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52 THE QUEENS COURIER • BUZZ • JULY 25, 2013 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com happenings >JULY 25-31 COMPILED BY ZAK KRAEHLING EVERY SATURDAY IN JULY-AUGUST P.S. 1, located in Long Island City, is the home of the Warm Up Party, a celebration of architecture that combines music and art. Every year a new architect installs a new design for courtyard grandeur. The Warm Up Party is free for all MoMA members and people with proof of residency in Long Island City. Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 at the door. For more information, call 718-784-2084. FRIDAY, JULY 26-SUNDAY, JULY 28 The Queens County Farm Museum will be hosting the 35th annual Thunderbird American Indian Mid- Summer Pow Wow. New Yorkers are invited to experience intertribal Native American dances that include 40 distinct tribes in addition to Native American cuisine, art, jewelry and craft. Gates open at 6 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission for adults is $15 for an all-weekend pass and $5 for children ages 12 and younger. For more information, visit info@queensfarm.org. SUNDAY, JULY 28 Astoria’s Museum of the Moving Image will screen “The Night of the Hunter” as part of its summer-long series “See it Big! The American Epic.” “The Night of the Hunter” blends themes from horror and fairy tales to create a captivating example of cinematic expression. Admittance is free with a ticket to the museum. If you are a member and wish to reserve a ticket or are not a member and wish to become one, call 718- 777-6800 or visit www.movingimage. us. THRU SUNDAY, JULY 28 Come and marvel at the breathtaking performance given by the Golden Dragon Acrobats at a special preseason event. Feats of balance along with contortionists and jugglers put on by some of China’s most talented performers are part of the magic that will be seen at the show. The shows will be at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Queens Theater in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Tickets are $32 and family four packs are available for $99. For details and more information call 718-760-0064 or visit www.queenstheater.org. SUNDAY, JULY 28 Flushing Town Hall is hosting a dance exhibition in its newly renovated garden featuring the Young Dancemakers Outdoor Cinema EVERY WEDNESDAY IN JULY-AUGUST Socrates Sculpture Park and AT&T host an eight-week international fi lm festival that includes dance, food, musical performance and fi lm. The outdoor cinema runs every Wednesday evening up to and including August 21. Food offerings include regional cuisine and fi lms in their original language with English subtitles. The performance line-up is announced one week prior to showing. Programmed by Film Forum in conjunction with Rooftop Films, Outdoor Cinema 2013 offers a truly authentic international celebration unique to Queens. For more information, call 718-956-1819. Company (YDC) and directed by Alice Teirstein. The performance incorporates live music and dance for an energetic spectacle that also featuring percussionist and YDC Music Director William Catanazaro and excerpts from the work of choreographer Doug Elkins. The event is free and spectators will see a mix of hip-hop, martial arts and many other dance styles performed. The concert will start at 2 p.m., but a free dance lesson will be given one hour before. In case of rain, the concert will be held in the theater at Flushing Town Hall. For more information visit www.fl ushingtownhall.org. Vendors, performers, and arts and crafts booths will line the streets of Astoria for the Broadway Summerfest. Come and beat the heat with some of the borough’s best craft foods and artists. From 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Broadway between Steinway and 47th Street. TUESDAY, JULY 30 Now in its 60th season, the Queens Symphony Orchestra is playing a series of free concerts around the borough under the musical direction of Constantine Kitsopoulos. The show starts at 7 p.m. and will be held on the St. John’s University Great Lawn. For details call 718-570-0909. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 Socrates Sculpture Park will be home to the Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series. The diverse collection of performers will include Mario Chang of Guatemala City, Guatemala; Ying Fang of Ningbo, China; American Brandon Cedel, who is currently pursuing his graduate degree at the Curtis Institute of Music; and Bradley Moore, a graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Performances will be held from 7-8 p.m. and admission is free. For further details, contact info@summerstage. org. The fi rst annual UNFringed Festival opens this summer. The quirky, offbeat festival – presented by Secret Theater – will offer the stage to daring new works from passionate artists who are not afraid to push the boundaries. All kinds of works are accepted as long as they are “unhinged, unabashed, unbelievable.” The event runs through August 24 and takes place at the Secret Theater, located at 44-02 23rd Street. Visit www. SecretTheater.com for more information. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 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 information. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 The Ridgewood Library is hosting Zikrayat: Arabic Music and Dance around the Mediterranean. The program will mix music and dance from Egypt, Syria, Greece, Turkey, Tunisia and beyond. Alternating vocal and instrumental numbers with solo and group dance numbers, Zikrayat’s mission is to highlight the diversity of Arab culture for mainstream western audiences in an authentic, yet entertaining contemporary representation. The performance includes a Q&A with the artists. Suggested for ages 7 and up, it takes place from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. at the Ridgewood Library. For more information, call 718-821-4770. Foodies and shoppers alike will fi nd something unique at the JAMS Jamaica Street Festival. On Jamaica Avenue between Parsons Boulevard and 169th Street, merchants, artists and food carts will gather to fi ll the summer air with the sounds and smells of a traditional NYC street fair. Starts at 11 a.m. From 2 to 5 p.m. Flushing Town Hall will host a yaji, an ancient Chinese custom where famous musicians, painters and calligraphers gather for an elegant garden party. This event will provide an opportunity for those in attendance to watch beautiful calligraphy and paintings be created before their eyes. Come 15 minutes early to enjoy a bit of traditional Taiwanese puppet theater: “Monkey King vs. Bull King,” which will feature magic and martial arts. This show is comprised of students of the Chinese Cultural Association of Long Island and Chinese School Performing Arts Club and is performed in English. For further information, visit http://www. fl ushingtownhall.org/ SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 If you have not had enough of street fairs this summer, head down to the Junction Boulevard Festival, taking place from 11 a.m. to 5p.m. on Junction Boulevard between Roosevelt Avenue and 35th Avenue in Corona. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 Flushing Town Hall invites graduate students with concentrations in jazz, professional jazz musicians and music facilitators to perform at a jam session headed by the Queens Jazz Overground. Performance, which is open to the public, starts at 7 p.m. For additional details and information, go to www.fl ushingtownhall.org/events. 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. EDITOR’S PICK


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