{"title": "Bi-lingual Storytime with Culture Tree Founder Anu Sehgal", "start": "2026-11-08T15:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Children's Museum of Manhattan", "address": "West 83rd Street 212, 10024 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.99", "price_to": "19.99", "tickets_url": "https://buy.acmeticketing.com/orders/488/calendar?_gl=1*1asoz6a*_ga*MTQ4NTM4OTY3MC4xNjc1Nzg3MjMx*_ga_1GBJ34FGKH*czE3NzA4MzE4MDkkbzU3MiRnMSR0MTc3MDgzMTgzMyRqMzYkbDAkaDg0ODUyMTI1", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word/storytelling", "occasion/diwali"], "description": "A drop-in storytime for children ages 4 and up at a museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Anu Sehgal, founder of Culture Tree, leads a Diwali storytime with her puppet friends. It explores the significance and origins of Diwali and how it is celebrated worldwide. 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It is presented by the South Street Seaport Museum together with The Culture Tree Collective Inc. and the Rubin Museum. Visitors can decorate and float a battery-operated diya-inspired candle, make rangoli designs with flower petals and sand, and get henna from a henna artist. 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