds very exciting – with bugs or without!

The picture above is Flight of the Bumblebee by Flavio@Flickr, used under the CC-BY license