Weekend Rundown May 22, 2009 – May 24, 2009

This Memorial Day Weekend, I hope your bags are packed because you’re going to Taiwan, Haiti and Great Britain. Ok, not really but the weekend’s events will take you abroad, figuratively. Or maybe, you’ll find yourself on the beach or at a bbq. For everyone else…

Prom Dress Rugby! And you thought it could never happen.

Brooklyn’s Womens Rugby display irony in ugly prom dresses.

Saturday May 23, 2009  11am

Red Hook Park, Brooklyn

FREE

http://www.brooklynwomensrugby.org/site/about_us.html

MoMA Wants You! To Party at PopRally.

Music, free booze, laser lights and out-of-your-mind visuals.

May 23, 2009 8:30pm – 11pm

$12 in advance $15 at the door. 21 and over.

http://www.moma.org/poprally/index

Coney Island Opening Day

Get your roller-coaster on.

May 23, 2009

http://www.dreamlandrollerrink.com/Home.html

Water Taxi Beach and The South Street Seaport Season Opener

Hot dogs, ping-pong and Lady Liberty in the distance.

May 23, 2009

http://www.watertaxibeach.com/

You Should Be Dancing. Really.

Swing, Waltz, Cha-Cha, Line dancing and more!

Free one hour dance lesson with $15 admission (7pm – 8pm)

Dance party starts at 8pm and ends at 12am

Club 412
412 8th Ave
New York, NY  10001
212-244-0011

http://www.youshouldbedancing.net/

NY Waterway Military History Tour

Ever wonder how ‘The Battery’ got it’s name?  Find out on this NYC waterways tour.

In conjunction with The New York Historical Society

May 23, 2009 $26 for adults

http://www.nywaterway.com/

Haitian Day Parade and Festival

Happy faces, costumes and food, of course.

May 24, 2009 12pm FREE

“Little Haiti” on Nostrand Ave between Farragut Rd. & Foster Ave

Passport to Taiwan

Celebrate Taiwanese culture, street fair-style.

May 24, 2009 12 pm- 5 pm FREE

Union Square South

14th Street and Broadway

http://p2tw.org/default.aspx