26 THE COURIER SUN • AUGUST 1, 2013 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com happenings >AUG COMPIL1ED -KR7AEHLING BY ZAK 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 information, call 718-784- 2084. EVERY WEDENSDAY 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. 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 Foodies and shoppers alike will fi nd something unique at the JAMS Jamaican Street Festival. On Jamaica Avenue EDITOR’S PICK The New York Hall of Science explores the physics of airplane engineering in 3D Theater Presentation: Legends of Flight. Included is the fi rst public fl ight of the revolutionary Airbus A380 and 787. In addition to NYSCI admission, cost is $6 for adults, $5 for children and senior citizens. Daily screening time is 1:30 p.m. For further information, visit http://www.nysci.org/visit/events/event/legendsfl ight. 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 New York City 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 musician, painters and calligraphers gather for an elegant garden party. This event will provide an opportunity for those in attendance to watch beautiful calligraphy and painting 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 Association of Long Island and Chinese School for Performing Arts Club and is performed in English. For further information, visit http:// www.fl ushingtownhall.org/ SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 The Louis Armstrong House Museum proudly welcomes back the York College Summer Jazz Program and the big band sound to Louis’s garden. This free annual concert showcases outstanding high school musicians from all fi ve boroughs, and celebrates Louis Armstrong’s birthday. The concert starts at 2 p.m., and is part of the museum’s Summer With Satchmo program schedule. The museum will also feature the Peter & Will Anderson Sextet on Saturday, August 17 at 2 p.m.; tickets are $18. The museum’s Jazzmobile Block Party is the grand fi nale of the summer season, and shuts down 107th Street in front of the museum on Tuesday, August 20 beginning at 4 p.m. The great Willie Martinez & La Familia Sextet will perform at this free event, and there will be craft workshops for kids and their grown-ups beginning at 4 p.m. Complete details can be found at LouisArmstrongHouse.org. 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 7p.m. For additional details and information, go to www.fl ushingotwnhall. org/events. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 From noon to 4p.m., the New York Hall of Science offers “Summer of Stars: Astronomy.” Participants can make constellations on sun print paper, learn about rockets and even explore the sun using solar telescopes, according to the event site. For more information, visit www. nysci.org/visit/events. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 AND SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 Flushing Meadows-Corona Park will host the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival. 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 in the park, rain-or-shine. Bring the entire family and have a blast as over 170 teams and more than 2,000 participants compete with each other and celebrate the “Year of the Rabbit.” From 9a.m. until 5p.m. both days. 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 Legends of Flight
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