UPCOMING
EVENTS & ACTIVITIES:
July 31
Children's Workshop:
Rocks Rock!
to 2:30 pm
Ballard Park has all three rock types – igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. Children will identify them, learn how they got there and discover how hikers used rocks as trail markers and make their own.
Drop in rate is $7 per student.
Rain date is the following Monday.
Pre-registration is recommended.
presents
movies on the rocks
an outdoor movie series at ballard park
movies on the rocks
an outdoor movie series at ballard park
Jaws
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 * dusk
Directed by Steven Spielberg and acclaimed by critics worldwide, JAWS continues to shock moviegoers with its riveting tale of three men who become allied in a life-and-death hunt to destroy a killer embodying nearly three tons of instant white death.
Rated PG-13; 124 minutes; 1975.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 * dusk
Upon his 11th birthday, Harry Potter learns from a giant named Hagrid that he is the orphaned son of powerful wizards. Harry is offered a place at prestigious Hogwarts, a boarding school for wizards that exists in a realm of magic and fantasy outside the dreary existence of normal humans At Hogwarts, Harry quickly makes new friends and begins piecing together the mystery of his parents' deaths, which appear not to have been accidental after all.
Rated PG; 148 minutes; 2001.
Monday,
August 4, 2014
from 4 to 6 pm
The fun starts in the quarry meadow of Ballard Park!
Enjoy tea sandwiches, desserts and an assortment of iced teas in between playing croquet making your own crazy hat and participating in the Alice in Wonderland-themed Scavenger Hunt along the trails of Ballard Park. Enter at Hazard Road.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 * dusk
In the world of the emperor penguin, a simple song can mean the difference between a lifetime of happiness and an eternity of loneliness. When a penguin named Mumble is born without the ability to sing the romantic song that will attract his soul mate, he'll have to resort to some fancy footwork by tap dancing his way into the heart of the one he loves.
Rated PG-13; 109 minutes; 2006.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 * dusk
Set in a tropical jungle where people are conspicuously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther discovers a baby in the wreck of a boat. Feeling pity on the child, Bagheera takes him to be raised with the wolves. Ten years later, the child has grown into Mowgli. Mowgli discovers that his life is in danger because of the return to the area of Shere Khan the Tiger, whose hatred of humans is such that Mowgli faces certain death if discovered. Bagheera agrees to transport Mowgli to the human village where he will be safe from Shere Khan.
Rated G; 78 minutes; 1967.
queen of hearts
sponsors:
sponsors:
Movies will be shown in the Quarry Meadow. Seating is on the grass. Films will begin at dusk (approximately 8:15 to 8:30 pm). Picnic dinners welcome. Parking available in the Rogers High School parking lot. Rain date is the next evening for all movies.
Please allow 15 minutes to make your way down to the quarry meadow. Ballard Park is a nature preserve. Trails are steep and uneven in places.
Smoking is prohibited by law in Ballard Park.
cheshire cat sponsors:
BARTLETT TREE EXPERTS
GROOVY GATOR
KIKI FINN
KVH INDUSTRIES
BARTLETT TREE EXPERTS
GROOVY GATOR
KIKI FINN
KVH INDUSTRIES
Tickets - adults $20; children $10 and should be purchased prior to August 1st. E-mail us for an invitation at info@ballardpark.org or send your check made payable to Friends of Ballard Park, 320 Thames Street #274, Newport RI 02840.
friends of ballard park, 320 Thames Street #274, Newport RI 02840 * phone: 401.619.3377
BALLARD PARK is located at the corner of Hazard & Wickham Roads in Newport, RI