Kids' Night Out!
The First Act for the Young and Young-at-Heart
The most creative New Year’s Eve you will have with your family!
Our afternoon program and Kids' Night Out kicks-off at 3 PM with the Opening Ceremony at Colton Lawn on Pacific Street, culminating with the Twilight Parade at 5:30 PM serving as the kids’ Finale. Music, song, drumming, dance, ballet, face art, art creating, hat making and more! Check out the Colton Lawn and Monterey Museum of Art on Pacific Street, and the Monterey Conference Center activities for your complete artful time. Make sure to have your FNM button to enjoy all the fun! Please refer to the afternoon and evening grids to plan your New Year’s Eve.
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Opening Ceremony - Colton Lawn Site 1: Colton Lawn -
Free 3:00 - 4:00 PM The opening of our 19th Celebration begins with the beat of many drums from traditional to the recycled! Join us as the drummers call to us to begin the Celebration! Bringing us together as we open First Night Monterey 2013! Please
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Twilight Procession Alvarado Street, from Portola Plaza to Pearl Street - Free 5:30 PM Join us as we process down Alvarado Street from Portola Plaza towards Pearl Street.. The Procession starts at 5:30PM. First Night Monterey is first and foremost about community, so we hope you will join us in the Twilight Processional as we feature artists, stilt walkers, dancers, giant puppets, marching moms and many other local friends and neighbors.. Master of Ceremonies, Michael Coleman, a radio/TV & film announcer, narrator and historian, with his wife Liz, will keep us informed as they announce the parade floats and units progressing down the street. Parade route begins at Portola Plaza, going down Alvarado Street (wrong way) towards Pearl. Bring your shaker and celebration hat you made during the afternoon festivities!
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Celebrate Monterey! FNM 2013 Resolution Sculpture Site 22: Conference Center Upstairs Lobby 3:30-10:30 p.m. Button venue Walk into historic Monterey, created by artist Nina Parris and FNM volunteers, the walls of Monterey’s historic buildings have been recreated with a special FNM twist: as you experience our installation, imagine these buildings listening. What hopes, dreams, and resolutions must they have heard over the years? Enter the resolution sculpture and leave a New Year’s resolution of your own, for your family and the community. |
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New Year's Eve Crowns Site 8: Monterey Art Museum, Lower Level
3:00-5:00 PM (Button venue) Every Child-even your inner child-will have such fun adorning these crowns with jewels, your name or monogram to make and wear! . | |
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Bubble Stomp! Site 4a: Pacific Street
3:00-5:00 PM Free Pop! Pop! Pop! Who can resist
squishing and twisting bubble
wrap? Jump, hop, stomp, do the
electric slide or break dance
your way to popping every
single bubble! | |
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Chalk Art! Site 4a: Pacific Street
3:00-5:00 PM Free We provide the chalk, you provide the creativity! Help turn Pacific Street into a work of art! | |
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Celebration Hats Site 5: Art Station 1, Colton Lawn
3:00-5:00 PM Button Venue Be creative and have fun is our motto! The creating of the celebration hat brings out the kid in everyone! The fashionable all wear them, for they display the creativity in all of us! What? A new year’s hat… so turn a paper grocery bag into a top hat with pizzazz using tulle, beads, pipe cleaners, colored paper, prismatic Mylar strips and more! Fun for all ages-and an absolute must for First Night participants with flair!. Celebration Hat Contest Site 5: Art Station 1, Colton Lawn
5:00 PM In years past, the hats have been so creative that we are starting a hat contest! So line up for your photo op and our esteemed judges will be handing out awards for most creative, colorful and imaginative. Enter your creation and win big!!! Our volunteers will be ready to take your submission and line you up for an art hat fashion display!
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Junk Man: It’s a JUNK JAM!!! Site 3: Pacific Street / Colton Lawn
3:30-4:00, 4:30-5:00 PM Site 19: Conference Center Serra Ballroom
6:15-6:45 PM Donald Knaack (aka The
Junkman) travels to the beat of a different drummer. A conservatory-trained
percussionist, he now exclusively composes-for and performs-on junk and
recycled materials. It's called Junk Music: a unique collection of infectious grooves and
musical styles that's gaining audiences from every spectrum of the music business – from
rock to jazz to world music. A Junk Jam consists of all audience members being
participants, either by playing a provided stick and piece of junk or by chanting to environmental
phrases The Junkman has devised to fit into the general rhythmic flow. The Junkman
takes the audience on a musical/community journey. Catch the rhythmic flow, as you participate in this community musical ensemble. Feel the beat and become part composer, part musician! Have a voice and willing to share? Become part of the choir and
chant to the music!
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Henna Tattoos Site 21: Conference Center Mezzanine 6:15 - 10:00 PM (Button Venue on-going with staff breaks-lines are formed)
Creative Henna artists are
ready to paint a temporary work of art. Please note, this a popular activity, waiting lines are formed!. |
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Face Painting! Site 6: Art Station 2, Colton Lawn 3:15-5:00 PM (Free, on-going -lines are formed) Site 19: Conference Center Mezzanine Level 6:00 - 10:00 PM First Night volunteers are ready to create a festive, artful image on your face! Please note, this a popular activity, waiting lines are formed. | |
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Make a Commemorative Medallion Celebrating our 20th Annual FNM Site 20: Conference Center Downstairs Lobby 3:00-10:30 PM Create an FNM commemorative coin-put your image and your resolution on it! It’s a one of a kind medallion that you make and take home. The Arts Council of Monterey County volunteers will be on hand to take your picture and assist you in your artful creation! |
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New Year's Eve
Blinkies and Button Sales
FNM Kiosks 3:00 - 11:00 PM Glow in the dark, light up the night, fly into the new year! First Night Monterey takes pride in providing New Year's Eve novelty items at family-friendly prices. Visit one of our kiosks this year to purchase the perfect glow in the dark accessory that will add a magical sparkle to anyone's New Year's Eve look. This is a fundraiser for First Night; all proceeds benefit our year-round arts programs. Buy Admission Buttons here also.. |
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Carmel High School Jazz Trio (CL) Site 7: Monterey Museum of Art 3:30 - 4:00, 4:15 - 4:45, 5:00 - 5:30 PM Fiddle player Peter Mellinger will lead a jazz trio of Carmel High students, including guitarist Robert Papacica and bassist Jonah Svihus. They'll play a mix of gypsy jazz and standards, with a possible side trip into Romanian folk tunes. |
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TwistyMan! Site 21: Conference Center Mezzanine 6:15-10:00 PM (Button venue on-going with staff breaks-lines are formed) Our favorite balloon entertainer is back and he has personality, amazing creations of hats, animals and more! Please note, this a popular activity, waiting lines are formed!
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Carmel Academy of Performing Arts- Team CAPA (DA) Site
19: Conference Center Serra Ballroom 3:30-4:00; 4:15-4:45; 5:00-5:30 PM High energy, these dancers from 5 to 17 years of age perform jazz, hip hop, and contemporary style dances to various genres of music. |
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Spector Dance(DA/CH) Site
23: Conference Center Steinbeck Room 3:30 - 4:00, 4:15 - 4:45 PM Spector Dance Company presents works that celebrate our local heritage, with a signature style of blending music, spoken word and visual media with dance. The group has received local, statewide, and national recognition. |
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Shinsho Mugen Daiko (Taiko Drummers) (WM) Site 2: Pacific Street Stage - Opening Ceremony 3:00-3:30; 4:00-4:30; 5:00-5:30 PM Hear them roar! Calling us to begin the countdown to 2011, experience the thunderous roar and exquisite physicality of these Taiko Drummers as they perform traditional Japanese drumming. |
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Monterey Symphony Brass Quintet (CL,JZ) Site: 26: Carleton Hall (Monterey Center for Spiritual Living 3:30-4:15; 4:30-5:15 PM A Repertoire of music that spans more than five centuries, from the Italian Renaissance to American Dixieland and Jazz. |
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Horon Turkish Dance Ensemble of Monterey (DA/FK/WM) Site 10: Alvarado Street Galleria 4:45- 5:15; 6:30-7:00 PM The Horon Turkish Folk Ensemble of Monterey will perform the traditional music and folk dances from various provinces of Turkey in authentic costumes and welcome the audience join them for line dancing.
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