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Children’s Book Fair, Dec. 15

Don’t miss the Newton Community Service Center’s Book Fair,
December 15, 9am – 1pm.

Books and gifts for ages infant to 5 years. Activities for children of all ages. Featuring books from Scholastic, Inc.<

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Entertain your children while you shop:

– sing with Hugh Hanley 9:30-10:30,
– Big Joe the Storyteller 10:45-11:45,
– Newton Fire Truck 10:00- 11:00,
– Puppet Making with Puppet Showplace Theatre 10:00-1:00

Proceeds benefit the early education and child care programs at Newton Community Service Center, 492 Waltham Street, West Newton. Open to the public.

For more information: 617-969-5906 or in**@*****eb.org.

Just for Teens at the Newton Free Library

Teen Crafternoons, Wednesday, December 19, 3:30 pm

Get creative the first and third Wednesday of every month in the second floor teen area. On 12/5, help create holiday cards for those who are hospitalized during the holid

ay season and on 12/19 we’ll be making origami boxes and snowflakes to get in the holiday spirit! Grades 6-12.

Movie Screening of Elf, Saturday, December 22, 2:00 pm

It’s Elf season! Drink hot cocoa, eat peppermint sticks and get in the holiday spirit with a special screening of Elf. The movie is rated PG and runs for 97 minutes. Open to all.

Improv Storytelling: Moving Characters, Moving Stories, Thursday, December 27, 7:00 pm

Teens, grades 6-12, join Rona Leventhal, a storyteller from Western Massachusetts, for an improv storytelling workshop in Druker Auditorium. Harness your hidden characters! Using improvisational theatre and movement, we will explore the bizarre, sweet, sly, bold, old and young characters that live in each of us. Learn to have a ‘body-sense’ of how to bring any character to life within a story. Give yourself permission to play and explore! The focus will be on exploring characters in general, not just one particular story. Open to all who want to have fun and learn!

“App”etizers, Friday, December 28, 4:00 pm

Drop in to the second floor teen area to pick up an “app”etizer menu. Learn about new cooking apps, test them out on the iPad and eat snacks! Open to teens and up.

True Colors: Newton North’s Freshman Cabaret, Dec 13-14

True Colors, Newton North High School’s Freshman Cabaret, is made up of skits, songs and dances, all performed by students in this year’s fabulous freshman class.

The theme this year is True Colors: be yourself, express yourself,

and let your true colors shine!

December 13 and 14 at 7:30pm
Performing Arts Center, Newton North High School 457 Walnut Street,

Tickets $7.00 at theatreink.net , or 617-559-6406.

New Year’s Open House at Newton City Hall, December 31, 1:30-3:30PM

Times Square isn’t the only fun place to spend New Year’s Eve… the New Year’s Open House at Newton City Hall has free live entertainment, face painting, refreshments and balloon animals! From 1:30 to 3:30PM on December 31, there are four different continuous live performances, so you can catch them all: the delightful Joanne Langione Dance Studio dancers in the War Memorial Auditorium, the ever-popular Newton Family Singers in the Aldermanic Chambers, the hilarious Big Joe the Storyteller in the Cafeteria, and puppets and songs with Diana Kane in Room 209. Kids can get their faces painted and get a balloon animal to take home. Admission is a non-perishable food item for the Newton Food Pantries, or a child’s book or winter clothing item for Cradles to Crayons. Visit the Newton Community Pride website for more information, or call 617-527-8283.

Town Hall meetings

Mayor Setti Warren will host a series of Town Hall meetings to discuss and answer questions about the override proposal, which voters will be able to weigh in on March 12th. The next Town Hall meeting will be Thursday, December 13th at 7:00 pm a

t Angier Elementary School, 1697 Beacon St., Waban. Admission is free and open to all Newton residents.

Join in a Community Celebration of Luke’s Light

About Luke’s Lights and the event: “Luke’s Lights” was born of a wish by Luke Voss-Kernan’s friends and family to spread his light far and wide. By buying solar lights for communities in the third world who live off the electrical grid. Edith Wharton said “there are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” Few of us can imagine a person who did both. Shine from within and refract every one else’s best. Luke did. In fact, we believe he still does. There is not a more perfect tribute than to bring Luke’s light into pitch-black communities, or dark, smoky, dung huts currently lit by kerosene. Our fundraiser on December 21st will be a celebration of Luke’s shimmer and his lightness of being. All proceeds will go towards a project of Unite-to-Light to bring lights to communities around the globe that otherwise live in darkness.

• For your $20 ticket fee, two lights get sent to someone who cannot yet imagine how his/her life will change.

• We will also be selling the actual LED lights there for $20 each. You get to keep one; and another one gets sent to someone in need.

Join us for an evening of light and friendship Buy tickets here

Sign up to bring potluck food here

December 21st from 6:00 pm to midnight for a Family Dinner and Great Live Music (Loose Change and Others) at the Congregational Church, 54 Lincoln Street, in Newton Highlands.

Book Fair December 15th

NCSC Book Fair: Books and gifts for ages infant to 5 years. Featuring books from Scholastic, Inc. Activities for children of all ages, entertain your children while you shop: singing, storytelling, visit a Newton Fire Truck, puppet making, and mor

e. Free child ID kits by MasoniCHIP (www.mychip.org). Proceeds benefit the early education and child care programs at Newton Community Service Center. Open to the public. For more information: 617-969-5906 or in**@*****eb.org.

December 15th, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
492 Waltham Street, West Newton