76 The QUENS Courier • buzz • september 12, 2013 for breaking news visit www.queenscourier.com ▶ happenings >sept 12-18 COMPILED BY TONIA N. CIMINO SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 The King Manor Museum invites children and parents alike to discover what schooling was like 200 years ago at its exclusive event “Hands on History: Reading, Writing, ‘Rithemtic.” Those who participate in this free activity will learn how to write with a traditional quell pen and will make their own book. Class will be from noon to 3 p.m. For more information, call 718-206-0545 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 The Queens County Farm Museum hosts the 33rd annual Motorcycle Show, which includes displays of motorcycles that have been out of production for a decade or more. Music, hayrides, farmhouse tours and food will provide additional fun. For more information, call 718- 347-3276 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 The Queens Botanical Garden hosts The Autumn Moon Festival, a perfect chance for families to make arts and crafts, including paper lanterns, from 1 to 3 p.m. Costs $2 per person and lantern making is limited to the first 50 participants. For more information, visit www.queensbotanical. org Join trained urban park rangers as they embark on a canoe trip in Alley Pond Park. The basic canoe trip is great for boaters of all skill levels as you can enjoy the relaxing sway of gentle bodies of water like lakes, and challenge yourself with the waters of bays and rivers. Admission is free and the trip will last from 1 to 3 p.m. For more information, call 718-846-2731 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 AND SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 The Queens County Farm Museum invites all to the 31st annual Queens County Fair. The Queens County Fair combines elements of a traditional county fair with New York flair, creating an exceptionally diverse festival. Included are blue ribbon competitions in livestock, home crafts, produce, and art. Adding to the fun are the “Maize Maze,” Con Edison “Ecology Booth,” pie-eating, corn-husking, lumberjack shows, pig racing, hayrides and carnival rides. Also included are a Bavarian Garden, Irish band, and German band. Admission is $8 for adults and $5 for children and free for farm members. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, call 718- 347-3276 Celebrate fall and get lost in the three-acre Amazing Maize Maze at the Queens County Farm Museum. The adventure will begin with the “stalk talk,” a group interactive that prepares you for the challenges of finding your way through the maze, recognizing clues and solving puzzles. Maze will be open from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. but if you are feeling up to the challenge, be sure to be a part of Maze by the Moonlight on Saturdays, October 5 and 12 when the maze will be open until 9 p.m. admission is $9. For more info, call 718-347-3276 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 The Rufus King Manor Museum hosts Brooklyn Boroque Concert: Couperin & Eau de Vie, a chance to experience chamber music similar to that which Rufus King would enjoy. Brooklyn Boroque consists of cellist David Bakamjian, flutist Andrew Bolotowsky and harpsichordist Rebecca Pechefsky, and will perform music by French composer Francois Couperin. Samples of fruit brandy and hard cider like those found in King’s wine cellar will be served. Admission is $25 in advance and $30 at the door. For more info, call 718-206-0545 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Join the Queens Botanical Garden for its second part of the HSB C Children’s Garden Fall Session. Those who attend Crossing Frets for Tapping the second session will cook fresh snacks with vegetables from the garden and make fresh apple cider and plant herbs to take home for the winter. Admission is $12 for members and $15 for non-members. SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS THROUGH 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 S aturday and S unday through to 2014. Parting is the first art design project located in the lot and the first 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 info, visit 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 M onday through Friday 11:30 a.m. and 2:15 p.m., and S aturday and S unday 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. R ecommended for ages 6 and older. For more information, visithttp://www. nysci.org/visit/events/ event/3dlastreef 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. Friday, September 20, 8 p.m. $15/$10 members & students Flushing Town Hall presents a cross-cultural live improvisation featuring contemporary and traditional world artists. Join them for an evening with virtuoso Chinese pipa player Min Xiao- Fen and Korean komungo player Jin Hi Kim as they team up with award winning rhumba tapper Max Pollak. Flushing Town Hall is located at 137-35 Northern Boulevard. For more info, call 718-463-7700.
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