#WeeklyColumn | It’s In Queens | Nov. 15 to Nov. 21
BY QEDC It's In Queens
There’s a lot of upcoming intramural fun as local dancers, performance artists, crafters, and historians do their thing. But there’s also some international flair with Irish athletes, European filmmakers, and migrating bats in the mix.
Nov. 15, Barefoot in the Park, Nov. 24. Nine presentations of a Neil Simon play that was adapted into a blockbuster film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. Newlyweds Corie, a free-spirit, and Paul, a straitlaced lawyer, move to a fifth-floor walkup with no bathtub and a hole in the skylight. Hilarity ensues as Corie’s mother pops in and an eccentric neighbor crawls through the couple’s window. Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Nov. 15, Five Oceans in a Teaspoon, 7 pm. A performance/reading/conversation based on a memoir in short visual poems written by muckraking journalist and poet Dennis J. Bernstein with typographic visualizations by designer/author Warren Lehrer. Readers, musicians, and performers join this multimedia presentation that includes animation and projection of pages from the book. Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd.
Nov. 15, Dancing with the LIC Stars, 6 pm. Teams consisting of one LIC community member and one Queens-based choreographer twirl, groove, and spin in front of a panel of judges for pride, glory, and bragging rights. Proceeds go to The Floating Hospital and Queensboro Dance Festival. Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46th Ave., LIC.
Nov. 15, My Twentieth Century, Nov. 24. Ten screenings of a digital restoration of Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi’s fairy tale that won the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 1989. Polish actress Dorotha Segda plays twins – an anarchist and a luxurious woman of loose morals – as they go on an adventure with Mr. Z. Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria’s Kaufman Arts District.
Nov. 15, Three-Show Weekend, Nov. 17. Kelley Donovan & Dancers present “Shifting Sea” and Maya Orchin does “In the Wake” on Nov. 15 and Nov. 16 at 8 pm. Fertile Ground, a new work showcase by six different troupes, is on Nov. 17 at 7 pm. Green Space, 37-24 24th St., LIC.
Nov. 16, New York Hurling Classic, 12:30 pm. An Irish sport comes to Queens for a three-game competition with 11-men squads from four Emerald Isle counties: Limerick; Tipperary; Kilkenny; and Wexford. Believed to be the world’s oldest field game, hurlers use wooden sticks to hit small balls between goalposts and over crossbars. Citi Field.
Nov. 16, The Selfish Giant, 3 pm. PinProductions offers this classic Oscar Wilde tale about a giant who builds a wall around his garden to keep out the town’s children but, in doing so, plunges his garden into an endless winter. The Secret Theatre, 44-02 23rd St., LIC.
Nov. 16, Richmond Hill North: A Victorian Village in the Center of Queens, 1 pm. William Gati, an architect, licensed guide, and New York Institute of Technology professor, leads a walk through a district with federal and state landmark status. Victorian houses, parks, churches, schools, and shops and are the list.
Nov. 16, Baroque and Beyond: Songs of Love and Loss, 2 pm. Maestro David Close, soprano Jennifer Gliere, and special guest lutenist Christopher Baum perform works by Purcell, Debussy, and others. The Church-in-the-Gardens, 50 Ascan Ave., Forest Hills.
Nov. 16, DDAT: Native American Hip Hop Jazz Fusion, 1 pm. Two Navajos — Chris Bidtah and Delbert Anderson — discuss incorporating Native languages in art making and music as medicine. Then at 2:15 pm, they join others to play hip hop, jazz, funk, and soul with an original southwestern feel. Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd.
Nov. 16, Author Talk, 2 pm. David W. Blight, a professor at Yale University, discusses his 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.” The conversation touches on Douglass’s involvement in the fight to release George Latimer, the father of inventor and Flushing resident Lewis Latimer. Flushing Library Auditorium, 41-17 Main St.
Nov. 16, The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales, Nov. 17. With hand-drawn animation and delicate watercolors, this farm film stars a fox who mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit who plays the stork, and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus. Both days at noon. Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria’s Kaufman Arts District.
Nov. 16, Contract and Release, 1:30 pm and 3 pm. Brendan Fernandes, an artist who works at the intersection of dance and visual art, presents dance inspired by the rocking chairs that Noguchi produced for Martha Graham’s “Appalachian Spring (1944).” Dancers have to sit on them and remain balanced while working through a version of Graham’s famous “contract and release” exercise. The Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Rd., LIC.
Nov. 16, Corónate at the Queens Museum, 11 am. Art-making workshops, face painting, games for kids, a showcase of works by the collective BordeAndo, and a special performance by People’s Theater Project. Queens Museum, NYC Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Nov. 16, Writing on Race & Immigration, 6 pm. Eight writers read the stories they created during an on-site workshop. Lewis Latimer House Museum, 34-41 137th St., Flushing.
Nov. 17, Sunnyside Craft Show, 9:30 am to 5 pm. Local artists sell their leather, clay, textile, food, photography, art, paper, and jewelry items. Queen of Angels Parish Center, Skillman Avenue and 44th Street, Sunnyside.
Nov. 17, Forest Hills Symphony Orchestra, 2 pm. A concert with Weber, Beethoven, Borodin, and Strauss Jr. Forest Hills Jewish Center, 106-06 Queens Blvd.
Nov. 17, What’s New on the Queens Waterfront, 11 am. Greater Astoria Historical Society Executive Director Bob Singleton leads a walking tour past quaint blocks, gleaming towers, monuments to industry, and art’s cutting edge.
Nov. 17, Atlas Park 5K Run/Walk, 8 am. An inaugural friendly competition/fundraiser presented by the American Cancer Society. The Shops at Atlas Park, 80-00 Cooper Ave., Glendale.
Nov. 17, Still I Rise, 6 pm. Astoria Music Project presents a program of works by female composers of color, including Zenobia Powell Perry, Teresa Carreño, and Maria Grever. Redeemer Episcopal Church Astoria, 30-14 Crescent St.
Nov. 17, Being At Sea, 4 pm. Curator Zeljka Himbele and artists Charlotte Schulz and Scherezade Garcia lead a walk through the exhibition “Being At Sea,” which is presented in conjunction with the “At Sea” show. Dorsky Gallery, 11-03 45th Ave., LIC.
Nov. 20, Nocturnal Neighbors: The Bats of New York City, 8 pm. Kaitlyn Parkins, a conservation biologist for NYC Audubon, talks about the bats that live in NYC. She presents findings from over five years of research. Alley Pond Environmental Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd., Douglaston.
Nov. 20. Ideologies of Racism Past and Present, noon. Queensborough Community College’s Trevor Milton and Judy Yu address strategies for opposing racist ideologies. Kupferberg Holocaust Center, QCC, 222-05 56th Ave., Bayside.
Nov. 21, Queens Tech Meet-Up, 6:30 pm. Digital Natives, Plaxall, and the LIC Partnership host an informal meet-up that might turn into a series of periodic gatherings. Plaxall Gallery, 5-25 46th Ave., LIC.
Images: Fanike! by Issah Morris (top); Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge by Rob MacKay (bottom)
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