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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 “Annie,” a contemporary adaptation of the popular musical, based on the 1924 Little Orphan Annie comic strip, Friday, May 8, 2:30 p.m.; also “The Captive,” a psychological thriller involving grief stricken parents who can’t get over the kidnapping of their daughter nine years earlier, Tuesday, May 12, 2 p.m. Elmont Memorial Library Theater, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. 354-5280.
At the Movies
See Humphrey Bogart’s film noir classic “The Maltese Falcon,” Friday, May 8, 7 p.m. Oceanside Library, 30 Davison Ave., Oceanside. 766-2360.
Friday Flick
See “Whiplash,” a drama about a promising young drummer at a cut-throat music conservatory, Friday, May 8, 1 p.m. Henry Waldinger Memorial Library, 60 Verona Place, Valley Stream. 825-6422.
Movie Time
See “My Old Lady,” a comedy-drama about a down-and-out New Yorker who inherits a Paris apartment from his estranged father and finds a refined old lady living there with her protective daughter, with Kevin Kline and Maggie Smith, Friday, May 8, 2 p.m. Baldwin Public Library, 2385 Grand Ave., Baldwin. 223-6228.
Mr. M’s Movies
See “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 in the face of violent opposition, Friday, May 8, 2 p.m. Rockville Centre Public Library, 221 N. Village Ave., Rockville Centre. 766-6257.
Jewish Film Festival
See the 2015 Oscar winner “Ida,” about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who discovers a dark family secret dating back to the Nazi occupation, Monday, May 11, 1 and 7 p.m. Peninsula Public Library, 280 Central Ave., Lawrence. 239-3262.
Psychic Tell-All
Numerologist/psychic Lois T. Martin shares her connection with the mind, Monday, May 11, 7 p.m. Registration required. West Hempstead Public Library, 500 Hempstead Ave., West Hempstead. 481-6591.
Psychic “Tell It” Show
Numerologist/psychic Lois T. Martin presents an open forum to discover what’s on people’s minds, Tuesday, May 12, 7 p.m.; Thursday, May 14, 7 p.m. Registration required. Baldwin Public Library, 2385 Grand Ave., Baldwin. 223-6228.
Movie Matinee
See “St. Vincent,” a black comedy about a curmudgeonly Vietnam vet and the single mom and her son who move in next door, Wednesday, May 13, 2 p.m. Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, 1125 Broadway, Hewlett. 374-1967.
Art Talk
Examine “Vincent Van Gogh: Roses and Irises,” with Professor Thoms Germano, Thursday, May 14, 1 p.m. Peninsula Public Library, 280 Central Ave., Lawrence. 239-3262.
Film Showing
Watch “Fort Bliss,” a military drama about an army medic and single mother who returns from a tour of duty in Afghanistan and tries to make up for lost time with her young child, Thursday, May 14, 2 p.m. Franklin Square Public Library, 19 Lincoln Rd., Franklin Square. 488-3444.

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