30 MAY 4, 2017 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM THURSDAY, MAY 4 Help keep Queens Botanical Garden clean, green, and growing! Join the garden’s horticulture staff for an engaging, educational event where you will learn gardening basics while working hands-on with our plants. Registration is required; registration opens one month prior to the event. Participants must be 16 years old or older. Free. 1 to 4 p.m., Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. For more information, visit www. queensbotanical.org. Come out to the Middle Village library this aft ernoon for the latest screening in its Thursday Movie Matinee for Adults. Today’s feature is “Some Like it Hot,” the classic comedy starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. Free admission. 2-4:30 p.m., Middle Village library, 72-31 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village. For more information, call 718-326-1390. FRIDAY, MAY 5 Check out what’s happening in the cosmos at “Stargazing with the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York” event at the Cemetery of the Evergreens on the Ridgewood/Bushwick border. Members of the AAA will bring their own high-powered telescopes and binoculars to help everyone fi nd stars, planets, comets and other objects in the sky. Free and open to the public, parking available. 7 to 10 p.m. The Cemetery of the Evergreens, 1629 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn. For more information, call 718-455-5300. Visit Flushing Town Hall for a mashup of two cultures on one stage with an open dance fl oor. This Global Mashup features Taiwanese saxophonist, singer and composer Stephanie Chou and EDITOR'S PICK Jamaican artist Owen Romeo featuring his group Tribal Legacy. Dance lessons will be held an hour before the show. $16 per person. May 5 at 8 p.m. Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing. Go to www.fl ushingtownhall. org/events to purchase tickets. SATURDAY, MAY 6 Beautify Historic Flushing will host Flushing’s First Spring History Festival. This festival features local and citywide performers and vendors. Free. May 6 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Margaret I. Carmen Green, Weeping Beech Park, Flushing. SUNDAY, MAY 7 Catch the warbler wave! Welcome them back at a spring bird-watching workshop led by The Brooklyn Bird Club at the Ridgewood Reservoir. Bring your own binoculars! Free admission. 7:30-8:30 a.m., Ridgewood Reservoir, Cypress Avenue and Vermont Place. For more information, call 718-235-4100. Finland’s top violinist Petteri Livonen and New York’s rising concert Pianist Mika Sasaki will perform on Sunday, May 7 as a part of the Forte New York Chamber Music Series “Recital Series.” Free admission and parking. 5 p.m. New York Presbyterian Church, Long Island City. For more information, visit www.fortenycms.com or www.facebook.com/fortenycms. MONDAY, MAY 8 Professional magicians Rich Marotta, Steve Dane and Ulises Beato will bewilder and beguile you with great magic and comedy at the Ridgewood library. Each magician off ers a diff erent perspective on the art of magic. Free admission. 3 to 4 p.m., Ridgewood library, 2012 Madison St. For more information, call 718-821-4770. TUESDAY, MAY 9 Visit the Astoria Bookshop for a discussion and celebration of Camille Perri’s paperback release of “The Assistants.” She will be joined by Queens author and fellow mystery writer Lyndsay Faye. Free. May 9 from 7 to 8 p.m. Astoria Bookshop, 31-29 31st St., Astoria. For more information, go to www.astoriabookshop.com/event. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 Kids ages 5 to 12 can get craft y on Wednesday, May 10 at the Broadway Library. They will create beautiful handmade items using natural materials such as seeds, fl owers, twigs, leaves, feathers and stones. Free. 4 to 5 p.m. Broadway Library, 40-20 Broadway, Long Island City. COUNSELING PROGRAMS • GLENDALE ALANON, a program for families and friends of alcoholics, meets every Wednesday night at Trinity Reformed Church, Palmetto Street and 60th Place, Ridgewood, Beginners meet at 7:30 p.m., followed by the regular meeting at 8:10 p.m. • ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS meets every Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Grace Lutheran Church, 21st Avenue and 32nd Street, Astoria. For more information, call 718-520-5021. • NAR-ANON, a self-help support group for those affected by a loved one’s drug abuse, meets every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the basement of the Church of the Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills. For more information, call 800-984-0066. YOUTH ACTIVITIES • BOY SCOUT TROOP 28 meets every Friday at 7 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 86-20 114th St., Richmond Hill. All boys ages 10 1/2 to 17 are welcome. For information, call 718-478-5747. • SUNNYSIDE DRUM CORPS meets every Tuesday at 6 p.m. at All Saints Church, 43-12 46th St., one block off Queens Boulevard, Sunnyside. Boys and girls ages 7 to 17 are invited to join. For more information, call 718-786-4141. • BOY SCOUT TROOP 119 meets every Tuesday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at St. Margaret Parish Center, 80th Street off Juniper Valley Road, Middle Village. Boys ages 11 to 17 are welcome. • CUB SCOUT PACK 383 meets every Wednesday from 7 to 8 p.m. at St. Pancras Pfeifer Hall, Myrtle Avenue and 68th Street, Glendale. For more information, call 718-938-2073. ONGOING SENIOR PROGRAMS • RIDGEWOOD OLDER ADULT CENTER, 59-14 70th Ave., Ridgewood, welcomes new members 60 years of age and older every weekday. For more information, call 718-456-2000. • RIDGEWOOD-BUSHWICK SENIOR CENTER, 319 Stanhope St., Bushwick, holds various programs every day. Call 718-366-3083 for more information. • PETER CARDELLA SENIOR CENTER, 68-52 Fresh Pond Road, Ridgewood, holds breakfast and lunch every weekday, as well as a variety of programs. For more information, call 718-497-2908. • SELF-HELP MASPETH SENIOR CENTER, 69-61 Grand Ave., holds beading, jewelry and other programs daily. Hot lunch served at noon. Transportation available. For details, call 718-429-3636. • MIDDLE VILLAGE ADULT CENTER, 69-10 75th St., offers recreation and fitness classes, including zumba, yoga and computers. Daily transportation, bingo and hot lunches. Scheduled bus trips available. Free membership for adults 60+. For more information, call 718-894-3441. • REGO PARK SENIOR CENTER, 93-29 Queens Blvd., holds a variety of programs every day. For more information, call 718-896-8751. • SUNNYSIDE SENIOR CENTER, 43-31 39th St., holds programs daily. Call 718-392-6944 for more information. COMMUNITY CALENDAR Adulting doesn’t have to mean checking the couch for spare change. Visit the Astoria Bookshop for a panel lead by personal fi nance author Erin Lowry on millennial fi nance and her new book, “Broke Millennial.” Free. May 5 from 7 to 8 p.m. Astoria Bookshop, 31-29 31st St., Astoria. For more information, visit www.astoriabookshop.com.
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