Friday, August 10 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Come for an evening of music at Grover Cleveland Playground. There will also be face painting for children, a raffle drawing and Latin dance instruction under the stars. All ages are welcome to participate. Seniors will receive a free gift while supplies last. 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m., Come [...]
Saturday, July 28 Noon – 2 p.m., 34th Annual Thunderbird American Indian Mid-Summer Pow Wow: New York City’s oldest and largest pow wow will feature three days of intertribal Native American dance competitions to which the public is invited. Over 40 Indian nations are represented at this spectacular event held in the apple orchard on the farm grounds. A large [...]
COMPILED BY CRYSTAL HUDSON EDITOR’S PICKS SATURDAY, MARCH 24 Civil War New York Walking Tour At 1 p.m., visit Fort Totten, located at 212th Street and Cross Island Parkway, for a Civil War New York Walking Tour led by the Urban Park Rangers. Get an up-close view of historical landmarks and learn about the unique [...]
Friday, March 2 At 8 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, located at 137-35 Northern Boulevard, presents Daniel Bernard Roumain and The Mission, artists known for fusing classical music with a variety of sounds. They will be performing a piece called Civil Rights Reader, a musical story of figures from the civil rights movement. Tickets are $25 [...]
‘Temptation of the Muses’ SATURDAY, MARCH 10 At 8 p.m., The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center’s Mainstage Theater, located at 31-10 Thomson Avenue in Long Island City, presents two acclaimed Asian music and dance groups — the Ahn Trio and the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company — in a cross-cultural program. The artists will perform “Temptation of [...]
EDITOR’S PICK ‘Jim Henson’s Fantastic World’ Photo courtesey of Sam Suddaby / Museum of the Moving Image Ongoing from now through March 4 The Museum of the Moving Image, located at 36-01 35 Avenue in Astoria, has extended the exhibit “Jim Henson’s Fantastic World,” Take a look inside the world of the famed puppeteer, filmmaker [...]
EDITOR’S PICK Friday, February 17 Chamber ensemble to perform Photo courtesy of York College Performing Arts Center At 7 p.m., York College Performing Arts Center, located at 94-45 Guy R. Brewer Boulevard in Jamaica, presents the Avalon String Quartet, one of the country’s leading Chamber ensembles. Formed in 1995 at the Norfolk Chamber [...]
Queens Museum of Art Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Queens, N.Y. 11368 www.queensmuseum.org ArtAccess presents Masala Bhangra Workout for Families Affected by Autism on Saturday, February 18 from 3 to 4 p.m. at an offsite location at 89-11 Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica. With this workout, the entire family can enjoy the traditional Indian dance Bhangra [...]
Flushing Town Hall will be hosting a holiday card making workshop on Saturday, December 10 at 2 p.m. The workshop will take place in the Louis Armstrong Collage Exhibition, located within the hall, at 137-35 Northern Boulevard. Materials will be provided during the workshop, and participants may feel free to bring a flat memento to [...]
The document itself may be over 300 years old, but the message it conveys is timeless. Public officials united to breathe life back into the Flushing Remonstrance — a historic petition dated back to 1657 when Peter Stuyvesant and a group of citizens protested prohibitions against religious freedom — in light of recent anti-Semitic vandalisms [...]
