buzz FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com APRIL 23, 2015 • BUZZ • THE QUEENS COURIER 75 FREE LECTURE May 12, 2015 • 10:15 a.m. – 11: 15 a.m. JASA Long Beach Senior Center, 75 East Walnut Street, Long Beach Speaker: Debby Rosenfeld, Esq. of Ronald Fatoullah & Associates Topic: National Health Care Decision Making Day Contact: Bonni Goetz, 516-432-5555 Ext 13 EDITOR’S PICK “To Be Alive!” is a short documentary fi lm co-directed by Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid and was designed to celebrate the common ground between different cultures by tracing how children in various parts of the world mature into adulthood. The fi lm will be screened at Kingsland Homestead. $5 QHS members, students and seniors. $8 general admission. 143-35 37th Ave. For more information, visit queenshistoricalsociety. org. The college that gave College Point its name is long gone but we have plenty of other sites to see in this former company town built in large part by entrepreneur and railroader Conrad Poppenhusen. Join Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY and the Greater Astoria Historical Society for a tour, including a visit to the institute that Poppenhusen founded. 12 p.m. $15 GAHS members, $20 general admission. Poppenhusen Institute. 14th Road and 114th Street. For more information, visit astorialic.org. The Sports and Health Fest will allow Bayside residents to shake off the cabin fever they experienced this winter and will highlight all of the healthcare and allied professionals on Bell Boulevard. The event will also feature representatives from the New York Mets, the New York Cosmos and the United States Tennis Association. Free. Noon to 5 p.m. 42nd to 43rd avenues. For more information, visit baysidevillagebid.com Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League since 1987, and a world-renowned leader in the fi ght against anti-Semitism, bigotry and discrimination will be the special guest speaker on the vital topic: “Global Jewish Challenges” at the 19th Annual Telsey Lecture Series. 3 p.m. Free. The Reform Temple of Forest Hills. 71-11 112th St. Call 718-261-2900 for more details. The American Jewish Symphony is an electrifying 50-piece ensemble dedicated to the performance of orchestral works of distinction that explore Jewish Cultural heritage and experience. The Eastern European program features selections of music from Klezmer and folk traditions to music of the American Yiddish Theater, which became a powerful infl uence on the artistic form of the Broadway musical. Guest entertainer Mike Burstyn is one of the world’s most popular Jewish entertainers. 3 p.m. $48. Queensborough Performing Arts Center, 222-05 56th Ave. For more information, visit qcc.cuny.edu. “Saturday Night Live,” “Seinfeld” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” are three of the most beloved shows in the history of television. Ask any Baby Boomer about their favorite all-time TV program and chances are those three hits will be at the top of their lists. For the fi rst time ever, three of the top TV writers from those iconic shows will gather to discuss what really happened behind-the-scenes in Funny Girls: TV Boomer Babes Tell All. What were the stars of those shows like? What was the writing process like? And what ELSE went on? 3 p.m. Ticket prices vary. Kupferberg Center for the Arts. 65-30 Kissena Boulevard. For more information, visit kupferbergcenter.org. MONDAY, APRIL 27 Come with fi ve minutes of material, grab a BINGO card, and play with hosts Julia Lundy and Veronica Elizabeth at Bingo Open Mic. Or come with no material; BINGO is also open to non-performers. There will be prizes, one of which is the fi rst spot at the following open mic. Sign-up will be done by lottery, so please come early to put your name in the bucket. Free. 6 p.m. The Creek and The Cave, 10-93 Jackson Ave. For more information, visit creeklic.com TUESDAY, APRIL 28 Resorts World Casino will display Spring Into Queens, an exclusive horticultural exhibit from the Queens Botanical Garden, for the entire month of April in the Red Wall Gallery. Spring Into Queens features several beautiful, vivid fl oral works of art designed by garden staff member Shari Romar and members of the QBG Gallery Committee. Free. 110- 00 Rockaway Blvd. For more information, visit rwnewyork.com In “I Am the Chicken Man, Cluck,” a 29-year-old Harvard graduate, who has squandered his adult life, is now employed as a dancing chicken man at a fast-food restaurant. In a misguided attempt to save his boss’s brilliant, 17-year-old, Indian daughter from a similar fate, he helps her get a publishing contract, but inadvertently ends up pushing her to plagiarize her book. Though completely fi ctional, this play was inspired by the story of Kaavya Viswanathan, a Harvard student who was actually accused of plagiarizing her debut novel. 7 p.m. Free. Please RSVP at kupferbergcenter.org. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 “Beyond Sacred” is an interview-based theatre production by Ping Chong + Company and LaGuardia Performing Arts Center exploring the diverse experiences of Muslim communities within New York City. The fi ve participants in “Beyond Sacred” vary in many ways, but share the common experience of coming of age in a post-9/11 New York City, at a time of increasing Islamophobia. 8 p.m. $20. LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. 31-10 Thomson Ave. For more information, visit lpac.nyc. THURSDAY, APRIL 30 Shakespeare’s most tragic hero squares off against his greatest villain in “Othello,” a fast-paced tale of jealousy, betrayal and vengeance. Watch as Iago leads “The Moor” to the edge of sanity by weaving a trail of deceit about the loyalty of a friend and a wife’s fi delity. The drama unfolds in a pulsating stripped-down production that features an all-female cast. 7:30 p.m. $18. Queens Theatre. 14 United Nations Ave. South. For more info, visit queenstheatre.org What if you could move backwards through time and see how your choices charted your path to the present moment? With an exciting score, humor, idealism and insight, “Merrily We Roll Along” starts at the end and ends at the beginning. We see snapshots of 20 years in the lives of Franklin Shepard and his close friends and ponder the show’s central question: “How did you get to be here?” Runs through Saturday, May 23. 8 p.m. $12 students and seniors, $18 adults. Astoria Performing Arts Center. 30-44 Crescent Street and 30th Road. For more information, visit apacny.org. ONGOING Mommy, Music & Me, inc. Licensed Music Together center since 2003 with locations in Astoria, Bayside,Forest Hills, Fresh Meadows, Glendale, L.I.C. and Whitestone is holding free class trials, including Early Childhood music and movement for babies, toddlers preschoolers. Weekday and weekend sessions are available. (718) 229-0033 info@mommymusicandme.com Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation Open Meeting Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 7:30 p.m. St. Thomas the Apostle Academy Café, 87-40 88th St., Woodhaven (One block south of Jamaica Avenue, right side of the street near 88th Avenue) Guest Speaker: new commanding offi cer of the 102nd Precinct Deputy Inspector Deodat Urprasad All are invited. Refreshments served. Photo courtesy of Stefan Falke MacTalla Mor, a Scottish band that won the Celtic Roots Traditional Music Award, and Ayo Maak’s Jazz Pack, an ensemble of musicians led by Ayodele Maakheru, who are exponents of the history of New Orleans Music, mash up two cultures on one stage with an open dance fl oor. Each ensemble performs a set, and then the two play an impromptu jam together for the fi nal act on Friday, April 24. Dance lessons begin at 7 p.m. followed by a concert and jam at 8 p.m. $15 general admission, $10 Flushing Town Hall members and students. Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. For more information, visit queenshistoricalsociety.org.
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