92 THE QUEENS COURIER • APRIL 6, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM happenings ›APR6 › 12 LIST OF 17 THINGS TO DO THURSDAY, APRIL 6 1Are you a poet, storyteller or freestyle rapper looking to share your talent? Flushing Town Hall’s monthly open mic night will be hosted by poet and storyteller Bobby González on Thursday, April 6. The suggested theme for this open mic is poetry and jazz. Free. 6 to 9 p.m. Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing. 2Queens Community House will be honoring the president of the Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce, Leslie Brown, with a networking cocktail party. Greek desserts will be prepared by Chef Maria of Maria’s Mediterranean Seafood & Grill and winner of the Food Network show CHOPPED. Free. April 6 from 6 to 8 p.m. West Side Tennis Club, 1 Tennis Pl., Forest Hills. For more information on this event, contact Sabrina Flores at sflores@qchnyc.org or 718-592-5757 x246. FRIDAY, APRIL 7 4If you’re a scholar, journalist, artist, activist, technology expert or anyone else in between, attend the Theorizing the Web 2017 conference! In its seventh year, this twoday conference will include speakers and panels focusing on the interrelationships between the Internet and society. Registration is paywhat EDITOR’S PICK If you’re looking to beautify the community, join the Queens Botanical Garden for their Horticulture Volunteer Day. Participants will learn gardening basics while also working with plants. Participants must be 16 and up. Registration is required. April 6 from 1 to 4 p.m. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing. To register, visit their website at www.queensbotanical.org. you-wish for access to both days. April 7 from noon to 10:30 p.m. The Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria. To register and get more information on the conference, visit www. movingimage.us. 5Wine and dine with Dominican Chef Carolina Mourelle on Friday, April 7. Chef Mourelle’s menu includes different empanadas and stuffed brie with guava marmalade wrapped in puff pastry. A sangria expert will also be demonstrating how to make sangria. Limited to 15 adult participants from 7 to 9 p.m. $24 per person. Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglstan. To register for this event, go to www.alleypond. com. SATURDAY, APRIL 8 6As a part of the New York Hall of Science’s Spring Schools Out Week, the ultimate Lego fan experience will begin on Saturday, April 8. Brick Fest Live will give kids the chance to build and view amazing Lego creations. Free with admission to NYSCI. The New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th St., Corona. For more information, visit www.nysci.org/ event/brick-fest-live. 7Cultural Caravan Productions Inc. will be celebrating womanhood and sisterhood at the Douglaston/Little Neck Library. Poems of Muriel Yvonne Nickens with vocalist Linda Jones-Prince, pianist Jonathan Archer and dancer/choreog rapher Tina Atterbury will be performed for National Poetry Month. Seating is limited. Free. April 8 at 3 p.m. Douglaston/Little Neck Library, 249-01 Northern Blvd., Little Neck. 8Can the love of people from different cultures survive? Watch this comedic but romantic tale of the love between two black and Latino college students who are faced with prejudices while defending their love to their family and friends. Platanos Y Collard Greens will be performed on Saturday, April 8, from 7 to 9 p.m. at York College. Tickets start at $25. Milton G. Bassin Performing Arts Center, York College, 94-95 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., Jamaica. For tickets, visit www.york.cuny.edu/pac. SUNDAY, APRIL 9 9MoMA PS1 will be hosting a Spring Open House on Sunday, April 9. Come view the premiere of new solo and group exhibitions. British artist and writer Hannah Black will also be presenting this season’s VW Sunday Sessions commission “OR,LIFE,OR” which is an ongoing collabora- ATTENTION: Want your event on this page? Post it on QNS.com! It’s never been easier to submit a Happening. Become a registered member at www.qns.com, visit the Events page, click the “Add Event” bar at left, complete the form and click “Post Event.” You can even post a photo or a fl ier for your event. It takes only a couple of minutes to complete, and it’s absolutely FREE! We’ll select entries on our QNS.com Events site for our Happenings page in The Queens Courier and Ridgewood Times. Let all of Queens know what’s going on tomorrow by posting it on QNS.com today! 3
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