It’s time to meet Interrupting Chicken.
The CITG Children’s Fair is in Forest Hills on Sunday, Sept. 29, from 2 pm to 5 pm.
Geared to youngsters from six months to 12 years of age, this first-ever extravaganza features activity booths, comedy, improv, local business info, manners lessons, music, puppetry, and a tea room.
Admission for adults is $5, but children can attend for free. (Snacks and drinks will be for sale.)
Here’s the schedule.
2 pm: Doors open.
2:30 pm: Music Together with Music and Me.
3 pm: David Ezra Stein’s Interrupting Chicken puppet show.
3:30 pm: The Mannerhausens (aka British sisters and self-proclaimed Kindness Ambassadors Edelaide Zenobia and Katerina Eugenia) prove that learning manners can be fun through a musical show.
4 pm: The Garden Players troupe presents songs and improv.
4:30 pm: Raffle and last announcements.
5 pm: Doors close.
The CITG Children’s Fair will unfold indoors at The Church-in-the-Gardens Community House at 15 Borage Pl., which is within walking distance of the 71st-Continental subway station for the E, F, and R lines and the Long Island Rail Road’s Forest Hills stop. The host venue will provide temporary permits for on-street parking for those who drive.
Editor’s note: This event also serves as an informal launch of Garden Players’s fall semester. Under the direction of Betina Hershey, this musical theater program is for those from kindergarten to ninth grade. Classes are on Tuesdays and Fridays. Students learn solfège, vocal warm-ups, acting improv, monologues, and choreography as they work toward performing an original, fully staged musical in May at the same Community House. Click here for more information or contact Hershey at [email protected].
Top image: Garden Players;
middle image: The Mannerhausens;
bottom image: Interrupting Chicken