Super Saturdays Return To Beck Center

Children enjoy a hands-on experience with musical instruments at Beck Center.

Start off your family’s weekend creatively with Super Saturdays @ Beck Center. Each month Beck Center offers a free hands-on arts experience for children ages 8 and under. Children and their parents may enjoy these special activities provided by Beck Center in collaboration with various community partners. Super Saturdays take place 9:00 to 11:30 am in Beck Center’s Main Building on select Saturdays each month, October through May. Specific dates and activities are listed below.

October 16, 2012        Kids enjoy creating a fun fall craft with Westfield Great Northern Mall and try out instruments with Beck Center music staff

November 3, 2012       Cleveland Botanical Garden brings the arts from the garden while Beck

                                 Center music faculty shares the fun of drumming

December 8, 2012       Create a holiday craft with Usborne Books and shop for gifts at “Beck the

                                 Halls” featuring works by local artisans

January 19, 2013        Stimulate your child’s creativity with Beck Center visual arts and dance

                                 faculty and students

February 16, 2013       Make-and-take a craft, then enjoy woodwind instruments with Beck Center

                                 music instructors as dance students invite the little ones to dance along

March 16, 2013           Spring into the season with crafty fun from Westfield Great Northern Mall

April 20, 2013             Flowers are in bloom with Cleveland Botanical Garden and Beck Center

                                 musicians make music with brass instruments

May 4, 2013               Celebrate Mother’s Day by making a special gift for Mom with Usborne Books and do some acting with Beck Center’s theater faculty

Mark your calendar today and plan to attend Super Saturdays @ Beck Center each and every month. Super Saturdays are sponsored through the generous support of the Lakewood Arts Festival Association.

Young musicians and their families may also enjoy Hear & Touch the Music at Beck Center – a vibrant new experience in making music on the Mackey Main Stage. Hear & Touch the Music programs are held 10 to 10:30 a.m. on select Saturdays – October 16, November 3, February 16, and April 20.  

Each H&T program features a  demonstration and narration of an instrument or theme, meeting and hearing a professional musician, and hands-on "Hear & Touch" experience with the featured instrument. In addition, there will be singing, dancing and an activity sheet for each participant to take home. Tickets for Hear & Touch the Music are $5 per person per date and may be purchased online at beckcenter.org (click on Buy Tickets!) or call Beck Center Customer Services at 216.521.2540, ext. 10 to charge by phone.

Located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional theater productions, arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies for special needs students, and gallery exhibits featuring local, regional, and international artists. For more information, visit beckcenter.org.

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Volume 8, Issue 20, Posted 8:58 PM, 10.02.2012