80 THE QUEENS COURIER • BUZZ • JUNE 26, 2014 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com happenings >JUNE26- >J UL Y2 EDITOR’S PICK EDITOR’S PICK ‘Warm UP 2014’ MoMA PS1 presents “Warm Up 2014” from June 28 to September 6 every Saturday from 3 to 9 p.m. Doors open at noon and there will be outdoor music concerts by local and international experimental DJs. Tickets are $18 in advance and $20 the day of. The event takes place rain or shine and at the MoMA PS1 courtyard. THURSDAY, JUNE 26 State Sen. Joseph P. Addabbo Jr., Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, Assemblyman Michael Miller and Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley are hosting a Composting Town Hall to explain the voluntary composting program. DSNY reps will be present to answer questions about the pilot program currently taking place in Glendale, Middle Village and Maspeth. The Town Hall will take place at St. Pancras Pfeiffer Hall, 68-20 Myrtle Avenue in Glendale at 7:30 p.m. For more information please call Addabbo’s Middle Village offi ce at 718-497-1630. FRIDAY, JUNE 27 The Community Board 8 Health Fair will take place from 2 to 6 p.m. at Cunningham Park’s parking lot. There will be free health screenings, free healthy lunch and snack, fun activities for children such as bicycling and a bounce house, healthy teeth and gums information, smoking cessation information and samples, health insurance information, cancer prevention education and much more. The event will be held rain or shine and the parking lot is at 196th Place/Union Turnpike. Call 718-264-7895 for more information. Central Astoria Local Development Coalition Inc. presents its annual Astoria Park Festival from June 26 to 29 at the Astoria Park parking lot. There will be rides, games, food and entertainment. The hours are from 4 to 11 p.m. on Friday, noon to 11 p.m. on Saturday, and noon to 10 p.m. on Sunday. For more information call 718-728-7820 or go to www.centralastoria. org. The event is free. Join Services for Adult Persons Inc. as they celebrate 34 years of serving seniors and the community from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. at Antun’s. This year’s honorees are Assemblyman Edward Braunstein of District 26, Peter L. Curry Esq. of Farrell Fritz Attorneys, Personal Touch Home Health Services, and Jacqueline Boyce, district leader and community advocate. Antun’s is located at 96-43 Springfi eld Blvd. Visit St. Gregory the Great’s 35th Gregorian Summer Festival from June 27 to 29 for “Italian Night.” There will be gourmet dishes, religious events, rides, games, prizes and well-known live entertainment. Hours of operation are from 7 to 11 p.m. There will be a 12:30 p.m. Mass in honor of St. Gregory on Sunday, June 29, and the festival is located at 87th Ave. and Cross Island Parkway. SATURDAY, JUNE 28 Explore the borough’s richest collection of high Victorian homes and much more in a three-hour tour beginning at noon. The meet-up location is at Triangle Pharmacy at Jamaica Ave. and Lefferts Blvd., two blocks west of the 121st Street station on the J train. Admission is $15 for Greater Astoria Historical Society members and $20 to the public. The 8th annual Rockstock and Barrels Festival will take place rain or shine at Beach 90’s boardwalk. The event starts at 10 a.m. and lasts all day. The nearest subway to the boardwalk is the A and S. The nearest bus is to take the Q22 or Q52 to Beach 92 or the Q53 to Beach 96. Playing on the main stage will be Matthew Kiss, The Wordy Burns, The King’s Heartbeat, Symptom, Ethoscope, Kilzone, Shipwrecks and more! Come to the “Forest Park Rock Fest II” at the Forest Park Bandshell from 1 to 5 p.m. There will be featured performances from Small Craft Warning, VooDoo Daddy, Missing Maddox and The Boom Section. Admission is free. The Bandshell is just off Woodhaven Blvd. The American Jewish World Service and The Reform Temple of Forest Hills present a free fi lm screening and discussion featuring the award-winning fi lm “Call Me Kuchu” and presentation by Ken* (a pseudonym for safety). Ken is a founding member and currently the coordinator of an LGBT organization American Jewish World Service works with in Kenya. Reservations are required. Contact Meital Rosenberg at [email protected] or 212-792- 2919 for more information. SUNDAY, JUNE 29 Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Louis Armstrong’s concert at the 1964 World’s Fair. The Kupferberg Center for the Arts/Queens College present “The Louis Armstrong International Music Festival” from 1 to 7 p.m., rain or shine at Flushing Meadows Corona Park at the Unisphere. The admission is free. There 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. Photo courtesy Loren Wohl
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