Weekend Events in Queens — October 17-19, 2008

Friday

• Opening - Familiar Spaces: Reconsidered - at Art-o-Mat in LIC - Through November 30

• David Gomez at LaGuardia Performing Arts

• Anna in the Tropics at York College

Saturday

• Halloween Harvest Festival at Socrates Sculpture Park - With Canine Costume Contest

• Ballet International Africans at Jamaica Performing Arts Center

• Tango Connection at Queens Theatre in the Park - Sat. and Sun.

• Ghouls at King Manor Museum - Halloween celebration

• The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Light the Night Walk at Forest Park

• Irish Stew Stirring Stories with Bill McBride at Woodside Library

• West African - Odwira (New Year) celebration at Onipa Abusia

• The Beijing Olympics: From a Reporter’s View - Queens Library at Flushing’s International Resource Center

• Fall Harvest Festival at Highland Park - and Fall Fiesta!: Music of the Americas

Sunday

• Opening Day Celebration at P.S.1 - New fall exhibits

• Chasqui Walkathon Event at Flushing Meadows and QMA

• Sachal Vasandani Quartet at LaGuardia Performing Arts

• Opening Reception, Erasing Borders 2008: Passport to Contemporary Indian Art - Through November 19

• Opening - Rockaway Artists Alliance presents: A Funny Thing… - Through November 2

• Sukkot Celebrations in Jewish communitiies throughout Queens. (Thanks for info, Chabad of Long Island City)

• Art at Queens of Angels in Sunnyside

• The Aesthetics of Diversity: Studio Visits - visit the studios of local artists

• Jewish Stories One Generation Tells Another at Kew Gardens Hills Library

• Cinemarosa - Queens Only Queer Film Series: Coming Out in Asian Culture

• Fertile Ground at Green Space in LIC

• Jews of Italy: A Miracle of Survival - Queens Library at Flushing’s International Resource Center

• "Athena" Theatre Performance at Athens Square, Astoria

• Halloween Painting Contest at Fort Totten

• Tango Connection at Queens Theatre in the Park - Sat. and Sun.

• Fall Migration - Birds - at Flushing Meadows Park

Continuing Events

• Halloween in western Queens and Halloween in eastern Queens

• Current Exhibits at PS 1

• Greenmarket at Atlas Park mall - Saturdays - Through Fall

• Vine Tata (Daddy’s Coming) at Queens Theatre in the Park - Through October 19

• Spotlight in gallery at Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning - Through October 22

• Petting Zoo and Pony Rides at Atlas Park - Through October 26

• Amazing Maize Maze at Queens Farm Museum - Through October 26- Saturdays and Sundays

• Pick-Your-Own-Pumpkin at Queens Farm Museum - Through October 28 - Saturdays and Sundays

• QMA at the Bulova Corporate Center: Jane South: Deceptive Volume - Through November 2

• DEAN PROJECT presents: Introduction: Future Dialogues - Through November 2

• Rockaway Artists Alliance presents: A Funny Thing… - Through November 2

• Free Swing Dance Lessons at Atlas Park - Through November 8

• Don Juan - Through The Centuries at Thalia Theatre in Sunnyside - Through November 9

• 12th Annual "Get Crackin’ Crabfest" Menu at London Lennies - Through November 9

• Erasing Borders 2008: Passport to Contemporary Indian Art - Through November 19

• Panorama: The Mapping of Prediction at QMA - Through November 30

• Familiar Spaces: Reconsidered - at Art-o-Mat in LIC - Through November 30

• Alley Pond Park Adventure Course - free - Sundays Through End of November

• Opening - SculptureCenter's fall exhibitions - Through November 30

• Pedro Meyer: Heresies at QMA - Through January 4, 2008

• Socrates Park - EAF08: 2008 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition - Through March 1, 2009

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Photo (c) - Nicholas Biondo - Facepainting at Socrates Sculpture Park