Long Island City event round-up; March 1st through 7th

Enjoy P.S. 1 & LIC’s other galleries & events during Armory Fest this week

Wednesday 3/3

• It’s that time again.. Armory Arts Week is upon us, and LIC is participating heavily as usual. Starting Wed March 3rd through the 7th. Check the listing of events on the website featuring special exhibitions, open studios, and many of LIC’s new and well-known 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.

Thursday 3/4

• Community Board 2‘s regular Monthly Meeting and Public Hearing is tonight at 7pm at Sunnyside Community Services. Details on the agenda are available in a PDF. 43-31 39th St, Sunnyside, 718.784.6173

• Baffled by your pet’s behavior? 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 today at 5pm. Refreshments will be served for people and pets, in addition to giveaways and goodie bags. Call 718.806.1219 for more info. 49-02 Vernon Blvd, LIC

• Now Playing 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.” 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.392.0722

Friday 3/5

• Green Space Dance Studio hosts Cross Pollination 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!” 37-24 24th St, LIC, 718.956.3037

Saturday 3/6

• Celebrate the Man in Black with Secret Theatre‘s all-day Johnny Cash Festival today 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. 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.392.0722

• Foam Roller Workshop at The Yoga Room from 2:30-4pm. $30 by 3/2, $35 after 3/2. “The Pilates foam roller adds fun and challenge to your Pilates workout. It is extraordinarily effective to activate deep core muscles, improve balance, posture, and strengthen extremities.” 10-14 47th Road, LIC, 718.786.7962

• 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

• Now Playing @ Secret Theatre: ‘In My Free Time I Self-Destruct’: three plays by Gary Ferrar, running March 3, 4, 5 @ 8pm. “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

• 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

• AES Gallery presents Josana Blue: “An Exhibition of Lady Paintings,” through March 27th; opening reception on March 5th from 6-9pm. “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

• 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. 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

• 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!!!”

• Flux Factory is proud to present an evening of film by Marie Losier with special guests Tony Conrad and April March in conjunction with their inaugural exhibition, Housebroken, coming up on March 12th at 8pm (postponed from original date).

• 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.

• LICBDC‘s Economic Forecast Breakfast with Kathy Wylde, President of Partnership for New York City, coming up on March 18th from 8-9:30am in the MetLife Building in LIC. Also coming up: Networking Night at Manducatis Restaurant on March 26th from 6-8:30pm.

• 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.