Queens Weekend 4/21: Noguchi, P.S. 1, Socrates Sculpture Park

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Sunday is the new Friday night in Queens, with so much interesting stuff to do that it’s unfair. The Noguchi is offering free admission to mark the closing of its exhibition about Long Island City. You can follow that with a picnic in Socrates Sculpture Park across the street, where admission is always free.

P.S. 1 has its Sunday Sessions, celebrating their Kraftwerk exhibit with a DJ and lectures and a ton of other stuff.

And the Museum of the Moving Image is having a screening featuring “episodic snippets of life on the urban margins feature, among other figures, a junkie hustler, a dye sifter, and a nightclub stripper.” Sounds good.

Kids

As usual, kids win the weekend. Saturday’s “How We Came to Queens: An Intergenerational Storytelling Workshop” in the Ridgewood Library at 2:30 p.m. is pretty much the cutest thing. It’s self explanatory, BYOGP (bring your own grandparent). If you don’t live in Ridgewood, The Queens Library near you is a great resource for kid-friendly activities.

Apparently this weekend a number of borough spots are celebrating Earth Day. You can learn about conservation at Bayside’s gorgeous Fort Totten Park at 1 p.m. on Saturday. And if you want to be your kid’s hero, drive to the Queens County Farm Museum for a carnival ($10), going on all weekend. Alley Pond Environmental Center is also hosting a number of Earth Day themed events on Sunday, including one where kids can touch animals (for a fee of course).

Nerds

Since it closes Saturday night, you probably have already seen the play “For Rent” at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, it sounds quite intellectually stimulating and is by a Turkish playwright. This dance performance at The Chocolate Factory on Saturday may also allow you to rub elbows with borough elite. The description is vague enough to create intrigue. You are probably already going to the Greater Astoria Historical Society to learn about the 19th Century, but you might not have registered for Saturday’s Rocksport Environmental Bike Tour of the Rockaways. And who knows what is going to happen at the Queens Museum’s event “Kill me or Change.”

Super Seniors

Who could resist being transported back to the 1950s, things were so much better back then. On Sunday, you will be at Queens Theatre in the Park watching the doo-wop quintet, The Bronx Wanderers. They didn’t wander that far. Since you probably are already attending Saturday’s “How We Came to Queens: An Intergenerational Storytelling Workshop” in the Ridgewood Library at 2:30 p.m., you might want to spend some more time sharing your culture with kids.

If your’re Russian or like making dolls go to the Flushing Library on Saturday.

Queens Queers

You might want to see Janice Ian at the Queens Theatre in the Park on Saturday. Tickets are $44. And if you want things to get really campy, you could check out the Gingerbread Player’s weekend production of “Annie” and follow that with Queensborogh Performing Arts Center’s “The Man that Got Away: Ira Without George” (Gershwin, that is, but you already knew that). It’s on Sunday and tickets are $35.