52 THE COURIER SUN • OCTOBER 30, 2014 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com happenings >OCT FRIDAY, OCT. 31 Restaurant Bourbon Street is hosting a “Children’s Halloween Monster Bash” at 3:30 p.m. The restaurant has been hosting the bash since 2004. Children of all ages are welcome to gather and partake in games, food and fun. Food and Halloween candy are provided for children. 40-12 Bell Blvd. Celebrate Dia de los Muertos, Halloween and All Saints Day with hands-on festive fun for all ages at “Halloween Re-Mixed” at the Flushing Town Hall starting at 4 p.m. Be sure to wear your costume and join them for maskmaking, All Saints Day medallions, Mexican sugar skulls and ghost stories. Halloween treats will be handed out to all participants. Admission is free. 137-35 Northern Blvd. If you and your little ones aren’t ready to brave the major Halloween affairs, head to the Jackson Heights community parade. At the end of the promenade, 3,000 goody bags will be given out to young trick-or-treaters. Participants of all ages are welcome to attend. The event begins at 5 p.m. and admission is free. The parade takes place from 89th to 76th streets on 37th Ave. Join the Sunlight Activity Center at 30-50 Whitestone Expressway for a night of masquerade fun. There will be live music performance, dancing and karaoke, pool and table games, raffl es, photo booth fun and food and drinks. Tickets are $48 each and the event is from 7 p.m. to midnight. Purchase tickets at 37-08 Main Street, Room 215 or to purchase group tickets, call 800-508-6936, ext. 803. SATURDAY, NOV. 1 Join an All Saints Day tour at the Evergreens Cemetery at noon. Meet up is at Conway Street and Bushwick Avenue at the Cemetery Gate. Admission is $15 for Greater Astoria Historical Society members and $20 for the general public. Time of tour is approximately three hours. EDITOR’S PICK The Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning staff and volunteers transform the 1895 landmark Renaissance style headquarters into a fun-fi lled haunted house for children and families. The Halloween Family Fun Day offers treats, costume contests, arts and crafts, a “Thriller” dance workshop and prizes. The event is from noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free for all. Go on www.jcal.org for more details or contact 718-658- 7400 ext. 123 regarding JCAL Family Fun Day events throughout the year. 161-04 Jamaica Ave. Bring your organic materials to 69th Street and 35th Avenue under the BQE to turn into soil and compost for local street trees. Food scraps like coffee grinds, fruit and vegetable peels and yard waste like leaves and grass cuttings are welcome. The event occurs every Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Join the Queens Museum for its opening reception and open studios today as it closes out Asian Contemporary Art Week with the opening of four new exhibitions and accompanying screenings, artist walkthroughs and performances. Opening reception will be from 4 to 8 p.m. and refreshments will be served from 5 to 8 p.m. The Queens Museum is located at the New York City Building at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. Join Bayside Historical Society Board of Trustee Paul DiBenedetto for a guided tour around the tombstones in Lawrence Cemetery at 216th Street and 42nd Avenue. Visit this New York City landmark site and fi nal resting place of the city’s fi rst popularly elected mayor, Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence, and other descendants of one of Bayside’s founding families. The tour will require walking on uneven ground and there are no restrooms on site. Admission is free and the event is from 2 to 4 p.m. Bring your little gardeners and nature lovers to Queens Botanical Garden for a relaxing afternoon featuring nature-inspired stories, followed by a botanically-themed craft activity while supplies last. Admission is free and the event is from 2 to 3:30 p.m. For more information please call 718-886-3800. 43-50 Main St. Bring your fall pumpkins, jacko’ lanterns and decorative gourds to the NYC Compost Project pumpkin-smashing celebration. You smash them and we will compost them locally. Compost will be used to rebuild NYC’s soils. Refreshments, while supplies last, will be served. There will also be raffl es and more for participants. The event will occur rain or shine. Admission is free. The “Pumpkin Smash 2014” is held at Sunnyside Greenmarket in Torsney Playground at 43rd Street and Skillman Avenue from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. SUNDAY, NOV. 2 Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School 74 is turning 60 and you are invited to help celebrate!Doors open at noon and advanced registration is required. Celebration festivities include guest speakers, building tours, a historical display, entertainment by current and former students, yearbook viewings and much more. There will also be lunch, commemorative T-shirts and other “Hawthorne” items sold. Visit https://sites.google. com/site/ms74turns60 to register. Are you ready for some wheelchair football? Come out and play pickup wheelchair football every Sunday through Nov. 30 at Bulova Park. If you’ve never played wheelchair football before, you’re guaranteed to have fun! The park is located at 25th Avenue and 76th Street and the event is from 8 a.m. to noon. For more information please contact drainer14@aol. com or 347-512-7186. Symphonic Wind Ensemble Director Kristin Mozeiko founded Queens College Chamber Winds. They perform ATTENTION: 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. >NOV .Valerie Green/ Dance Entropy November 1 & 2, 2014 Saturday at 2pm & 8pm Sunday at 3pm Tickets: $42 Member price: $38 Rear side: $25 Box Office: 718.760.0064 queenstheatre.org Funding for the 2014-15 Dance Series is provided in part by Mertz Gilmore Foundaion and the Harkness Foundation For Dance. 2014–15 Season 31- 6
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