Young Minds
MON- SAT
You know what sucks? That adults can’t go to Kaleidoscope. Well, except during special family sessions. But adults who don’t have kids — especially adults who just happen to like trench coats — would look like total weirdos if they tried to attend. Some of us sort of remember what goes on in there, but only vaguely. Why did those beaded curtains in the tickle chamber tickle? Why don’t beaded curtains feel ticklish anymore? Have they changed, or have we? How did that puzzle-making contraption work?
Kids, you aren’t going to fully appreciate the importance of what we have to say, because you think you will never be one of those can’t-remember-things kind of adults, but we want you to listen to us very carefully: We are your future, and we have forgotten. Take a pencil and a small notebook with you. Write down everything you see and do, then take the notebook home and put it in a safe place. Get it laminated so it’s not destroyed in a flood.
We can hear you say it: You won’t forget. We said that, too, you little smart-asses.
Starting Monday, Kaleidoscope holds summer sessions open to the public — at least, the part of the public that’s between five and twelve years old. It’s in Crown Center, 2450 Grand. For information, call 816-274-8300.— Gina Kaufmann
Oh Bother
The Reptile shows free kid flicks.
FRI 5/30
The screening of Winnie-the-Pooh and the Honey Tree is just one in a series of free film events for all ages at the Reading Reptile Bookstore (328 West 63rd Street). Every Friday at 7 p.m., the trendy, family-owned bookstore transforms into a movie theater, showing 16-mm films on a big screen. Antsy youngsters likely will do well with this 1966 Disney classic — it’s just 25 minutes long, providing a pint-sized introduction to Christopher Robin’s enchanted world. Young readers will leap easily from the movie to the books; most of the characters appear in the original text, and the animation style parallels E.H. Shepard’s classic illustrations. For more information call 816-753-0441 or visit www.readingreptile.com— Joanna Miller
