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LIC residents can be inspired by 15 new exhibits at Socrates Sculpture Park
BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELLDOMENECH
Photo courtesy of Lionel Cruet
Fall festival wraps up the 2018 season at LIC Flea & Food
Th e LIC Flea & Food market wraps
up its 2018 campaign this Saturday
and Sunday, Oct. 21-22, with their Fall
Festival fi lled with all kinds of fun activities
for the entire family.
Bring the kids down to the LIC waterfront
for the market’s pumpkin patch; they
can take home their very own pumpkin free
of charge, while supplies last. Feel free to
jump into the patch and take photos as well.
Meanwhile, you can stroll into the LIC
Flea’s Beer Garden and grab a locally craft -
ed beer. Th ere’s also plenty of great grub
and shopping to enjoy!
Stop by Yunza Catering, which has
already cultivated a following with their
delicious Pan Con Chicarron, a delicious,
slow-roasted pork sandwich. If you’re in
the mood for amazing German sausage,
German Bratwurst is where it’s at. Jens and
his wife will transport you to Europe with
their authentic German menu.
Also joining the market this weekend are
Empanada Papa, Barbecue On A Stick and
San Antonio’s Wood Fired Pizza.
For some baked fall favorites, stop by
Baked By Dawn. Her Mini Cakes with
Fall Sprinkles will have many fl avors to
choose from like vanilla, red velvet, carrot
and banana!
When you’ve had your fi ll of amazing
cuisine and sweets, shop the markets roster
of great vendors such as Vivian Jewelry,
mazing furniture pieces by Latif, natural
creams by MariJon and more!
LIC Flea & Food is open this weekend
from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. at 5-25 46th
Ave. in Long Island City, at the corner of
Fift h Street and 46th Avenue. For more
information, visit LICFlea.com.
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Visitors to Socrates Sculpture Park on
the Long Island City waterfront can now
look up at towering golden faces of hiphop
giants, run inside a corral labyrinthine
or peek inside tiny aluminum-can
tents during the Socrates Annual exhibit.
Each year, Socrates Sculpture Park
awards the Park’s Emerging Artist
Fellowship to around 15 artists at the
beginning of the summer. Selected artists,
who can not be students and must be
based in New York, are given a $5,000 stipend
and studio space in the park.
Th e Socrates Annual is the unveiling
of the artists’ summer-long work, which
opened on Oct. 7. A variety of materials
and styles are represented in the exhibited
work. But all of the pieces are interactive
by nature.
One of the park’s exhibits, which is
referred to as “the sandbox” by Socrates
Sculpture Park employees, is a interactive
cube that visitors are invited to enter.
Th ree of the cube’s walls produce sound.
Once wall is made of string, the second of
pipes and the third of textured paper. Th e
box’s creator, audio-visual artist Lionel
Cruet, felt a need to respond to the park’s
landscape and community.
Cruet visited Socrates Sculpture Park
two times before deciding to apply for
the fellowship, and was always impressed
by the diversity of the park’s visitors —
a microcosm of the melting pot that is
Astoria and Long Island City.
“Th e cube serves as sort of a metaphor
for the park and its visitors,” said
Cruet, who added that his piece is only
stable through the cooperation of six different
materials. All them can function
independently but need to come together
to create art. Visitors are meant to
be active participants and challenged to
look at their environment through diff erent
lenses.
Th is year’s artists are Leilah Babirye,
Sherwin Banfield, Amy Brener,
Lionel Cruet, Nathaniel Cummings-
Lambert, Ronen Gamil, Jesse Harrod,
Carlos Jiménez Cahua, Leander
Mienardus Knust, Antone Konst, Joiri
Minaya, Nicholas Missel, Virginia Lee
Montgomery, Nancy Nowacek, Audrey
Snyder and Joe Riley.
All exhibits are open to the public until
March 10, 2019.
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