Monday, April 22, 2019

Screen-Free Week April 29 - May 5


Screen-Free Week is coming! This is a chance to get your kids, your grandkids, and yourselves off your phones, TVs, and computers, and enjoying each others’ companies, reading, playing, and the outdoors. The Rockfall Foundation is pleased to have helped organize 17 events for Screen-Free Week in Middletown. Check out the full calendar of fun events below that will help you rediscover the joys beyond the screen. All events are FREE unless otherwise noted. Venue addresses are listed here.


Monday, April 29
  • Story Time at Russell Library: Wonderful Ones. 10:00am-11:00am
  • Free Karate Class at Hidy Ochiai Karate Dojo: 5:30pm-7pm (Children and adults)
  • Swing and Blues Practicum: Come and practice Swing and Blues Dance with experienced instructors at Vinnie’s Jump & Jive, Ages 16 and up only please: 8:00-10:30pm
Len Cabral
Tuesday, April 30
  • Story Time at Russell Library: Twos are Terrific: 10:00am-11:00am
  • Play boardgames at The Board Room. Kids get in free (adults $5): 3:00pm-11:00pm
  • **Len Cabral, internationally-acclaimed Storyteller**, will be telling stories at Russell Library: 6:30pm -7:30pm. *Sponsored by The Rockfall Foundation - please join us!
Wednesday, May 1
  • Story Time at Russell Library: Preschool Power. 10:00am-11:00am
  • Free admission at Kidcity Children’s Museum. Three floors of imagination play for kids age 1 to 7 and their grown-ups. 9:00am-5:00pm
  • Create a Family-opoly Game Board, personalized for your family, at Russell Library. 6:00-7:30 PM
Thursday, May 2
  • Story Time at Russell Library: Baby Rhyme Time. 10:00am-11:00am
  • Craft Night at the Rec Center. Free. Come make crafts with your family. 5:00-8:00pm.
  • Free Karate Class at Hidy Ochiai Karate Dojo: 5:30pm-7pm (Children and adults)
Friday, May 3
  • Cupcakes Cookies & Canvases. Come paint with your family. 6:00 pm-7:30 pm at the Rec Center. $10 per person.
Saturday May 4
  • May Nature Walk with Beth Lapin at Guida Farm Conservation Area, 10:00 am-11:30 am
  • Family Story Time at Wesleyan R.J. Julia Bookstore, 10:30am-11:30am
  • Family Fun Day at YMCA Camp Ingersoll, 2:00 -4:00 pm
Sunday May 5
  • Family Yoga at the YMCA. Free for all (including non-members). 1-2pm



No comments: