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Gazette Calendar Of Events

Feb. 7, Chinese Lunar New Year, Vietnam Tet Nguyen Dan; Feb. 11 Taiwan Lantern Festival, NAACP Founded; Feb. 14 Race Relations Day; Feb. 17 American League of United Latin Citizens Founded; Feb. 24 Mexico Flag Day; Mar. 3 The Doll Festival; Mar. 17 St. Patrick's Day; Mar. 21 Naw Ruz, India's New Year's Day

Community Meetings

Associations Feb. 14, Mar. 13, Apr. 10, May 8, United Forties Civic; St. Teresa's Parish Center, 50-20 44th St., Woodside.

Feb. 14, Mar. 13, Apr. 10, May 8, Jun. 12, 7:30 p.m., Dutch Kills Civic, St. Patrick's School Hall, 39-28 29th St., LIC; 718.786.2049.

Feb. 20, 8 p.m., Woodhaven Residents'; Woodhaven/Richmond Hill Volunteer Ambulance Corp, 78-15 Jamaica Ave.

Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m., sharp, United Community Civic; Augustana Lutheran Church, 69-05 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria Heights.

Mar. 13, Apr. 24, Jun. 26, 7:45 p.m., Juniper Park Civic; Our Lady of Hope, 71st Street/Eliot Avenue, Middle Village. Boards Feb. 11, 7 p.m., sharp, Board 7; Union Plaza Care Center, 33-23 Union St., Flushing; 718.359.2800.

Feb. 12, 7 p.m., Board 4; Flanders Field VFW Post 150, 51-11 108th St., Corona; 718.760.3141.

Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m., Board 5; Christ the King H.S., Cafeteria, 68-02 Metropolitan Ave., Middle Village; 718.366.1834.

Feb. 13, Mar. 12, Apr. 9, May 14, Jun. 11, 7:30 p.m., Board 8; Hillcrest Jewish Center, 183-02 Union Tpke., Fresh Meadows; 718.264.7895.

Mar. 13, 9:30 a.m., Board 1 District Service Cabinet; Kaufman Astoria Studio Cafe, 34-12 36th St.; 718.786.3335. Clubs Feb. 14, 8 p.m., JFK Regular Democratic Club of Queens; Tietz Rehabilitation Center, 164th Street, Fresh Meadows; 718.591.8446. Community Councils Feb. 19, 8 p.m., 102nd Precinct; Moose Hall, 118th Street, Richmond Hill.

Feb. 19, Mar. 18, Apr. 15, May 20, Jun. 17, 8 p.m., 115th Precinct, 92-15 Northern Blvd., Jackson Heights.

Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m., 112th Precinct, 68-40 Austin St., Forest Hills. Feb. 26, Mar. 25, Apr. 22, May 27, Jun. 24, all 7 p.m., 114th Precinct, Riccardo's, 21-01 24th Ave., Astoria. Community Education Councils Feb. 12, 8 p.m., District 30; P.S. 149, Auditorium, 93- 11 34th Ave., Jackson Heights; 718.391.8380. Others Feb. 11, 26, 7 p.m., Family Focus Adoption Services, "The Realities Of Adoption Today", 54-40 Little Neck Pkwy., Suite 4, Little Neck; 718.224.1919.

Feb. 11, 5:30 p.m., Queens Borough Board, Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd., 2nd Floor, Borough President's Conference Room, Kew Gardens; 718.286.3000.

Feb. 12, 9 a.m., Queens Borough Cabinet, LaGuardia Marriott, 102-05 Ditmars Blvd., East Elmhurst, RSVP, 718.286.3000.

Feb. 12, 12:30 p.m., Sunnyside Chamber of Commerce, $18; Dazies Restaurant, 39-41 Queens Blvd., LIC.

Mar. 6, 6 p.m., New York City Department of Education; Hillcrest H.S., 160-05 Highland Ave.

Arts & Entertainment

Barnes & Noble Feb. 9, Valentine's Day Craft; Feb. 14, Open Mic Poetry, Valentine's Day Storytime; Feb. 17, booksigning/ discussion Queens Noir; Feb. 21, Poetry Writing Essentials, Tues./Thurs., weekly storytimes, poetry writing essentials; Wed., women's studies discussion, events free, 176-60 Union Tpke., Fresh Meadows;

718.380.7077. Flushing Town Hall Feb. 9, Lunar New Year classics/dance performances, Chinese paper cutting & origami; Feb. 9, 16, 23, Music for Tots 18 months-4 years; Feb. 16, Chinese tea ceremony and performance, jazz storyteller April Armstrong; Feb. 23, Chai Found Music Ensemble, Stepping Out With My Baby: Tap Dance for Everyone, admission varies; 718.463.7700, x. 222. Museum of the Moving Image Feb. 10, Tribute to African American filmmaker St. Clair Bourne; Feb. 18-22, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, Motion Workshop, Feb. 27, Chop Shop, admission varies; program information, 718.784.0077. Queens Museum of Art Feb. 17, Trans-Borders, Absolut Warhola; Mar. 2, Slow Motion, Sara Morris Shorts; Mar. 16, Feminism Not for Sale…, Road to Guantanamo; Mar. 23, World Trade Center, U.N., Pentagon, Amerika, The Nuclear Football, opening reception for "New York States of Mind"; ongoing, tours, permanent collections, Scavenger Hunt for World's Fair memorabilia in/around The Panorama of the City of New York; Flushing Meadows- Corona Park, New York City Building; 718.592.9700. Queensborough Community College Feb. 9, Queens Symphony Orchestra, Masterworks No. 2, New York, New York; Feb. 10, Cantor Sol Zim's Annual Holocaust Memorial Concert, Tietz Center, Chapin Parkway, Jamaica; Feb. 13, final lecture "A Cameroon World" exhibit of African art; Feb. 24, Junior Discovery concert, $50-$15; Mar. 7-8, 11- 12, 15, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, $8-$3; Mar. 16, Madeline and the Bad Hat, $9-$7.50; Mar. 22, The Three Broadway Divas, $35-$29; Mar. 29, St. Petersburg Ballet, $42-$29 222-05 56th Ave., Bayside; 718.631.6396. Queens Theatre In The Park Feb. 9, Tales for Scales' The Pied Piper; Feb. 23, Sleeping Beauty; Feb. 24, Junior Discovery Concert, $50/$15; Mar. 8, Dr. Dolittle, Mainstage Theatre; program information, 718.760.0064. Socrates Sculpture Park To Mar. Design: Isamu Noguchi & Isamu Kenmochi, EAF07: 2007 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition; 32-01 Vernon Blvd; 718.956.1819. Others Feb. 8, LaGuardia Community College, Frank Sinatra School of the Arts Jazz Band, Jazz Jam Series 31-10 Thomson Ave., LIC; 718.482.5151.

Feb. 9, AQA Gallery, Theresa Kasun reading, Junkfood Bear, 99-10 Metropolitan Ave., Forest Hills; 718.520.9842.

Feb. 9, Queens Symphony Orchestra, pre-concert lecture series, New York, New York; program information 718.326.4455.

Feb. 9, 10, 16, 17, ARTSPACE at Athanasiades Cultural Center, Maria Kollaros/Paul Thimou photographs, free, 30-98 42nd St., Astoria.