Weekend Events in Queens — June 20-22, 2008

Saturday

• Summer Solstice Celebration 2008 at Socrates Sculpture Park - Top-Event in June

• Walking Tour - Ravenswood Waterfront

• Make Music NY at Various Venues

• Make Music New York – Free Live Performances by Collective Soul at JCAL

• Make Music New York at Atlas Park - All day

• Double Take—Dancing Off the Painted Page and Sculpted Pedestal: Classical Indian Dance at Queens Library @Flushing

• Family Fun Day at Queens Library at Long Island City - Dedication of Jeanne Elmezzi Adult Learning Center

• Summer Solstice Composting at Queens Botanical Gardens

• Art Workshop with Diego Medina’s Construction of Cultures exhibition at JCAL

• It's My Bark Day at Rockaway's first official Dog Park

• Hands-on History: It's Time to Play! at Rufus King Manor

• History Detectives: Fort Totten

Sunday

• Hot Jazz/Cool Garden Concert at Louis Armstrong House Museum = Walker Street Orphans

• Poets in the Galleries II: Eleanor Lerman at QMA

• Forest Park K-9 Korral Dog Run

• History Detectives: Fort Totten

• Nature Knowledge at Lower Highland Park

• Astronomy Club at Fort Totten

Continuing Events

• Current Exhibits at PS 1

• Carnival at Rockaway Beach - Through June 22

• 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.

• "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom" & "Sleeping Beauty or Coma" at Secret Theatre in LIC - Through June 29

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

• Five Women Artists in New York at Flushing Town Hall

• Opening - Rhythms of Latino America at Thalia Theatre - Through June 29

• Carousel at Atlas Park Mall - Through June 29

• oph3lia at Chocolate Factory - Through July 2 - code "Chocolate" for discount

• 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

• Construction of Cultures - Diego Medina at JCAL - Through July 14

• 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

• Going Places (Doing Stuff) - Artist-led Tours with Flux Factory - Through August

• Queens Borough Public Library Events

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Photo Credit © Nicholas Biondo - Face-painting at last year's solstice celebration at Socrates