Weekend Events in Queens — April 20-22

Top Picks of the Weekend

• For Families - Children's Carnival at Queens Farm Museum - Celebrate the actual arrival of spring this weekend at this two-day fair. Carnival rides, petting zoo, games, hayrides: Let the kids run around outside. $8 admission includes all carnival rides.

• Immigrant History Week - This week NYC has been celebrating our immigrant history and present. There are a bunch of good events throughout the borough with my pick being the Russian Fest in Flushing.

• Asian Cultural Festival at Queens Theatre in Park - April 19-22 - Four days of music, dance, and theater

Friday

• Headliner Jazz: In a Sentimental Mood at Flushing Town Hall

• Mayan Festival at Queens Library

• Immigrant History Week Exhibition "ID" & Family Workshops at QMA

• Opera at York with Soprano Elizabeth Ross (York Performing Arts Center)

• 2007 Institute in Film Criticism and Feature Writing at MMI - April 20-24

Saturday

• Asian Cultural Festival at Queens Theatre in Park - April 19-22

• Ellis Island Stories Performed at Queens Forest Hills Library

• Other Words/ Other Worlds - Jazz and Poetry Marathon at Flushing Town Hall

• Boleros: A Tres Voces at Thalia Theater - Saturday and Sunday

• Taiwanese Music and Dance at Taiwan Center

• Earth Day at Atlas Park - Lots of fun for the kids

• Children's Carnival at Queens Farm Museum

• Volunteers Needed - Cleanup at Oakland Lake

• Overdevelopment Rally in Fresh Meadows

• The BIG Show and Of Land And Sea in Rockaways at Fort Tilden - Opens Saturday - Through May 20

• Volunteers Needed - Highland Park Cleanup

Sunday

• Literary Arts Festival at Fort Tilden in Rockaways

• Jewish Culture Fest 07 Screening + Performances at QMA

• Russian Festival: From Odessa to St. Petersburg at Flushing Library

• Dastaar (Turban) – My Pride – An Inside Look at NYC Sikhs at Queens Library in Richmond Hill

• Immigrant History Week Exhibition "ID" & Closing Events at QMA

• Children's Carnival at Queens Farm Museum

• Boleros: A Tres Voces at Thalia Theater - Saturday and Sunday

Continuing Events

• Current Exhibits at PS 1

• We Had Such a Good Time: The Memories of Emily Fisher Landau - Fisher Landau Center for Art

• 6 @ 30 - Queens Artists Exhibit at Flushing Town Hall - Through April 22

• 2 Husbands at Chocolate Factory - Through April 28 (every Thursday performance free for Queens residents)

• Sleight of Hand - Collages by Moki Cherry at Art-o-Mat - Through April 29

• William S. Hart Retrospective at MMI - Through May 6

• Robert Moses and the Modern City - Through May 27

• Kupferberg Holocaust Center Events at QCC - Through June 3

• Korean Comics: A Society Through Small Frames - at Flushing Library - Through June 5

• Just After the Battle - Civil War Exhibit at Ridgewood Historical Society - Through June

• Light to Dark: Paintings and Works on Paper by Margery Edwards at Queens College - Through July 30

• Queens Borough Public Library Events

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Photo Credit - Timothy Vogel - Mural on Jamaica Ave