24 TIMES • OCTOBER 15, 2015 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.timesnewsweekly.com happenings OC T1. 6 -OCT.20 Friday, Oct. 16 Flushing Town Hall will present “Cowboys & Coasts: The Music of Colombia,” a double headliner evening featuring Grupo Rebolu, with traditional Afro-Colombian folk music that is rich in energy, history and danceability: Cumbia, Gaita, Tambora, Bullerengue and more, and Cimarrón performing the festive joropo, in a breathtaking program combining Andalusian, Indigenous Indian and African roots, with harp, bandola, cuatro, bass, cajon, maracas and highpitched voices. 8 p.m. $16 per person, $10 members and students. 137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing. 718-463-7700, www. ushingtownhall.org. Join Square Wines & Spirits and PM Spirits for this special class as we explore the somewhat mysterious and often misunderstood category of brandy. Booze educator and PM Spirits’ sales consultant Chris Hiatt will be making cocktails with and pouring tastes of various French examples of true brandy, including Calvados, Armagnac and Cognac. Admission $25, adults only. Square Wines & Spirits, 24-20 Jackson Ave., LIC. 718-707-9911, www. squarewine.com. Saturday, Oct. 17 Join the Queens Museum for a weekend focused on architecture and urban design, as Queens Museum takes part in the 13th annual Open House New York weekend, organized by Open House New York. Housed in the historic New York City Building, site of both the 1939 and 1964-65 World’s Fairs and the rst home of the United Nations, the Queens Museum has become the principal center for modern and contemporary art in the borough as well home to a collection of World’s Fair memorabilia. It also features the Panorama, a scale model of all ve boroughs of New York City. Noon to 4 p.m. New York City Building at Flushing Meadows Corona Park near the Unisphere. www.queensmuseum.org. Make this year’s trick-or-treating truly unique with a costume you made yourself at the New York Hall of Science. The costume creation workshop offers participants an array of tools and fun materials at your disposal. The hall’s trained staff of Halloween Engineers (Halloweengineers for short) will be on hand to help you make, sew and glue. They can also advise on next steps you can do at home (or at school) to create the costume of your dreams or nightmares. Recommended for ages 5 and older. $10 per adult/child pair, plus NYSCI admission. (Members: $8 per adult/ child pair.) 47-01 111th St., Corona, www. nysci.org. Ridgewood’s historic Onderdonk House will participate in “Open House New York” for the rst time this weekend. The program features “Bloch” Swiss STREETSCAPES See the rapidly changing streetscape of Dutch Hills through a special photography exhibit at the Greater Astoria Historical Society. In “We Will Be Here,” Salvador Espinoza’s images show surviving and former Dutch Kills residents among a haunting landscape of scaffolding and high-rise dig sites. As a lifelong resident of Dutch Kills, Espinoza used funding from Queens Council on the Arts to photograph subject matter that is startlingly close to home. Saturday, Oct. 17. Free admission. Quinn Building, 35-20 Broadway, Fourth Floor, Astoria. 718-278-0700, www.astorialic.org. demonstration and procession in conjunction with Knockdown Center, tours of the Onderdonk House and activities for children. Free admission. 1820 Flushing Ave., Ridgewood. 718-456-1776, www. onderdonkhouse.org. The Lincoln Center is bringing free screenings of world-class performances to Queens Library. The Villalobos Brothers blend the rhythms and melodies of their native Veracruz, Mexico with the harmonies of jazz and classical music to create a new sound in Latin music. Saturday, Oct. 17. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Free admission, no registration required. Ridgewood Library, 20-12 Madison St, Ridgewood. 718-821-4770. http://www. queenslibrary.org Sunday, Oct. 18 The Queens Museum invites children 5 to 12 and their adult companions to its drop-in family workshop, where adults and children can explore different works on view each week through a variety of fun, hands-on art making activities. Children with special needs welcome, adaptations available. No fee or advance registration required. Just show up and stay for as long as you like. This week we will sketch still lifes from fall foods and plants. 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., New York City Building at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Studio A, near the Unisphere. www. queensmuseum.org. Bella Italia Mia will hold its 18th annual celebration at the Christ the King Regional High School CNL Anne and Henry Paolucci International Center. The Italian-American cultural group will feature entertainment from Gianvito Bottalico, Fernando Caruso, Alba Mazza, Daniela Taormina and Giuseppe Taormina. Guests will also enjoy a full meal catered by Phillies Catering of Middle Village. $35 for members, $45 for non-members. Noon to 5 p.m., 68-02 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village. For more information, call 718-426-1240 or email [email protected]. Have a wonderful time during the Wonderful Woodhaven Street Festival along Jamaica Avenue sponsored by the Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation. The street fair features pony rides, games, food and retail vendors and entertainment including the Mary Lamont Country Western Band and the Photo courtesy of the Greater Astoria Historical Society Malaysian Lion Dancers. Noon to 6 p.m., rain or shine, Jamaica Avenue between 80th Street and Woodhaven Boulevard, Woodhaven. Monday, Oct. 19 The Sunnyside Shines Business Improvement District begins tonight its third annual “Sunnyside Restaurant Week.” Twenty-nine local restaurants are participating in the event and will serve a three-course dinner menu for $25; some have also opted to create a special lunch menu. In addition to the delicious food, the arts organization No Longer Empty in partnership with Queens World Film Festival has curated video/ lm installations in several of the restaurants. For a list of participating restaurants, visit www.sunnysideshines.org. St. Barnabas Church will hold its annual fall rummage sale on Monday and Tuesday. Sponsored by the St. Barnabas Women’s Fellowship League, the sale features clothing for children and adults, jewelry, electronics, books, toys, furniture, housewares and much more. Sales will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day and on Monday night from 7 to 9 p.m. 159-
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