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Seeking Street performers

Newton Highlands Village Day is a neighborhood street fair featuring live music, tasty food, rides, a fun run, prize drawings and a silent auction.  This year the Highlands Area Council is looking for a variety of local street performers to entertain event goers, including musicians/bands, dancers, jugglers, magicians, and more.

Parents, please forward to your talented teens!.   Applicants should send a description of their act along with any demo links to Steven Feinstein, sf********@******ma.gov.  Event date is June 14th from 11:00 am-3:00 pm.  Submissions due by April 17th.

Energy Fitness & Gymnastics in Newton!

Energy’s spring gymnastics session begins on March 23rd! Drop by for a visit to see a fun facility geared towards families and fitness offering gymnastics classes, personal training for teens and adults, birthday parties, and free cardio workouts for parents while children attend classes!

Current promotion:

  1. 30-50% off tots classes.
  2. Summer Camp: Purchase 1 week of camp before March 31st, receive second week for 25% off!

For more information please visit www.energyfitnessgym.com or email fr*************@**************ym.com.

Kesher Newton Open House​!

Come learn about Kesher’s Hebrew and Judaics curriculum. Take a tour of Kesher and speak to Kesher parents. Special Passover craft for the kids! Please RSVP at www.keshernewton.eventbrite.com

Kesher is a pluralistic Jewish after school program for grades K-5 which emphasizes joyful, hands-on Jewish learning which includes Hebrew immersion, Judaic studies, and fun-filled electives. Kesher Newton is an independent pluralistic community that is welcoming to all. For more information, visit keshernewton.org, or call Ilana 617-244-5390, or email il***@**********on.org.

Open house: March 29th, 10:30-11:30 am

Family African Dance Classes

LifeForce Dance, Family African Dance Classes, taught by Bigelow parent Melissa Alexis is now registering for classes. Pre-registration required; email Melissa for more information and to sign up  at li************@***il.com or 617-840-7283

For all levels and various ages, come experience a vibrant, rhythmic dance class that explores the spirit and technique of movement from West Africa and the Caribbean. This class is designed for everyone who loves to dance – African Dance is for Every Body!

Sundays @ 9:30am and/or 1:00 pm, beginning April 5th
Leon’s Dance Center, 230 Adams Street, Newton

Fitness classes

Matt Wilson, NPS parent and  fitness and nutrition (NSCA & Precision Nutrition) trainer offers the following “Bridge to April Break” Session – a 5 week session of fitness classes in Oak Hill Park.

•Beginner’s Exercise Group – Wednesday Nights at 7:00 pm to be held if at least 6 people sign up. It will be a low to no impact class that focuses on movement, range of motion and strength building. The ultimate goal of this class is to prepare you (whether over the course of one or several sessions) to eventually move up to more advanced classes. The pace will be slow, and you may not sweat a lot, but the idea is to make sure you learn proper movement and show you that you are indeed capable of much more than you may believe. This class will be intentionally the small for a great instructor to participant ration. (minimum of 6, maximum of 8 – $20.00 for drop ins, $75.00 for the 5 week session).

•Monday and/or Wednesday Morning Class – 9:00 am – this class will focus on a combination of cardio and strength building. It is a step up from the Beginner’s Group. Depending on the group make up,  the focus will be on building up your cardio endurance while continuing to develop your core and overall strength. (minimum of 6, maximum of 12 – $20.00 for drop in, $75.00 for one day per week, $125.00 for 2 days per week).

•Monday and/or Thursday Night Boot Camp* – 7:00 pm – this class is the original – starting with a warm-up and a game, moving on to raising the heart rate, usually finishing with some core work. Any and all levels are happily accepted. (minimum of 5, maximum of 12 – $20.00 for drop in, $75.00 for one day per week, $125.00 for 2 days per week)

•Monday through Friday 6:00 am Morning Call – this class will require some dedication but is guaranteed to give you the best results. It is a 25 day session that involves a combination of strength, cardio and HIIT classes. (minimum of 8 people to commit to coming 5 mornings per week, maximum of 12 – $8.00 per class with a 5 day, 5 week commitment ($200.00) plus you need to purchase and bring a pair of 5 to 10 lbs dumbbells).

Below is a link to a Doodle Poll that will allow you to reserve a spot in the class or classes you would like. Once the minimum is reached on any of those classes, you can assume that the class will be held (starting next week). The Boot Camps* have already met their minimal requirements and will be held. Once the snow melts and class moves outside, the max on those two classes will be lifted. The other classes however will maintain their caps.

http://doodle.com/zaau3wgtdepmw36i

The 5 week session starts this week (week of March 15th). For questions, please contact Matt Wilson, 617-610-3853.

The Shuman Center
675 Saw Mill Brook Parkway, Newton

Reigning Cats and Dogs presented by Watertown Children’s Theatre

Come to the world premiere of Reigning Cats and Dogs presented by Watertown Children’s Theatre. Book by Steven Bergman and Amy White Graves, Music and Lyrics by Steven Bergman. Reigning Cats and Dogs is part of WCT’s initiative to support the growth of new works in children’s theatre.

Reigning Cats & Dogs is a new musical about acceptance, personal identity, friendship and loyalty. Chou-Chou has a problem: she’s a royal dog, but she’s always felt like a cat on the inside. Whether it’s a mouse infestation at the castle, or trying to get a performance slot at the Club Kit Kat, she wants everything to be “Purr-fect!” How can she and her feline friends make the kingdom an accepting society? A cast of K-6th graders including Newton residents Brandon Baskin, Maggie Brousal-Glaser, Alexandra Danis, Samuel Danis, Alexandra Giunta, Katherine Grabowski, Nisha Jha, Amir LaGasse, Alison McPherson, Caleb McPherson, Henry McPherson, Sadie Mulligan, Cliodhna O’Dwyer, Jacob Resnick, and Maya Ullman will sing, dance and perform and bring these cats, dogs, and mice to life!

Tickets are $14.00 and are now on sale on the website: watertownchildrenstheatre.org or by calling Brown Paper Tickets 1-800-838-3006. For more information, visit WCT’s website or call 617-926-ARTS.

March 20th at 7:00 pm, March 21st at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm, March 22nd at 2:00 pm.
Charles Mosesian Theater, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown

School Committee announces Office Hours

The Newton School Committee will receive the proposed budget on March 13th and begin its review and discussion on March 16th. We will be holding office hours on March 16th following our School Committee meeting which begins at 4:30 pm. Office hours will start at approximately 6:15 or 6:30 and end at approximately 7:15.

The School Committee is eager to try this new format in order to provide you with another opportunity to provide feedback in addition to the other times for public comments. We welcome questions and input and stress that this will mainly be a listening format. We are not trying to solve problems or make promises but are there to listen to concerns, questions and suggestions.

The format will be:

  • School Committee members, in teams of at least two, will be available in room 210 at the Ed Center, 100 Walnut Street. The meeting will be an Open Meeting and may be televised by NewTV.
  • This is a casual format. They will sit with individuals or groups and listen to concerns/questions about the budget.
  • In order to facilitate as many individuals as possible, they’d like to meet with each person/group for approximately 10 minutes.
  • The budget documents will be available in advance.
  • If you have questions, or would like to sign up in advance, please contact School Committee members at sc*************@***********ma.us

NewtonSERVES

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A Day of Community Service
Sunday April 26th, 9:00 am — 4:00 pm
Rain or Shine
Morning, Afternoon and All Day Projects

NewtonSERVES—A Day of Community Service is the kickoff for NewtonSERVES Volunteer Week. Mayor Setti D. Warren is encouraging religious organizations, schools and non-profits to identify service projects that need volunteers. He is also asking citizens, businesses and civic organizations to volunteer and make a difference in the community.

There are lots of ways that you can volunteer including: donating food to the local food pantries, delivering meals to a sick neighbor or friend, tutoring a child, picking up litter in your neighborhood, donating blood at your local Red Cross, or volunteering on Sunday April 26th for the Day of Community Service.

Do you have a project that you would like to be part of NewtonSERVES? Each project must be organized by a NEWTON non-profit, community service agency, city department, or a group of citizens (e.g., neighbors cleaning up a park). Sorry, no businesses or political action groups.

Register your project http://www.newtoncommunitypride.org/NewtonSERVES-project.php