With stop-motion animation with papier-mâché��puppets and oldfashioned, hand-drawn cartoons, Rocks in My Pockets tells a personal tale based on women and her family’s battles with madness.Museum of theMoving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Kaufman Astoria District, www.movingimage.us. • Saturday, Dec. 6, Maria Blaisse, 1 p.m. A special dance performance and talk with the prominent Dutch designer Maria Blaisse. A Q&A on “Slow Ecology” moderated by slowLab follows. Event is in conjunction with the presentation of Blaisse’s Breathing Sphere, a computercontrolled, motorized sphere of woven bamboo, on exhibit from Dec. 3, 2014 to Jan. 4, 2015. Free. Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Rd., LIC, www.noguchi.org. • Saturday, Dec. 6, Book Sale, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hundreds of books—fiction, nonfiction, cooking, history, children, sports, architecture, biographies, etc. Greater Astoria Historical Society, Queens Building, 35-20 Broadway, Fourth Floor, LIC, www.astorialic.org. • Saturday, Dec. 6, O Brazil: Casa Grande, 7 p.m. The Museum of the Moving Image (MMI) is presenting an ongoing series celebrating the Brazilian film industry. In Casa Grande, a 17-year-old strives to escape his privileged life within Rio’s social elite. Writer/editor Karen Sztajnberg in person. MMI, 36- 01 35th Ave., Kaufman Arts District, www.movingimage.us. • Saturday, Dec. 6, Reading by Santa Claus, noon. Santa Claus reads “The Night Before Christmas,” while the venue serves as a drop-off location for Toys for Tots. Chain Theatre, 21- 28 45th Rd., LIC, www.variationstheatregroup.com. • Saturday, Dec. 6, Jean Grémillon: Dainah la Métisse, 3 p.m.; Remorques, 5 p.m. The Museum of the Moving Image is doing a retrospective on director Jean Grémillon, a titan of pre- New Wave French cinema. On a transatlantic ocean liner, an elegant black magician is forced to watch with chagrin as his wife, Dainah the Mulatto, flirts with fellow passengers, including a suspicious, subliterate engineer. When Dainah disappears the next day, both men fall under suspicion. In Remorques, a tugboat captain who specializes in bringing vessels safely into port goes out one storm-tossed night and fishes up a young woman who drives a wedge between him and his sick wife. MMI, 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria, www.movingimage.us. • Saturday, Dec. 6-7, Painting Exhibition: Archana Santra, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Santra, who was born in Calcutta, depicts movement from place to place and relationship to relationship, searching for depth and meaning, sometimes struck by the intensity of change, sometimes awed by the experience of learning. Free. AmericanMartyrs Church, 79-43 Bell Blvd., Bayside, 1-718-464- 4582. • Saturday, Dec. 6, See It Big! Animation: Pom Poko, 1 p.m. The See It Big Series is presenting 16 animated films. In Japanese with English subtitles, Pom Poko is a lush fantasy about a forest filled with magical shapeshifting raccoons.Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Kaufman Astoria District, www.movingimage.us. • Sunday, Dec. 7, The Vienna Boys’ Choir, 3 p.m. This celebrated choir performs a program that includes traditional Christmas carols, Gregorian chants, world music, and holiday favorites. Prices vary. Colden Auditorium, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, www.kupferbergcenter.org. • Sunday, Dec. 7, 27th Annual Holiday Historic House Tour, 1 to 5 p.m. This 27th annual tour visits historic sites decked out in their holiday glory: Kingsland Homestead, Bowne House, Voelker Orth Museum, Flushing Town Hall, Friends Meeting House, Latimer House, and the Louis Armstrong House Museum. More info at www.queenshistoricalsociety.org. • Sunday, Dec. 7, Forest Park Toy Drive 5 Miler, 8:30 a.m. The Queens Tourism Council presents this second annual run/toy drive. Racers are asked to donate toys that will be distributed by the Queens Center for Progress to local children. $25/$30 on race day, and the first 50 registrants receive Queens Distance Runners t-shirts. The course loops twice through Forest Park, starting and finishing at Forest Park Drive and Woodhaven Boulevard, Kew Gardens, visit their website, www.queensdistancerunners.org. • Sunday, Dec. 7, Winter Solstice Celebration, 1 to 5 p.m. A concert by Rough Dozen, a talented, dynamic, all-male a cappella ensemble, plus botanical craft workshops, appearances by Santa, seasonal refreshments, a garden tour, a holiday marketplace, and a tree-lighting ceremony. Free. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing, www.queensbotanical.org. • Sunday, Dec. 7, Under His Very Windows, 1 p.m. Dr. Susan Zucotti highlights aid to Italy’s Jews provided by Catholics. She claims that those Catholics who aided Jews invariably believed that they were acting “according to the Pope’s will.” Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center & Archives, Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56th Ave., Bayside, www.qcc.cuny.edu/ khrca. • Sunday, Dec. 7, Flushing’s Chinatown, 11 a.m. Official Queens historian Jack Eichenbaum leads a walking tour of this immigrant destination and commercial center. Taiwanese rather than Cantonese at its core, Flushing hosts a variety of overseas Chinese groups. Rezoning and greater land availability support unusual real estate developments, including office buildings, hotels, residential condos, specialty shops, cultural institutions, and malls. Restaurant recommendations provided. $15, but no registration necessary. Just show up in time. More info at jaconet@aol.com. • Sunday, Dec. 7, Chautauqua in Astoria, 2 p.m. Through a series of workshops led by Sally Ann Drucker, participants chose a figure from New York history, wrote a 20-minute script, and learned how to present their material to live audiences. The project culminates in performances featuring Sharon Twickler as Nellie Bly, Joanne De Feo asMaeWest, David Druce as Theodore Roosevelt, Katherine Jason as Rose Rosenfeld Freedman, and Drucker as Emma Goldman. Free. Greater Astoria Historical Society, Queens Building, 35-20 Broadway, Fourth Floor, LIC, www.astorialic.org. • Sunday, Dec. 7, Live Music, 2 to 4 p.m. As part of Myrtle Avenue BID’s Small Business Saturday, the eclectic local indie band Silverteeth performs at Venditti Square, Myrtle and St. Nicholas avenues, Ridgewood, www.Ridgewood-NY.com. • Sunday, Dec. 7, Jean Grémillon: L’Étrange Monsieur Victor, 3 p.m.; June 6th at Dawn, 6 p.m.; and L’E��trange Madame X, 6 p.m. The Museum of the Moving Image is doing a retrospective on director Jean Grémillon of pre-New Wave French cinema. In L’Étrange, Victor is a Jekyll & Hyde shopkeeper who moonlights in underworld trade. The walls dividing his double life crack when he commits a murder and allows another man to be jailed for the crime. In June 6th, Grémillon returned to his native Normandy to retell the story of D-Day through the words of eyewitnesses and experts. In L’E��trange Madame X, a chambermaid is in a loveless marriage with an aristocratic publishing magnate when she falls in love with a handsome young carpenter and gets pregnant.MMI, 36-01 35thAve., Astoria, www.movingimage.us. • Sunday, Dec. 7, See It Big! Animation:My Neighbor Totoro, 1 p.m. The See It Big Series is presenting 16 animated films. In Japanese with English subtitles, Totoro is about two sisters who move to a new country home, and discover a family of Totoros, gentle but powerful creatures seen only by children. Museum of theMoving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Kaufman Astoria District, www.movingimage.us. • Tuesday, Dec. 9, Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, 1 p.m. This movie solves a decades-old mystery. Julia is an American journalist living in Paris with her French husband assigned to cover the anniversary of France’s notorious 1942 Vel’ d’Hiv roundup of Jews inWorldWar II. Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center, Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56th Ave., Bayside, www.qcc.cuny.edu/ khrca The “It’s In Queens” column is produced by the Queens tourism Council with the hope that readers will enjoy the borough’s many attractions.More info available online at www.itsinqueens.com. News From The Queens Tourism Council -CONTINUED FROM PG. 20- 55 • TIMES, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014 Social Security News physical or mental condition, or a combination of conditions, resulting in “marked and severe functional limitations.” This means that the condition(s) must severely limit your child’s activities. • The child’s condition(s) must be severe, last for at least 12 months, or be expected to result in death. • If your child’s condition(s) does not result in “marked and severe limitations”, or does not result in those limitations for at least 12 months, your child will not qualify for SSI. • The child must not be working and earning more than $1,090 a month in 2015. (This amount usually changes every year.) If he or she is working and earning that much money, your child will not be eligible for disability benefits. Learn the details about benefits for children by reading our publication, Benefits for Children with Disabilities, available at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs. Visit www.socialsecurity.gov/ people/kids to learn more about all we do to care for children. Caring for the next generation is a national priority, during the holidays and all year long. -CONTINUED FROM PG. 25- CALENDAR meals-on-wheels and senior assistance program. For more information, call 1-718-779- 1234. FOREST HILLS SENIOR CENTER, 108-25 62nd Dr., will hold various programs, plus hot lunch. For more information, call 1-718-699-1010. MASPETH SELF-HELP SENIOR CENTER, 69-61 Grand Ave., Maspeth will hold exercise and bingo. Hot lunch at noon. Transportation available. Call 1- 718-429-3636 for information. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 WELCOME SANTA TO WOODHAVEN PARADE will be held starting on Jamaica Ave at 11 a.m. starting at 96th St and Jamaica Ave. Concludes at Dexter Court. RIDGEWOOD GLENDALE MIDDLE VILLAGE LIONS CLUB will hold a Christmas tree lighting at 4 p.m. at Fred Haller Triangle, Myrtle Ave. and Union Tpke., Glendale. ST NICHOLAS DAY Celebration at Church of the Resurrection, 85-09 118th St., Richmond Hill/Kew Gardens. Prayer service at 6 p.m. in Church and Celebration at 7 p.m. in the Parish Center. All welcome. Visit from St Nicholas bearing gifts. NOSHWALKS in Ridgewood starting at 11:30 a.m. Meet at Caribe Star Restaurant, 54-55 Myrtle Ave., Proceed along Avenue with stops at Rudy’s Bakery, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Polish, Colombian, Mexican and Turkish restaurants or food markets. Take M or L train to Myrtle Ave/Wyckoff station if coming by public transportation. For information em NoshNews@aol.com and www.noshwalks.com. GREATER ASTORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY will host a book extravaganza fundraiser and an art and antique valuation (for a small fee) at Society headquarters, 35-20 Broadway, 4th Floor, Long Island City. Free admission and open to the public. PLAY4AUTISM will hold arts & crafts at Architots, 64-64 Dry -CONTINUED FROM PG. 34- -SEE CALENDAR ON PG. 56-
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