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Make a mess at RMSC during MESS-tival, a celebration of all things ooey, gooey and yucky, March 30-April 7. by Sue Cannon •It’s time to B.Y.O.T. (Bring Your Own Train) to the New York Museum of Transportation for a special event held on Sundays through April. Kids and adults are invited to bring their HO-gauge trains and operate them on the museum’s huge layout, located at 6393 East River Road in Rush NY. Call (585) 533-1113. •Forum Players Children’s Theatre at Genesee Community College in Batavia will present Rita Grauer’s THE BOY WHO TRICKED THE MOON on March 22. The participation play is adapted from Pacific Northwest folklore and invites the audience to help two young boys escape the Sky Country in a triumph of friendship and ingenuity. Call (585) 345-6814. •The Geneva High School Drama Club will perform HAIRSPRAY on their school stage from March 22 thru 24. Steve Palumbo directs with Christine Sauter Milligan serving as Music Director. Call (315) 945-1528. •Kids can meet Martha the Talking Dog on March 23 & 24 at the Strong National Museum of Play, One Manhattan Square, as pat of their LITERATURE LIVE series. Call (585) 263-2700 for full details. •The March SCIENCE SATURDAYS program at the Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Avenue, will feature two presentations - “Making Tracks with the Animal Teachers and Anne Meade” and “Society of Women Engineers” on March 23; and then, an “Optics Road Show” on March 30. Call (585) 697-1942. •The last March TODDLER BOOK CLUB meeting at Strong National Museum of Play, One Manhattan Square, is scheduled for March 25. The theme this month is “Once Upon a Time,” and as always, there will be a reading, music and movement activities. Call (585) 263-2700.
•Also at the Strong National Museum of Play, One Manhattan Square, a special discounted pricing is set for March 26. To acquaint families with the museum, a TERRIFIC TOTS TUESDAY is planned - buy one, get one free admission. Call (585) 263-2700. •During PUZZLERS SCHOOLBREAK WEEK which runs March 29 thru April 7 at Strong National Museum of Play, One Manhattan Square, kids can take a challenge worthy of a master puzzler and help put together one of the world’s largest jigsaw puzzles – more than 14 feet long and made from 24,000 pieces! They can also solve brain-teasers, make paper puzzles, and check out 3-D, glowin-the-dark or teeny tiny puzzles so small you need tweezers to place the pieces. Call (585) 263-2700. •A festival of all things messy, ooey, sticky, yucky and fun is planned during a SPRING BREAK MESS-TIVAL EVENT at the Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Avenue. Dress to make a mess for this one, which runs March 30 to April 7. Call (585) 697-1942. •JCC CenterStage and the Rochester Children’s Theatre will present a world premiere musical in the JCC Hart Theatre, 1200 Edgewood Avenue, from March 30 thru April 7. MOSES MAN: A musical journey of a Holocaust survivor, deals with the indomitable spirit of survival in Kalman and Lily Haber on their perilous flight from Nazi-invaded Austria. They travel with their family to Cyprus, Palestine, Africa and finally America. Call (585) 461-2000. •The CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER is open on April 3 at the RMSC Strasenburgh Planetarium, 657 East Avenue. In this virtual voyage to Mars, you can experience a high-tech, hands-on flight simulation. Children must be 7 to participate; and those ages 7 to 10 need to be teamed one-onone with an adult. Reservations are required. Call (585) 6971942.
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