Friday, October 12, 2007

Happening in town this weekend

Youngsters fishing in Cold Spring Harbor during last year's fair.

SATURDAY

Centerport

  • "Little Red and The Hoods”: "Little Red Riding Hood” told with modern lessons; audience-participation play for youngsters, 4 p.m. at Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium, 180 Little Neck Rd., $9, 516-293-0674.

    Cold Spring Harbor
  • Fish Hatchery Fall Fair: Exhibits by environmental groups and conservationists, children's games, fishing for younger than 12, ($2 for 10 minutes), music, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery and Aquarium, 1660 Rte. 25A, $5 adult, $3 3-17 and older than 65, free younger than 3, cshfha.org, 516-692-6768.

    Greenlawn
  • Festival: Buffet, square dancing, caricaturist, face painting, raffles, prizes, auction, benefits Camp Pa-Qu-Tuck for handicapped children, 6 p.m. at Moose Lodge, 631 Pulaski Rd., $35, $15 younger than 12, 631-543-2839.

    Huntington
  • My Sinatra: Featuring Cary Hoffman performing "My Sinatra, The Songs and the Stories,” 8 p.m. at Inter-Media Art Center, 370 New York Ave., $37.50, imactheater.org, 631-549-2787.

    SUNDAY

    Cold Spring Harbor
  • Presentation: "Thar She Blows: The Hunt for Oil Then and Now,” by Alexandra Hilgeman, a Girl Scout Gold Award Project, 4:45 p.m. at Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, 301 Main St. (Route 25A), free, cshwhalingmuseum.org, 631-367-3418.

  • SPLIA Exhibit: ”Antiques That Speak: Collecting Long Island's Past,” acquisitions including paintings, furniture, Colonial clothing and Civil War swords, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, through Jan. 31, at Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, Main Street and Shore Road, $1, splia.org, 631-692-4664.

    Dix Hills
  • Fall Festival: Pumpkin patch, vendors, face painting, noon-4 p.m. at Dix Hills United Methodist Church, 400 Deer Park Ave., free, 631-499-2831.

  • "The Secret Garden”: Musical based on the 1909 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett about an orphaned girl who returns to Britain from India and moves in with her widowed uncle and his ailing son and discovers a garden favored by his former wife, 2 p.m. at Five Towns College, Dix Hills Center for the Performing Arts at Five Towns College, 305 N. Service Rd., $15, $12 seniors / students, dhpac.org, 631-656-2148.

    Huntington
  • Apple Festival: Celebrate the harvest season with family-friendly activities, traditional music and dancing, noon-4 p.m. at Daniel W. Kissam House Museum, 434 Park Ave., free, 631-427-7045, ext. 401.

  • Art Exhibit: "Symbol and Myth: A Personal Journey,” 1-5 p.m. Sunday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, through Oct. 28, at Huntington Library, 338 Main St., free, 631-427-5165.

  • Author Lectures: The Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition presents, "At the Bibliotheque” featuring a different guest speaker for each program, 1:30 p.m. at Huntington Library, 338 Main St., $20 per lecture, hbcac.org, 631-547-1518.

  • Embracing Our Differences: Exhibit of 39 billboard-size artworks on display through Oct. 31, a project of the Suffolk County Center on the Holocaust, Diversity & Human Understanding at Heckscher Park, 2 Prime Ave. at Route 25A, free, farmingdale.edu, 631-420-2400.

    Huntington Station
  • Art Exhibit: "Romantic Expressionism” features oil paintings by artist Edward Tabachnik at Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center, 246 Old Walt Whitman Rd., $4, $3 seniors / college students, free younger than 18, waltwhitman.org, 631-427-5240.

  • Poet Of The Year Ceremony: Vince Clemente is honored and reads from his works, 3 p.m. at Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center, 246 Old Walt Whitman Rd., $3, waltwhitman.org, 631-247-5240.

  • Recital Series: Pianist Olga Vinokur performs, 2:30 p.m. at South Huntington Library, 145 Pidgeon Hill Rd., free, 631-549-4411.

    Northport
  • "Burying Grounds, Art, History and Genealogy”: Exhibit features tombstones and mourning artifacts, the history of families buried in local cemeteries, mourning customs and the art of tombstone carving, through March, 1-4:30 p.m. at Northport Historical Society and Museum, 215 Main St., $3, northporthistorical.org, 631-757-9859.

  • "Jekyll and Hyde”: Musical thriller based on Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story, 2 p.m. Sunday, 2 and 8 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, through Nov. 11, at John W. Engeman Theater, 250 Main St., $55, 631-261-2900.
  • 1 comment:

    animal detectors said...

    I'd really appreciate if you could list this:

    The 5th Annual Bridie Goldstein Run for Children
    A 5K run/walk benefiting MercyFirst, a child welfare agency that helps children and families in need
    10am, Sat Nov 24th, starts at MercyFirst in Syosset

    http://www.run-for-children.org/

    Thanks!