Queens Gazette

It’s In Queens! (Feb. 26 to March 4)


The beer-and-chocolate tasting should attract all Queens residents, but there’s more this upcoming week. Tea, squash pudding, carrot puffs, and other edible delights join forces with live theater, chamber music, and dance to create a jam-packed schedule.

 

Feb. 26, Beer & Chocolate, 7 pm. Alewife Brewing and Milene Jardine Chocolatier host a virtual beer-and-chocolate tasting. The pairings include Pilsner with Hibiscus Mint Truffle, India Pale Ale with Ginger Turmeric Black Pepper, Dark Lager with Shiro Miso Truffle, and Imperial Stout with Dark Chocolate Truffle.

 

Feb. 26, Frederick Douglass, 7 pm. Tony, Grammy, and Emmy winner André De Shields performs an excerpt from his one-man, self-crafted work, “Frederick Douglass: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory,” during this Black History Month celebration with Flushing Town Hall.

 

Feb. 26, Erēmīta (Anthologies), March 14. The Museum of the Moving Image offers this 2021 anthology of pandemic-related shorts that Egyptian-American filmmaker Sam Abbas curated. The directors are Ashley Connor, Stefano Falivene, Antoine Héberlé, Soledad Rodríguez, and Alexis Zabé.

 

Feb. 27, Sarah Vaughan, 7 pm. Tony-winning actress and vocalist Lillias White does her show on African American Jazz legend Sarah Vaughan during this Black History Month celebration with Flushing Town Hall.

 

Feb. 27, Unsung Heroines, 7:30 pm. Musica Reginae opens its 2021 season with an evening of chamber music by female composers. (The performers are female as well.) The concert includes the world premiere of Elegy for Viola and Piano by Forest Hills resident Beata Moon.

 

Feb. 27, Black History Month Lecture And Concert, 4 pm. The Friends of Maple Grove zooms a lecture and concert honoring Black History Month. The event is dedicated to a few Maple Grove internees, including a World War I Colored Troops Veteran and two founding members of Jamaica’s Greater Allen AME Cathedral.

Feb. 27, 18th Century Cooking Class, 11 am. Queens County Farm Museum hosts a live, virtual cooking demonstration in the historic farmhouse’s kitchen. Learn how early settlers prepared food (i.e. squash pudding, carrot puffs) using an open hearth. Expect original 18th-century recipes, seasonal ingredients, traditional cooking utensils, and the warm embers of a fire.

 

Feb. 27, Fanike African Dance Troupe, 7 pm. Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning streams drumming and choreography by Fanike African Dance Troupe, which honors the ancestors of the African Diaspora.

 

Feb. 27, Voilá: The Viola with Liuh-Wen, 4:30 pm. Musica Reginae streams a community concert for youngsters about the viola with exceptional violist Liuh-Wen Ting as the special guest.

 

Feb. 28, Greenhouse Gossip, noon. This Queens Botanical Garden workshop informs on tropical house plants.

 

Feb. 28, Winter Plant Walk, 10 am. Jocelyn Perez from Herbalists Without Borders leads a fun expedition while indentifying plants and their medicinal uses, edibility, and folklore. Meet at Alley Pond Environmental Center, 224-65 76th Ave., Oakland Gardens.

 

March 2, New York City Reservoirs, 6 pm. Librarian and author Jeffrey Kroessler presents on the history of NYC water systems, followed by a Q&A, as part of this NYC H2O and Queens Museum event.

 

March 2, Operations & Profitability, 6 pm. Queens Night Market streams this workshop geared to aspiring entrepreneurs who want to start a business.

 

March 3, In Conversation: Monuments Now, 6 pm. Socrates Sculpture Park Curatorial Assistant Danilo Machado chats with Jeffrey Gibson, Laura Ortman, Emily Johnson, and Raven Chacon about the Monuments Now exhibition that is still on display at Socrates, 32-01 Vernon Blvd. in Long Island City.

 

March 3, Memoir and Autobiographical Writing: A Workshop, May 1. The Lewis Latimer House Museum kicks off a four-session workshop on memoir and autobiographical writing focusing on themes of race and immigration with instructor Abeer Hoque, a Nigerian-born, Bangladeshi-American writer and photographer.

 

March 3, Italian Internment During WWII + Racism in America, noon. The Kupferberg Holocaust Center streams Berkeley City College humanities professor Laura Ruberto as she reports on Italian Americans who had to register as enemy aliens and resettle during World War II. She also reflects on how political pressure, cultural visibility, and an emerging position of whiteness helped build public acceptance of this community.

 

March 4, Literary Thursdays, 4 pm. As part of an ongoing Queens Public Library program, 2020 Jewish Fiction Award Winner Goldie Goldbloom talks about her book On Division: A Novel, which explores the Hasidic community and how secrets can shake even the most secure and close-knit families.

 

March 4, Virtual Café: Winter Wellness Herbal Tea Workshop, 2 pm. The Alley Pond Environmental Center teaches the basic history and facts of herbalism/tea. Participants create tea bags and make an herb-drying craft. Tea kits with supplies will be ready for pick up after registration is complete.

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