Mar 22 2010

Long Island City event round-up; March 22nd through 28th

Secret Theatre’s first LIC Jazz Fest this Sunday, 44-02 23rd St, LIC

Wednesday 3/24

Forward Motion Theater‘s RE:Vision returns to Secret Theatre with Ritual Myth Legend at 8pm: “the evening features seven independent works by artists incorporating live-mix video, dance, puppetry, spoken word, and music.” More info on performances on website. 4402 23rd St, LIC, 718.392.0722
Support Socrates Sculpture Park‘s 2010 Outdoor Cinema series with Cinema Soirée, a star-studded evening of international music & film at NYC’s Fontana’s Bar, 7-10pm. $25 cover/cash bar directly supports the programming. You can also make a donation if you can’t make the event. 105 Eldridge St, NYC, 212.334.6740

Thursday 3/25

Now Playing 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. 5-49th 49th Ave, LIC, 718.482.7069

Friday 3/26

LICBDC’s Networking Night at Manducatis Restaurant is tonight 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. 1327 Jackson Ave, LIC, 718.729.4602

Saturday 3/27

PS 1‘s Saturday Sessions featuring WORK FOR LOVE II by Desi Santiago and music from Saint Buck, 4-6pm, starts @ 4pm in the 3rd FL Main Gallery. Desi Santiago is a NYC-based Puerto Rican artist with a “strong foundation begun in NYC nightlife culture and crossing over into fashion and art worlds,” and Saint Buck is a DJ duo featuring Santiago & artist Jared Buckheister, known for their ability to keep the crowd moving to disco. 22-25 Jackson Ave @ 46th Ave, LIC, 718.784.2084
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

Sunday 3/28

Secret Theatre‘s first LIC Jazz Festival from 11am-10pm. Performances from J. Walter Hawkes, Steve Blanco, Christian Coleman, Claude Diallo, and more; many styles of Jazz; photo exhibition of Jazz greats; $17.50 festival pass comes with FREE Jazz Brunch courtesy of Sweetleaf and Breadbox plus unlimited access to all performances. Come early & feel free to leave and come back! Tickets available online; here’s the Facebook invite. 4402 23rd St, LIC, 718.392.0722
Chile Earthquake Relief Benefit Class at the LIC studio of The Yoga Room from 12:45-2pm, featuring Hot Vinyasa with Ingrid. 10-14 47th Rd, LIC, 718.786.7962

Continuing

Now Playing at Secret Theatre: Othello, running through March 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
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
Judy Russell’s “In High Ribbons” runs at m55 Gallery through March 28th. In the artist’s words: “‘In High Ribbons,’ a phrase from Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace,’ suggests the experience of beauty. For me, it connotes a transcendent effect of color, form and line.” 44-02 23rd St, LIC, 718.729.2988
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, but before then, their popular Kite Flight event is coming up on April 25th. 32-01 Vernon Blvd (@ Broadway), LIC, 718.956.1819
PS 1‘s fall exhibitions are still on view, including ’1969′, ’100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)’, and ‘Between Spaces’. Exhibitions run through April 2010. 22-25 Jackson Ave @ intersection of 46th Ave, LIC, 718.784.2084

Upcoming Events

Upcoming at Chocolate Factory: THROW on March 30th at 7pm (FREE), “designed to provide artists with a platform for ideas-in-progress,” and Gary Winter’s Cooler from April 9th-24th Wed-Sat @ 8pm, “an abstract play about a group of people who live in a cooler under a mysterious but palpable oppressive force.”
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 coming up 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.
SculptureCenter‘s Lucky Draw 2010 is coming up on April 13th, a “spirited art raffle that guarantees every ticket holder a work of art. Approximately 150 artists donate works for the benefit of SculptureCenter [...] the order in which the artworks are selected is determined by a lively and suspenseful random drawing.” Give it a try!