Things To Do This Weekend In New York City - Solar Power Outdoor Films and Shakespeare On Roosevelt Island

You Tube Video of Greening of Southie

Looking for things to do this weekend? Here are some choices.

The Solar Powered free Outdoor Film Festival hosted by Solar One and Green Edge NYC at East 23rd Street and the FDR Drive this Friday and Saturday It is described as:

... the first in New York City to use the power of the sun to construct an outdoor “eco-theater” like no other. Solar One's independent film venue integrates natural and human-made components of our urban environment creating the city’s “greenest” motion picture showcase. This free six-evening program features nightly screenings of environmental documentaries. Each night will focus on a different theme including water, energy, food, waste and more.

The films being shown include:

Friday August 22
Water Shorts:
Gimme Green, 2007, 27 mins.
Gimme Green peers behind the curtain of the $40-billion industry that fuels our nation's largest irrigated crop---the lawn.
Invisible Creek, 2004, 8 mins.
Travel down the most polluted waterway in America, Newtown Creek, located on the border between Brooklyn and Queens in New York City.
City of Water, 2007, 30 mins.
City of Water explores the aspirations for a diverse, vibrant waterfront at a time when the shoreline is changing faster than at any other time in New York's history. See shots of Stuyvesant Cove Park and interviews with community members about their struggle for the kind of development they desired on the waterfront.
Plus discussion of CSOs with Cortney Worrall of the Coastal Marine Resource Center

and:

Saturday August 23
Green Building:
The Greening of Southie, 2008, 81 mins.
Building Boston's first LEED Gold-certified building turns out to be harder than anyone thought. The Greening of Southie shows what happens when you try to build the city of tomorrow---today.
Plus Q&A with director Ian Cheney

Also, outdoor Shakespeare returns to Roosevelt Island. According to the RIOC events page:

Shakespeare in the Park A Midsummer Night's Dream
When : Saturday and Sunday, August 23rd and 24th @ 4:00pm
Where : Eastwood Amphitheater (Behind the 520 Breezeway building)

For other ideas on what to do in New York City this weekend check out the NY Times Urban Eye, NY Post Weekend Calendar and Newyorkology.