Weekend Events in Queens — October 24-26, 2008

Friday

• Italian American Cultural & Heritage Weekend at Queens Theatre in the Park - The Italian Trio tenors

• Oyu Oro Afro-Cuban Experimental Dance Ensemble Friday and Saturday at LaGuardia Community College Performing Arts Center

• UN Day Celebration – Environmental Sustainability at QMA

Saturday

• It’s My Park! Day - Join the cleanups at: Rainey Park, Fort Totten Park, Cunningham Park, Two Coves Garden Triangle (Astoria), Queensbridge Park, Windmuller Park, Daniel Carter Beard Mall, Kissena Park, Weeping Beach Park , Laurelton Playground, Douglaston, Travers Park, Pebblestone Triangle (Forest Hills), Francis Lewis Park, Poppenhusen Triangle, Powells Cove Park, Captain Tilly Park (Goose Pond, Jamaica Hills), and Catherine Turner Richardson Park (Douglaston) - See the NYC Parks website for times and locations.

• It’s My Park! Day: Bike Scavenger Hunt - in western Queens waterfront parks - contact tawq@googlegroups.com

• Halloween Festival at Fort Totten Park - Postponed until Sunday
• Haunted Lantern Tour at Fort Totten - best Halloween event for teens - Saturday and Sunday

• Jayu - Jazz/Asian Fusion Ensemble at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning

• Halloween Haunted House at Queens Farm Museum

• Italian American Cultural & Heritage Weekend at Queens Theatre in the Park - Giada Valenti

• For Families - Ballet Hispanico School Ensemble - Hot, Hot, Feet! - at Flushing Town Hall

• The John Benitez Latin Jazz Explosion at Flushing Town Hall

• National Chemistry Day • Having a Ball with Chemistry at NY Hall of Science

• MillionTreesNYC Tree Giveaway at Atlas Park Mall

Sunday

• Rescheduled for Sunday - Halloween Festival at Fort Totten Park

• Children's Fall Festival at Queens Farm Museum

• "Totten Trot" 5k Race at Fort Totten - Post-race celebration at Bayside Historical Society's Castle.

• Vive l’Opera! - Arias om Madame Buery, Carmen, and more - Musica Reginae Society Vocal Artists

• Gantry Park Friends - 10 Year Anniversary Open House - at CityLights 3rd floor

• Juvenile Diabetes Walk-a-thon at Flushing Meadows

• It's My Park! Day: Juniper Valley Park

• It's My Park! Day: Horace Harding Playground (PS 206)

• Flushing Cemetery Tour with QHS President Jim Driscoll

• Denizens of the Dark at Cunningham Park

• Haunted Lantern Tour at Fort Totten - best Halloween event for teens - Saturday and Sunday

Continuing Events

• Halloween in western Queens and Halloween in eastern Queens

• Current Exhibits at PS 1

• Greenmarket at Atlas Park mall - Saturdays - Through Fall

• 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 at QMA - 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

• SculptureCenter's fall exhibitions - Through November 30

• Meditation in Contemporary Chinese Landscape - Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College - Through December 6

• Reason's Clue at Queens Museum of Art - Through December 7

• 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) John Roleke - in the Amazing Maize Maze