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La MaMa Kids: Awaken The Rhythms Of Nature – October 18 -19

Oct 18 – 19, 2025

Community Arts Space
74 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003

Tickets: $15

Saturday show:  2pm
Sunday show time: 12 pm

Running Time 45 min to 60 min

Ticket prices are inclusive of all fees.

Created by 

Potri Ranka Manis 

ABOUT

This engaging hands-on workshop invites children to explore the foundational sounds of traditional percussion using natural instruments: the resonant gong, the earthy wood blocks, and the melodic bamboo tones. Participants will be introduced to the basic rhythmic patterns and musical rhymes rooted in indigenous traditions. Designed to activate sensory perception and visual imagination, this immersive experience awakens each child’s connection to sound, rhythm, and movement. Through guided play, storytelling, and interactive soundscapes, children will learn to listen, feel, and respond — preparing them for beginner classes in cultural music and dance.

CREDITS

Artist Facilitators: Potri Ranka Manis, Nonilon Queano, Frank Ortega, Diane Camino, Jerome Viloria, Ernesto Abe Pamolarco III

BIOS

Kinding Sindaw is an NYC-based nonprofit dance theater company composed of indigenous tradition-bearers, Filipino American artists, and educators from all backgrounds founded in 1992 by Potri Ranka Manis. Kinding Sindaw exists to assert, preserve, reclaim, and re-create the traditions of dance, music, martial arts, storytelling, and orature of the indigenous peoples of Mindanao, Southern Philippines. Through the use of indigenous music, dance and cultural art forms, we serve as an important educational and cultural resource in New York City. We aim to promote the advocacy for indigenous peoples, as well as increase awareness of universal themes that are part of the human experience.

 

La MaMa Kids

La MaMa Program

La MaMa Kids is a series of creative workshops and performances for the young and the young at heart. Master artists from LaMaMa teach theatre crafts in workshops that encourage imaginative play and hands-on learning. Children and adults learn the basics of storytelling, dance, mask and puppet-making, and more! Held monthly, La MaMa Kids is fun for the whole family!

Committee: Denise Greber, Julia Stirling Martin, Federico Restrepo, Jane Catherine Shaw, Bonnie Sue Stein, Janice Yoo, and Perry Yung.

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La Mama is a world-renowned New York cultural institution dedicated to the artist and all aspects of the theatre.