FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com DECEMBER 26, 2013 • BUZZ • THE QUEENS COURIER 71 buzz SUNDAY, JAN. 12 Queens Botanical Garden 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 at43-50 Main Street Flushing. For more information contact [email protected]. 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. 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,” presents a series of 37 of Liao’s color photographs, including nine large-format 30 x 72 inch pigment ink prints, and a contact sheet of the same size consisting of 28 other images. Depicted in “Time Lapse” are 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 barrel-vaulted ceilings, revealing the modernist elements of the Grimshaw redesign. The Queens Museum is located in the New York City Building, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Call 718-592-9700 for more information. TUESDAY, JAN. 21 The Louis Armstrong House Museum is calling all volunteers to join its museum docent training program. The position serves a vital link between 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 5-35 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 GINGERBREAD LANE EDITOR’S PICK THRU JAN. 12, “GingerBread Lane,” a 1.5 ton, 300-square-foot village currently on display at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, runs thru January 12. And on that date, take a piece of GingerBread Lane home with you. Gingerbread houses will be given away, while supplies last. Limit of two houses per person. Line opens at 10 a.m., giveaway starts at noon. Free with NYSCI admission. NYSCI is located at 47-01 111th Street, Corona. Call 718-699-0005 for more info. T-shirt. Submit your resume and cover letter to [email protected] by Jan 21 for the opportunity. The museum is located at 34 56 107th Street Corona. For more information call 718- 478- 8274. 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 Rd. in LIC. For more information call 718- 204-7088. ONGOING THROUGH APRIL 7 Bring your friends, bring a scarf and gloves and remember to lace up tight! Ice skating season has begun at World Ice Arena at Flushing Meadow- Corona Park! Admission is $5 for all ages on weekdays and $8 on weekends and holidays. To rent skates, be sure to bring socks and an additional $5. The rink is open from 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m., Monday through Friday. On weekends, it is open from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday nights; 12 p.m. until 4:45 p.m. and 8 p.m. until 9:50 p.m. Saturdays and 12 p.m. until 4:45 p.m. on Sundays. World Ice Arena is located at Avery Avenue and 131st Street Flushing. For more information, or to check for schedule changes, call 718-760-9001. ONGOING THROUGH MARCH 31 “Legacy: Photographs from Emily Fisher Landau’s Gift to the Whitney Museum of American Art” at the Fisher Landau Center for Art is a collection of 419 works, including installations, sculptures, drawings and photographs by numerous key fi gures in contemporary American Art. . Exhibition hours are noon to 5 p.m. Thursday through Monday and admission is free. 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