Thursday, July 23, 2009

Cheap Chick Weekend Picks, July 24th to 26th, 2009

Friday July 24, 2009
Passport Fridays at the Queens Museum of Art
6:30 p.m.
This weekly program helps New Yorkers travel around the world with a subway ride. This week's focus is Korea with a performance by Vongku Pak's Korean Dance and Drum Ensemble and a screening of Yoon Je-Kyoon's Miracle on 1st Street.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: New York Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Subway: 7 to Willets Point/Shea Stadium

Ghostbusters
8:30 p.m.
Don't be afraid of no ghost (or that giant puffy marshmallow thing either!) at this screening that's part of Hudson Riverflicks.
Cheap Chick Info: Free! Plus free popcorn too!
Location Info: Pier 46 at Charles Street, Hudson River Park
Subway: 1 to Christopher Street

Friday July 24th and Saturday July 25th, 2009
Dracula at Inwood Park
7 :30 p.m.
The Inwood Shakespeare Company presents this outdoor performance.
Cheap Chick Info: Free, Performances continue Wednesdays through Saturdays through August 1, 2009
Location Info: Inwood Hill Park, on the Inwood HIll Park Peninsula, enter the park from 218th Street and Indian Road and walk past the Nature Center to the peninsula.
Subway: 1 or 9 to 215th Stret

Friday July 24th through Sunday July 26th, 2009
Animation Block Party
All weekend, various times
Channel your inner Animaniac (children of the 90's, you know who I'm talking about!) at this festival of more than 80 screenings, plus drinks, after-parties, and awards presentations. See animationblockparty.com for info.
Cheap Chick Info: $9-$11
Location Info: Various, Includes BAM and Rooftop Films
Subway: Various

Saturday July 25, 2009
G.I. Joe Stop-Motion Film Festival
8 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Yes, you can do more with action figures than dig them tunnels in the sandbox! (Or was that just me?) You can also pull off their heads and arms like my brother did with my Barbie dolls. Just him? OK, apparently you can also put them in movies...
Cheap Chick Info: $12
Location Info: 92nd Street Y, Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street
Subway: 1, 6, or E to Canal Street

Where Brooklyn Meets the Middle East
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Check out this walking tour of Brooklyn's earliest Arab American neighborhood. Tour includes information about two area churches and stops at various Arabic retail outlets.
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: N.W. corner of Remsen and Court streets, on Remsen St. side of Signature Bank.
Subway: 2,3,4,5 to Borough Hall

19th Annual Sand Sculpting Competition
12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Don't get sand in your Nathan's hot dog while creating your sculpture, there's a cash prize for the winner! This event also features dancing, live music, clowns, and face painting.
Cheap Chick Info: Free!
Location Info: Coney Island, Brooklyn
Subway: D,Q,N,F to Stillwell Avenue

Portrait Exchange Round-Robin
2 p.m.
During this workshop created by artist Peter Walsh, you will sketch five minute portraits of changing partners. This event is for all ages.
Cheap Chick Info: Free! They provide art supplies, and you get to keep your own portraits.
Location Info: Sculpture Center, LIC, 44-19 Purves St.
Subway: E,V to 23rd Street/Ely Avenue

Sunday July 26th, 2009
Chelsea Northwest Walking Tour
10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Learn about the upcoming stages of High Line Park, and the newly-designated West Chelsea Historic District. Stops include Manhattan's last freight railway, North Chelsea Cove, Pier 64, Terminal Warehouse Central Stores, and the restored Starrett-Lehigh Building.
Cheap Chick Info: $15
Location Info: Meet at the S.E. corner of 10th Ave. and 22nd St.
Subway: A,C,E to 23rd Street, M23 bus to 10th Ave.

Sacred Sites Walking Tour
11 a.m.
Get spiritual on the Lower East Side with this tour sponsored by the Museum at Eldridge Street. Sites include synagogues, churches, and temples spanning 200 years of religious life in America.
Cheap Chick Info: $15, $12 for students and seniors, RSVP to hgriff@eldridgestreet.org
Location Info: Meet at the Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street between Canal and Division
Subway: N,R to Canal Street, F to East Broadway

Free Dessert Fest
11 a.m.
Despite the name, this event isn't quite free (see below), but it is cheap and sounds fun! This walking tour makes some sweet stops at five different Union-square area dessert-makers where you'll have the chance to sample fresh macaroons, Belgian brownie, a pretzel croissant, gourmet chocolates, and homemade gelato.
Cheap Chick Info: $5 donation to help fight hunger, plus your own $ for purchases.
Location Info: Madeleine Patisserie, 132 West 23rd Street
Subway: F to 23rd Street

Third Ward Pig Roast and Dance Party
4 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Pig out on pork tacos and sides such as rice, beans and mexi-slaw and Brooklyn Based ice cream. Live music, free Colt 45 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., and pig-inspired silk screening (bring your own T-shirt-silk screening is $5.)
Cheap Chick Info: Free! RSVP to events@3rdward.com
Location Info: 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave. at Stagg Street
Subway: L to Grand Street

Mid-Summer Thunderbird Indian Pow-Wow
12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Watch dance competitions and peruse Native American art, crafts, jewelry, and foods. Be sure to ask the sheep if they have any wool, if you see some of the museum's animals!
Cheap Chick Info: $9
Location Info: Queens County Farm Museum
Subway: E or F Train to Kew Gardens/Union Turnpike Station

Remember Mid-Summer Night Swing is wrapping up at Lincoln Center, and if you're looking for an indoor activity, I highly recommend "Between Collaboration and Resistance: French Literary Life under the Nazi Occupation" at the main branch (look for the two lions) of the New York Public Library. While there, be sure to visit the original Pooh and tell him I said, "Hi!"

Also there still seem to be some tickets available to the Asian-American film festival, so be sure to check that out too! http://www.asiancinevision.org/

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