It’s In Queens! News From The Queens Tourism Council An extremely busy weekend is on its way with 12 Saturday events and 10 activities on Sunday. As always, the diversity is mindboggling with jazz, dance, improv, food, film, theater, poetry, a motorcade, a nighttime corn maze, and countless pumpkins. Here’s the rundown. • Tonight (Thursday), Oct. 16, Jamaica Center Reading Series, 6:30 p.m. Local writers, poets, and residents participate in these showcases on Thursdays until Dec. 18. Varying locations, this night at Jamaica Market, 90-40 160th St., Jamaica, www.jcbidreadingseries.org. • Friday, Oct. 17, A Piano Fantasy in Jazz, 8 p.m. NEA Jazz Master pianist Barry Harris and Valerie Capers, a jazz pianist, composer, and Julliard School’s first blind graduate, play together on stage for the first time. New preshow members lounge at 7 p.m. Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., www.flushingtownhall.org. • Friday, Oct. 17, Natural Grace: Irish Music and Martin Hayes, 7:30 p.m. Filmed over two years, this documentary on one of Ireland’s greatest traditional fiddlers explores his journey and Irish music. $11/$8 for students, -SEE TOURISM ON PG. 55- Community CALENDAR Queens & Brooklyn seniors and unemployed. New York Irish Center, 10-40 Jackson Ave., LIC, www.nyirish.org. • Friday, Oct. 17, Improv: Friend or Foe?, 6 p.m. An improvisational workshop with Katha Cato, a pioneer of the Herold (or Improv Long) Form. $10, Queens Council on the Arts, 37-11 35th Ave., Astoria, www.queenscouncilarts.org. • Friday, Oct. 17, I Wish I Knew, 7 p.m. This is the final film of a series on Hou Hsiao-hsien, the leading figure of the Taiwanese New Cinema movement. I Wish I Knew is a subversive documentary that shows the mainland Chinese filmmaker Jia traveling from Shanghai to Hong Kong and Taiwan, tracing the history of the port city on the Yangtze—and, in effect the history of China— through personal reminiscences and cinematic testimonies, restoring information (and images) occluded or censored by the official Party line. Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Kaufman Arts District, www.movingimage.us. • Friday and Saturday, Oct. 17 & 18, Take Root, 8 p.m. The monthly Take Root program aids in the development of new dance TTOODDAAYY UNITED FORTIES CIVIC ASSOC. will meet at 7 p.m. at St Teresa’s Parish Center, 50th Ave and 45th St., Woodside. PUBLIC MEETING on the Central Ridgewood Historic District, sponsored by the Landmarks Preservation Commission and the Ridgewood Property Owners and Civic Assoc., will be held at 7 p.m. at the Peter Cardella Senior Center, Catalpa Ave. and Fresh Pond Rd., Ridgewood. PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING NYC which will decide how to spend $1 million of taxpayer money for community improvements in Ridgewood, Bushwick or Williamsburg will be held today at 6 p.m. at St Joseph Patron Church, 185 Suydam St., Bushwick. For information call 1- 718-963-3141. REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH, 69-07 Cooper Ave., Glendale will hold a Rummage Sale today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. SENATOR JOSEPH ADDABBO Mobile Office will be held at the Maspeth Library, 69-70 Grand Ave., Maspeth from 5:30 to 7 p.m. GLENDALE KIWANIS will meet at Zum Stammtisch restaurant, Myrtle Ave. and 70th St., at 12:30 p.m.M ASPETH KIWANIS will meet at O’Neill’s Restaurant, 64-21 53rd Dr., Maspeth at 12:15 p.m. RIDGEWOOD OLDER ADULT CENTER, 59-14 70th Ave., welcomes new members 60 years of age or older. Weekdays between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Many programs and meals daily. For more information, call 1-718- 456-2000. REGO PARK SENIOR CENTER, 93-29 Queens Blvd., will hold various programs. For more information, call 1-718-896-8751. 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. SUNNYSIDE SENIOR CENTER, 43-31 39th St., will hold various programs. For more information, call 1-718-392-6944. SELF-HELP MASPETH Senior -SEE CALENDAR ON PG. 22- TIMES, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2014 • 20
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