66 THE QUEENS COURIER • BUZZ • JANUARY 9, 2014 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com happenings >JANUARY9-15 SUNDAY, JAN. 12 Queens Botanical Garden (QBG) is holding an electronic waste recycling event in partnership with the Lower East Side Ecology Center. It’s the perfect way to responsibly dispose of all your unwanted or broken gadgets. Help them meet their goal of 100 tons this January. The event is being held at the Queens Botanical Garden from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. QBG is located at 43-50 Main Street in Flushing. For more information go to info@lesecologycenter.org QBG is also holding an educational building event where children will make crafts out of recycled and repurposed items. Admission is free, while supplies last and all ages are welcome. The event starts 1 p.m. at 43-50 Main Street in Flushing. For more information call 718-886-3800. THRU JAN. 12 The Jeffrey Leder Gallery will be hosting its fi rst exhibit focused solely on photography. The exhibit will recognize both international and local photographers for their talent and ingenuity. Twenty photographers will be part of the exhibition, including Orestes Gonzalez, Justin Baker, Mary Powers Holt, Soi Park. The Jeffrey Leder Gallery is located at 21-37 45th Road in LIC. Call 212-924-8944 for more info. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15 The Queens Council on the Arts presents fi nancial literacy with certifi ed fi nancial planner and tax preparer Susan Lee, as a part of the Build Your Own Business (BYOB) workshop series. Since tax season is around the corner, join Lee, who will discuss fi nancial and tax issues confronting artists, with a session for questions and answers. She will address goal setting, managing cash fl ow, tax deductible expenses for artists, preparing for an audit, and useful resources for tax and fi nancial services. Admission is $10. RSVP at http://queenscouncilarts. org/making-money-less-scary/. The event starts at 6 p.m. Queens Council on the Arts is located at 37-11 35th Avenue in Astoria THRU JAN. 19 For the duration of the Queens Museum’s expansion, Queens-based photographer Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao has been in residence capturing the metamorphosis of the New York City Building. The resulting body of work, “New York City Building Time Lapse, 2009-2013: Photographs by Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao,” includes a series of 37 of Liao’s color photographs, comprised of nine large-format 30 x 72 inch pigment ink prints, and a contact sheet of the same size consisting of 28 other images. Visitors can view worn walls in various states of demolition and construction and stairwells lined in original terra cotta tiles, reminiscent of the building’s Beaux-Arts architecture, in contrast with bird’s eye views of barrelvaulted ceilings, revealing the modernist elements of the Grimshaw redesign. The Queens Museum is located in the New York City Building in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Call 718-592-9700 for more information. TUESDAY, JAN. 21 The Louis Armstrong House Museum (LAHM) is calling all volunteers to join its museum docent training program. Volunteers serve a vital link between Space Choreographed: Noguchi and Ruth Page the historic house and the museum’s visitors by interpreting this historic site for them. The museum offers fl exible schedules for volunteers who wish to donate fi ve to 35 hours per month, as part of the program. The museum has only 25 spots open in its inaugural class. In addition to membership in the museum’s AllStar Docent Corps, benefi ts include a certifi cate of recognition of service, free admission for up to four family members to the museum, employee discount in the LAHM shop, invitation for two to LAHM annual holiday party, gift book and Louis Armstrong House museum T-shirt. Submit your resume and cover letter tovolunteer@ LouisArmstrongHouse.org by Jan. 21. The museum is located at 34-56 107th Street in Corona. For more information call 718-478-8274. SATURDAY, JAN. 25 The Queensborough Performing Arts Center is holding “Blue Suede Birthday, The Elvis Bash.” Master performers Scot Bruce & Mike Albert deliver an Elvis experience that is so realistic it will send you back to the 1950s. Scot opens the show performing his interpretations of the early hits. It is 60 minutes of all Elvis, the hair, the clothes and of course the voice! Rock around the clock, on January 25 at 8 p.m. Tickets start at $40 and are available now. The Queensborough Peforming Arts Center is located at 222-05 56th Avenue in Bayside. For more information call 718-631-6311. ATTENTION: WANT A LISTING ON THIS PAGE? Go to the “Events Calendar” section of our web site, www.queenscourier.com/eventspage, and click on “Submit your event” to let us know about your happening. We select from reader submissions to list on our happenings page. COMPILED BY KATELYN DI SALVO EDITOR’S PICK ONGOING THROUGH SUNDAY, JAN. 26, “Space Choreographed: Noguchi and Ruth Page” is an exhibit of the Noguchi drawings of avant-garde American dancer and choreographer Ruth Page. This series includes ink wash paintings that abstract the human form. The Noguchi Museum is located at 9-01 33rd Road in LIC. For more information call 718-204-7088.
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