Memorial Day Weekend Events in Queens — May 23-25, 2008

Memorial Day Weekend

• Memorial Day Parades - Queens hosts possibly the biggest Memorial Day Parade in the country. It goes from Douglaston/Little Neck over to Nassau County's Great Neck. The whole community turns out along Northern Boulevard. In other neighborhoods, there are plenty more Memorial Day parades.

Friday

• Beaches Open for Summer on Saturday - Kick-off Beach Party Opening in Rockaways on Friday

• Opening Night - Enchanted April at the Poppenhusen Institute - Through May 31

Saturday

• Memorial Day Parades

• Czech and Slovak Festival at Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden

• [Re]cycle Kites with Miwa Koizumi and Marco Scoffier at Socrates

• Garden & Grub Potluck Picnic at Two Coves Community Garden in Astoria

• Micro-Safari at Fort Totten

• It's My Park! Day: Weeping Beach Park

• Be a History Detective: Fort Totten

Sunday

• Memorial Day Parades

• Czech and Slovak Festival at Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden

• Flushing Festival - Sanford Avenue from Main Street to Kissena Boulevard

• Hunt for Pokeweed Shoots in Kissena Park

• Bi-weekly Bark Brigade at Forest Park

• Spring Migration at Highland Park

• Astronomy Club at Fort Totten

• Poets in the Galleries-Season 2: Cocktail Hour & Interactive Presentations at QMA

Monday

• Little Neck - Douglaston Memorial Day Parades

• More Memorial Day Parades

Continuing Events

• Current Exhibits at PS 1

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

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

• Big Apple Circus at Cunningham Park - Through May 26

• Enchanted April at the Poppenhusen Institute - Through May 31

• Family Festival at The Shops at Atlas Park - Through June 1

• 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

• Five Women Artists in New York at Flushing Town Hall

• 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

• The Real Pepsi Challenge: Breaking the Color Barrier in American Business at QMA - Through July 27

• Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s -- and Michael Portnoy: Casino Ilinx -- at Sculpture Center - Through July 28

• Cringe at Dean Project - Through July 31

• Waste Not, Want Not at Socrates - Through August 3

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Photo Credit - Nicholas Biondo