Children’s Performance Series featuring Arm of the Sea Theatre

Music, storytelling, and theatre for young audiences up to age 7. Wear sunscreen.

• July 2: Arm of the Sea Theatre / presents “The Life and Times of the Hudson River”
• July 9: Musiquita / joyful bilingual music for kids inspired by Latin folk traditions
• July 16: Lucy Kalantari & the Jazz Cats / interactive swingin’ sounds and jazz age play
• July 23: Joanie Leeds / GRAMMY-winning singer-songwriter

Arm of the Sea Theatre is an arts ensemble that fuses visual storytelling with live music in large-scale works of mask and puppet theater. Founded in 1982 by Marlena Marallo and Patrick Wadden, the company’s hybrid performance style channels the evocative power of the arts as a force for joy, insight, and community uplift. Their low-tech devices of theatrical enchantment illuminate relations between humans and the life-support networks of this blue-ocean planet.

Under the direction of Marallo & Wadden, the creative team includes musicians Maclain Maier, Joseph Davis and Helen Houghton; and performers Joanna Grabiarz, Doug Keller, Dee Dee Maucher, Nick Panken, Rakel Stammer, Soyal Smalls and MJ Smythe. Arm-of-the-Sea tours its original productions to cultural centers, festivals, and community venues throughout New York and adjacent states. The organization is transforming the ruins of a 19th century papermill In Saugerties, NY into a waterfront cultural park for bio-regional arts & science.

Recent recognitions include: 2024 Hudson River Watershed Alliance “Wave-Makers” Award, 2018 Ulster County Executive’s Arts Award for Arts Organization, a 2016 Environmental Champions Award from the US Environmental Protection Agency, the 2014 Excellence in Arts Award from Mill Street Loft, and the 2014 Distinguished Environmental Achievement Award from Mohonk Consultations. Directors Marallo & Wadden were 2013 Artists-in-Residence at SUNY Ulster (Stone Ridge, NY), and 2014 Artists in-Residence at the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies (Millbrook, NY).

Summer on the Hudson events are free and open to the public. Seating is limited, unreserved, and available on a first-come, first-served basis. If there is heavy rain at the time of the event, the event will be canceled. For weather updates, check nyc.gov/parks/soh 2 hours before the event.