Long Island City event round-up, January 25th-31st

Forward Motion Theatre presents RE:Vision at Secret Theatre in LIC

Tuesday 1/26

• Secret Theatre is hosting a fundraiser for their current show, ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ at LIC Bar from 6-9pm. “$5 entry goes directly to the show and gets you fun and games with the cast for the evening. Hope to see you there!” 45-58 Vernon Blvd, LIC, 718.786.5400

Wednesday 1/27

• RE:Vision at the Secret Theatre’s Little Secret, their original, smaller space: Forward Motion Theater presents RE:Vision, a collaboration of live performances weaving multimedia and dance from a fresh critical perspective. The evening features six independent works by artists combining choreography, video, spoken word, and music; tickets $10. 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.392.0722

Thursday 1/28

• LICBDC presents a special Members Only Open House from 5-7pm. “Network with other LICBDC members and visit our new office in the MetLife Building.” RSVP required but there’s no charge – to verify your membership status and RSVP, contact Indra Smith at 718.786.5300 x 21 or ismith@licbdc.org. 27-01 Queens Plaza North, 9th FL, LIC

Saturday 1/30

• 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. Also: their next Foundations Program starts on February 2nd, which is a program for those who want start training at CrossFit LIC, but have never done CrossFit before. Sign up or get more info online. 5-26 47th Ave, LIC, 646.415.8363

• Hot Yoga Clinic at The Yoga Room: Floor Series from 3-5:30pm, $30. “Sweat, strain, laugh, and do more for your health, body, and general well-being than you ever imagined.” Clinic is open for beginners (pre-requisite: minimum 3 Hot Yoga classes) to advanced. 10-14 47th Rd, LIC, 718.786.7962

• Saturday Afternoon at the Movies at Greater Astoria Historical Society. Enjoy a blast from the past: Highlights will include Dragnet, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, and Fibber McGee, FREE. 35-20 Broadway, 4th FL, LIC, 718-278-0700

Continuing

• ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is now playing at the Secret Theatre’s Big Secret, their new, larger space. Remaining performances continue through January 31st and February 3rd-6th @ 8pm, matinees on Jan 30th and Feb 6th @ 3:30pm. “In director Greg Cicchino’s production, Verona is not so fair. Rather, it’s part of an Earth that’s running out of time – resources are running low and desperation is climbing..” 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.392.0722

• Western Queens’ Unity Stage Company presents the suspenseful British drama ‘Loyalties’ at The Parlor at Cassino Restaurant. “Nearly 90 years after its successful Broadway run, the play still has the power to shake people, and make them question their own loyalties – or are they prejudices?” Tickets $15, reservations: 718.361.5858. Running through January 30th, performances Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays @ 8pm. 47-18 Vernon Blvd, LIC

• January 2010 exhibition at Local Project: ‘(UNIVERSAL) Art is No Object,’ featuring Michael Zelehoski and Sebastian Vargas. Also on view: THE WALL Mural Program presents Zelehoski/Vargas and Raimundo Rubio. Each season two artists will be invited to paint a mural in Local Project; for consideration for Spring ‘10 mural season, send 3 low-res pix of your work and a mural-focused art statement to: renzo@localproject.org. 45-10 Davis St, LIC

• Photography exhibition at Court Square Wines & Spirits featuring the work of LIC resident Orestes Gonzales, running through January 30th. Pieces are also on sale for $100 each. 2420 Jackson Ave, LIC, 718.707.9911

• Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons’ ‘Revolving Twilight’ has been extended through January 30th at Chocolate Factory Theater: “an immersive video/sound installation inspired in part by tales from nautical lore, notions of optical phenomena and illusion, and neurological case studies exploring mental and visual perception, fragmented or dwindling memory, and cognitive disruptions.” 5-49 49th Ave, LIC, 718.482.7069

• New group exhibition ‘Parallel States’ at Dean Project gallery, featuring Sangbin Im, Palma Blank-Rosenblum, and Kris Tamburello, through February 14th. More info in a PDF. 45-43 21st Street, LIC, 718.706.1462

• Alex Sax’s ‘Various Amusements’ at AES Gallery through February 19th. “Inspired by Gertrude Jekyll’s book, ‘Children and Gardens,’ first published in 1908, Alex expands on her historical fiction project Menagerie Recovery featuring mixed media cast paper and bronze animal sculptures.” 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.249.9359

• 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

• 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 2010, 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

• Curious about what it takes to make a famed Steinway piano here in Queens? Greater Astoria Historical Society presents a film screening of Note by Note on February 1st at 7pm, which “explores the relationship between musician and instrument, chronicles the manufacturing process, and illustrates what makes each Steinway unique in this age of mass production,” FREE.

• The Creek is having a benefit in LIC for the people of Haiti on February 2nd starting at 7pm. Musicians (LIC Jazz Band, Michael Powers, Dharma Bums, Six Arm Tiger, Meghan Kerper, and more) and comedians (Sean Patton, Peggy O’Leary, Rob Cantrell, and Neil Stasny) will be featured in addition to a raffle, a Spare Change Bucket (bring any spare change you want to donate), drink specials like you’ve never seen, and a bake sale. $10 suggested donation, money donated to Doctors Without Borders. 1093 Jackson Ave, LIC, 718.706.8783

• Upcoming at Chocolate Factory: THROW on February 2nd at 7pm, “designed to provide artists with a platform for ideas-in-progress and to provide audiences with insight into the process of performance-making,” and Selective Memory from February 11th-13th at 8pm, “a real time video performance about nostalgia for relationships that never took place, events which never happened; the soundtrack to a film which was never made, but which everyone remembers…”

• Upcoming performances at the Secret Theatre: ‘The Servant To Two Masters’ at the Little Secret running February 4th-7th, 10th-14th & 17th-20th @ 8pm; matinees on Feb 13th & 20th @ 3:30 pm, tickets $15; “Luckily for modern audiences [Goldini] created a masterpiece that is still very funny hundreds of years after it first premiered.” Also: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ at the Big Secret running February 10th-14th, 17th-20th @ 8pm; matinees on Feb 13th & 20th @ 3:30pm, tickets $15; “Wilde’s hilarious play [...] you can expect a show high on laughs.”

• Flux Factory’s first major exhibition in their new LIC space is also the largest collaboration in their 15 year history. It’s coming up on February 19th, and will “inaugurate the space as a complex, ever-evolving, multimedia, radical work of art: an installation to the scale of a full building.” In short, they’re “putting the flux back in the factory,” so don’t miss it.

• Upcoming performances at Green Space Dance Studio: Cross Pollination on February 12th (free-expression/improv workshop for artists and dancers, $5), Take Root on February 20th with KineticArchitecture ($10), and Fertile Ground on February 21st featuring Owen David, Megan Bascom, Luke Murphy, Sarah A. O. Rosner, and Amy Larmier ($15).