Home Events oM Weekend Agenda: Jazz Age Lawn Party, Bicycle Film Festival, Makers Market... - Sip on St-Germain Elderflower cocktails and do the Charleston at the The Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island this weekend. [DreamlandOrchestra]
- If you only go to one crafts bazaar this summer, make it to Makers Market this weekend in Long Island City. [socratessculpturepark.org]
- The 25th Annual Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival opens its summer season on Saturday night with Around the World in 80 Days. [hvshakespeare.org]
- Tonight from 6-8pm, Funk Under the BQE combines live music New Orleans-style, street chalk for kids, food and more. [myrtleavenue.org]
- Judge it, drink it, poke it, slurp it down at the annual Jell-O Mold Competition this Saturday, 6-10pm in Gowanus. [gowanusstudio.org]
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