Long Island City event round-up; November 3rd-8th

Go retro with a Nickelodeon ‘SNICK’ throwback at The Creek, Long Island City

Tuesday 11/3

• Bar Domaine hosts local jazz musician Steve Blanco twice a week on Tuesday and Friday. 9pm-midnight. 50-04 Vernon Blvd, LIC, 718.784.2350

Wednesday 11/4

• Shi Restaurant is hosting karaoke on Wednesday nights. 4720 Center Blvd, LIC, 347.242.2450

Thursday 11/5

• It’s Flux Thursday at Flux Factory, their monthly potluck dinner and art salon. “Please bring a morsel, a drink or your own warm body and spirit to share with us! Dinner will be served around 8pm.” This month will include performances and/or exhibitions by: BRANDSTIFTER, Shalin Scupham, and Paula Castro. 39-31 29th St, LIC

• It’s Ladies Night every Thursday night at Shi Restaurant, offering drink specials. 4720 Center Blvd, LIC, 347.242.2450

• Court Square Wine & Spirits hosts FREE wine tasting events every Thursday & Friday of the week from 4:30-7:00pm. 2420 Jackson Ave, LIC, 718.707.9911

Friday 11/6

• Radar Eyes exhibition of hallucinogenic prints opens at The Space‘s Fardom Gallery from 7-10pm, featuring over 200 Prints by more than 50 international artists. More work & installation by Sakura Maku in a nearby secret location. Runs through December 2nd. 25-17 41st Ave, LIC

• Bar Domaine hosts local jazz musician Steve Blanco twice a week on Tuesday and Friday. 9pm-midnight. 50-04 Vernon Blvd, LIC, 718.784.2350

• Court Square Wine & Spirits hosts FREE wine tasting events every Thursday & Friday of the week from 4:30-7:00pm. 2420 Jackson Ave, LIC, 718.707.9911

Saturday 11/7

• Queens Council on the Arts presents their 3rd annual Queens Arts Connection citywide networking event from 2-5pm at the United Nations Federal Credit Union in LIC. Open to the public. In addition to networking with other artists and presentations by 15+ art service organizations, this year’s attendees will have the opportunity to participate in D.I.Y. Artrepreneur’s Speed Consulting. Register online here, admission is FREE. 24-01 44th Road, LIC

• SNICK or Treat at The Creek is a throwback to those adolescent Saturday nights you spent watching SNICK on Nickelodeon, “the 2-hour cable television block that introduced us to Clarissa Darling, ‘Ren & Stimpy,’ ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark?’ and… shudder… even ‘Roundhouse.’” The Creek is commemorating SNICK with a special program of their own culled from the best of the SNICK era, along with era-appropriate advertising, an in-house gathering of the Midnight Society, and some other surprises. Doors at 6pm, show from 7-10pm. FREE. 10-93 Jackson Ave, LIC, 718.706.8783

• It’s My Park Day at Queensbridge Park has been rescheduled to today from its original date of October 24th. 10am-2pm, rain or shine. “The event will give residents of LIC and Astoria a chance to spruce up Queensbridge Park after an event-filled summer. Within a few hours, volunteers will take part in several projects, including painting, planting and general park cleanup. Arts and crafts activities for all ages will round out the day.” Vernon Blvd & 41st Avenue, LIC

• The LIC Greenmarket is open in Hunters Point every Saturday until Nov 28th, 8am-3pm. Rain or Shine. 48th Ave between Vernon Blvd & 5th St, LIC

• Manducatis Rustica has begun serving its long-awaited weekend brunch from 11am-3pm every Sat & Sunday. Not to be missed. 46-33 Vernon Blvd, 718.937.1312

Sunday 11/8

• ‘EDOKKO: Growing Up A Foreigner in Wartime Japan’ @ 3pm at Noguchi Museum. Isaac Shapiro, a founding Noguchi Museum trustee & longtime friend of Isamu Noguchi, will read from his soon to be released memoirs which chronicle his family’s travels under persecution during the early 20th century and his subsequent career in law and the arts. FREE with museum admission. 9-01 33rd Road (at Vernon Blvd), LIC, 718.204.7088

• SculptureCenter presents: ‘Camp Kid Friendly’ @ 5pm: “Malcolm Stuart’s hoop dance troupe, Color Wheel and friends, perform with Baby IKKI, within Mike Kelley and Michael Smith’s video installation,” FREE. Performance in conjunction with Performa 09. 44-19 Purves St, LIC, 718.361.1750

• Manducatis Rustica has begun serving its long-awaited weekend brunch from 11am-3pm every Sat & Sunday. Not to be missed. 46-33 Vernon Blvd, 718.937.1312

Continuing

• The Blood Dumpster presents their ‘Visions’ exhibition at Local Project Gallery. “‘Visions’ is a multimedia exhibition on perceiving that which exists outside of the visual ‘reality.’” Exhibition runs through November 8th. 45-10 Davis St, LIC

• Dean Project gallery presents their new exhibition ‘Mirror on Mirror Mirrored’ featuring Karlos Carcamo, Nicholas Kashian, & Barbara Weissberger. Through November 19th. More info in PDF. 45-43 21st St, LIC, 718.706.1462

• SculptureCenter‘s Fall shows continue through November 30th. Check out the newly opened exhibitions: Grand Openings, A Voyage of Growth & Discovery, & In Practice Fall 2009. 44-19 Purves St, LIC, 718.361.1750

• 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

• 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

Beyond

• ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ is the inaugural production at the Secret Theatre‘s brand new 100-seat theatre, running from November 12th-29th to December 2nd-5th @ 8pm with matinees @ 3pm on November 28th & 29th and December 5th. Tickets on sale now. “Aptly enough for a theatre work that is full of it, this is the play that gave us the current meaning of the word ‘panache’ [...] Packed with dazzling poetry and word play from our hero Cyrano, this play produces a range of emotions that run from funny to sad and finally tragic.”

• Custom framing/gift shop Matted LIC presents an exhibition of New York collage artist Michael Albert, whose work is made from cereal boxes and advertising materials. Featuring originals, limited editions, posters, and books. Opening on November 19th, 6-8pm.

• Workshops at The Yoga Room: Hot Yoga for Women on November 14, 3-5:30pm, $35 by 11/11 and $40 after 11/11. “This Hot Yoga workshop is a powerful, empowering, and deeply cleansing practice.” All levels, beginners welcome (minimum of 3 Hot Yoga classes prerequisite). Also: Yogaspanda: DJs and Downdogs on November 20, 8:30-10:30pm, $25 if paid for by Monday of event and $30 otherwise. “A class that unites downtempo, hip-hop, house, soul and funk with a breath-centered, vinyasa flow.” All levels welcome.

• Coming up at the Chocolate Factory: THROW on November 10th: “Sip your cheap beer and enjoy as artists test out new performance in this bi-monthly series.” 7pm, FREE. Featuring work by Tatyana Tenenbaum, Mana Kawamura, Jason and Lindsey Dietz-Marchant.

• P.S. 1 kicks off their Saturday Sessions series (a new program of emerging performance art that takes place on the second Saturday of every month) on November 14 at 4pm with multimedia performances from Sahra Motalebi and J. Patrick Walsh 3.

• Green Space Dance Studio presents their Take Root series on November 14th @ 8:30pm (tickets $15), featuring Jen Browne & Ryan McNally, and their Fertile Ground new works showcase on November 15th @ 7pm (tickets $10), featuring Yoshito Sakuraba, Kaitlin Hines, Coreen Robledo, Fumihito Shimizu, and Djuna Passman. More information here.

• Save the date: LICBDC presents their B-to-B Networking Expo on November 18th at Terrace on the Park in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. 150 exhibitors and 3,500 attendees are expected. Register now for exhibit tables and luncheon tickets. For more information, contact Indra Smith at 718.786.5300 x 21 or ismith@licbdc.org. Registration also available online.