Last weekend at Bayside Park..

A great event for the kids, check it out if you a chance.

Jersey City Children's Theater begins its second annual Plays in the Parks tour July 11 at Bayside Park in Jersey City.

Titled "World Play: Adventures From Around the Globe," the group is expanding last year's tour from four to 12 area parks.

World Play will feature original story theater adaptations of "Grandmother Spider Steals the Fire" (Choctaw), "The North Wind and the Sun" (Greece), "The Four Dragons" (China), "The Singing Monster" (Kenya), and "Why The Bananas Belong to the Monkeys" (Brazil). A post-performance interactive story theater workshop will be offered where young audience members are invited to act out and re-imagine parts of the show with the cast.

"We are so excited to be back in the parks and to serve more parts of Jersey City that just downtown. We live in a big, vibrant and diverse city, and with so much recent focus on development, it is important to serve those that made us who we are," Kathy Hendrickson, Artistic Director of Jersey City Children's Theater, said in a press release.




She said that in addition to the ensemble, the shows will feature "two teen emerging artists ... Noah Dunton (High Tech High) and Melodee Sampson (Snyder High School), who have brought amazing energy to the ensemble."

Partnering with the Jersey City Parks Coalition, Plays in the Parks is made possible by donations from SILVERMAN and the Daedalus Foundation as well as Hudson County Cultural and Heritage Affairs LAP grant and Jersey Community Development Block grant.

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