Queens Gazette

It’s In Queens! (Dec. 9 to Dec. 16)


Several days of panettone, chocolate, and coffee await Queens. Wash it down with dragons, puppets, historic houses, migrating birds, opera, ballet, and the destruction of a piano.

Dec. 9, New York Panettone Festival Part I, Dec. 12. This first-ever event features fantastic Italian panettone chefs, chocolate, and Lavazza coffee with a Midtown Manhattan skyline in the background. The Piazza, 52-41 Center Blvd., Hunters Point South.

Dec. 10, The Gift of the Magi, Dec. 12. Queens Opera Theatre offers four holiday productions of Peter Ekstrom’s musical adaptation of O. Henry’s timeless Christmas tale about a young couple on Christmas Eve in 1905. Each loved the other so much that each sold a most prized possession to buy the other a Christmas present. Shows are Dec. 10 at 7 pm, Dec. 11 at 3 pm and 7 pm, and Dec. 12 at 3 pm. Astoria Performing Arts Center, 44-02 23rd St., Long Island City.

Dec. 10, New York Croons for Christmas, 7 pm. This annual holiday dinner show stars Colm Reilly, who delivers a cabaret-style performance of classics with some of New York’s most recognizable jazz musicians. New York Irish Center, 10-40 Jackson Ave., Long Island City.

Dec. 10, Lyra Pramuk, Dec. 11. Pramuk presents the US premiere of her debut album “Fountain,” which is re-envisioned for acoustic chamber ensemble and additional voices. The album envisions a post-human queer futurity, integrating the intimacies of the club, the emotional multitude of trans experiences, and the forbidding possibilities of social and physical technologies. MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City.

Dec. 10, Three Days of Dance, Dec. 12. The Take Root program with Wan Dance Theater/Huiwang Zhang is on Dec. 10 and 11 at 8 pm. The Fertile Ground New Works Showcase with various artists is on Dec. 12 at 7 pm. Green Space, 37-24 24th St., Long Island City.

Dec. 10, VW Performance, 7:30 pm. Live art including performance, movement, music, theater, comedy, and other time-based experiences created by artists, scholars, activists, and cultural instigators at all career stages. MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City.

Dec. 11, The Dragon King, 11 am + 2 pm. The Tanglewood Marionettes company presents an underwater fantasy based on Chinese folklore about an intrepid grandmother who journeys to the bottom of the sea in search of the elusive Dragon King and the answers to why he has forsaken the land above. Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd.

Dec. 11, Holiday Puppetry Fun, Jan. 1. A series of activities, interviews, workshops, and tours of the permanent Jim Henson exhibition hosted by puppeteer Brian Carson and Silly Willy. Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria’s Kaufman Arts District.

Dec. 11, Slated For Destruction, 3:30 pm. Learn how a piano works by destroying one and looking inside the instrument. Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Ave.

Dec. 11, Latin Jazz Concert, 5 pm. The Forest Hills Chamber of Commerce presents a free community concert with the Grammy-nominated Chembo Corniel Quintet. The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills.

Dec. 11, Meet the Artist, 2:30 pm. Woodhaven resident Deborah Camp is on hand to meet people and discuss her exhibiting art. Maple Grove Cemetery, 127-15 Kew Gardens Rd.

Dec. 11, Holiday on the Avenue, noon. Arts, crafts, giveaways, a small business fair, and the annual tree lighting at 5 pm. King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave.

Dec. 12, US-Africa Meets China, 1 pm. The ongoing Global Mashup series brings Newman Taylor Baker/WashboardXT, a jazz drummer and washboard player who researches and celebrates his African-American heritage, to the stage along with Feifei Yang, a Chinese musician and singer specializing in Erhu and Banhu performance. They’ll work with NYC-based pianist and composer Zhihua Hu. Each one does a set. Then they jam together. Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd.

Dec. 12, Holiday House Tour, 1 pm. Historic houses in Flushing — Bowne House, Flushing Town Hall, Friends Meeting House, Kingsland Homestead, Lewis Latimer House Museum, Voelker Orth Museum — join forces to present this 34th annual event, which is virtual on Youtube Live this year. The sites will present arts, crafts, music, tours, and other live content.

Dec. 12, AEON Ensemble, 4 pm. This group premieres Queens-based composer Gilbert Galindo’s Nada te Turbe. Visiting the words of Rumi, St. Teresa of Avila, buddhist monks, and others, the music is a drama and a meditation making use of vocals and a string quartet. Plus, the ensemble plays Hildegard von Bingen, Pauline Oliveros, and other works by Galindo. The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills.

Dec. 12, Fused Glass Workshops, 11:30 am + 2 pm. Artist and jewelry designer Naomi Rabinowitz leads a fun afternoon making fused necklaces, pins, magnets, earrings, and rings. Alley Pond Environmental Center, 224-65 76th Ave., Oakland Gardens.

Dec. 15, Bird Migration Research, 7:30 pm. Queens County Bird Club streams this presentation on migration research using the Motus Wildlife Tracking System by University of Western Ontario Biology Professor Christopher C. Guglielmo, who co-directs the institution’s Advanced Facility for Avian Research.

Dec. 16, A Holiday Cabaret, 7:30 pm. Soprano Christina Pecce and Pianist Matthew Stephens come together for a holiday event celebrating the joys of the season, thanks to a partnership between Musica Reginae and Queens Opera Theatre. The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills.

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