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Sign Up the Kids for Winter Break Workshops

Parrish, CMEE and YAWP offer kids and teens fun and educational activities during their week off school.

School are out next week for Winter Break, but there is still plenty of things for kids and teens to do.

For children interested in the arts, local organizations have workshops planned from Feb. 20 to Feb. 24.

Parrish Art Museum

The Parrish Art Museum is offering winter vacation art workshops for children ages 4 and up. Kids can attend every day, or pick and choose which days to attend. Classes take place from 10 a.m. to noon in the Carroll Petrie Center for Education, adjacent to the museum. Students will be divided according to age groups — 4 to 6 in one classroom, 7 and up in the other. The workshops will be taught by Parrish educators Wendy Gottlieb (4 to 6) and Madolin Archer (7 and up).

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Monday: Landscapes inspired by William Merritt Chase
Tuesday: Tell a Story with Art inspired by Romare Bearden
Wednesday: Portraits inspired by Chuck Close
Thursday: A View from the Studio inspired by Fairfield Porter
Friday: Seascapes inspired by Jane Wilson

The cost is $35 per session for the public and $25 per session for Parrish members. A snack will be served at each session.

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Space is limited and advance registration and payment are required. Parents may register online at parrishart.org or by calling 631-283-2118, ext. 30.

 

CMEE

Children's Museum of the East End will have a different workshop every day starting at 10 a.m.

Monday: “I cannot tell a lie. It was I who chopped down the cherry tree.” CMEE has some fun with this apocryphal quote attributed to George Washington by baking cherry pies in honor of the first president’s birthday.
Tuesday:
Warm your spirits and enjoy the gift of giving with this perfect Snowman Gift Bag. (Individually filled with fresh air-popped popcorn!)
Wednesday:
Bake some healthy and delicious oatmeal raisin cookies and enjoy them with a glass of icy cold milk!
Thursday:
Absorbable Art. This unusual art-and-science activity uses salt, glue, and food coloring to create colorful 3-D drawings.
Friday:
Send a few simple ingredients for a wild ride in our blenders and children will have delicious, nutritious, smoothies in no time!

Classes as $22 each for the public, and $10 each for members. Registration is required. Call 631-537-8250.

 

Young American Writers Project

The Young American Writers Project (YAWP), created and sponsored by Stony Brook Southampton's MFA in Creative Writing and Literature, will offer week-long a School Break Writing Workshop for teens. The workshop will pair professional writers with middle and high school students for a 5-day retreat in poetry, essay, fiction, creative writing and script writing. 

The Winter Break Writing Workshop in Creative Writing will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Student writers will develop and hone their fiction, poetry and personal essay skills in order to discover the most powerful ways to express their ideas and to have them heard. By week’s end, each student will have several pieces of completed work to submit or publish.

The workshop will take place at Chancellors Hall on the Stony Brook Southampton campus.  Student work from both workshops will be eligible for publication in the YAWP Ezine and for presentation in the “Sounding Our YAWP” event at Stony Brook Southampton in late April.

The course fee is $525 for the week. Partial scholarships are available.

There will also be a creative writing workshop and a script writing workshop during spring break. Click here for more information and to download an application. Email william.chandler@stonybrook.edu or call 631-632-5030 to try to reserve a winter break workshop spot or inquire about the spring.

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