Stepping Out

What's happening on Long Island this weekend

Weekly calendar of exhibits, theater, music, and more

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Enduring Images
An exhibition, drawn from Hofstra University Museum’s permanent collections, that focuses on the lasting record created by an artist’s visual responses to critical moments in time. Yonia Fain, a Holocaust survivor considered a “witness to history,” is represented, along with artists such as George Grosz, Käthe Kollwitz, and Jacob Lawrence. Through Jan. 31. Hofstra University’s David Filderman Gallery, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus, Hempstead. 463-5672.
Linear Constructions
Rockville Centre artist Naomi Grossman’s wire sculptures are on display in a three-person exhibit, also featuring Ellen Dickenson and Larry Monat. Through June 14. Patchogue Arts Gallery, 20 Terry St., Patchogue. (631) 627-8686.
Mysteries of Bats
Tackapausha Museum and Preserve’s exhibit includes varied species of bats, featuring a live family of Egyptian Fruit Bats who fly and “hang out” in the museum’s nocturnal area. Other exhibits include displays about Long Island’s ecology and interactive activities. Tackapausha Museum and Preserve, Washington Ave. (between Merrick Rd. and Sunrise Hwy.), Seaford. 571-7443.
Objects of Witness: Testimony of Holocaust Artifacts
Items lent or donated by families of victims and survivors are on display. Many of these artifacts were kept hidden during the Holocaust, at great risk to those who hid them. Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, 100 Crescent Beach Rd., Glen Cove. 571-8040 ext. 100 or www.holocaust-nassau.org.
Out of the Vault: 25 Years of Collecting
A comprehensive exhibition of works from Nassau County Museum of Art’s permanent collection. The multi-faceted exhibit highlights rarely seen patron gifts to the museum. Through July 12. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. 484-9337 or www.nassaumuseum.org.
Afternoon Movie
See “Night Train to Lisbon,” a drama involving a stuffy academic undergoing a midlife crisis who impulsively abandons his comfortable teaching post in Switzerland to travel to Lisbon, Friday, May 15, 2:30 p.m.; also “Selma,” the biopic that chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a campaign to secure equal voting rights, Tuesday, May 19, 2 p.m. Elmont Memorial Library Theater, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. 354-5280.
Friday Flick
See “Heaven is for Real,” a drama about a small-town father who shares his son’s extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world, based on the true experiences of the young son of a Nebraska pastor, Friday, May 15, 1 p.m. Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, 60 Verona Place, Valley Stream. 825-6422.
Jewish Film Festival
See “Avalon,” a drama, largely based on the family history of director Barry Levinson, that follows the immigrant Krichinsky clan as they settle in Baltimore during the early 20th century, Monday, May 18, 1 and 7 p.m. Peninsula Public Library, 280 Central Ave., Lawrence. 239-3262.
Movie Time
See “Whiplash,” a drama about a promising young drummer at a cut-throat music conservatory, Monday, May 18, 1:30 and 7 p.m. Oceanside Library, 30 Davison Ave., Oceanside. 766-2360.
Art Talk
Examine “Artists in Their Studios,” depicting artists at work, with art historian Vivian Gordon, Wednesday, May 20 1 p.m. Peninsula Public Library, 280 Central Ave., Lawrence. 239-3262.
Movie Matinee
See “Birdman,” “Birdman,” the 2014 Best Picture winner, which follows a faded Hollywood actor famous for his role as superhero as he struggles to mount a Broadway play, Wednesday, May 20, 2 p.m. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, 1125 Broadway, Hewlett. 374-1967.
Film Showing
Watch “If I Stay,” a romantic drama about a young woman, who, caught between life and death for one day, has to make an important decision Thursday, May 21, 2 p.m. Franklin Square Public Library, 19 Lincoln Rd., Franklin Square. 488-3444.

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