What will the Kennedy Center, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, Discovery Theater, the Washington Ballet, the National Gallery of Art, the Goethe-Institut, Hillwood Estate, La Maison Francaise, the Library of Congress, the National Children’s Museum, 27 embassies and 25 public libraries celebrate in common from Wednesday through Nov. 14?

If you answered “Kids Euro Festival,” you’d be right. For during that period, these major institutions and many more like them will provide the fifth annual presentation of free theater, storytelling, puppetry, mime, dance, magic, cinema and workshops for children, the largest children’s performing arts festival in the United States, presented by the 27 member countries of the European Union.