Many family-friendly New Year’s celebrations offer opportunities to not only celebrate, but to explore – inviting families to visit many locations or landmarks for a variety of reasons, including performances, art shows, hands-on activities, ceremonies, and even sometimes food! This exploratory element of such events provides a place-based component to the cultural learning that New Year’s celebrations invite; families can use their explorations to solidify their sense of place as they learn about and become a part of local culture. Moving through the local landscape, whether familiar or not, allows physical context to be added to families’ understanding and experience of celebration – offering them insight as to how the celebration they’re engaging in has developed and deepened a sense of place. Here are several to consider this New Year’s Eve, celebrating the last day & night of 2018…