Times Newsweekly/Ridgewood TimesHappenings MONDAY, FEB. 16 Enjoy The Museum of the Moving Image’s showing of The Red Balloon, a French film with English subtitles depicting a young boy who finds a stray balloon. The two soon become inseparable as the boy follows the balloon through the streets of Paris. 1 p.m. showtime. 36-01 35th Ave., Kaufman Arts District, www.movingimage.us. TUESDAY, FEB. 17 Bushwick residents will have the chance to meet with their local police officers during the 83rd Precinct Community Council meeting tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the stationhouse, 430 Knickerbocker Ave. For more information, call 1-718-574-1796. St. Margaret Boy Scouts Troop 119 will meet tonight and every Tuesday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at St. Margaret Parish Center, Juniper Valley Road and 80th Street, Middle Village. Boys 11 through 18 years old are welcome to attend. Glenridge Alanon, Family and Friends of Alcoholics, will meet at Trinity Reformed Church, Palmetto Street and 60th Place, Ridgewood. Beginners meet at 7:30 p.m., followed by a regular meeting at 8:10 p.m. The New York Irish Center in Long Island City presents Magdalen, a one-woman play set in Dublin, where unwed mothers, prostitutes, orphans, and flirts are told they can wash away their sins in commercial laundries run by nuns. Shows Feb. 17 and 18 at 8 p.m. $17/$12 for seniors, students, the unemployed. 10-40 Jackson Ave., LIC, www.newyorkirishcenter.org. The Queens Council on the Arts hosts a reading of the new musical Love, Always, which charts the course of love over 100 years. Starting in the current day, each scene moves back 10 years in time with the actors playing several roles. $10. 7 p.m. curtain time. 37-11 35th Ave., Kaufman Arts District, www.queenscouncilarts.org. Explore how Satchmo influenced world music and the Civil Rights movement during Black History Month at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona. While supplies last, February visitors receive a free, limited edition, unique print of a photo of Armstrong by his personal photographer, Jack Bradley. The collectible includes a touching story by actor Ossie Davis from the making of the film A Man Called Adam in which the younger actor came to terms with racial strife. 34-56 107th St., Corona, www.louisarmstronghouse.org. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18 Brooklyn Community Board 4 will meet tonight at 6 p.m. at Hope Garden Senior Center, 195 Linden St., Bushwick. For more information, call 1- 718-628-8400. Members of Cub Scouts Pack 383 will meet at 7 p.m. tonight at St. Pancras Pfeifer Hall, Myrtle Avenue and 68th Street, Glendale. For information call 1-718-938-2073. Local youths interested in a law enforcement career are encouraged to join the 104th Precinct’s Explorers program. The group meets today and EDITOR’S PICK: The Queens Theatre will showcase this weekend (Feb. 14-15) Ballet Hispánico, a Latin dance troupe with classical and contemporary techniques in which theatricality and passion propel every move. Saturday shows at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and a Sunday show at 3 p.m. The theatre is located at 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Visit www.queenstheatre.org for more details. (photo: Paula Lobo) every Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. at the 104th Precinct stationhouse, Catalpa Ave. off Fresh Pond Road, Ridgewood. For more information, call 1- 718-386-2486 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. DAILY SENIOR PROGRAMS • RIDGEWOOD OLDER ADULT CENTER, 59-14 70th Ave., welcomes new members 60 years of age or older every weekday. For more information, call 1-718-456-2000. • RIDGEWOOD-BUSHWICK SENIOR CENTER, 319 Stanhope St., will hold various programs. For more information, call 1-718-366-3038. • PETER CARDELLA SENIOR CENTER, 68-52 Fresh Pond Rd., Ridgewood, will hold various programs. For more information, call 1-718-497- 2908. • SELF-HELP MASPETH Senior Center, 69-61 Grand Ave., will hold beading, jewelry and bingo. Hot lunch at noon. Transportation available. For more information, call 1-718-429-3636. • MIDDLE VILLAGE Adult Center, 69-10 75th St., will hold arts and crafts at 10 a.m., sit and be fit at 1 p.m., Tai-Chi-Chuan at 10:15 a.m. For more information, call 1-718-894-3441. EDITOR’S PICK: The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria hosts IndieCade East 2015 from Friday through Sunday, Feb. 13-15. The nation’s premier independent video game festival happens over a lively weekend celebrating creators and fans. The program includes a professional conference featuring panels and discussions headlined by the industry’s most prominent gamemakers, academics, artists, marketers, and journalists. Plus, the popular eSports showcase and Night Games East, an evening of physically interactive and party-style gameplay. Times vary, The museum is located at 36-01 35th Ave., Kaufman Arts District, www.movingimage.us. (photo: Scott Chamberlain) 23 • TIMES, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2015
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