BAM is Expanding Its Family Programming for 2013

11/29/12 - By Alina Adams

While Fort Green's BAM is generally thought of as an adult destination, the multi-building arts complex also offers programming for families like the awesome annual BAMkids Film Festival in February and the BAMboo! street fair on Halloween. But in 2013, BAM plans to significantly expand its offerings for kids of all ages with the launch of BAMfamily. We took a look at what's in store and we suspect a lot of these events will end up on our must-do list for next year.

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The lineup for BAMfamily is really impressive with options for every age group, from interactive performances where preschoolers can actually climb on stage, to a shadow play workshop for tweens, to a film festival for teens. Plus many of the offerings have an international flavor, with companies from Canada, Italy and Spain on the schedule.

BAMfamily kicks off with a FREE launch party on Saturday, January 19 at BAM Fisher, located at 321 Ashland Place. Festivities include a performance by the Story Pirates, Urban Stages' interactive show Blown Away by Poetry and a variety of creative workshops.

Other highlights include:

A stage adaptation of Alice in Wonderland by Canadian theater group Théâtre Tout à Trac featuring puppets, masks, music, wordplay and good old-fashioned actors the weekend of January 26-27

The 15th annual BAMkids Film Festival the weekend of February 2-3

Kindur, an immersive theater experience where kids jump on stage to interact with a fantastical set of glaciers, volcanoes and flower-filled meadows, and dancers playing sheep on Saturday, March 23

A spring break camp run by the legendary Pilobolus dance theater company Monday, March 25-Thursday, March 28

Big Screen Bash, a new international film festival aimed at teens Saturday, April 20-Sunday, April 21

A family rock concert in conjunction with the annual KindieFest music conference on Sunday, April 28

The BAMfamily calendar is still evolving so check the website for the most up-to-date schedule.

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About the Author

Alina Adams

Alina Adams - NYC Writer

Alina was born in the former Soviet Union, spent her teen years in San Francisco, and came to New York City to work for ABC Daytime and ABC Sports. She spent her pre-marriage/pre-kid years as a figure-skating researcher and producer for the U.S. and World Championships, the 1998 Olympics in Nagano and various professional shows.

After learning that international travel and resentful toddlers don’t mix, she switched to PGP Productions and its soap operas As the World Turns and Guiding Light, where she wrote New York Times best-selling tie-in books and developed interactive properties like AnotherWorldToday.com.

The birth of her third child (and the process of enrolling her two older kids into NYC schools—a full-time job in itself!) convinced Alina that she was not, in fact, Superwoman, and prompted her to leave TV and turn to writing books, including romance novels (Counterpoint: An Interactive Family Saga, When a Man Loves a Woman), figure-skating mysteries (Murder on Ice, On Thin Ice) and nonfiction (Soap Opera 451: A Time Capsule of Daytime Drama’s Greatest Moments).

In addition to contributing to Mommy Poppins, Alina blogs for Jewish parenting site Kveller.com and is in the process of turning her previously published backlist into enhanced e-books with multimedia features like audio, video and more. Follow her exhaustive and exhausting efforts to become a Mommy Media Mogul (is that a thing? If it isn’t, it really should be) at AlinaAdams.com and on Google+