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FREE SUMMER EVENTS: AUGUST 12-19

Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival returns to Queens for its twenty-eighth season

The free summer arts & culture season is under way, with dance, theater, music, art, film, and other special outdoor programs all across the city. Every week we will be recommending a handful of events. Keep watching twi-ny for more detailed highlights as well.

Sunday, August 12
Twenty-Eighth Annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Monday, August 13
Movie Nights: Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991), Bryant Park, sundown

Tuesday, August 14
Red Hook Flicks on the Pier: Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991), Valentino Pier, sundown

Wednesday, August 15
SummerScreen: Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988), McCarren Park, sundown

Dr. Strangelove is a grim, if hysterically funny, reminder of the threat of nuclear war

Thursday, August 16
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, 1964), Central Park, landscape between Sheep Meadow & 72nd St. Cross Drive, dusk

Friday, August 17
Hudson RiverFlicks — Family Fridays: The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen, 1984), Pier 46, Hudson River Park, Greenwich Village, 8:30

Saturday, August 18
Rite of Summer: Collaborative Arts Ensemble, Colonels Row, Governors Island, 1:00 & 3:00

Sunday, August 19
SummerStage: Mura Masa and Jessy Lanza, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 7:00

HONG KONG DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL 2013

Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival is set for this weekend in Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Saturday, August 10, and Sunday, August 11, free, 8:30 am – 6:00 pm
718-767-1776
www.hkdbf-ny.org

More than twenty-three hundred years ago, ailing and exiled Chinese minister and master poet Qu Yuan walked into the Miluo River, intent on ending his life via ritual suicide. His followers’ race to save him, and to honor his spirit by throwing dumplings into the water, is the folklore behind the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, taking place this weekend in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. More than 150 teams will be participating in seventy-three races over the two days, in special dragon boats that can hold as many as twenty crewmembers; among the many competitors are the Schuykill Dragons, the NYHQ Baby Catchers, the Misfits, the Puff Puff Dragons, NY Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital Poseidon, Dragonflies, NYSE Roar, JPMC White Tiger, DEP Dragon Pipers, TASCA Vikings, NYCB Queens Dragons, JPMC Vermillion Bird, MSKCC White Dragons, and Philadelphia Flying Phoenix Premier Flame. The twenty-third annual festivities also include live music and dance, martial arts demonstrations, food booths, and a family-friendly arts and crafts tent featuring the Balloon Man, calligraphy, rice doll making, face painting, kite building, origami, bead stringing, and more. The performances begin on Saturday morning at 10:30 with the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York and continue with Lion and Dragon Dancers with percussionists at the 11:30 opening ceremonies, indie rockers BAAM at 1:00, I Giullari di Piazza music and dance at 2:00, and Shaolin Masters at 3:00. Sunday’s lineup gets under way at 10:00 with Damien Bassman and his Broadway friends, followed by American tap dancing at 11:00, the Bailen Brothers at noon, Mariachi Aguila y Plata at 1:00, the Mawuena Kodjovi Trio at 2:00, and Shaolin Masters at 3:00.

HONG KONG DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL

Twenty-second annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival takes place this weekend in Flushing Meadows Corona Park

Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Saturday, August 3, and Sunday, August 4, free, 8:30 am – 6:00 pm
718-767-1776
www.hkdbf-ny.org

More than twenty-three hundred years ago, ailing and exiled Chinese minister and master poet Qu Yuan walked into the Miluo River, intent on ending his life via ritual suicide. His followers’ race to save him, and to honor his spirit by throwing dumplings into the water, is the folklore behind the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, taking place this weekend in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. More than 170 teams will be participating in seventy-five races over the two days, in special dragon boats that can hold as many as twenty crewmembers. The festivities also include live music and dance, martial arts demonstrations, food booths, and a family-friendly arts and crafts tent featuring calligraphy, rice doll making, kite making, origami, bead stringing, and more. The performances begin on Saturday morning at 10:30 with the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York and continue with Lion Dancers from Zhanjian at 12:45, the Bailen Brothers at 1:30, Shaolin Masters at 2:30, and Dana Leong and His Music, with MC iLLspokiNN, at 3:30. Sunday’s lineup gets under way at 10:00 with Mariachi Aguila y Plata, followed by Dance China NY at 10:30, the Lion Dancers at 11:00, Napua Davoy’s Brave New World at 12 noon, Shaolin Masters at 1:00, and Ballet Folklórico Nuevo Amanecer de Jesus Cortez at 2:00.

HONG KONG DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL

Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival returns this weekend with lots of special events and activities

Meadow Lake, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Saturday, August 7, and Sunday, August 8
Admission: free
718-767-1776
www.hkdbf-ny.org

According to legend, when poet Qu Yuan (340-278 BCE) drowned himself after learning about the destruction of his village, local fishermen first tried to save his life but failed, then tossed dumplings into the river to prevent his body from being fodder for the fish. This story is memorialized every August with plenty of dumplings and dragon boat races in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. This weekend, such teams as Dragonflies, Syngent Seadogs, the New York Wall Street Dragons, Women in Canoe, Let’s Sink Together, the Puff Puff Dragons, and Knit Illustrated will battle it out on the water. The weekend will also feature a host of special activities and live performances, including the Chinese Music Ensemble of New York, Hsu-Nami, Malini Srinivasan and Her Dancers, Shaolin Kung Fu, Napua Davoy’s “Brave Cool World,” Carnegie Hall’s ACJW Ensemble, Morgan James and the Resistance, the Chinese Dance Company, Dana Leong and His Music, the American Bolero Dance Co., arts & crafts, face painting, and much more.