Season opener: Uptown Night Market
Thursday, April 13, 4:00-10:00; repeats monthly through October
West 133rd St. at Twelfth Ave., Manhattan
www.MascHospitalityGroup.com/uptownnightmarket
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Free admission
JapanFes
Saturday, April 15, 10:00-6:00; repeats periodically, at various locations, through October
Sixth Ave. between 24th and 26th Sts., Manhattan (two blocks of a longer street festival)
www.JapanFes.com/new-blog/2023/new-york-japanfes-mwk8p
Free admission
Season opener: Philippines Fest
Saturday, April 15, 10:00-6:00; repeats periodically, at various locations
Sixth Ave. between 27th and 28th Sts., Manhattan (one more block of the same longer street festival)
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Free admission
Season opener: Queens Night Market
Saturday, April 15, 5:00-midnight; ticketed entry repeats April 22; free entry on Saturdays begins April 29
Near the New York Hall of Science, 4701 111th St. (inside Flushing Meadows Corona Park), Corona, Queens
www.QueensNightMarket.com
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Tickets: adults, $5 advance/$8 onsite, if available; children under age 12, free; a portion of ticket proceeds benefits charity
Songkran Festival at Wat Buddha Thai Thavorn Vanaram
Sunday, April 16, 10:00-4:00
Wat Buddha Thai Thavorn Vanaram, 7616 46th Ave. (76th-78th Sts.), Elmhurst, Queens
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Thai dishes will be doled out from a buffet, while it lasts, beginning at about 11:00 (the line might form a half-hour earlier); any other stations will serve continuously while the food lasts. All are welcome to partake, bearing in mind the spirit of the occasion; a donation to the temple would be welcome
Essex County Bloomfest
Sunday, April 16, 11:00-5:00
Branch Brook Park (at the Oval, Northern Division, between Heller Parkway and Ballantine Gateway), Newark, New Jersey
www.Dropbox.com/s/rjy90d400fftk09/2023%20CB-Brochure%208.5X14-NewMap_v5PRINT.pdf?dl=0
Free admission
More Than a Bake Sale
Sunday, April 16, noon-3:00
Main lobby of the Wythe Hotel, 80 Wythe Ave. (at North 11th St.), Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.KitchenArtsAndLetters.com/pages/more-than-a-bake-sale
Free admission; proceeds benefit The Brigid Alliance
Eating: Otherness potluck, artist talk, and catalog launch
Thursday, April 20, 6:00-8:00
EFA Project Space, 323 West 39th St. (Eighth-Ninth Aves., 2nd fl.), Manhattan
www.ProjectSpace-EFANYC.org/eating-otherness
Free admission
Urban Ecosystems: Living Among the Plants, Animals, and Fungi of NYC
Thursday, April 20, 6:30-7:30
Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. (at 103rd St.), Manhattan
www.MOFAD.org/calendar/https/wwwmofadorg/calendar/04202023/urbanecosystems
Tickets: general admission, $25; save $5 with code GARDEN5
The Big Cheese
Thursday, April 20, 6:30-9:30
The Stone House, 1150 Clove Rd. (at Cheshire Pl.), Staten Island
www.Eventbrite.com/e/the-big-cheese-tickets-457353345167
Tickets: $69; proceeds benefit The Grace Foundation
