Weekend Events in Queens — April 27-29

Top Picks of the Weekend

• Walking Tour World’s Fair Architecture at Flushing Meadows - Free tour, no RSVP needed - a must for all NYC history buffs. Tour led John Kriskiewicz, architectural historian. Learn structures from the 1939 and 1965 World's Fairs, including the Unisphere, NY Hall of Science, NY State Pavillion, and Terrace on the Park at Flushing Meadows Park.

• Sleeping Beauty With Original Music - Sometimes you just have to say yes to community theater. The Gingerbread Players of Forest Hills have a long-standing reputation and they definitely got ambition with the new score for Sleeping Beauty by ragtime-composer Bill Ryden.

• Auditions for the New Menudo - Enough said.

Friday

• Sarah Polley at MMI and Preview of Away from Her

• Our Eyes Would Burn at Y Gallery in Jackson Heights - Opens Friday - Through May 27

Saturday

• Taste of Forest Hills - at the Community House

• Astoria-LIC Waterfront Walking Tour

• Meet Authors Janine Morris, Daaimah S. Poole and Candice Dow at Queens Library - Laurelton

• Sleeping Beauty With Original Music

• National Dance Week 2007 - "Celebrating Africa & the Diaspora" at JCAL

• Walking Tour World’s Fair Architecture at Flushing Meadows

• Earth Day Rockaway Celebration

• 29th Annual Antique Show at Queens Farm

Sunday

• Sunday Jazz Brunch - York College Blue Notes at Afrikan Poetry Theatre (PDF link)

• Summer Exhibitions at SculptureCenter - Opening Sunday - Through July 29

• 50s Teen Idol Frankie Avalon at Queensborough

• El Colegio del Cuerpo (Ecdc) - La Compañía - U.S. Debut at Queens Theatre in Park

• Kite Flight: Skyscrapers! Fifth Annual Kite Making Workshop at Socrates/Noguchi

• KidsClassics: The Beat Goes On at LeFrak Concert Hall

• Fort Totten by Starlight

Continuing Events

• Current Exhibits at PS 1

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

• Friday Visits by Appointment to Richard Meier’s Studio of Architectural Models

• 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

• 'It Goes Without Saying' - Paintings by Royalyne Ward-Davisat Chocolate Factory

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

• Robert Moses and the Modern City - Through May 27

• Macro to Micro: Grimshaw in New York at QMA - Through May 27

• "A Jamaica Queens Thing": Rap and the Crack Era in South Jamaica, Queens - in Art Gallery at JCAL

• 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

• Summer Exhibitions at SculptureCenter - Opening Sunday - Through July 29

• 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 - J. Roleke - Distressed NY State Pavilion at Flushing Meadows