68 THE QUEENS COURIER • BUZZ • APRIL 11, 2013 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com happenings >APR 11-17 COMPILED BY ANTHONY O’REILLY s FRIDAY, APRIL 12 At 10:30 a.m., Performances by Arts Power will present “Laura Ingalls Wilder” at Queensborough Community College, located at 222-05 56th Avenue in Bayside. This musical will be shown for kids in grades 2-6. For reservations or more information, call 973-239-0100 or visit visitqpac.org SATURDAY, APRIL 13 Starting at 8 p.m., support local artist Amy Leo as she returns to the Waltz-Astoria, located at 23-14 Ditmars Boulevard (between 23rd and 24th) in Astoria. Enjoy sangria or a Nutella dessert while being entertained with live comedy acts, music, poetry and dance. For more information visit amyleo.com Starting at 2:30 p.m., the 1960 Broadway hit “Bye-Bye Birdie” will be performed at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, located at 85 Greenway South in Forest Hills (between Ascan Avenue and Harrow Street) Suggested donation is $12 ($10 for groups of six or more). For reservations call 718-268-7772 or visit gingerbreadplayers. org Five Towns College will be hosting its open house at 1 p.m. There will be presentations and demonstrations of the music, audio, theatre amd other programs. Scholarships offered to those who qualify. For more info, call 631-656-2110. SUNDAY APRIL 14 At 1 and 3 p.m., Theatreworks USA will put on a performance of “Charlotte’s Web” at the Queens Theatre, located at 14 United Nations Avenue South in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Based off the novel by E.B. White, the play tells the story of Wilbur the pig who befriends Charlotte, a spider. Tickets are $14. For more info, visit 718-760-0064 or visit queenstheatre.org Starting at 2:15 p.m., Kinematik Dance Theater will explore the world of bugs through interpretive dance with a performance of INSEKTA at Flushing EDITOR’S PICK ‘ROUGH DRAFT’ Town Hall, located at 137- 35 Northern Boulevard in Flushing. Collaborating with technology artist Cheng-IWang, Kinematik investigates the diversity of insects through dance and motion detection projections; fusing technology with Breakdance, House, Vogue and modern dance. Tickets are $12. For more info or to order tickets, call 718-463-7700 ext. 222 or visit fl ushingtownhall.org THRU APRIL 15 Oil paintings and original sketches by Gennadyi Gurman will be on display at the Queens Botanical Garden, located at 43-50 Main Street in Flushing. Entitled “Repetition in Design,” the exhibit is an exploration of life inside repetitive shapes. Gurman is also the garden’s museum director and instructor of ecology and ethnobotany. Exhibit is free with admission into the garden. For further information, visit queensbotanical.org TUESDAY APRIL 16 Starting at 4 p.m., learn how to ballroom dance at the Richmond Hill Library, located FRIDAY, APRIL 12, Starting at 4 p.m., the “Rough Draft” Theater Festival will kick off at the LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC), located at 31-10 Thomson Avenue in Long Island City. The festival will kick off with “Dream Acts,” a staged reading & panel discussion, written by Chiori Miyagawa, Mia Chung, Jessica Litwak, Saviana Stanescu, and Andrea Thome. The festival is a showcase of exciting theater performances currently under development by LPAC and other companies. For more information or to make reservations email [email protected] or visit laguardia.edu/LPAC/Rough-Draft-Fest at 118-14 Hillside Avenue. Instructor Pearl Bacal will teach dances ranging from salsa to the fox trot. The level of instruction and styles of dance taught will be determined by the preferences of participants. For more information, call 718-849-7150 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 Starting at 6 p.m., come view the fi lm “Every Day is a Holiday” at the Flushing Library, located at 41-17 Main Street. Join fi lmmaker Theresa Loong for a discussion and screening of her fi lm (in English with Chinese subtitles) that tells the story of a Chinese prisoner of war, taken by the Japanese, and his quest to become a United States citizen. For more information, call 718-661-1212. For more information on the fi lm, visit everydayisaholiday.org THURSDAY, APRIL 18 Starting at 4 p.m., come take part in a fi lm screening and discussion on “Let’s Make a Movie” at the Sunnyside Library, located at 43-06 Greenpoint Avenue. The movie, written, directed and edited by Queens native Elana Mugdan, is the story of a college dropout and former fi lm student who wants to turn her life around by making a movie with friends. The award-winning fi lm was shot mainly in Queens. Mugdan will introduce the fi lm and answer questions afterward. For more information, call 718-225-8414. For more information on the fi lm, visit lets-make-a-movie.com. FRIDAY APRIL 20 Starting at 3:30 p.m., listen to a tribute to singer Carmen McRae at the Langston Hughes Library, located 100- 01 Northern Boulevard in Corona. McRae was a dynamic singer and pianist who recorded more than 60 albums and performed in the United States, Europe and Japan. For more information, call 718- 651-1100. THRU APRIL 20 Rachel Kohn’s solo exhibition “Harmonious Decay” will be shown at Crossing Art, located at 136-17 39th Avenue in Flushing. The show will be the fi rst solo exhibition for the Kohn, chronicling her new abstract series Landscapes, from 2011-13. Each of Kohn’s canvases encompass earthy tones, biomorphic shapes and varying textures juxtaposed against one another to fi ll the negative and positive spaces. For additional information contact Maria Boobis at [email protected] or call 212-359-4333. SATURDAY, APRIL 21 Starting at 3:00 p.m., view the fi lm “Kaleb” at Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Boulevard in Jamaica. Haitian-American director Kervan Barthelemy in collaboration with Haiti Cultural Exchange, discusses his fi lm about a young man accused of rape and the frictions in his strict Haitian family. There will time for questions and answers (in English) after the fi lm. For more info, contact 718-990-0778. TUESDAY, APRIL 23 Starting at 4 p.m., take part in “Newspaper Blackout” at the Hollis Library, located at 202- 05 Hillside Avenue. Inspired by poet Austin Kleon’s book “Newspaper Blackout” and his website austinkleon.com. Bring a black marker and a newspaper. For more information, call 718-465-7355. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 Starting at 12:15 p.m., the Queens College Orchestra will put on a special performance at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts’ Goldstein Theatre, located at 65-30 Kissena Boulevard. Led by Maestro Maurice Peress the orchestra is primarily a training orchestra that explores the sounds of Bach to Takemitsu. Admission is free. Any donations will be accepted. For more information call 718- 793-8080 or visit kupferbergcenter. org. ATTENTION: WANT A LISTING ON THIS PAGE? Go to the “Events Calendar” section of our web site, www.queenscourier.com/events-page, and click on “Submit your event” to let us know about your happening. We select from reader submissions to list on our happenings page.
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