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Mar 15 2010

Long Island City event round-up; March 15th through 21st

Natasa Trifan Performance Group at Green Space this Saturday in LIC

Monday 3/15

  • The next Queens Art Express mixer is in honor of St. Patrick’s Day: “Head to one of Sunnyside’s favorite pubs for an Irish-themed night where you can listen to Sean McCabe, County Meath, Ireland native and lead vocalist of The McCabes, read from his new book, A Good Deed and Other Stories, while snacking on Irish soda bread.” 6:30-9pm (McCabe reads @ 7pm sharp) at Maggie Mae’s in Sunnyside; RSVP online. 41-15 Queens Blvd, b/w 41st and 42nd Streets, Sunnyside, 718.433.3067

Thursday 3/18

  • LICBDC‘s Economic Forecast Breakfast with Kathy Wylde, President of Partnership for New York City, from 8-9:30am in the MetLife Building in LIC. $30 member, $40 non-member. 27-01 MetLife Plaza North, Queensboro Room, LIC (attendees should use the 27th Street entrance)

  • Now Playing at Secret Theatre: Othello, running March 18th-31st and April 1st-3rd @ 8pm, matinees at 3:30pm on March 27th & April 3rd. “Continuing themes and ideas explored in his successful Warriors gangland ‘Macbeth’, [director Richard] Mazda examines the deception and decent of a man who “loved not wisely but too well.’” 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.392.0722

Friday 3/19

Saturday 3/20

  • Green Space Dance Studio presents Take Root with Natasa Trifan Performance Group @ 8:30 pm, tickets $15. Also: don’t miss their Green Space Blooms Festival coming up in April. 37-24 24th St, LIC, 718.956.3037

  • 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

  • History Roundtable at Greater Astoria Historical Society at 1pm: “Explore and discuss the high points of the Battle of the Bulge and how the U.S. Army recovered from a stinging defeat and got back on track to victory in Western Europe.” 35-20 Broadway, 4th FL, LIC, 718.278.0700

Sunday 3/21

Continuing

  • Now Playing at the Secret Theatre: Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure,’ remaining dates: March 17th-20th @ 8pm with matinee on March 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.” 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.392.0722

  • Concerto of Illumination, a virtual collaboration of LIC artists, musicians, poets, dancers and performance artists, runs through March 17th at m55 Gallery. “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

  • AES Gallery presents Josana Blue: “An Exhibition of Lady Paintings,” through March 27th. “Drawing from her influences from fashion and the use of color and line, Josana Blue creates works that are elegant, playful and very evocative.” 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.249.9359

  • ‘Sketches and Loops’: New drawings by Wyatt Nash and [Jeff Thompson] (artists from Texas Firehouse) at Local Project gallery through March 30th: “While most of their work is quite dissimilar, they both use processes of drawing and diagramming to build up layers of images that result in unexpected connections between objects and ideas.” 45-10 Davis St, LIC

  • Dean Project presents Jacob Ouillette, Recent Works, on view through May 8th. Ouillette on his work: ” I feel that the structure of my paintings reveal a metaphor for life. The paintings are seen as a whole but slow observation reveals a layered surface of color, rhythm and architecture.” 45-43 21st St, LIC, 718.706.1462

  • 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 Studios through May 2nd. 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. SSP’s Spring 2010 exhibition will open May 2nd. 32-01 Vernon Blvd (@ Broadway), LIC, 718.956.1819

  • P.S. 1‘s fall exhibitions are still 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

  • 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.

  • Coming up at Chocolate Factory: 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.

  • LICBDC’s Networking Night at Manducatis Restaurant is coming up on March 26th from 6-8:30pm. Enjoy networking at LIC’s classic Italian restaurant, in business since 1977. $10 for members and $15 for non-members comes with one drink ticket and hors d’oeuvres.

  • Queens Council on the Arts has announced its Spring 2010 Art Builds Community workshops. The first in LIC is The Business of Filmmaking at the Secret Theatre on March 30th @ 6:30pm. RSVP online and look out for the upcoming workshops.

  • The Greater New York Sports Chronology at Greater Astoria Historical Society on April 5th at 7pm: author Jeffrey A. Kroessler describes “the historic venues, boxing arenas, gyms, stadiums, ballparks, and racetracks that have come and gone, yet made New York the undisputed capital of American sport.”

  • LICBDC events in April: Financing Seminar at the UN Federal Credit Union from 8am-9:30am on April 7th, and Breakfast with Councilman Van Bramer from 8am-9:30am on April 21st.

  • Queens’ only modern dance festival is coming up: Green Space Dance Studio presents their 4th annual Green Space Blooms celebration on April 9th-11th & April 16th-18th @ 8pm. Features 29 diverse choreographers as well as resident company Valerie Green/Dance Entropy, in addition to a live music post-performance party, sharing music from a different ethnic or classical tradition each night.

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

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