66 THE QUEENS COURIER • BUZZ • JULY 4, 2013 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com happenings >JULY 4-10 COMPILED BY LUKE TABET FRIDAY, JULY 5 The Noguchi Museum offers extended evening hours on the fi rst Friday of each month from 5 to 8 p.m. First Friday programming includes “Center of Attention,” an extended conversation around a single work of art at 6 p.m., followed by a fi lm presented in collaboration with the Architecture and Design Film Festival, at 7 p.m. First Fridays also feature paywhat you-wish admission and a cash bar with wine and beer. Call 718-204- 7088 or visit www.noguchi.org for more info. SATURDAY, JULY 6 Families and children are welcome to join local artists in Socrates Sculpture Park for a summer series of sculpture workshops. Each week’s workshop will have a theme and teach a certain skill. The workshop on July 6 is Upcycled Art, where kids will make a collaborative piece of art while recycling plastic materials. They will learn sculpture techniques that will let them transform plastics bottles and containers into beautiful urban art. Workshops run each Saturday all summer long and start at 3 p.m. For a full listing of the workshops visit www.socratessculpturepark.org Nothing says summer in New York like a street festival. Come and stroll through lanes of vendors selling all sorts of delicious foods, crafts, and much more at the Woodside Festival. Going on from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. the festival will take place on Woodside Avenue from 63rd Street to Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside. Call 646-230- 0489 for details. SUNDAY, JULY 7 The 6th annual Tour de Queens bicycle race will tour the borough again this summer. Organized by Transportation Alternatives, participants will bike through Queens, visiting the neighborhoods of Astoria, Long Island City, Ridgewood, Maspeth, Rego Park, Middle Village, Forest Hills, Corona and East Elmhurst. The “rolling parade” is approximately 20 miles long, and is put on with the cooperation of the NYPD, who will be closing off intersections long enough for the tour to speed through. Registration is now open, with a cap of 1,250 riders and a fee of $15 for Transportation Alternatives members and $20 for non-members, all fees go to help the cost of the event. To register or for more information, visit www.tourdequeens.org The Urban Park Rangers are holding a saltwater fi shing workshop in Flushing EDITOR’S PICK DRAGONS SET TO ROAR SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 AND SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, The Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival will be held in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park on Saturday, August 10 and Sunday, August 11. The multi-cultural event includes two days of Dragon Boat racing, a variety of performances and a multi-ethnic food court. The event is free and races will be held on Meadow Lake within the park rain or shine. Bring the entire family and enjoy as over 170 teams and more than 2,000 participants compete with each other and celebrate the “Year of the Rabbit.” From 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. both days. Meadows-Corona Park. The experienced rangers teach not only the skills and ethics of fi shing, but also the ecology of New York’s waterways. Takes place at the World’s Fair Marina Pier 1 at 1 p.m. Call 718- 846-2731 for more details WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 Come and see what the Queens jazz scene has to offer at Flushing Town Hall’s monthly jazz jam. The jam session is open to professional jazz musicians, graduate students studying jazz, and music educators. All are welcome and encouraged to come and listen. Jam sessions are led by Queens Jazz Overground. Starts at 7 p.m., located at Flushing Town Hall. Every Wednesday evening through August 21, Socrates Sculpture park is hosting an eight-week international fi lm festival featuring cinematic titles from Chad, the Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Mexico, Romania, South Korea, Turkey, and the US. All fi lms will presented in their original language with English subtitles, and each showing will feature regional cuisine from neighborhood restaurants and performances by local musicians and dancers celebrating the culture of the fi lm of the evening. Prescreening performances begin at 7 p.m. and fi lms begin at sunset. The festival is free and is located in the Socrates Sculpture Garden Alley Pond Environmental Center is hosting two days this summer for children to play with sand and create works of art. Children ages 3-4 (July 10) and ages 5-7 (July 27) can come play in a sand table, create beautiful pictures using colored sand, meet live, sand-dwelling animals and enjoy a snack. Cost is $18 per child and the event is limited to 12 participants. The Alley Pond Environmental Center is located at 228-06 Northern Boulevard. To sign up your child call 718-229-4000 or visit www.alleypond.com THURSDAY, JULY 11 Experience the beauty of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 as played by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Included as part of their Concerts in the Parks summer series, the show will start at 8 p.m. at Cunningham Park. For details go to www.nyphil.org Bring the kids for a Morning or Music with Darlene Graham. Performer Darlene Graham entertains children of all ages with her interactive and exciting performance. A mix of energetic folk and remixes of familiar children’s songs will have everyone singing along. Located at Buz O’ Rourke Playground in Crocheron Park, the event is free and runs from 10:30 to 11:15 a.m. Call 718- 352-4793 ext.301 for more information Central Astoria’s 2013 Waterfront Concert Series will continue Thursday evenings throughout July and August. Each week will offer a different performance, starting with the Swingtime Big Band. Takes place from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Astoria Park Lawn in Astoria Park. All concerts are free, call 718- 728-7820 or visit www.nycgoveparks. org for more details SATURDAY, JULY 13 All summer, MoMA will be hosting Warm Up 2013, an outdoor music series now in its 16th year. Featuring artists from all over the world, as well as breathtaking architectural art installation call the “Party Wall,” Warm Up 2013 will take place every Saturday through September 7 starting at noon. For more information visit http://momaps1.org/warmup or call 718-786-7608 SUNDAY, JULY 14 Come and “do the twist” at Flushing Town Hall’s Rock n’ Roll House Party, part of their Free Summer Concert Series, featuring the Karlos Trapp Band. Audience members will enjoy the upbeat, carefree music of the 60’s and dance the night away. Located at Flushing Town Hall, the concert starts at 2 p.m. but show up an hour early for 60s-style dance lessons! ATTENTION: WANT A LISTING ON THIS PAGE? Go to the “Events Calendar” section of our web site, www.queenscourier.com/events-page, and click on “Submit your event” to let us know about your happening. We select from reader submissions to list on our happenings page.
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