This new exhibition is fire! Borough-based artist Nitin Mukul recently unveiled Heat Maps: Queens in Long Island City. It’ll be on view through January 2024. The show focuses on three geographic areas — East Elmhurst-Corona, Jamaica-Hollis, and Kew Gardens-Richmond Hill — that have been rated High Risk on a scale called the “Heat Vulnerability Index.”…
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Marin Naruse performs shimauta or traditional music from the Amami Islands, an archipelago in Northern Japan. “Shimauta” translates as “community songs,” and the genre often involves bamboo flutes, hand drums, and lutes along with lyrics in a falsetto voice. Learn more during the Shimauta Workshop Series at Uke Hut in Long Island City on Thursday,…
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Leave it up to the experts! That’s exactly what Museum of the Moving Image did to create Curators’ Choice 2023, which runs from Tuesday, Dec. 26, to Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. This year’s annual program screens 31 of the world’s best films as chosen by MoMI Curator of Film Eric Hynes and Associate Curator Edo…
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It’s a world premiere in the World’s Borough. Ballet Nepantla debuts Nacimiento at Queens Theatre on Friday, Dec. 22, at 8 pm. The dancers explore pre-Colombian rituals and European colonization’s impact on the Americas in this piece which fuses the birth of mestizaje culture with the emergence of Christianity in the New World. Act II…
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Santa Claus might take this year off and spend the entire holiday season in Astoria. That way he can avoid Manhattan’s ridiculous crowds, traffic, and sky-high prices while exploring a vibrant neighborhood that’s a foodie paradise, cultural kaleidoscope, and winter wonderland. And since it’s so diverse, he can celebrate all the season’s rituals in one…
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Born in 1943, Swedish film director Roy Andersson is best known for absurdist humor, noir, grotesque scenes, and parody of his native country’s culture. He has also made more than 400 commercials and won awards at the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice International Film Festival, and the Berlin International Festival. Nine of his works screen…
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Flag dancing, lanterns, and hand-painted banners of fire add magic to this production, which includes a chorus, musicians, harmonies, and a captivating story including a visit from an angel and a martyred saint. Jalopy Theatre Presents: An Evening at Flushing Town Hall is on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 8 pm. Directed by Ali Dineen —…
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This event will never get stale. The New York Panettone Festival returns to Long Island City from Friday, Dec. 15, to Sunday, Dec. 17. (Hours are daily from noon to 6 pm or until the products sell out.) First organized in 2021, this three-day culinary extravaganza attracts a mix of everybody from artisanal-new generation bakers…
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One of the borough’s most traditional seasonal events gets a completely new twist this year, when the Oratorio Society of Queens offers its Holiday Concert at Queensborough Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Dec. 17, at 4 pm. Maestro David Close — who joined the group as an accompanist in 1968 and became the conductor two…
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#PickoftheWeek | Freeze the Day! Queens Farm Presents an Outdoor Version of a Christmas Classic
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Cold hands, warm heart, great show. Go over the river and through the woods to Queens County Farm Museum for a free presentation of The Gift of the Magi on Saturday, Dec. 16, at 1 pm. Kevin R. Free, an actor who’s been an audiobook narrator for 22 years, will lead a one-man reading of…