Huntington Weekend Guide

Looking for something to do this weekend? Patch has put together some things going on for you to check out and explore.  Some events are for adults, some for children and some for the whole family to check out.

Plant Sale – Friday May 6, 12:00 – 7:00 p.m. and Saturday May 7, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location:  , 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport
Details:  The corps of volunteer gardeners, who help beautify the museum’s home, the landmark Vanderbilt estate, will sell perennials, annuals, shrubs and trees in the museum parking lot.
Cost:  Admission to this pre-Mother’s Day gift-plant sale is free. Available stock will include potted flowers for an average of $6 to $7; rhododendrons for $12; Knockout roses (priced up to $30 elsewhere) for $15; flats of 48 impatiens (priced $18 elsewhere) for $13; and hanging baskets (priced up to $50 elsewhere) for $22.

First Friday with the Five Towns College Guitarists – Friday May 6, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Location:  , 2 Prime Avenue, Huntington
Details:  Celebrate the First Friday of every month at The Heckscher Museum of Art.  Explore the museum's exhibitions during extended viewing hours and enjoy special musical performances.
Cost:   Free

Artist/Author Evening – Friday May 6, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Location:  , 313 New York Avenue, Huntington
Details:  Hungtington artist Roberta Erlagen and author Patricia Ruth Kresner will host an Artist/Author evening at Book Revue.  This fun Book-and-a-Bag event will feature "Bertie's" Long Island inspired artwork on totes and Patricia signing her debut novel Holly Heights, a present day tale that takes place in a fictional community on Long Island. To help celebrate Mother’s Day, “Bertie” will raffle off an original watercolor created that evening.  Patricia Ruth will raffle a personalized copy of her book Holly Heights.  Raffle tickets will be distributed free-of-charge to everyone in attendance starting at 7:00 p.m.
Cost:  Free

National Astronomy Day, Saturday, May 7, 11:00 a.m. – Midnight
Location:  , 180 Little Neck Road, Centerport    
Details:  Celebrate National Astronomy Day. The day will include model-rocket demonstrations with members of the Long Island Advanced Rocketry Society, safe viewing of the sun through solar telescopes with the Astronomical Society of Long Island, and planetarium astronomy shows and live sky talks. The program also includes children’s games and craft projects to take home, and storytelling related to astronomy and space. In addition to telescope demonstrations, participants may observe the night sky through numerous telescopes, including a huge, 32-inch Dobsonian model.
Cost: Visitors will be charged general museum-grounds admission: $7 adults, $6 students and seniors (62 and older), $3 children 12 and under. For daytime planetarium/laser shows, visitors pay the general admission fee, plus planetarium admission of $5 for adults, $4 for students and seniors, and $3 for children 12 and under.

Make a Mother’s Day Present, Saturday May 7, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Location:  , 1335 New York Avenue, Huntington Station
Details:  Make a graffiti art messenger bag for Mom or someone special. Decorate it with markers, rhinestones and more. Register using your child’s library card, open to grades 1-5.
Cost:  Free

First Saturday: Contemporary Celtic Music, May 7, 7:30 p.m.
Location: , 30 Washington Drive, Centerport
Details: The performance is part of the First Saturday series of the Folk Music Society of Huntington. Open mike starts at 7:30 p.m., for those wanting to play you must sign up by 7:20 p.m. Runa brings a contemporary and refreshing attitude to traditional as well as more recently composed Celtic material.
Cost:  $20 members / $25 non-members at the door

Concert: Huntington Mens Chorus Spring Concert:  Saturday May 7, 8:00 p.m.
Location: , 188 Oakwood Avenue, Huntington
Details: Thomas W. Jones - Conductor. Dimitri Dover - Accompanist
Cost: $12 adults, seniors and children

C.K. Williams Master Class in Poetry Workshop, Saturday May 7, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Location: , 246 Old Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station
Details:  Master class in poetry taught by Walt Whitman Birthplace 2011 Poet in Residence. Limited to 25 participants.
Cost:  $50

Poetry Reading by poet C.K. Williams, Saturday May 7, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Location:  , 246 Old Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station
Details:  Poetry reading by distinguished poet and Walt Whitman Birthplace 2011 Poet in Residence.
Cost:   $5, free to master class participants

Walt Whitman Birthday Celebration, Sunday May 8, 12:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Location: , 246 Old Walt Whitman Road, Huntington Station
Details: Annual Walt Whitman Birthday Celebration featuring the winners of our Young Poets Contest. Acclaimed poet C.K. Williams will be speaking and reading.
Cost:  Free

Live Music, Sunday May 8, 3:00 p.m.
Location:  , 423 Park Avenue, Huntington
Details:  Composer and conductor Carman Moore brings his Skymusic Ensemble from Lincoln Center. Joining them will be local student guest artists Mikah Feldman-Stein of Huntington High School on alto sax and Jonathan Bodian of West Hollow Middle School in Half Hollow Hills district on guitar. The Skymusic Ensemble is an electro-acoustic chamber group that features an original blend of styles from classical to jazz and ethnic music.
Cost: $20 for public; $5 for kids 18 and under; and $15 for CAC members.

Mother’s Day in the Sea, Sun, May 8, 2:00 p.m.
Location: Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, 279 Main Street, Cold Spring Harbor
Details:  Learn about unusual mom creatures in the ocean. Touch a live crayfish & design a beautiful shell picture frame for Mom. Ages 5‐12.
Cost:  Members $3, Others $8.