FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com FEBRUARY 14, 2013 • BUZZ • THE QUEENS COURIER 57 sbuzz THRU SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24 At the Museum of the Moving Image, located at 36-01 35th Ave in Astoria, come see how African-American culture affected Hollywood and created a new sub-genre of cinema. Entitled “L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema” 36 films, starting from the 1970s, will be surveyed. The exhibit is presented in conjunction with the UCLA Film & Television Archive and is partly supported by grants by the Getty Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Admission to the exhibit is free with admission into the museum. For a list of film screenings and times visit their website, movingimage.us/ films/2013/02/02/detail/l-a-rebellioncreating a-new-black-cinema. For more information, call 718-777-6888. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Starting at 5:30 p.m. learn about African-American and Jewish poetry at the Langston Hughes Library, located at 100-01 Northern Boulevard in Corona. Actress and author Sherry Reiter and spoken-word artist and performer Barbara Bethea will recite and discuss poetry from the two different cultures. For more information call 718-651-1100. THRU THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28 The Kupferberg Center for the Arts, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard in Flushing, will host 40 minute guided tours chronicling the life of Louis Armstrong. Each visitor will receive a photograph of Armstrong performing at the Suburban Gardens in New Orleans in 1931 with a never before published excerpt from Armstrong’s manuscript. Armstrong is considered by many to be the father of jazz, performing across the globe and appearing in multiple films throughout his career. Admission is $10, $7 for seniors, students and children, and free to members of the center and children younger than 4. For more information call 718-793-8080 or visit their website kupferbergcenter.org From 10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. Ronald Fatoullah, Esq will be giving a lecture on Elder Law at Young Israel of Forest Hills, located at 68-07 Burns Street in Forest Hills. For more info contact Susan Rabinowitz at 718-520-2305. SUNDAY, MARCH 3 The Sunnyside/Woodside St. Patrick’s Day celebration will take place starting at 12:30 p.m. The parade assembly will start on Skillman Avenue ending at Woodside Ave nue& 58th Street and will kick off at 2 p.m. The annual post-parade party will take place at Saints & Sinners on 60th Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside. Those marching will include LGBT contingents, community groups, children’s bands, Irish organizations and religious and civic groups. ONGOING SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS THRU MARCH 10 Flushing Town Hall, located at 137-25 Northern Boulevard in Flushing, will display traditional New Year prints in celebration of the Lunar New Year. The pieces are on loan from the Taipei Cultural Center and shows off winning works from Taiwan’s New Year Prints contest. Created from a variety of mediums including silk screen, woodblocks and digital printing, the art work represents the aspects of everyday lives of ordinary people. Suggested admission is $5. For more information call 718-463-7700 or visit flushingtownhall. org EDITOR’S PICK ONGOING THRU MONDAY, MARCH 25 Starting at 10 a.m., SculptureCenter, located at 44-19 Purves Street, Long Island City, will be presenting Berlinbased artist Nairy Baghramian’s first exhibition in the United States, “Retainer.” Her works examine political and social systems of power and encompass questions of context, production and reception within contemporary art. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT APPEAR HERE POST IT @ queenscourier.com Peking Acrobats FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, Starting at 7 p.m. come witness the incredible stunts of the Peking Acrobats at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts, located at 65-30 Kissena Boulevard in Flushing on the campus of Queens College. Performers have been utilizing strength, agility and flexibility for the past 25 years around the world and have been reviewed in multiple publications. Tickets are $20-$35. For more information call 718-793- 8080 or visit their website kupferbergcenterarts. org. THE KILLING KOMPANY presents Comedy Mystery Dinner Theatre Shows with Broadway, TV and film actors starting at $45 per person for dinner and the show at such restaurants as Riccardo’s in Astoria, The Views at Mount Fuji in Hillburn, Villa Umberto in Elmont, Minerals Resort & Spa in Vernon, NJ, and Papa Razzi in Westbury. Private events also available. For info, call 1-888-SHOOT-EM or visit www.killingkompany.com theAtre BY the BAY Presents The Wizard Of Oz muNY Version By L. FRANK BAUM • Adapted by FRANK GABRIELSON with music & lyrics of the mgm motion Pictures Score by HAROLD ARLEN and E.Y. HARBURG Background Music by HERBERT STOTHART Saturdays at 8:30pm: March 2, 9, 16, 2013 Sundays at 3pm: March 3, 10, 17, 2013 TICKETS: $20 Adults, $18 Seniors (62 & over), $18 Children (12 & under) BAY TERRACE JEWISH CENTER 13-00 209th Street, Bayside, NY 11360 For more information or to order tickets call 718-428-6363 or visit our website: www.theatrebythebayny.com PreSeNted BY SPeCiAl ArrANgemeNt with tAmS-witmArk muSiC liBrArY, iNC.
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