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APRIL EVENTS Find more events at www.BOROmag.com/Events 12 | BOROMAG.COM | APRIL 2014 4/13 @ 2:30-4:30PM (LECTURE) Bronx-Whitestone Bridge Anniversary Lecture $8 | As a pre-programming event for our next exhibition and to help mark the 75th anniversary of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Mary Hedge, Archivist for MTA Bridges & Tunnels, and one of the bridge engineers will be discussing the unique aspects of the bridge, its ultra sleek design and the many measures that have been taken since the year after it opened to make it more wind resistant. (718) 939-0647 I 143-35 37th Ave www.queenshistoricalsociety.org kmooney@queenshistoricalsociety.org 4/23 @ 8-9:30am (BREAKFAST) LIC Partnership Annual Real Estate Breakfast $50 for Partnership Members, $75 for Non-Members The Learning Center at ConEd www.icpartnership.org/events/2014-lic-real-estate-breakfast 4/24 @ 9pm - midnight (MUSIC) Live Music Thursdays - The Idiot Brigade FREE I Rest-au-Rant 718-729-9009 I 30-01 35th avenue (corner of 30th street) www.rarbarlic.com 4/25 @ 7-11PM (BEER FEST) Five Boro Craft Beer Fest 33 craft Breweries will be pouring over 100 beers being served. All boros represented. Vendors from Smorgasburg will be catering the event and Stolen Rhodes will be performing. Also some home brewers will be pouring their craft beer. All at Studio Square. Proceeds will be going to a local charity. $85 | Studio Square 702-659-4998 | 35-37 36th St, LIC fiveborocraftbeerfest.com 4/26 @ 11:00 am (WALKING TOUR) ASTORIA PARK AND POL - GAHS Walking Tour GAHS members $15; $20 for the public I Captain Adriaen Block was the first European to sail the East River 400 years ago this month. Tour will touch upon geology, facts and trivia, anecdotes, and tales as we enjoy waterfront vistas. The tour will also discuss 100 years of Astoria Park. Start: The main Gate, Socrates Sculpture Park, located at the corner of Broadway and Vernon Blvd. End: north end of Ralph DeMarco Park at 20th Avenue. 3 hours 718-278-0700 I www.astorialic.org 4/27 @ 2:30-4:30PM (WORKSHOP) Gus Schumacher: Fa rming in Flushing $8 | An authority on all things food, Gus Schumacher’s family has been in the farming industry since his great-grandfather emigrated in 1848 from Germany to New York and rented some land in the city. His grandfather, Fred Schumacher, was born on their farm in 1865 and then moved the family’s farm in 1888 to Flushing, where they farmed in Queens County until 1968. (718) 939-0647 I 143-35 37th Ave www.queenshistoricalsociety.org kmooney@queenshistoricalsociety.org 4/29 (FOOD+DRINK) Flights & Bites Beer Dinner with Ithaca Beer Co. Snowdonia Astoria’s Authentic Gastropub 718-347-730-5783 | 34-55 32nd street, Astoria ny www.snowdoniapub.com 5/8 @ 2:30-4:30PM (WORKSHOP) Genealogy Workshop $8 | QHS is happy to welcome back Wilhelmena Rhodes Kelley and the Daughters of the American Revolution for another genealogy discussion and workshop. The Queens chapter of D.A.R. is one of the first in the organization’s history that was started by a black woman: Wilhelmena Rhodes Kelly. (718) 939-0647 I 134-35 37th Ave www.queenshistoricalsociety.org kmooney@queenshistoricalsociety.org 5/12 @ non (WALKING TOUR) WORLD’S FAIR TOUR OF FLUSHING MEADOWS – A Forgotten NY Walking Tour GAHS members $15; $20 for the public I Join Forgotten NY‘s Kevin Walsh and GAHS’ Rich Melnick in exploring the remnants of two World‘s Fairs, 1939-1940 and 1964-1965, in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, including the place where Pope Paul VI preached, the remains of a swimming amphitheater, and a time capsule not to be opened till 6964. Start Location: Meet on boardwalk leading to Flushing Meadows Park south of Willets Point station, #7 train. 3 hours 718-278-0700 I www.astorialic.org 4/3 @ 9pm - midnight (MUSIC) Live Music Thursdays - Beecher’s Fa ult FREE I Rest-au-Rant 718-729-9009 I 30-01 35th avenue (corner of 30th street) www.rarbarlic.com 4/4 @ 7PM-9PM (ART)) Queens Artists Slam at 3rd Spa ce! $5 I Come join us as young emerging Queens artists across a range of disciplines come together to share new work and works-in-progress as diverse as our borough itself. These multidisciplinary performance artists will explore the boundaries of poetry, comedy, sculpture, video art and music. RSVP @ queenscouncilarts.org/queens-variety-slam/ (347) 505-3015 I 37-11 35th Ave, Entrance on 37th Street Astoria, 11101 www.queenscouncilarts.org/queens-variety-slam/ drosa@queenscouncilarts.org 4/7 @ 7PM (WORLD’S FAIR) THE 1964-1965 NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR Free GAHS members $5 to the public I This is the 50th Anniversary of the 1964/1965 New York World‘s Fair, which was the third major world‘s fair to be held in New York City. 718-278-0700 I Greater Astoria Historical Society, 35-20 Broadway, 4th Floor, LIC 4/7 @ 4pm - midnight (HAPPY HOUR) Beer & Bacon Al Night Hapy Hour FREE I An all night happy hour featuring all things bacon paired with beer 718-729-9009 I Rest-au-Rant 30-01 35th avenue (corner of 30th street) www.rarbarlic.com 4/10 @ 9pm - midnight (MUSIC) Live Music Thursdays - Brazilian Night with Marcos Vigio FREE I Rest-au-Rant 718-729-9009 I 30-01 35th avenue (corner of 30th street) www.rarbarlic.com 4/11 @ 6:30-10pm (LECTURE) Queens Council on the Arts presents The Art of Ghost Dumplings! $75 I Find out what happens when the Chinese Hungry Ghost festival and a Rockaway Beach block party falls under the same full moon! Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, QCAs’ Executive Director & children’s book author/illustrator shows artwork from her newest children’s book, The Hungry Ghost. (347) 505-3013 I 37-11 35th Avenue, Entrance on 37th Street Astoria, 11101 www.queenscouncilarts.org/the-moveable-feast-book-launch/ drosa@queenscouncilarts.org www.astorialic.org 4/12 @ 2pm (BOOK LAUNCH) SC Conversations: Neomaterialism FREE I SculptureCenter is pleased to present the New York City book launch of Neomaterialism (Sternberg Press, 2013). Following the ideas presented in his new book, Joshua Simon’s talk will engage with notions of the commodity, the general intellect, debt, labor, subjectivity, thingness, the dialect of material and dialectical materialism. Joshua Simon is director and chief curator at MoBY - Museums of Bat Yam. He is co-founding editor of Maayan Magazine for literature, poetry and ideas, Maarvon (Western) - New Film Magazine, and The New & Bad Art Magazine, all based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa. Recent exhibitions include ReCoCo - Life Under Representational Regimes (co-curated with Siri Peyer), and Goods (co-curated with Liz Hagag). Simon is a 2011-2013 fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, New York, and a PhD candidate at the Curatorial/Knowledge program at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the editor of Solution 196-213: United States of Palestine-Israel (Sternberg Press, 2011), and author of Neomaterialism (Sternberg Press, 2013). Travel support generously provided by Israel’s Office of Cultural Affairs. 718-361-1750 I SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves Street www.sculpture-center.org 4/13 @ 3 to 4pm (ART) Visions of Tomorrow: Art and Comerce at the 1939 World’s Fa ir Cost Included with Admission 718-204-7088 I The Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Road, LIC www.noguchi.org/programs 5/22 @ 2:30-4:30PM (LECTURE) History and Highlights of a World’s Fa ir $8 | Join World’s Fair Historian Pierre Montiel for his second lecture at QHS which will cover the World’s Fairs held in Flushing, NY. His interest in the Fairs goes back to when he was a 12 yearold boy visiting the 1964-1965 Fair on a weekly basis and fondly remembers the Belgium Waffles. (718) 939-0647 I 143-35 37th Ave www.queenshistoricalsociety.org kmooney@queenshistoricalsociety.org 5/30 @ 5-7PM (MUSIC) Astoria Symphony Orchestra & Choir - Dichotomies $20 I The Astoria Symphony Orchestra and Astoria Symphony Choir join forces to present Germanic masterpieces and dichotomies. Classical vs. Romantic. Choral vs. Orchestral. Mendelssohn va. Wagner. FELIX MENDELSSOHN | selected chorales RICHARD WAGNER | Siefried Idyll W. A. MOZART | Mass in C minor (917) 300-8695 I Our Lady of Mount Carmel Institute 23-20 Newtown Avenue, Astoria, 11102 www.astoriamusic.org I info@astoriamusic.org ONGOING Every Tuesday @ 9pm - 11 pm (COMEDY) Whine & Cheese Comedy Show FREE I Showtime special: $30 for a bottle of house red or white wine and a cheese plate Rest-au-Rant 718-729-9009 I 30-01 35th avenue (corner of 30th street) www.rarbarlic.com Every Monday @ 4pm - midnight (HAPPY HOUR) Al Night Hapy Hour FREE I $4 select drafts and house wines Rest-au-Rant 718-729-9009 I 30-01 35th avenue (corner of 30th street) www.rarbarlic.com Happy Hour Daily (Monday - Sunday)  in the Lounge from Non - 8 pm (HAPPY HOUR) Va rious DJ’s: Mixed Format FREE I Tuesdays: Half Price Bottles of Wine (Select Wines), Every Saturday : Trending Saturdays from 10pm-4am.  Z Hotel 212-319-7000 (Call for Reservations) I 11-01 43rd Avenue, LIC, 11101 LIC FLEA FOOD & COME VISIT US Every Saturday & Sunday 5-25 46th Ave•LIC Corner of 5th St & 46th Ave LICFlea.com @licflea


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