Long Island City weekly arts events round up March 26-April 1

• The Chocolate Factory‘s new show, Red Metal Mailbox – [ ] opened Wednesday, and is running until this Saturday only. Directed by Sarah Maxfield. Performed by Jillian Sweeney and Rachel Tiemann. Designed by Chloe Z. Brown, Brad Kisicki, Mary McKenzie and Jason Sebastian (Also featuring video by Chocolate Factory Artistic Director Brian Rogers). March 25-28, Wednesday-Saturday, 8:00pm, $15, 5-49 49th Ave., LIC, 718.482.7069

• Antigone is in its final week at The Secret Theatre. Read liQcity’s review here. March 25-28, 8:00pm, $15, 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.392.0722

• Yo Miss: Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide, a multi-media production described as “part documentary, part music, part poetical autobiography, Yo Miss looks back on Judith Sloan’s twenty years of teaching in prisons, alternative schools, and universities,” will be presented at the La Guardia Performing Arts Center Thursday night. Opening Act: Mahina Movement Thursday, March 26, 8:00pm, $5, La Guardia Community College, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, LIC, 718.482.5151

• The current exhibition at the Fisher-Landau Center for Art, FIVE DECADES OF PASSION Part One: The Eye of the Collector, 1968-1988 is closing in a week and a half. January 4-April 5, 2009, Thursday through Monday, 12:00-5:00 pm, Admission Free, 38-27 30th Street, LIC, 718.937.0727

• The New York Irish Center in LIC will be launching its monthly Friday Afternoon Club Reading Group this Friday. March 27, 3:30-5:00pm, Free, 10-40 Jackson Ave., LIC, 718.482.0909

• Lucky Mojo, which claims live blues and rock every Thursday night starting at 8pm (but doesn’t seem to list who’s playing when, either on their website or their myspace page), will be hosting two local bands, Illimanjaro & Bliminal, Friday night starting at 9pm. March 27, 9:00pm-2:00am March 28, 5-14 51 Ave., LIC, 718.786.7427

• As part of its “CONCIERTOS en PRIMAVERA 2009″ (Spring Concerts 2009), Thalia Spanish Theatre, will be presenting ZARZUELA (Spanish Operettas) on Sunday. March 29, 4pm, $25, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside, 718.729.3880

• Blackbirds Bar in Astoria will be hosting Monday Night Erotic Opera. Monday, March 30, 8:00pm, Free, 4119 30th Ave., Astoria, 718.943.6898‎

• The Greater Astoria Historical Society will be hosting the Queensboro Bridge Centennial Celebration this Monday. Plus, they just launched a beautiful new website this week! March 30, 7:00pm, Quinn Building, 35-20 Broadway, 4th Floor, LIC/Astoria, 718.278.0700

–Posted by Sami Abu Shumays

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