Animation block PARTY 2025!

Saturday, August 9, 2025 at the NEW England Aquarium.

Animation Block Party 2025 is August 9th at the Simons Theatre at the New England Aquarium, located at 1 Central Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. The program is themed as Animation for Kids and will be excellent for families of all ages, featuring the world’s best animated shorts, live music, concessions, prizes and much more!

Animation Block Party Aquarium - Part One:

• Tootle the Turtle (Xiongliang (Ben) Li / Los Angeles, CA / 15 seconds)

• Surfer Puppers (Adam Ansorge / Jersey City / 30 seconds)

• Between Beginnings (Zora (Xiangzi) Xu / UCLA / 3 min)

• The Woodland Book Nook (Amy Ninh / Loyola Marymount University / 2:48 min)

• I dream about Colorful Earth (Will Kim / Los Angeles / 1:37 min)

• Playground (Jojo Chongjaroenjai / Ventura, CA / 1:23 min)

• Join (Brennan Bova / Ottawa, Canada / 1:03 min)

• Hunky Dory (Steven Vander Meer / Manila, California / 6 min)

• Brazey & D'Bruppy (Jared D. Weiss / Los Angeles / 4:50 min)

• Whereabouts (Suejee Lee / Brooklyn, NY / 2 min)

Animation Intermission:

• Animation Intermission: Jeff Jam Live Performance*** 

Animation Block Party Aquarium - Part Two:

• Kid President (Yadid Licht / Brooklyn, NY / 5:20 min)

• Soup! (Ava Azarmi / CalArts / 2:36 min)

• Magical Doomsday Horsegirls of the Apocalypse (Andrea Schmitz & Abbie Bacilla / Queens & Brooklyn / 1:10 min)

• Pac-Man Pursuit (Tristan Scolnick / Los Angeles / 1:01 min)

• Little Body Big Heart (Teo Nalani and Eli Huang / SVA / 4:25 min)

• Homecoming (Yuxin (Cindy) Cheng / UCLA / 1:52 min)

• Featuring aquatic loops from Mike Hollingsworth

Animation Block Party would like to welcome GBH as a sponsor of the Animation for Kids festival at the New England Aquarium!