Learn about Brooklyn’s connection to the Middle East with Municipal Arts Society’s Brooklyn Meets the Middle East Walking Tour! The tour will include stops around Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn Heights, and Cobble Hill. The tour will be led by Mary Ann DiNapoli, 10 a.m. Assume meeting place disclosed w/RSVP. Please note: Reservations required. Please RSVP online or call (212) 935-2075. No refunds or exchanges, Cost: $20, $15 MAS members.
Miss out on Earth Day festivities? Mix and mingle w/college students and give back to the planet at the New School and NYU Tree Planting Workshop! Afterward, visit NYU’s Green Dorm and learn about taking care of urban trees, and eat a lunch made by the NYU student food co-op! 10-11:30 a.m. 318 East 15th Street (bet 1st and 2nd avenues), free and open to the public!
Don’t get too close to the “borderline,” while partying “like a virgin” with other “material girls” at the Madonnathon! Don your best Madonna look to sing onstage w/the band and win prizes! Doors open at 6 p.m., showtime 8 p.m., Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave (bet N 11th St & N 12th St)
Still looking for that special someone? Perhaps Meet Market Adventures can help you out, take a chance w/their Spring Fling Party! 7 p.m.-2 a.m. Hors d'oeuvres from 7 to 8 p.m., drink specials from 7 to 8 p.m. Raffle with various prize drawings! (worth more than $1,000!), entertainment and MMA Adventure Giveaways! Retro, Dance and Top 40s Music playing all night long! Sidebar, 120 E 15th street, New York City! Register here. Use Coupon Code: WINE to get a free tkt! (reg price: $19.99+tax)
Please note tickets are only available online. One ticket per person. This will be first come first serve so register as soon as possible if you’re interested! This event is not redeemable for cash or credit value. Only non ticket holders are eligible.
Get up close and personal with Renoir at the Frick’s free Renoir Night! 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., and it’s pay-what-you wish Fridays at the NY Aquarium!
Friday April 27 and Saturday April 28,2012
Midnight screenings galore Friday and Saturday w/The Long Riders at the IFC Center and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre at Bklyn’s Nighthawk Theater!
Saturday April 28, 2012
Given the recent strife bet the local media and the NYPD during the recent Occupy Wall Street protests, Chip Bishop’s book about the relationship bet then-mayor Teddy Roosevelt and journalist Joseph Bucklin Bishop seems esp relevant today. Check out this lecture on the book The Lion and the Journalist — The Unlikely Friendship of Theodore Roosevelt and Joseph Bucklin Bishop, 2 p.m.,Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace, 28 E. 20th St. (reservations required: (212) 260-1616)
Still need you muppet fix after the recent muppets movie and the Museum of the Moving Image exhibit? Then head to the free screening of The Muppets Take Manhattan, Noon, Sony Wonder Technology Lab! Sony Plaza at 56th Street and Madison Avenue in New York City.(reservations suggested call (212) 833-8100.
Grab a cosmopolitan and shove those feet into your Manolos for Discovery Walking Tour’s Sex & the City tour, which take you to more than 24 of the gang’s favorite city spots in the Village and the Flatiron areas! 5:30 p.m., call 212-465-3331 for reservations and meeting place, cost: $22!
See the spooky side of the city (you never know what lurks I the shadows…) with Discovery Walking Tours! “A tour of the historic, infamous and macabre of Greenwich Village history, with stops at Edgar Alan Poe’s home, the hanging elm, the burial ground at Washington Sq. and St. Mark’s Cemetery And you thought only subways ran beneath the streets” 7:15 p.m. Call 212-465-3331 for reservations and meeting place, cost: $20!
Follow the search for the perfect wing (what does that mean I wonder the spiciest? The messiest? The brightest orange?) Anyway join others and find out what makes the best wing at a free rough-cut fundraiser screening of Matt Reynolds’ documentary The Great Chicken Wing Hunt! Matt will be there as will other cast and crew as well as peeps from the NYC Wing Tour! 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m., Mudville 9, 126 Chambers Street, this event is free, no ticket required! But if you have a few spare coins and are feeling generous you can give to the project via their Kickstarter.com page. “Your donations will go to sound mix, color correction and other finishing touches that could make the difference, as they send this film to film festivals around the world.” Cost: free!!!
Find your inner Katniss Everdeen and sharpen those bow and arrow skills during today’s Archery program! Families and children ages eight and older are welcome to participate in this archery program! Participation in a mandatory safety review lead by a trained ranger is required. All equipment is provided. 10 a.m., Fort Greene Park Visitor Center (in Fort Greene Park), Brooklyn, free!
Hearken back to a simpler time w/street games from the 60’s and 70’s sponsored by NYC Parks and the Walt Disney Company! Play with pogo sticks, hula hoops, and yo-yos! Plus show off those mad jump rope skills with double Dutch! 11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m., Thomas Jefferson Park in Harlem, 114th and First Ave), For more information and a list of activities, please visit the official Street Games page, free! Location Details: In the event of rain, Street Games will be moved indoors to the Thomas Jefferson Recreation Center located in the park.
Strike a pose during World Tai Chi Day at Bryant Park! 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bryant Park, in midtown bet 40th and 42nd Streets & Fifth and Sixth Avenues, free!
It's all Greek to me! Dress as a Greek God or Goddess for the Shakespeare’s Sister company’s Dionysian E. Village scavenger hunt! There is also an after-party featuring food, games, raffles, a silent auction, and more! This event will benefit their upcoming all-female production of "Romeo and Juliet" 1 p.m. Meet at the arch at Washington Square Park, cost: $10 in advance, $15 at the event, buy tkts here
Also the Hester Street Fair opens for the season and check out all the little-known city spots during Obscura Day!
Saturday and Sunday Apr 28, 2012 and April 29,2012
Say Konnichiwa to Japanese culture at the Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival! Events will feature "dance, martial arts, manga, demonstrations, and guided tours!" 10 a.m. to 6 p.m, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, cost: $15!
Plus free tkts for the Instant Vaudville play festival!
Sunday April 29,2012
Attend Nik Sokol’s (resident geologist at City Reliquary) last NYC lecture before he moves down under, as he reminds us that, “it helps to look down to know where you've been,” while talking about his findings in the past eight years. The lecture will be followed by a social hour and refreshments. 5 p.m. City Reliquary, 370 Metropolitan Ave. @Havemeyer Williamsburg, cost: Free! (but donations are always appreciated!)
Vroom, vroom! 33rd Annual Antique Auto Show drives on into the Queens County Farm Museum today! 11 a.m to 4 p.m., Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Directions are here: http://queensfarm.org/hours-directions.html cost: $5 for adults, $2 for children (ages 12 and under)!
Say cheese while celebrating Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day by making your own pinhole camera! Alice Austen House Museum, 2 Hylan Boulevard at Edgewater Street, Staten Island: two miles south of the ferry terminal in Staten Island, and one mile north of the Verrazano Bridge, cost $5 (inc. materials to make camera) Reservations required, email aliceaustenhouse@aol.com or call 718-816-4506 x10, to reserve your spot at this event! (reg admission is a suggested $3 donation, not clear if the $5 fee covers that, so be sure to ask!)
Learn about NYC’s labor history with Big Onion Walking Tours! “Weaving though the Central & East Village and the Lower East Side, this tour features the role that immigrants and the labor movement have played in the growth of New York City. Stops could include sites associated with the first Labor Day Parade in 1882, the ILGWU, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, Samuel Gompers, Emma Goldman, Peter Cooper, and Clara Lemlich.” 2 p.m. Meet at the NE corner of Washington Square North and Fifth Avenue, opposite the Washington Square Arch, cost: $18!
Find out the hidden secrets of Park Slope families at this special rough-cut screening of A Song Still Inside! 6 p.m., Freddy’s Bar, 627 Fifth Ave, Brooklyn, free!
Get artsy at the new Sunday Craft Pop-Up markets sponsored by Sew Moni, a South Williamsburg seamstress and sewing shop! Local artists will display their wares for purchase and you can taste sweets and drinks on the store while shopping! Partipating vendors inc Brooklyn Thread, Glamourpuss, Big Bridge Studios, Brooklyn Cat, Hartland Brooklyn, Bar Soap Brooklyn, and Sweater Toys!This series will run through June 24 and beyond, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sew Moni, 330 S. 3rd Street (between Keap & Hooper) Bklyn, cost: free!
Also the New Amsterdam Market opens today for the season today!
Plus all w/e all long there are plenty of free Tribeca Film Festival events still going strong, http://www.ifccenter.com/series/weekend-classics/hitchcock/ Center, and activities related to the NYC 19th Century Extravaganza!
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