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All That Jazz Dance Studio, winner of the 2011 Newton Tab Readers Choice Award for Best Dance Studio in Newton, Needham, and Wellesley, is now accepting registration for summer and 2012-2013 school year classes.  Come see the All That Jazz dancers perform at Newton Kids FunFest on Sunday, May 13th at 2:00 and 3:00!  Spring Open House is Sunday, May 20th from 4:00-5:30 at All That Jazz, 232 California St. in Newton.  www.allthatjazznewton.com/ missdeb@allthatjazznewton.com/ 617-641-0784

I am a Bowen alum and current Newton South Junior available as a babysitter/parents’ helper many afternoons afterschool, evenings and weekends. I will also be available this summer.  I am CPR-certified and enjoy art projects, reading to and with younger children and can help with homework.  I have provided childcare at my synagogue and to individual families, references available upon request. Please contact me at mirandaedithbachman@gmail.com. Thanks!

Learn Jazz/Blues/Classical, theory, sightreading from a Berklee & New England Conservatory graduate with 30 years teaching experience. Build a high quality musical foundation with a patient, upbeat, and caring instructor. Beginners welcome. Gloria Jasinski, phone: 617.566.9704, email: piano566@comcast.net

The Friends of the Newton Free Library invite you to attend the 28th Annual Book and Author Luncheon, Friday, May 11, 2012, Cash Bar 11:00 am, Luncheon 12:00 pm.  Speakers and Book Signing will follow the luncheon.  Newton Marriott Hotel Ballroom, 2345 Commonwealth Avenue

Our featured speakers will be:

Dennis Lehane:  Moonlight Mile and The Given Day

Mitchell Zuckoff: Lost in Shangri-La

The classic story of Charlotte’s Web paints a picture of childhood on the farm, in which the power of friendship can conquer anything. WCT’s Play Factory brings this heartwarming tale to life, performed by an ensemble cast of 2nd-4th graders including Amelia Ventouris of Newton, directed by Elizabeth Gutterman.  Performances are May 18- 20 in the Black Box Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts.  Seating is limited. General admission tickets are $10 and will be available beginning May 8th through WCT’s website at
www.watertownchildrenstheatre.org or at 1-800-838-3006.   For more information, visit WCT’s website or call 617-926-ARTS.

The Newton Family Singers present… If I Had a Song – Celebrating Pete Seeger and Friends, on Sunday, May 6th!

Come enjoy the music of folk icon and legend Pete Seeger and his musical friends and contemporaries, including The Weavers, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie….with a special performance by members of the extended Seeger Family.  You’ll find yourself hand-clapping and tune-humming at this fun-for-the-whole-family musical extravaganza celebrating Pete Seeger’s contribution to American folk music. Sunday, May 6, 4pm at the Memorial-Spaulding Elementary School Auditorium, 250 Brookline Street, Newton.

With this concert, the Newton Family Singers welcome award-winning composer, director and musician Chris Eastburn as  guest Musical Director. Chris brings over 10 years of experience directing the Family Folk Chorale of Arlington, and an unmatched ability to create powerful, emotional and melodic choral arrangements. This concert will feature the debut performance of an original tribute to Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie.

To read the recent Newton Tab article about NFS and this upcoming show, link here!

The Newton Family Singers are Newton’s only intergenerational chorus and band celebrating family, community and American folk music. For more information about NFS or upcoming events, please visit www.newtonfamilysingers.org or email us at newfamilysingers@gmail.com.

Jazz, Hip Hop and Creative Dance, $72Dance Waban Library Center – 1608 Beacon Street, Newton Ages 4 to 6 yrs. 6 Fridays, 1:15pm-2pm Grace Noyes Dancers will learn the basic elements of Jazz Dance and Hip Hop set to today’s popular music. Along with dance technique instruction, they will be given the opportunity to  creatively express themselves through open ended movement.  The class will include stretching exercises, progressions across the floor and sequences of age appropriate choreography that will build week to week.  This fun, lively 45 minute class is offered to students who danced with us last season as well as new students. Class dates:  4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18, 6/1, 6/8 Please register at wabanlibrary@gmail.com.  For more information check out our website at www.wabanlibrarycenter.org

Free Kids Dance Festival April 28th from 10am-2pm. Join Ballroom in Boston with free “try it” classes for kids, face painting, balloon animals, juggling & more! Classes offered to ages 5-18 boys & girls.

217 California Street, Floor 2, Newton, MA 02458  (313) 288-2784

Berklee & New England Conservatory graduate with 30 years teaching experience has several openings in studio. Beginners Welcome. Learn Jazz/Blues/Classical, theory, sightreading from a patient, upbeat, and caring teacher. Gloria Jasinski, phone: 617.566.9704, email:piano566@comcast.net