Queens Gazette

Community Meetings





June 25, 8 p.m., VFW Whitestone Community Post 4787, 19-12 149th St.; 746-0540.


June 26, 7:30 p.m., Rego Park Coalition Against Crime; Walden Terrace, 98-51 64th Ave., basement community room.


8 p.m., Bayside Hills Civic Association; Bayside Colonial Church, basement.


June 26, Oct. 30, Nov. 27, 7:30 p.m., Greater Woodhaven Development Corporation; Le Cordon Bleu, 96-01 Jamaica Ave.; 805-0202.


June 29, 6 to 8 p.m., Community Board 2; Citicorp Building, 1 Court Sq., 3rd floor, cafeteria, Long Island City.


7:30 p.m., Vietnam Veterans of America, Queens Chapter 32; VFW Post 885, 120-19 14th Rd., College Point; 465-2745.


Items of Community Interest


June 23, 24, 25, 26, 27


St. John’s University international chess tournament in various locations on the Queens campus. For information, call 990-7339.


June 23


•American Lung Association 2nd Annual Family Asthma Walk, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park; 263-5656.


•Woodside on the Move, Community Board 2 Youth Day in Windmuller Park, 52nd Street and 39th Drive, Woodside, ages five to 16; 476-8449.


•Friends of Windsor Park library general meeting and award ceremony, 79-50 Bell Blvd., Bayside; 990-0705


June 24


•One World One Heart 107th Congress "National Taste of Pizza Month," Flushing Meadows–Corona Park; (516) 763-0344.


•Historic Jackson Heights presents a concert in the Towers Garden, 80th Street and 34th Avenue. For information, call 424-9898.


June 25, July 9


Queens Toastmasters Club; Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Blvd., lower level. For information, call Bob at (212) 687-4159, ext. 17.


June 26


Foster Parent Association adoptive parent orientations. For more information, call Teresa Bauer at 263-0740.


June 27


•Woodhaven Cultural & Historical Society meeting on genealogy; Emanuel United Church of Christ, 91st Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard; 421-2739.


•Italics, The Italian-American Magazine television program, hosted by Dr. Joseph Scelsa, broadcasts on CUNY-TV, Cable Channel 75 and rebroadcasts on June 27 and July 1, check your TV listing for time.


June 30


•Italian-American Women Writers, Bella Italia Mia; Maspeth Library, 69-70 Grand Ave.; 426-1240.


•The Christian Science Monitor and National Foundation for Women Legislators scholarship program for college-bound women; contact state Senator Daniel Hevesi’s office at 544-9750 for an application.


To July 9


New Jersey Rainbow Poets religious poetry contest; Free Poetry Contest, 103 N. Wood Ave., PMB 70, Linden, NJ 07036.


Arts & Entertainment


June 21, July 5


Open Mike Night, 42-02 Main St., Starbucks, Flushing.


Now to June 24


Paintings on view by artist Steve Secka; Olympic Diner, 37-27 Ditmars Blvd., Astoria; 728-9678.


June 25, July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30


Barbara Sfago Trio plays jazz at Albatross, 36-19 24th Ave., Astoria; 274-9164


June 26, July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31


Barbara Sfago Trio plays jazz at Erawan, 42-31 Bell Blvd., Bayside; 428-2112


June 27


The Moshe Shur Band open air concert, Yeshiva of Central Queens, playground, 150th Street between 70th Road and Jewel Avenue, Kew Gardens Hills; 793-2255.


June 30


•New York Metropolitan Country Music Association dances; Glendale Memorial Building, 72-02 Myrtle Ave.; 763-4328.


•Woodside on the Move, sign up for free photography course for children ages 12 to 16. For information, call 476-6946 or e-mail to wotmhandy@aol.com.


July


Ark & Allen Theatrical/Educational acting classes; 358-1955 or visit www.arkandallen.org.


American Museum of the Moving Image


Gary Cooper Retrospective: June 23, "Ball of Fire," "Sergeant York"; June 24, "The Westerner," "High Noon"; June 30, "The Fountainhead," "The Hanging Tree" and July 1, "Vera Cruz" and "Man of the West"; June 23, "Woman in the Dunes" and June 30, "Persona."


Queens College


July 2 to Oct. 31, summer exhibit of 100th anniversary of Louis Armstrong’s two birthdays (one in July and one in August) at the Armstrong Archives, call 997-3670 before visiting.


Queens Museum of Art


June 23, Pied Piper Project, Performance: "Little Red Riding Hood" and guided tour of the panorama; June 24 to Oct. 7, opening reception for Crossing the Line multi-site exhibition of installations in the museum and at different locations in Queens and Pied Piper Project; June 26, business card exchange and "Embracing the World: Sculpture’s Twentieth-Century Expansion into Installation Art"; June 28, Performance: "Paradisiaca" and June 30, Pied Piper Project, Performance: Modern Noh Dance & Shakuhachi Flute, and guided tour of the panorama. For information, call 592-9700.


Thalia Spanish Theatre


To July 1, All That Tango, 41-17 Greenpoint Ave., Sunnyside; 729-3880.


Dinners/Dances


June 24, 30


Italian Charities of America, dances with or without instruction, 83-20 Queens Blvd., Elmhurst; 478-3100.


June 26, 107th Precinct Community Council dinner and dance, The Reception House, 167-17 Northern Blvd., Flushing. For information and tickets contact Carolann Foley, 969-5168 (leave a message).


June 28


Queens Society for Autistic Children Gala dinner dance and silent auction; Dante’s of Jackson Heights, 75-07 31st Ave; contact Perry Brown at 7-AUTISM, ext. 16.


Fleas/Festivals/Parades


June 24, Central Astoria Local Development Coalition’s Steinway Street Festival, 28th to 34th Avenues.


June 29th, Catherine Sheridan House, 31-41 23rd St., Astoria.





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