Community Meetings

Associations

Apr. 4, 8 p.m., Jackson Heights Neighborhood; Atonement Lutheran Church Basement Meeting Room, 87th Street.

Apr. 7, 7:30 p.m., United Community Civic; Augustana Lutheran Church, 69-05 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria Heights.

Apr. 11, 7:30 p.m., Middle Village Property Owners/Residents; St. Margaret’s Parish Hall, 79th Place; 718-894-4114.

Apr. 12, 8 p.m., Forest Hills Community; Grace Lutheran Church Hall, 103-15 Union Tpke.

Clubs

Mar. 31, 8 p.m., William Jefferson Clinton Democratic; Reception House, 167-17 Northern Blvd., Flushing.

Apr. 18, May 23, Jun. 20, Sep. 19, Oct. 17, Nov. 21, Dec. 19, 7:30 p.m., Middle Village Republican; Trinity Lutheran Church, downstairs, 63-70 Dry Harbor Rd., Middle Village.

Community Boards

Apr. 4, 7:30 p.m., Board 11; M.S. 158, 46-35 Oceania St., Bayside; 718-225-1054.

Apr. 5, 7 p.m., Board 4; Flanders Field Post 150, 51-11 108th St., Corona; 718-760-3141.

Apr. 7, 7 p.m., Board 2; Sunnyside Senior Center, 43-31 39th St., 2nd Floor; 718-533-8773.

Apr. 11, 7 p.m., sharp, Board 7; Union Plaza Care Center, 33-23 Union St., Flushing; 718-359-2800.

Apr. 13, 7:30 p.m., Board 8; Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke.; 718-264-7895.

Apr. 14, 9:30 a.m., Board 1; Kaufman Astoria Studio Cafe, 34-12 36th St.; Apr. 19, 7 p.m.; Astoria World Manor, 25-22 Astoria Blvd.; 718-786-3335.

Community Councils

Apr. 26, 8 p.m., sharp, 108th Police Precinct; Sunnyside Community Services, 43-31 39th St., 2nd Floor.

Community Education Councils

Apr. 5, 6 p.m., District 30, NYC Department of Education, Region 4 Learning Support Center, 28-11 Queens Plaza No., 5th Floor, Long Island City; Apr. 12, I.S. 230, 73-10 34th Ave., Jackson Heights; May 10, P.S. 78, 48-09 Center Blvd., Long Island City; Jun. 14, PS. 212, 34-25 82nd St., Jackson Hts.; call 718-391-8380 for time and directions.

Others

Mar. 30, 1 p.m., Woodhaven Cultural & Historical Society Inc; Emanuel United Church of Christ, 91st Avenue, Woodhaven; 718-846-1907.

Apr. 11, May 9, Jun. 13, Jul. 11, Aug. 8, Sep. 12, Oct. 10, Nov. 14, Dec. 12, 8 p.m., Elmhurst-Jackson Heights Post 298, 30-61 87th St., East Elmhurst; 718-429-9298.

Town Hall Meeting

Mar. 30, 7 to 9 p.m., New York City Councilmember David Weprin; Queensborough Community College, Medical Arts Building, Room M-136, 222-05 56th Ave., Bayside.

Arts & Entertainment

Flushing Town Hall

Apr. 1, Jazz of the Duke; Apr. 14, You Can Make Jazz; Apr. 14-Jun. 12, Through Kids’ Eyes; Apr. 15, Women of Rhyme and Song; Apr. 16, Jazz Classique; Apr. 16/17, Jazz and Poetry Marathon; Apr. 18, Author Lecture; Apr. 22, Bright Sheng & Friends; Apr. 23, Be A Conductor!; Apr. 26, Make Your Own Storybook; Apr. 28, Gallery Event: Kids Copy Art; Apr. 30, Opera for Everyone, 137-35 Northern Blvd., Flushing; 718-463-7700.

LaGuardia Community College

Apr. 14, “Performance Planet” Gino Sitson, vocalist,; May 7, Music/Dance Troupe, Raices Habaneras; Jun. 14, Singer/Songwriter, Kevin So, LaG CC, Little Theatre, 47th Avenue and Van Dam Street, Long Island City; 718-482-5151.

Museum of the Moving Image

Apr. 2, Animal Crackers, A Night at the Opera, The Blue Angel; Apr. 3, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, The Blue Angel; Apr. 6, Casablanca; Apr. 8, Beyond the Sea; Apr. 9, The Cocoanuts, Duck Soup, Sans Soleil, La Jetée; Apr. 10, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, Sans Soleil, La Jetée; Apr. 15, The Holy Girl; Apr. 16, Candid Camera, Cachimba; Apr. 17, Nanook of the North, Chronicle of a Summer, Portrait of Teresa; Apr. 20, Cabin in the Sky; Apr. 22, Tai Chi Fist; Apr. 23, The Real World, Don’t Look Back, Lonely Boy, A Married Couple, Tabu; Apr. 24, The Little Fugitive, Beauty #2, Rape, Portrait of Jason, Tabu; Apr. 25 to Apr. 28, The Little Fugitive; Apr. 29, The Little Fugitive, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Apr. 30, The Little Fugitive, David Holzman's Diary, Sherman's March, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; May 1, The Osbournes, Seventeen, sex, lies, and videotape, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; May 4, Buck Privates; May 6, A Peck on the Cheek; May 7, The Secret Cinema, Panel Discussion: The Reality Show: Film, TV, The Web, and Real Life, Tarnation, Rio Bravo; May 8, Secret Cinema, Grey Gardens, Happy Mother’s Day, Tarnation, Rio Bravo; 35th Avenue, Astoria; 718-784-0077.

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center

22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City; 718-784-2084.

Queensborough Community College

Apr. 3, Elmar Oliveira, violin; Apr. 10; St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre: Romeo & Juliet; Apr. 16, National Acrobats of Taiwan; Apr. 17, TV Hit Parade; Apr. 30, Queens Symphonic Band; May 1, David Finckel & Wu Han, cello and piano, ongoing, An American Odyssey; African Art and the Khabouris Codex Exhibits; : 1945-1980, 222-05 56th Ave., Bayside; 718-631-6327.

Queens College

Apr. 2, Tango Jazz Fusion; Apr. 3, Violinist Elmar Oliveira; Apr. 10, Russian American Kids Circus; Apr. 16, Ahn Trio; Apr. 17, KIDSCLASSICS “Percussion”; Apr. 21, A Roundtable on the Art of Writing, Queens College Campus, Flushing; 718-793-8080.

Queens Museum of Art

Apr. 1, South Asian American Art Today, offsite; Apr. 3, South Asian Contemporary Art, offsite; Apr. 7, Picasso: From Spain to France; Apr. 14, Kandinsky: From Russia to Germany; Apr. 21, Georgia O’Keefe: From Wisconsin to New York to New Mexico; Apr. 23, 24, South Asian Music Festival; to Apr. 25, Films of Revolution and Responsibility, call for titles; Apr. 28, Isamu Noguchi: New York to Paris; May 5, Red Grooms: Tennessee to New York; May 21, South Asian Authors Today; 718-592-9700.

Queens Theatre In The Park

Apr. 2, Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico; Apr. 9, Pinocchio; Apr. 9/10, Ann Hampton Callaway & Liz Callaway in Relative Harmony; Apr. 15, Natalie Cole; Apr. 16, Jungle Book Ballet; Apr. 16, Steve Ross; Apr. 23, Urban Ballet; Apr. 30, Robin Hood, Thief of Hearts, Return of Beatlemania Again!; Flushing Meadows–Corona Park; 718-760-0064.

Others

Apr, 2, 16, 30, Italian Charities of America Saturday dances; Apr. 2, 10, 17, Sunday dances with instructions-, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst; 718-478-3100.

Apr. 2, The Flushing Jewish Community Council Dances From Around the World; Poppenhusen Institute, 114-04 14th Rd., College Point; 718-463-0434, ext. 2.

Apr. 6, Queens Interagency Council On Aging “Hollywood on the Home Front: Classic Movies from the ’40s”; “Casablanca”; Apr. 20, “Cabin in the Sky”; May 4, “Buck Privates”; May 18, “Double Indemnity”: Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue, Astoria; 718-268-5954.

Apr. 13, AQA Gallery art workshop, Wednesday evenings, 99-10 Metropolitan Ave., Forest Hills; 718-510-9842.

Apr. 14, Jewish Child Care Association Theater For Action “Finding Home Again…”; TBD Midtown Manhattan; 718-742-8521.

•Astoria Performing Arts Center and Queens’ restaurateur Charlie Kourakos open mic and entertainment at Cabaret at The Cave, 31-11 Broadway, Astoria. For scheduled headliners and more information log onto www.apacny.org or call 718-278-5925.

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Dances

Apr. 10, SAGE/GLBT Women’s Spring Dance “Goes Home”; Avalon, 660 Sixth Ave., Manhattan; 212-243-2067.

Apr. 14, Queens Chamber of Commerce Installation Luncheon; Crowne Plaza La Guardia, 104-04 Ditmars Blvd., East Elmhurst.

Fleas, Fairs, Fundraisers

Mar. 31, Queens Symphony Orchestra; Sheraton La Guardia East Hotel, Flushing; 718-326-4455, ext. 18.

Apr. 9, The Oratorio Society of Queens Annual Fundraising Dinner; Temple Beth Sholom, Grand Dining Room, Northern Boulevard, Flushing; 718-279-4842.

Apr. 24, Central Astoria LDC, Steinway Street between 28th and 34th Avenues.

May 18-23, St. Demetrios Cathedral, 30th Drive between 30th and 31st Streets.

May 30, September 25, Broadway Astoria Merchants & Professionals, Broadway between Crescent and 47th Streets.

Now, Queen of Angels School Fundraiser “Save Our School,” send tax-deductible donations to 44-15 Skillman Ave., Sunnyside, NY 11104; 718-937-3244.

Health

Apr. 2, Food Addicts Anonymous of Greater New York Workshop “Spring Into The Steps”; Beth Israel Medical Center, Renfield Center, Baird Hall, First Avenue, Manhattan; 212-799-0824.

Apr. 9, Queens Centers for Progress and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection 30th Annual Hike-For-Health, in memory of Christopher Postiglione; 718-380-3000, ext. 298.

To Apr. 30, Hadassah “A Lifeline for Israel: The Hadassah Medical Organization, 1913-1967”; Center of Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., Manhattan; 212-303-8155.

Weekends in April, Yili Natural Healthcare “Acupuncture for Health,” 92-30 56th Ave., Elmhurst; 718-760-0889.

Historicals

Apr. 4, Greater Astoria Historical Society Slide Lecture on Lent–Riker–Smith homestead; 718-278-2437.

Tuesday/Saturday/Sunday, Queens Historical Society, 40 Years of Chinese Immigrants in Queens; Kingsland Homestead, 143-35 37th Ave., Flushing; 718-939-0647.

Items of Community Interest

Mar. 31, Queens Jewish Community Council Delegate Assembly; Utopia Jewish Center, 64-41 Utopia Pkwy., Flushing; 718-544-9033.

Apr. 6, Flushing Jewish Community Council Intergenerational Workshop “Building Community thru Story Sharing”; St. George’s Episcopal Church, 135-32 38th Ave., Flushing; Apr. 11, ESOL Classes; St. John’s Lutheran School, 123-07 22nd Ave.; 718-463-0434.

Apr. 9, Queens Legal Services Corp. 5th Annual Queens Fair Housing Conference; P.S. 223, 125-20 Sutphin Blvd., Jamaica; Apr. 23, Sunnyside Community Services, 43-31 39th St., Sunnyside; 718-647-8611, ext. 26.

Apr. 9, Federation of Italian American Organizations of Queens, Inc. ESL citizenship training; I.S. 141, 37-11 21st Ave., Astoria; 718-204-2444.

To Apr. 15, Neighborhood Housing Services free Homebuyers Seminar; Free Income Tax Preparation, 60-20 Woodside Ave. (inside Astoria Federal Savings), 2nd Floor, Astoria; 718-457-1017.

To Dec. 31, Queensborough Community College “Tempted, Misled, Slaughtered…”; 718-281-5770.

Long Island Children’s Museum

Wednesday-Friday, Early Childhood Programs: Music and Movement; stArt, and Messy Afternoons, 11 Davis Ave., Garden City. Some advance registration required 516-224-5868.

Parks & Recreation

Alley Pond Environmental Center

Apr. 2, Introduction to Alley Pond Park; Apr. 3, Nature Detective Series; Apr. 7, 14, 21, May 5, 12, 19, Watercolor Flowers; Apr. 7, 14, 21, May 5, 12, 19, 26, Conservation Club; Apr. 9, 10, 16, 17, Bunny Bonanza; Apr. 14, Spring Peeper Walk; ongoing: birthday parties for 2 to 3 and 4 to 12 year old children, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston; 718-229-4000.

Queens Botanical Garden

Mon., Wed., Fri., seniors wanted for Senior Garden Program, 43-50 Main St., Flushing; 718-886-3800.

Voelker Orth Museum/Bird Sanctuary/Victorian Garden

Apr. 9, May 21, Trivia Pursuit Dinners: I “Ragtime to Blues,” II “The Silver Screen,” III “The Broadway Musical”; Apr. 23, May 14, Jun. 11, Victorian High Tea; 149-19 38th Ave., Flushing; 718-359-6227.

Others

Apr. 3, "Wildman" Steve Brill’s Hunt for Wild Carrots in Kissena Park, 164th Street and Booth Memorial Avenue, Flushing; 914-835-2153 at least 24 hours before event to reserve.

Reunions

May, Franklin K. Lane H.S. Class of 1955 and 1956, 50 year reunion in progress, contact June G. 718-738-4271, Adele B. 631-543-3816 or LorraineC@classmates.com.

School News & Events

Apr. 9, Christ the King Regional H.S. Annual Hall of Fame Awards–Fundraising Dinner; 718-366-7400, ext. 272.

May, I.S. 125 Spring Festival Showcase. To donate goods, volunteer or contribute to any of these events, contact Parent Coordinator, Heather Strafer at 718-937-0320, ext. 414.

YMCAs

Central Queens YM & YWHA

Apr. 3, Shaping the American Jewish Identity; Apr. 6, Senior Travel Club “A Walking Tour of the Chassidic Community”; Apr. 10, Music and Dancing for Seniors; Apr. 30, Art Exhibit of Queens Scenes; ongoing, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, belly, Israeli, line, jazz dance; Monday to Thursday, Kids’ Korner After School Center, grades K to 6; Tuesday, Tai Chi Chuan exercise classes, matinee and lunch for senior adults; Fridays “Sew” for Israel; Family Workshops, 67-09 108th St., Forest Hills. Call for fees, 718-268-5011.

Cross Island Y

Apr. 2, Healthy Kids Day; Apr. 11 to June 26, 10-week course in computers for children, adults and seniors; 718-551-9314; ongoing, art programs for youth, teens and adults, ballroom dancing, dance for ages 3 to 11, computer learning opportunities; martial arts; training for Special Olympics; instructional wrestling; Smart Start; instructional soccer, instructional baseball, arts programs for youth, teens & adults, 238-10 Hillside Ave., Bellerose. For information, call 718-479-0505.

PSAs

Al-Anon of Jackson Heights, self-help for people affected by another person’s drinking, Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m.; St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 82nd Street; 718-457-1511.

Forest Hills Community House & Senior Center, 108-22 62nd Dr.; 718-699-1010; Kew Gardens Community Center, 80-02 Kew Gardens Rd., Suite 202; 718-268-5960; Rego Park Senior Center, 93-29 Queens Blvd.; 718-896-8511. All the centers host many interesting and diverse courses and activities, call the one nearest you for more information.

QSAC, free training for parents and caregivers of children and adults with autism, every two weeks on Tuesday, 30-10 38th St., 3rd Floor, Astoria; 718-7-AUTISM, ext 1219.

Queens Women’s Network Multi-Service Center has a host of programs for displaced homemakers and domestic violence victims, (in English) and Spanish, for women and men, strictly confidential, 161-10 Jamaica Ave., Suite 207, Jamaica; 718-657-6200.

Sunnyside Community Services for Adults, call Nancy Lee Hendley at 718-786-9273; Citizenship/ESL Classes, call Sonia at 718-784-6173, ext. 112 or Richard at ext. 111; Home Care Project, Inc., call the Case Management Department at 718-786-6160, ext. 341, 345, 362; Immigration Information and Legal Assistance Referral Services, call Myrna Soto at 718-784-6173, ext. 115; Home Care Projects/Home Health Aide Job Opportunities, call Blanca Castillo at 718-784-6160, ext. 334; Western Queens Caregivers Network, call Fern Parker; 718-392-6945.

Woodside On The Move employment assistance/placement services for local employers and employees. No age restriction, all programs are free, 39-42 59th St.; 718-476-8449, contact Gene Curry.