Opening reception May 13. Artists: Natalie Jeremijenko and xClinic, Mary Miss, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and George Trakas. Co-organized with The Noguchi Museum and curated by Amy Smith-Stewart.

Cartoons come to life at the New York Hall of Science during Animation, a 6,000-square-foot exhibition featuring characters from the Cartoon Network. The exhibition explores animation from concept to finished product — from storyboarding, character design, and drawing techniques to movement, timing, filming and sound. Larger-than-life graphics of popular Cartoon Network characters provide a colorful backdrop to the exhibition, which also explores the history of animation and features a screening room and a cartoon museum.

Featuring the work of Puerto Rican artist Edwin Cadiz. Reception April 21 at 2 p.m.

Opening Reception: April 22, 5-7 pm. Bollinger made significant waves in the late 1960s, challenging the limits of sculpture and expanding thought regarding concept, materiality, and commodity. His works were made from primarily pre-fabricated industrial supplies, such as sawhorses, oil drums, rubber tubing and cyclone fence. Focusing on the gesture of construction and the physical limits of material, Bollinger’s work addressed ideas of gravity, balance and material nature. According to him his interests lay not ‘in the aesthetics of form but in the fact of form’. He frequently used water for as a material, transforming it into something sculptural with mass and form as it fills a plastic hose or a steel barrel. Bollinger summed up his attitude to the making of his work: ‘It is all very easy to execute, does not exist until it has been executed, ceases to exist when it has been taken down.’

The installation Industry/Cinema is a split-screen work that juxtaposes images from industrial films and popular films made between 1896 and 1991. With specialized dual-channel headphones, visitors are able to toggle between the soundtracks, creating an ever-changing interplay between sound and image as they take an illuminating journey through film history.

It’s stupendous, its amazing, its the Dream Big circus! Come and see jugglers, balancing acts, spirited horses and Grandma the clown. Performances are check for times and tickets.

Animation. a 6,000 square exhibit features characters from the Cartoon Network, including larger than life graphics, animation from concept to finished product, storyboarding, character design and drawing. 9:30 am–5 pm.

Free computer classes offered by the State University of New York Center for Academic and Workforce Development. Beginner and advanced Microsoft Office certification: Introduction to Excel, March 19 to April 24, each Monday and Tuesday, 10:30 am-12:30 pm; Introduction to Computers, March 19 to April 24, each Monday and Tuesday, 1:30-3pm; Computer Skills for the Workplace, May 7 to June 12, each Monday and Tuesday, 1:30-3pm; Excel Certification, March 21 to June 13, each Wednesday and Thursday, 6-8pm. 10:30am.

The Queens Chamber of Commerce and the New York City Business Solutions, Queens Center presents Restaurant Boot Camp Seminar. Meet speakers from New Business Acceleration Team (NBAT) to discuss the licensing/permits required for food businesses and Micro lender to discuss special financing available for food businesses. 5:30 pm.

Night of cocktails, hos d’oeuvres, dessert and dancing. 6 pm.

Adults, teens and children share culture and backgrounds through creative writing and crafts. 6 pm.

Admission includes food, drink and music. RSVP. 6 pm.