Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. “Using the Lessons of the Holocaust to Teach Tolerance,” the new permanent exhibit of the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County is now open and invites visitors. Docent-led tours are available at no additional charge. The Center is open Monday thru Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Suggested donation: $8.00 for adults, $4.00 for students to age 18 with ID and seniors (65+). The Center is located at 100 Crescent Beach Road, Glen Cove. For information and directions call 516 571-8040 ext. 100 or see our website www.holocaust-nassau.org.
MILTON AVERY & THE END OF MODERNISM. will open at the Nassau County Museum of Art, located at 1 Museum Drive in Roslyn on Saturday, Jan. 22 and will run through May 8. The exhibition features Avery’s intense saturated color fields, the simplification of form, and figures that emphasize the flatness of canvas surface. This exhibition examines the contributions of Milton Avery as a significant figurative painter from the late 1920s through the early 1960s and places Avery’s work within a long history of modernist practice that recognizes the artist’s sketch as a finished work.
DONALD BAECHLER. This contemporary gallery will open on Saturday, Jan. 22 at the Nassau County Museum of Art, located at 1 Museum Drive in Roslyn, and will run through May 8. The exhibition features a large-scale installation by artist Donald Baechler accompanied by several of his collaged paintings.
The Billboard Players. will present at its 2001 spring Production an original musical “Fame Game” with book by Louis V. Fucilo and music lyrics by Frank Sanchez production “The Fame Game,” at the Community Church of East Williston Avenue between High Street and Roslyn Road on Friday and Saturday, April 1,2,8,9,15, and 16 at 8:00 p.m., Sunday April 3 at 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, 10 at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are $15 and $10 for seniors. More info call (516) 746-7653
Mamma Mia The Movie Singalong. showing at Queensborough Performing Arts Center, on Saturday, Apr. 9, at 7:30 p.m. the Mamma Mia is a musical/romantic comedy film based on the songs of successful pop group ABBA – one of the most internationally popular groups of all time. It became the highest-grossing film musical of all time breaking the 30-year-old record of Grease. In 2008, Mamma Mia!: The Sing-Along Edition, with lyrics to the songs highlighted on the screen, was released. Songs in the movie include: Knowing Me, Knowing You, Take A Chance On Me, Thank You for the Music, Money, Money, Money, The Winner Takes It All, Voulez Vous and SOS. Rated PG-13
video games live: bonus round. Audiences love this immersive event with live orchestra, chorus, big-screen video and audience participation. Video Games Live features the best music and video clips from the most popular games from the beginning of video gaming to the present. Thrilling live music and video, from classics like Zelda, Frogger, MarioTM and Halo, to segments from Street Fighter II, Megaman, Chrono Cross & Chrono Trigger, Shadow of the Colossus and many more, including an interactive Guitar Hero segment and TRON! Single ticket prices range from $42 to $67. For more information, visit www.tillescenter.org.
Icons of loss: the art of samuel bak. hosted by The Queensborough Coummunity College Art Center. The exhibit will feature some 50 selected works from two of Samuel Bak’s notable oil painting series, Remembering Angels and Icon of Loss. Bak is renowned for his surrealistic paintings which are metaphorically symbolic and express his and others’ experiences throughout the Holocaust. The exhibit will open Thursday, March 10th from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.mi and will run through April 30.
John pizzarelli and the Swing Seven in Concert. presented by the Queensborough Performing Arts Center on Saturday, April 2, at 8:00 p.m. Accompanied by the Swing Seven Orchestra, Pizzarelli sings the songs of composer Richard Rodgers and other popular American standards. $40 dollars all seats. For more info call (718) 631 6311.
Into Abstraction: The transition from direct narrative to ambiguity. presented by the Great Neck Arts Center on Thursday, April 7 at 8:30 p.m. traces the divergence of high art from direct narrative to the in-between space of poetic ambiguity.
FAMILY SUNDAY AT THE MUSEUM. Each Sunday starting Apr. 3, 10, 17, and 24. the museum offers a 1 p.m. docent-led family walk-through of the exhibition and, beginning at 1:30 p.m., supervised art activities for the whole family. Special family guides of the main exhibition are available in the galleries. Family Sunday at the Museum is free with museum admission. Weekend parking fee is $2 (members free). Family Sunday is held in the museum’s main building, the Arnold & Joan Saltzman Fine Art Building.
LET’S HAVE A BITE! Ronald Forbes’ book, with drawing by Ronald Searle, will return to delight young visitors to the Art Space for Children at the Nasau County Museum of Art, located at 1 Museum Drive in Roslyn from Saturday, Jan. 22 to May 8 on Tuesday’s through Saturday’s from 12 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Let’s Have a Bite! features whimsical animal characters, among them the baboon, Baker Betty; the somewhat nasty-tempered koala, Lala; and the rattler, Rory.
The holocaust, Guatemala, and Rwanda-Bringing perpetrators of Genocides to Justice. presented on Tuesday, April 5, at 6:30 p.m. by The Director for Special Prosecutions of the United States at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County. Suggested donation is $20. Includes a wine and cheese reception. The Center’s new multi-media exhibit which includes local survivor testimony is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 PM and Sunday from 12 Noon to 4:00 PM. To R.S.V.P. and for information and directions call 516 571-8040 ext. 107 or see our website www.holocaust-nassau.org.
family sunday at the Nassau County museum. Each Sunday the museum offers a 1:00 p.m. docent-led family walk-through of the exhibition and, beginning at 1:30 p.m., supervised art activities for the whole family. Special family guides of the main exhibition are available in the galleries. Family Sunday at the Museum is free with museum admission. Weekend parking fee is $2 (members free). Family Sunday is held in the museum’s main building, the Arnold & Joan Saltzman Fine Art Building.
Community Gallery. at the Long Island Children’s Museum. Stop by and view original mixed media artwork created by students from the Lawrence Public School District. All ages. Free with museum admission
Buffalo Bill, wyoming and the coe family. The exhibition opens on Friday, April 1, from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. explores the history of Buffalo Bill with several loans from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center including examples of Buffalo Bill’s costumes that he wore in his Wild West show, his fancy gauntlets, and his rifle. On display are artifacts that belonged to Annie Oakley, the sharpshooting star of the show, along with paintings and sculpture of the period. The exhibit runs through September 30.
Bread Hunt. at the Long Island Children’s Museum on Sunday, April 17 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Join us for a Pre-Passover hunt and learn about the tradition of cleaning out your home of all bread. Make your own mini loaf model to hide at home for your own bread search. Continue the fun as you use your hunting skills for LICM’s bread hunt in the It’s Alive gallery at 3 p.m. All ages. Free with museum admission.
Book Discussion and Signing: Sheila isenberg. will be presented by Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County on Sunday, April 10, at 1:30 p.m.
Spring Dance Concert. at Nassau Community College Main Stage Theatre will take place on April 7 through the 10 at 8:00 p.m. except for Sundays at 3:00 p.m. Tickets, adults $9, seniors 55+/NCC Employees/Children Under 18: $7. For more info call (516) 572-7676.
“The Fame Game” Musical. presented by the Billboard Players with book by Louis V. Fucilo and music and lyrics by Frank Sanchez production “The Fame Game,” at the Community Church of East Williston, located at East Williston Ave between High Street and Roslyn Road on Friday and Saturday, April 1,2,8,9,15, and 16 at 8:00 p.m., Sunday, April 3 at 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, April 10 at 3:00 p.m. Tickets are $15 and $10 for seniors. On Saturday, April 9 at 6:30 p.m., there will be an optional package of dinner and show for $25, and $22 for seniors. For reservations/information call (516) 746-7653.
EARLY CHILdhood programs . at the Children’s Museum: stART (Story + Art): Tuesday to Friday from 12:30 to 1 p.m.; Music and Movement: Wednesday and Friday from 11:30 a.m. until noon; Messy Afternoons: Saturday and Sunday, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Long Island Children’s Museum, 11 Davis Ave. in Garden City. $3 with museum admission ($2 LICM members). Call (516) 224-5800 or go online to www.licm.org for more information.
