Our friends over at the The Brooklyn Lyceum are presenting a Halloween Storytelling Festival for kids of all ages — beginning Sunday, October 26th and continuing through Thursday, October 30th.
The festival will showcase noted storytellers Robin Bady, Gerald Fierst, Jonathan Kruk, Mara McEwen and Julia Morris, who will delight and bewitch toddlers, tweens, teenagers and grownups with contemporary and classic tales of ghosts, witches, monsters and gigantic pumpkins.
Tickets are $10 (kids under 2 are free). Free admission is available to adults who present a membership to one of the following Brooklyn cultural institutions: The Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Green-Wood Cemetery Historic Fund, and The Old Stone House, or a receipt from one of the following Brooklyn restaurants: Two Boots, Perch Café, Dizzy’s or Tom’s Restaurant. Tickets can be purchased in advance at www.brooklynlyceum.com or at the door the day of the show.
The When and Where
October 26-30, various times (see below)
The Brooklyn Lyceum
227 4th Ave, between Union and President St. in Park Slope
Telephone is 718-857-4816
Schedule
Sunday, October 26th – Not So Scary Stories (pre-k and older)
A Halloween Hunt (Original); Terrible Nung Guama (China); Three Witches (African-American) and other stories
Storyteller: Mara McEwin Showtime: 2:30 PM / 3:30 PM
Monday, October 27th – Not So Scary Stories (pre-k and older)
How Coyote Lost His Eyeballs, The Enormous Pumpkin and other stories
Storyteller: Gerald Fierst Showtime: 4:00 PM / 5:00 PM
Tuesday, October 28th – True Ghost Stories (9 years and older)
Storyteller: Robin Bady Showtime: 4:00 PM / 5:00 PM
Wednesday, October 29th – "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (all ages)
Storyteller: Jonathan Kruk Showtime: 4:00 PM / 5:00 PM
Wednesday, October 29th – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (all ages)
Storyteller: Jonathan Kruk Showtime: 4:00 PM / 5:00 PM
Thursday, October 30th – Not So Scary Stories (pre-k and older)
The Tale of Boneless, Who’s in Rabbit’s House, The Long Red Fingernails and other stories
Storyteller: Julia M. Morris Showtime: 4:00 PM / 5:00 PM