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Feb 22 2010

Long Island City event round-up, February 22nd-28th

‘In My Free Time I Self-Destruct’ opens at Secret Theatre this week, LIC

Wednesday 2/24

Thursday 2/25

  • LICBDC is hosting a Queens Agency Breakfast from 8-9:30am at Queens West’s Riverview Restaurant in LIC. “Come and meet three leading City officials and learn about the Administration’s plans for these vital areas of civic infrastructure.” Networking and continental breakfast, $20 for members, $30 for non-members. Contact Indra Smith at 718.786.5300 x 21 or register online. 2-01 50th Ave, LIC

  • Opening tonight @ Secret Theatre: ‘In My Free Time I Self-Destruct’: three plays by Gary Ferrar, running February 25, 26, 27 and March 3, 4, 5 @ 8pm, with a matinee on February 29th @ 4pm; “In three diverse pieces, metatheater and multimedia pull the audience through the 4th wall, deep into the humanity, humor, and surreality of the hyper-aware mind.” 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.392.0722

  • Opening tonight @ Chocolate Factory Theater: Andrew Schneider’s solo performance WOW+FLUTTER running February 25th-27th at 8pm, tickets $15: “In Schneider’s surreal world, time loses linearity. Using a mix of live and prerecorded media, the past and the future poke holes in the present.” 5-49 49th Ave, LIC, 718.482.7069

  • AES Gallery presents Josana Blue: paintings and installations from February 25th to March 27th, with an opening reception coming up on March 5th from 6-9pm. “New York-based artist Josana Blue will be exhibiting her recent paintings and installations combining influences drawn from the fine arts and fashion worlds.” 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.249.9359

Saturday 2/27

  • CrossFit LIC is still holding their FREE Saturday classes at 11am – no CrossFit experience required. “The training session takes about one hour and consists of a warm-up, skills required for the exercises to be performed, workout and stretches” and you can sign up using their Online Scheduler. If you’d like to go forward with CrossFit, you can sign up for their next Foundations Program here. 5-26 47th Ave, LIC, 646.415.8363

Continuing

  • An exhibition of new work by Mira Aldridge and Kit Brown runs at Dutch Kills Gallery through February 28th. Located in the historic Silks Building in Suite 402. 37-24 24th St, LIC, 718.784.2737

  • Concerto of Illumination, a virtual collaboration of LIC artists, musicians, poets, dancers and performance artists, runs through March 17th at m55 Gallery; Armory Fest reception on March 5th from 5-8pm. “The gallery will be open for visual and performance artists, generating a spontaneous collaboration that will create a ‘concerto of illumination.’” During the exhibition dates, performances will take place in and around the gallery 24/7. 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.729.2988

  • Flux Factory’s HOUSEBROKEN is the first major exhibition in their new LIC space and also the largest collaboration in their 15 year history. It will “inaugurate the space as a complex, ever-evolving, multimedia, radical work of art: an installation to the scale of a full building,” and in short, they’re “putting the flux back in the factory,” so don’t miss it. HOUSEBROKEN will remain on view every Saturday and Sunday from 12–6pm until March 21st. 39-31 29th St, LIC

  • New art exhibition ‘Urbanesque’ is installed in the 6 lobby showcases in the atrium of the Citicorp building. In this exhibit, sponsored by Women in the Arts Foundation, Inc., 4 artists explore the urban landscape, with several paintings of the LIC area included as well. Works by Carole Barlowe, Elinore Bucholtz, Diane Waller and Sharon Florin, who curated this exhibit, will be on view through the end of March. Hours are Monday-Friday, 7am-7pm. One Court Square, LIC

  • New photography exhibition at Court Square Wines & Spirits running 8 weeks from February 11th featuring the work of J. Mitchel from ScenesofNewYork.com and Brianne Zulauf. Pricing is accessible: many pieces at just $35 and some ranging up to several hundred. “The work consists of photography but goes beyond the typical print, with many images on unusual substrates such as canvas, wood and metal.” 2420 Jackson Ave, LIC, 718.707.9911

  • Josh Smith’s On The Water now on view at Deitch Project through March 28th, 2010. Smith painted 47 paintings directly on the wall to “create a show of paintings that looked like something else. The intention was to make ‘art without an art object’ and to take the commodity out of the art.” 4-40 44th Drive, LIC

  • Leopards in the Temple continues at SculptureCenter through March 30th, 2010. Named after the Franz Kafka parable, “the group exhibition of the same name [featuring a number of increasingly prominent European artists] focuses on moments of metamorphosis, paradox, and formal adjacency, borrowing from the parable an ability to promote multiple readings of succinct forms and extraordinary occurrences.” 44-19 Purves St, LIC, 718.361.1750

  • Socrates Sculpture Park‘s EAF 09: Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition is on view through March 7th, featuring 16 artists awarded fellowships with the Park to create and exhibit their work in the outdoor studio. 32-01 Vernon Blvd (@ Broadway), LIC, 718.956.1819

  • P.S. 1‘s fall exhibitions are now on view, including ’1969′ and ‘Between Spaces’. Exhibitions run through April 2010. 22-25 Jackson Ave @ intersection of 46th Ave, LIC, 718.784.2084

Upcoming Events

  • Don’t miss this chance to explore a true LIC legend with the Ronzoni, Sono Buoni! event at the Greater Astoria Historical Society on March 1st at 7pm. “Ronzoni Pasta is one of the most recognizable brand names in America today. Join us for a lecture on March 1st given by Alfred Ronzoni, Jr., great-grandson of Emanuele Ronzoni, founder of the Ronzoni Macaroni Co.,” in addition to a video presentation of Ronzoni TV commercials from the 70s.

  • It’s that time again.. Armory Arts Week is upon us, so LIC is having its own Armory Fest from March 3rd-7th. Check the listing of events on the website featuring special exhibitions, open studios, and many of LIC’s galleries/art spaces. See also: your art-hopping plan for a long Long Island City Night on March 5th, and the debut of the LIC Art Shuttle (!!), a project of The West Harlem Art Fund, Inc.

  • Baffled by your pet’s behavior? Are they just naughty by nature? Wondering what they’re thinking and how best to communicate? Wonder no more and take a seat on the Doggie Couch – consult with an expert with or without your pet at LIC’s Kitty & Dog Lounge on March 4th at 5pm. Refreshments will be served for people and pets, in addition to giveaways and goodie bags. Call 718.806.1219 for more info.

  • Green Space Dance Studio‘s Cross Pollination coming up on March 5th from 7-10pm, admission $5. It’s “a monthly event for sketch artists to draw dancers as models-in-motion and for dancers to improvise with one another, while being inspired to move by the art in the making!”

  • Celebrate the Man in Black with Secret Theatre‘s all-day Johnny Cash Festival on March 6th starting at 5pm – festival pass is $20, $25 at the door. Both casual and hardcore fans will find plenty to enjoy in this multimedia event featuring a live reading/book signing, live musical performances, the special screening of a brand new Cash documentary, guitar and album giveaways, and more.

  • Coming up at the Secret Theatre: Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ running March 4th-7th, 10th-14th, and 17th-20th @ 8pm with matinee performances on March 13th and 20th @ 3:30pm. “With music and dance to enhance the sleek, minimalist design and intense approach to the text, The Queens Players’ production of ‘Measure for Measure’ shows that not all happy endings are alike.”

  • Save the date: LIC Community Boathouse‘s Annual Fundraising Party is coming up on the evening of March 11th at The Foundry. “A wide variety of food, beverages, prizes and surprises will complement live entertainment and good company. And yes, there will be plenty of extra food this year!!!”

  • Coming up at Chocolate Factory: Walter Dundervill’s Dear Emissary,…, “the fictional memoir of a pretend time traveler recording history as he sees it (i.e. fleetingly through the lens of his nebulous memory)” from March 10th-13th @ 8pm, and Object Collection’s The Geometry, “an experimental opera evoking the technological sublime through video gaming rituals, soap opera death spectacles, and a hyperactivity of sensorial information” from March 25th-April 3rd @ 8pm.

  • Second Sundays at the Noguchi Museum coming up on March 14th featuring Dirt: Screening and Talk with Bill Logan: “Arborist and author Bill Logan will screen and discuss the new feature-length documentary based on his book, ‘Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth.’ Narrated by Jaime Lee Curtis, ‘Dirt’ brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has.” 3pm, FREE with museum admission.

  • Jazz and Italian eats in Long Island City: the Adrienne Hindmarsh Jazz Duo is playing Vernon Blvd’s Manducatis Rustica on March 19th from 6:30-10pm. 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.729.2988

  • Support Socrates Sculpture Park‘s 2010 Outdoor Cinema series with Cinema Soirée, a star-studded evening of international music and film at NYC’s Fontana’s Bar on March 24th, 7-10pm. $25 cover/cash bar directly supports the programming. You can also still make a donation if you can’t make the event.

Arts events postings are sponsored by O’Connor Capital Partners.

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Does anyone know if there is a runner’s club in Hunter’s Point?

#1 Anonymous / 1 year, 11 months ago

I don’t think there is, but that’s something I’d get into too! Great way to meet people in your own ‘hood. Then drinks afterward.

#2 Anonymous / 1 year, 11 months ago

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