Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair April 27, 2012

The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by founding sponsor American Express, will close out its 11th edition with a community celebration at the Tribeca Family Festival Street Fair on Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., on Greenwich Street from Chambers to Hubert Street, Manhattan.

Throughout the Street Fair will be talented performers, dancers, stilt walkers, Broadway performances, arts and crafts, face painters, puppet shows, music, games, and much more. Students from dozens of local schools will also be at the fair with performances and vibrant student artwork. The Street fair will host restaurants, merchants, and organizations from the Tribeca neighborhood.

The fair, a Festival favorite that drew more than 300,000 people last year, is free and open to the public, and promises to be a day of family fun and lively entertainment.

Date: Saturday, April 28
Time: 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Location: Greenwich Street (between Chambers Street and Hubert Street)
Cost: Free and open to the public.

Highlights include:
• Cast members from Ghost The Musical, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Sister Act The Musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Traces, Million Dollar Quartet, Memphis, Rock of Ages, WICKED and other Broadway and Off-Broadway shows are scheduled to take center stage at the outdoor Festival Main stage.
• The New York Philharmonic’s Credit Suisse Very Young Composers will present original works created by young musicians and brought to life by a chamber ensemble from the esteemed orchestra.
• Exciting performances and unique acts from the talented “The Acrobats of Cirque-tacular” group will delight audiences with aerial performances, acrobats, contortionists and more.
• WonderSpark Puppets will engage the imagination of kids and adults with delightful puppet shows and playful stories.
• CHESS NYC, the largest community of chess players in NYC, will bring out a life-sized chess board and smaller game boards for kids to challenge themselves, their parents and the CHESS NYC Pros.
• Families will enjoy the popular Kite Garden, where kids can make and fly their own kites, while youngsters can create gigantic bubbles in the Bubble Garden.
• A special free screening of a classic family film will be presented at BMCC’s Tribeca Performing Arts Center Theater.
• Additional featured talent includes Ronnie Asbell’s Puppetronics, a hands-on traveling exhibition of life-sized marionettes; Rock-A-Baby music workshops; Mohammed Saeed Harib’s FREEJ FOLKLORE project screening, and more.
• Come join the award-winning ScrapKins® team to recycle junk into art! Kids create fantastic custom creatures they imagine from recycled materials.
• 60 Hudson Street will host arts & crafts pavilions with a featured art contest for local students. Selected pieces of art will be showcased in the building windows on West Broadway.
• Games, prizes, music and fun will also be supported by Lite FM, New York Times, Radio Disney AM 1560 New York, Time Out New York, vitaminwater® and more.

More details and a map of events will be available in the coming weeks at www.tribecafilm.com/family.