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WHAT: Grand Opening of City Parks’s City Putt. Just in time for Memorial Day Weekend, City Park proudly introduces its newest family friendly attraction – City Putt, a minature golf complex with two 100% ADA accessible 18-hole courses. Plan to come early for opening day festivites, including a ceremonial ribbon cutting prior to the gates [...]

Summer is almost here and that means all Audubon Nature Institute attractions soon will be open seven days a week. Beginning Memorial Day, May 27, Audubon Zoo, Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium and Entergy IMAX® Theatre will welcome visitors daily – an expansion from the usual Tuesday-through-Sunday schedule. The seven-day-a-week [...]

New Orleans Community Gathers to Celebrate the Grand Opening of the Second Trafigura Work & Learn Center in the United States The Youth Empowerment Project (YEP), the Trafigura Foundation, Councilmember-At-Large Stacy Head, and Director of the Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development, Nadiyah Coleman gathered today to announce YEP’s newest program, the Trafigura Work & Learn [...]

Volunteers of Harrah’s New Orleans and Abramson School Promote Conservation Awareness at Jean-Lafitte National Park In partnership with National Park Trust, HERO Volunteers of Harrah’s New Orleans will be participating with 120 students from Abramson Elementary School in the National Geographic Bio/Blitz at Jean Lafitte National Park on Friday, May 17 from 9 a.m. to [...]

Author and illustrator Johnette Downing will sign copies of How to Dress a Po’ Boy on June 7 and 8. What’s in your po’ boy? It takes a lot of skill to put together the perfect New Orleans-style po’ boy. Talented children’s author and musician Johnette Downing takes readers through step by step to create [...]

Nari Tomassetti invites you to an all ages midway where you don’t have to act your age, and you don’t have to stay in your seats! Tigers, Bananas, Bears… Oh Yeah! Opening May 17, 2013 Friday through Sunday at 8 p.m. with 2 p.m. matinées on Saturdays through May 26! Adult admission is $10 and [...]

WHO: Crescent City Lights Youth Theater and local youth grades 4 – 12 WHAT: Crescent City Lights Youth Theater is seeking applications for 2013 Summer Auditions for A Pocket Full of Rhymes (for grades 4 – 12) and Children’s Letters to God (for grades 4– 10). WHEN: Application Deadline – Wednesday, May 22 by 6:00 [...]

Students, ages 3-17, who have taken part in the afterschool arts immersion program conclude their 15 weeks of training with this final community performance at NOLA Spaces. WHAT: Young dancers and actors from Hope Stone Kids New Orleans, an afterschool arts immersion program for children ages 3-17 will perform their own dance sequences and original [...]

Children’s World’s Fair XV at the Louisiana Children’s Museum Date: Saturday, May 11 Time: Early Explorer Patron Party 10am-12pm; General Admission 12pm-5pm Location: Louisiana Children’s Museum, 420 Julia Street Cost: All tickets on the day of the event will be $30.00 each for the Early Explorer Patron Party and $20.00 for General Admission (NO MEMBER [...]