I’m back TFA-ers and with a new assortment of Free Events this weekend!
Summer is here and we all need to be saving our pennies for 40′s and margarita’s in this 100 degree heatwave. This weekend holds a plethora of outdoor, as well as air-conditioned events to keep you occupied until the work week commences.
Friday
Free outdoor movie
Sunset– (The Goonies ) on the flight deck at Intrepid this Friday – Intrepid Museum Foundation (Midtown West)
| Target Passport Fridays: South Korea Fri, 6:30PM @ Queens Museum of Art |
Leave your baggage at home and bring a picnic blanket out to Flushing Meadows Corona Park for Target Passport Fridays, an outdoor festival of international music, dance and film.
Saturday
| Shakespeare in the Pagoda Sat 7/24 , 1PM @ Music Pagoda East Drive Brooklyn , NY |
Romeo & Juliet beginning this weekend at the Music Pagoda. Don’t miss this free event!
Sand Sculpting Contest and Unity Day
Sat 11am–5pm Directions http://www.astelladevelopment.org
Get ready to break out your baddest, boldest sandcastle-building skills. Astella Development Corp, a nonprofit devoted to affordable housing and commercial revitalization in Coney Island, hosts its 20th annual sand-sculpting contest today. Past winners have included depictions of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments and a bald eagle holding a key.
Understanding Genetic Diversity
Sat 1pm–3pm American Museum of Natural History Subway: B, C to 81st St–Museum of Natural History; 1 to 79th St | Directions
In this DNA-focused discussion, anthropologists Monique Scott and Samara Rubinstein talk about humans’ susceptibility to disease, the state of genetic technologies (like ancestry testing) and how our species will continue to evolve.
Sunday
Coney Island Sunset Dance Ride
Sun 5pm Map http://www.times-up.org
Hop on your bike at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, then head to the south shore for an outdoor deejayed party thrown by the Coney Island Dancers, an organization whose parties benefit both boardwalk-bound revelers (emotionally) and children with special needs (financially).
| New York’s Gone Mad Sun, 7PM @ Times Square Broadway and 45th St. New York, NY |
Watch the world premiere of season four of MAD MEN on the big screen in Manhattan’s Times Square on Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets. Arrive by 7:00pm in your swankiest 1960s attire for pre-screening costume and trivia contests.
