Weekend Events in Queens — April 18-20, 2008

Friday

• Earth Day at Socrates Sculpture Park

• Opening - PICASSO FLAMENCOnde de Orgaz at Thalai Theatre - Through May 25

• Willy & Friends III at Queens Theatre in the Park

• De Novo - free play at Queens Theatre in the Park

• Fluxer Reunion Party

• Junior Mance Trio at Flushing Town Hall

• AUNTS - Team One at Chocolate Factory

Saturday

• Dja-rara Queens Library @ Central Auditorium - Haitian rara music/carnival via way of Brooklyn

• Earth Day Celebration at the New York Hall of Science - Saturday and Sunday

• Bird Watching at Highland Park's Ridgewood Reservoir.

• Through Immigrant Eyes: A Digital Storytelling Festival at QMA

• The Virgin of Candelaria; from the Andes to New York at QMA - Andean folk music and dance

• The Children’s Orchestra Society - Meet The Composers at Queens Theatre in the Park

• Be a History Detective: Fort Totten

• Anthony Rapp with his band ALBINOKID at Queens Theatre in the Park

• Fowl Play At Forest Park - Bird watching

• Hands on History: Rufus and His Trees

• Children's Carnival at Queens County Farm Museum April 19, 20

• Orlando Marin – The Last Mambo King at Queens Library at Langston Hughes

• Traditional Puerto Rican Music of Cuatro Puertorriqueño - Queens Library at McGoldrick

• Jazz & Poetry Marathon: Other Words / Other Worlds at Flushing Town Hall

• AUNTS - Team One at Chocolate Factory

Sunday

• Walking Tour - Commemorating the 350th Anniversary of the Flushing Remonstrance 1: Religious Freedom in North Flushing

• Filipino Music, Dance, and Culture Fest at QMA - LYFE, Kasama, Action: FAHSI Cultural Showcase

• Cherish the Ladies - Irish music at Queens Theatre in the Park

• Children's Carnival at Queens County Farm Museum April 19, 20

• Birding Watching - Fort Totten and Flushing Meadows

• CINEMAROSA - queer film series - Transcending Frontiers: LGBT Jews and immigration

• Astronomy Club at Fort Totten

• Dancing Hands – Fighting Fingers: Traditional Chinese Glove Puppetry Performance & Workshop - Queens Library at Jackson Heights

Continuing Events

• Current Exhibits at PS 1

• Children's Carnival at Queens County Farm Museum April 19, 20

• EVERYTHING MUST GO at Flux Factory - Through April 26

• Visions from Abroad at Flushing Town Hall - Through April 27

• Texaco Road Map Conservation Project - and Anthony Auerbach, Empire State Pavilion - at QMA - Through May 4

• Exporting Pop: A Western Fantasy - at Dean Project - Through May 10

• Olu Oguibe: Women of Substance at JCAL - Through May 10

• Invention at Play at NY Hall of Science - Through May 11

• Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu Kenmochi at Noguchi Museum - Through May 25

• PICASSO FLAMENCOnde de Orgaz at Thalai Theatre - Through May 25

• Crossing the BLVD at Queens College - Through June 28. Originally shown at QMA a few years ago, it's an engrossing exhibit on contemporary immigrants here in Queens. Highly recommended.

• "This Case of Conscience": Spiritual Flushing and the Remonstrance - Through June 29

• Carousel at Atlas Park Mall - Through June 29

• Anna Matoušková: Places. Abstract Paintings, Drawings, and Glass Sculpture at Queens College Art Center - Through July 10

• 475 KENT Lives - QMA Gallery at the Bulova Corporate Center - Through July 13

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Photo (c) John Roleke - Feeding animals at Queens Farm Museum