Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts to Host 9th Annual National Grid Earth Day Celebration

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College commemorates Earth Day with its ninth annual National Grid Earth Day Celebration on Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 3pm.

This interactive family event will take place on the plaza outside the Walt Whitman Theatre at Brooklyn College immediately following the 2pm presentation of Clifford the Big Red Dog™?LIVE!. Brooklyn Center's ninth annual National Grid Earth Day Celebration is free and open to the public, with no tickets or reservations required.

Tickets to Clifford the Big Red Dog™?LIVE! are $18 and can be purchased at BrooklynCenter.org or by calling the box office at 718-951-4500 (Tue-Sat, 1pm-6pm). Both the performance and the Earth Day Celebration are recommended for ages four and up.

Now in its ninth year, National Grid Earth Day Celebration is designed to educate families on how they can play a role in caring for the Earth and creating a more sustainable future. Interactive family activities, educational materials, and give-away items will highlight the need for conserving energy, recycling in the home, and having a heightened awareness of the environmental and global issues that we face today.

"National Grid is helping to lead the conversation around reducing methane emissions; we are committed to playing a leading role, both at the policy level and in our actions to address climate change. We encourage our customers and stakeholders to embrace energy efficiency and Earth Day is a great time for National Grid's Power to Serve employee volunteers to engage with our communities about how to be responsible citizens and stewards of the environment," said Ken Daly, President, National Grid New York. "National Grid has a strong history of employee volunteerism and community service. Our long-standing partnership with Brooklyn Center is an opportunity for our employees to help educate families -- especially young children?about how to make our communities greener and cleaner."

This year's Earth Day Celebration will feature hands-on activities for all ages that will allow attendees to learn about how to take action in helping our planet. Returning favorites include the New York City Fire Department's fire prevention demonstration, an instrument building workshop using recycled and reused materials by educational performance group Bash the Trash, puppeteer Ronny Wasserstrom's Playdate Puppets, circus demonstrations from The Muse Brooklyn, and the bright sounds of Nydia Mata's steel drums. Other activities will include children's yoga with Third Root Yoga, arts and crafts with Skraptacular, face painting, and interactive storytellers.

IF YOU GO:

The National Grid Earth Day Celebration at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts

Whitman Theatre Plaza at Brooklyn College

(2 train to Brooklyn College/Flatbush Avenue)

Sunday, April 17, 2016, 3pm-5pm

FREE and open to the public

For performance tickets to Clifford the Big Red Dog™?LIVE!

Tickets: $18

Online orders: BrooklynCenter.org | Box Office: 718-951-4500, Tue-Sat, 1pm-6pm

National Grid (LSE: NG; NYSE: NGG) is an electricity and natural gas delivery company that connects nearly 7 million customers to vital energy sources through its networks in New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It is the largest distributor of natural gas in the Northeast. National Grid also operates the systems that deliver gas and electricity across Great Britain.

Through its U.S. Connect21 strategy, National Grid is transforming its electricity and natural gas networks to support the 21st century digital economy with smarter, cleaner, and more resilient energy solutions. Connect21 is vital to our communities' long-term economic and environmental health and aligns with regulatory initiatives in New York (REV: Reforming the Energy Vision) and Massachusetts (Grid Modernization.)

For more information, visit www.nationalgridus.com, or our Connecting website. You can also follow us on Twitter, watch us on You Tube, Friend us on Facebook and find our photos on Instagram.

Founded in 1954, Brooklyn Center for the PerformingArts at Brooklyn College presents outstanding performing arts and arts education programs, reflective of Brooklyn's diverse communities, at affordable prices. Each season, Brooklyn Center welcomes over 65,000 people to the 2,400 seat Whitman Theatre, including up to 45,000 schoolchildren from over 300 schools who attend their SchoolTime series, one of the largest arts-in-education programs in the borough.

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