The Spring Family Series Features Arts Performances For Young People

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Contact: Silver Spring Regional Center, 301-565-7300

For Immediate Release: March 7, 2001

The Spring Family Series
Features Arts Performances for Young People

Performing arts groups representing international cultures will be featured at The Spring Family Series to be held at the Silver Spring Library every Saturday from March 17 through April 21. Performances will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon in the large meeting room of the library, located at 8901 Colesville Rd.

Sponsored by the Silver Spring Urban District, the free series is geared to children ages three to 12 and will vary from music and song to storytelling and dance. After the performance, children may check out books about the culture or country featured and, with supervision, make a craft.

Following is a schedule of performances and craft activities:

March 17, Irish Tales & Blarney, Batt & Maura Burns; craft: Plaid Weaving

March 24, West African Songs, Games, & Stories, Anansegramma; craft: African Masks

March 31, Mexican Folk Dances, Los Quetzales; craft: Ojos del Dios

April 7, Chinese Storytelling, Linda Fang; craft: Chinese Fans

April 14, Leis, Lua, & the Hula, Mahina & the Polynesians; craft: Leis

April 21, Folk Tales Revisited, Round House Theater; craft: Theater Disguise.

For more information call the Silver Spring Urban District, 301-565-7300.

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