60 THE QUEENS COURIER • BUZZ • AUGUST 15, 2013 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com happenings >AUG 15-21 COMPILED BY ZAK KRAEHLING SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS THROUGH AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER Socrates Sculpture Park presents Parting, an innovative installation in Long Island City, which combines green initiatives, artistry, and architecture. The design incorporates elevated thresholds and slopes, nets, chain links, and hybrid framing structures to create a state-of-the-art design. Appropriately located in one of the city’s fastest growing neighborhoods, which is also home to an expanding art scene, Parting encompasses elements of modernism and curiosity. Parting is located on 43-29 Crescent Street, in a converted asphalt parking lot adjacent to M. Wells Steakhouse. The lot will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday through to 2014. Parting is the fi rst art design project located in the lot and the fi rst project of Socrates Sculpture Park outside of its park in northern Long Island City. The development is supported by Rockrose Development Corporation and engineered by native New York architects Jerome W. Haferd and K. Brandt Knapp. For further information, visit http://www.socratessculpturepark. org/ The New York Hall of Science’s 3D theater is showing “The Last Reef,” an underwater journey that explores the unrivaled biodiversity of coral reefs. “The Last Reef” draws parallels between coral reefs, underwater centers vital to marine life, and cities, which bustle with human exchange. While this 3-dimensional feature is an entertaining experience, it also communicates the disturbing reality that coral reefs, which have been perhaps the most enduring and essential life forms in Earth’s history, are being threatened with extinction as a result of human pollution. Screening times are Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. and 2:15 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Recommended for ages 6 and older. For more information, visithttp:// www.nysci.org/visit/events/ event/3dlastreef THROUGH AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER The Museum of Moving Image will screen “Single Stream” by Powel Wojtasik, Toby Lee, and Ernst Karel. Focused on the themes of excess, waste, and the consequences of a highconsuming culture, “Single Stream” offers a refl ection of American society by exploring a recovery facility in Charlestown, Massachusetts, which sorts out refuse that is processed daily for recycling. The audience discovers the systems upon which the plant is run and captures the intricate processes contrived to treat the immense amount of waste Americans produce on a daily basis. For more information, visit http:// www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/ 2013/07/03/detail/ single-stream/ or call 718- 777-6888 EVERY WEDESDAY IN AUGUST Socrates Sculpture Park and AT&T host an eight-week 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. EVERY SATURDAY IN 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 info, call 718-784-2084. THROUGH SATURDAY AUGUST 17 The Queens Botanical Garden presents Festival de las Flores, a celebration of Colombian culture. Located in the arboretum of the garden, the festival will feature Colombian artisans who will be creating fl oral displays. Cost is free with QBG admission. For more information, call 718-886-3800 THROUGH SATURDAY AUGUST 24 The Museum of Moving Image features a series that examines acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai. Kar-wai rose to prominence with his science fi ction epic “2046,” which stars Tony Norman Jabaut Courtesy of Norte Maar Leung and Zhang Ziyi and explores the themes of time and love. His new movie “The Grandmaster” reunites Leung and Ziyi while revolutionizing the martial arts genre. The series will feature Kar-wai’s most celebrated works, which includes “ “My Blueberry Nights” on August 18, “In The Mood For Love” on August 23 and “2046” on August 24. An online symposium on “Reverse Shot” will supplement the series. For more info, visit http://www.movingimage. us/fi lms/2013/07/12/detail/ wong-kar-wai-2/ THROUGH SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 The Queens Botanical Garden hosts the EcoHouse exhibit, part of the Community Environmental EcoHouse. The EcoHouse offers a progressive, advanced, hands-on opportunity for people of all ages to see behind walls and underneath the fl oors of a modern home and the structures necessary to maintain homes. The EcoHouse teaches how to salvage energy by saving money and preserving natural ecosystems. Exhibit is free with admission to the garden. For more info, visit http://www.queensbotanical. org/programs/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 SOARING AT SOCRATES SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, Socrates Sculpture Park partners with Norte Maar to deliver a truly extraordinary hybrid of artistic passion in “Dance at Socrates.” The show combines New York-based choreography and large-scale sculpture characteristic of Socrates Park to create a collaboration of artistic movement and contemporary architecture. Esida Weeks of Delirious Dances will perform on sight, in full view of the public who will have the chance to observe the working process of choreography. A separate stage has been assembled for the series. Dancing begins at 3p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call 718-956-1819
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