Canada's Sugar Beach is seen during snow fall in Toronto, Wednesday, March 12, 2014.Mark Blinch/The Globe and Mail
Keeping kids occupied during next week's March Break will be a full-time job, but thankfully a cottage industry has spouted around the annual late-winter holiday from school, offering something for everyone. Here are three hotly tipped happenings.
For the sappy
Sugar Beach Sugar Shack: There are any number of maple-taffy adventures just outside the city, but this downtown sticky situation boils up a recreation of a Quebec-style celebration, with an authentic cabane à sucre, an outdoor sing-along and a traditional contra dance. March 12 (noon to 10 p.m.) and March 13 (11 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Free. Jarvis Street and Queens Quay East, sugarshackto.ca.
For the Diva
Opera Interactive: When it comes to operatic voices, it's all about "me-me-me-me-me." Audience members of all ages are invited to learn, listen and lend their voice to an interactive concert featuring the young artists of the Canadian Opera Company's Ensemble Studio. March 15, noon to 1 p.m. Free. Four Seasons Centre, 145 Queen St. W., coc.ca.
For the star-eyed dreamer
The Little Prince: Inspired by a novella for children that was written for grown-ups, a delightful animated film about a precocious child and an overbearing but well-meaning mother stars the charismatic voices of Jeff Bridges, Mackenzie Foy, Ricky Gervais and others. Journeys are taken, souls are dazzled and wonderment is revived. Opens March 5.
Brad Wheeler