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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Domaine Wine Bar is just like Mojos. They always claim to have live jazz, but EVERY time I’ve stopped in there and asked, there hasn’t been anyone playing.
Please keep listing live music! I have been on the lookout for local jazz for some time and can’t wait till Dutch Kills opens. Maybe they’ll have some consistency…
Lucky Mojo is never quite what is advertised. They claim all you can drink draft deals for football on Sundays and every game on TV. The thing is, you can only have bud light with the deal and they can only show 4 games at any one time. If you are only going to offer one beer, why don’t you say that. And this one manager is aparently a Saints fan, so she will put their game on before a customer request.
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At Art-O-Mat: Faces of a Village: Photographs of a Universal Principle featuring photographs of faces from our LIC neighborhood specially captured for this exhibition by Jackie Weisberg and Alexander Richter.
The exhibition was recently among two photography shows profiled on WNYC. The other was MoMa.
Congrats to Art-O-Mat, the two talented photographers, and the unique characters from our neighborhood who are the show.
46-46 Vernon Blvd Fri 12-7, Sat 12-7, Sun 12-5
http://www.licweb.com/artomat