Weekend Events in Queens — August 17-19

Top Pick of the Weekend

• The Big Apple Scholarship Bull Riding & Barrel Racing Event - Bull riding in Queens? Yeah, this rodeo wins for best event of the weekend. How could it not? This three-day rodeo -- a real family event -- is at off-the-beaten-track at Cedar Lane Stable, home of The Federation of Black Cowboys in Howard Beach, but worth the trek.

Friday

• Borgetto Cultural Association Festival, Steinway St, Astoria, 646-230-0489 - -all weekend

• The Big Apple Scholarship Bull Riding & Barrel Racing Event - Family event - all weekend

• Passport Friday Evenings at QMA - Tunisia

• Forest Park Concert Series

Saturday

• Spiderman Back to School Event at Atlas Park

• Borgetto Cultural Association Festival, Steinway St, Astoria, 646-230-0489 - -all weekend

• The Big Apple Scholarship Bull Riding & Barrel Racing Event - Family event - all weekend

• BREAK! The Urban Funk Spectacular at Queensbridge Park

• Compost for Families & Friends at Queens Botanical

• Poets in the Galleries at the Queens Museum of Art

Sunday

• Chili Crab Fest (Free) in LIC

• Peruvian Festival at Flushing Meadows

• 10th Anniversary of the Kitchrie Festival of Indo-Caribbean Arts and Culture at Forest Park

• Borgetto Cultural Association Festival, Steinway St, Astoria, 646-230-0489 - -all weekend

• Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble at Queensbridge Park

• The Big Apple Scholarship Bull Riding & Barrel Racing Event - Family event - all weekend

• Calling all Crows at Alley Pond Park

• CINEMAROSA - Queens Only Queer Film Series

• Natural Lawn Care at Queens Botanical

• Queens Festival Band at Queens Botanical

Continuing Events

• Current Exhibits at PS 1

• Paper, Remembering Michael Hudson, and More Exhibits at Fisher Landau Center for Art

• Descendents of Ascension - Installation at JCAL - Through August 17

• Meditations on Taiwan: Recent Work by Leah Oates and Pierre St-Jacques at Flushing Library's Gallery - Through August 20

• Talking with my friends/Hablando con mis amigos at Y Gallery - Through August 26

• Mini-Golf at Atlas Park - Through August 26

• Float - Through August 26

• Warm Up Party at PS 1 - Saturdays Through September 1

• Workspace07 in the Art Gallery at Queens Central Library - Through September 2

• Uneasy Riders: American Film in the Nixon Years 1970-1974 - Through September 2

• Favorite Images: The Work of Photographer Richard Schwarzchild at Flushing Town Hall - Through September 2

• De Boerderij at Ridgewood Historical Society - Through September 29

• Il Lee: Ballpoint Drawings at QMA - Through September 30

• Breaking Barriers: Louis Armstrong and Civil Rights - Through October 8

• Corona Plaza, Center of Everywhere: Four Site-Specific Projects - Through October 14

• Open Space - Through October 28

• Generation 1.5 at Queens Museum of Art - Through December 2

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Photo Credit - J. Roleke - Station Square in Forest Hills