40 The Courier sun • MAY 7, 2015 for breaking news visit www.couriersun.com ▶ happenings >MAY8- 14 Friday, May 8 Bring a chair or blanket to Police Officer Edward Byrne Park for a showing of “Big Hero 6.” Popcorn will be served. Board games begin at 7 pm. Movie begins at 8 p.m. Free. North Conduit Avenue and 134 Street. For more information, visit nycgovparks.org. There will be a bee-guiling presentation by beekeeper and honey connoisseur Ruth Harrigan at the Bayside Historical Society titled “A Taste of Honey Redux.” Learn all about the beautiful honey bee and beekeeping, then sample several local honeys. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Please pre-register by calling 718- 352-1548. 208 Totten Ave. Flushing Town Hall is mashing up two cultures on one stage with an open dance floor. Featuring Panamanian group Julian presenting the music of Panama that made significant contributions to other genres like Cumbia, Punto and Saloma; and Cameroonian songstress Kaïssa for a unique blend of African, reggae, jazz, R&B and Makossa. Together these artists will create a unique evening of exciting music and culture and make an interesting cultural cocktail to enjoy. They’ll blend together with an impromptu jam in the last set. $10 members and students, $15 nonmembers. 7 p.m. 137-35 Northern Blvd. For more information, visit flushingtownhall.org. As part of the exhibition “After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India, 1947/1997,” Queens Museum will be showing “From Gulf to Gulf,” a film about a group of sailors traveling through the Western Indian Ocean. Free with museum admission. 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Runs through Sunday, June 28. New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park. For more info, visits queensmuseum.org. In “After the Rain,” it is 1984 and the city of Salvador de Bahia prepares for Brazil’s first presidential elections after 20 years of dictatorship. As his school prepares for its own first council elections, 16-yearold Caio’s political awakening begins, as he shifts from a critical outsider to a vocal participant. Focusing on a period seldom portrayed in Brazilian cinema, Hughes and Marques’s semiautobiographical debut highlights Abram Korsunsky has become an increasingly active pianist, performing as a solo and chamber musician in numerous concert venues throughout New York. Watch him perform a solo piano recital featuring works by Beethoven, Scarlatti, Liszt, Chopin and Edward Smaldone’s Transformational Etudes at Flushing Town Hall. Free. Sunday, May 10, 3 p.m. 137-35 Northern Blvd. For more information, visit flushingtownhall.org. questions about the possibility of political and social change. 7 p.m. $12, $9 for seniors and students, free for museum members. Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave. For more information, visit movingimage.us. Combining hardboiled police mystery with soaring kung fu action, director Teddy Chen (“Bodyguards & Assassins,” “The Accidental Spy”) gathers an array of Hong Kong’s most outstanding talents, including action film legend Donnie Yen, for “Kung Fu Killers.” Yen is Hahou, a fabled martial arts master who has been temporarily released from prison to help the police catch a vicious serial killer. Discovering that the killer has systematically hunted down each one of his old enemies, Hahou plunges into a riotous catand mouse chase where the hunter becomes indistinguishable from the hunted. 7:30 p.m. $12, $9 for seniors and students, free for museum members. Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave. For more information, visit movingimage.us. Saturday, May 9 Pitch, shoot and score with NYC Parks. Summer Sports Experience welcomes kids to join this free program focused on developing sports skills on Saturdays and Sundays. Kids will play a variety of sports each day, and can come every session, or just once. Free. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Runs through Sunday, June 21. Lost Battalion Hall Recreation Center, 93-29 Queens Blvd. Call 718- 263-1163 for more details. NYC Parks and Bike New York are proud to present Learn to Ride classes. In these free classes, children will learn the fundamentals of bicycling. This class teaches a safe, easy, effective way to learn to ride. Using this “balance first” method, parents help get their children rolling while the child does most of the work. Participants learn the basics of balancing, starting, stopping and steering a bike. Participants must bring their own bike. Free. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Almeda Playground, Beach 66th St. An aquatic tale that moves between ancient myths and our modern era, children’s show “Ondin” takes toddlers from the wide open shores down to the very deepest part of the sea. There, the young fisherman Ondin turns into a strange marine creature and discovers a fascinating world. Ticket prices vary. 2:15 p.m. Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. For more information, visit flushingtownhall.org. Join the Alley Pond Environmental Center to listen to a nature-related story followed by craft and activity time for Toddler Tales – Wild Mother’s Day. Enjoy a snack, meet an animal and take a trail walk. Limited to 12 participants. $18 per child. 10:30 a.m. to noon. Please preregister by visiting alleypond.com. 228-06 Northern Blvd. FRE LECTURE May 12, 2015 • 10:15 a.m. – 11: 15 a.m. JASA Long Beach Senior Center, 75 East Walnut Street, Long Beach Speaker: Debby Rosenfeld, Esq. of Ronald Fatoullah & Associates Topic: National Health Care Decision Making Day Contact: Bonni Goetz, 516-432-5555 Ext 13 ATENTION: WANT A LISTING ON THIS PAGE? Go to the “Events Calendar” section of our web site, www.queenscourier.com/events-page, and click on “Submit your event” to let us know about your happening. We select from reader submissions to list on our happenings page. Photo courtesy of Flushing Town Hall
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