QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE November/December 2017 | Volume 3, Issue No. 6

Kew Gardens Hills Reopens! p.10

Meet the Summer Poetry Contest Winners! p.5

Holiday Recipes from Our Librarians p.12

Do the ‘Write’ Thing! p.20

Celebrating Citizenship at Queens Library p.21

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1 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE A Message from the President and CEO

Dear Friends,

During this time of year, many of us reflect on the achievements of the past 12 months while looking towards the future. We’re no different here at Queens Library.

Thanks to the support of Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Council, an additional $30 million in capital funding was raised for critical maintenance and repairs at Queens Library, the third consecutive funding increase for our city’s three library systems.

We introduced the public to our new Children’s Room at Flushing Library, our renovated Kew Gardens Hills Library, and our reopened McGoldrick and Queensboro Hill libraries.

We developed innovative new ways to better serve you, like October’s fine amnesty for children and teens, and welcomed you in record numbers to our programs, events, and classes. In these uncertain and contentious times, we created the Queens Library is for Everyone campaign to reaffirm our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and access for all the members of our Sincerely, community, regardless of who they are, where they came from, or who they love.

I’m proud of the service provided by our librarians and staff on a daily basis, and I appreciate all their efforts—as do you, according to the record number of Dennis M. Walcott nominations that our libraries received for the 2017 NYC Neighborhood Library President and CEO Awards.

As 2018 approaches, I hope that all of you enjoy the holiday season, and I wish you the best for a happy and healthy New Year. We look forward to seeing you often and continuing to do our best to serve you.

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Magazine 2 What’s Happening FOR YOUNG READERS 3 Hot New Book Releases in November and December 5 The Summer Poetry Contest Winners! 14 Kids and Teens Get a New Start 9 Third Annual Older Adults Day 10 Kew Gardens Hills Reopens! 12 Holiday Recipes from Our Librarians! 13 Donate Your Coats! 13 Podcast Workshop for Teens 15 Welcome Our New Staff Members! 16 Director of Flushing Community Library Retires 19 Two Amazing Days at the Rockaway Summer Festival 20 Do the ‘Write’ Thing! Flying Into Literacy at LaGuardia 21 Celebrating Citizenship at Queens 18 Airport Library 23 Staff Changes at Our Community Libraries Events 25 All Ages 34 Adults 59 Mail-a-Book 60 Job & Business Academy (JBA) 65 Other Languages • • • • по русски • 國語 • Español Three Amazing Libraries Win 71 Teens Awards! 22 77 Children 5806-10/17 What’s Happening?

Get Out the Vote! local LGBTQ community service to immigration by scheduling an Tuesday, November 7 is Election Day organizations across the borough. appointment with the Immigrant in New York City, and several of our All interviews and images gathered Justice Corps. IJC representatives community libraries will serve as by our volunteers will become part will be on-site at Central Library polling sites. Is your library where of the permanent digital archives on Mondays and Wednesdays, you should vote? Please visit https:// at Queens Library. Selections from and Flushing Community Library nyc.pollsitelocator.com/search or these oral histories will also be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, to call 866-VOTE-NYC (866-868-3692) to featured in The Lavender Line, an assist customers with questions confirm the correct location for you exhibit about LGBTQ history in and concerns about naturalization, to vote in your neighborhood! Queens, which will travel to CUNY Temporary Protected Status, campuses in Queens over the coming family-based petitions, U-visas, months. If you’re interested in taking deportation issues, asylum or refugee part in this initiative, or want to applications, and more. These nominate someone whose story we representatives are supervised by should add to the collections, please an immigration attorney and speak contact Queens Memory Program English, Spanish, and Mandarin Coordinator Richard Lee at 347-922- Chinese. To request IJC service, 6752 or Richard.J.Lee@queenslibrary. please fill out a registration form org. at http://connect.queenslibrary. Thinking of Starting or org/2022, and you will be contacted Expanding Your Family? New Entrepreneurship by phone or email to schedule an This Conference is for You! Workshop Series appointment. If you’re pregnant, considering These new-and-improved Small parenthood, or want to expand Business workshops are now a Free Technology Training at your family, join us at an all-day 2-month long, 8-part program that Queensbridge conference at Central Library in will take your business idea from Our Queensbridge Literacy Center is Jamaica on Sunday, November 19. conception to reality. Sign up to a new technology training space that Topics will include group prenatal be a part of this series that will provides free tech classes and work care, what you can do before you help you build your best business spaces to the public. Workshops, become pregnant and between plan, strategize for marketing, and hardware, and software are available, pregnancies to protect your health, get the funding needed to help including basic computers (desktops pathways to parenthood for LGBTQ kick-start your business. These and laptops), Microsoft Office, Adobe families, and more. There will be classes start at Central Library on Creative Cloud, and QuickBooks Pro lunch, free information, giveaways, Sunday, November 5 at 7 p.m., and 2017. We will be introducing HTML opportunities to sign up for free every Tuesday thereafter. Visit and CSS coding in November, and classes, and plenty of time for Q&A. jobmap.queenslibrary.org for more workshops with our soon-to-arrive You can visit the Queens Library information and to register. 3D printer, sewing machines, and homepage for more information. electronics components in the Get Legal Help from the coming months! Visit queenslib.org/ Queens Memory Wants to Immigrant Justice Corps techtraining1 for more information. ■ Hear Your LGBTQ Stories Our customers can now get help Queens Memory is continuing to with a variety of legal issues related document the history of LGBTQ communities in Queens in honor CORRECTION of the 25th anniversary of the The ESOL teacher profile on page 18 of our September/October 2017 issue Queens Pride Parade. Volunteers referred to the teacher as Tan Liang; her name is actually Tanling Tsao. are interviewing participants in Tanling’s student was referred to as Pin-Pin Du; her name is actually Ping their homes, at libraries, and at Ping Du. We regret these errors and apologize for any confusion.

2 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE Hot New Book Releases in November & December Is your reading list looking a little short? Never fear—we’ve got new releases every Tuesday, and here are some of the ones we’re looking forward to the most.

November 7, 2017 November 14, 2017 What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism Artemis by Dan Rather by Andy Weir

At a moment of crisis over our national identity, Dan The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an Rather has been reflecting—and writing passionately irresistible new near-future thriller—a heist story set almost every day on social media—about the world in Artemis, the first and only city on the moon. When we live in, what our core ideals have been and should Jazz Bashara sees the chance to commit the perfect be, and what it means to be an American. Now, in a crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down, pulling collection of original essays, the venerated television off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as journalist celebrates our shared values and what she learns that she’s stepped square into a conspiracy matters most in our country, brings us the benefit of his for control of Artemis itself—and her only chance at decades of experience, and offer readers a way forward. survival lies in an even-riskier scheme.

November/December 2017 3 Hot New Book Releases in November & December

November 14, 2017 November 21, 2017 Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems Gold Dust Woman: The Autobiography of by Ntozake Shange Stevie Nicks by Stephen Davis

Poet, novelist, and cultural icon Ntozake Shange (for Singer/songwriter Stevie Nicks is a musical superstar colored girls who have considered suicide/when the whose career is full of the larger-than-life stories that rainbow is enuf) brings us a stirring collection of more are the stuff of rock-n-roll legend. Stephen Davis is “the than sixty original and selected poems in both English gold standard of rock biographers” (The Boston Globe) and Spanish, and shares the unique, unapologetic, and who’s tackled the likes of Led Zeppelin, The Rolling deeply emotional writing that has made her one of Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Guns N’ Roses, Bob Marley, the most revered literary figures of our time. “Ntozake Jim Morrison, and more. Bring them together, and Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty you get a book that’s full of fresh details and intimate that anyone can relate to her message.”—The New York interviews—a rich new portrait of one of rock music’s Times most intriguing women.

4 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE Grades 4-5: Erin Wong

How would you describe your poem to our readers? I decided to think about a time when I helped build The a better world. So, this is how I came up with the idea of writing about my STEM project from 4th grade. My poem is meant to be a model of a world Summer in which everything has eco-friendly features. Even the materials I used to build my project were recyclable. Through my STEM project, I learned that Poetry if everyone works together, we can contribute to build a better world. Contest How do you feel about winning our contest? I feel so happy about winning the contest! Actually, I am elated! This is the first time I won a writing contest! Last year, I also entered the contest and got Winners! an honorable mention. I’d like to thank my mom and dad for supporting me throughout the whole entire time. I am so surprised that it happened to me. Wow, it’s seriously amazing! We welcomed hundreds of poets from all over My STEM Project: To Build a Better World New York State to by Erin Wong submit an original poem reflecting the 2017 “Going green is great!” “Recycling at an astonishing rate!” Summer Reading theme I see these slogans anywhere, anytime, of “Build a Better World.” To build a better world, my STEM project this year comes to my mind. Green buildings are the best, Thank you to our panel And this is what the STEM Project tests: of judges—Queens Engineering and creativity to build a model of a skyscraper, Poet Laureate Maria Most importantly, it has eco-friendly characters. Lisella; CUNY literature As more people notice that the climate has changed due to pollution, and writing professor Architects need to design buildings with better construction. I grabbed a partner and started to sketch, Alice Lacey; New York The due date for our final plan was in a few weeks, which we had to catch. Writers Workshop The biggest challenge was figuring out what to use. project manager Deedle But “ding!” an idea came: recyclable materials had to be put to use! Rodriguez-Tomlinson; Constructing the main structure with cardboard boxes that we could find, and hip-hop poet, actor, The idea to build a better world was always in our minds. and educator Kevin We added windmills, solar panels, and even a green gardening lawn! Anglade. Our ideas for eco-friendly features kept going on and on… We worked very hard, but sometimes when we played, we were too loud. After 3 months, the final production made us so proud! Thank you to everyone What I learned from this project was: Our challenging Skyscraper project was fine, who submitted a poem Because we put both of our efforts combined. to Queens Library’s Our goal to build a better world is a bigger and harder project, however, Summer Poetry Contest! It can be accomplished when each and everyone on Earth works together! November/December 2017 5 Grades 6-8: Ruchie Kops

Why did you decide to submit a poem for our Rebuilding the World

Poetry Contest? by Ruchie Kops Honestly, it was just one of those spur- of-the-moment decisions! I have always It may seem that the world is in shambles loved writing. Especially fantasy, because it Covered by thorns and brambles doesn’t restrict me. With the map of the universe unfurled Do you write poetry often? Or was this your It should show love and acceptance in the world first poem? It doesn’t matter what you look like I have enjoyed writing poetry for a long It doesn’t matter if I have a new bike time. I find poetry helps me to express my We have to accept each other for what we are, what we want to be feelings. I often write poetry to thank people. Open your eyes and let your mind see When something bothers or inspires me, I sit We need certain tools to help rebuild down and write a poem. And certain things need to be fulfilled We can’t judge others Was it easy or hard to work with our theme, And we must be kind to our mothers “Build a Better World”? We need to wish for peace It was easy, because there was a lot to work And hope that war will cease with—there are so many things that we could For only then when we will it improve in the world, that we should try to We can start rebuilding in that empty pit work on. You have brown hair, she has black? We will only succeed if we work in a pack How do you feel about winning our contest? The world is waiting for you, and your acceptance Elated and accomplished. This is the first time And maybe a little repentance I have submitted a poem to a contest, and I Make friends with someone new actually won! Don’t make fun of someone because of their out-of-style shoe Everyone deserves the same amount of respect And there is nobody you should neglect So you might speak a different language than me That doesn’t mean you should pay a fee NO. To discrimination, Resist the temptation Don’t give in to peer pressure And don’t measure Someone based on their outside Use your kind heart as your guide We will have the world rebuilt in no time Hope you enjoyed my rhyme!

6 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE Grades 9-12: Shlomit Ebbin

How would you describe your poem to our From Bullied to Bully readers? by Shlomit Ebbin My poem is a lesson on how one person’s actions can affect how another person turns Sometimes you’re bullied, out. My message is that the way to build a And sometimes you’re the bully. better world is to treat others with kindness, They say there’s an abused child behind the gun because you don’t know the impact you can You learn to run either to chase others or to get away have on someone. Every day another kid is pushed into a locker Do you write poetry often? But it’s only a matter of time I’ve been writing poetry since I was in fifth Until he’s big enough to push back harder grade. I love it! I’m always looking for an The little girl who was tortured by children bigger than she excuse to write a poem. I’m the captain of Grew up to pick on every child she sees the poetry team at my school, and I have They think she’s acting irrationally But in actuality attended many poetry slams over the course She thinks it’s revenge. of my high school career. Ever since I started Still, writing poetry for the team and for slams, Have you heard the story of the school bully I’ve seen a big difference in the way that I Who grew up to be a school social worker? write. And I know that my writing can only Working with children like the ones who used to feel his wrath get better with each piece of work that I Helping kids who remind him of himself in the past create. Helping them find the right path How do you feel about winning our contest? Preventing the horrible aftermath I was very surprised to hear that I had won. Because he created the abused child behind the gun Though many have complimented my poetry, And there’s nowhere to run I didn’t think I had the ability to win. I am When the guilt follows you everywhere. extremely honored! He tells the students; Throw a flat rock in the lake And watch as it creates circles Jumping into the horizon One skip at a time One flick of the wrist Can make small circles grow bigger Some mean and angry words Can create a new killer A few simple smiles Can pull a finger off a trigger Think of the impact you can make From one small gesture You can build a better world One step at a time.

November/December 2017 7 Post-High School/Adult: Cassandra Smith

Why did you decide to submit a poem for our Poetry Contest? This is the first time I came out of my comfort zone in terms of entering a contest with such a large audience. My reason for submitting a poem was mainly based on my interest in the theme “Build a Better World.” Greatly saddened by the current political unrest, injustice, and indifference forced upon us, I felt the need to make a difference. What would you like our readers to know about you? I am a poet, a writer, a mother of five, and a grandmother. I have been writing since I was in third grade. I wrote and sold my first book, about a cat, to the corner variety store owner. I received a dollar for it, which my mother made me promptly return. To her, it was begging. For me, it was the beginning of a lifelong desire. I intend to continue writing as long as I am alive. How does Queens Library make you feel welcome? The library has been my place of peace, knowledge, and comfort since childhood. I am grateful for the many programs and resources available to the community at the Queens Public Library.

Resurrecting a Melting Pot by Cassandra Smith 1 7 Huge egos—blinded by greed Money no longer dictating everything leading us nowhere who comes—who stays Tweeting, texting, mocking Rainbows—not colored red like— normal conversations Blood spilling over 2 8 Pure white doves flying around Marching—arm in arm carrying olive branches for equality & justice Shot down—silencing peace ignoring acrid hatred hiding stifling truth behind fake smiles 3 9 Confusion breeding pain & panic We must take to the streets— guns blasting away— signs held high above our heads Its children— Voices—no longer mute Fear & Ignorance Actions shouting out! 4 10 Compassion communicating Broken promises & dead dreams Commonsense listening Rising like—a phoenix Lifting lonely survivors— Painting positive pictures not failures—off of sidewalks with truth 5 11 Our arms wide open—welcoming I envision us—building bridges Immigrants—our invisible workers of hope Allowing Everyone— poor, holding hands a life without fear with rich 6 12 Lady liberty holding a flaming torch Resurrecting a melting pot—forlorn & forgotten Head high, no shame welcoming growth, love, peace Lighting a path for displaced humans spurting tiny buds of humanity People escaping wars & worse growing—equality for all… ■

8 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE Customers visiting staff at Older Adults Day.

Another booth was Vision Zero, a road traffic safety project. As older Third Annual adults make up a large percentage of road traffic injuries and fatalities— over half in the United States—the Older Adults Day project’s strategy of educating pedestrians and drivers is an especially important one. And the Older Adults Day returned to Glen and answer questions about various great news is, the Vision Zero team Oaks, and received a very warm medications and home remedies. is also a huge fan of Older Adults welcome from all attendees! As Day! “It gets better every year,” said with previous years, the highlights One popular newcomer was the Eric Miu, Community Coordinator included a comprehensive resource ASPCA, who educated patrons on and Outreach at Vision Zero, as he fair, arts and crafts workshops, and the services that are especially handed out goodie bags to excited information sessions. valuable to older adults, such as patrons. ■ mobile spay/neuter clinics, advice The resource fair featured booths on how to deal with strays, and from a range of health providers, how to arrange veterinary visits nonprofits and community- for people with mobility issues. based organizations, with health Some other newcomers included screenings and lectures also offered the NYC Department of Finance, on the day. Representatives from which provided information on the NewYork-Presbyterian discussed various programs and services for conditions such as diabetes, how senior citizens such as rent increase to reduce fall risks, and the signs of exemption, homeowner exemption, stroke. Students from the St. John’s energy assistance programs; and the University Pharmacy program were MTA, which took applications for also on hand to provide information reduced-fare Metrocards. Older Adults Day in action!

November/December 2017 9 From left to right: architect Amale Andraos, NYC Council Member Rory Lancman, NYS Librarian Bernard Margolis, NYS Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, Queens Library Trustee John Ottulich, Queens Library President and CEO Dennis M. Walcott, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, NYS Senator Joseph Addabbo, Jr., and Assembly Member David Weprin cut the ribbon at Kew Gardens Hills.

Our newly renovated and expanded Kew Gardens Hills Community Library officially reopened to the public following a ribbon-cutting Welcome to the ceremony led by Queens Library President and CEO Dennis M. Walcott, along with Queens Borough New Kew Gardens President Melinda Katz, New York State Senators Toby Ann Stavisky and Joseph Addabbo, Jr., New Hills Community York City Council Members Rory I. Lancman and David Weprin, New York City Department of Design and Library! Construction Acting Commissioner Ana Barrio, former City Council Member James Gennaro, architect

10 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE Our excited customers enter the new Kew Gardens Hills Library for the first time! and principal of WORK Architecture includes a green roof; separate recognize the needs of a diverse Company Amale Andraos, New areas for adults, teens, and and dynamic community and York State Librarian Bernard A. children; new computer equipment; live up to the ideals expressed by Margolis, and other members of our a Jewish reference and reading this outstanding renovation and community. Our guests also enjoyed section; 40,000 books, DVDs, CDs, expansion,” said President Walcott. a stirring rendition of the national and manuals; 120 periodicals and “We are grateful to everyone who anthem by Senior Library Custodian newspapers; and a substantial worked so hard to deliver a library Todd Culver before our ceremony. international collection that that will inspire our customers to The lines to enter the building includes 400 Hebrew items and learn, discover, and pursue their stretched out the door and down 600 Russian items. The $9.9 million dreams.” the street, and we were thrilled to project was funded through welcome everyone inside their new, allocations from Queens Borough Since Kew Gardens Hills reopened, modern library! President Katz, Mayor Bill de Blasio, it has received 900 visitors, and Council Member Lancman, the late circulated 1,300 items, every day. Kew Gardens Hills closed in Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz, Thank you to our many visitors February 2013 for the modernization and Senators Stavisky and Addabbo. over the past two months, and we and expansion project, which adds hope you will visit us again at Kew 3,000 square feet to the original, “We’ve developed a collection Gardens Hills soon! ■ 8,200-square-foot building and and are providing resources that November/December 2017 11 Holiday Recipes from Our Librarians! Chocolate Chip Banana Bread Ackee and Saltfish with Shrimp

Ashley Candreva Olga Gordon-Murray Children’s Librarian, Assistant Community Library Manager, Hillcrest Community Library Rosedale Community Library

“I love this dish because it gives me an opportunity to “I like to prepare this favorite for breakfast on a use produce well after I would normally use it (your Thanksgiving or Christmas holiday morning. Just to let bananas should be very brown and mushy to make the you know, ackee is the national fruit of Jamaica, and best bread!), so it reduces food waste. Plus, for a holiday ackee and saltfish (without the shrimp) is the national treat, it’s not overly sweet, so you can eat it any time of dish! Adding the shrimp is just my twist to add a little the day.” more flair to this wonderful dish.”

Ingredients Ingredients • 2 cups all-purpose flour • 2 cans ackee • 1 teaspoon baking powder • 1 pound saltfish (salt cod), • 1 teaspoon baking soda soaked in water for 2 days • 1 teaspoon salt to get rid of the salt • 3 ripe bananas, mashed • 1 pound fresh shrimp, • 1 tablespoon milk cleaned & deveined • 1 teaspoon ground • 1 plum tomato, chopped cinnamon, or to taste • 1 medium onion, chopped • 1/2 cup butter, softened • 3 stalks scallions, chopped • 1 cup white sugar • 4 sprigs fresh thyme • 2 eggs • 1 scotch bonnet pepper, chopped—do not use the • 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips seeds! • 2 pieces garlic, chopped Directions • 1 tablespoon green bell pepper, chopped • Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease • 1 tablespoon red bell pepper, chopped a 9x5-inch loaf pan, preferably glass. • 1 teaspoon fine black pepper • Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a • 1-2 tablespoons olive oil bowl. Stir bananas, milk, and cinnamon in another bowl. Beat butter and sugar in a third bowl until light and fluffy. Directions • Add eggs to butter mixture, one at a time, beating • Take saltfish from the water where it has been soaking, well after each addition. Stir banana mixture into add to a pot of boiling water, and boil for 1 minute. butter mixture. Stir in dry mixture until blended. Fold in • Turn stove off, remove the saltfish from the hot water, chocolate chips until just combined. Pour batter into and shred. prepared loaf pan. • Drain liquid from the cans of ackee, add ackee to the • Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted hot water for 1 minute, and then drain the water and set into the center comes out clean, about 70 minutes. ackee aside. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to cool • Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat, then add completely on a wire rack before slicing. saltfish, onions, peppers, thyme, scallions, garlic, tomato, and shrimp; stir until shrimp becomes pink, about 5 Please prepare all recipes at your own discretion; minutes. Queens Library is not responsible for accidents, allergic reactions, • Stir in ackee and sprinkle with black pepper. or illnesses that occur as a result of preparation. • Serve warm, with Jamaican fried dumplings, fried plantains, boiled green bananas, or rice and peas!

12 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE DONATE Drop Off Your Coats This Holiday!

Queens Library’s annual coat drive, run in collaboration with New York Cares, is taking place again at TK community libraries. Patrons can donate new and gently used coats that will be distributed to shelters around the city. Donate your coats between November 14 and December 31, and do a good deed this holiday season! Locations will be published on queenslibrary.org. ■

Podcasting Workshops for Teens, Telling Stories in Sound One of Queens Library’s most fun programs is the Teen Podcast Workshop! A new session of the workshop is about to start, and this time the theme of each episode will be focused around hip hop and urban culture. The workshop is especially valuable for teens interested in a future career in broadcast journalism, audio engineering, news reporting, or radio. Over eight weeks, teens between 12 and 19 will learn valuable skills such as presenting, audio editing, and above all how to produce an awesome show. We’re also hosting launch parties when the podcasts are all polished up and ready for the public, so keep your eyes on queenslibrary.org for details! ■ November/December 2017 13 KIDS & TEENS

FOR YOUNG READERS

Children and teens depend on the are grateful that The JPB Foundation resources of their libraries, but has made it possible for kids to come the fines they have accumulated back to us, and we look forward to sometimes keep them from visiting serving them in our libraries.” and checking out materials. The amnesty program has given them Young people were also reminded a fresh start in the new school of Queens Library’s Read Down year, increasing access to library Your Fees program, through which collections and supporting learning they can read in the library to earn and curiosity. “library bucks” to be used as credit towards their outstanding fines. As “By restoring borrowing privileges does the fine amnesty, Read Down On Thursday, October 19, the Queens, and wiping out fines on youth Your Fees encourages a lifelong Brooklyn, and New York Public cards, we are saying to children, interest in reading and makes Library systems declared a one-time ‘You are wanted, you are welcome, libraries even more accessible. fine amnesty for all children and and you belong here,’” said Queens teens ages 17 and under. Under Library President and CEO Dennis Remember—if you have any the program, funded by The JPB M. Walcott. “We understand there questions about borrowing or fines, Foundation, all existing fines and are sometimes circumstances that just ask your librarian! ■ fees were forgiven. Libraries across prevent cardholders from returning the City have been reaching out to books on time, but they should know young people, encouraging them to our staff will always work with them return any overdue materials and to ensure fines are not a barrier. We welcoming them back.

14 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE Welcome Our New Staff Members!

Queens Library is pleased to announce the appointments of Linda S. Green as the Library’s Vice President of Facilities & Environmental Services, and Sharon Myrie as Vice President of Programs Sharon Myrie is Queens Library’s new Linda Green is Queens Library’s new Vice and Services. Vice President of Programs and Services. President of Facilities & Environmental Services.

Linda Green is an accomplished continuity manual, and implemented communities across New York City. operations and facilities professional the plan for multiple office sites Prior to joining LIFT, Myrie was with over 20 years of facilities following the terrorist attacks on the Executive Vice President management, building and 9/11. for Community Programs and space management, and project Development for the New York City management experience. She spent Ms. Green received her B.S. in Housing Authority (NYCHA), where nearly 11 years at the Department Business Management from York she oversaw a wide spectrum of of Education, most recently in the College/CUNY (where she graduated departments delivering educational, Division of School Facilities as Chief magna cum laude), her J.D. from New workforce development, cultural, Administrative Officer, overseeing York Law School, and graduated from and social programs for public Contracts and Technical Services, the prestigious Executive Master of housing residents throughout all Labor Relations, and IT Services. She Public Administration program at five boroughs. She also served as has participated on several advisory Baruch College/CUNY. the Vice President of Education and councils at the DOE, including the Library Services at Brooklyn Botanic Sustainability Advisory Council, Sharon Myrie has a broad wealth Garden, and was Associate Executive the Employee Engagement and of experience in nonprofit Director of Programs at Lenox Hill Development Advisory Council, the management, citywide programs Neighborhood House, one of the Diversity Advisory Council, and the administration, and policy oldest settlement houses in New Community of Practice. implementation. Most recently, she York City. served as Chief Executive Officer Before that, Green served as the of Legal Information for Families Ms. Myrie, an attorney, began her Building Manager for the historic Today (LIFT), an organization legal career at the New York City Law Tweed Building, the central office that provides critical support for Department. She served as General of the DOE, and also managed the unrepresented families in New Counsel and Deputy Director of the conference center and numerous York City’s Family Court. Under Office on Homelessness and SRO off-site administrative locations. Her Myrie’s leadership, LIFT increased Housing under former Mayor David N. nonprofit experience includes seven its funding and accessibility and Dinkins. She holds a Bachelor of Arts years as the Director of Facilities expanded its programs. She also degree in Psychology from Ithaca for the Vera Institute of Justice, expanded LIFT’s ability to provide College, and a Law degree from The where she developed an emergency social service support by partnering George Washington University Law management and business with other nonprofit organizations in School. ■ November/December 2017 15 On her last day before retirement, Flushing Library Director Donna Ciampa-Lauria (right) poses with Flushing Program Manager Gina Fazio.

Surrounded by a diverse and Director of Flushing committed team of managers, we were able to form partnerships with community organizations, local Community Library artists, and city agencies to offer unique services to our customers, including town hall meetings with Retires elected officials, introduction and information sessions when new laws or changes in laws took place, and a Donna Ciampa-Lauria has been a Donna recently finished her public outreach table to help them member of the Queens Library staff distinguished career with the Library, with things like answering questions since 1997. She had just finished and on the eve of her retirement, we and interpreting letters. We also had library school and was hired as spoke with her about what makes the pleasure of hosting a variety of a Young Adult Librarian at the Flushing Library unique, what people programs with all the departments Central Library. She stayed at can expect from the library’s new in the Queens Library system. Central—where she was promoted to director, and more. senior roles, including Cyber Center Now that you are retired, what were Supervisor, Manager of Information How did you enjoy your time at the best things about working at Services, and Assistant Director of Flushing? What programs did you Queens Library? And what do you the branch—until 2008, when she develop during your time there? think are the best things about the was named the Director of Flushing My time as Director of Flushing Library in general? Community Library. With 1.8 million Library was the most enriching One of the best things about visitors per year, Flushing is not only part of my work life—for the first working at Queens Library is being the busiest library in Queens, it is the time in my career, I was on my proactively involved in the many busiest community library in New own, managing my own library. changes that take place there— York State. It was a time of real growth both from the renovations and variety professionally and personally. of services to the different ways 16 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE you access library services and access to health insurance see the diversity of its culture, all resources. Also, having a chance information programs, and more. around you. to be creative when participating in library initiatives such as the What makes the Flushing Library What can you tell us about the new “Queens Library Is for Everyone” unique? Director at Flushing, Yang Zeng? campaign and its strategic planning. Flushing’s size, building features, Yang is definitely the person to carry The best things about the Library and the amount of people who visit on the legacy of the Flushing Library in general are its consistency, it every year make it unique in our managers that came before her. She reliability, and the way it calls library system and in New York State. is committed to providing programs people to action. Queens Library is Our building measures 76,000 square and services to meet the needs of consistent in providing resources, feet, has a 223-seat auditorium, an the community, and continuing programs and services to our Adult Learning Center on the lower the library’s unique multilingual communities, no matter what is level, a quiet room, an exhibit area, collection. She has managed several going on around us. We can rely and other program rooms. The libraries within our system and on the Library being ready and glass side of the building on Main brings that experience with her. open for business on any day of Street emphasizes the free and open the week. When Hurricane Sandy access to information and learning. If you could say anything to the hit, the library was there providing And we average 5,000 to 7,000 Flushing Library community, what computer access and other visitors every day of the week. The would it be? resources to assist in the recovery demographics of Flushing also make I want to thank all the Queens and cleanup. Now that our country’s our community unique. According Library staff for their support during immigration policies are changing, to the 2010 census, over 65 percent my years of service, and thank Queens Library is working with of our population is Asian. The the Flushing community for their other organizations and agencies to Department of City Planning reports steadfast devotion to their library offer assistance to all those affected, that about two-thirds of Flushing’s and showing us what it means to including DACA renewal workshops, population is foreign-born. Walking their everyday life. ■ around downtown Flushing, you can

Flushing Library is reminiscent Infants, toddlers, adolescents, Hear from Our of a General Store, smack-dab in parents, and grandparents—each the middle of Chinatown. Its latest family member has discovered a Customers renovation boasts a children’s room reason to show up at the Flushing on the first floor street level, and a Library. I use the Cyber Center when Flushing Library Director Yang Zeng seating area for visitors to just sit, my laptop isn’t working. As each recently received this testimonial relax, or converse; present are outlets generation in the family gathers, we from one of her customers, Luqman to recharge their smartphones and begin to see one another as a library Abdel Magied, an award-winning other devices. Art exhibits are shown family. If we don’t see a colleague, we poet who uses the libraries in on the lower level, and conference inquire with sincere concern as to Flushing and Manhattan. rooms and an auditorium for plays their well-being. and presentations are there too. —Luqman Abdel Magied Dear Fellow Library User, As cities began to develop across This library branch has become a Would you like to see your America during the early 1800s, user-friendly second home, like a testimonial about your community each town had what was known daily family reunion where we bring library appear in a future issue of as a “General Store.” Everybody the kids. There are always culturally- Queens Library Magazine? Share could receive their mail there and relevant programs presented in the yours with a Customer Service townspeople purchased all the food library. These programs introduce us Representative or Manager at your and supplies their family needed to our neighbors, who use the library library, or send it to from the General Store. It was a with the rest of us, but whom we [email protected]. ■ central gathering place and proof of didn’t yet get a chance to meet. a town’s social well-being.

November/December 2017 17 Flying Into Literacy at LaGuardia Airport! Into lyLiteracy On September 18, Queens Library “We knew that Queens Library’s visited LaGuardia Airport for Digital Q would be a wonderful the first-ever “Fly into Literacy” service for travelers,” said (without Wi-Fi) of our digital outreach initiative. Staff members Christopher Carvey, the Library’s content, you can become a Queens from our various branches and Director of Interactive Customer Library eUser, via queenslibrary. departments joined together to Experience. “With Digital Q, you can org, and then download our mobile sign people up for library cards and stream more than 200 e-magazines app and associated partner apps, promote our Digital Q e-magazine during your trip while connected available for free in the iTunes and streaming service. to Wi-Fi. Even if you don’t live in Android stores.” New York City, signing up for a free From the busy hours of 11 a.m. until e-library card is easy, and we still let “We’re planning another visit to 3 p.m., the Queens Library staff you preview Digital Q.” LaGuardia Terminal B this winter,” greeted travelers and airport visitors says Kim McNeil Capers, Queens in Terminal B of LaGuardia. Plus, That message was well received— Library’s Director of Community September was Library Card Sign-up we registered 79 people for physical Engagement, “so if you’re traveling Month, so we couldn’t resist the and e-user library cards, and talked for the holidays, there’s a good opportunity to promote the value of to over 1,400 people during our stay chance we’ll see you before you a library card and share how Queens at LGA! take off! But you don’t have to wait Library serves our community. until then—sign up for a library card Mr. Carvey also added, “For those today and download your favorite interested in offline reading magazines with Digital Q!” ■

Queens Library staff members get ready to greet travelers at Terminal B of LaGuardia Airport.

18 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE Customers arrive at Peninsula! Kids enjoyed storytime with Queens Library President and CEO Dennis M. Walcott (above) and on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk.

happy families! Teens were able to Two Amazing Days at the try their hand at building their own skateboards, and a special robotics “wiggle bots” workshop hosted by Rockaway Summer Festival Bloomberg volunteers stole the show. The day ended with another It was a picture-perfect summer screenings, and live music. musical performance, this time by day on Saturday, August 26, for the On Saturday night, the Steel the Asen Doykin Trio, who played kick-off of 31 hours of learning, Impressions Band wowed the crowd bossanova, Latin, swing jazz, and fun, and community spirit! More with calypso music, followed by an classic rhythm and blues. than 6,000 people passed through open-air double feature of two of the doors of Queens Library at our favorite beach-themed movies: Library staffers were on hand to Peninsula over the weekend, with Finding Nemo and Jaws. Later, the answer questions and provide library the Rockaways proving a popular library hosted late-night board games services for all visitors, many of location in the late days of summer. and karaoke, keeping the lights on whom were simply glad to be able to Hundreds more customers and right through the night. use the computers, read, or borrow passersby took advantage of the materials at all hours. The Rockaway pop-up library on the boardwalk, the Sunday morning started with a yoga Summer Festival was 31 hours of mobile library, wellness activities class at sunrise on Rockaway Beach, conversation, celebration, and clear on the beach, and various events leading into guided meditation. Arts blue skies. We had a fantastic time! outside on the library plaza, and crafts programs, face painting, including a resource fair with back-to-school activities, and a For more details about the Everyone great community partners, movie mermaid storytime resulted in lots of campaign, visit qleveryone.org. ■

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Queens has a rich literary history, and it’s showing On November 18, teenagers ages 13-17 can take no signs of slowing down as Newtown Literary part in Inventing New Wor(l)ds!, a class where workshops continue to be received enthusiastically experimenting with language is the name of the by library patrons. A literary organization based game. Participants will sharpen their understanding out of Ridgewood, Newtown Literary has partnered of vocabulary, what shapes meaning, and how to with Queens Library to offer a series of high-quality turn words into a story. On December 9, kids and creative writing classes for all ages. Newtown tweens ages 8-12 can sign up for What A Character!, Literary also runs its own journal, where past and where they’ll learn how to develop characters and present residents of Queens can submit their work turn their everyday observations into storylines. to be considered for publishing. Both youth workshops will take place at Ridgewood

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Queens Library’s newest American citizens! Celebrating Citizenship at Queens Library

Citizenship Day and Constitution podium, including Council Member Day were celebrated on Sunday, Peter Koo and representatives from September 17, and several Queens the New York State Office of New Library patrons accepted their Americans, NYLAG, Turning Point own citizenship certificates after Advocacy, Immigration Advocates early days in the United States. “I months—sometimes years—of hard Network, and the Catholic Migration didn’t have anything. I couldn’t catch work and making America their Services. the bus. This is the first time I’ve held homes. The following day called a microphone!” for something a little less formal Also present were members of the and a lot of fun: the Citizenship Queens Library family: our President Jasmin Hu spoke of the welcoming Celebration Ceremony at Flushing & CEO, Dennis M. Walcott, teacher environment she found at the Community Library! Participants in Trudy-Ann Ewen, Literacy Specialist Flushing Library. “The Flushing the Library’s citizenship and ESOL Mona Hassanein, and students Library helped me build my new classes gathered to celebrate the (and recent citizens!) Shaffina life in America. The managers achievements of those who earned Rahim and Jasmin Hu. Yang Zeng, encouraged me to go to workshops in their citizenship the day before, the newly-appointed Director of customer service.” complete with refreshments and a Flushing Library, began speeches by cake to mark the occasion. discussing the diversity of Queens Mona Hassanein agreed. Now a and her own experiences as an teacher and passing on the skills she Proceedings were kicked off byTara immigrant. learned in English and citizenship Lannen-Stanton, Queens Library’s classes, her speech ended with an Director of Adult Learning, who “I know how hard it is to struggle,” enthusiastic “I’m so proud to be part welcomed several speakers to the said student Shafina Raheem of her of Queens Library!” ■

November/December 2017 21 Three Amazing Libraries Win Awards! We’re proud to announce that our (Woodside), and their staff members Bayside, Lefferts, and Woodside received their awards at a wonderful community libraries were all ceremony held at Hearst Tower in big winners in the 2017 NYC Manhattan, where guests like New Neighborhood Library Awards! York City Council Majority Leader Lefferts Community Library and Jimmy Van Bramer and National Woodside Community Library each Book Award finalist (and Queens received a grand prize of $20,000, native) Min Jin Lee helped honor our and Bayside Community Library libraries’ achievements. received a finalist award of $10,000. “I am delighted that Bayside, Lefferts, The NYC Neighborhood Library and Woodside have been recognized Awards recognize and reward public for their outstanding service to libraries for being the unsung their communities,” said Queens heroes of New York. They are made Library President and CEO Dennis M. possible through a collaboration by Walcott. “I could not be prouder of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation them, and our entire library staff, for and Charles H. Revson Foundation, the transformative work they do for in association with WNYC’s Brian our customers every day.” Lehrer Show. You can learn more about all of this Every year, thousands of New year’s winning libraries and how Yorkers nominate their community they uplift the lives of New Yorkers libraries for the Awards. This year, by visiting www.nyclibraryawards. a record-breaking 24,000 customer org/2017-winners-finalists and nominations were submitted—an watching short documentaries by increase of more than 30 percent filmmakers Julie Dressner and Craig from last year. Marsden. Library managers Jean Lee (Bayside), Congratulations again to Bayside, David Booker III (Lefferts),Jingru Pei Lefferts, and Woodside! ■

Your Library Stories! Woodside Community Library— Bob, a neighborhood patron, Our NYC Neighborhood Library only made me realize what a love I stated: “One day I saw a patron Award winners couldn’t have have for literature and the arts, but in a wheelchair in tears because been honored without the stories helped me socialize as a shy child the elevator was out of order and shared by people like you in their with a diverse and kind population. she couldn’t get to the second neighborhoods and communities. Now, 24 years later, I am welcomed floor to attend the Korean Class. Here’s a sample. as more than just a community When the staff found this out, they Bayside Community Library— member, but a family member.” immediately discussed it with the Lifelong patron Daniela stated: “My Lefferts Community Library— Korean teacher and suggested to mother would bring my siblings and A neighborhood patron shared: move the class to the ground floor I multiple times a week for programs “For 20 years I have been coming so the person in a wheelchair could and activities that have had a to this library. I feel safe here, and attend the class. It shows that the tremendous impact on my life. It not with Unchained [LGBTQ] support staff there really care for their meetings I now have a safe space to patrons.” ■ be myself.” 22 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE Staff Changes at Our Community Libraries

Several of our community libraries have welcomed new managers and assistant managers. We congratulate them on their new positions, and we hope you will welcome them to your neighborhood library!

Brenna Charles is the new Assistant Community Library Manager at Pomonok Community Library.

Jay Dela Cruz is the new Assistant Community Library Manager at Ridgewood Community Library. Thomas Maxheimer is the new Vesna Simon is the new Community Assistant Community Library Library Manager at Middle Village Tejas Desai is the new Assistant Manager at Glen Oaks Community Community Library. Community Library Manager at Library. Corona Community Library. Chiang Wang is the new Collection Hesham Mohamed is the new Development Manager at Central Jillian Hayes is the new Assistant Assistant Community Library Library. Manager of Collection Development Manager at Bayside Community at Central Library. Library. Yang Zeng is the new Director of Flushing Community Library. ■ Samuel Heye is the new Assistant Susan Paredes is the new Community Library Manager at Bay Community Library Manager at Kew Terrace Community Library. Garden Hills Community Library.

Kasper Jarecki is the new Genive Purchase is the new Community Library Manager at Assistant Manager for Programming Cambria Heights Community Library. & Outreach at Central Library.

November/December 2017 23 Events A Thanksgiving Musical Celebration with Motown on Broadway’s N’Kenge

Broadway sensation N’Kenge makes her encore performance at Culture Connection / Queens Library with a special Thanksgiving inspired concert for music lovers everywhere. Enjoy familiar tunes from Southern spirituals to Whitney Houston hits as well as songs set to poetry of Langston Hughes, Motown classics and more. ASCAP award winner Charles Duke will be Music Director. A one-night only concert you don’t want to miss.

Wednesday, November 15 6:30 pm Central Library (Auditorium) N’Kenge Programs for All Ages

ARVERNE BAY TERRACE BRIARWOOD 312 Beach 54 Street, 718-634-4784 18-36 Bell Boulevard, 718-423-7004 85-12 Main Street, 718-658-1680

Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/4 -12/30 Monday @ 1:00PM - 12/4 Wednesday @ 2:30PM - 11/15 Saturday Family Movie A Holiday Celebration with Lois Bruno Motown Revue Families are invited to join us for our Lois Bruno invites the entire family to Vocalist Roz Brown pays tribute Saturday afternoon movie screening. bring their holiday spirit as we celebrate to Motown, performing hits from this season with such memorable The Supremes, The Four Tops, The Tuesday @ 3:00PM - 11/28 selections as “White Christmas,” “Winter Temptations, Mary Wells, Martha Reeves The Roz Brown Christmas Experience Wonderland,” “Let It Snow,” and many and the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, Join us and the Roz Brown Christmas more. Gladys Knight, Marvin Gaye, and, of Experience as we celebrate the holidays course, Stevie Wonder. with familiar favorites like “The BAYSIDE Christmas Song,” “Have Yourself a Merry 214-20 Northern Boulevard, 718-229-1834 Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 11/15 Little Christmas,” “Winter Wonderland,” Childhood Asthma and more. Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 What is childhood asthma? How do our Chess Club lungs work? At this interactive program, ASTORIA Players age 8 and up learn chess we will be making our own lungs! We 14-01 Astoria Boulevard, 718-278-2220 and compete against each other. All will also learn about asthma, its causes, experience levels are welcome. and ways to treat it. Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/19 Chess, Board and Card Games Saturday @ 2:30PM - 11/25 Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/20, 11/27 Everyone is invited to play chess, various Family Movie: Cars 3 Monday Afternoon Family Movies board games, and card games including Come and watch “Cars 3” (2017, G) Visit the Briarwood Library and join Yu-Gi-Oh and Dominion at the Astoria together with your families. us for two great family movies! On Library. Beginners are welcome; open to November 20, we will be showing all ages. Saturday @ 2:30PM - 12/16 “What’s Cooking” (2000, PG-13), and on Holiday Concert November 27, we will be showing “Born Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/17 - 12/29 Join us for the holidays and bring the in China” (2017, G). Picture Book Storytime entire family for an afternoon of music Join us for a fun time of stories, finger and song. Mondays @ 4:00PM - 12/4, 12/11, 12/18 rhymes, and more! This program is for Monday Afternoon Movies children under 5 years old and their BELLEROSE Visit the Briarwood Library and join us caregivers. 250-06 Hillside Avenue, 718-831-8644 for three great superhero movies: 12/4 - “Wonder Woman” (2017, PG-13); 12/11 - AUBURNDALE Saturdays @ 11:00AM - 11/4 - 12/30 “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (2017, PG- 25-55 Francis Lewis Boulevard, Chess Class for All 13); 12/18 - “Batman and Harley Quinn” 718-352-2027 It’s never too early (or too late) to learn (2017, PG-13). how to play chess, which is the game of Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3 - 12/29 kings! Come learn how to play, enhance Saturday @ 3:00PM - 12/9 Game Time your skills and have fun. Registration is Origami Christmas Ornaments An afternoon of checkers, chess, Connect required! Join us for a creative and fun art Four, Jenga, jigsaw puzzles, Mancala program featuring origami! Come and for Kids, Monopoly, Scrabble, World Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 11/28 create your own Christmas ornament! Hangman, Yu-Gi-Oh, and more! Come join Superhero Movie Month Sponsored by the Friends of Briarwood the fun! Come join us for the following November Library. movies: 11/7: “Batman and Harley BAISLEY PARK Quinn” (2017, PG-13); 11/14: “Spider-Man: Wednesday @ 2:30PM - 12/20 117-11 Sutphin Boulevard, 718-529-1590 Homecoming” (2017, PG-13); 11/21: “Power Holiday Jazz featuring Pianist William Rangers” (2017, PG-13); 11/28: “Pirates of Gati and Vocalist Willa Bassen Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/2 the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” William Gati and Willa Bassen will Native American Picture Stories (2017, PG-13). perform a concert of popular songs and Join us at the library to illustrate your holiday selections that the entire family own Native American picture story! Friday @ 1:00PM - 11/24 is sure to enjoy. Special requests are Children will learn the different picture Black Friday Double Feature Movie welcomed! symbols the Native Americans used, On Black Friday, we are showing before words were created. Ages 7-12. “Wonder Woman” (2017, PG-13) and “Transformers: The Last Knight” (2017, PG-13).

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BROAD CHANNEL CENTRAL LIBRARY person ever inducted into the Pittsburgh 16-26 Cross Bay Boulevard, 718-318-4943 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, 718-990-0778 Jazz Hall of Fame. He’s gone on to make a name for himself through recording Thursday @ 5:30PM - 11/9 Thursdays @ 2:00PM - 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, and touring with a variety of jazz and State Senator Joseph Addabbo Mobile 11/30 popular artists, including Sting, Whitney Office Hours Classic Movie Thursday Houston, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, Meet with State Senator Addabbo to Come join us for Classic Movie Thursday! and Common. discuss any topic or concerns you may We are showing: “Rope” (1948) on 11/2, have. “The Nutty Professor” (1963) on 11/9, “The Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/13 Plymouth Adventure” (1952) on 11/16, and Yvonnick Prene Jazz Duo BROADWAY “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (1938) A composer, educator, and specialist 40-20 Broadway, 718-721-2462 on 11/30. in the chromatic harmonica, Yvonnick Prene has become a rising star among Wednesdays @ 10:00AM - 11/1 - 12/20 Friday @ 5:00PM - 11/3 contemporary jazz artists. Come and Free Citizenship Classes Queens Then & Now, Through the see his premiere performance at Queens Learn everything you need to know People of Color Lens Library. about American history, government, Editor, writer, and diversity advocate and culture to pass the citizenship Jennifer Baker will lead a panel CORONA exam. Register in person at the library discussion tracing the migration of 38-23 104 Street, 718-426-2844 on Wednesday, November 1 at 10:00 a.m. people of color in Queens County. In or call 718-278-4303 to preregister in addition to highlighting Ms. Baker’s own Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/15 advance. Students should have a copy writing, this discussion will cover the NYC Mariachi Tapatio de Alvaro of their green card when they come to broader racial history and demographics Paulino register. Participants must attend the of the region. This event is held with This ensemble of remarkably talented entire 12-week class series. Candidates support from the Queens Council on the musicians promote the beauty and must be Green Card holders. The first day Arts. splendor of mariachi music. of class is registration day (November 1). Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/4 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 12/21 Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Theater of War How to Get Into College with a Board Game Club Theater of War is an innovative public Scholarship (in Spanish) Join us for a casual evening of board health project that presents readings In this workshop in Spanish, you will games like Scrabble, chess, and more. of Sophocles’ “Ajax.” This will serve learn about the college process, how to Adults and teens are welcome! as a catalyst for facilitated town hall apply for the best scholarships, and a discussions about suicide, combat stress, strategy that could help you get into the Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26 alcohol and substance abuse, and the Ivy League. Board Game Club impact of war on families. Join us for non-competitive Scrabble COURT SQUARE games and to learn new words. Adults Tuesday @ 6:00PM - 11/7 25-01 Jackson Avenue, 718-937-2790 and teens are welcome. Volunteers in the Vaults: November 7th Volunteers in the Vaults is a public Thursday @ 5:00PM - 11/16, Saturday @ Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/15, 11/29 bi-monthly program aimed at Queens 3:00PM - 11/25 Beginners’ PowerPoint Memory volunteers and at the general Computer Class for Beginners Create awesome presentations with public interested in learning about our Learn how to use a computer; how to PowerPoint 2010. Learn how to create upcoming programs and opportunities. search the Queens Library catalog and and edit slides, change designs and Attendees will also have the chance the Internet; how to create and use email; colors, insert illustrations, and present to discuss possible Queens-related oral and how to use Microsoft World 2010. your slideshow. Preregistration is history projects and network with For adults; preregistration is required; required. Queens Memory Program staff. Light maximum of 3 people for one hour. refreshments will be served. RSVP at CAMBRIA HEIGHTS [email protected]. DOUGLASTON/LITTLE NECK 218-13 Linden Boulevard, 718-528-3535 249-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-225-8414 Tuesday @ 6:30PM - 11/7 Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/29 An Evening with Virtuoso Bassist Thursdays @ 1:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Tree Lighting Ceremony Richie Goods & Friends Spanish Conversation Club Are you unable to attend the lighting One of the most versatile and Join Lucila and others for a little Spanish ceremony at Rockefeller Center? Then accomplished bass players on the scene conversation at the Douglaston/Little come see the lighting of your community today, Richie Goods graduated from Neck Library. All are welcome. Christmas tree at Cambria Heights the prestigious jazz program at Berklee Community Library! College in Boston and is the youngest

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Mondays @ 3:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/25, 12/9 FLUSHING Knit and Crochet Club Amazing Origami 41-17 Main Street, 718-661-1200 Adults, teens, and kids of all levels Join us at our monthly origami meeting. are welcome. Bring your own yarn, Joy will demonstrate and teach you how Saturday @ 11:00AM - 11/4 needles, and ideas. Space is limited. to make amazing origami projects. Queens Library Poetry Contest Preregistration is required. Readings and Awards Saturday @ 3:30PM - 11/25 Join us for a reading of the winning Tuesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/7 - 12/19 Holiday Greeting Cards poems and the three honorable mentions Basic Computer Class Create a unique bookmark, greeting card, in each of the four contest categories. All Join us and learn about: computer or gift card using beautiful pressed plant are welcome! hardware, software, using the mouse, materials on special card stock. It will be how to search the Internet, how to open the perfect holiday gift presentation. Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/4 and use an email account, and how to The Colors of the Wind Dance Group use Microsoft Office applications such Saturday @ 3:00PM - 12/2 Like old friends getting together, The as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Learn Holiday Gift Box Workshop Colors of the Wind Dancers return for at your own pace! Preregistration is Create charming gift boxes from old and the 5th time for their annual gala show. required by phone or in person at the new holiday cards. Use your collection *Auditorium, Lower Level* Reference Desk. There will be no classes of old greeting cards to craft beautiful on the last Tuesday of the month. boxes. The greeting card then becomes a Sunday @ 2:00PM - 11/12 decorative box with a message inside! QL International Resource Center Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 12/5 presents: Japanese Classical Dance Hanukkah and Christmas Concert with Saturday @ 3:00PM - 12/9 Sachiyo Ito and Company will present Irene Failenbogen Corsages and Barrettes beautiful Japanese classical dances, Bring your holiday spirit to this festive This is a playful interpretation of including 19th-century Kabuki dance. concert with Irene Failenbogen, featuring the traditional holiday pin. Try these *Auditorium, Lower Level* memorable selections to celebrate both cheerful corsages! Easy enough for a Hanukkah and Christmas! child to make, and sophisticated enough Sunday @ 1:00PM - 11/19 for a mom to wear or give as a wonderful 40th Anniversary Celebration of the EAST FLUSHING gift. An assortment of beautiful materials New Americans Program 196-36 Northern Blvd., 718-357-6643 will be provided. Please visit the library Join the festivities with the New or call 718-357-6643 to register. Americans Program as we celebrate Thursdays @ 1:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 40 years of providing programs and Bridge Club Saturday @ 3:30PM - 12/16 services to Queens’ diverse ethnic Join us and enjoy playing Bridge at East Holiday Bookmarks and Gift Cards communities. Crafts/Food: 1-2:30 p.m. Flushing Library. Create a unique bookmark, greeting in Rooms A & B; International Music card, or gift card using beautifully and Dance: 1-2:30 p.m. in Auditorium; Thursdays @ 5:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 pressed plant materials on special card Immigration Workshop: 2:30-3 p.m. in Chess Club—Intermediate Level stock. Perfect for your holiday gift Rooms C&D; ESOL Game: 2:30-3 p.m.; Intermediate-level chess players are presentations. Supplies limited. Closing Performance: 3:45-4:30 p.m. in invited to play chess while improving Auditorium. their strategies, tactics, and skills. ELMHURST 86-07 Broadway, 718-271-1020 Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/25 Saturday @ 3:00PM - 11/4, Saturday @ China Ballet NYC: Ballet & Beijing 3:30PM - 11/18 Mondays @ 5:00PM - 11/13, 11/27, 12/11 Opera Gala—38th Anniversary Ballet Leaf Prints Monday Movie Night This year, Les Ballets de l’Opera Chinois Create a stunning leaf print from leaf Come join us at Elmhurst Library for de New York, Inc., will perform “The Suite specimens. Do you love to collect autumn a free movie screening. All ages are from Dream of Dunhuang,” “Celestial leaves? Learn how to preserve these welcome. Call the branch for movie Musicians,” “Kazakhstan Cavalry,” and treasures of nature and then make a details. more. *Auditorium, Lower Level* print of your favorite leaf on greeting- card stock. We will be using artist ink, Thursday @ 5:00PM - 12/21 Wednesday @ 6:30PM - 11/29 so bring your own apron! All materials Folk Songs from Around the World Laughs at the Library: Stand-Up will be supplied, but are limited. Please The Rainbow Notes Harmony Singing Comedy with Mark Brier call the library or pre-register in person. Group was founded in September 2016. Join us for this live comedy show with Children are welcome and should be Today’s performance will include folk comedian Mark Brier. You will laugh accompanied by an adult. song selections from China, Japan, your bookcases off! *Rooms A&B, Lower Russia, Italy, Mexico, and the United Level* States.

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Monday @ 6:30PM - 12/11 GLEN OAKS HOLLIS Queens Library International 256-04 Union Turnpike, 718-831-8636 202-05 Hillside Avenue, 718-465-7355 Resource Center Presents: Pop Asia by Lawrence Ferber Wednesdays @ 2:30PM - 11/1, 11/8, 11/29 Monday @ 4:00PM - 12/11 Are you into pop, electronic, or Art History Lecture Series Childhood Asthma alternative music? We’ll take a pop Nine sessions of art history in three What is childhood asthma? How do our music video journey from Thailand to libraries, led by Mary Dono. lungs work? At this interactive program, South Korea to China that will expose we will be making our own lungs! We will you to bands and performers you’ll Thursdays @ 12:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 also learn about asthma, its causes, and want to hear more of! *Auditorium, French Club ways to treat it. Lower Level* Do you speak French? Don’t forget this beautiful language! Join us at Club HOWARD BEACH FOREST HILLS Français to talk about family, friends, and 92-06 156 Avenue, 718-641-7086 108-19 71 Avenue, 718-268-7934 vacations; listen to music and songs; and discuss current events, art, films, cooking, Thursdays @ 5:30PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Fridays @ 1:30PM - 11/3 - 12/29 and any other subject that might interest Howard Beach Chess Club Friday Movie Matinee you. These will be real tête-à-têtes among Join us for a friendly game of chess! All Join us for the Friday film forum at friends. levels & ages are welcome! Forest Hills. Saturday @ 1:30PM - 11/4 Fridays @ 3:00PM - 11/3, 11/17, 11/24 Saturdays @ 11:00AM - 11/4 - 12/30 Celebrate the Indian Festival of Lights Friday Movie Afternoon Super Saturday Morning with Crafts and Indian Classical Kathak Join us for our Friday afternoon movies! Kids of all ages and their special and Folk Dance November 3: “Forrest Gump” (1994, PG- grownups are invited to have fun on 1:30-3:30 p.m.: Henna Handpainting 13); November 17: “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Saturday mornings with coloring pages, Workshop with Anowara Ahmed. *Limited The Long Haul” (2017, PG); November 24: board games, jigsaw puzzles, blocks, to the first 25 guests. On a first-come, “Children of a Lesser God” (1986, R). and Legos—and the occasional craft! first-served basis.* 3:00-4:00 p.m.: Indian Storytelling through Classical Dance. Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 12/5 Saturday @ 3:00PM - 11/4 Please join Abha Bhatnager Roy for an A Holiday Celebration with Lois Bruno Dan Martin Trio afternoon of “kathak,” a North Indian form Lois Bruno invites the entire family to The Dan Martin Trio has a party on of storytelling through classical dance. bring their holiday spirit as we celebrate Gatsby’s lawn—which is a cobblestone the season with such memorable street in Paris at dusk and a nightclub Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26 selections as “White Christmas,” “Winter in Rio—in the early hours of the Ping Pong Game Time Wonderland,” “Let It Snow,” and many more. morning in the French Quarter of Let’s play ping pong. Everyone is welcome. New Orleans. They are a mood, an Children under thirteen should be JACKSON HEIGHTS atmosphere, an experience. Join us for accompanied by a parent or guardian. 35-51 81 Street, 718-899-2500 an enjoyable afternoon with talented musicians. HILLCREST Saturday @ 1:00PM - 11/18 187-05 Union Turnpike, 718-454-2786 Celebrate Diwali with Subhra Goswami Saturday @ 2:30PM - 12/9 and the Ranjanee Group Voices of New York Christmas Choral Tuesday @ 1:30PM - 11/7, Fridays @ 1:00PM 1:00 p.m.: Henna Handpainting with Concert - 11/24, 12/29 Anowara Ahmed.* 3:00 p.m.: With a focus An adult community chorus of 25 School’s Out Family Film Series on the festive mood of Diwali, Ranjanee voices will sing beautiful Christmas, Come join us at the Hillcrest Library for Inc. will perform classical, contemporary Hanukkah, and other seasonal choral a series of films when school is out! 11/7: & folk songs and dances showcasing the music. “Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie” diversity of India. *First 25 guests, on a (2017, PG); 11/24: “Cars 3” (2017, G); 12/29: first-come, first-served basis. FRESH MEADOWS “The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature” (2017, PG). 193-20 Horace Harding Expressway, Light refreshments are permitted for this Saturday @ 3:00PM - 11/25 718-454-7272 program. Bharatanatyam & Bollywood Dance Ragachitra Fine Arts presents a program Saturday @ 2:30PM - 12/2 Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/27 of South Indian dance that features the Holiday Jazz featuring Pianist William Childhood Asthma dance form of Bharatanatyam, which Gati and Vocalist Cassie Hawkins What is childhood asthma? How do our originated in the Hindu temples of Tamil Join us for the holidays with this lungs work? At this interactive program, Nadu, and also a Bollywood performance concert of popular songs and holiday we will be making our own lungs! We will that mixes various dance styles, from selections that the entire family is sure also learn about asthma, its causes, and belly dance to kathak, Indian folk, and to enjoy. ways to treat it. more.

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Saturday @ 2:30PM - 12/23 different activities that incorporate the MASPETH Holiday Concert elements of STEAM (Science, Technology, 69-70 Grand Avenue, 718-639-5228 Join us for the holidays and bring the Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) entire family for an afternoon of music with the opportunity for family Fridays @ 3:00PM - 11/3, 11/17, 11/24 and song. exploration, collaboration, and creativity. Crafts, Fun + Games Join us for crafts, fun, and games. KEW GARDENS HILLS Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/23, 12/21 71-34 Main Street, 718-261-6654 Family Holiday Crafts MCGOLDRICK Come create memories and holiday 155-06 Roosevelt Av. (off Northern Blvd), Tuesday @ 3:30PM - 11/21 crafts with your family! November 16: 718-461-1616 Childhood Asthma Thanksgiving; December 21: Christmas. What is childhood asthma? How do our Saturdays @ 1:00PM - 11/4 - 12/30 lungs work? At this interactive program, Saturday @ 3:00PM - 12/2 Chess Club we will be making our own lungs! We Holiday Concert Everyone is welcome to learn the basics or will also learn about asthma, its causes, Join us for the holidays and bring the improve their knowledge of chess. and ways to treat it. entire family for an afternoon of music and song. Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/4 - 12/30 Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 11/22 Coding Club Family Movie Night LEFRAK CITY Learn about the fun of coding for kids! Please run, run, run for a Fun Family Movie 98-30 57 Avenue, 718-592-7677 Night featuring “Chicken Run” (2000, G). Wednesday @ 2:30PM - 11/8 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/2 NYC Mariachi Tapatio de Alvaro Paulino Sunday @ 2:30PM - 12/10 Family Game Night This ensemble of remarkably talented Holiday Concert Bring in the family for a game night before musicians promote the beauty and Join us for the holidays and bring the entire or after dinner. Board games, interactive splendor of mariachi music. family for an afternoon of music and song. games, and a dance party are included. Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 12/13 Thursday @ 4:15PM - 12/21 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 12/7 Holiday Jazz featuring Pianist William Holiday DIY: Last-Minute Gift Ideas Family Movie Night Gati and Vocalist Willa Bassen Need a last-minute gift idea for that Bring in the family for a holiday classic, William Gati and Willa Bassen will special someone? Join us for a fun “The Polar Express” (2004, G), and a cup perform a concert of popular songs and creative workshop for the holiday season. of hot cocoa. holiday selections that the entire family is sure to enjoy. Hear Harold Arlen’s “Over LAURELTON LONG ISLAND CITY the Rainbow,” Charlie Parker’s “Now’s 134-26 225 Street, 718-528-2822 37-44 21 Street, 718-752-3700 the Time,” Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind,” and a whole host of holiday Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/2, 11/9 Wednesdays @ 1:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27 favorites. Special requests are welcomed. Teen Enrichment: Be a Change Maker Mavis Beacon Typing Class Workshop Learn how to type quickly and MIDDLE VILLAGE Make a difference in your community accurately. 72-31 Metropolitan Avenue, 718-326-1390 and the world! Attend our 6-session workshop and learn how. Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27 Thursdays @ 2:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Robotics Workshop Afternoon Movie Matinee Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/4, 12/2 Explore the capabilities behind robotic Join us for another series of classic films Family Movies at Laurelton platforms in addition to exploring the from the 1930s-1970s at Middle Village Join us at the Laurelton Community paradigms within robotic designs. Library. Movies are subject to change. Library for our Family Movie Night, we have selected the best kids’ movies Tuesday @ 10:30AM - 11/7 Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26 around—you’ll find family favorites Introduction to the Internet Classical Music Hour everyone will love to see! Learn the basics of using the Internet. Please join us for an hour of soothing classical music. Wednesdays @ 5:00PM - 11/8, 12/6 Tuesday @ 10:30AM - 11/7 Family Maker Night Digital Privacy Friday @ 3:00PM - 11/24 Do you have kids ages 4-14?? Do you Participants will receive resources on Childhood Asthma want an activity that you can do with how to protect themselves online. What is childhood asthma? How do our your kids (or grandkids?) Come out to lungs work? At this interactive program, the Laurelton Community Library for Tuesday @ 1:00PM - 11/14 we will be making our own lungs! We will a family evening of “Making.” Family World Diabetes Day also learn about asthma, its causes, and Maker Night will happen each month Join us for this annual celebration of ways to treat it. and will offer a minimum of three World Diabetes Day. November/December 2017 29 November / December 20162017

Friday @ 2:00PM - 12/22 poisoning and sources of lead, how to POMONOK A Holiday Celebration with Lois Bruno control pests safely, and how to prevent 158-21 Jewel Avenue, 718-591-4343 Lois Bruno invites the entire family to bring and get rid of bedbugs. All are welcome. their holiday spirit as we celebrate this For more information, please call 646- Tuesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/7 - 11/28 season with such memorable selections as 632-6023. Makers Lab: Create! “White Christmas,” “Winter Wonderland,” Whether completing a science “Let It Snow,” and many more. Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/24, 12/8, 12/15 experiment or a craft project, children Friday At The Movies ages 6-12 are sure to enjoy this program NORTH FOREST PARK Come join us for Friday at the Movies. which focuses on fun learning and 98-27 Metropolitan Avenue, 718-261-5512 Movies are rated G or PG. creativity!

Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Monday @ 5:30PM - 12/18 Tuesdays @ 4:30PM - 12/5 - 12/26 Learn Chinese with San Lin Holiday Jazz featuring Pianist William Makers Lab: Create! Are you interested in learning Chinese? Gati and Vocalist Cassie Hawkins Whether completing a science Join us and learn this language. Join us for the holidays with this concert experiment or a craft project, children of popular songs and holiday selections ages 6-12 are sure to enjoy this program Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/6 -12/18 that the entire family is sure to enjoy. which focuses on fun learning and Writers’ Circle creativity! We started as a journaling class, but we PENINSULA are widening our horizons to writers of all 92-25 Rockaway Beach Blvd., 718-634-1110 POPPENHUSEN types. Bring your memoirs, poetry, fiction, 121-23 14 Avenue, 718-359-1102 or non-fiction pieces. We will discuss our Tuesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/7 - 12/5, writing and those who feel comfortable Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 11/29 Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/8 can share their pieces. Computer Classes For Beginners Fall Craft You will learn computer basics including Join us for a fun craft to celebrate Fall! NORTH HILLS Microsoft Word, the Internet, and email. Open to all ages; children under 9 years 57-04 Marathon Parkway, 718-225-3550 of age must be accompanied by an adult. Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/6, 12/11 Fridays @ 12:30PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Skate & Surf Club Monday @ 5:00PM - 11/13 Homeschool Day Join us for our gnarly Skate & Surf Club. Origami North Hills Library is providing Light refreshments will be served. All Join us for some paper-folding fun! All homeschoolers with a place to relax, are welcome. Get a free skate tool, while ages are welcome. educate, communicate, interact, and enjoy supplies last! the freedoms of a communal environment Monday @ 5:00PM - 11/27 outside their home. Project activities will Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/9 Monday Movies at Poppenhusen include board games, chess, geography, Friends of Peninsula Library Meeting Poppenhusen Community Library will movies, science, films, and more. Join us for an informational meeting present movies on Mondays. about the Peninsula chapter of Friends Fridays @ 3:00PM - 11/3, 11/17 of the Library! As a Friend, you’ll QUEENS VILLAGE Family Film Friday participate in advocacy initiatives to 94-11 217 Street, 718-776-6800 Join us for two different family film request funding, coordinate fundraising screenings! 11/3: “The Emoji Movie” (2017, events to raise money, and attend Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/4 PG); 11/17: “Cars 3” (2017, G). frequent meetings to discuss future Beyond the Pow-Wow plans and activities. Award-winning children’s author S.D. Mondays @ 4:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Nelson brings the culture of the Lakota Chess Time! Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/18, 12/16 people center stage; Chief Dwaine Perry It’s Chess Time for kids ages 8 and up. Peninsula Open Mic discusses the proposed oil pipeline Calling all musicians, singers, dancers, that threatens the sacred areas of the Tuesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/7 - 12/19 storytellers, poets, jugglers, and Ramapoul Lunaape Reserve, and the Computer Classes magicians! All performers are welcome to National Alliance of Native American Learn how to navigate Microsoft Outlook. share their creative work at Peninsula’s Dancers will perform with Wolfsmoon Open Mic. Registration is encouraged, but Medicine Drum. OZONE PARK not required. All ages welcome. 92-24 Rockaway Boulevard, 718-845-3127 QUEENSBORO HILL Saturday @ 3:00PM - 12/9 60-05 Main Street, 718-359-8332 Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/13 Holiday Concert Healthy Homes Join us for the holidays and bring the Saturday @ 12:00PM - 11/18 Come learn from the NYC Department of entire family for an afternoon of music “The LEGO Batman Movie” Health and Mental Hygiene about: lead and song. Celebrate Justice League Day with a

30 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE Programs for All Ages screening of “The LEGO Batman Movie” Fridays @ 10:45AM - 11/3 - 12/29 Saturday @ 11:15AM - 12/30 (2017, PG)! Watch as Bruce Wayne—aka Play Date at the Library Family New Year’s Countdown and Batman—learns that you need friends to Drop in on Fridays to socialize and play Celebration get the job done! Families and children of with other caregivers and children! Enjoy Kids of all ages are invited to celebrate all ages welcome. the library’s toys, games, and puzzles and the coming of the New Year. We will our “play kitchen.” ring in the New Year with a story or Friday @ 12:00PM - 11/24 two, resolutions, and noisemakers and Movie: “Big Hero 6” Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 11/4, 12/2 hats. Ten seconds to noon, we will Join us for a post-Thanksgiving viewing CISTA Girls: Leading the Way to Save have a countdown and a balloon drop. of this Disney animated film (2014, PG). Our Planet Join us on Saturday, December 30, A team of superheroes and their robot Be a volunteer and help save our planet for from 11:15 a.m. to noon at the Rochdale Baymax take on the bad guys and try to future generations! Have fun participating Village Library. save the day. in beach clean-ups, presentations, planting trees, panel discussions on TV shows, art ROSEDALE Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 12/5, 12/12, 12/19, shows, and more. Families are encouraged 144-20 243 Street, 718-528-8490 12/26 to attend. Preregistration is not required. Knitting & Crocheting Club Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Join us for Queensboro Hill’s newest Monday @ 6:00PM - 11/6 Game Friday club—learn to knit or crochet. Please Typing Lab 101 Children can enjoy a variety of games: bring your own materials—and ask a Learn to type accurately and effectively board, computer, and card. friend to join you! or just brush up on your typing skills, using self-paced software. Laptops and Saturdays @ 1:00PM - 11/4 - 12/30 RICHMOND HILL headphones provided. Registration Learn to Play Chess with Mr. Fariad 118-14 Hillside Avenue, 718-849-7150 required. Mr. Fariad invites all chess lovers to join him for fun games. All are Mondays @ 1:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18, Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/9 welcome: beginner, intermediate, and Tuesdays @ 1:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26, Language Learning Lab 101 advanced players. Wednesdays @ 1:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27, Learn 120+ languages using self-paced Thursdays @ 1:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28, Fridays learning software. Laptops and headphones Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7, 12/26 @ 1:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29, Saturdays @ will be provided. You must have a basic Chess For All 1:00PM - 11/4 - 12/30 knowledge of navigating the Internet This chess program welcomes all who Sit and Think with Sudoku and using a keyboard and mouse. are interested in the game: advanced Come and do a Sudoku puzzle for fun, or Preregistration is required. Please bring players, beginners, and everyone in just refresh your math skills. All levels of your library card. between. difficulty are offered. Thursday @ 1:00PM - 11/16 Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/25, 12/9, Saturday @ 3:00PM - 11/18 Black Friday Ready? 12/23 Traditional Music and Dance from Join us for a fun and interactive online Family Movies Ecuador shopping experience! Online shopping is Families can enjoy feature movies in Ayazamana Dance Group presents a convenient way to buy almost anything a simulated theatre atmosphere. Bring traditional dance with authentic music from the comfort of your home. While there your snacks. and costumes from different regions of are some risks with shopping online, there Ecuador. are also many ways to protect yourself and SEASIDE your financial information. Learn more 116-15 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, ROCHDALE VILLAGE about staying safe when shopping online in 718-634-1876 169-09 137 Avenue, 718-723-4440 this very informative hands-on session. Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Wednesdays @ 10:45AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Saturday @ 10:00AM - 11/18 Family Game Night Storytime Glass Painting for the Holidays Children ages 5-12 are invited to play Babies and children up to age 5 and their It’s glass painting with a cheerful holiday board games. parent or caregiver are welcome to join theme. Create your own unique glassware. us for stories, songs, crafts, and lots of Materials provided. Limited spaces Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3 - 12/29 fun. available. Train Building Time Build your own wooden track, Thursdays @ 3:30PM - 11/2, 12/7 Friday @ 2:00PM - 12/29 including bridges and tunnels. Enjoy Monthly Building Bricks Program Family Bingo using your imagination while riding Join us once a month for “building brick” Round up your family and friends for a low- the train on the track you created. challenges! tech evening of bingo and prizes. For all ages! No registration required.

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Mondays @ 5:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 ST. ALBANS Friday @ 10:15AM - 12/15 Seaside Library Chess Club 191-05 Linden Boulevard, 718-528-8196 Whitestone Korean Book Discussion Have you always wanted to learn how to Join us at Whitestone for this Korean play chess? Children and adults are welcome Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/16 book discussion. to join us. Chess can be a very important Childhood Asthma tool in the development of critical thinking What is childhood asthma? How do our WINDSOR PARK and problem-solving skills in young and lungs work? At this interactive program, 79-50 Bell Boulevard, 718-468-8300 older minds. Our library volunteer, Vincent we will be making our own lungs! We Haywood-Howell, will be here to teach will also learn about asthma, its causes, Tuesdays @ 1:30PM - 11/7 - 12/26 and to encourage you to learn, enjoy, and and ways to treat it. Knit and Crochet Club become proficient in the game of chess. Bring your own yarn, needles, and Saturday @ 10:00AM and 2:00PM - 11/25 ideas. Space is limited. Preregistration Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26 Family Movie Day @ St. Albans is required. Lego Club Join us on selected Saturdays for the Use your imagination to build with Legos. latest & hottest new releases. This Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/8 - 12/27 Children ages 2-12 are welcome. Lego idea month, we will be showing “The Basic Computer Class for Adults books will be provided to get your creative Emoji Movie” (2017, PG) @ 10:00 a.m. & Don’t know how to use computers? No juices flowing! “Descendants 2” (2017, TV-G) @ 2:00p.m. problem! You will get a basic knowledge of computers, thanks to this class. SOUTH HOLLIS Thursday @ 6:00PM - 12/21 Preregistration is required. 204-01 Hollis Avenue, 718-465-6779 The Roz Brown Christmas Experience Join us for the Roz Brown Christmas WOODHAVEN Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Experience as we celebrate the holidays 85-41 Forest Parkway, 718-849-1010 Adult Haitian Creole Computer Class with familiar favorites like “The Basic computer classes in Haitian Creole for Christmas Song,” “Have Yourself a Merry Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/1 adults and senior citizens. Little Christmas,” “Winter Wonderland,” Book Hedgehog Craft and more. Get your craft on! For ages 6-12. Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Ping Pong Program STEINWAY Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/2 Teens can play Ping Pong matches with one 21-45 31 Street, 718-728-1965 Movie Night another. Join us as we watch “Kubo and the Two Saturday @ 2:00PM - 12/2 Strings” (2016, PG). Light snacks will Thursday @ 6:00PM - 12/7 A Holiday Celebration with Lois Bruno be provided or bring your own. Movie The Roz Brown Christmas Experience Lois Bruno invites the entire family to night is for the whole family! Join us for the Roz Brown Christmas bring their holiday spirit as we celebrate Experience as we celebrate the holidays this season with such memorable Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 12/22 with familiar favorites like “The Christmas selections as “White Christmas,” “Winter Game Day Song,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Wonderland,” “Let It Snow,” and many Come and play one of our many board Christmas,” “Winter Wonderland,” and more. more. games! This event is for all ages.

SOUTH JAMAICA SUNNYSIDE Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/15 108-41 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., 718-739-4088 43-06 Greenpoint Avenue, 718-784-3033 Thanksgiving Wreath Kids ages 6-12, get your craft on! Thursday @ 5:00PM - 11/9 Saturday @ 2:30PM - 11/18 Childhood Asthma Dominican Folk Music with Irka Mateo Friday @ 3:00PM - 11/24 What is childhood asthma? How do our and Guitarist Plinio de la Cruz Mystery Movie lungs work? At this interactive program, we This Dominican duo showcase folk Can you guess what movie we will be making our own lungs! We will also songs passed down from generation to will watch? Each week, starting in learn about asthma, its causes, and ways to generation in the countryside of their November, a new clue will be given. treat it. native Dominican Republic. This is a Guess the movie, win a prize, and then joyous and interactive concert that the watch it with us! Your first clue is that it Thursday @ 5:30PM - 11/16 entire family is sure to enjoy! was made in 2017 and is rated PG-13! Healthy Homes Come learn from the NYC Department of WHITESTONE Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/25 Health and Mental Hygiene about: lead 151-10 14 Road, 718-767-8010 NYC Mariachi Tapatio de Alvaro poisoning and sources of lead, how to Paulino control pests safely, and how to prevent and Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2 - 11/30 This ensemble of remarkably talented get rid of bedbugs. All are welcome. For more Movie Fun musicians promote the beauty and information, please call 646-632-6023. Come and join us for a night of fun! splendor of mariachi music.

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Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/29, 12/20 Galaxy” (2014, PG-13), followed by Friday @ 2:30PM - 12/1 Karaoke! “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (2017, A Holiday Celebration with Lois Sing, listen, and dance! For the whole family! PG-13). Light snacks provided or bring Bruno your own. Lois Bruno invites the entire family Thursday @ 4:00PM - 12/7 to bring their holiday spirit as we Movie Night WOODSIDE celebrate this season with such Join us as we watch “Cars 3” (2017, G). Light 54-22 Skillman Avenue, 718-429-4700 memorable selections as “White snacks provided or bring your own. Fun for Christmas,” “Winter Wonderland,” the whole family! Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3, 11/17, 11/24, 12/1, “Let It Snow,” and many more. 12/8, 12/15 Thursday @ 2:00PM - 12/28, Thursday @ Chess Club with New York Cares 4:00PM - 12/28 New York Cares offers chess lessons Movie Double Feature for beginners, and an opportunity for Join us as we watch “Guardians of the experienced players to get in the games.

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QueensLibrary.org *Note: The following books are currently not available at Queens Library but are National Book Awards Finalists. If you would like this book to be available at your Queens Library, please submit a request to a librarian or at www.queenslibrary.org: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado, Half-light: Collected Poems by Frank Bidart, The Book of Endings by Leslie Harrison, In the Langugage of My Captor by Shane McCrae, Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez November/December 2017 33 November / December 2017

ARVERNE Friday @ 3:30PM - 12/15 what it means to give birth at a “Baby 312 Beach 54 Street, 718-634-4784 NYCitizenship Information Session Friendly Hospital” and how to decide if Come to an information session with a breastfeeding is for you. Come join the Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/2 - 12/28 NYCitizenship attorney to find out how discussion! Presenter: Ivis Penalver, Beginners’ Computer Class to apply for U.S. citizenship, and learn B.A., IBCLC, Nutritionist and Lactation Adults are introduced to basic computer about the benefits of becoming a citizen Consultant at Jamaica Hospital Medical programs: Internet, email, and Microsoft and receiving financial counseling. Center. Word. AUBURNDALE Thursday @ 5:30PM - 12/28 Mondays @ 5:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18 25-55 Francis Lewis Blvd., 718-352-2027 Cowrie Shell Jewelry: A Crafts Monday Night Movie Workshop for Adults Adults are invited to join us for the Thursday @ 6:30PM - 11/2 For Kwanzaa, why not learn how to screening of our Monday night movie. Introduction to Microsoft Word use cowrie shells to make beautiful In this introductory class, you will jewelry? Pamela Isaac leads this Mondays @ 5:00PM - 11/13, 12/11 learn how to create and save Word hands-on workshop on how to create Documentary Film Club documents, format and edit text, use bracelets and earrings from cowrie Documentary film lovers, please come copy and paste, and use the basic shells. Materials will be provided. join the Arverne Documentary Film functions and commands of Word. Preregistration is required. Club! The Club meets every 2nd Monday Basic computer skills and registration of the month. are required. BAY TERRACE 18-36 Bell Boulevard, 718-423-7004 Monday @ 6:00PM - 11/27 Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/3, 11/17 Arverne Book Discussion Group Computer Basics for Beginners Thursday @ 1:00PM - 11/2 Book lovers, please come join the We are offering 30 minutes of one-on- Indoor Plants for Improved Air Quality Arverne Book Club! Each month, we will one computer training, available by Caring for plants in your home or office select, read, and discuss a particular appointment. Participants are limited can be fun and rewarding. Join us as book. Upcoming book titles will be to three sessions per day. Sign up for we discuss which plants are best to use selected at our monthly meetings. classes at 11am, 11:30am, or 12pm for your interior environments, how to care for them, and the many benefits of ASTORIA Monday @ 12:30PM - 11/20 interior foliage. 14-01 Astoria Boulevard, 718-278-2220 Poetry Club Let’s read and discuss great poetry Monday @ 1:00PM - 11/6 Saturday @ 12:00PM - 11/4 together! Broadway Show Tunes Short Play Festival Pianist William Gati performs classic The Woodside Players of Queens bring Tuesday @ 1:30PM - 11/28 Broadway show tunes. to center stage their first short play Book Discussion Group festival! The festival features works of All are welcome to our discussion of Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/7 - 11/28 ten up-and-coming writers hailing from “The Art Forger” by B.A. Shapiro. Drawing to See: A Creative Aging our five boroughs! Program Thursday @ 6:30PM - 12/28 This is an eight-week program where Saturdays @ 12PM - 11/4, 11/25, 12/2, 12/16 A Conversation with Zoe and Her Cello participants will learn a variety of Full Circle Actor/Writers Workshop E. Zoe Hassman will perform an drawing techniques that will sharpen This fall, take part in a creative writing innovative, audience-friendly, fun solo their capacity to see in ways artists and performance workshop that will cello concert with music from pop, see. The ninth session will be a run every two weeks beginning in jazz, classical, and beyond. Audiences culminating event consisting of a September 2017 thru June 2018. Bring will marvel at selections by Gershwin, gallery showing of participants’ work. your short written or performance “What a Wonderful World,” “Zip A-Dee- This is a Lifetime Arts Creative Aging pieces (less than 5 minutes) to share! All Doo-Dah,” and more as her mystery program for adults age 50 and up. genres welcome. pieces engage the audience in a fun Preregistration is required. Please call adventure. the Bay Terrace Library to register at Tuesdays @ 11:30AM - 11/7 - 12/12 718-423-7004. Computer Classes for Beginners BAISLEY PARK This is a beginner’s computer class 117-11 Sutphin Boulevard, 718-529-1590 Mondays @ 1:00PM - 11/13, 11/27 for adults. Come in for a one-on-one Collage Project computer session. Learn the basics of Thursday @ 5:30PM - 11/30 Tell your story in a collage. Learn the the computer, mouse, and keyboard, Are you Pregnant or Planning to basics with professional teaching artist how to navigate the Internet and sign Become Pregnant? Alacia Stubbs. Registration is required. up for an email account, and how to Come learn the basics from the experts! Call the Bay Terrace Library at 718-423- work with Microsoft Word documents. Some of the topics covered include: 7004.

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Thursday @ 1:00PM - 11/16 Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 Microsoft Office Suite, email, Internet, Vintage Bliss presents Lyrical Ladies Elementary Korean III Facebook, and more. Preregistration is Vocalists Susanne LoFaso and Vincent This course is designed for those who required. Roccaro present a unique musical look have taken Elementary Korean I & II, or at women in song, be they performers have some knowledge of Korean. Basic Thursdays @ 12:30PM - 11/2 - 12/28 or ones with songs written about them. communication skills, vocabulary, and ESOL Conversation Group grammar will be covered in this 10- Join us for an ESOL conversation group. Thursday @ 1:00PM - 11/30 week program. Create Steampunk Jewelry Thursdays @ 5:30PM - 11/2, 12/7 Make a set of earrings and a necklace Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Meditation Club using industrial-looking pieces such English Conversation Group Experienced or beginner, join the club as watch parts, keys, washers, etc. and Join the English Conversation Group and share breathing exercises and combine them with crystals, pearls, at Bayside Community Library. meditation techniques that may help to and sequins. This is a very cool project Registration is not required, just walk in. reduce stress. with Phyllis Ger. Register at the Bay Terrace Library by calling 718-423-7004. Thursday @ 5:00PM - 11/9 Fridays @ 4:30PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Movie: “Megan Leavey” One-on-One Computer Class Monday @ 1:00PM - 12/18, Come and watch “Megan Leavey” (2017, Come in for one-on-one PC training. Wednesday @ 1:00PM - 12/6 PG-13), the true story of a young Marine Preregistration is required. Genealogy Workshop corporal whose unique discipline A two-part genealogy workshop and bond with her military combat Saturdays @ 2:30PM - 11/4, 11/18, 12/2, presented by instructor Diane dog saved many lives during their 12/16 Warmsley, genealogist and family deployment in Iraq. Drawing for Beginners: Portraits historian. Learn portrait drawing techniques for Tuesdays @ 10:00AM - 11/14, 12/5, 12/12 beginners. Monday @ 1:00PM - 12/11 Fall Computer Classes Classic Concert 11/14: Introduction to Microsoft Excel; Mondays @ 12:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Music critics have described I-Heung 12/5 & 12/12: Introduction to Microsoft ESOL Conversation Group Lee’s performance as graceful, PowerPoint. It is strongly recommended Join us for an ESOL conversation group. thoughtful, and intelligent, touched that you have basic mouse and with a unique style of artistic keyboarding skills before the class. Thursdays @ 11:00AM - 11/16, 12/21 sophistication. Ms. Lee performs Registration is required. Please call or Book Discussion Group extensively in Asia as well as at come to the library to register. We meet on the third Thursday of Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall every month. Pick up a copy of the in New York. Her repertoire includes Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/24, 12/29, Saturday month’s selection at the Circulation works by Mozart, Franz Liszt, Maurice @ 11:00AM - 12/30 Desk and join us! Ravel, and Frederic Chopin. Three New Superhero Movies Come and celebrate the holidays with 3 Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/30, 12/7, 12/14 BAYSIDE new superhero movies. 11/24: “Spider- Express Yourself 214-20 Northern Boulevard, 718-229-1834 Man: Homecoming” (2017, PG-13); 12/29: Bebi Ferrier leads this three-session “Wonder Woman” (2017, PG-13); 12/30: workshop. Come, let’s reminisce Thursdays @ 5:00PM - 11/2, 11/16, 11/30 “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (2017, about those extraordinary moments Movember Movies PG-13). and express ourselves by writing or The goal of Movember is to “change the storytelling. face of men’s health.” This November, Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 12/14, 12/21, 12/28 we are raising awareness of men’s Christmas Movies Saturday @ 2:00PM - 12/9 health by screening movies that tell Come and celebrate Christmas with A Christmas Carol a story about how different men deal these movies. 12/14: “Office Christmas This one-man play is based on the with life-changing events. 11/2: “The Party” (2016, R); 12/21: “A Christmas condensed version Dickens himself Bucket List” (2007, PG-13); 11/16: “50/50” Carol” (2009, PG); 12/28: “Love the used on his historic reading tours of (2011, R); 11/30: “Me Before You” (2016, Coopers” (2015, PG-13). the United States and is adapted here PG-13). to offer a unique theatrical experience. BELLEROSE Actor Greg Oliver Bodine plays Dickens, Saturdays @ 2:30PM - 11/4, 11/18 250-06 Hillside Avenue, 718-831-8644 who must perform from memory the Tai Chi with Jenny Kim magical story of Scrooge’s journey from Instructor Jenny Kim teaches Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 12/27 miserliness to redemption. This show participants a gentle form of martial Computer Class for Beginners is rated G and is suitable for adults and arts often referred to as “meditation in Come in for a one-on-one computer children over 10 years of age. Join us! motion.” Space is limited. session. Training is available for:

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BRIARWOOD Saturday @ 2:00PM - 12/16 Thursdays @ 9:30AM - 11/2, 11/9 85-12 Main Street, 718-658-1680 The Friends of Briarwood Library Microsoft Word For Beginners In Spanish Presents: A Concert of Holiday Songs Learn how to create and save Word Thursdays @ 11:00AM - 11/2 - 12/14 Join us for a concert of holiday songs documents; format and edit text; copy, Language Learning Group for with Irene Failenbogen. Sponsored by cut, and paste Items; and use Word’s Beginners in Spanish the Friends of Briarwood Library. main functions and commands. You will Have you ever wished you could also learn how to use a flash drive. Basic speak Spanish? Learn how to use BROAD CHANNEL computer skills are required. Please call Transparent Language Online 16-26 Cross Bay Boulevard, 718-318-4943 718-721 2462 to register. and benefit from a 10-week group learning experience too! You will Wednesdays @ 5:00PM - 11/1, 12/6 Fridays @ 3:00PM - 11/3, 11/17 need a Queens Library card and a Guided Meditation Microsoft Word for Beginners computer, tablet, or smartphone to Guided meditation calms the mind and Learn how to create and save Word access Transparent Language to relaxes the body. Those who practice documents; format and edit text; copy, do your weekly assignments. Bring it regularly may experience reduced cut, and paste items; and use Word’s main your device to the first session for levels of stress and increased inner functions and commands. Basic computer help in setting up your Transparent peace and well-being. The instructor skills are required. Preregistration is Language Online account. Space will help you focus on relaxing your required. is limited and preregistration is mind and making positive mental required. changes. Saturdays @ 2PM - 11/4, 11/18, 12/2, 12/16, 12/30 Write Now! with NY Writers Coalition Fridays @ 12:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Thursday @ 5:00PM - 11/9 Want to get past your writer’s block or just Basic Computer Class for Adults Bellyfit Sage™ put pen to paper and see what happens? Join us to learn what a computer Bellyfit Sage™ is perfect for mature Join us for free creative writing workshops is and its functions; how to use a women seeking a gentler, more that will bring out those powerful stories mouse, keyboard, and social media; customized form of movement that we have yet to share on the page. Poetry, and how to save and print your honors their sensuality, strength, prose, theater, rhymes, and everything in document. Preregistration is required and varied levels of ability, without between—all created in a single room! This in person or at the Briarwood sacrificing the fun factor or the workshop is open to writers (age 18+) of all reference desk (718-658-1680). fabulous workout! You’ll leave genres, backgrounds, and experience levels. feeling more balanced, more flexible, Writing prompts and other materials will Mondays @ 12:30PM - 11/13 - 12/18 energized, and stronger to the core! be provided. Just bring yourself! Chair Yoga with Irene Failenbogen All levels welcome. Wear clothing and The Friends of Briarwood Library shoes that are comfortable for exercise Tuesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/7, 11/14, 11/21 present Chair Yoga. Instructor Irene and bring water. Computer Classes for Beginners in Failenbogen leads this beginner-level Spanish chair-based yoga class. Participants BROADWAY Get an introduction to the computer, should wear comfortable clothing 40-20 Broadway, 718-721-2462 introduction to Microsoft Word, and and a smile! Participation is on a first- navigate the Internet. You will learn how come, first-served basis. Wednesdays @ 1:00PM - 11/1, 11/15, 11/29, to type, copy, edit, format, print, and save a 12/13, 12/27 file. Please call 718-721 2462 to register. Saturday @ 3:30PM - 11/18 Health Insurance Info and Enrollment Medicare Information Part II Do you need healthcare coverage Tuesday @ 1:30PM - 11/7 Are you aware of the different for yourself or your family? Stop by Make Yogurt at Home options: A, B, C & D? Come for and speak with a health insurance Gil Lopez leads this workshop where questions & answers. navigator from Callen Lorde participants can learn about milk Community Health Center to get all of cultures and how to use them to create Fridays @ 10:30AM - 12/1 - 12/29 your questions answered. You can even tasty, healthy yogurt treats easily and Babies in Arms enroll on-site if you qualify. inexpensively at home. Participants will Join us for a weekly meeting where take home yogurt that can be used to start parents can share their challenges Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1, 11/8 a first batch. and concerns, problem-solve together, Typing For Beginners in Spanish find support, and make new parent Learn how to use the keyboard and it Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28 friends in their local community! will be easier for you to use a computer. Basic Computer Class for Adults The group is open to parents of the Practice Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Topics include: Introduction to the baby (i.e., not a babysitter/nanny) and how to navigate the Internet. Space computer (using mouse & keyboard), and limited to babies who lapsit only. is limited and registration is on a first- Introduction to Microsoft Word, and Registration is required! To register, come, first-served basis. Please call 718- Navigating the Internet. 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Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/16 they relate to the various plants in create collages, and paint with coffee, Book Club for Adults in Spanish our garden. We will share information watercolor, and acrylics. We meet every third Thursday of each on planting bulbs and preparing your month at 6:00 p.m. The title of the book Christmas and other potted plants so Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/15 - 12/27 for November is “Fahrenheit 451” by they will thrive in the spring. Holiday Hand-Crafted Cards & Jewelry Ray Bradbury. Copies of the book can Making be checked out as soon as possible prior Saturdays @ 1:00PM - 11/4, 11/18, 12/2, Join us to create beautiful hand-crafted to each meeting. Please call 718-721- 12/16, 12/30 holiday cards and jewelry beautiful 2462 to register. Write Now! with NY Writers Coalition enough to give away as a gift or to Want to write words that will be music yourself! Handmade Cards: Wednesday, Monday @ 4:30PM - 11/20 to the ears, get around your writer’s November 15, 22, 29. Jewelry: Information on How to Enroll in the block, or just put pen to paper and Wednesday, December 6, 13, 20, 27. New York State of Health Market see what happens? This workshop Place (in Arabic) is open to writers (adults and young Thursday @ 6:00PM - 12/7 Information on how to enroll in the adults) of all genres, backgrounds, and Sankofa Discussion and Multimedia New York State of Health Market Place. experience levels. Writing prompts and Club other materials will be provided. Just The Sankofa Discussion and Multimedia Tuesday @ 1:00PM - 12/5 bring yourself! Club will meet bi-monthly to discuss Prevent Falls: Make Your Home Safer histories of the diaspora. Using a variety Are you concerned about falling at Saturdays @ 2:30PM - 11/4, 11/18, 12/2, 12/16 of formats, we reach back to see our home? Come learn about changes you Toastmasters Club way forward to meet the challenges of can make so your home is safer and you Interested in overcoming your fear today. December 7: Kwanzaa: A Cultural can prevent falls. These changes can be of public speaking? Want to build Celebration. simple or complex. All are welcome. or enhance your leadership skills? The Cambria Heights Toastmasters Saturday @ 2:00PM - 12/9 CAMBRIA HEIGHTS Club provides a supportive and The ABCs of Baby Feeding 218-13 Linden Boulevard, 718-528-3535 positive learning experience in which Come get all your newborn and baby members are empowered to develop feeding questions answered here. Have Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1, 11/8 communication and leadership skills, you wondered when to start feeding Sculpture resulting in greater self-confidence and your baby solids? Which foods come A Creative Aging Course: join us to personal growth. first? Is breastfeeding enough? Come explore contemporary figurative join the discussion! Presenter: Ivis sculpture. Participants will look at Saturday @ 2:30PM - 11/4 Penalver, B.A., IBCLC, Nutritionist and contemporary work, and design their Entwined Destinies Lactation Consultant, Jamaica Hospital own sculptures. We will build them The historic relationships in both Medical Center. using cardboard forms and adding North and South America between the a plaster skin to the constructed Indigenous People and the Africans CENTRAL LIBRARY framework. Final pieces will be who arrived to this land are complex. 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, 718-990-0778 painted. No experience necessary; Through oral discussions, visual materials will be provided. Space is media, traditional folklore (dance & Wednesdays @ 2:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27 limited. 9 sessions. Register by calling drumming), historical objects, and the Are You Getting Your Benefits? Cambria Heights at 718-528-3535. exploration of customs, we will shed a Over 2 million New Yorkers are eligible bit of light on their intersection and the for SNAP benefits. SNAP stands for the Thursday @ 4:30PM - 11/2 endurance of these relationships even Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Legal Advice for Homeowners until today. Program, which issues electronic Are you a homeowner in Queens benefits that can be used like cash to with concerns about your mortgage, Mondays @ 10:15AM - 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, purchase food. Stop by the library for a property taxes, homeowner’s 12/4, 12/11, 12/18 SNAP eligibility screening. If you meet insurance, or water and sewage bills? Computer Classes for Beginners the requirements, get help filling out an A representative from The Legal Aid Learn the basics of how to use a application. Society’s Foreclosure Prevention Unit computer, surf the Internet, and use will be at the library to answer your email. Wednesdays @ 6:00PM - 11/1 - 11/29 questions one-on-one. Movie Night Wednesday Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/9, 11/16, 11/30, Wednesdays in November, we will Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/2 12/7, 12/14, 12/21, 12/28 screen the following movies: 11/1: “The The Empowered Gardener Series: Adult Craft Hour Mummy” (2017, PG-13); 11/8: “My Cousin Final Harvest Join us weekly for a variety of Rachel” (2017, PG-13); 11/15: “The Big Sick” We will look at our final harvests and crafts. We will learn to crochet, knit, (2017, R); 11/22: “Beatriz at Dinner” (2017, learn about Plant Hardiness Zones as make jewelry, explore paper crafts, R); 11/29: “Wonder Woman” (2017, PG-13).

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Monday @ 3:00PM - 11/6, Thursday @ eight weeks, you should be conversant Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/9 3:00PM - 11/2 on a variety of topics related to the Don’t Erase Us From History: Why Black Diversity Visa Application Assistance workplace. Cemeteries Matter Queens Library is making computers Teresa Vega’s genealogical research available from October 23 to November Sunday @ 3:00PM - 11/5 traced her roots back to the mid-1700s 16 to customers who want to fill out Sunday Concerts @ Central presents as a descendant of slave owners and the online application for the Diversity ON POINT, an R&B Band slaves in Greenwich, Connecticut. She Visa (Green Card) Lottery (DV-2019). Enjoy the music of this classic soul, will discuss their journey to freedom, the Applicants can get assistance scanning R&B, and funk band that has been startling discovery of the desecration of photos at the following libraries: making sweet music up and down the the Bryam African-American Cemetery, Central and Flushing—Mondays and East Coast from Canada to Georgia and her family’s current battle to Thursdays, 3:00-8:00 p.m.; Jackson since 2009 with a unique combination preserve and save her ancestor’s final Heights—Thursdays, 2:00-7:00 p.m. and of lead voices and background vocals, resting place. Mondays, 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.; Long backed by top-notch musicians. Island City—Thursdays, 2:00-7:00 p.m. Friday @ 9:30AM - 11/10 and Mondays, 3:00-8:00 p.m. Mondays @ 10:00AM - 11/6 - 12/18 Introduction to Corporate Giving Stay Well Learn how corporate grantmakers are Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/2, 11/9, 11/16 Special Services and the New York different from traditional foundations in Computers for Beginners (In Spanish) City Department for the Aging-Health many ways. Is your organization ready Learn how to turn on your computer Promotion Unit presents the Stay Well to seek corporate support? This class and write an email. Participants must Program for New Yorkers age 60 and provides a basic overview of the different attend all 3 classes. Preregistration older. types of corporate giving, what motivates is required in person at the Central corporations to give, and how to find Library Cyber Center beginning Mondays @ 6:30PM - 11/6 - 12/4 potential corporate partners. Thursday, November 2 at 6 p.m. or by National Writing Month Workshop calling 718-990-0769. In anticipation of National Novel Mondays @ 10:00AM - 11/13, 12/4 Writing Month, this 5-session course, Sewing Club: Fall 2017—Intermediate Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/2, 11/9 taught by Jennifer Celestin, will focus Group Prenatal Group on providing writers with the tools Join our new sewing instructor Barbara Are you pregnant? Come to our prenatal and motivation required for creating Garnes! Intermediate-level participants group to learn about pregnancy and longer fiction. will work together to make projects with parenting. To sign up or ask questions, our sewing machines. All materials are call Jemila at 718-883-8626. Mondays @ 7:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 provided. Adults 18 and over only. Class Community Acting for All! starts promptly and extreme latecomers Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/2 - 11/30 Learn theater arts through the process will not be admitted. REGISTRATION IS Conversational Chinese for Beginners of collaborative theater making. CLOSED FOR THIS GROUP. Join us for our 8-week conversational This intergenerational program is Chinese class presented by Sheng-Hong open to anyone 14 years old or older. Tuesday @ 9:00AM - 11/14 Chen. This course introduces the basic Registration is required. Please World Diabetes Day elements of Chinese. register online, in person, or by calling Diabetes affects many people. 1 in 8 New 718-990-0728 before October 15. Yorkers have diabetes, and some don’t Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 11/4, 11/18, 11/25 even know it yet. Come learn more about Computer Course (in Bengali) Tuesdays @ 2:00PM - 11/7 - 11/28 this illness, ways you can prevent it, Learn how to turn on your computer Tuesday Afternoon Movie and tips to help you manage it from the and write an email. Part I: Introduction Tuesdays in November, we will screen nutrition team at Community Healthcare to the computer; Part II: Navigating the following films: 11/7: “The Princess Network. Stop by the table near the the Internet; Part III: Creating your Bride” (1987, PG, Customer Suggestion); entrance to do a diabetes risk assessment, own email account. Participants are 11/14: “Murder on the Orient Express” gather information, and get all your encouraged to attend all three classes. (1974, PG); 11/21: “The Ice Storm” (1997, questions answered by a nutrition expert. Preregistration is required. Please R); 11/28: “Antwone Fisher” (2002, PG- call 718-990-0769 or visit the Central 13). Tuesdays @ 6:00PM - 11/14 - 12/19 Library Cyber Center reference desk. Introduction to American Sign Language Wednesdays @ 12:00PM - 11/8 - 12/20 If you have always wanted to give this Sundays @ 1:00PM - 11/5, 11/12 Bingo for Adults beautiful language a try, this is your Spanish for the Workplace BINGO IS BACK! Listen to the balls opportunity! We will teach fingerspelling, This eight-week course will provide rattling in the cage as they go round numbers, beginning conversations, and you with some basic conversational and round. Will your number be proper sign language etiquette. This ASL skills to help you navigate specific called? Will you be the lucky winner course is designed for beginners with workplace scenarios. At the end of the to yell “Bingo?” Come for an hour of little or no known knowledge of ASL. fun, prizes, and making new friends. 38 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE ProgramsPrograms for for All Adults Ages Wednesday @ 11:30AM - 11/15 and extreme latecomers will not be beginning Thursday, November 30 at 10 Central Library Book Club: “Born a admitted. ONLINE REGISTRATION IS a.m. or by calling 718-990-0769. Crime” REQUIRED. This autobiography of The Daily Show’s Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 12/9, 12/16, 12/23 host Trevor Noah traces his unlikely Sunday @ 2:00PM - 11/26 Microsoft Word (in Bengali) path from apartheid-era South Africa Sunday Movie: “Alien: Covenant” Learn to create documents and work to the desk of one of today’s most The crew of the colony ship Covenant with tables. Part 1: Introduction to popular comedy shows. Pick up our discover what they think is an Microsoft Word; Part 2: Creating and next selection at the Central Library’s uncharted paradise, but it is actually Saving Documents; Part 3-Working reference desk and join us to share a dark, dangerous world, whose sole with Tables and Printing. Participants your thoughts! inhabitant is the synthetic David, should have basic computer skills survivor of the doomed Prometheus and must attend all three classes. Thursday @ 11:00AM - 11/16 expedition (2017, R). Preregistration is required. Please NYCitizenship Information Session call 718-990-0769 or visit the Central Come to an information session with a Mondays @ 10:00AM - 11/27, 12/18 Library Cyber Center reference desk. NYCitizenship attorney to find out how Sewing Club: Open Lab to apply for U.S. citizenship, and learn Need to sew? Do you have a project Thursday @ 2:00PM - 12/14 about the benefits of becoming a citizen you would like to work on? We provide Health Insurance Information Session and receiving financial counseling. the sewing machines and accessories; Come learn from the experts about you bring your own project and fabric. health insurance, new policy changes, Saturday @ 2:30PM - 11/18 *There is no instruction during the and how you and your family can get “Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage” by Lab.* No registration is required, but covered from trusted New York City Dr. William Loren Katz space is limited. Adults 18 and over agencies. NYU Scholar-In-Residence Dr. William only. Loren Katz lectures on African and Friday @ 9:30AM - 12/22 Native American History. Sunday @ 2:30PM - 12/3 Proposal Writing Basics “Celebrity Sadhana, Or How to Are you new to proposal writing or Sunday @ 12:00PM - 11/19 Meditate with a Hammer”: A Book want a quick refresher? This class will Planning for Pregnancy Conference: Reading with Poet Vijay R. Nathan provide you with an overview of how One Stop for Everyone Who Is Vijay R. Nathan, recipient of a Queens to write a standard project proposal Pregnant or Considering Pregnancy Arts Council New Works grant, will to a foundation. It will include the If you’re pregnant, considering read from his soon-to-be published basic elements of a proposal, the dos parenthood, or even considering poetry collection. These poems imagine and don’ts of writing and submitting expanding your family, this conference meditative moments from the sadhana a proposal, and how to follow up, is for you! There are lots of choices to (spiritual practice) of Hollywood’s whether the answer is yes or no. make when you’re having a baby, but elite, and include the unauthorized sometimes we don’t know what those appearances of the personas of Joaquin CORONA decisions are until it’s time to make Phoenix, Natalie Portman, and Shia 38-23 104 Street, 718-426-2844 them. Come learn from the experts Laboeuf, among others. now. All are welcome, so bring your Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/6 support people, too! There will be Sunday @ 3:00PM - 12/3 Autism Awareness in Spanish lunch, free information, giveaways, Sunday Concerts @ Central: Soprano Juan Carlos Valderrama, a Special and opportunities to sign up for free Monique McDonald and Baritone Education school teacher, will explain: classes. There will also be plenty of Jonathan R. Greene what autism is, early recognition, and time for Q&A. A performance of famous duets the latest advances in treatment. from grand operas by Verdi, Puccini, Mondays @ 10:00AM - 11/20, 12/11 and Gershwin, plus popular music Thursday @ 9:00AM - 11/16 Sewing Club: Intro to Sewing for selections and festive music for the No-Cost Mammograms Beginners holidays. Eligibility: women aged 40 and Do you have a sewing machine and older with health insurance; women you’re not sure how to use it? Or Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 12/7, 12/14, 12/21 aged 50 and older without health you would like to try one out before Introduction to Microsoft Word (in insurance; currently living in New purchasing? Sewing instructor Barbara Spanish) York City; have not had a mammogram Grimes will teach beginners the basics, Learn how to create a document and in the past 12 months. No co-pays like threading your machine, how to work with tables. Participants should required and deductibles are waived. sew a straight line, and how to sew a have basic computer skills and must Uninsured individuals welcome. For an basic seam. This is a one-session class. attend all 3 classes. Preregistration appointment, call 1-877-628-9090. Adults 18 and over only. All materials is required in person at the Central are provided. Class starts promptly Library Cyber Center reference desk

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DOUGLASTON/LITTLE NECK Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 11/7 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 12/7 249-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-225-8414 World War II: The Greatest Generation “The Essential Documentaries” with Keeps Its Rendezvous with Destiny Director Stuart Hersh Wednesday @ 1:30PM - 11/1 In this historical perspective, Jack Director Stuart Hersh screens “War “Veterans’ Day Lecture” by Bernard Bilello takes you through this Comes to America” in the documentary and June Rader cataclysmic period with an emphasis series Why We Fight (1945). Decorated World War II veteran on many of those who were there, Bernard Rader and his wife June where and when it counted at the times Saturday @ 2:00PM - 12/9 lecture on his war service. of our country’s greatest peril. “Studio Stories: Illuminating Our Lives Through Art” Book Signing by Lauren Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27 Monday @ 6:00PM - 11/13 Rader French Conversation Circle “Village of No River” Film Screening & Lauren Rader reads and signs copies of Join Robert and others for a little Discussion her book. French conversation at the Douglaston/ Director Stuart Hersh screens his Little Neck library. An intermediate to documentary film about Yupik- Saturday @ 2:00PM - 12/16 native speaker level is preferred but all speaking Alaskan Native Americans. Rock the Holidays with the JUST THE 2 are welcome. We will speak French only. OF US BAND! Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 11/14 The JUST THE 2 OF US BAND perform Mondays @ 1:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18, Film Screening: “Silence” rock classics from the ‘50s-’90s, Thursdays @ 2:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 In this film (2016, R) directed by Martin including holiday favorites. English Conversation Club Scorsese, two 17th-century Jesuit priests Improve your English vocabulary, travel to Japan to locate their mentor, Thursday @ 6:30PM - 12/21 grammar, and pronunciation with who has allegedly renounced his faith. The New York Fretted Ensemble Lucette and Arline! We will talk about Holiday Concert holidays, cooking, shopping, art, music, Wednesday @ 1:30PM - 11/15 The New York Fretted Ensemble family, and other topics of interest. Our Joys of Beekeeping: Lecture and mandolin quartet performs popular, folk, club is for adults who speak English as Honey-Tasting Demonstration holiday, and classic music. a second language at an intermediate Ruth Harrigan presents the joys of or advanced level. beekeeping and importance of apians EAST ELMHURST in the global environment. 95-06 Astoria Boulevard, 718-424-2619 Friday @ 4:00PM - 11/3 The Life and Writings of Henry David Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/20, 12/18 Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 12/20 Thoreau Open Mic Night StayWell Prof. Bette S. Weidman of Queens Gather round, ye poets, writers, Seniors meet every Wednesday for exercise College discusses the life and works of musicians, comedians, orators, and and other health-related programs. Henry David Thoreau. everyone else, and share your talent with five minutes of your own material! Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 11/1 - 11/29 Saturday @ 2:30PM - 11/4 Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) The Science of Relationships & Questions Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/30 Do you have a gadget or device you need to Make You Fall in Love (...sort of) Abstract Collage Art Class help with? Come bring your device and Examine love from a scientific Alacia Stubbs helps you make an receive one-on-one help. Registration perspective and learn about the life abstract collage with textured material is not required. Please call the East cycle of a relationship. Marisa Cohen, & shallow 3-D space. Limited supplies/ Elmhurst Library and ask for the Associate Professor of Psychology at St. must pre-register. Customer Service Specialist at 718-424- Francis College and author of the book 2619. “From First Kiss to Forever: A Scientific Saturday @ 2:00PM - 12/2 Approach to Love” will lead us through Fourth Annual Holiday Art Show: Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/2 - 11/30 the life cycle of relationships and Opening Reception Introduction To Windows: Computer introduce us to the famous (and viral) 36 Meet our six artists and view their Basics For Adults questions designed to spark intimacy works. Sponsored by the Friends of Adults will learn the basics of using the and make you fall in love. Books will be Douglaston/Little Neck Library. computer. They will learn how to log on available for sale and signing. and off the computer; use the keyboard Monday @ 6:00PM - 12/4 and mouse; open and close windows; and Monday @ 6:00PM - 11/6 Second Annual Holiday Arts & Crafts employ various software applications. The Sacred Lands of Matinecock Sale: Opening Native Americans Shop with us in December & support Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/2 - 11/16 Donna Barron, Tecumseh Ceaser, and your local artists & crafters! Sponsored Zumba with Susy Chief Harry Wallace lecture about by the Friends of Douglaston/Little Certified Zumba instructor Susy Matinecock sacred lands. Neck Library. Bustamante leads a three-session fitness class for adults. 40 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE ProgramsPrograms for for All Adults Ages

Monday @ 6:30PM - 11/13 Thursday @ 11:00AM - 11/30 Mondays @ 2:30PM - 11/6, 12/4 Open Mic Night Book Discussion Club Book Club Sing, dance, rap, read poetry, play an Come and join us in our monthly book Join us for our monthly book club! instrument, or showcase any other discussion. This month, we are going Please call our branch to find out which talent you may possess at Open Mic to read “Long Way Home” by Saroo book we are reading. Night. Not a performer? Bring a friend, Brierley, which inspired the movie join the audience, and enjoy! “Lion.” Tuesdays @ 10:00AM - 11/7 - 12/19 Free Citizenship Classes EAST FLUSHING Wednesday @ 10:00AM - 12/6 Learn everything you need to know 196-36 Northern Blvd., 718-357-6643 ESOL Conversation Group about American history, government, Join our ESOL conversation group to and culture to pass the citizenship Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 11/1 practice and improve your English exam. Register in person at the library Healthy Eating language skills by talking, listening, on Tuesday, Nov. 7 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. With such hurried lifestyles, healthy and having fun. or call 718-278-4303 to preregister in eating is sometimes the last thing advance. Students should have a copy on our minds. Come learn some tips Thursdays @ 3:00PM - 12/7, 12/14 of their green card when they come to and ideas for healthy eating from a DIY Bracelet and Earrings register. Participants must attend the registered dietician so you can feel Join Ms. Jasvir Kaur to make a entire 12-week class series. Candidates more fit and healthy. bracelet and a set of earrings. A gift must be Green Card holders. The first to give or to keep for yourself. day of class is registration day (Nov. 7). Thursday @ 1:30PM - 11/2 Make and Taste Indian Aloo Paratha ELMHURST Tuesdays @ 2:30PM - 11/14 - 12/26 Served with Homemade Yogurt and 86-07 Broadway, 718-271-1020 Coloring Therapy For Adults Tea Come and experience the latest trend Learn how to make Indian Aloo Paratha. Thursdays @ 12:00PM - 11/2, 11/16, 12/7, in relaxation, Adult Coloring! Studies 12/21 show coloring can have a calming effect Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/6 B.Y.O.D (Bring Your Own Device) on the adult mind and helps promote Movie Screening: “Where Hope Every 1st and 3rd Thursday of every overall wellness. Come and color Grows” month, we’ll hold a Bring Your Own while also listening to relaxing music. A washed-up baseball player gets a new Device program for 1 hour where we’ll Coloring pages from books designed lease on life through a serendipitous try to answer your questions. We will especially for adults as well as colored friendship with a grocery-store also have some 1-on-1 time with you pencils and crayons will be provided. worker who has Down syndrome. His about your device. Time and space new friend’s humility and gratitude are limited! Saturday @ 2:30PM - 11/18 help him reconnect with what really Harmonica Virtuoso Jia-Yi He matters (2014, PG-13). Thursdays @ 3:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Acclaimed harmonica virtuoso Jia-Yi Chinese Folk Dance for Adults He performs a program of classical Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Join us for some dancing. and modern works along with a string ESL Intermediate Level quartet. Join us for this ESL Intermediate Level Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/4 class. Health Insurance Information FLUSHING Session 41-17 Main Street, 718-661-1200 Tuesday @ 3:00PM - 11/7 Come learn from the experts about Tai Chi with Jenny Kim health insurance, new policy changes, Monday @ 3:00PM - 11/6, Thursday @ Instructor Jenny Kim teaches and how you and your family can get 3:00PM - 11/2 participants a gentle form of martial covered from trusted New York City Diversity Visa Application Assistance arts often referred to as “meditation in agencies. Queens Library is making computers motion.” Space is limited. available from October 23 to November Saturday @ 4:00PM - 11/4 16 to customers who want to fill out Wednesday @ 12:00PM - 11/8 Pathway to Good Mental Health (in the online application for the Diversity Basic Sewing: Let’s Make a Potholder Bengali) Visa (Green Card) Lottery (DV-2019). Join Ms. Jasvir Kaur to learn how to In this workshop, Dr. Menoka Pasha Applicants can get assistance scanning make a potholder. will discuss the depths of our mental photos at the following libraries: Central health and how to enhance it to live and Flushing—Mondays and Thursdays, Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/13 a healthy life. You will learn about 3-8p; Jackson Heights—Thursdays, 2-7pm Movie Screening: “Feed” what mental health is, good mental and Mondays, 9am-2pm; Long Island After losing her twin in a car accident, health vs. mental illness, and how to City—Thursdays, 2-7pm and Mondays, Olivia navigates a world without her get help if you’re dealing with poor 3-8pm. brother (2017, PG-13). mental health.

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Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/2 and his insightful criticism of literary assistance. The program is funded by QEDC: Business Plan Competition works will also be discussed. The the Consulate-General of the People’s The Queens Economic Development program is hosted and led by Professor Republic of China. Corporation’s Annual Queens StartUP! Tang Zhenhai. Business Plan Competition begins in Wednesday @ 10:00AM - 11/8 September 2017. The competition gives Sunday @ 1:00PM - 11/5 How To Get The Most From Your entrepreneurs a chance to strengthen their Flushing & NAP present: Chinese Google Account business knowledge, learn about business Author Talk Series #17—Huang Xiang Learn about the many ways you can use trends, and gain insights into starting and & His Poetry Collection your Google account, from Gmail and growing a business, while also introducing Huang Xiang was nominated for the Google Maps to Google Drive and Google them to the vast resources available to Nobel Prize for Literature. His “House Groups. Basic computer skills and an them at Queens Library. Poem” combines art with poetry, and existing Google account are required. the walls of a house decorated with Preregister online at queenslibrary. Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/2, 12/7 poetry and calligraphy, which has org. Call 718-661-1280 for additional Open Mic Night become a sightseeing destination information. Performers are invited to share their in Pittsburgh. Huang Xiang’s talents in a 5-minute presentation of poetry reading, painting, and other Mondays @ 6:30PM - 11/13, 11/27, poetry, written word, music, comedy, publications will be part of this event. Wednesday @ 6:00PM - 12/20, and spoken word. Spectators also *Rooms A&B, Lower Level* Wednesdays @ 6:30PM - 11/8, 11/15, welcome. *IRC Conference Room, 3rd Saturdays @ 10:30AM - 12/2, 12/9, 12/16 Floor* Sunday @ 2:30PM - 11/5 QEDC: Business Plan Competition Opera Pomme Rouge presents The Queens Economic Development Fridays @ 1:30PM - 11/3, 12/1 “Meistersinger” Corporation’s Annual Queens StartUP! Flushing Book Discussion Group Wagner’s opera about two men who Business Plan Competition begins in November 3rd, 1:30-2:30 p.m., “Farewell fight over a woman through song is September 2017. The competition gives to Manzanar” by Diane Wakatsuki- reborn as an interactive opera where entrepreneurs a chance to strengthen Houston. December 1st, 1:30-2:30 p.m., the audience can participate! their business knowledge, learn about “The Mare” by Mary Gaitskill. business trends, and gain insights Tuesdays @ 1:30PM - 11/7 - 11/28 into starting and growing a business, Fridays @ 4:30PM - 11/3, 11/17, 11/24, 12/1 Moving for Life while also introducing them to the vast Learning Korean with K-Pop This class will take you through all the resources available to them at Queens Learning Korean with K-Pop is designed fitness basics—including fun! Moving Library. to provide Korean lessons in a very for Life will leave you feeling energized unique and easy way for all Korean and focused while providing new Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/9, 11/16, 11/30, learners. Music and singing make information to improve your health! 12/14, 12/21, 12/28 a huge difference in learning a new Come dressed for physical activity. Chinese Class: Level 1 language. Knowledge of the Korean Those with walkers and wheelchairs We are continuing the Learning Chinese alphabet or/and knowing K-Pop is are welcome, and there will be seated class for beginner level students. The not required for this class. Online and standing options. semester will have 12 sessions, starting registration or call 718-990-8569. from Thursday, Nov. 9. All classes Tuesday @ 3:00PM - 11/7 will be on Thursdays from 6:30-8:00 Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 11/4, 11/18, 11/25 St. John’s School of Law Students p.m. Please register online at www. Microsoft Excel for Spanish Speakers present an “Investor Education” queenslibrary.org/events or call 718- Learn how to create a worksheet and Workshop 661-1280 for assistance. The program is perform calculations. Participants Topics covered will include: common funded by the Consulate-General of the should have basic computer skills investor problems and scams, tips to People’s Republic of China. and must attend all 3 classes. avoid being a victim, protecting your Preregistration is required in person investments, types of investments, and Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/9, 12/14 at the Flushing Library Cyber Center tips to keep track of your investments. Monthly Penmanship Class Reference Desk beginning Saturday, All are welcome. Please call 646-752-3173 November 4 at 10 a.m. or by calling 718- Tuesdays @ 6:30PM - 11/7 - 11/28 for questions and suggestions. *Rooms 661-1280. Learning Chinese Class: Level 2 C&D, Lower Level* We are continuing the Learning Saturdays @ 1:00PM - 11/4, 12/9 Chinese class for level 2 students. The Sunday @ 1:00PM - 11/12 Chinese Book Club {Mandarin Chinese} semester will have 12 sessions, starting Chinese Author Talk Series (XVII) New sessions of the Chinese Book Tuesday, Nov. 7. All classes will be on In this event, Mr. Zhengguo Kang will Club focus on some representative and Tuesdays from 6:30-8:00 p.m. Please talk about his three major works and influential works in literary history. register online at www.queenslibrary. discuss the essence of the books and The famous Chinese writer Mu Xin org/events or call 718-661-1280 for stories behind them.

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Monday @ 10:00AM - 11/13 A monthly support group in Mandarin this is an introductory class, it is Naturalization Workshop (in English Chinese for people caring for someone recommended that you have basic and Spanish) with Alzheimer’s or any of the other mouse and keyboarding skills before This workshop is for legal permanent dementias. Our support group is a the workshop. residents to fill out the N-400 secure and safe place to share your application for naturalization and experiences. The group will meet on Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 12/9, 12/16, 12/23 receive a full or partial fee waiver, Sundays, November 19 and December Computers for Beginners (In Spanish) if eligible. To register, call 718- 17. Please call 646-744-2951 for Learn how to turn on your computer 990-0893 or go online: https:// registration. and write an email. Participants must www.citizenshipworks.org/portal/ attend all 3 classes. Preregistration vieweventdetail/1529. Sunday @ 2:00PM - 11/26 is required in person at the Flushing “Celebrity Sadhana, Or How to Library Cyber Center Reference Desk Mondays @ 1:30PM - 11/13, 12/11 Meditate with a Hammer”: A Book beginning Saturday, December 9 at 10 Monday Movie Matinees Reading with Poet Vijay R. Nathan a.m. or by calling 718-661-1280. November 13: “Robot and Frank” Vijay R. Nathan, recipient of a Queens (2012, PG-13); December 11: “Moonrise Arts Council New Works grant, will Monday @ 6:00PM - 12/11 Kingdom” (2012, PG-13). read from his soon-to-be published Shakespeare in Queens: Talking poetry collection. These poems imagine Shakespeare Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/13 meditative moments from the sadhana Lenny Banovez, artistic director of NYCitizenship Information Session (spiritual practice) of Hollywood’s Titan Theatre Company, will give a Come to an information session with a elite, and include the unauthorized behind-the-scenes look at “Romeo NYCitizenship attorney to find out how appearances of the personas of Joaquin and Juliet,” “As You Like It,” and to apply for U.S. citizenship, and learn Phoenix, Natalie Portman, and Shia “Twelfth Night” and discuss modern about the benefits of becoming a citizen Laboeuf, among others. interpretations of these classic plays. and receiving financial counseling. Saturdays @ 2:30PM - 12/2, 12/9, 12/16, Wednesday @ 10:00AM - 12/13 Wednesday @ 10:00AM - 11/15 12/23 Introduction to Email (in Cantonese) How To Get The Most From Your Pathway to U.S Citizenship: Becoming In this introductory workshop, you Google Account in Mandarin a U.S. Citizen and Building Your Civic will learn: how to create an email Learn about the many ways you can Knowledge account, how to log in, how to use your Google account, including Are you ready to become a U.S. citizen? navigate your email account, how Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Sessions are in English and include a to send and receive email messages, Drive. Basic computer skills and an workshop and basic civics education. and how to attach documents. While existing Google account are required. 12/2: Are you ready to be a U.S. citizen?/ this is an introductory class, it is Preregister online at queenslibrary. Introduction to American history; recommended that you have basic org. Call 718-661-1280 for additional 12/9: Required documents and more/ mouse and keyboarding skills prior to information. Introduction to American government the workshop. Preregistration required. and politics; 12/16: Common barriers Call 718-661-1280. Saturday @ 10:30AM - 11/18 to naturalization/American culture Understanding Dementia: What You and geography; 12/23: Naturalization FOREST HILLS Need to Know and Where to Go (in interview and beyond/Review of 100 108-19 71 Avenue, 718-268-7934 Chinese) questions. This workshop will provide information Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 11/1 on Alzheimer’s disease and other Monday @ 4:00PM - 12/4 Mask Making/Cultural History dementias, discuss the different stages Health Insurance Information Session Older Adult Services: a look at mask- of the disease and what to expect, and Come learn from the experts about making across cultures and time. include an overview of the programs health insurance, new policy changes, Create your own mask. A nine-session and services and other available and how you and your family can get creative aging art course. Space is resources provided by Caringkind. covered from trusted New York City limited. Register at the Forest Hills agencies. Library, 718-268-7934. Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/18 Chinese Writers Assoc., New York: Wednesday @ 10:00AM - 12/6 Thursdays @ 2:30PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Book Debut (in Chinese) Intro to Email Recovery International Ms. Xiaodan Wang will discuss her new In this introductory workshop, you Anxiety, fear, obsessions, anger, stress, book, “The Legendary Life of Xinbing will learn: how to create an email depression: finding a way to cope is Dong.” *Rooms A&B, Lower Level* account, how to log on, how to here. A Recovery International meeting navigate your email account, how is a safe, free, and confidential place Sundays @ 2:00PM - 11/19, 12/17 to send and receive email messages, to get help for these issues. All are Alzheimer’s Support Group (in Chinese) and how to attach documents. While welcome.

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Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/2, 11/9, 11/16 Monday @ 6:00PM - 11/20 box embellished with trimming. Towards A More Perfect Union: New Americans Program presents: Registration is required, 718-454-7272. Making Your Voice Heard Author Talk: “The German Girl” In this workshop, participants will be This stunningly beautiful debut novel Fridays @ 10:30AM - 11/3 - 12/29 able to empower themselves to make by Armando Lucas Correa tells the Knitting & Crochet Club the changes they want by learning story of Hannah Rosenthal, a twelve- Please bring your own materials. how the system works and what they year-old girl who flees Nazi Germany can do, concretely and specifically, to with her family and best friend only Fridays @ 1:30PM - 11/3, 11/17, 12/1 get government to respond to them. to discover the asylum they have been Genealogy Workshop Nov. 2 and 9: Lawmaking; Nov. 16: Get promised is an illusion. A three-part genealogy workshop Involved! Resource Fair. presented by instructor Diane Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/21, 12/19 Warmsley, genealogist and family Fridays @ 3:45PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Poetry Circle historian. Recovery International A discussion group to read and offer Anxiety, fear, obsessions, anger, stress, close readings of a different iconic Saturday @ 2:30PM - 11/4 depression: finding a way to cope is American poet’s work each month. Vertical Gardens here. A Recovery International meeting November: Sylvia Plath, Dec: John Growing plants for food, aesthetics, is a safe, free, and confidential place Ashbery. or therapeutic value can be fun and to get help for these issues. All are rewarding. Come learn how to make the welcome. Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/30, 12/21 most of your limited space with Gil Lopez. Open Mic Night Saturdays @ 10:30AM - 11/4 - 12/23 Performers are invited to share their Mondays @ 1:00PM - 11/6 - 12/11 Line Dancing with Angie talents in a 4-minute presentation of Monthly Monday Afternoon Movie Time Don’t sit on the sidelines! Join us and poetry, written word, music, comedy, or See Reference Desk for titles. learn the latest line dances. It’s lots of spoken word. Spectators also welcome. fun and definitely great exercise, too! Each month will bring a different Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 featured reader. For November: Anum English Conversation Club Mondays @ 6:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Sattar. For December: Sarah M. Sala. Is English your second or third Tai Chi for Adults language? Do you want to improve your Practice Mirelle Netelle’s beginner Tai FRESH MEADOWS speaking skills? Practice at the library Chi for health and well-being, using the 193-20 Horace Harding Expressway, with native speakers! five elements of qigong, sequences of 718-454-7272 Tai Chi forms, and “push-hands.” Tuesdays @ 1:15PM - 11/7 - 12/26 Wednesdays @ 10:00AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Adult Chess Club Tuesdays @ 2:00PM - 11/7 - 12/19 Are You Getting Your Benefits? Join us for chess, a board game for two Ballroom Dancing with Jing Chen Over 2 million New Yorkers are eligible players, each beginning with 16 pieces Jing Chen studied ballroom dance at for SNAP benefits. SNAP stands for the of six kinds that are moved according the school founded by internationally Supplemental Nutrition Assistance to individual rules, with the objective acclaimed dancers Mr. and Mrs. Program, which issues electronic of checkmating. Lu Ming Da. Mr. Chen is a skilled benefits that can be used like cash to instructor who will give lessons in purchase food. Stop by the library for a Tuesdays @ 1:15PM - 11/7 - 12/26 ballroom basics for beginners and offer SNAP eligibility screening. If you meet Scrabble Club training for more advanced students. the requirements, get help filling out an Please enjoy an afternoon of Scrabble games. application. Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/15, 11/29 Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/8, 11/15, 11/29 Genealogy Workshop Wednesdays @ 12:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27 Still Life, Landscape, and Photography: A two-part genealogy workshop presented Needles & Thread Time An Art History Adventure by instructor Diane Warmsley, This is a non-instructional group This 3-session series covers art from genealogist and family historian. gathering. Please bring your own Egyptian times through the 19th century materials—thread and fabric. Sewing and explores the relationship between Saturday @ 3:00PM - 11/18 machines will be provided. still life, landscape, and photography. New Sounds for Oboe and Harp Registration required, call the Fresh Oboist Karisa Antonio and harpist Wednesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/1, 12/6 Meadows Library at 718-454-7272. Claire Happel present a program of Jewelry Making and Design works by Debussy, Ravel, and others. A series of three art projects. 1) Pearl Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/9 - 12/21 This is followed by experimental necklace and earring set done on Zumba with Miriam Acevedo modernism to new compositions from needlework canvas as a base, which Dance your way into shape! jazz composer/pianist Whitney Ashe is then embellished in jewels. 2) Cuff Registration required. Call Fresh and Douglas Fisk. adjustable bracelet. 3) Jewelry trinket Meadows Library at 718-454-7272.

44 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE ProgramsPrograms for for All Adults Ages

Monday @ 1:00PM - 11/20 about anything and everything, Thursdays @ 5:30PM - 11/9, 12/14 International Film Screening and including film, music, cooking, and Meditation Club Discussion: “Apprentice” news. Meet guest authors and connect Experienced or beginner, join the club In the award-winning film “Apprentice,” with new friends. and share breathing exercises and directed by Boo Junfeng, in English/ meditation techniques that may help to Malay with English subtitles, Aiman, Fridays @ 10:15AM - 11/3 - 12/29 reduce stress. a 28-year-old Malay correctional Scrabble Club officer, has been transferred to the We meet weekly to play this popular Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/13, 12/18 territory’s top prison. Rahim, the chief word game. Please bring your own Adult Craft Club executioner, has noticed the principled Scrabble set. Make crafts, and make friends! and diligent Aiman and when he needs a new apprentice, Rahmin offers Aiman Fridays @ 1:00PM - 11/3, 11/17, 12/1, 12/8, 12/15 Tuesday @ 10:15AM - 11/14 the job. English Conversation Classes Queens Library Samsung Tablets Adults improve their English through group Join us for a basic overview of Queens Saturdays @ 2:30PM - 11/25, 12/9, 12/23 conversations about everyday topics. Library’s Samsung tablets. This class Monthly Saturday Afternoon Movie Time will introduce you to the process of See Reference Desk for titles. Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 11/4 -12/30 checking out the tablets and the basics Adult Coloring on how to use them. No registration is Monday @ 1:00PM - 12/18 Bring your own coffee, tea, and biscuits. required. International Film Screening and We will provide the atmosphere, Discussion: “Glory” including music and coloring supplies. Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 11/15 In the award-winning film “Glory”, Coloring is a new adult craze that Health Chat for Seniors: Common directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar promises relaxation, fun, and Breathing Disorders Valchanov, in Bulgarian with English community. Dr. Daniel Laurie, Pulmonologist, subtitles, a railroad worker gets caught Northwell Health, will speak about the in bureaucratic chaos when he finds Saturdays @ 12:00PM - 11/4, 11/18, 11/25 different types of breathing/pulmonary millions of leva on the tracks and turns Saturday Afternoon Movie disorders, and available treatments, the money over to the police. November 4: “Queen of Katwe” (2016, at this month’s health talk for older PG); November 18: “Everything, adults, presented by Naturally Occurring Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 12/20 Everything” (2017, PG-13); November 25: Retirement Community Without Walls Classic Concert “The Beguiled” (2017, R). (NORC WOW). A question-and-answer Music critics have described I-Heung session will be part of the presentation Lee’s performance as graceful, Mondays @ 12:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 and blood pressure screenings will be thoughtful, and intelligent, touched with Adult Gamers Club available from 1:30-1:45 p.m. a unique style of artistic sophistication. We welcome players of various card Ms. Lee performs extensively in Asia and board games, including bridge, Saturday @ 3:00PM - 11/18 as well as at Carnegie Hall and Alice canasta, chess, dominoes, and more! Getting Personal: Writing About Your Tully Hall in New York. Her repertoire For adults only. Family History with Author Bob Brody includes works by Mozart, Franz Liszt, Learn how to capture your personal Maurice Ravel, and Frederic Chopin. Mondays @ 1:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18 family history in writing (what Watercolor Club happened, how you felt, why it mattered) GLEN OAKS Practice your skills and meet others to with Bob Brody, personal essayist, public 256-04 Union Turnpike, 718-831-8636 share experiences. Please bring your relations executive, and author of the own supplies. memoir “Playing Catch with Strangers: Thursdays @ 1:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Knit and Crochet Club Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Age.” Books will be available for sale and Share patterns and techniques or just have Zumba Gold signing. a friendly chat while working on your This class is perfect for active older projects. Please bring your own supplies. adults who are looking for a fun dance Saturday @ 3:00PM - 11/25 workout at a lower intensity. Come Long Island’s Favorite Acapella Group: Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 ready to sweat and leave feeling strong. The Traditions Moving For Life: Dance Exercise for All This class focuses on all elements of This acapella group has performed with Moving for Life incorporates dance fitness: cardio, muscular conditioning, virtually all of the legends of rock’n’roll and Qi Gong, accompanied by different flexibility, and balance! and rhythm & blues, including the types of music to accentuate the body- Platters, the 5 Satins, and Little Anthony mind connection. Tuesdays @ 1:15PM - 11/7 - 12/26 & The Imperials, among others. Hear the Mahjong Club great songs they recorded, with all-time Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/2, 12/7 Play mahjong and share the fun, favorites such as “Teardrops,” “It’s All in Spanish Club excitement, and camaraderie with others. the Game,” and more. Do you speak Spanish? Join to talk November/December 2017 45 November / December 20162017

Saturdays @ 12:00PM - 12/2 - 12/30 HILLCREST Friday @ 3:00PM - 11/3 Saturday Afternoon Movie 187-05 Union Turnpike, 718-454-2786 Friday Movie: “Wonder Woman” December 2: “Beatriz At Dinner” (2017, Enjoy an afternoon screening of “Wonder R); December 9: “Shall We Dance” (2004, Monday @ 1:00PM - 11/13 Woman” (2017, PG-13). Bring your own snacks. PG-13); December 16: “Love Actually” NYS Dept. for the Aging: Medicare (2003, R); December 23: “Love the Information Saturdays @ 10:30AM - 11/4, 11/18, 12/2 Coopers” (2015, PG-13); December 30: Certified by HIICAP and the New Language Learning Group for Beginners “New Year’s Eve” (2011, PG-13). York Department for the Aging, in Spanish Linda Gordon will be setting up an Have you ever wished you could speak Fridays @ 12:30PM - 12/8, 12/15 informational table at Hillcrest, East Spanish? Learn how to use Transparent Genealogy Workshop Flushing, and Bay Terrace libraries. She Language Online and benefit from a 10- A two-part genealogy workshop will answer your questions about all week group learning experience too! You presented by instructor Diane Warmsley, the complicated aspects of Medicare. will need a Queens Library card and a genealogist and family historian. computer, tablet, or smartphone to access Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 11/15 Transparent Language to do your weekly Tuesdays @ 10:15AM - 12/12, 12/19 Classic Movie: Alfred Hitchcock’s assignments. Bring your device to the Microsoft PowerPoint for Beginners “Marnie” first session for help in setting up your Topics include creating and editing Please join us as we conclude our Transparent Language Online account. slides, changing design and colors, month-long tribute to the directorial Space is limited and preregistration is inserting pictures and illustrations, and genius of Alfred Hitchcock. required. presenting a slideshow. Basic computer skills are required. Space is limited, and Tuesday @ 3:30PM - 11/21 Mondays @ 12:30PM - 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 preregistration is required. Participants Paper Flower Making for Adults Computer Classes for Adults must attend all classes. Come learn how to create fabulous Learn basic skills as an introduction to flowers out of paper to decorate any computers and the Internet. Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 12/13 area of your home for the holidays. Adult Book Discussion: “The Wangs Mondays @ 5:00PM - 11/6, 11/20 vs. The World” Monday @ 5:00PM - 11/27 Typing Lab for Adults Author Jade Chang will join us and Karaoke Dance Party After Dark! Learn how to type and use the keyboard discuss her book. Join our karaoke dance party! and improve your typing skills.

Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 12/20 Tuesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/28, 12/5, 12/19 Monday @ 5:30PM - 11/13 Health Chat for Seniors: Cognition Origami for Adults Carnatic Jazz and Aging We will be making a different project Nivedita ShivRaj, the acclaimed music Dr. Yael Cukier, Northwell Health, each session. composer, performer, and teacher, will will speak about how aging affects present this Carnatic Jazz Concert, cognition and memory, and what you Wednesdays @ 2:00PM - 12/6, 12/13; performing music compositions that can do to keep your mind functioning Thursday @ 5:45PM - 12/21 blend classical South Indian music with optimally, at this month’s health talk Hillcrest Screening Festival: Ismail improvised Western music. for older adults, presented by Naturally Merchant & John Ivory Films Occurring Retirement Community This December, Hillcrest honors Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/20, 12/18 Without Walls (NORC WOW). A Southeast Asian producer-director Adult Book Club question-and-answer session will be Ismail Merchant (1936-2005) and Join us on 11/20 to discuss “Major part of the presentation and blood American director John Ivory with Pettigrew’s Last Stand” by Helen pressure screenings will be available screenings of three of their early films: Simonson and on 12/18 to discuss “Our from 1:30-1:45 p.m. “The Householder” (1963) on December Souls at Night” by Kent Haruf. 6; “Roseland” (1977) on December 13; GLENDALE and “Mr. & Mrs. Bridge” (1990, PG-13) on HOWARD BEACH 78-60 73 Place, 718-821-4980 December 21. 92-06 156 Avenue, 718-641-7086

Friday @ 3:30PM - 12/8 HOLLIS Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 11/7 Holiday Origami: A Crafts Program for 202-05 Hillside Avenue, 718-465-7355 Breast Health: Cancer Screening and Adults Prevention Learn origami techniques from origami Thursdays @ 1:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Join Linda Bulone, RN, OCN, CCRC, for an master Kazuyo Mizukami, to create Knitting & Crocheting Club informative workshop on breast health. beautiful holiday decorations for your Join us for Hollis’ newest club—learn to During this session, we will discuss basic home. Preregistration is required. Space knit or crochet. Please bring your own facts about breast cancer prevention and is limited for up to 25 participants. materials—and ask a friend to join you! early detection, and review facts and Materials will be provided. myths about general breast health. All are welcome. 46 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE ProgramsPrograms for for All Adults Ages

Fridays @ 11:30AM - 12/1, 12/8 Saturday @ 2:30PM - 12/2 Tuesday @ 1:00PM - 11/14 Now’s the Time! Quit Smoking for Free Writing Classes: Never Have Cancer Information Table Good in 2017! Writer’s Block Again Community Outreach representatives Learn how to overcome tobacco Author Scott Cheshire shares the DNA from NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens addiction with the Freedom From of storytelling, and how to find and Hospital will be on-site to answer Smoking® program and start enjoying use its fundamentals from within to questions about cancer, cancer the benefits of better health. This improve one’s writing skills. Look for prevention, and where you can obtain 7-week program offers a small group other workshops, part of this series a cancer screening, regardless of setting where you will learn about of free writing classes provided by insurance or immigration status. Stop topics including: lifestyle changes that the Newtown Literary Alliance in by their table to get all your questions make quitting easier, medicines that partnership with Queens Library. answered. might help you stop smoking, how to prepare for Quit Day, strategies for Saturday @ 3:00PM - 12/9 Monday @ 6:30PM - 11/20 managing stress and avoiding weight “Celebrity Sadhana, Or How to Adult Fiction Book Club Planning gain, developing a new self-image...and Meditate with a Hammer”: A Book Meeting how to stay smoke-free for good! Reading with Poet Vijay R. Nathan Please join us for our monthly fiction Vijay R. Nathan, recipient of a Queens book club. JACKSON HEIGHTS Arts Council New Works grant, will 35-51 81 Street, 718-899-2500 read from his soon-to-be published Tuesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/21 - 12/5 poetry collection. These poems imagine Basic Computer Class Monday @ 9:00AM - 11/6, Thursday @ meditative moments from the sadhana Please join our 3-session computer 2:00PM - 11/2 (spiritual practice) of Hollywood’s classes. Learn how to use a computer Diversity Visa Application Assistance elite, and include the unauthorized (mouse, keyboard). Learn how to Queens Library is making computers appearances of the personas of Joaquin navigate the Internet and how to create available from October 23 to November Phoenix, Natalie Portman, and Shia and use an email account. Register at 16 to customers who want to fill out the Laboeuf, among others. the reference desk. Space is limited. online application for the Diversity Visa (Green Card) Lottery (DV-2019). Tuesday @ 3:30PM - 12/19 Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 11/21 NYCitizenship Information Session Torn Paper Collage Saturday @ 2:30PM - 11/4 Come to an information session with a Please join us for this art therapy Free Writing Classes: Looking for NYCitizenship attorney to find out how project recommended by the Mayo Trouble: Writing Conflict to apply for U.S. citizenship, and learn Clinic. We will be using a variety of Jill Eisenstadt leads this workshop about the benefits of becoming a citizen colored paper to arrange pieces which which highlights the crucial role and receiving financial counseling. help reduce stress. conflict plays in every aspect of writing fiction, from creating momentum to KEW GARDENS HILLS Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 11/28 revealing character to shaping story. 71-34 Main Street, 718-261-6654 Fun and Games for Adults Look for other workshops, part of this Please join us for some fun and games series of free writing classes provided Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/2 that may include B.I.N.G.O., Scrabble, by the Newtown Literary Alliance in How to Shop Safe Online and other board games! partnership with Queens Library. With the holidays approaching, learn how to shop safely online. Join us for Mondays @ 6:15PM - 12/4, 12/11, 12/18 Mondays @ 5:30PM - 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, this presentation and learn how to buy Zumba: Latin Dance Fitness 11/27 great gifts for family and friends safely Instructor Meiling Schumm uses Latin Pathway to U.S Citizenship: Becoming online. Learn how to get deals and dance moves to create a workout that a U.S. Citizen and Building Your Civic discounts that are not in stores. You helps you lose fat, build muscle, and Knowledge will also learn how to earn cash back feel more energized. Dress in exercise Are you ready to become a U.S. citizen? when shopping from the comfort of clothes, bring a bottle of water, and Sessions are in English and include a your home. Registration required. come early to complete an exercise workshop and basic civics education. release form. Preregistration is 11/6: Are you ready to be a U.S. citizen?/ Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/3, 11/17 required. Introduction to American history; Puzzle Time for Adults 11/13: Required documents and more/ Join us for some brain teaser puzzles. Monday @ 12:30PM - 12/18 Introduction to American government Movie Matinee: A Holiday Special and politics; 11/20: Common barriers Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 11/8 Please join us for a holiday movie to naturalization/American culture Color My World screening of Irving Berlin’s “Holiday and geography; 11/27: Naturalization Please join us for some adult coloring. Inn” (1942) for everyone to enjoy. interview and beyond/Review of 100 questions.

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LANGSTON HUGHES we have a series of creative projects contact Mr. Jeffrey or Ms. Stubbs at 718- 100-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-651-1100 we know you’re sure to enjoy. Psst— 582-2822. bring a friend! Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/2 - 12/21 Monday @ 4:30PM - 11/13 Writing the Imagination: Memory, Thursdays @ 6:15PM - 11/2 - 12/7 Legal Advice for Homeowners Moments, Ways of Looking Back Laurelton Quilting Club Are you a homeowner in Queens with In this interactive workshop, The quilting history of African concerns about your mortgage, property participants will learn about the Americans is nearly as old as the taxes, homeowner’s insurance, or water process of writing poetry, novels, and history of our country itself, and and sewage bills? A representative from short stories for either personal or is part of our American cultural The Legal Aid Society’s Foreclosure public enjoyment. heritage. To keep that culture alive, Prevention Unit will be at the library to we are offering a quilting program answer your questions one-on-one. Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/4, 11/18, 11/25 for the public. Preregistration is Introduction to Microsoft Word (in required. Wednesdays @ 5:00PM - 11/15, 12/13 Spanish) Parenting Workshop: What You Need to Learn how to create a document and Fridays @ 12:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Know work with tables. Participants should Laurelton Mahjong Club These family informational sessions have basic computer skills and must Have you ever thought about playing will give parents, grandparents, and attend all 3 classes. Preregistration mahjong, but didn’t know how? caregivers the opportunity to learn more is required in person at the Langston Here’s your chance to learn. In our about Internet safety, reading workshops, Hughes Reference Desk beginning Mahjong Club, you can learn the nutrition, exercise, and much more. Don’t Saturday, November 4, at 10 a.m. skills for beginning play, so that you miss out on this great opportunity to can share in the fun, excitement, and learn more about how we can protect and Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 12/9, 12/16, 12/23 camaraderie with others. Beginners educate our children. Microsoft Excel for Spanish Speakers and experienced players are both Learn how to create a worksheet and welcome. Preregistration is required. Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/27, 12/18 perform calculations. Participants Laurelton Literary Society should have basic computer skills Fridays @ 2:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Each month, we will select, read, and and must attend all 3 classes. Color Me Calm for Seniors discuss a particular book. Upcoming book Preregistration is required in person Coloring isn’t just for kids anymore! titles will be selected at our monthly at the Langton Hughes Reference Desk Escape the stress of your everyday meetings. beginning Saturday, December 2 at 10 life as you focus on coloring am intricate, soothing designs. Coloring LEFFERTS has been discovered as a therapeutic 103-34 Lefferts Boulevard, 718-843-5950 Monday @ 4:00PM - 12/11 activity that reduces anxiety and Understanding and Managing Your stress levels. Materials will be Thursdays @ 12:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Credit provided. Health Insurance Info and Enrollment Join us in: understanding your credit Do you need healthcare coverage for report & score, how to build good credit, Mondays @ 6:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18 yourself or your family? Stop by and and how to rebuild your credit and Shape Up NYC: Cardio Dance speak with a health insurance navigator make disputes. Fitness from Callen Lorde Community Health Instructor Althea Bazemore leads Center to get all of your questions LAURELTON this fitness class that uses easy- answered. You can even enroll on-site if 134-26 225 Street, 718-528-2822 to-follow dance moves geared at you qualify. increasing cardiovascular fitness, Wednesdays @ 1:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27 body toning, and burning calories. Thursday @ 3:00PM - 11/2 Senior Game Hour Wear loose clothing and sneakers. Be St. John’s School of Law Students Feeling bored and restless? Then sure to bring a bottle of water. Space present an “Investor Education” come on down and visit the Laurelton is limited. Participation is first come, Workshop Community Library for some fun and first served. The topics that will be covered are: games. Come and enjoy a quick game common investor problems and scams, of Scrabble, Trouble, Uno, Othello, Tuesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/7 - 12/26 tips to avoid being a victim, protecting backgammon, and many others to Basic Computer Skills for Seniors your investments, types of investments, choose from. Need a little help learning how to and tips to keep track of your investments. use a computer? Learn the basics Thursdays @ 1:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 of computers at the Laurelton Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Senior Arts & Crafts Community Library with our ShapeUp NYC: Low Impact Dancercise Unleash your creative side and join us information specialist and expert. for Adults at the Laurelton Community Library; Preregistration is required, please Instructor Zaneifa Mycoosingh leads

48 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE ProgramsPrograms for for All Adults Ages this exercise class of low-impact registering qualified customers to LONG ISLAND CITY aerobics combined with dance moves freeze their rents. 37-44 21 Street, 718-752-3700 to emphasize toning and cardio while burning calories. Space is limited. Thursday @ 6:30PM - 11/9 Monday @ 3:00PM - 11/6, Participation is on a first-come, first- “King” Solomon Hicks: The Ties Thursday @ 2:00PM - 11/2 served basis. Between Blues & Jazz Diversity Visa Application Assistance A musical concert with King Queens Library is making computers Thursday @ 4:30PM - 11/9 Solomon Hicks. Solomon available from October 23 to November Legal Advice for Homeowners intertwines blues and jazz in his 16 to customers who want to fill out the Are you a homeowner in Queens own unique style. His performance online application for the Diversity Visa with concerns about your mortgage, is a tribute to Wes Montgomery, B.B. (Green Card) Lottery (DV-2019). property taxes, homeowner’s King, Howlin’ Wolf, and a number insurance, or water and sewage bills? of other blues artists! An eclectic Friday @ 4:00PM - 11/3 A representative from The Legal Aid musician, Solomon also excels at Candy Cane Wreath Society’s Foreclosure Prevention Unit classical, gospel, R&B, funk, and Adults will create their own candy cane will be at the library to answer your classic rock. wreath for the holidays. questions one-on-one. Thursdays @ 1:00PM - 11/16, 12/7, 12/21 Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/16 Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/25 Thursday Movie Matinee Blood Pressure Screenings Comic to Movie: “Wonder Woman” Enjoy an afternoon of the latest We have partnered with The Floating Come witness Diana Prince come to life releases and blockbuster hits. Hospital to offer free blood pressure on the big screen in “Wonder Woman” November 16: “The Mummy” (2017, screenings and information on healthcare (2017, PG-13)! PG-13); December 7: “Pirates of the services. Preregistration is not required. Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” LEFRAK CITY (2017, PG-13); December 21: “All Eyez Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/20, 11/27 98-30 57 Avenue, 718-592-7677 on Me” (2017, R). Adult Coloring Club An adult coloring club can provide a fun Thursdays @ 12:00PM - 11/2, 11/16, 11/30, Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/16 and conversational space for adults, as 12/14, 12/28 Recipe Swap well as offer a space to slow down and Drop-In Computer Service for Older Adults Do you enjoy cooking? Have you relax. Recent research has been published Adults ages 50 and older: learn basic ever wanted to try new recipes for about the mental health benefits and computer skills—the functions of Thanksgiving or other holidays? calming effects of coloring as a creative a computer, browsing the Internet, Join us for an evening of trying new outlet. creating an email address, and dishes and swapping recipes with composing digital documents like the local community. Please contact Tuesday @ 10:30AM - 11/28 business letters and resumes. Sessions the branch for further details and/ Introduction to Publisher are 30 minutes maximum and are or to sign up and reserve a table Learn how to create in Publisher. We will on a first-come, first-served basis. for recipe sharing. Table space is also cover how to save, print, and open. Registration is not required. limited. Monday @ 5:30PM - 12/4 Monday @ 1:00PM - 11/6 Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/30, 12/28 Shakespeare in Queens: “Twelfth Night, Afternoon Adult Craft Black Experience Book Discussion or What You Will” Sign up to create useful and decorative Join us for film and book Titan Theatre Company presents a crafts to take home. Call or stop by the discussions regarding staged reading of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth branch to sign up before the program contemporary issues impacting the Night, or What You Will.” Shipwrecked date. Space is limited to 10. November black community. 11/30: “A Kind of and separated from her twin brother, 6: Holiday Trees. December 4: New Year Freedom” by Margaret Wilkerson whom she fears dead, Viola, disguised Celebration Glasses. Sexton; 12/28: “Sing, Unburied, Sing” as a man, is employed by Duke Orsino as by Jesmyn Ward. a messenger to the beautiful Countess Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Olivia. Dance Aerobics Monday @ 1:00PM – 12/4 Instructor Lizzie Romeo shows participants Afternoon Adult Craft MASPETH how to dance their way to good health Sign up to create useful and 69-70 Grand Avenue, 718-639-5228 and have fun at the same time! decorative crafts to take home. Call or stop by the branch to sign up Saturday @ 10:15AM - 11/18 Tuesdays @ 2:30PM - 11/7 - 12/19 before the program date. Space is Adult Book Discussion: “The Island RentFreezeNYC limited to 10. November 6: Holiday Beneath The Sea” by Isabel Allende This event is organized and offered Trees; December 4: New Year Please join us for November’s book club. by the NYC Department of Finance for Celebration Glasses. Copies are available at the reference desk.

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Tuesday @ 2:30PM - 12/12 Tuesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/14, 11/21, 12/5, Thursday @ 2:30PM - 12/7 Make Yogurt at Home 12/12, 12/19 A Conversation with Zoe and Her Cello Gil Lopez leads this workshop where Computer Class for Beginners E. Zoe Hassman will perform an participants can learn about milk Adults will learn computer basics. innovative, audience-friendly, fun solo cultures and how to use them to create Topics include but are not limited cello concert with music from pop, jazz, tasty, healthy yogurt treats easily and to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, classical, and beyond. Audiences will inexpensively at home. Both yogurt and email. Classes are not held marvel at selections by Gershwin, “What and wheat produce can be used to add on the last week of every month. a Wonderful World,” “Zip A-Dee-Doo-Dah,” richness and flavor and include “made Preregistration is required by phone and more, as her mystery pieces engage from scratch” bragging rights in your or in person. the audience in a fun adventure. favorite holiday recipes. Participants will take home yogurt that can be used MITCHELL-LINDEN NORTH FOREST PARK to start a first batch. 31-32 Union Street, 718-539-2330 98-27 Metropolitan Avenue, 718-261-5512

Saturday @ 10:15AM - 12/16 Wednesdays @ 2:00PM - 11/1 - 12/20 Thursdays @ 1:00PM - 11/2 - 12/14 Adult Book Discussion: Margaret Mahjong Club Language Learning Group for Beginners Atwood’s “A Handmaid’s Tale” Join in the fun of mahjong in our in Spanish Please join us for December’s book club. non-instructional weekly session. Have you ever wished you could speak Copies are available at the reference Spanish? Learn how to use Transparent desk. Thursday @ 2:30PM - 11/2 Language Online and benefit from an Cancer Screening & Prevention 8-week group learning experience too! MCGOLDRICK Come learn what you can do to help You will need a Queens Library card and a 155-06 Roosevelt Av. (off Northern prevent breast, prostate, and colon computer, tablet, or smartphone to access Blvd), 718-461-1616 cancer. We will review facts and Transparent Language to do your weekly myths about cancer prevention assignments. Bring your device to the Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1 - 12/6 and discuss what screenings are first session for help in setting up your Korean for Beginners recommended and where you can Transparent Language Online account. Do you want to read all Korean signs? get them. There will also be plenty of Space is limited and preregistration is Do you want to watch Korean dramas time for Q&A. required. and movies without English captions? Do you want to say hello to your Fridays @ 12:30PM - 11/3 - 11/24 Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 11/4 - 12/2 Korean neighbors? Do you want to November Blockbuster Matinee WANY at North Forest Park order Korean food in Korean? Then November is Blockbuster Action Come to a We Are New York conversation this class is for you. Preregistration is Matinee Month. Join us for group at North Forest Park. required. Please preregister online or screenings of blockbuster action call (in English) 718-461-1616. movies. 11/3: “Wonder Women” (2017, Mondays @ 12:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 PG-13); 11/17: “John Wick: Chapter ShapeUp NYC: Dance Fitness Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/4 2” (2017, R); 11/24: “Guardians of Instructor Shirlyn Diego-Lucas teaches It’s Never Too Early (or Too Late) the Galaxy Vol. 2” (2017, PG-13). easy-to-follow dance steps to increase To Plan for Your Child’s College Bring your lunch and enjoy it while cardiovascular fitness and tone your body. Education watching the movie. Seating is Space is limited. Participation is on a first- Gain insight into developing the right limited and available first-come, come, first-served basis. strategy for you and your child to get first-served. into the college of their dreams and to Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 ease the financial burden of a college Tuesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/7 - 12/12 Puzzle Time for Adults education. Arnold Davis has conducted Device Training Every Monday, come by the Reference presentations on college admissions Come learn about your everyday Desk and pick up a crossword, Sudoku, or and financing at high schools, devices such as cell phones, tablets, Word Find puzzle. secondary schools, and primary and computers. schools in the Midwest and regional Tuesdays @ 1:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26 New York. Tuesday @ 3:00PM - 11/7 Adult Coloring Time Book Club at Mitchell-Linden: “The Come join the new coloring craze! Some Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/9, 12/7 Whistler” materials will be provided or you can Korean Book Club From John Grisham, America’s #1 bring your own. Do you enjoy reading? Have you read bestselling author, comes the most a good Korean book lately? Share your electrifying novel of the year, a high- Monday @ 4:00PM - 12/4 reading experiences at the Korean Book stakes thrill ride through the darkest Getting Personal: Writing About Your Club. corners of the Sunshine State. Family History with Author Bob Brody Learn how to capture your personal

50 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE ProgramsPrograms for for All Adults Ages family history in writing (what OZONE PARK have just watched from the sidelines but happened, how you felt, why it 92-24 Rockaway Blvd., 718-845-3127 would like to learn to play, the Pomonok mattered) with Bob Brody, personal Mahjong Club, which meets Wednesday essayist, public relations executive, Saturdays @ 1:00PM - 11/4, 12/2 afternoons, is a great place to meet and author of the memoir “Playing Ozone Park Saturday Matinee people, engage in conversation, and Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy Come in and join us for our Saturday exercise your ability to strategize. (Reluctantly) Comes of Age.” Books will Matinee for adults, the first Saturday be available for sale and signing. of every month. Tuesday @ 10:30AM - 11/7 Introduction to Computers NORTH HILLS Monday @ 6:00PM - 11/13 Learn the fundamentals! Space is limited; 57-04 Marathon Parkway, 718-225-3550 Ozone Park Book Discussion Group preregistration is required. This month we will discuss “Still Thursdays @ 12:00PM - 11/2 - 12/14 Alice” by Lisa Genova. Wednesdays @ 10:00AM - 11/8, 11/22, 12/6, WANY at North Hills 12/20 Come to a We Are New York program Monday @ 6:00PM - 11/20 Are You Getting Your Benefits? at North Hills. A Conversation with Zoe and Her Over 2 million New Yorkers are eligible Cello for SNAP benefits. SNAP stands for the Monday @ 5:30PM - 11/6 E. Zoe Hassman will perform an Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Book Discussion innovative, audience-friendly, fun solo Program, which issues electronic benefits Join us for a lively discussion of cello concert with music from pop, that can be used like cash to purchase “Friction” by Sandra Brown. Copies jazz, classical, and beyond. Audiences food. Stop by the library for a SNAP will be available at the circulation will marvel at selections by Gershwin, eligibility screening. If you meet the desk. “What a Wonderful World,” “Zip A-Dee- requirements, get help filling out an Doo-Dah,” and more as her mystery application. Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/9 pieces engage the audience in a fun Meet the Author: “Moshe” by Andrew adventure. Tuesday @ 10:30AM - 11/21 Montante Introduction to PowerPoint Local author Andrew Montante will PENINSULA Learn how to create and edit slides, discuss his fantasy novel “Moshe,” 92-25 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, insert clip art, apply designs, work about a tribe of humans that have 718-634-1110 with views, and run a slideshow. We fallen into the underworld. Can their will also cover how to save, print, and unlikely leader help them escape the Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 12/27 open presentations. Space is limited. dangers and find their way back to Senior Social Hour Preregistration is required. where they truly belong? Learn about Join us for Senior Social Hour. Learn Andrew’s experience in writing and about library services, contribute Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 11/21 finding a publisher for his work. Books ideas for programs, and socialize with Understanding Memory Loss will be available for sale and signing. new people in the community! Come learn about different types of memory loss, possible ways to prevent it, Monday @ 5:30PM - 12/4 Thursday @ 6:30PM - 11/2, 12/7 and what to do if you think you may have Book Discussion Book Discussion Group it. Presenter: Soo Jung Kim, MSN, ANP, Join us for a lively discussion of “What Join us for our monthly book RN, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alice Forgot” by Liane Moriarty. Copies discussion! Books are available at Center. will be available at the circulation the library prior to each meeting. Our desk. selections are: November 2—“The Light Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 11/29 Between Oceans” by M.L. Steadman; Book Discussion Group Thursday @ 6:00PM - 12/21 December 7—“Orphan Train” by We meet once a month to read and A Christmas Carol Christina Kline. discuss a great book. November 29: “Little This one-man play is based on the Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng. condensed version Dickens himself Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 11/4, 11/18, 11/25, used on his historic reading tours 12/2, 12/9, 12/16, 12/23, 12/30 Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 12/19 of the United States and is adapted Knitting Club Holiday Origami: A Crafts Program for here to offer a unique theatrical Come to our weekly knitting club! Adults experience. Actor Greg Oliver Bodine Learn origami techniques from origami plays Dickens, who must perform POMONOK master Kazuyo Mizukami, to create from memory the magical story of 158-21 Jewel Avenue, 718-591-4343 beautiful holiday decorations for your Scrooge’s journey from miserliness to home. Preregistration is required. Space redemption. This show is rated G and Wednesdays @ 2:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27 is limited for up to 25 participants. is suitable for adults and children over Mahjong Club Materials will be provided. 10 years of age. Join us! Whether you’re skilled at the game or

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POPPENHUSEN Mondays @ 1:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 12/20 121-23 14 Avenue, 718-359-1102 Knit and Crochet Club Book Discussion Group Bring your supplies and make new We will discuss “Vinegar Girl” by Anne Fridays @ 12:00PM - 11/3, 11/17 friends at this crafts group for adults! Tyler. Introduction to Basic Computers Learn basic computer skills, such as Mondays @ 5:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18, QUEENSBORO HILL how to use the mouse, keyboard, and Thursdays @ 5:30PM - 11/9 - 12/28 60-05 Main Street, 718-359-8332 toolbar, and how to operate Windows. Chess Club Library card and preregistration are Practice your chess skills with other Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 11/1 required. adults. Broadway Show Tunes Pianist William Gati and vocalist Willa Wednesday @ 3:30PM - 11/22 Tuesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/7, 11/14 Bassen perform classic Broadway show Make Yogurt at Home Computers for Beginners tunes. Gil Lopez leads this workshop where Adults will learn the basics of computer participants can learn about milk use. Preregistration and a valid Queens Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/2 - 12/21 cultures and how to use them to create Library card are required. Yoga for Adults with Dorothy Ng tasty, healthy yogurt treats easily and Certified yoga instructor Dorothy inexpensively at home. Participants Tuesday @ 1:30PM - 11/7 Ng teaches basic yoga techniques will take home yogurt that can be used Arm Knitting and exercises. Bring a mat and wear to start a first batch. Learn the basics of arm knitting. You workout clothes and sneakers. It is must bring your own supplies (super recommended that you not eat for Fridays @ 12:00PM - 12/1 - 12/22 bulky yarn). three hours before class. Space is Introduction to Basic Computers limited and available on a first-come, Learn basic computer skills, such as Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 11/8 first-served basis. how to use the mouse, keyboard, and Movie Afternoon toolbar, and how to operate Windows. This month’s selection is “Wonder Tuesday @ 1:30PM - 11/14 Library card and preregistration are Woman” (2017, PG-13). Afternoon Book Club required. In “Our Souls At Night” by Kent Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 11/15 Haruf, widow Addie Moore pays an Wednesday @ 3:30PM - 12/27 Book Discussion Group unexpected visit to neighbor Louis Holiday Origami: A Crafts Program for We will discuss “The Dinner” by Waters. As Addie and Louis come to Adults Herman Koch. know each other better, a beautiful Learn origami techniques from origami story of second chances unfolds. Books master Kazuyo Mizukami, to create Saturday @ 1:45PM - 11/25 will be available at the Library a month beautiful holiday decorations for your National Novel Writing Month Write In before the discussion. home. Preregistration is required. Space Join us for the last stretch of National is limited for up to 25 participants. Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) for Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 12/5 - 12/26 Materials will be provided. a write-in! We’ll provide the space, you Knitting Circle provide the words. Have fun while learning to knit your QUEENS VILLAGE very own creations! Supplies will be 94-11 217 Street, 718-776-6800 Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 12/6 provided or you may bring your own. Movie Afternoon Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/2 - 12/21 This month’s selection is “Lion” (2016, Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 12/6 Origami for Adults PG-13). Preventing Falls: Reduce Your Risk Join us for an evening of origami, the Do you worry about falling? Learn Japanese art of folding paper. Tuesdays @ 11:00AM - 12/12, 12/19 what you can do to reduce your risk Internet Basics for Beginners and build confidence in your ability to Fridays @ 10AM - 11/3, 11/17, 11/24, 12/1 - 12/29 Learn the basics of navigating the move around freely and independently. STARs: Senior Theater Acting Internet. Participants should know Speaker: Alan Ho, PT, DPT, Senior Repertory how to use a computer, keyboard, and Physical Therapist, Memorial Sloan Calling all older adults! Join our galaxy mouse. Preregistration and a valid Kettering Cancer Center. of STARs and perform theatrical works Queens Library card are required. at the library with a great group of people! REGO PARK Friday @ 2:00PM - 12/15 91-41 63 Drive, 718-459-5140 Friday @ 2:00PM - 11/3 STARs Christmas Performance STARs Holiday Performance The Senior Theater Acting Repertory Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 11/4 - 12/23 The Senior Theater Acting Repertory will perform a medley of theatrical Learn English with the Computer! will perform a medley of theatrical works to celebrate the holidays. Join us for an English class where you works. use the computer to learn English!

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Mondays @ 1:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Are you ready to become a U.S. citizen? working with young and old to help ShapeUp NYC: Chair Yoga Sessions are in English and include a build community. Express yourself, Instructor Melissa Siegel leads this workshop and basic civics education. and explore the art of portraiture beginner-level chair-based class with 10/7: Are you ready to be a U.S. citizen?/ using watercolors. For ages 12 and up. a focus on getting more in touch with Introduction to American history; Register at the Richmond Hill Library, the body through breathing and body 10/14: Required documents and more/ 718-849-7150. flexibility exercises. Participants Introduction to American government should wear comfortable clothing and and politics; 10/28: Common barriers Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 11/28 a smile! Participation is on a first-come, to naturalization/American culture Watercolor Art Workshop first-served basis. and geography; 11/04: Naturalization A watercolor workshop for beginner interview and beyond/Review of 100 and intermediate-level students. Monday @ 5:30PM - 11/6 questions. Advance your painting & drawing Shakespeare in Queens: “As You Like It” skills. Come have fun, build your skills, Titan Theatre Company presents a Mondays @ 5:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18 and socialize. Registration is required, staged reading of Shakespeare’s “As ShapeUp NYC: Body Rock 718-423-7004. You Like It.” Cousins seek refuge in the Instructor Donna James leads this forest and mistaken identity, music, fitness class designed to get your Wednesday @ 3:30PM - 12/6 poetry, and laughter ensue. “Body Rockin” with a fusion of cardio- How to Control Pests Safely based dance and aerobic moves while Come learn how to create a healthier Thursday @ 2:30PM - 11/9 groovin’ to some vibrant, soulful home by controlling pests safely. All Getting Personal: Writing About Your beats. Wear comfortable clothes and are welcome. For more information, Family History with Author Bob Brody sneakers; bring a water bottle and please call 646-632-6023. Learn how to capture your personal towel. Space is limited. Participation is family history in writing (what on a first-come, first-served basis. Wednesday @ 2:30PM - 12/13 happened, how you felt, why it Health Chat: Irritable Bowel Syndrome mattered) with Bob Brody, personal Tuesdays @ 12:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26 (IBS) essayist, public relations executive, Richmond Hill Quilters RN Kathy Moran leads this discussion and author of the memoir “Playing The Quilters meet on Tuesdays at noon. about the symptoms and care of Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy Irritable Bowel Syndrome, a common (Reluctantly) Comes of Age.” Books will Thursday @ 6:30PM - 11/9 disorder that affects the large intestine. be available for sale and signing. It’s Never Too Early (or Too Late) To Plan for Your Child’s College Tuesday @ 3:00PM - 12/19 RICHMOND HILL Education Classic Concert 118-14 Hillside Avenue, 718-849-7150 Gain insight into developing the right Music critics have described I-Heung strategy for you and your child to get Lee’s performance as graceful, Mondays @ 1PM - 11/6 - 12/18, Tuesdays @ into the college of their dreams and to thoughtful, and intelligent, touched 1PM - 11/7 - 12/26, Wednesdays @ 1 - 11/1 - ease the financial burden of a college with a unique style of artistic 12/20, Thursdays @ 1PM - 11/2 - 12/21, education. Arnold Davis has conducted sophistication. Ms. Lee performs Fridays @ 1PM - 11/3 - 12/22, presentations on college admissions extensively in Asia as well as at Saturdays @ 1PM - 11/4 - 12/23 and financing at high schools, Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall The Daily Puzzle secondary schools, and primary in New York. Her repertoire includes The library makes puzzles available to schools in the Midwest and regional works by Mozart, Franz Liszt, Maurice adults every day. New York. Ravel, and Frederic Chopin.

Thursday @ 5:00PM - 11/2 Tuesdays @ 2:00PM - 11/14, 11/21 Wednesday @ 2:30PM - 12/20 Zumba: Latin Dance Fitness for Adults Watercolor Art Workshop Health Chat: Thyroid Disorders, Instructor Miriam Acevedo uses dance A two-session watercolor workshop Treatment & Types moves from merengue, salsa, cha cha, for beginner and intermediate-level RN Kathy Moran leads this discussion cumbia, and reggaeton to create a students. Advance your painting & about common thyroid disorders, workout that helps you lose fat, build drawing skills. Come have fun, build symptoms, causes, and treatments. muscle, and feel more energized. your skills, and socialize. Registration Preregistration is required for each is required, 718-423-7004. RIDGEWOOD session. Come early to complete an 20-12 Madison Street, 718-821-4770 exercise release form. Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/17 - 12/8 Creating Community: An Wednesdays @ 2:00PM - 11/1 - 11/29 Saturday @ 2:30PM - 11/4 Intergenerational Art Program Knitting Circle Pathway to U.S Citizenship: Becoming An inter-generational watercolor art Have fun while learning to knit your a U.S. Citizen and Building Your Civic program. Celia Caro, professional very own creations! Supplies will be Knowledge teaching artist, leads this 4-part series; provided or you may bring your own.

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Mondays @ 5:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Are you concerned about your rights A musical concert with King Solomon ESOL Conversation Group in case you come in contact with Hicks. Solomon intertwines blues Join us for an ESOL conversation group. immigration officers? This workshop and jazz in his own unique style. is presented by a lawyer in English, His performance is a tribute to Wes Mondays @ 6:30PM - 11/6, 12/4 and will help you understand what to Montgomery, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, Friends of Ridgewood Library Meeting do if stopped by ICE; what your rights and a number of other blues artists! An Support the Ridgewood Library! are when faced with ICE; arrest tactics eclectic musician, Solomon also excels used; and creating a safety plan for at classical, gospel, R&B, funk, and Monday @ 6:30PM - 11/13 your family. Presented in collaboration classic rock. Adult Book Club Discussion with The NYS Office for New Americans Please join us for a discussion of “Razor and the NYS Liberty Defense Project. Saturday @ 10:00AM - 11/25 Girl” by Carl Hiaasen. Senior Saturday Board Games Tuesdays @ 1:00PM - 11/7 - 12/19 Come to the Rochdale Village Library to Tuesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/14, 12/12 Case Management Services enjoy board games and good company! Intro to MS Word Need assistance? Come see a case Older adults are welcome. Learn the basics to Microsoft Word in manager and learn what services you this introductory course. may qualify for! We offer information Mondays @ 6:30PM - 11/27, 12/18 and help with employment, housing, Rochdale Village Adult Non-Fiction Tuesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/21, 11/28 healthcare, immigration, social Book Discussion Club Samsung Galaxy Tablet Training services, education, and finances. We’ll Non-fiction lovers, please come join Course also refer you to partner organizations the Rochdale Village Adult Non-Fiction Come to Corona to experience our for additional services. Case Book Discussion Club! Each month, new Samsung Galaxy tablets. Learn management is available on a walk-in we will read and discuss a non-fiction about the new features that are offered basis, but we may be able to assist you book. Any questions, please call the and feel free to check one out at the best if you schedule an appointment in Adult Reference Desk at Rochdale conclusion of the class. . advance! For further information, visit Village Library, 718-723-4440. the Rochdale Village Adult Learning ROCHDALE VILLAGE Center or call 917-436-7379. Thursday @ 10:00AM - 11/30, Saturday @ 169-09 137 Avenue, 718-723-4440 10:00AM - 12/30 Wednesday @ 10:00AM - 11/15 One-on-One Technology Thursday @ 3:00PM - 11/2 Ask the Pharmacist Appointments Mask Making/Cultural History Bring your prescriptions, vitamins, Rochdale Village is offering one-on-one A look at mask-making across cultures over-the-counter medicines, herbal technology appointments for all skill and time. Create your own mask. This supplements, and a list of your levels. Topics may include, but are not is an Older Adult Services-Creative questions to ask the pharmacist. Learn limited to, using a desktop or laptop Aging 9-session art course. Space what medications you are taking and computer, accessing the Internet, is limited. Register at the Rochdale why and get tips on how to remember using apps on smartphones or tablets, Village Library, 718-723-4440. to take your medicines. Call/text/email introduction to social media sites, and Tamara at 917-702-4295 or tmichel@ online shopping. Call our Customer Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/2, 12/7 queenslibrary.org to reserve a spot. Service Specialist to schedule your one- Let’s Talk About... hour appointment at 718-723-4440. A monthly discussion where we talk Saturday @ 10:00AM - 11/18 about topics including food, music, Senior Saturday Board Games Monday @ 11:00AM - 12/4 culture, dance, and current events. Come to the Rochdale Village Library to Holiday Shopping on a Budget enjoy board games and good company! Getting ready to buy presents for Mondays @ 2:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18, Fridays Older adults are welcome. the holiday season? Come and learn @ 2:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 valuable shopping tips! Discover Job Readiness Drop-In Hours Saturdays @ 11:00AM - 11/18, 11/25 techniques to get the most out of your Do you need help with your resume or Adult Coloring dollar. For further information, visit the cover letter? Not sure how to search for Bring your own coffee, tea, and biscuits. Rochdale Village Adult Learning Center, a job? Come to our Job Readiness Drop- We will provide the atmosphere, or call 718-723-7662. In Hours for assistance on these topics, including music and coloring supplies. and more! For further information, visit Coloring is a new adult craze that Monday @ 6:00PM - 12/4, Thursday @ the Rochdale Village Adult Learning promises relaxation, fun, and 6:00PM - 12/14 Center, or call 718-723-7662. community. DIY Holiday Gifts Everyone loves a homemade holiday Monday @ 2:00PM - 11/6 Tuesday @ 3:00PM - 11/21 gift! Join us for a crafty evening of easy Know Your Rights for Immigrants: “King” Solomon Hicks: The Ties projects you can take home. Please register What to Do If You Encounter ICE Between Blues & Jazz in person or by calling 718-723-4440.

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Saturday @ 10:30AM - 12/16 mice? One of our weekly classes may Mondays @ 12:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Microsoft Excel for Beginners be right for you. Preregistration is Bingo Club Improve your productivity with required. Adults can meet and play Bingo together. Microsoft Excel. Learn what a spreadsheet is and how to navigate it, Wednesdays @ 4:30PM - 11/1 - 12/27; SOUTH JAMAICA create workbooks, enter and edit data, Saturdays @ 11:00AM - 11/4 - 12/30 108-41 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., 718-739-4088 and create charts and graphs. Register ShapeUp NYC: Ultimate Cardio for in person at the Rochdale Village Adults Thursday @ 6:00PM - 12/14 Library or call 718-723-4440. Basic Instructor Gloria Fernandez leads this Cowrie Shell Jewelry: A Crafts computer skills are required. fitness class, a total body workout Workshop for Adults system that incorporates techniques For Kwanzaa, why not learn how to use Saturday @ 1:00PM - 12/16 such as kicks and punches that move cowrie shells to make beautiful jewelry? Holiday Karaoke Dance Party! to a rapid pace designed to promote Pamela Isaac leads this hands-on Join our karaoke dance party for the cardiovascular fitness, strength, workshop on how to create bracelets and holidays! muscular endurance, and flexibility earrings from cowrie shells. Materials using high-energy and motivating will be provided. Preregistration is ROSEDALE music. Wear comfortable clothes and required. 144-20 243 Street, 718-528-8490 sneakers; bring a water bottle and towel. Space is limited. Participation is SOUTH OZONE PARK Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/2 - 12/28 on a first-come, first-served basis. 128-16 Rockaway Blvd., 718-529-1660 Shape Up NYC: Cardio Dance Fitness Instructor Althea Bazemore leads this Mondays @ 3:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18; Wednesdays @ 2:00PM - 11/1 - 12/20 fitness class that uses easy-to-follow Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2 - 12/21; Fridays Crochet Club dance moves geared at increasing @ 3:00PM - 11/3 - 12/22 Crochet or knit to make apparel for the World cardiovascular fitness, body toning, Seaside Film Festival Screenings Vision Knit For Kids program. All levels of and burning calories. Wear loose Appealing to every taste and interest, crafters are welcome. We have an exciting clothing and sneakers. Be sure to bring the Seaside Film Festival consists of group who help each other learn. This is a bottle of water. Space is limited. daily screenings from Mondays to a year-round program, and all ages are Participation is first come, first served. Saturdays. All movies are shown free welcome. No registration—just come with 1 of charge in the meeting room, and skein of yarn and a needle to begin. Mondays @ 6:30PM - 11/6, 11/13 everyone is welcome. As some films Line Dance Workshop for Adults: From deal with adult thematic content, Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2, 12/7 the Cupid Shuffle to the Wobble parents are urged to exercise judgment Picture Book Story Time Dance instructor Shannon Antalan as necessary. If you missed them during Children ages 4-6 and parents/adult teaches the latest in line dancing. Space their theater runs, here is your chance. caregivers will hear delightful stories is limited. Participation is on a first- and sing songs while children continue to come, first-served basis. Thursday @ 6:30PM - 11/2 develop their reading skills. Learn Cuban Salsa Tuesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/7 - 12/19 Come and learn some salsa with master Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Basic Computer Class For Adults instructors from Fuakata, Cuban Salsa ShapeUp NYC: Carib Dance Fitness Learn and understand the world of NYC. Cuban salsa (or Casino) will wake Come feel the Caribbean vibes with soca, technology. Come get a solid foundation up your inner dancing star! Discover reggae, and African rhythms through and have fun in the process. the fun of salsa in this great class. dance fitness with instructor Ariana Space is limited and on a first-come, Carthan. Participants will work up a Monday @ 6:00PM - 12/11 first-served basis. sweat in an hour of aerobic movements Healthy Eating from the Ground Up mixed with dance. Wear comfortable Come learn from a Registered Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/4, 11/18, 11/25, clothes and sneakers; bring a water bottle Dietician Nutritionist on how you can 12/2, 12/9, 12/16, 12/23, 12/30 and towel. Space is limited. Participation incorporate delicious plant foods in Family Movie Time is on a first-come, first-served basis. your meals. There will be plenty of time Films appropriate for family viewing for Q&A. shown for free in the meeting room. All Monday @ 4:30PM - 11/27 are welcome! Legal Advice for Homeowners SEASIDE Are you a homeowner in Queens with 116-15 Rockaway Beach Blvd., 718-634-1876 SOUTH HOLLIS concerns about your mortgage, property 204-01 Hollis Avenue, 718-465-6779 taxes, homeowner’s insurance, or water Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1 - 12/27 and sewage bills? A representative from Basic Computer Class Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1 - 12/27 The Legal Aid Society’s Foreclosure Need an email account? Want to know Adult Computer Class Prevention Unit will be at the library to how to search the Internet? Afraid of Join us for this computer class for adults. answer your questions one-on-one.

November/December 2017 55 November / December 20162017 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 12/14 STEINWAY Do you want to watch Korean dramas What’s On Your Child’s Plate? 21-45 31 Street, 718-728-1965 and movies without English captions? Come learn from a Registered Do you want to say hello to your Korean Dietician Nutritionist how you can Thursdays @ 12:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 neighbors? Do you want to order Korean optimize your children’s health Knitting Club food in Korean? Then this class is for through their meals. Get the latest Share patterns and techniques or just you. Preregistration is required. Please recommendations! There will be have a friendly chat while working on register by calling 718-784-3033. plenty of time for Q&A. your projects. Please bring your own supplies. Monday @ 6:00PM - 12/11, Thursdays @ Thursday @ 4:00PM - 12/21 6:00PM - 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/30, 12/7 Holiday Story Time! Tuesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/14, 12/5, 12/12 Zumba Gold Workshop Let’s read picture books together! Basic Computers Zumba Gold uses dance moves mixed Children ages 4-8 and their Learn basic skills for using a computer. with exercise for an effective low- caregivers will participate in a impact workout. Wear loose clothing and reading program, which includes Tuesday @ 10:30AM - 12/19, Thursdays @ sneakers. Preregistration by phone is stories and music celebrating the 10:30AM - 11/16, 11/30, 12/21 required for all sessions. different holidays during this Open Lab season. Would you like to brush up on your Fridays @ 1:00PM - 11/3, 11/17, 12/1, 12/8, computer skills? Practice things you 12/15, 12/22 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 12/21 already know? Or simply need more time Free or Low-Cost Health Insurance for Sheltering Arms Children & Family to finish an online application? Come to You and Your Family! Services our Computer Lab! Do you need health insurance? We can Join us for a Sheltering Arms help! We offer in-person assistance: community advisory meeting. Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/18 Medicaid Child Health Plus Essential Plan “Celebrity Sadhana, Or How to Meditate and NY State of Health Qualified Plans. ST. ALBANS with a Hammer”: A Book Reading with Make an appointment at 212-233-8955 191-05 Linden Boulevard, Poet Vijay R. Nathan x127 or just walk in. 718-528-8196 Vijay R. Nathan, recipient of a Queens Arts Council New Works grant, will Mondays @ 3:00PM - 11/6 - 11/27 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/2 read from his soon-to-be published Classic Movie Mondays Zumba with Susy poetry collection. These poems imagine Join us for some great classics every Certified Zumba instructor Susy meditative moments from the sadhana Monday in November! 11/6: “Overland Bustamante leads a four-session (spiritual practice) of Hollywood’s Stage Raiders” (1936); 11/13: “Suddenly, fitness class for adults. elite, and include the unauthorized Last Summer” (1959); 11/20: “Born to Kill” appearances of the personas of Joaquin (1947); 11/27: “The Bobo” (1967). Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/4, Saturday @ Phoenix, Natalie Portman, and Shia 10:00AM - 11/4 Laboeuf, among others. Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/6 - 12/4 Movie Saturday @ St. Albans Zumba Gold Workshop Join us on selected Saturdays as Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/22, 12/20 Zumba Gold uses dance moves mixed we view the latest & hottest new Crafts for Adults with exercise for an effective low- releases. This month, we will be Join us for a creative activity session impact workout. Wear loose clothing and viewing “Wonder Woman” (2017, PG- for adults, such as painting, crafting, or sneakers. Preregistration by phone is 13) and “All Eyez on Me” (2017, R). sewing. Activities may vary. Materials required for all sessions. will be provided. Saturdays @ 10:30AM - 11/4, 11/25 Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/20, 12/18 Keep Calm and Color On: Adult Monday @ 6:30PM - 11/27 Open Mic Night Coloring Book Discussion Group: “Augustown” Sing, dance, rap, read poetry, play an Join us on selected Saturdays for By Kei Miller instrument, or showcase any other talent a morning of relaxing coloring. All “Augustown” is a magical and haunting you may possess at Open Mic Night. supplies will be provided. You are novel set in the underbelly of Jamaica. also welcome to bring your own. Join us to discuss this interesting book. Saturday @ 2:30PM - 11/25 Ebru Art Classes with Mustafa Yasar (in Tuesdays @ 1:30PM - 11/7, 11/21, 11/28 SUNNYSIDE Turkish and English) Adult/Senior Bingo 43-06 Greenpoint Avenue, 718-784-3033 Learn the Turkish art of ebru. Paper Join us on selected Tuesdays for a marbling (ebru) is the art of creating little competition and maybe win a Thursdays @ 3:00PM - 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/30, colorful patterns by sprinkling and prize playing Bingo. 12/7, 12/14, 12/21 brushing color pigments on a pan of oily Korean for Beginners water and then transferring this pattern Do you want to read all Korean signs? to paper. Participants must register for

56 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE ProgramsPrograms for for All Adults Ages each session starting two weeks ahead Fridays @ 10:30AM - 11/3 - 12/29 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/9 of the program date, either in person at English Conversation Group Adult Craft Night Sunnyside or by calling 718-784-3033. Improve your conversations with others. Make a Thanksgiving craft just in time for Limited to the first 10 applicants per the holidays! session. Fridays @ 1:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Scrabble Club Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 11/15 Mondays @ 3:00PM - 12/4, 12/11, 12/18 Test your skills and make new friends. Adult Book Discussion Classic Movies Mondays Join us as we discuss “A Man Called Ove” Join us for some great classic movies on Mondays @ 2:00PM - 11/6, 12/4 by Fredrik Backman. Mondays in December! 12/4: “Footlight Day Book Club Parade” (1933); 12/11: “Stalag 17” (1953); The book for November is “Faithful” by Thursday @ 2:00PM - 11/16 12/18: “Marie Antoinette” (1938). Alice Hoffman; the book for December is Adult Movie Matinee “The Girl Who Wrote in Silk” by Kelli Estes. Please join us as we watch “Wonder WHITESTONE Woman” (2017, PG-13). Light snacks 151-10 14 Road, 718-767-8010 Mondays @ 6:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18 provided or bring your own. Easy, Gentle Yoga for Adults Saturday @ 1:00PM - 11/4 This yoga class uses poses to extend Thursday @ 2:00PM - 12/14 World War II: The Greatest Generation and expand joints and muscles. Adult Movie Matinee: “The Big Sick” Keeps Its Rendezvous with Destiny Relaxation and meditation is the goal. Please join us as we watch “The Big Sick” In this historical perspective, Jack Participants must bring a mat, wear (2017, R). Light snacks provided or bring Bilello takes you through this comfortable clothing, and bring a bottle your own. cataclysmic period with an emphasis of water. Space is limited and on a first- on many of those who were there, come, first-served basis. WOODSIDE where and when it counted at the times 54-22 Skillman Avenue, 718-429-4700 of our country’s greatest peril. Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/9, 12/14 Night Book Club Wednesdays @ 5:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27 Tuesdays @ 1:00PM - 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28 The book for November is “Hidden Balsoma: Balance Through Rhythm Whitestone Knit And Crochet Club Figures” by Margot Lee Shetterly; the Balsoma is a rhythmic approach to self- Come join us at the Whitestone Knit book for December is “My Brilliant exploration through movement and music. and Crochet Club. Friend” by Elena Ferrante. It also focuses on body-mind connections as a way of tapping into our internal Friday @ 10:15AM - 11/17 Thursdays @ 6PM - 11/16, 11/30, 12/21, 12/28 strength. Please wear shoes and clothing Whitestone Korean Book Discussion Writer’s Group that are comfortable for low-impact Don’t miss our Whitestone Korean Book We meet biweekly on Thursdays to physical activity and feel free to bring Discussion. share and discuss each other’s writing. water.

WINDSOR PARK Saturday @ 1:00PM - 11/18 Thursdays @ 10:00AM - 11/2 - 12/14 79-50 Bell Boulevard, 718-468-8300 Broadway Show Tunes Mobile Device Computer Classes Pianist William Gati and vocalist Cassie Bring your Google Android or Apple iOS Wednesdays @ 1:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27 Hawkins perform classic Broadway device and learn how to use it. Classic Movie for Adults show tunes. Our classic movies on Wednesdays are: Thursdays @ 12:30PM - 11/2 - 12/28 11/1: “The Guns of Navarone” (1961); Thursday @ 6:00PM - 12/7 English Conversation Group 11/8: “The Magnificent Seven” (1960); Watercolor Meet-Up Practice & improve your English skills 11/15: “Indiscreet” (1958); 11/22: “Murder Practice your painting skills and share during the fall. on the Orient Express” (1974, PG); 11/29: your work with your new friends. “High Noon” (1952, PG); 12/6: “Roman Please bring your own supplies. Space is Mondays @ 5:00PM - 11/6 - 12/11, Thursdays Holiday” (1953); 12/13: “Fiddler on the limited. Preregistration is required. @ 5:00PM - 11/2 - 12/14 Roof” (1971, G); 12/20: “Anna Karenina” Learn English With The Computer! (1935); 12/27: “ A Christmas Carol” (1938). WOODHAVEN Join us for a class where you’ll use a 85-41 Forest Parkway, 718-849-1010 computer to learn English! Participants Thursdays @ 1:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 will work in groups. Mandarin Chinese for Beginners Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/4 Come learn how to speak Mandarin Birds of Queens Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/2 - 12/21 Chinese with Jenney. She will also Come learn more about the birds we see Job Readiness & Computer Class introduce you to and teach you how to every day in our area! Afterwards, you Workshop use Transparent Language Online. can participate in our bird-watching Need help fixing up a resume or just project and create a record of birds seen learning the basics of computers? If so, in Woodhaven! come join us weekly for our Job Readiness & Computer Class Workshops!

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Friday @ 2:30PM - 11/3 beginner Tai Chi for health and well- NYC’s team of volunteer babywearing Healthy Eating: Holiday Edition being: five elements, qigong, sequences educators are here to help! Explore Come get tips for healthy eating, even of Tai Chi forms, and “push-hands.’” our baby carrier lending and teaching during family feasts! This program library, or bring your own carrier from will help you learn ways to limit Mondays @ 3:45PM - 11/6 - 12/18 home, to get hands-on support. All tempting foods during the holidays Gentle Yoga caregivers are welcome. Meetings are and other special occasions. All are Practice gentle, restorative yoga with baby, toddler, and older child-friendly. welcome. Presenter: Jey Hwang, MA, certified instructor Mirelle Netelle. RDN, CDN, Director, Food and Nutrition Saturdays @ 2:30PM - 11/25 - 12/30 Services at NYC Health & Hospitals/ Mondays @ 6:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Movie Matinee Elmhurst. New York Cares Presents: Computers Come catch a movie matinee with for Beginners us! We’ll see everything from recent Mondays @ 12:30PM - 11/6 - 11/20 Learn the basics: how to open an email releases to classics, comedies to film Elementary Korean III account, navigate the Internet, and use noir! This course is designed for those who Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel have taken Elementary Korean I & II, or programs. Thursday @ 3:30PM - 12/14 have some knowledge of Korean. Basic Understanding and Managing Your communication skills, vocabulary, and Fridays @ 10:00AM - 11/17, 12/8 Credit (In Nepali) grammar will be covered in this 10-week Babywearing Education Join us and learn how to understand program. Do you have a baby carrier you’ve your credit report & score, how to get been meaning to use, but feel and obtain your credit report, and how Mondays @ 2:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18 overwhelmed every time you try? to dispute discrepancies on your credit Tai Chi Are you familiar with babywearing report. Practice together with Mirelle Netelle’s safety? Babywearing International of

FREE TELECONFERENCE PROGRAMS FOR OLDER ADULTS Brought to you by Queens Library’s Mail-A-Book Service

Socialize with other adults over 50 and remotely participate in educational, fun, and cultural programs.

November and December Teleconference Programs: Skype Crosswords • Bingo Book Discussions Queens Museum Art Series • And More! For more information and to register call 718-464-0084

58 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE ProgramsPrograms for Mailfor All a BookAges

Mail-A-Book is a program open to older adults and the homebound. Have books mailed to you and participate in teleconferences. First-time participants must call 718-464-0084 to preregister and obtain access numbers.

Mondays @ 1:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1, 12/6 Fridays @ 10:00AM - 11/17, 12/8 Skype a Crossword Puzzle What Are You Reading? Queens Museum Art Lecture We solve the puzzle together using your Find out what other people are reading, and This is a teleconference event led by home computer and Skype. tell them what you’re reading now. the Queens Museum.

Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 11/7 Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/8, 12/13 Fridays @ 10:00AM - 11/24, 12/29 Principles of Jewish Faith You Be the Judge Chit Chat and STARs Performance Scholar Lee Slavutin, MD, CLU, leads a We discuss real court cases and verdicts at Chat and make friends over the discussion about the principles of Jewish this teleconferenced program for older adults phone, then enjoy scenes from classic faith. and the homebound. plays performed by Senior Theater Acting Repertory. Tuesdays @ 2:00PM - 11/14, 12/5, Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/15, 12/20 Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/22, 12/27 Livestreamed Health Series in Mandarin Friday @ 9:45AM - 12/1, Bingo! In partnership with NewYork Presbyterian- Friday @ 10:00AM - 11/3 We’re playing bingo, and you can join in Queens: a series of 4 live-streamed health Marion’s Art History Class from home. Call 718-464-0084 for bingo programs in Mandarin Chinese. Registration Marion Mango discusses great art in cards, chips, and access numbers. is required; space is very limited. this teleconferenced program open to older adults and the homebound. Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 11/21 Wednesday @ 11:00AM - 11/29 Ask the Pharma cist Memories and Stories Friday @ 10:00AM - 12/15 Pharmacist Chung-Shien Lee will Judy Kamilhor leads this program. New York History help you understand more about the Karen Quinones from Patriot Tours medications you’re taking and why, and Thursdays @ 11:00AM - 11/2, 12/7 gives a “talking tour” about NY give tips on how to remember to take Books and Beyond Topical Discussion Group history. them. Shyan Bhairo leads this teleconferenced discussion group. Friday @ 10:00AM - 12/22 Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 11/28 Memories and Stories MOMA Art Lectures Thursdays @ 8:00PM - 11/9, 12/14 Share your memories, tell your story. MoMA will lead discussions about After Hours Discussion Group: Local current art exhibits at the museum. Two History Sunday @ 7:00PM - 12/31 sessions. Local historian Oliver Hummel leads this New Year’s Teleconferences discussion. Ring in the New Year with Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 12/12 Friends during these two special The Power of Imagination Thursdays @ 11:00AM - 11/16, 12/21 teleconference events moderated by The Power of Imagination is a Books and Beyond: Book Discussion Queens Library Older Adult Services. teleconferenced health chat with RN A teleconferenced book discussion group. Socialize, chit-chat, and mingle with Kathy Moran. Call to find out this month’s selection. your friends on New Year’s Eve from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and New Year’s Day Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 12/26 Thursdays @ 8:00PM - 11/30, 12/28 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Come join the Yiddish Literature from the 17th and After Hours: A Short Story Discussion fun. You don’t have to be alone this 18th Centuries Group holiday season! Rabbi Smith (from the Or HaLev Bonnie Sue Pokorny moderates this congregation in NJ) leads a discussion teleconferenced evening short-story about 4 women writers. discussion group.

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Job & Business Academy (JBA)

Build the skills you need to find a job, and the confidence to get it. For a complete listing and schedules for individual consultations, go to jobmap.queenslibrary.org or call 718-990-8625. Program locations are: Arverne, 312 Beach 54 Street; Astoria, 14-01 Astoria Boulevard; Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Boulevard; Broadway 40-20 Broadway; Corona, 38-23 104 Street; Flushing, 41-17 Main Street; Laurelton, 134-26 225 Street; Lefrak City, 98-30 57 Avenue; Long Island City, 37-44 21 Street; Peninsula, 92-25 Rockaway Beach Boulevard; Ridgewood, 20-12 Madison Street; Preregister at jobmap.queenslibrary.org. (* = No preregistration required.)

Computer Programs files, and programs in a Windows Microsoft Word. environment. No prior knowledge or Queensbridge: Thurs @ 2 p.m. – 11/9 Introduction to Internet skills are required. After this workshop, you will have Central: Mon @ 10 a.m. – 11/6, 12/4 Word: Make Your Own Calendar the basic skills to begin to navigate Learn how to create calendar with the internet. Topics covered include: Introduction to Email Microsoft Word. terminology, how to use a web browser, Learn how to create an email account, Queensbridge: Thurs @ 2 p.m. – 11/16 the basic structure of a website, search, how to log on, how to navigate your and internet safety. While this is an email account, how to send and receive Beginners Excel introductory class, it is recommended email messages, and how to attach Improve your productivity with Microsoft that you have basic mouse and documents. It is recommended that you Excel. Learn what a spreadsheet is and how keyboarding skills before the workshop. have basic mouse and keyboarding skills to navigate it, create workbooks, enter and Central: Mon @ 10 a.m. – 11/13, 12/11 before the workshop. edit data, and create charts and graphs. Central: Mon @ 10 a.m. – 11/20, 12/18 Basic computer skills are required. Advance Internet Central: Wed @ 5 p.m. – 11/1*; Tues @ 3 p.m. Go beyond the basics and explore the Beginners Word – 11/7, 12/12; Sat @ 10:30 a.m. – 11/18, 12/2 more advanced aspects of the internet. Make your documents stand out with Flushing: Mon @ 10:30 a.m. – 11/13; Mon In this workshop you will learn about: Microsoft Word. In this introductory @ 1 p.m. – 12/11; Tues @ 1 p.m. – 12/5 ; advanced search techniques; different class, you will learn how to create and Laurelton*: Fri @ 10 a.m. – 11/3; Lefrak internet browsers; deleting cookies and save Word documents, format and edit City*: Fri @ 10 a.m. – 11/3; Ridgewood*: caches; bookmarking and personalizing text, use copy and paste, and use the Thurs @ 3 p.m. – 11/2; Steinway*: Thurs @ your browser; incognito browsers; and basic functions and commands of Word. 5 p.m. – 11/2; Broadway*: Wed @ 12 p.m. – securing your online privacy. Basic Central: Sat @ 10:30 a.m. – 11/4, 12/9 11/1 computer skills and a valid email address Flushing: Tues @ 10:30 a.m. – 11/7; Mon @ are required. 1 p.m. – 12/4 Intermediate Excel Central: Mon @ 10 a.m. – 11/27 Improve your productivity and boost your Intermediate Word basic knowledge of Excel. Topics covered HTML for Beginners Build upon your basic knowledge of include a review of the basics, creating and Learn the basics of coding with HTML, Microsoft Word in this intermediate manipulating tables, and using formulas the building blocks of the internet. workshop. Learn how to format your and functions. Basic computer skills and Queensbridge: Mon @ 4 p.m. – 11/27; Sat Word document, insert tables and charts, knowledge of Excel are required. @ 1 p.m. – 12/2; Mon @ 3 p.m. – 12/11 format bibliographies, and insert headers Central: Wed @ 5 p.m. – 11/8; Tues @ 3 p.m. – and footers. Basic computer skills and 11/14, 12/19; Sat @ 1:30 p.m. – 11/18, 12/2 Introduction to Computers knowledge of MS Word required. Laurelton*: Fri @ 10 a.m. – 11/17 Topics covered include computer Central: Sat @ 1:30 p.m. – 11/4, 12/9 Lefrak City*: Fri @ 10 a.m. – 11/17 terminology, using the mouse and Ridgewood*: Thurs @ 3 p.m. – 11/9 touchpad, basic keyboarding skills, Word: Advanced Flyers Steinway*: Thurs @ 5 p.m. – 11/9 and how to navigate computer folders, Learn how to make advanced flyers in Broadway*: Wed @ 12 p.m. – 11/8

60 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE Programs at the Job Programs& Business for Academy All Ages

Advance Excel Instagram watch YouTube. It’s Teen Tech Time! Join these classes to learn how to use Instagram is an easy and effective way to Queensbridge: Thurs @ 3:30 p.m. - 11/2, Excel to your advantage. Topics include use photos to connect with people. Learn 11/9, 11/16, 11/30, 12/7, 12/14, 12/21 inserting charts and graphs, using to share and take photos, add filters, make formulas and more! Topics vary from image adjustments, connect accounts, and Introduction to Premiere class to class. Register online or by respond to comments. This is a hands-on Learn the basic navigation of video editing calling (718) 661-1205. Basic computer class, Please bring your smartphone with in Premiere CC. Participants should have skills and knowledge of excel are the Instagram app already installed to class. basic computer skills, but no previous video required, it is recommended to bring your Central: Thurs @ 10 a.m. – 11/2, 12/14 editing experience is required. For more own USB Flash Drive. information or to register, call 718-990-8625. Central: Tues @ 3 p.m. – 11/21 Facebook Queensbridge: Mon @ 3 p.m. – 12/4 Flushing: Mon @ 10:30 a.m. – 11/20, 11/27; Learn how to use Facebook to stay in Tues @ 1 p.m. – 12/12, 12/19, 12/26 touch with loved ones, keep up with the Adobe Practice Session news and leverage your network for your Practice your skills in Adobe Photoshop, Beginners PowerPoint job search. Basic computer knowledge, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, or any Create awesome presentations and Internet skills and a valid email account Creative Cloud program. Expert staff will be slideshows with PowerPoint 2010. are required. available to answer your questions. Central: Wed @ 5 p.m. – 11/15, Sat @ 10:30 Central: Thurs @ 10 a.m. – 11/9, 12/7 Queensbridge: Mon @ 5 p.m. – 12/4, 12/18 a.m. – 12/16; Ridgewood*: Thurs @ 3 p.m. – 11/16; Steinway*: Thurs @ 5 p.m. – Twitter Coding Practice Session 11/16; Broadway*: Wed @ 12 p.m. – 11/15; Learn about Twitter, an online social Practice your skills in HTML, CSS, or other Laurelton: Fri @ 10 a.m. – 12/1; Lefrak networking service that allows you coding language. Expert staff will be City: Fri @ 10 a.m. – 12/1 to connect instantly to what’s most available to answer your questions. important to you. You’ll learn how you Queensbridge: Mon @ 5 p.m. – 12/11 Intermediate PowerPoint can “follow” your friends, experts and Take your PowerPoint presentations favorite celebrities and receive breaking Introduction to Illustrator to the next level! Topics covered will news, job posting notifications and more. Learn the basic navigation of Illustrator CC. include creating transitions, emphasizing Basic computer skills and a valid email Participants should have basic computer your information with animations, address are required. skills, but no previous Illustrator experience inserting charts, and inserting Central: Thurs @ 10 a.m. – 11/16, 12/21 is required. For more information or to multimedia. Basic computer skills and register, call 718-990-8625. knowledge of PowerPoint are required. LinkedIn Queensbridge: Mon @ 3 p.m. – 12/18 Central: Sat @ 1:30 p.m. – 12/16 Refresh and revive your online Flushing: Tues @ 10:30 a.m. – 11/14, 11/21, professional persona! In today’s world Introduction to Photoshop 11/28; Wed @ 10:30 a.m. – 11/15, 11/29; Fri of social media, it’s more important than Learn the basic navigation of Photoshop CC. @ 1 p.m. – 12/8, 12/15, 12/22 ever to ensure that your online profile Participants should have basic computer and resume are fresh, current, and skills, but no previous Photoshop experience Excel: Advanced Tables discoverable by your colleagues. Come to is required. For more information or to Now that you know the basics, accelerate this LinkedIn workshop and learn how register, call 718-990-8625. your abilities in Microsoft Excel in these to create a professional profile that puts Queensbridge: Thurs @ 2 p.m. – 12/7, 12/14, 12/21 two (2) sessions: Session 1- Advanced your best foot forward and shows off your Tables; Session 2- Key Formulas and abilities and accomplishments. Quickbooks Online for Beginners Functions. Basic knowledge of MS Central: Thurs @ 10 a.m. – 11/30, 12/28; Do you want to learn how to set up a Excel is required. A USB flash drive is Tues @ 1:30 p.m. – 12/5 business with QuickBooks Pro 2017 for recommended. Windows? Queens Library is offering an Queensbridge: Mon @ 3 p.m. – 11/2, 11/6 Open Lab all-day QuickBooks training. Come to class Would you like to brush up on your with an email address, a notebook, and a Excel: Key Formulas and Functions computer skills? Play around with pen. Register online or call (718) 990-8625 for Learn to edit and manipulate data in the Photoshop? Practice things you already more information. Using Formulas and Functions workshop. know? Or simply need more time to finish Queensbridge: Sat @ 10 a.m. – 12/9 Learn the common and useful formulas an online application? Come to our Open to use with your data! Computer Lab! Quickbooks Level 2 Queensbridge: Mon @ 3 p.m. – 11/13 Queensbridge: Mon @ 11 a.m. – 11/6, Do you want to learn how to set up a 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4, 12/11, 12/18; Thurs business with QuickBooks Pro 2017 for Excel: Advanced Formatting @ 11 a.m. – 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 12/7, 12/14, Windows? Queens Library is offering an all- Learn to manipulate complex data with 12/21; Sat @ 10 a.m. – 12/2, 12/16 day QuickBooks training. Come to class with Advanced Formatting. Intermediate an email address, a notebook, and a pen. knowledge of MS Excel is required. A USB Teen Tech Time: HTML This is an all-day workshop and includes a flash drive is recommended. Come use a computer, play with Adobe lunch break. Queensbridge: Mon @ 3 p.m. – 11/20 Creative Suite, do your homework, or Queensbridge: Mon @ 10 a.m. – 12/18

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Making a Family Holiday E-Card start? Unsure where you should go from Broadway: Mon @ 12 p.m. – 11/13; Long The holidays are approaching! Send here? Island City: Thurs @ 12:30 p.m. – 11/2, 11/16; seasonal greetings to your friends and Come to Motivating Mondays, a customer Peninsula: Thurs @ 3 p.m. – 11/9 family with a custom e-card featuring lead job search group. Join your fellow you and your loved ones. Participants job seekers for advice, useful tips, job Digging for Job Leads will be photographed by a professional search techniques, and networking. Are your resume and cover letters ready? photographer with their children, Looking for a job is one of the most How do you search for jobs? What are the grandchildren, siblings, friends, stressful things we have to do, but you most effective ways to find open jobs? neighbors, or whoever they bring to the don’t have to do it alone. Participants will learn traditional and event. Participants will then learn how Central: Mon @ 10 a.m. – 11/6, 11/20, 12/11 creative ways to find jobs, how to network for to turn those photographs into custom job leads, and how to use online tools to find e-cards to send online. Register now, Job Skills Identification job leads. space is limited! In this competitive job market, it is Central: Mon @ 5 p.m. – 11/27; Laurelton: Queensbridge: Sat @ 2 p.m. – 11/25 vitally important not only to know your Tues @ 1 p.m.* - 11/21; Lefrak: Wed @ 10 a.m.* job skills, but to be able to market those - 11/29; Ridgewood*: Tues @ 10 a.m. – 11/28; Job Readiness Programs skills to potential employers during a Steinway: Mon @ 5 p.m.* - 12/27; Broadway: job search. This workshop will explain Mon @ 12 p.m.* - 11/27 Have a Professional Photographer the benefits of knowing your job related Take Your LinkedIn Picture skills and how to identify them. Job Search Strategies for the Mature Worker Do you need to make your online Flushing: Wed @ 10:30 a.m. – 11/1; Mon @ Mature workers can face a struggle when persona look more professional? Have 10:30 a.m. – 12/4; Laurelton: Wed @ 10:30 it comes to searching for and obtaining a professional photographer take your a.m. – 11/1, 11/22; Long Island City: Thurs employment. This class will define the mature picture at Queensbridge Tech Lab! @ 12:30 p.m. – 11/9; Peninsula: Thurs @ 2 worker, describe obstacles such workers may Participants will leave with a digital copy p.m. – 11/2 face, and explain how and where to search for of their professional portrait and tips on jobs. how to use LinkedIn to improve their Resumes Central: Wed @ 10 a.m. – 11/29, 12/27 professional networks and job searches. In this workshop, you will learn what Register now, space is limited! resume reviewers look for, how to select Job Search Strategies for Persons with Queensbridge: Sat @ 1 p.m. – 12/16 the best resume format, how to avoid Disabilities common resume mistakes, how to Individuals with disabilities often face many Online Job Searching with Indeed properly type and format your resume challenges, both internal and external, during As the world’s #1 job site, with over 200 in Microsoft Word, and how to send your a job search. In this workshop you will learn million unique visitors every month, resume to potential employers. how to explain your disability to employers Indeed helps companies of all sizes Central: Wed @ 10 a.m. – 11/1, 11/8, 12/6; and co-workers and identify the most hire the best talent and offers the best Mon @ 5 p.m. – 11/6; Queensbridge: Mon common fears employers have regarding opportunity for job seekers to get hired. @ 5:15 p.m. – 11/13; Thurs @ 2 p.m. – 11/2 hiring job seekers with disabilities. In this workshop, learn how to use Indeed, Flushing: Tues @ 12:30 p.m. – 11/7; Wed Central: Mon @ 10 a.m. – 12/13, 12/18 upload your resume and apply for various @ 10:30 a.m. – 12/6; Laurelton: Wed @ 12 positions on this database. It is strongly p.m. – 11/1, 11/22; Mon @ 11 a.m. – 11/6 Online Job Applications recommended to have an electronic copy Long Island City: Thurs @ 2:30 p.m. – Online job applications have become the of your resume in your email or USB Flash 11/9; Tues @ 3:30 p.m. – 11/14; Peninsula: standard for applying to many jobs and on hand for the workshop. Mon @ 3 p.m. – 11/6 ; Lefrak City: Wed @ they can be difficult to navigate if you’re Central: Tues @ 3 p.m. – 12/5 10 a.m. – 11/1; Steinway*: Mon @ 5 p.m. – not prepared. Participants will learn: how 11/6; Broadway*: Mon @ 12 p.m. – 11/6 to prepare information to make online Mock Interviews applications easier; common online In these one-on-one practice sessions, Cover Letter application sections and how to get noticed you will learn how to prepare for an In this workshop, you will learn what and how to avoid rejection! interview, successfully deal with difficult cover letters are and why they’re Central: Mon @ 5 p.m. – 11/20; Tues @ 1:30 questions, and follow up properly after necessary; the do’s and don’ts of cover p.m. – 11/21; Fri @ 10 a.m. – 12/8; Laurelton: the interview. You must preregister for a letter writing, how to write different Tues @ 1 p.m. – 11/14; Lefrak: Wed @ 10 a.m. one-on-one session. types of cover letters, and how to – 11/15; Ridgewood*: Tues @ 10 a.m. – 11/21; Central: Wednesdays @ 2 pm and 3 pm properly type, format, and send your Steinway: Mon @ 5 p.m. – 11/20; Broadway: NO DATES (from job search doc) cover letter to potential employers. Mon @ 12 p.m. – 11/20 Thursdays @ 10 am, 11 am, 1 pm, and 2 pm Central : Wed @ 10 a.m. – 11/15, 12/13; Mon NO DATES (from job search doc) @ 5 p.m. – 11/13; Mon @ 10:30 a.m. – 12/18 Networking Laurelton: Tues @ 1 p.m. – 11/7; Wed Networking is the development of Jumpstart Your Job Search: Motivating @ 1 p.m. – 11/8; Lefrak: Wed @ 10 a.m. professional relationships. In today’s Mondays – 11/8; Ridgewood*: Tues @ 10 a.m. – competitive job market, it is also one of the Are you looking for work? Not sure how to 11/14; Steinway: Mon @ 5 p.m. – 11/13; best ways to find a job. Through networking,

62 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE Programs at the Job Programs& Business for Academy All Ages you can exchange information with Keywords & Accomplishment people learn how to build relationships others about job opportunities, Statements in networking, fostering partnerships in interesting organizations, or up-and- Finding a job is a game of words, so business, and getting “buy in” from those coming industries. Learn about the wouldn’t it be a good idea to discover the they encounter. basics of networking and improve your words employers want to see in resumes Central: Tues @ 7 p.m. – 11/14; Flushing: Fri job search techniques at this workshop! and online applications? This class will @ 10:30 a.m. – 11/3; Thurs @ 10:30 a.m. – 12/7 Central: Fri @ 10 a.m. – 11/3, 12/1 show you how to identify your career accomplishments and more. Traditional Marketing Mistake-Free Interviewing Central: Tues @ 1:30 p.m. – 11/14, 12/19 We will examine the exciting world So, you’ve landed an interview for a of marketing, learning tested models wonderful job… now what? It takes Salary Negotiations for success and exploring marketing practice to perfect your interviewing Have you been offered a new job? If so, technologies best suited for your business. skills. In this workshop, you will learn do you know the best way to conduct In addition, we will consider the marketing how to prepare for your interview, salary negotiations? Before you start fundamental of understanding customers successfully deal with difficult questions negotiating with a prospective employer and developing a story and message they and follow up properly afterwards. about salaries, you need to find out love. Central: Wed @ 10 a.m. – 11/22, 12/20; how much you, and the job, are worth. Central: Tues @ 7 p.m. – 12/5 Wed @ 5 p.m. – 11/29; Wed @ 10:30 a.m. – Learn how to negotiate salaries in this Flushing: Thurs @ 10:30 a.m. – 11/30; Fri @ 12/20; Long Island City: Tues @ 2:30 p.m. workshop! 10:30 a.m. – 12/15 – 11/14; Laurelton: Mon @ 10 a.m. – 11/6, Central: Fri @ 10 a.m. – 11/17, 12/15 11/27; Tues @ 1 p.m. – 11/28; Peninsula: Basics of Business Planning Mon @ 2 p.m. – 11/6; Ridgewood*: Thurs Presenting with PowerPoint Are you tired of being confused about @ 3 p.m. – 11/30; Steinway: Thurs @ 5 Create awesome presentations and how to write your business plan? Are you p.m. – 11/30; Broadway: Wed @ 12 p.m. – slideshows with PowerPoint 2010. stuck on writing it? In the Basic Business 11/29; Lefrak: Wed @ 10 a.m. – 12/6 Queensbridge: Mon @ 5:15 p.m. – NO Planning course, we will cover what a DATE (from jba technology document) business plan is, why we need it, the basic Personal Etiquette structure of a business plan along with This workshop covers a variety of Small Business Workshops some of the various formats, and how/ topics such as professional conduct and where you can research and start building attitudes, business communication, Choosing Entrepreneurship you plan right away. suitable apparel, and maintaining an Are you interested in starting your Central: Tues @ 7 p.m. – 11/21 appropriate work environment. own business? Learn about the Flushing: Thurs @ 1 p.m. – 11/16; Fri @ 10:30 Laurelton: Mon @ 10 a.m. – 11/20 characteristics of an entrepreneur, a.m. – 12/8 Long Island City: Tues @ 2:30 p.m. – 11/7 different paths to entrepreneurship, and how to create an elevator pitch for Social Media & Your Business Job Search Strategies your new business. You will also have With so many social media options in Beginning a job search can be the opportunity to identify your own today’s market - Learn which social sites are overwhelming. Prepare yourself for entrepreneurial qualities, create a vision best for you. Learn about the various tools success! In this workshop you will for your business, and prepare to take the you can use to become successful in social learn about general and career-specific next steps to develop your vision. media for your business. websites and how to find and apply for Central: Tues @ 7 p.m. – 11/7 Central: Tues @ 7 p.m. – 12/12 jobs online safely, create an account at Flushing: Thurs @ 10:30 a.m. – 11/2; Fri @ Flushing: Thurs @ 10:30 a.m. – 12/21 a major job search website, post your 10:30 a.m. – 12/1 resume online, and email a resume. Entrepreneurs Open Lab Long Island City: Thurs @ 1:30 p.m. – Setting Up & Funding Your Business Got questions? We’ve got answers! This is 11/2, 11/16; Peninsula: Thurs @ 2 p.m. – This class provides an overview of the an opportunity to come in and meet directly 11/9; Laurelton: Wed @ 11 a.m. – 11/8 dynamic world of entrepreneurship, with a certified small business consultant. helps participants assess their skills and Ask questions and solve your challenging Identifying Your Work Skills aptitudes, allows participants to explore problems. Meetings on a first come, first In this workshop, you will learn how the right type of business for them based serve basis. to define and categorize job skills, on aptitude and interest, and generally Central: Tues @ 7 p.m. – 12/26 identify your own job skills, understand charts a path to success. Flushing: Thurs @ 10:30 a.m. – 12/28 the difference between job skills and Central: Tues @ 7 p.m. – 11/28, 12/19 job duties, market your job skills, and Flushing: Fri @ 10:30 a.m. – 11/17, 12/22; become aware of the most sought-after Thurs @ 10:30 a.m. – 12/14 *Consortium for Workers’ Education (CWE) class. job skills by employers. Completion of CWE classes earns customers a certificate and qualifies customers for job Central: Tues @ 1:30 p.m. – 11/7, 12/12; Managing People—Building placement services. Please see a JBA staff Mon @ 10 a.m. – 11/27, 12/4 Relationships member for more information. This class is geared towards helping

November/December 2017 63 PlanningNovember / December 2016 for Pregnancy Conference One Stop for Everyone Who Is Pregnant or Considering Pregnancy Sunday, November 19 @ 12pm | Central Library

12pm – 12:30pm Lunch and Tabling Lunch will be provided and you will have the opportunity to sign up for various upcoming programs and services for those with growing families. Organizations from around the city will be on-site to provide information and resources.

12:30pm – 1:30pm Who Will Help Me Have My Baby & Where Panel Discussion Come learn the main roles, differences and similarities between some of the most common birth experts from an OB/GYN, midwife, and doula.

1:30pm – 2:30pm Learn About Group Prenatal Care CenteringPregnancy maintains all the same patient-centered elements of traditional prenatal care, but incorporates them into an interactive group experience.

2:30pm – 3:30pm Preconception and Interconception Health: What To Do Before Getting Pregnant Come learn what the experts suggest you can do before you become pregnant and between pregnancies to protect your health and the health of your baby.

3:30pm – 4:30pm Pathways to Parenthood If you’re interested in learning more about fertility and different types of insemination, you won’t want to miss this session with a doctor and a lawyer who can discuss the legal issues surrounding family building that are particularly relevant to members of the LGBTQIA community. We extend a warm welcome to individuals who are LGBTQIA, as well as allies who are interested in this topic.

Pregnancyplanning.eventbrite.com This program is supported by March of Dimes and Johnson & Johnson.

64 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE ProgramsPrograms in other for languages All Ages

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Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 12/9, 12/16, 12/23 典作品，精读解析，深入阐发作品的美学价 Arabic 值 、思 想 社 会 内 涵 ，力 求 从 文 化 的 广 度 与 高 মাইে�াসফট ও য় া ড쇍 ঃ বাঙালীেদর জন뷍 কি�উটার �াস 度 予以崭新的审视和认识；同时将以历史 BROADWAY আপিন যিদ কি�উটার মাইে�াসফট ওয়ােড쇍 িকভােব ড嗁েম� 发展的主干联系贯穿作品，使书友在提高作 40-20 Broadway, 718-721-2462 বানােত হয়, ড嗁েম� বানােনার পর িবিভ� উপােয় কি�উটাের কাজ করেত হয় তা িশখেত চান তাহেল এই বাংলায় িনেদ쇍িশত 品理解同时更多得到中外文艺史以及文艺 理论的知识。在这过程中，将特别介绍中国 Monday @ 4:30PM - 11/20 কি�উটার �াসসমূহ আপনার জন뷍।আপিন আরও জানেত পারেবন আপনার িনেজর জন뷍 িকভােব ইেমল অ뷍াকাউ� খুলেত 著名作家木心对中外文学名著及文学史的 。হয়।েরিজে�শান করেত েস�াল লাইে�িরর সাইবার েস�াের 真知灼见 ليجستلا هيفيك نع تامولعم : عوضوملا েফান কর‍নঃ ৭১৮-৯৯০-০৭৬৯. 時間：2 0 1 7 年 : 7 / 8 ；8 / 1 2 ；9 / 9 ；1 0 / 7 ；1 1 / 4 عباتلا يحصلا نيماتلا جمارب ىف .Microsoft Word (in Bengali) ；12/9；2018年: 1/13；2/10 ةيبرعلا هغللاب كرويوين هيالول 周六下午1‑3点 Learn to create documents and work لافطالاو رابكلل تيكيديم 地點：法拉盛图书馆三楼教室 with tables. Part 1: Introduction to لافطألل يحصلا نيماتلا Microsoft Word; Part 2: Creating and Chinese Book Club {in Mandarin {saving documents; Part 3: Working with Chinese هلهؤملاو ةيساسالا يحصلا نيماتلا ةطخ tables and printing. Participants should New sessions of the Chinese Book اهمدقت ةرضاحملا have basic computer skills and must Club focus on some representative and هيطع اهم .attend all three classes. Preregistration influential works in literary history يحصلا نيماتلا جمانرب ةريدم The famous Chinese writer Mu Xin Information on How to Enroll in New is required. Please call 718-990-0769 or and his insightful criticism of literary York State of Health Market Place (in visit the Central Library Cyber Center works will also be discussed. The Arabic) reference desk. program is hosted and led by Professor Get information on how to enroll in Tang Zhenhai. *IRC Conference Room* New York State of Health Market Place, ELMHURST Medicare for Adults and Children, 86-07 Broadway, 718-271-1020 Sunday @ 1:00PM - 11/5 Child Health Plus, Essential Plan, and 皇后圖書館新移民服務部·法拉盛圖書館 Qualified Health Plan. Saturday @ 4:00PM - 11/4 舉辦 華裔作家新書發表系列（第17講）黃翔的詩 1992—1993年黃翔入選英國世界名人錄 Bengali 和美國傑出人物傳。1994、2007年兩次獲 CENTRAL LIBRARY 美國赫爾曼•哈默特（Hellman-Hammett） 言論自由作家獎，並曾獲諾貝爾文學獎提 89-11 Merrick Blvd., 718-990-0778 Pathway to Good Mental Health (in 名。他創作的“房子詩歌”（House Poem） 結合了書寫藝術和詩歌，房子外牆以詩歌 Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 11/4, 11/18, 11/25 Bengali) In this workshop, Dr. Menoka Pasha will 和書法裝點。這棟房子因他的詩歌成為匹 discuss the depths of our mental health 茲堡藝術博物館（Mattress Factory Art and how to enhance it to live a healthy Museum）的人文景點。活動包括詩朗誦、 life. You will learn about what mental 黃 翔 繪 畫 、書 法 、其 他 著 作 的 展 示 。 health is, good mental health vs. mental 時間： 11月5日下午1點 illness, and how to get help if you’re 地點：法 拉 盛 圖 書 館 樓 下 一 層 ，A & B 會 議 室 dealing with poor mental health. Flushing & NAP present: Chinese Computer Course (in Bengali) Learn how to turn on your computer Author Talk Series #17—Huang Xiang and write an email. Part I: Introduction & His Poetry Collection Huang Xiang was nominated for the to the computer; Part II: Navigating Chinese Nobel Prize for Literature. His “House the Internet; Part III: Creating your Poem” combines art with poetry, and own email account. Participants are FLUSHING the walls of a house decorated with encouraged to attend all three classes. 41-17 Main Street, 718-661-1200 poetry and calligraphy, which has Preregistration is required. Please become a sightseeing destination call 718-990-0769 or visit the Central Saturdays @ 1:00PM - 11/4, 12/9 in Pittsburgh. Huang Xiang’s Library Cyber Center reference desk. 斯塔尔基金赞助节目 法拉盛中文书会 poetry reading, painting, and other 主持：著名文艺理论家汤振海教授 publications will be part of this event. 2017-2018年度法拉盛中文书会将聚焦于中 *Rooms A&B, Lower Level* 华和西方文学史上具代表性和影响力的经

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Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 11/9, 12/14 Saturday @ 10:30AM - 11/18 Sundays @ 2:00PM - 11/19, 12/17 北美中國書法協會·主辦 瞭解失智症和如何尋求幫助 瞭解失智症和 阿茲海默症互助支持小組 書法每月筆會 如何尋求幫助 國語節目。阿滋海默症關愛服務定期與您互 時間：週 四 ，下 午 6 點 半 瞭解失智症和如何尋求幫助瞭解失智症和 動 ，交流照顧阿滋海默症或其它失智症患者 Monthly Penmanship Class 如何尋求幫助 通過這個講座，您會瞭解到 時面對的問題及獨特的挑戰。互動小組將為 All are welcome. Please call 646-752- 阿兹海默症和其他失智症的資訊，有關這些 您提供一個可靠和安全的地方傾訴及分享經 3173 for questions and suggestions. 疾 病的不同程度和症狀，以及關於紐約市阿 歷和感受 。 *Rooms C&D, Lower Level* 茲海 默症關愛協會的教育講座，服務和可供 時間﹕星期日，11月19日和12月17日。 使用的資源。 有意參加者請致電646-744-2951 Sunday @ 1:00PM - 11/12 時間﹕週 六 ，上 午 1 0 點 半 Alzheimer’s Support Group (in 戲說情色 縱談反動 Understanding Dementia: What You Chinese) 康正果，耶魯大學榮休資深講師，有多部文 Need to Know and Where to Go (in A monthly support group in Mandarin 學和學術著作在大陸及港台出版。本次講座 Chinese) Chinese for people caring for a person 作者 將介绍《風騷與艷情》、《重審風月鑒》 This workshop will provide information with Alzheimer’s or any of the other 和《 我的反動自述》這三部較有影響的著 on Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias. Our support group is a 作，撮要書中精義，訴說寫作因緣，旁及敏感 dementias, discuss the different stages secure and safe place to share your 話題、文字遭遇和出版趣事。《風騷與艷情》 of the disease and what to expect, and experiences. The group will meet 是中文世界首部全面梳理古典诗词中诸多与 include an overview of the programs on two Sundays, November 19 and 女 性相关问题的专著。“风骚精神”与“艳 and services and other available December 17. Please call 646-744-2951 情趣味”两大源流对立与融合的趋势在书中 resources provided by Caringkind. for registration. 贯串始终，历时性主线与共时性叙述交错穿 插，深入探讨了政治与爱情、文人与女性、诗 Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/18 Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/25 歌与音乐的复杂关系。《重審風月鑒》是对 法拉盛圖書館與紐約華文作家協會聯合舉辦 本节目由斯塔尔基金赞助 古代文学中有关情色描写、性实 践指导，乃 新書發表會 庆祝“一带一路”芭蕾38年 至被斥为淫书的各种文本进行系统讨论的专 王曉丹: 新文人畫派﹐董欣賓一生傳奇王曉 自从陈敏编导、黄安伦作曲创作的中国芭蕾 著。作者立论，特具后现代解构主义视角和 丹.上海華東師範大學畢業﹐曾任夏雨詩社 舞剧“敦煌梦”片断于1980在北京举行首演 针对情色书写的反思意识，该书综论文学， 理事。 以来，此芭蕾作品在东西方世界一直闪烁着 兼及中国政治、法律、医药、宗教等机构所 時間﹕11月18日(星期 六)﹐下午2時至4時 灿烂光辉。今年感恩节之际，纽约中国芭蕾 建立的性及性别论述。《我的反動自述》这 地點﹕法拉盛圖書館底層AB室 京剧团将奉献出精彩芭蕾舞“伎乐天”、“哈 是一部写自己如同写他人的传记，是在进行 Chinese Writers Assoc., New York: 萨 克骑兵”、“莫斯科之夜”，以及2017全 新 时态中讲述过去的回忆录，是可作小说来读 Book Debut (in Chinese) 制作的芭蕾交响诗“红高粱”。欢迎您前来 的当 代史。历数讲述者数十年不断陷入“反 Ms. Xiaodan Wang will discuss her new 观赏，享受中国芭蕾舞的魅力。 动”的 遭遇，以编年史的图景呈现了中国大 book, “The Legendary Life of Xinbing 時間﹕11月25日下午两点 陆1949年以降的荒谬现实。 Dong.” *Rooms A&B, Lower Level* 地點﹕法拉盛图书馆剧场 China Ballet 時間﹕周 日 ，下 午 1 点 NYC: Ballet & Beijing Opera Gala— 地點 法 拉 盛 圖 書 館 樓 下 一 層 ，A & B 會 議 室 Sunday @ 1:00PM - 11/19 38th Anniversary Ballet Chinese Author Talk Series (XVII) 慶祝皇后圖書舘新移民服务部成立四十周年 In the 38 years since Chen Min Lipman In this event, Mr. Zhengguo Kang will 多族裔大聯歡 choreographed and Huang Anlun talk about his three major works and 歡迎參加為慶祝皇后圖書舘新移民服务部成 composed the music for “The Dream discuss the essence of the books and 立四十周年而舉辦的聯歡活動。 of Dunhuang,” this ballet has been the stories behind them. 1-2:30 pm:手工製作及食物品嘗(底樓A&B); performed and appreciated around 1-2:30 pm:西班牙，中國，韓國及孟加拉國 the world. This year, Les Ballets de Wednesday @ 10:00AM - 11/15 的 音 樂 舞 蹈 表 演（禮 堂）； l’Opera Chinois de New York, Inc., 如何充分利用您的Google帐户 2:30-3 pm: 移民法律講座和英語學習遊戲 will perform: “The Suite from Dream 了解您可以使用Google户，Gmail，Google （底樓C&D); of Dunhuang,” “Celestial Musicians,” 地图和Google云端硬盘的许多方法。需要 3:45-4:30 pm: 文藝演出（禮堂）。 “Kazakhstan Cavalry,” “Moscow Night,” 基本的计算机技能和现有的Google帐户。 40th Anniversary Celebration of the and “Red Sorghum” (new production). 時間﹕周 三 ，上 午 1 0 点 New Americans Program *Auditorium, Lower Level* How To Get The Most From Your Join the festivities with the New Google Account (in Mandarin) Americans Program as we celebrate 40 Wednesday @ 10:00AM - 12/13 Learn about the many ways you can years of providing programs and services 电子邮件简介 use your Google account, including to Queens’ diverse ethnic communities. 在这个讲座中，您将学习：如何创建 电子邮 Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Crafts/Food: 1-2:30pm in Rooms A & B; 件 帐 户 ，如 何 登 录 ，如 何 导 航 您 的 电 子 邮 件 Drive. Basic computer skills and an International Music and Dance: 1-2:30pm 帐户，如何发送和接收电子邮件以及如何附 existing Google account are required. in Auditorium; Immigration Workshop: 加文档。建议您在上课之前学会基本的鼠标 Preregister online at queenslibrary. 2:30-3pm in Rooms C&D; ESOL Game: 和键盘操作。 org. Call 718-661-1280 for additional 2:30-3pm; Closing Performance: 3:45- 時間﹕周 三 ，上 午 1 0 點 information. 4:30pm in Auditorium.

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Introduction to Email (in Cantonese) Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, etc. El In this introductory workshop, you Nepali espacio es limitado. Para inscribirse will learn: how to create an email puede llamar al teléfono 718-721-2462. account, how to log in, how to navigate WOODSIDE Typing For Beginners in Spanish your email account, how to send and 54-22 Skillman Avenue, 718-429-4700 Learn how to use the keyboard and receive email messages, and how to it will be easier for you to use a attach documents. While this is an Thursday @ 3:30PM - 12/14 computer. Practice Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, and navigate the Internet. introductory class, it is recommended 핍यापार ग셍न आ셍थनक शिक्षा (셍ेपाली मा) भाग १: that you have basic mouse and Space is limited and registration is on a 핍यापार ग셍न पज ं ी कसरी प्राꥍत ग셍न? keyboarding skills prior to the first-come, first-served basis. Please call workshop. Preregistration required; call • उधारो लिनको िागि आव�यकताह셁 के हुन? 718-721 2462 to register. 718-661-1280. • ििानी लिन के ववक쥍प ह셁 उपि땍द छन?् Thursdays @ 9:30AM - 11/2, 11/9 • ििानी वीकृ त हने राम्रो अ땍यासह셂 के हन? ु ु Microsoft Word En Español Para French Understanding and Managing your Principiantes

DOUGLASTON/LITTLE NECK Credit - In Nepall Aprenda como crear y guardar 249-01 Northern Blvd., 718-225-8414 Join us and learn how to understand documentos; preparar y editar textos; your credit report & score, how to get copiar, cortar y pegar elementos; usar Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27 and obtain your credit report, and comandos y funciones principales de French Conversation Circle how to dispute discrepancies on your Word. Además, Usted aprenderá a usar Rejoinds Robert et les autres pour credit report. el USB o” Flash Drive”. Se requiere un peu de conversation français à la conocimientos básicos en computación. bibliothèque Douglaston/Little Neck . Spanish Para inscribirse por favor llame al 718- Un niveau intermédiaire à locuteur natif 721-2462 préferé mais tous sont les bienvenus. ASTORIA Microsoft Word For Beginners In Nous parlerons français seulement. 14-01 Astoria Boulevard, 718-278-2220 Spanish French Conversation Circle Learn how to create and save Word Join Robert and others for a little French Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/8 - 12/27 documents; format and edit text; copy, conversation at the Douglaston/Little Hora de Cuentos Bilingue (Espanol/ cut, and paste Items; and use Word’s Neck Library. An intermediate to native Ingles) main functions and commands. You speaker level is preferred, but all are Esta interesado en que su infante will also learn how to use a flash drive. welcome. We will speak French only. aprenda Espanol o aprenda las Basic computer skills are required. competencias necesarias para Please call 718-721 2462 to register. GLEN OAKS el afabetismo? Entonces este 256-04 Union Turnpike, 718-831-8636 programa es para Ud.! Su infante Tuesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/7, 11/14, 11/21 escuchara cuentos y canciones Clases de Computadora en Español Thursdays @ 12:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 en Espanol e Ingles. Tambien para Principiantes Le Club Français jugaremos, colorearemos, o haremos Estás interesado en aprender a usar Parlez-vous français? N’oubliez pas cette manualidades. No es necesario una computadora? Estas clases belle langue! Veuillez nous rejoindre registrarse. prácticas y gratuitas son para à notre Club Français. On parlera des Bilingual StoryTime (English/Spanish) usted: • Introducción en el uso de la nouvelles du jour, de la famille, des Interested in your toddler learning computadora • Uso del ratón y teclado amis, des vacances; on écoutera de la Spanish or gaining basic literacy • Escribir, copiar, editar e imprimir, musique et des chanteurs français et skills? Then this is a program for y guardar un texto • Navegar en el francophones; on discutera des arts, you! Your toddler will be introduced internet El espacio es limitado. Para des films, de la cuisine française ou de to stories and songs in English and inscribirse puede llamar al teléfono votre pays natal et n’importe quel sujet Spanish. We will also play games 718-721-2462 qui vous intéresse. Ce sera de véritables and color or make crafts. Walk-ins Computer Classes for Beginners in tête-à-têtes entre amis! welcomed. Spanish French Club This class will be an introduction to the Do you speak French? Don’t forget this BROADWAY computer, an introduction to Microsoft beautiful language! Join us at Club 40-20 Broadway, 718-721-2462 Word, and show you how to navigate Français to talk about family, friends, the Internet. You will also learn how and vacations; listen to music and Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1, 11/8 to type, copy, edit, format, print, and songs; and discuss current events, art, Mecanografía en Español para save a file. Please call 718-721 2462 to films, cooking, and any other subject principiantes register. that might interest you. These will be Aprenda Mecanografía (cómo usar real tête-à-têtes among friends. el teclado) y le será más fácil usar la computadora -Navegar en el Internet,

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Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/16 Introduction to Microsoft Word (in estrategia que podría ayudarle ser Club de Lectura en Español para Spanish) aceptado a los Ivy Leagues. Adultos Learn how to create a document and How to Get Into College with a Nos reunimos el tercer Jueves de work with tables. Participants should Scholarship (in Spanish) cada mes a las 6:00pm. El título del have basic computer skills and must In this workshop in Spanish, you will libro para el mes de Noviembre es attend all 3 classes. Preregistration learn about the college process, how “Fahrenheit 451”. Autor: Ray Bradbury. is required in person at the Central to apply for the best scholarships, and La copia del libro la puede obtener con Library Cyber Center Reference Desk a strategy that could help you get into el bibliotecario lo más pronto posible beginning Thursday, November 30 at 10 the Ivy League. antes de cada reunión. Para inscribirse a.m. or by calling 718-990-0769. favor llamar al 718-721-2462. DOUGLASTON/LITTLE NECK Book Club for Adults in Spanish CORONA 249-01 Northern Blvd., 718-225-8414 We meet every third Thursday of each 38-23 104 Street, 718-426-2844 month at 6:00 p.m. The title of the book Thursdays @ 1:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 for November is “Fahrenheit 451” by Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/6 Club de Conversación Español Ray Bradbury. Copies of the book can Autismo conciencia en español Unanse a Lucila y otros para una be checked out as soon as possible prior El profesor de educación especial, Juan pequeña conversación en español en la to each meeting. Please call 718-721- Carlos Valderrama, explicará: • Biblioteca de Douglaston / Little Neck. 2462 to register. ¿Qué es el autism? • Como reconocerlo Todos son bienvenidos. a tiempo • Los últimos avances en el Spanish Conversation Club CENTRAL LIBRARY tratamiento Join Lucila and others for a little 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, 718-990-0778 Autism Awareness in Spanish Spanish conversation at the Juan Carlos Valderrama, a Special Douglaston/Little Neck Library. All are Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/2, 11/9, 11/16 Education school teacher, will explain welcome. Clases de Computación para what autism is, early recognition, and principiantes the latest advances in treatment EAST ELMHURST ¿Necesita aprender a encender la 95-06 Astoria Boulevard, 718-424-2619 computadora o como escribir un email Thursday @ 9:00AM - 11/16 a alguien? Estas clases son para usted. Mamografías Sin Costo Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 11/1 - 12/20 Es necesario que los participantes Elegibilidad: -Mujer de 40 años de edad Mi bebe y yo asistan las tres clases. Para las clases con seguro de salud -Mujer de 50 años Este programa interactivo sentarse en en Centra Library Cyber Center se de edad sin seguro de salud -Viviendo la falda (lap-sit) para niños entre las requiere preinscripción en persona en la ciudad de Nueva York -No haberse edades desde el nacimiento hasta 1 año, en el mostrador de referencia del realizado una mamografía en los y sus cuidadores, incluye cantos de Cyber Center a partir del, jueves 2 de últimos 12 meses No se requiere co- cuna, juegos con los dedos y canciones. noviembre las 6 pm o llame al 718-990- pagos y deducibles. Mujeres sin seguro Baby and Me 0769. médico son bienvenidos. Para una cita, This interactive lap-sit program for Computers for Beginners (In Spanish) llamar: 1-877-628-9090 children age 1 year old and younger Learn how to turn on your computer No Cost Mammograms and their caregivers features nursery and write an email. Participants must Eligibility: women aged 40 and rhymes, fingerplays, and songs. attend all 3 classes. Preregistration older with health insurance; women is required in person at the Central aged 50 and older without health Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/3, 11/17, 11/24, 12/1, Library Cyber Center beginning insurance; currently living in New 12/8, 12/15, 12/22 Thursday, November 2 at 6 p.m. or by York City; have not had a mammogram Tiempo del niño pequeño calling 718-990-0769. in the past 12 months. No co-pays Los niños (de 18 a 24 meses) y sus required and deductibles are waived. cuidadores están invitados a unirse Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 12/7, 12/14, 12/21 Uninsured individuals welcome. For an a nosotros para contar historias, Microsoft Word para Hispanoparlantes appointment, call 1-877-628-9090. canciones y juegos con los dedos. ¿Necesita aprender como crear un Toddler Time documento o trabajar con tablas? Thursday @ 6:00PM - 12/21 Children (18 to 24 months) and their Los participantes deben tener Cómo ingresar a la universidad con caregivers are invited to join us for conocimientos básicos de informática una beca stories, songs, and fingerplays. y asistir a la tres clases. Para las clases ¡En este taller en español, aprenderás en Central Library Cyber Center.Se lo que necesitas saber en la escuela FLUSHING requiere preinscripción en persona secundaria para convertirte en el mejor 41-17 Main Street, 718-661-1200 en el mostrador de referencia del candidato para los mejores colegios y Cyber Center a partir del jueves 30 de becas de la nación! Aprenda sobre el Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 11/4, 11/18, 11/25 noviembre a las at 10 am o llame al proceso de la universidad, cómo aplicar Microsoft Excel Para Hispanoparlantes 718-990-0769. para las mejores becas y la mejor ¿Necesita aprender cómo crear

68 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE Programs in other languages un hoja de trabajo o cómo realizar attend all 3 classes. Preregistration clases en Langston Hughes se require cálculos? Los participantes deben tener is required in person at the Flushing preinscripción en persona en el conocimientos básicos de informática Library Cyber Center Reference Desk mostrador de referencia a partir del y es necesario que los participantes beginning Saturday, December 9 at 10 sábado 4 de noviembre a las at 10 am. asistan a las tres clases. Para las a.m. or by calling 718-661-1280. Introduction to Microsoft Word (in clases en Flushing Library. se requiere Spanish) preinscripción en persona en el FOREST HILLS Learn how to create a document and mostrador de referencia del Flushing 108-19 71 Avenue, 718-268-7934 work with tables. Participants should Cyber Center a partir del jueves 4 de have basic computer skills and must noviembre a las 10 am o llame al 718- Monday @ 6:00PM - 11/20 attend all 3 classes. Preregistration 661-1280. Presentacion de Libro: La Niña is required in person at the Langston Microsoft Excel for Spanish Speakers Alemana [en ingles] Hughes Reference Desk beginning Learn how to create a worksheet and Esta novela de estreno increíblemente Saturday, November 4, at 10 a.m. perform calculations. Participants hermosa de Armando Lucas Correa should have basic computer skills cuenta la historia de Hannah Monday @ 5:00PM - 11/20 and must attend all 3 classes. Rosenthal, una niña de doce años que Let’s Make a Thankful Tree Preregistration is required in person huye de Alemania nazi con su familia Unete a nosotros para crear un árbol at the Flushing Library Cyber Center y su mejor amigo sólo para descubrir para el Día de Acción de Gracias. Reference Desk beginning Saturday, el asilo que se les ha prometido es una Hagamos un árbol de Acción de Gracias November 4 at 10 a.m. or by calling 718- ilusión. What are you thankful for? Join us and 661-1280. New Americans Program presents: make a Thanksgiving Tree. Author Talk: “The German Girl” [In Monday @ 10:00AM - 11/13 English] Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 12/9, 12/16, 12/23 Taller de Naturalización This stunningly beautiful debut novel Microsoft Excel para hispanoparlantes Este taller es para los residentes by Armando Lucas Correa tells the ¿Necesita aprender cómo crear un hoja permanentes legales para que llenen story of Hannah Rosenthal, a twelve- de trabajo o cómo realizer cálculos? Los la solicitud de N-400 de naturalización year-old girl who flees Nazi Germany participantes deben tener conocimientos y una extención total o parcial, si with her family and best friend only básicos de informática y es necesario es elegible. Para registrarse llame to discover the asylum they have been que los participantes asistan a las tres 718-990-0893 o visite: https:// promised is an illusion. clases. Para las clases en Langton www.citizenshipworks.org/portal/ Hughes. Se requiere preinscripción en vieweventdetail/1529 GLEN OAKS persona en el mostrador de referencia a Naturalization Workshop (in English 256-04 Union Turnpike, 718-831-8636 partir del sábado 2 de diciembre a las 10 and Spanish) am. This workshop is for legal permanent Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/2, 12/7 Microsoft Excel for Spanish Speakers residents to fill out the N-400 Club en Español Learn how to create a worksheet and application for naturalization and ¿Habla Español? ¡No olvide este bello perform calculations. Participants receive a full or partial fee waiver, lenguaje! Venga a nuestro club en should have basic computer skills and if eligible. To register, call 718- Español para hablar de todo un poco must attend all 3 classes. Preregistration 990-0893 or go online: https:// incluyendo películas, música, comida y is required in person at the Langton www.citizenshipworks.org/portal/ noticias. ¡Conozca autores invitados y Hughes Reference Desk beginning vieweventdetail/1529. conéctese con amigos! Saturday, December 2 at 10 a.m. Spanish Club Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 12/9, 12/16, 12/23 Do you speak Spanish? Join us to RICHMOND HILL Clases de Computación para talk about anything and everything, 118-14 Hillside Avenue, 718-849-7150 principiantes including film, music, cooking, and ¿Necesita aprender a encender la news. Meet guest authors and connect Saturday @ 3:00PM - 11/18 computadora o como escribir un email with new friends. Música y Danzas Tradicionales del a alguien? Estas clases son para usted. Ecuador Es necesario que los participantes LANGSTON HUGHES Grupo de danza Ayazamana presenta asistan las tres clases. Para las clases 100-01 Northern Blvd. 718-651-1100 danza tradicional con auténtica música y en Flushing Library. Se requiere trajes de diferentes regiones del Ecuador. preinscripcion en persona en el Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/4, 11/18, 11/25 Traditional Music and Dance from mostrador del Cyber Center a partir del Microsoft Word Para Hispanoparlantes Ecuador domingo 9 de diciembre a las 10 am o ¿Necesita aprender como crear un Ayazamana Dance Group presents llame al 718-661-1280. documento o trabajar con tablas? traditional dance with authentic music Computers for Beginners (In Spanish) Los participantes deben tener and costumes from different regions of Learn how to turn on your computer conocimientos básicos de informática Ecuador. and write an email. Participants must y asistir a la tres clases. Para las

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SEASIDE SUNNYSIDE 116-15 Rockaway Beach Blvd., 43-06 Greenpoint Avenue, Turkish 718-634-1876 718-784-3033 SUNNYSIDE 43-06 Greenpoint Ave., 718-784-3033 Thursday @ 6:30PM - 11/2 Fridays @ 1:00PM - 11/3, 11/17, 12/1, Aprende Salsa Cubana 12/8, 12/15, 12/22 Saturday @ 2:30PM - 11/25 Ven y aprende a bailar salsa ¡Seguro de salud gratis o a bajo Mustafa Yasar ile ebru sanat dersleri (Türkçe ve con los instructores de Fuakata, costo para usted y su familia! İngilizce olarak) Cuban Salsa NYC Salsa Cubana o ¿Necesita un seguro de salud? Ebru Türk sanatini ogren. Ebru, kitreyle Casino despertara a tu bailarín Nosotros podemos ayudarle! yoğunlaştırılmış su üstünde, özel hazırlanmış interior! Descubre lo divertida Ofrecemos asistencia en persona: boyalarla oluşturulan desenlerin kâğıt üzerine que es la salsa cubana en esta Medicaid Child Health Plus El geçirilmesi yoluyla yapılan bir süsleme sanatıdır. clase. Espacio limitado, el Plan Esencial Seguros Médicos Her Cumartesi bireysel oturumlar, 6/24, 7/22, 8/26, primero en llegar es el primero Calificados Llamenos para hacer 9/23, 10/28, 11/25 saat 14: 30’da. Katılımcılar her en ser servido. una cita 212-233-8955 Ext.127 o seans için program başlangıcından 2 hafta önce Learn Cuban Salsa solamente venga a la biblioteca. Sunnyside şahsen yada 718-784-3033 numaralı Come and learn some salsa Free or Low-Cost Health telefonu arayarak başvuru yapmaları gerekmektedir. with master instructors from Insurance for You and Your Kontenjan ilk 10 başvuru ile sınırlıdır. Ebru Art Fuakata, Cuban Salsa NYC. Family! Classes with Mustafa Yasar (In Turkish and English) Cuban salsa (or Casino) will Do you need health insurance? Learn the Turkish art of ebru. Paper marbling (ebru) wake up your inner dancing We can help! We offer in-person is the art of creating colorful patterns by sprinkling star! Discover the fun of salsa in assistance: Medicaid ChildJamaica Health and brushing FEASTS color pigments on a pan of oily this great class. Space is limited Plus Essential Plan and NY State water and then transferring this pattern to paper. A PROGRAM BY QUEENS LIBRARY and on a first-come, first-served of Health Qualified Plans. Make an Participants must register for each session starting basis. appointment at 212-233-8955 x127 two weeks ahead of the program date, either in or just walk in. person at Sunnyside or by calling 718-784-3033. Limited to the first 10 applicants per session.

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ARVERNE Wednesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/8 - 12/20 BROADWAY 312 Beach 54 Street, 718-634-4784 Wii Game Challenge 40-20 Broadway, 718-721-2462 Play and dance with friends via the Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Wii game Just Dance. This gaming Wednesday @ 3:30PM - 11/29 Teen Tech Time event is for teens and tweens. Teen Book-to-Screen Club Come and join your fellow teens at our Join our discussion of the YA novel Teen Tech Time! You will be given your Thursday @ 5:00PM - 11/9 “Everything Everything” by Nicola Yoon. own personal laptop to use to finish your Movie: “Megan Leavey” homework, research colleges, or update Come and watch “Megan Leavey” CAMBRIA HEIGHTS your social media. See you there! (2017, PG-13), the true story of a 218-13 Linden Boulevard, 718-528-3535 young Marine corporal whose Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3 - 12/29 unique discipline and bond with her Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3, 12/1 Teen Board Games military combat dog saved many Pamper a Shelter Pet Teens can relax at the end of the week lives during their deployment in Teens can make toys to donate to dogs and with fun board and card games! Iraq. cats at a local animal shelter.

Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26 Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/24, 12/29, Saturdays @ 1:00PM - 11/4 - 12/30 Teen Video Gaming Saturday @ 11:00AM - 12/30 Write Now! with NY Writers Coalition Come and join your fellow teens as we Three New Superhero Movies Want to write words that will be music to play the latest video games on our PS 2, Come and celebrate the holidays the ears, get around your writer’s block, or Xbox One, and Wii video game systems. with 3 new superhero movies. 11/24: just put pen to paper and see what happens? You will have fun while building your “Spider-Man: Homecoming” (2017, This workshop is open to writers (adults and hand-eye coordination. PG-13); 12/29: “Wonder Woman” young adults) of all genres, backgrounds, (2017, PG-13); 12/30: “Guardians of the and experience levels. Writing prompts and Monday @ 4:30PM - 12/4 Galaxy Vol. 2” (2017, PG-13). other materials will be provided. Just bring Jewelry Making yourself! Teens will learn how to make beautiful BELLEROSE jewelry. Materials will be provided. 250-06 Hillside Ave., 718-831-8644 Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/8 - 12/20 Cambria Heights Teen Comic Book Club ASTORIA Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 12/22 The Teen Comic Book Club is open to all teens 14-01 Astoria Boulevard, 718-278-2220 Tween & Teen Club with an interest in comics. Whether you For those of you in 6th-12th grade, are new to the genre or a devoted fan, come Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 come hang out at the Bellerose join us to discuss your favorite story arcs, Minecraft Mondays @ Astoria Library Library! We’ll be playing board movie and television tie-ins, and everything Join us every Monday for an hour of games, watching movies, creating else comics-related in a fun, relaxing punching trees, crafting, and creeper crafts, and more! Bring your friends! environment. hunting. Play the Pocket Edition or new Story mode. All ages welcome, but BRIARWOOD Friday @ 4:00PM - 12/8 recommended for ages 8 and up. 85-12 Main Street, 718-658-1680 Teen GLBTQA Club @ Cambria Heights Library Teen Center BAYSIDE Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, 214-20 Northern Boulevard, 718-229-1834 Arts and Crafts for School-Age transgender, queer, questioning, asexual, and Children aromantic teens and allies: wherever you fall Wednesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/1 - 12/13 Come join us on Friday afternoons to on the rainbow spectrum, we want you in the Fun Karaoke make an arts and crafts project! For Teen GLBTQA Club. Make friends, talk pop Sing your heart out and have a rocking school-age children. culture, and discuss other topics important good time! This program is for teens and to you. tweens. Saturday @ 2:00PM - 12/23 Jump Start to College CENTRAL LIBRARY Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2 - 12/14 Presented by Kweller Tutoring - Part 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, 718-990-0778 Scrabble Club 2. This session is for high school Play Scrabble, challenge others, and students in 11th and 12th grade. It Mondays @ 3:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18, Tuesdays @ make new friends. This program is for will provide information on how 3:00PM - 11/7 - 12/19, Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - teens and tweens. to fill out a college application and 11/1 - 12/20, Thursdays @ 3:00PM - 11/2 - 12/21, include instructional steps for filling Fridays @ 3:00PM - 11/3 - 12/22 Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/19 out college forms and the format for Teen Homework Help/Tutoring Needlework writing essays. Sponsored by the Homework Help/Teen Tutoring is open to all Children ages 8 and up can learn Friends of Briarwood Library. teens ages 12 to 19 years old. All tutoring is needlework. Materials are limited. done on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1 - 11/29 Francis College and author of the book Fridays @ 4:30PM - 11/3 - 12/1 NaNoWriMo “From First Kiss to Forever: A Scientific Learning Korean with K-Pop Have you ever wanted to write a novel, Approach to Love,” will lead us through Learning Korean with K-Pop is designed a comic, or both? Do you find yourself the life cycle of relationships and to provide Korean lessons in a very thinking about different characters and introduce us to the famous (and viral) unique and easy way for all Korean the worlds they belong to? Not sure 36 questions designed to spark intimacy learners. Music and singing make a huge where to start? Join us for our National and make you fall in love. Books will be difference in learning a new language. Novel Writing Month Workshop! Each available for sale and signing. Knowledge of the Korean alphabet and/ week, we will cover a different topic in or knowing K-Pop is not required for this creating your novel, from world building ELMHURST class. Register online or call 718-990- to character development. Registration is 86-07 Broadway, 718-271-1020 8569. required. For teens and tweens. Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/4 - 12/30 Sundays @ 1:00PM - 11/5, 11/12 Chess Class/Club Chess Club Spanish for the Workplace Teens and children can come learn the Children and teens, ages 8 and up, will This eight-week course will provide you basics of chess or improve their game. learn and improve their knowledge of with some basic conversational skills The location will be the 2nd-floor Sun chess. to help you navigate specific workplace Room! scenarios. At the end of the eight weeks, Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 11/7 you should be conversant on a variety of Fridays @ 4:00PM - 12/1 - 12/15 Welcome Kids and Teens: Manga Club topics related to the workplace. Break Dance by The Breaking Institute Make your own Manga. Cut out your own of the Arts images or draw them if you please. Learn Mondays @ 6:30PM - 11/6 - 12/4 This class explores the history of hip- about layout and wording and just have National Novel Writing Month Workshop hop dance in the form of Breaking, a fun time! In anticipation of National Novel Writing Rocking, and the development of Month, this 5-session course, taught by creative movement. Each student will Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/29 Jennifer Celestin, will focus on providing be introduced to the foundation of the Welcome Kids and Teens: Teen writers with the tools and motivation dance form to build their own individual Jeopardy required for creating longer fiction. style, vocabulary, technique, and flow. Join the Flushing Library for our favorite activity...Jeopardy on the big screen with Mondays @ 7:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 FLUSHING peepers and the works! Come answer Community Acting for All! 41-17 Main Street, 718-661-1200 fun trivia and learn a thing or two while Learn theater arts through the process you’re at it. of collaborative theater making. This Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/2 intergenerational program is open to Welcome Kids and Teens: Anime Club Monday @ 6:00PM - 12/11 anyone 14 years old or older. Registration Come join your mates to watch mad cool Shakespeare in Queens: Talking is required. Please register online, in anime! Shakespeare person, or by calling 718-990-0728 before Lenny Banovez, artistic director of Titan October 15. Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 11/24 Theatre Company, will give a behind- Welcome Kids and Teens: Happy Hour the-scenes look at “Romeo and Juliet,” Sunday @ 2:00PM - 11/26 Game Time “As You Like It,” and “Twelfth Night,” and Sunday Movie: “Alien: Covenant” Teen are invited to hang with their discuss modern interpretations of these The crew of the colony ship Covenant friends and play our Nintendo Wii U or classic plays. discover what they think is an uncharted Xbox 360. We also have a variety of mad paradise, but it is actually a dark, cool board and card games! FOREST HILLS dangerous world, whose sole inhabitant 108-19 71 Avenue, 718-268-7934 is the synthetic David, survivor of the Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 12/22 doomed Prometheus expedition (2017, R). Welcome Kids and Teens: Middle Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 11/2, 11/9, 11/16 School Maker Lab Towards A More Perfect Union: DOUGLASTON/LITTLE NECK For children in grades 6-8. Middle Making Your Voice Heard 249-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-225-8414 schoolers are invited to join us in our In this seven-session workshop, new Middle School Maker Lab. We’ll participants will be able to empower Saturday @ 2:30PM - 11/4 be combining the latest technology themselves to make the changes they The Science of Relationships & Questions (tablets, robotics, circuitry, coding, and want by learning how the system to Make You Fall in Love (...sort of) more!) with traditional arts and crafts works and what they can do, concretely Examine love from a scientific materials to build exciting new designs and specifically, to get government to perspective and learn about the life and experiments. Space is limited; please respond to them. Thursdays, Nov. 2 and cycle of a relationship. Marisa Cohen, register at the Flushing Library Teen 9: Lawmaking; Nov. 16: Get Involved! Associate Professor of Psychology at St. Desk for this program. Resource Fair.

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FRESH MEADOWS HOLLIS Tuesdays @ 5:00PM - 11/7, 12/5 193-20 Horace Harding Expressway, 202-05 Hillside Avenue, 718-465-7355 Teen Enrichment: Technology Projects 718-454-7272 Learn Microsoft Office’s popular applications, Thursdays @ 1:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 and other technical tools that will get you Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Knitting & Crocheting Club started in the business world. November 7: Kid/Teen Board Gaming Join us for Hollis’ newest club—learn to Create Your Own Website; December 5: Social Learn to play weird board and card knit or crochet. Please bring your own Media Marketing. games with Ms. Reed, or challenge materials—and ask a friend to join you! your friends to an old favorite. Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/17 - 12/15 LANGSTON HUGHES Girls Inc. Mini Workshop Series Tuesday @ 3:30PM - 11/21 100-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-651-1100 The mission of Girls Inc. of NYC is to inspire Teen Tuesday: Writer’s Cafe all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. These Whether you’re working on Thursdays @ 4:30PM - 11/2 - 12/14 workshops will focus on STEM, Media Literacy, application essays, school Community Art Hack: My Story, Our Economic Literacy, and Personal Development. assignments, or churning out Story 50,000 words for National Novel Queens Museum and Langston Hughes Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/20, 11/27, 12/18 Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), Community Library and Cultural DIY Teen Crafts bring what you’re working on for Center present an 8-week after-school DIY Teen Workshops are a creative way for editing, feedback, and support in a program for middle school students. teens to socialize and have fun creating various community of writers. There will be In this program, students will explore forms of art. tea! cultural storytelling through expression of personal identity. Using zine-making Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/25, 12/9, 12/23 Tuesday @ 3:30PM - 11/28 and a method of collage called “papier Teen Movie Critics Teen Tuesday—I Can Make That: colle,” we will weave together stories of We will watch a movie, discuss and critique it, Scarves ourselves, family, and how they connect and then post to our newly created Laurelton Learn the basics of crocheting or us to our international borough of Community Library Movie Review Blog. finger-knitting and make a scarf for Queens. This program is for students in you or to give as a gift! grades 6-8 only. LEFRAK CITY 98-30 57 Avenue, 718-592-7677 GLEN OAKS Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/19 256-04 Union Turnpike, 718-831-8636 Queens Theatre’s “Page to Stage” for Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/19 Teens and Tweens Teen Tuesdays Wednesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/1 - 12/27 Queens Theatre is back with an Join us for exciting fun and games after school Hump Day: Board Games engaging program for teens and in the Teen Rec Room. The activities will You made it to Wednesday! Come to tweens: “Page to Stage.” Teens will encourage creativity and bonding with peers. Glen Oaks Library and enjoy some learn improvisation techniques, do board games to celebrate. theater games, act out short stories, and Thursday @ 4:30PM - 11/9 be part of an acting ensemble. Mark Fusion Dance Crew Recruitment Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3 - 12/15 your calendar for Tuesdays at 4 p.m. at Think you have the hottest dance moves? Teen Video Games Langston Hughes. Come show Fusion Dance Crew what you have You made it to Friday! Come play to offer them. Fusion Dance Crew has been video games with us! Monday @ 5:00PM - 11/20 dancing for over a year and they are looking Hagamos un árbol de Acción de to add new talent to their crew. If you’re Tuesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/7 - 12/26 Gracias interested, be here and show off your moves! Teen Study Hall What are you thankful for? Join us and Requirements: Must be 9-18 years old, have Come study with us! During this time, make a Thanksgiving Tree. parental permission, maintain good grades, and the teen area is a quiet zone to study. bring water and a towel. Be prepared to stay the LAURELTON whole class. Boys are welcome! Thursdays @ 3:30PM - 11/9, 11/16 134-26 225 Street, 718-528-2822 Glen Oaks Creators Program Thursday @ 6:30PM - 11/9 Come create with us! 11/9: Slime Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 “King” Solomon Hicks: The Ties Between Workshop; 11/16: Toothpick Houses. Resume and Cover Letters for Young Blues & Jazz Adults A musical concert with King Solomon Hicks. HILLCREST Our resume and cover letter workshops Solomon intertwines blues and jazz in his own 187-05 Union Turnpike, 718-454-2786 will show you how to create a great- unique style. His performance is a tribute to looking resume with professionalism Wes Montgomery, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, and Monday @ 5:00PM - 11/27 and proper punctuation. Please call 718- a number of other blues artists! An eclectic Karaoke Dance Party After Dark! 528-2822 and ask to speak to Mr. Jeffrey musician, Solomon also excels at classical, Join our karaoke dance party! or Ms. Stubbs to register. gospel, R&B, funk, and classic rock.

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LONG ISLAND CITY NORTH HILLS will be performing at 5 p.m. and teens 37-44 21 Street, 718-752-3700 57-04 Marathon Parkway, 718-225-3550 will be performing at 6 p.m.

Monday @ 5:30PM - 12/4 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 11/9 POPPENHUSEN Shakespeare in Queens: “Twelfth Night, Meet the Author: “Moshe” by Andrew 121-23 14 Avenue, 718-359-1102 or What You Will” Montante Titan Theatre Company presents a staged Local author Andrew Montante will Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 reading of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night, discuss his fantasy novel “Moshe,” about Wii Games or What You Will.” Shipwrecked and a tribe of humans that have fallen into Join us every Friday as we play Wii separated from her twin brother, whom the underworld. Can their unlikely games! A parent or guardian must she fears dead, Viola, disguised as a man, is leader help them escape the dangers accompany children under age 8. employed by Duke Orsino as a messenger to and find their way back to where they the beautiful Countess Olivia. truly belong? Learn about Andrew’s QUEENS VILLAGE experience in writing and finding a 94-11 217 Street, 718-776-6800 MASPETH publisher for his work. Books will be 69-70 Grand Avenue, 718-639-5228 available for sale and signing. Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 11/8 Movie Afternoon Fridays @ 3:00PM - 11/17, 12/15 OZONE PARK This month’s selection is “Wonder Kids Teens and Tweens Craft 92-24 Rockaway Boulevard, 718-845-3127 Woman” (2017, PG-13). Come to the library to create exciting crafts! Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/2 Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 12/6 Forging Mjolnir, The Hammer of Thor Movie Afternoon MCGOLDRICK “Whosoever holds this hammer, if he/ This month’s selection is “Lion” (2016, 155-06 Roosevelt Av. (off Northern Blvd), she be worthy, shall possess the power of PG-13). 718-461-1616 Thor.” This is the inscription on the side of Mjolnir, the magical hammer of the QUEENSBORO HILL Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1 - 12/6 Marvel Comics superhero Thor. We shall 60-05 Main Street, 718-359-8332 Korean for Beginners forge the mighty hammer Mjolnir, but be Do you want to read all Korean signs? forewarned—only those who are proven Mondays @ 2:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18, Do you want to watch Korean dramas worthy will be able to lift it! Tuesdays @ 2:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26, and movies without English captions? Wednesdays @ 2:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27, Do you want to say hello to your Korean Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3, 11/17, 12/1, 12/22 Thursdays @ 2:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28, neighbors? Do you want to order Korean Friday STEAM Fridays @ 2:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29, food in Korean? Then this class is for Come have fun with Science, Technology, Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/4 - 12/30 you. Preregistration is required. Please Engineering, Art, and Math! Chess & Board Games for Teens preregister online or call (in English) 718- Chess, poker, Uno, and more, for teens. 461-1616. Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4, 12/11, 12/18 Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/6 Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/4 Craft Time Crafting with Feminism for Teens It’s Never Too Early (or Too Late) To Plan Children are invited to join us to make a This is what a feminist crafter looks for Your Child’s College Education fun craft! like! Get together with other young Gain insight into developing the right women and craft. You can hack a tee strategy for you and your child to get into Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/29 shirt to show off your personal taste, the college of their dreams and to ease the The Intrepid Museum Presents High color a picture or three of your favorite financial burden of a college education. Flying Design feminist heroines, or make some DIY Arnold Davis has conducted presentations Museum educators will explain the beauty products that are gentle on you on college admissions and financing at four forces of flight and how they allow and on the planet. Ages 13-18, please! high schools, secondary schools, and airplanes to fly through the air. Teens primary schools in the Midwest and will then perform a hands-on task to Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/20 regional New York. demonstrate these forces. Hack Your Tee! A T-Shirt Design Workshop MIDDLE VILLAGE PENINSULA Show off your personal style by DIY-ing 72-31 Metropolitan Avenue, 718-326-1390 92-25 Rockaway Beach Blvd., 718-634-1110 a tee to fit you! We supply the materials, you bring your ideas. Need inspiration? Thursdays @ 4:30PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Thursday @ 5:00PM - 11/16 We’ll have suggestions! Ages 14-18. Chess Club Talent Show! Materials are limited, so this program is Children and teens, ages 6 and up, can Show us what you got on Thursday, first come, first served. learn and improve their knowledge of November 16 from 5-7 p.m. for our chess. children and teens talent show. Children

74 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE ProgramsPrograms for for All Teens Ages REGO PARK Montgomery, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf, Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/20 91-41 63 Drive, 718-459-5140 and a number of other blues artists! An Manga Drawing eclectic musician, Solomon also excels at Artist Eric Cheng teaches teens and Monday @ 5:30PM - 11/6 classical, gospel, R&B, funk, and classic tweens basic techniques for drawing Shakespeare in Queens: rock. manga characters. “As You Like It” Titan Theatre Company presents a Saturday @ 1:00PM - 12/16 STEINWAY staged reading of Shakespeare’s “As You Holiday Karaoke Dance Party! 21-45 31 Street, 718-728-1965 Like It.” Cousins seek refuge in the forest Join our karaoke dance party for the and mistaken identity, music, poetry, and holidays! Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/30, 12/14 laughter ensue. Kids Knit Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 12/27 Kids in grades 4-8 are invited to join the RICHMOND HILL Minecraft Madness knitting club. All levels welcome. Limited 118-14 Hillside Avenue, 718-849-7150 If you build it, they will come. Join us at supplies available. Rochdale Village, to build, to explore, to Mondays @ 3:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18, gather...to Minecraft. Open to kids and SUNNYSIDE Tuesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/7 - 12/26, teens. 43-06 Greenpoint Avenue, 718-784-3033 Wednesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/1 - 12/27, Thursdays @ 3:30PM - 11/2 - 12/28, ROSEDALE Thursdays @ 3:00PM - 11/2 - 12/7 Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3 - 12/29, Saturdays 144-20 243 Street, 718-528-8490 Korean for Beginners @ 3:30PM - 11/4 - 12/30 Do you want to read all Korean signs? Lanyard Club Saturdays @ 2:30PM - 11/4, 11/18, 12/2, Do you want to watch Korean dramas Teens and tweens: make a lanyard 12/16, 12/30 and movies without English captions? keychain or bracelet. Teen Coding with Matpreneur Do you want to say hello to your Korean Youth will learn computer coding and neighbors? Do you want to order Korean Thursday @ 6:30PM - 11/9 how to create websites. food in Korean? Then this class is for It’s Never Too Early (or Too Late) you. Preregistration is required. Please To Plan for Your Child’s College Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/13 register by calling 718-784-3033. Education Jewelry Making Gain insight into developing the right Teens will learn how to make beautiful Saturday @ 2:30PM - 11/25 strategy for you and your child to get jewelry. Materials will be provided. Ebru Art Classes with Mustafa Yasar into the college of their dreams and to (In Turkish and English) ease the financial burden of a college SOUTH OZONE PARK Learn the Turkish art of ebru. Paper education. Arnold Davis has conducted 128-16 Rockaway Blvd., 718-529-1660 marbling (ebru) is the art of creating presentations on college admissions and colorful patterns by sprinkling and financing at high schools, secondary Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 12/19 brushing color pigments on a pan of oily schools, and primary schools in the Holiday “Ugly T-Shirt” Decorating water and then transferring this pattern Midwest and regional New York. Come join the festivities as we decorate to paper. Participants must register for a t-shirt in the holiday spirit with each session starting two weeks ahead RIDGEWOOD Christmas decorations. T-shirt will be of the program date either in person at 20-12 Madison Street, 718-821-4770 provided for children ages 8-14. Sunnyside or by calling 718-784-3033. Limited to the first 10 applicants per Saturday @ 3:00PM - 11/18 ST. ALBANS session. Newtown Literary: Inventing New 191-05 Linden Boulevard, 718-528-8196 Wor(l)ds Thursdays @ 3:00PM - 12/14, 12/21 We will be poetic inventors and make Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/1 Korean for Beginners up new words by experimenting with Stay Safe: Get the Facts Do you want to read all Korean signs? existing words, objects, and poems! Do you know what to do if...you think Do you want to watch Korean dramas your friend is in danger? Someone and movies without English captions? ROCHDALE VILLAGE is making you feel uncomfortable or Do you want to say hello to your Korean 169-09 137 Avenue, 718-723-4440 unsafe? You are being bullied? Come neighbors? Do you want to order Korean get the answers to these questions and food in Korean? Then this class is for Tuesday @ 3:00PM - 11/21 more from Detective Tanya Duhaney of you. Preregistration is required. Please “King” Solomon Hicks: The Ties the 113th Precinct, Community Affairs register by calling 718-784-3033. Between Blues & Jazz Department of the NYPD. Learn ways A musical concert with King Solomon that you can help keep your friends and Hicks. Solomon intertwines blues yourself safe. All are welcome. and jazz in his own unique style. His performance is a tribute to Wes

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WINDSOR PARK Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/27 WOODSIDE 79-50 Bell Boulevard, 718-468-8300 S.T.E.A.M. 54-22 Skillman Avenue, 718-429-4700 There will be hands-on activities in Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/2 Science, Technology, Engineering, Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1 - 11/29 The Intrepid Museum Presents High Arts, and Math for ages 8-15. The Fashion Class: A Fashion and Sewing Flying Design Program Museum educators will explain the Mondays @ 4:00PM - 12/4, 12/11, 12/18 Learn the art of hand-sewing in this four forces of flight and how they allow Talent Show Practice fashion course for teens! Teens will learn airplanes to fly through the air. Teens Practice, practice, practice! We will how to thread a needle, perform various will then perform a hands-on task to use this time to polish up your acts stitches, and become proficient in different demonstrate these forces. so you can bring your best to the techniques. Registration is required. talent show on Tuesday, December WOODHAVEN 19 at 4:00 p.m. This event is for ages Fridays @ 5:00PM - 11/3, 11/17, 11/24, 12/1 - 85-41 Forest Parkway, 718-849-1010 8-15. 12/29 Dodgeball! Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/6 Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 12/19 Come join Joel for dodgeball and other fun Graffiti Art Holiday Talent Show physical games! Perfect for working out Learn graffiti art at this workshop. Do you have a special talent? Do your stress after the school week is over! you want to show the world? Then For kids, tweens, and teens. Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/5 first show your community! Join Rock Band our talent show! Signups start on Friday @ 6:00PM - 12/1 Do you have what it takes to be in a rock Monday, November 20. Practice Escape the Library! band? Learn about and play different starts on Monday, December 4 at 4 Come join us at this special after-hours instruments, including the guitar, p.m. event, and try to escape the library by percussion, accordion, and xylophone solving puzzles, finding clues, and using (why not?), then form your own rock your wits! For teens and tweens. Space is band and perform! Yes, the Rock Band is limited—please come by the library or call to happening for ages 8-15. register.

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ARVERNE Thursdays @ 3:30PM - 11/2 - 11/30 Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 11/7 312 Beach 54 Street, 718-634-4784 Preschooler Storytime Fall Tree Craft Children ages 3-5 with caretakers will Join us at the library to celebrate fall! Wednesdays @ 10:15AM - 11/1 - 12/27 enjoy listening to stories, singing songs, We will talk about the changes in StoryTime and dancing. Registration is not required. weather, clothing, and holidays in the Preschoolers will develop early literacy fall. Children will make a fall tree craft. skills as they experience new and Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2 - 11/30 Ages 5-12. classic picture books, enjoy favorite Preschooler Arts & Crafts songs, learn delightful fingerplays, and For each session, children ages 3-5 with Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/8 play movement games in this fun and caretakers will work on various arts Abracadabra engaging program. and crafts projects. Registration is not Children’s magician Evan Paquette required. performs his magic show and even Wednesdays @ 4:30PM - 11/1 - 12/13 shares a few tricks of the trade with a ProjectArt Wednesday @ 11:00AM - 11/15 mini-lesson. These ProjectArt afterschool art classes Toddlers Coloring & Craft Time are for children ages 8-12. Children ages 12 months to 3 years with Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/16 parents or caregivers can enjoy coloring Found Object Puppet Making Thursdays @ 5:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 and making a beautiful craft. Join us in this hands-on workshop where Kids’ Movie Thursday you will learn how just about anything Children of all ages are invited to join Friday @ 11:00AM - 11/17 can be animated and brought to life as a us for our Thursday evening movie Play Hooray for Preschool Children puppet. screening. Preschool children will enjoy a play hooray with their parents or caregivers. Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/20 Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Please register at the library. Harvest Moon: A Collection of Native Fun Fridays American Tales Children can celebrate the end of the BAISLEY PARK Our storytelling sisters share some week with board games, arts and crafts, 117-11 Sutphin Boulevard, 718-529-1590 of their favorite stories about colors, coloring, and more! animals, spirits, and family in this Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 12/27 collection of Native American tales. Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Toddler Time at Baisley Park Air Hockey Mondays Toddlers and their accompanying grown- Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/30 Get a good start to the week with our Air up can enjoy stories, music, nursery Native American Corn Craft Hockey Mondays—battle your friends for rhymes, toys, and peer interaction! In autumn, we see many different forms the top spot! Families will have the opportunity to of corn. Join us at the library to talk about connect with each other for support and how the Native Americans used different ASTORIA resources. Ages 2-4. techniques to cultivate corn. Children will 14-01 Astoria Boulevard, 718-278-2220 also make a corn craft. Ages 5-12. Mondays @ 3:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18, Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/8 - 12/27 Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26, Monday @ 4:00PM - 12/4 Bilingual StoryTime (English/Spanish) Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27, Dance of the African Diaspora Interested in your toddler learning Thursdays @ 3:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28, Using movement and music, students Spanish or gaining basic literacy skills? Fridays @ 3:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 will go on an interactive dance tour Then this is a program for you! Your STACKS Afterschool at Baisley celebrating the differences and toddler will be introduced to stories and Baisley Park Library offers a free similarities of dances within the African songs in English and Spanish. We will afterschool program. Children in grades diaspora. This event is for ages 6-12. also play games and color or make crafts. K-6 will have a STACKS leader help Walk-ins welcomed. them with homework assignments, Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 12/12 and they can participate in afterschool Art of Mime AUBURNDALE enrichment workshops. World-renowned mime Bill Bowers 25-55 Francis Lewis Blvd., 718-352-2027 shares a short performance and teaches Fridays @ 12:15PM - 11/3 - 12/29 some of the fundamentals of being a Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1 - 11/29 My Baby and Me at Baisley Park mime. Ages 6-12. Family Playtime Babies and their accompanying grown- Children ages 12 months to 3 years and up can enjoy stories, music, nursery BAY TERRACE their caretakers can enjoy bonding and rhymes, toys, and peer interaction! 18-36 Bell Boulevard, 718-423-7004 playing with various dolls and toys. Families will have the opportunity to Space is limited. Please register at the connect with each other for support and Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 12/20 library. resources. Ages 6 months-2 years. Toddler Time See “Baisley Park”, 11/1.

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Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/3, 12/8 Mondays @ 1:30PM - 11/6 - 12/11 BRIARWOOD Baby and Me Picture Book 85-12 Main Street, 718-658-1680 Babies ages 9-18 months, and their adult Join us for storytime. For children 3 1/2 to caregivers, can share simple stories, 5 years old. Wednesdays @ 10:00AM - 11/1 - 12/27 songs, and rhymes, and play with Mother Goose educational toys and games. Tuesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/7 - 12/5 Children ages 6-18 months and their Kickoff to Kindergarten parent/caregiver are invited to join us Monday @ 3:30PM - 11/20 Parents and other caregivers can help for simple picture books, nursery rhyme Lego Building Club children learn the skills they need to be fingerplays, and play time. Children ages 5-10 can enjoy successful before they start kindergarten. constructing various structures, During eight weekly sessions, library staff Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1 - 12/27 vehicles, and other objects with our will show parents, caregivers, and children Toddler Time Lego set, in this fun and educational how to use games, hands-on activities, and See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. program. stories that help build the most important language and social skills. Children will Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/30 be able to keep the games and stories and Arts and Crafts for School-Age Children Tall Ships & Pirate Tales with use them again at home. Preregistration Come and join us on Friday afternoons Sciencetellers required and space is limited. to make an arts and crafts project! For Ahoy! People don’t just build on land. school-age children. They build on water too! Set sail with us Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/19 on a thrilling action-packed adventure Needlework BROADWAY about a crew of quirky pirates marooned Children ages 8 and up can learn 40-20 Broadway, 718-721-2462 on a deserted island. Don’t miss this needlework. Materials are limited. refreshing nautical tale with a twist! Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1 - 11/22 Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/8 - 12/20 Escape Room Skills BAYSIDE Mother Goose Learn to decipher secret codes, create 214-20 Northern Blvd., 718-229-1834 Children 18-30 months and their caregivers and reveal invisible messages, and solve can enjoy an hour of songs and playtime. riddles and tricky logic puzzles during Wednesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/1 - 12/13 this four-session weekly program. During Fun Karaoke Wednesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/8 - 12/20 the last week, you can put your new skills Sing your heart out and have a rocking Wii Game Challenge to the test at an Escape Room and Puzzle good time! This program is for teens and Play and dance with friends via the Wii Party! Ages 6-12. No registration required. tweens. game Just Dance. This gaming event is for teens and tweens. Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2 - 11/30 Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2 - 12/14 Tech Time: Book Trailers Scrabble Club BELLEROSE Create an amazing movie-trailer-style Play Scrabble, challenge others, and 250-06 Hillside Avenue, 718-831-8644 commercial about your favorite book make new friends. This program is for using Animoto, an online video slideshow teens and tweens. Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27 maker. Ages 9-12. No registration required, LEGO Building Club but participants are encouraged to attend Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 12/15 Children in grades K-6 will have fun being all four sessions. Book Buddies creative with Legos! Teens will read to kids. For grades K-4. Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3, 11/10, 11/17 Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18, Tuesdays Fun Friday Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 11/4 - 12/16 @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26, Wednesdays @ Games, puzzles & more! Play with old Homework Help 4:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27, Thursdays @ 4:00PM friends, and make new friends. Teens volunteer to help children (from - 11/2 - 12/28 kindergarten to grade 5) with their Homework Help Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/19 school assignments. Homework help is available after school, Community Service Club Monday through Thursday, for children in Earn service hours for school while doing Mondays @ 10:15AM - 11/6 - 12/11 grades K-6. something good for your community Baby & Me or people in need. A different project Babies 7-18 months and their caregivers Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/22 - 12/27, each week: make cards for veterans can enjoy a 45-minute program of songs Fridays @ 10:30AM - 11/3 - 12/29 and nursing home residents; craft and playtimes. Toddler StoryTime Thanksgiving placemats for a soup Please join us for stories, songs, and kitchen; create cozy baby caps for Mondays @ 11:15AM - 11/6 - 12/11 fingerplays. This program is for children 4 hospitalized newborns; paint welcoming Toddler Time years old and younger, and their parents posters for the library—and more! Ages See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. or caregivers. 9-12. No registration required.

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CENTRAL LIBRARY Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 11/14 COURT SQUARE 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, 718-990-0778 Beauty & the Beast Sing Along 25-01 Jackson Avenue, 718-937-2790 Sing along to some wonderful folk tale Wednesday @ 10:30AM - 11/1 songs! Don’t know the words? No problem! Wednesdays @ 10:15AM and 11AM- 11/1 - Timeless Tales Boys and girls ages 6-12 are invited to join 12/20 Boys and girls ages 3 to 5 with a us. No registration is required! Toddler Time caregiver are invited to the fall session See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. of Timeless Tales! Enjoy stories, songs, Tuesday @ 6:00PM - 11/14 fingerplays, crafts, and more. Space How to Search Queens Library Thursdays @ 11:15AM and 12PM - 11/2 - 12/21 will be limited, so don’t miss out! Databases Mother Goose Time Did you know that Queens Library offers a Join us for songs, stories, and good Thursday @ 10:00AM - 11/2 number of terrific databases that you can company every Thursday! This program Toddler Learning Center use at home? You didn’t? Well, come and is for babies from birth to crawling. During this five-session play group for learn about them! Boys and girls 7-12 years Registration is required and opens every children ages 18-36 months, parents old are invited to join us. No registration is Friday for the following week. and caregivers will learn about required, but space is limited. nutrition, speech development, early DOUGLASTON/LITTLE NECK literacy, and parenting skills. Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 11/21 249-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-225-8414 Origami Turkeys Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/3 - 12/8 Thanksgiving is here again and this is Wednesdays @ 10:15AM - 11/1 - 12/20 Mother Goose a program you’re sure to “gobble up!” Mother Goose Mother Goose is back! Children 6 Origami Turkeys! Boys and girls from Children ages 6-23 months and their months to 2 years and their caregivers 6-12 years old are welcome to make an parent/caregiver are invited to read simple are welcome to join us. Stories, songs, exciting craft that you’ll be thankful for. picture books, sing nursery rhymes, and fingerplays, and more fun will be No registration required, but space and do fingerplays. Preregistration is required. held in our multipurpose room. No supplies are limited. Space is limited. registration required! Tuesdays @ 6:00PM - 11/28 - 12/19 Wednesdays @ 11:15AM - 11/1 - 12/20 Saturdays @ 11:00AM - 11/4 - 12/30 Paint Time on the Laptop Family Storytime Saturday Science Lab Come explore Paint software! Learn new Rise and shine and head to the library for Join us on Saturdays for Saturday ways to express yourself and create your 30 minutes of stories and songs for children Science Lab. It’s hands-on learning own work of art! Children ages 7 to 12 from 2-5 years of age and their parents/ while having fun. This is a free are invited to join us. No registration is caregivers. Preregistration is required. program for girls and boys up to age required, but space is limited. Don’t miss Space is limited. 12 and their families. No registration out! required! Thursdays @ 3:30PM - 11/16, 12/14 CORONA Boys Book Discussion Mondays @ 10:30AM - 11/6, 11/13 38-23 104 Street, 718-426-2844 Join Mrs. Tina for the Autumn Boys Book Toddler Time Discussion on Thursday afternoons. See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. Thursday @ 3:30PM - 11/2 November 16: “The Seventh Most Important The Pura Belpre Project Thing” by Shelley Pearsall; December 14: Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 As the first Puerto Rican librarian in the “Holes” by Louis Sachar. Winter Chorus New York Public Library system, Pura Got a song to sing? Don’t keep it inside! Belpre pioneered many programs for the Saturday @ 11:00AM - 11/18 Boys and girls ages 6-12 are invited Latino community. This performance is a Craft Time with Mrs. Louisa to join our winter chorus. This group re-enactment of her legendary “Bilingual Join us for a seasonal craft. Supplies meets for 7 weeks, so you must attend Story Hour.” Her famous tales “Perez & are limited. Preregistration is required. all sessions. No registration required, Martina,” “Juan Bobo,” and “The Three Children under the age of 6 must be but space is limited. Magi” come to life in a creative and accompanied by an adult. interactive experience that combines Thursdays @ 10:30AM - 11/9 - 12/21 storytelling with puppets. For ages 6-12. EAST ELMHURST Bengali StoryTime (18-36 months) 95-06 Astoria Boulevard, 718-424-2619 Children ages 18 months to 3 years and Mondays @ 2:30PM - 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 their caregivers can attend a weekly Museum Book Scavenger Hunt Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 11/1 - 12/20 45-minute program to enjoy stories, Do you think you’re good at finding books? Baby and Me songs, and activities. This program Come find and check-out some books that This interactive lap-sit program for is in both English and Bengali. No fit certain categories to win candy—and children 1 year old and younger and their registration is required. maybe a museum ticket! Ask for more caregivers features nursery rhymes, information at the children’s desk. fingerplays, and songs.

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Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/3 - 12/22 Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/15 Queens Library also has access to a Toddler Time Elmhurst Spelling Bee number of great databases and online See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. We are looking for our neighborhood educational materials to promote spelling bee champs! Grades 3-6. See learning. This program explores a range EAST FLUSHING children’s librarian for details. of online learning tools for children in 196-36 Northern Blvd., 718-357-6643 grades 1-6. Join us for the first of these Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 11/21 monthly programs to celebrate the Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Turkey Tuesday return to school! East Flushing StoryTime—Fall 2017 Make a turkey decoration for For toddlers and preschool-aged children. Thanksgiving! Ages 4-11. Wednesday @ 4:30PM - 11/22 First come, first served. Admission is Book Club Discussion BookBusters: free. Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 12/13 “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” Elmhurst Spelling Bee Join us for a book discussion themed Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 We are looking for our neighborhood around sweets, chocolate, and the East Flushing Arts and Crafts—Fall 2017 spelling bee champs! Grades 3-6. See importance of being nice! You will also Ages 3 and up. Admission is free! children’s librarian for details. have a chance to find a Golden Ticket! Pick up the reserved book “Charlie Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/22, 12/20, FLUSHING and the Chocolate Factory” by author Saturdays @ 3:00PM - 11/25, 12/23 41-17 Main Street, 718-661-1200 Roald Dahl at the Children’s Reference Amazing Origami Desk. Grades 4-6. Participation will Join Joy for her monthly amazing Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1 - 11/22 count toward the Read Down Your Fees origami projects. Mother Goose Time program. See “Court Square”, 11/2. ELMHURST Friday @ 11:00AM - 11/24 86-07 Broadway, 718-271-1020 Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/1 - 11/29 Drop-in Craft Welcome Kids and Teens: Afternoon Drop in and create something amazing! Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 11/1 - 11/22 Stories We’ll have craft supplies—bring your Mother Goose Time Children ages 4 to 6 are invited to join us ideas and creativity! See “Court Square”, 11/2. for stories and a craft every Wednesday afternoon. Friday @ 2:00PM - 11/24 Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1, 11/22 Children’s Film Wacky Wednesdays Wednesday @ 4:30PM - 11/1 Children and their families are invited You’ll never know what to expect on a Welcome Kids and Teens: Comics, to join us for a film in the auditorium. Wacky Wednesday! For Grades K-6. Manga, and More! Our club gives kids ages 8-12 the Wednesday @ 4:30PM - 11/29 Thursdays @ 4:45PM - 11/2 - 12/7 opportunity to discuss their favorite Welcome Kids and Teens: Fresh Ink Spelling Bee Practice comics and graphic novels. Writing Club Practice your spelling skills. Grades 3-6. Children ages 8 to 12 will practice their Thursdays @ 10:30AM - 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, writing skills with a different writing Fridays @ 10:30AM - 11/3 - 12/22 11/30 activity each month. Toddler Time Toddler Time See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 12/6, 12/13, 12/20 Fridays @ 11:30AM - 11/3 - 12/22 Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/4 - 12/30 Mother Goose Time Picture Book Time Chess Club See “Court Square”, 11/2. Stories, songs, fingerplays, and coloring Children and teens, ages 8 and up, can for young children ages 3-4. learn and improve their knowledge of Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 12/6, 12/13, chess. 12/20 Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Afternoon Stories Chess Class/Club Wednesday @ 4:30PM - 11/8 Children ages 4 to 6 are invited to Teens and children can come learn the Welcome Kids and Teens: Make It! join us for stories and a craft every basics of chess or improve their game. In our Maker’s Lab, children ages 8-12 Wednesday afternoon. The location will be the 2nd-floor Sun will create, innovate, and collaborate on a Room! different project each month using a wide Wednesday @ 4:30PM - 12/6 range of materials. Comics, Manga, and More! Tuesdays @ 4:15PM - 11/7 - 12/19 Our club gives kids ages 8-12 the Beginning Reader Storytime Thursday @ 4:30PM - 11/16 opportunity to discuss their favorite An interactive storytime for our Welcome Kids and Teens: Techsplorers comics and graphic novels. youngest readers. Ages 4-7. In addition to its books and encyclopedias,

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Thursdays @ 10:30AM - 12/7, 12/14, 12/21 Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 12/15 Infants, toddlers, and caregivers can Toddler Time ProjectArt for Ages 11-13 enjoy songs, movement, fingerplays, See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. Children ages 11-13 will use their puppets, and other activities. imagination to create a work of art. Please Wednesday @ 4:30PM - 12/13 sign up at http://www.projectart.org/nyc. Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18, Make It! Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/14 - 12/19, In our Maker’s Lab, children ages 8-12 Saturdays @ 2:30PM - 11/4, 11/18, 11/25 Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1 - 12/20, will create, innovate, and collaborate Super Cinema Saturday Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2 - 12/21 on a different project each month Kids ages 5 and up can sit back and enjoy a Study Hall using a wide range of materials. great feature film in the comfort of Forest School-age children will receive support Hills’s program room. Come be entertained for reading and homework. If interested, FOREST HILLS by the magic of the movies! Join us for the they may also participate in book 108-19 71 Avenue, 718-268-7934 following movies: November 4: “Sing” (2016, discussions or reading circles. PG); November 18: “Max 2: White House Hero” Wednesdays @ 10:15AM - 11/1 - 12/27 (2017, PG); November 25: “Cars 3” (2017, G). Fridays @ 3:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Toddler StoryTime I Friday Kids’ Club Toddlers ages 18-35 months and their Mondays @ 9:30AM - 11/6 - 11/27 Children ages 5-12: join us for a variety parents/adult caregivers will hear Mother Goose Time of fun activities each week—knitting, stories, sing songs, and do lots of See “Court Square”, 11/2. arts and crafts, board games, Legos, and fingerplays and movement games much more! Parents, grandparents, and while enhancing their early-literacy Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/13 - 12/11 other adult caregivers are encouraged to skills in a fun, warm environment! ProjectArt for Ages 8-10 join the activities! Preregistration isn’t required, but Children ages 8-10 will use their imagination only 28 families may attend each to create a work of art. Please sign up at Saturdays @ 2:30PM - 11/4, 11/18, 11/25 session. Early arrival is strongly http://www.projectart.org/nyc. Coding Classes for Kids encouraged! This program introduces children ages Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/14, 11/28, 12/5, 12/12 9-12 (4th to 7th grades) to the world of Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1 - 12/27 ProjectArt for Ages 4-7 coding. Participants will learn basic Toddler StoryTime II Children ages 4-7 will use their imagination HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create Toddlers ages 18-35 months and their to create a work of art. Please sign up at their very first webpage. Attendance is parents/adult caregivers will hear http://www.projectart.org/nyc. required for all three sessions. Register in stories, sing songs, and do lots of person or by calling 718-831-8636. fingerplays and movement games Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/16 while enhancing their early-literacy Thanksgiving Story & Craft Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/20 skills in a fun, warm environment! Come to the Forest Hills Library for a Adventure in Literature Preregistration isn’t required, but storytime and craft. Gobble! Gobble! Gobble! This program offers children ages only 28 families may attend each Ages 5+. 6-8 an opportunity to be exposed to session. Early arrival is strongly nonfiction books and award-winning encouraged! FRESH MEADOWS children’s literature through story books, 193-20 Horace Harding Expressway, dramatization, cool crafts, and music. Wednesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/1 - 12/20 718-454-7272 Picture Books for Preschoolers Friday @ 2:00PM - 11/24 Children ages 3-5 years and parents/ Wednesdays @ 10:15AM - 11/1, 11/8, 11/15 Family Movie: “The LEGO Batman adult caregivers will hear delightful Toddler Time Movie” stories, learn rhymes, sing songs, See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. Watch as Bruce Wayne—aka Batman— do fingerplays and movement learns that you need friends to get the games, and more, including STEM Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 job done! (2017, PG) activities and occasional crafts, Kid/Teen Board Gaming while youngsters develop pre- Learn to play weird board and card games Saturdays @ 3:00PM - 12/2 - 12/23 reading and school-readiness skills. with Ms. Reed, or challenge your friends to Coding Classes for Kids Preregistration is a must, first come, an old favorite. This program introduces children ages first served. Ask the children’s 9-12 (4th to 7th grades) to the world of librarians for details. GLEN OAKS coding. Participants will learn basic 256-04 Union Turnpike, 718-831-8636 HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3 - 12/29 their very first webpage. Attendance is Fun Friday: Board Games & More! Mondays @ 12:15PM - 11/6 - 12/18, required for all four sessions. Register in Kids ages 6 and up: Come play board Wednesdays @ 10:15AM - 11/1 - 12/27 person or by calling 718-831-8636. and card games—and more—after Music and Movement for Infants and school in the Children’s Room! Toddlers

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Tuesday @ 1:15PM - 12/26, Wednesday @ HILLCREST Library! For an hour, we’ll have the Wii 11:30AM - 12/27 187-05 Union Turnpike, 718-454-2786 and board games available for free play. Adventure in Literature For kids 7 and up! This program offers children ages Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 11/22 6-8 an opportunity to be exposed to Toddler and Preschool Time Mondays @ 10:30AM - 12/4, 12/11, 12/18 nonfiction books and award-winning For kids ages 2-5. Enjoy songs, Baby Movement and Music children’s literature through story books, storytimes, and free play. For children 6 to 18 months. Enjoy songs, dramatization, cool crafts, and music. fingerplays, and board books. Thursdays @ 4:30PM - 11/2, 11/9 Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 12/27, Friday @ Crochet for Kids Thursday @ 4:30PM - 12/7 2:00PM - 12/29 Have you always wanted to crochet? Up-cycled Penguin Craft Family Movie Ms. Ashley will help you learn the basics Come make an adorable, silly penguin Wednesday, December 27: “Captain of crocheting! Over several weeks, out of recycled materials! Up-cycling Underpants: The First Epic Movie” (2017, learn the basics of single crochet or get is good for creativity and good for the PG); Friday, December 29: “Diary of a adventurous and try out new stitches environment! For kids 6 and up. Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul” (2017, PG). and projects! Monday @ 4:30PM - 12/11 GLENDALE Monday @ 10:30AM - 11/6 Holiday Ornament Making 78-60 73 Place, 718-821-4980 Baby Movement and Music Come make a beautiful, colorful holiday For children 6 to 18 months. Enjoy songs, ornament by painting “stained glass”- Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/6 fingerplays, and board books. style baubles and making decorative Tween and Teen Karaoke loops for them to hang on. For kids 6 and Sing your heart out and have a rocking Tuesday @ 4:30PM - 11/7 up. Capped at 15, please register with Ms. good time! This program is for teens and Lego Engineers Club Ashley in the Children’s Room. tweens. Kids ages 6-10 can enjoy building various structures, vehicles, and other creations Thursday @ 4:30PM - 12/21 Tuesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/7 - 12/26 with our Legos in this STEM program. Up-cycled Gingerbread Man Craft Lego Builder’s Club Each week will present a new challenge Come make a gingerbread man out Join us to make amazing creations using in order for you to experiment with of recycled materials to decorate for Lego. engineering and physics skills—or just winter! Up-cycling is good for creativity come to play with Legos! and good for the environment! For kids Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/8 - 12/27 6 and up. Mother Goose Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/8 Stories, songs, and rhymes for babies to Silly Scarecrow Craft at Hillcrest Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 12/26 toddlers and their caregivers. Come make a silly, smiley, scarecrow face Calendar Decorating at Hillcrest Library to decorate for Fall! Help get yourself ready for the new year Fridays @ 10:30AM - 11/17 - 12/29 For children ages 4 and up. by decorating printed calendars for 2018! Toddler Time See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. Thursday @ 4:30PM - 11/16 Wednesday @ 10:30AM - 12/27 Thanksgiving Hand Wreaths at Storytime and Free Play Saturday @ 2:00PM - 11/18 Hillcrest School’s out for winter break, so come Sweet Spelling Bee Come make a colorful decoration for on down to the Hillcrest Library for a Join us for a sweet spelling bee featuring Thanksgiving by tracing your hand and storytime and some free play with our words from our Kid’s Book Club book making a wreath in fall colors! For kids games and toys! selections, the Harry Potter series and age 5 and up. Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate HOLLIS Events. There will be sweet prizes for our Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 11/22 202-05 Hillside Avenue, 718-465-7355 participants and winners. For Grades 3-6. Thanksgiving Placemat Craft Please preregister with the librarian to Come make a colorful paper placemat Wednesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/1 - 11/29 receive the word list. to decorate your space at the table for Computer for Kids: Coding Thanksgiving at the Hillcrest Library! These classes will introduce kids to Tuesday @ 5:00PM - 11/21 For children 4 and up. computers and coding. Art Class Join us to learn about the art of Thursday @ 4:30PM - 11/30, Friday @ Thursday @ 3:30PM - 11/16 Alexander Calder and to make your own 4:30PM - 12/8 Fun with Play Dough movable paper bird sculpture. Children’s Game Night Children will make play dough from flour, Come and enjoy Wii games and board water, and salt, then they will use cookie games with your friends and neighbors cutters to cut out different shapes. from the community at the Hillcrest

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Thursday @ 3:30PM - 12/21 Monday @ 5:00PM - 11/20 LEFFERTS Winter Origami Hagamos un árbol de Acción de 103-34 Lefferts Boulevard, 718-843-5950 Children will develop a winter scene Gracias using origami shapes. What are you thankful for? Join us and Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/3 - 12/29 make a Thanksgiving Tree. Mother Goose Time HOWARD BEACH See “Court Square”, 11/2. 92-06 156 Avenue, 718-641-7086 Mondays @ 4:00PM - 12/4, 12/18 Experimenting with Science LEFRAK CITY Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 11/1 - 11/29 Children ages 6 to 12 can learn science by 98-30 57 Avenue, 718-592-7677 Toddler Time performing experiments. See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1 - 11/29 Friday @ 4:00PM - 12/22 Toddler Storytime Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/9 - 12/28 Holiday Craft Program for Kids Come join us for toddler storytime! StoryTime Children ages 6 to 12 can celebrate the Children ages 12 months to 4 years with Let’s read picture books together! holiday season with a craft activity. a parent or other adult caregiver can join us for stories, songs, nursery rhymes, and KEW GARDENS HILLS LAURELTON coloring. 71-34 Main Street, 718-261-6654 134-26 225 Street, 718-528-2822 Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1, 11/15, 11/29 Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/6 Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 12/13 Preschool Storytime and Craft Tall Ships & Pirate Tales with Storytime Come join us for storytime and craft! Sciencetellers Enjoy stories, songs, fingerplays, and Children ages 3-5 years with a parent Ahoy! People don’t just build on land. crafts with your toddler. Ages 18 or other adult caregiver can join us They build on water too! Set sail with us months-5 years. to listen to some stories and create a on a thrilling action-packed adventure craft. Preregistration is required for this about a crew of quirky pirates marooned Mondays @ 3:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18, program. Register by phone, online, or in on a deserted island. Don’t miss this Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26, person. refreshing nautical tale with a twist! Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27, Thursdays @ 3:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28, Thursday @ 4:30PM - 11/9 LANGSTON HUGHES Fridays @ 3:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Fusion Dance Crew Recruitment 100-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-651-1100 Homework Help Think you have the hottest dance Are you struggling with a tough moves? Come show Fusion Dance Crew Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1 - 12/6 homework question or problem? Children what you have to offer them. Fusion StoryTime in grades 1-6 can come to the Laurelton Dance Crew has been dancing for over Children ages 3 to 5 and their caregivers Community Library after school from a year and they are looking to add new can participate in a reading program, 3:00-6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday talent to their crew. If you’re interested, which includes stories, crafts, music, and and ask for help with homework. be here and show off your moves! other fun, educational activities. Requirements: Must be 9-18 years old, Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/8 - 12/27 have parental permission, maintain good Friday @ 4:00PM - 11/3 Reading for Comprehension grades, and bring water and a towel. Be Kids, Read the Current Events! Does your child want to improve their prepared to stay the whole class. Boys Children ages 6 to 12 will read current reading skills and comprehension? are welcome! events articles and discuss them. This free library program is aimed to help students practice their reading Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/14, 11/28 Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/17 - 12/15 and comprehension skills in a fun and Afterschool Arts and Crafts Toddler Time friendly atmosphere, and is offered to Children in 1st through 6th grade can join See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. school-aged children in grades 1-6 on us after school and make fun crafts! Wednesday afternoons from 3-6 p.m. Friday @ 4:00PM - 11/17 Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 12/6 - 12/27 Thanksgiving Sand Art Picture Craft Friday @ 4:00PM - 11/17 Toddler Storytime Program Let’s Make a Thanksgiving Day Craft! Come join us for toddler storytime! Children ages 6 to 12 can create a sand All school-aged kids are welcome to stop Children ages 12 months to 4 years with art picture to celebrate the holiday. in today for a Thanksgiving Day craft! a parent or other adult caregiver can join Ages 6-12. us for stories, songs, nursery rhymes, and Friday @ 4:00PM - 11/24, Saturday @ coloring. 4:00PM - 11/18 Friday @ 4:00PM - 12/15 Let’s Play Board Games! Let’s Make a Christmas Craft! Children ages 6 to 12 can play board All school-aged kids are welcome to stop games like Scrabble and checkers. in today for a Christmas craft! Ages 6-12.

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LONG ISLAND CITY Mondays @ 5:00PM - 11/27, 12/18 Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 11/28 37-44 21 Street, 718-752-3700 Movie of the Month Tall Ships & Pirate Tales with November 27: “Rogue One: A Star Wars Sciencetellers Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/2 Story” (2016, PG-13); December 18: “Believe” Ahoy! People don’t just build on land. Paper Flowers (2016, PG). They build on water too! Set sail with us Come join us and make loving paper on a thrilling action-packed adventure flowers. MASPETH about a crew of quirky pirates marooned 69-70 Grand Avenue, 718-639-5228 on a deserted island. Don’t miss this Friday @ 4:00PM - 11/3 refreshing nautical tale with a twist! Design a Holiday Card Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 11/15 Create and design your own holiday Stereoscopic Photography & 3D Images MITCHELL-LINDEN card for someone special. Come to the library to learn how to create 31-32 Union Street, 718-539-2330 3D imaging. Saturdays @ 3:30PM - 11/4, 11/18, 12/2, Mondays @ 12:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18, 12/16, 12/30 Tuesday @ 3:30PM - 11/21 Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1 - 12/27, Storytime Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/3 - 12/22 Storytime for toddlers. Children of all ages are welcome to stop in Mother Goose and create a fun Thanksgiving craft. Join Mrs. H in singing popular nursery Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6, 11/13 songs and learning with fingerplays. Origami Hour Friday @ 3:30PM - 12/1 All children must be accompanied by A quiet and focused activity for kids Spelling Bee for Kids a parent or guardian. For toddlers ages of all ages and adults. Patrons will Maspeth Community Library is proud to 6-36 months. spend the hour creating easy origami host the 2017 Maspeth Spelling Bee. All 3rd- creations from print-outs and/or 6th graders are eligible to enter. Winners Mondays @ 12:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18, videos for “origami fun!” will be eligible to enter the Spelling Bee Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 11/1 - 12/27, Contest at Queens Central Library in May Fridays @ 11:30AM - 11/3 - 12/22 Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6, 11/13, 11/20, 2018. Toddler Time Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 11/21 See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. Craft Animals Series Friday @ 3:30PM - 12/22 Kids will create their own animals Christmas Crafts for Kids Mondays @ 1:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18, from things that are lying around the Kids will have fun making Christmas crafts. Wednesdays @ 12:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27, house. Fridays @ 12:00PM - 11/3 - 12/22 MCGOLDRICK Coloring Club Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/27, Tuesdays @ 155-06 Roosevelt Av. (off Northern Blvd), Toddlers and their parents are welcome 4:00PM - 11/7, 11/14, 11/28 718-461-1616 to color. Coloring pages will be provided. Amazing Animals Children will learn interesting facts Mondays @ 3:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18, Tuesdays Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3, 11/17, 11/24 and complete a fun craft, based on that @ 3:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26, Wednesdays @ Children’s Friday Matinee week’s animal. 3:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27, Thursdays @ 3:00PM - Kids age 12 and under with their parents 11/2 - 12/28, Fridays @ 3:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 or guardians are invited to screenings Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/9 Homework Help of blockbuster children’s movies. 11/3: Origami Hour Homework help for kids in grades K-6 is “The Boxtrolls” (2014, PG); 11/17: “Rock A quiet and focused activity for kids available Monday-Friday 3-5 p.m., Saturday Dog” (2016, PG); 11/24: “Free Birds” (2013, of all ages and adults. Patrons will 12-2 p.m. PG). Seating is limited and available first spend the hour creating easy origami come, first served. creations from print-outs and/or Saturdays @ 12:00PM - 11/4 - 12/30 videos for “origami fun!” Homework Help NORTH FOREST PARK Homework help for kids in grades K-6 is 98-27 Metropolitan Avenue, 718-261-5512 Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/16 available Monday-Friday 3-5 p.m., Saturday Neighborhood Map Drawings 12-2 p.m. Tuesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/14 - 12/12 Make a map of your neighborhood Mandarin Classes for Preschoolers showing your house and interesting MIDDLE VILLAGE Bilingual Birdies will teach 45-minute things nearby. 72-31 Metropolitan Avenue, 718-326-1390 classes in English and Mandarin with live music, movement, dance, puppetry, Friday @ 4:00PM - 11/17 Thursdays @ 4:30PM - 11/2 - 12/28 and games. Feel like Royalty Chess Club You will enjoy designing and wearing Children and teens, ages 6 and up, can learn Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/15 - 12/20 your handcrafted crown. and improve their knowledge of chess. Toddler Time See “Baisley Park”, 11/1.

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Wednesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/15 - 12/20 Fridays @ 10:15AM - 11/3 - 12/29 ages 6-12. Preregistration is required. Picture Book Time Picture Book Time Space is limited. See “Elmhurst”, 11/3. See “Elmhurst”, 11/3. Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/7 - 11/28 Thursdays @ 3:00PM - 11/16, 12/14 Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/3 -12/22 Rhyme Time Arts and Crafts for Kids Kickoff to Kindergarten Children ages 3-5 can learn new Children can create a seasonal craft. For Parents and caregivers can help children vocabulary words through the use Grades 1-4. learn the key skills they need to succeed of rhymes on Tuesdays from 3-4 p.m. in school before they start kindergarten. Activities include listening to children’s NORTH HILLS During 8 weekly sessions, library staff poems, reciting nursery rhymes, sight 57-04 Marathon Parkway, 718-225-3550 and early childhood teachers will word bingo, activity sheets, and more. coach parents and caregivers on using Preregistration is required. Space is Mondays @ 3:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18, Tuesdays books, educational games, and a variety limited. @ 3:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26, Wednesdays @ of hands-on activities to help build 3:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27, Thursdays @ 3:00PM - language skills. For children ages 3-5, Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7, 11/14, 11/28 11/2 - 12/28, Fridays @ 3:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 and the child MUST turn 3 on or before Crocheting for Kids Afterschool Activities 10/1/2017. Preregistration is required. Join us for our children’s crocheting Afterschool Activities offers space for program for ages 8-12. All ages are students to do homework. Students can Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 12/22 welcome to attend. Preregistration is also socialize and play board games. Friday STEAM required. Space is limited. Fun with Science, Technology, Thursdays @ 12:15PM - 11/2 - 12/21 Engineering, Art, and Math! Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/8 Picture Book Time Aviation Celebration! See “Elmhurst”, 11/3. Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Join us on Wednesday, November 8th Craft Time from 4-5 p.m. to celebrate National Fridays @ 10:30AM - 11/3 - 12/22 Children are invited to join us to make a Aviation Month for ages 6-12. Toddler Time fun craft! Preregistration is required. Space is See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. limited. PENINSULA Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/7 - 12/19 92-25 Rockaway Beach Blvd., 718-634-1110 Thursday @ 5:00PM - 11/16 Craft Time Talent Show! Children are invited to join us to make a Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 11/1 - 12/20 Show us what you got on Thursday, fun craft! Toddler Time November 16 from 5-7p.m. at our See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. children and teens talent show. Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/29 - 12/20 Children will be performing at 5 p.m. Mother Goose Time Wednesdays @ 12:00PM - 11/1 - 12/20 and teens will be performing at 6 p.m. See “Court Square”, 11/2. Toddler Social Time Join us for Toddler Social Time. Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 11/21 OZONE PARK Celebrate Thanksgiving! 92-24 Rockaway Boulevard, 718-845-3127 Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2 - 11/30 Join us in celebrating Thanksgiving on Homework Help for Kids Tuesday, November 21st at 4 p.m. by Wednesdays @ 10:15AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Need help with homework? Join us discussing the origins of Thanksgiving, Toddler Time Thursdays at 4 p.m. for help. All ages are followed by a fun craft. Preregistration See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. welcome to attend. is required. Space is limited.

Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Fridays @ 10:30AM - 11/3 - 12/22 Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/25, 12/2 Mother Goose Time Mother Goose Time Picture Book Time! See “Court Square”, 11/2. See “Court Square”, 11/2. See “Elmhurst”, 11/3.

Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/2 Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3, 11/17, 11/24 Monday @ 5:00PM - 11/27 Forging Mjolnir, The Hammer of Thor Book Buddies Kid’s Book and Film Club “Whosoever holds this hammer, if he/ Children in Pre-K to 3rd grade will be Join us as we discuss the book and she be worthy, shall possess the power of paired with student mentors as they read watch the film “James and the Giant Thor.” This is the inscription on the side and engage in literacy-based activities. Peach,” Monday, November 27th from of Mjolnir, the magical hammer of the 5-7 p.m. Make sure to pick up a copy of Marvel Comics superhero Thor. We shall Mondays @ 3:30PM - 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 the book, located in the children’s room forge the mighty hammer Mjolnir, but be Science Rocks! before the event date. Kids ages 8-12 are forewarned—only those who are proven Join us for STEM (Science, Technology, welcome to attend. Preregistration is worthy will be able to lift it! Engineering, and Math) experiments for required.

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Fridays @ 3:30PM - 12/1 - 12/29 Wednesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/1 - 12/27 Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/22 - 12/27 Winter Crafts for Kids Tell Me a Story Explore Play Join us Fridays at 3:30 p.m. for our Children ages 3-6 and their caregivers Children can enjoy an explore play session Winter Crafts for Kids program. can enjoy interactive picture book after our Toddler Time program on Kindergarteners to 4th graders are storytelling and rhymes! Wednesday mornings. For children ages 1-2 welcome to join us. Preregistration is and their caregivers. required. Thursdays @ 3:30PM - 11/2 - 11/30 Strategic Games Mondays @ 4:30PM - 12/4, 12/11, 12/18 Fridays @ 4:30PM - 12/1 - 12/29 Join us for board games that are fun Library Squad Book Buddies and promote teamwork. For ages 6-12. Come play strategic games, and tell us Children in Pre-K to 3rd grade will be what you would like to do for future library paired with student mentors as they Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/3 - 12/29 programs, in this advisory group. For ages read and engage in literacy-based Explore Play 8-12. activities. Children can enjoy an explore play session after our Toddler Music Fun Thursdays @ 4:30PM - 12/7 - 12/28 Mondays @ 3:30PM - 12/4, 12/11, 12/18 program on Friday mornings. For Spelling: Games, Tricks, and Tips Homework Help for Kids children ages 1-3 and their caregivers. Bee in it to win it! Come join us for spelling Need help with homework? Join us games, tricks, and tips! For ages 8-12. Mondays at 3:30 p.m. for help. All ages Fridays @ 11:30AM - 11/3 - 12/29 are welcome to attend. Baby and Me POPPENHUSEN Babies 1 year old and younger and 121-23 14 Avenue, 718-359-1102 Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 12/5, 12/12, 12/19 their caregivers will enjoy a lap-sit Science Hour for Kids program consisting of stories, songs, Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Science Hour is a program where and rhymes. Toddler Time children and families will be working See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. on amazing science experiments. Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3, 12/1 Kindergarteners to 6th graders are Glam and Style Day! Fridays @ 10:30AM - 11/3, 11/17 welcome to attend. Registration is Discuss the latest fashion trends and Mother Goose required. Space is limited. join in fun activities focusing on style Babies and children up to 2 years old are and wellness. For ages 10 and up. invited to hear short stories and nursery Thursdays @ 3:30PM - 12/7, 12/14, 12/21 rhymes and play with our toys in this Mathemania Challenge! Saturdays @ 10:30AM - 11/4 - 12/30 45-minute program. All children must be Grades K-6 are welcome to join us for Preschool Fun accompanied by an adult caregiver. our math challenge series. Children ages 3-6 can participate in age-appropriate games and an Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 12/20 occasional craft. Wii Games End of the Year Spelling Bee! Join us every Friday as we play Wii games! Join us for our End of the Year Spelling Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/4 - 12/30 A parent or guardian must accompany Bee! Kindergarteners to 6th graders Saturday Discovery Club children under age 8. are welcome to join us on Wednesday, Come join our Saturday Discovery December 20th at 4 p.m. Club! Become a builder, create a work Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/16 of art, and participate in a scientific Create a Landscape POMONOK experiment! For children ages 6-12. Bring your imagination to build a landscape 158-21 Jewel Avenue, 718-591-4343 with our Legos and plastic figures. For Mondays @ 3:30PM - 11/6 - 11/27 school-aged children. Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1, 11/8, 11/15 Library Squad Toddler Learning Center Come play strategic games, and tell us Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 11/21 Play and learn with your child in a what you would like to do for future Thanksgiving Craft five-session workshop that includes library programs, in this advisory Join us to celebrate the season with a toys, games, puzzles, and other group. For ages 8-12. Thanksgiving craft. For all ages; children items specially selected to enhance under 9 years of age must be accompanied a toddler’s educational and physical Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/10, 12/8 by an adult. development. Child-development Family Movie specialists will be available to talk Come join us for our family movie! Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 12/12 to parents and caregivers about the Wordless Books Can Tell A Story special concerns of child rearing. Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/22 - 12/27 Using the illustrations and our imaginations, Ages 18-38 months. Preregistration is Toddler Time we will explore the stories told by wordless required either in person or by phone at See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. books. For school-aged children. 718-591-4343.

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QUEENS VILLAGE selection read before the event. We will Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/12, 94-11 217 Street, 718-776-6800 discuss the book and do a fun activity. Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1 - 12/13, Saturdays @ 4:00PM - 11/4 - 12/16 Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/15 Homework Help Toddler Time Lanyard Weaving Need help with your homework? Bring See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. All children are welcome to make your assignments to the children’s room lanyards at this program. and sign up at the Homework Help table; Wednesdays @ 12:45PM - 11/1 - 12/27 one of our helpers will get you through it! Toddler Craft Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/16 Children ages 2 through 4 and their Children’s Movie Night Thursdays @ 3:30PM - 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/30 parent/caregiver are welcome to make a This month’s selection is “The Emoji Preschool Storytime toddler craft. Movie” (2017, PG). Join us for an afterschool picture book storytime! Every week, we’ll sing songs, Mondays @ 2:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18, Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/22 read stories, and color a picture or two. Tuesdays @ 2:30PM - 11/7 - 12/26, Thanksgiving Craft What a fun way to end a day after school! Wednesdays @ 2:30PM - 11/1 - 12/27, Children ages 5 to 12 are welcome to Thursdays @ 2:30PM - 11/2 - 12/28, make Thanksgiving crafts. Mondays @ 3:30PM - 11/6 - 12/11, Thursdays Fridays @ 2:30PM - 11/3 - 12/29 @ 3:30PM - 11/2 - 12/14, Homework Help Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/27 Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3 - 12/15 Elementary-age children and caretakers Kid’s Acting Theater Homework Help are welcome to stop by our library for Children ages 7 to 12 are welcome to join Need help with homework? We’ve got homework help. in some casual acting with their peers. helpers ready to get you through it! Bring your assignments to the children’s room, Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Thursday @ 4:00PM - 12/7 and sign up at the Homework Help table. Game Day Children’s Movie Night Children of all ages are welcome to join This month’s selection is “The Nightmare Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/2 us on Game Day for some board game Before Christmas” (1993, PG). Coding Unplugged: Intro to Coding for Kids fun. Coding Unplugged is an 8-week program Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 12/13 teaching the foundations of computer Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6, 12/4, Holiday Craft science through offline games and Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 12/26, Children ages 5 to 12 are welcome to puzzles that use cards, string, crayons, Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/29 make a fun holiday craft. and lots of running around. Kids will Lego Time learn concepts that carry over into online Children ages 5 to 12 are welcome to have Monday @ 4:00PM - 12/18 computer coding and programming. No fun working together with Legos. Gingerbread Houses prior computer experience necessary! All children are welcome to make Ages 8-12 are welcome. We’ll work Tuesdays @ 4:30PM - 11/7 - 12/19, gingerbread houses to bring home. For with the materials from Code.org’s CS Wednesday @ 4:30PM - 12/20 more information, call 718-776-6800. Fundamentals Unplugged. This is a weekly Google CS First Animation Series program that builds on the skills of the Children ages 8 through 14 are welcome QUEENSBORO HILL previous week. to test their Scratch programming skills 60-05 Main Street, 718-359-8332 in this animation series. There will be 5 Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/30 one-hour lessons you can register for and Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Coding Unplugged: Coding Board learn how to use Scratch with tutorials. Mother Goose Storytime: ages 0-18 Games mos Now that we’ve learned the nuts and bolts Thursdays @ 4:30PM - 11/9 - 12/28 Reading time is cuddle time! Bring your of coding, it’s time to put what you’ve Toddler & Preschool Playdate babies to a lap-sit storytime for stories learned into practice with coding board Children from 2 to 5 years old and their and songs. games! caretakers can drop in for circle time, stories, and open play. Come join this Wednesdays @ 11:15AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Friday @ 4:00PM - 11/3 great opportunity for socialization and Toddler Time Storytime: ages 18 mos-3 yrs Get Crafty! Kawaii and Otaku Takeover! early literacy development. See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. Do you love adorable dancing food, or are dragons and fighting robots more Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/13 Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/1 your speed? Get your fandom on and join Children’s Book Club: “Esperanza Rising” Dia de los Muertos: Make a Mask! us to make a spinning dragon, CubeCat, This month’s selection is “Esperanza Dia de los Muertos is a Mexican day of Totoro papercrafts, and more. We have the Rising” by Pam Munoz Ryan. Elementary- remembrance. Make your own Dia de los supplies; you bring your crafty skills and age children are welcome to come by our Muertos mask and hear a story! imagination. Ages 7-11, please! First come, Library for these books. Please have the first served; space is limited.

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Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26 Saturday @ 11:00AM - 11/18 RICHMOND HILL Chess Lessons ages 7-11 Toddler Dance Party! 118-14 Hillside Avenue, 718-849-7150 New to chess, or need to brush up on Get your toddlers ready to shake and your game? We have a chess instructor shimmy! We’ll listen to a fun story, and Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 11/1 - 12/27 ready to help you. Call Queensboro Hill then play children’s music that will get Picture Book Time Library (718-359-8332) and speak to your little ones (and you) up and dancing! See “Elmhurst”, 11/3. the librarians to register; 16 spaces are Come make a friend or three and dance available. your Saturday away! Mondays @ 3:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18, Tuesdays @ 3:30PM - 11/7 - 12/26, Wednesdays @ Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/8 Saturday @ 3:00PM - 11/18 3:30PM - 11/1 - 12/27, Thursdays @ 3:30PM - “Wimpy Kid” Celebration! Justice League Day at Queensboro Hill! 11/2 - 12/28, Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3 - 12/29, The new “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” book It’s Justice League Day! After you’ve Saturdays @ 3:30PM - 11/4 - 12/30 is out! Let’s celebrate with a game of watched “The LEGO Batman Movie” (2017, Lanyard Club Cheese Touch and earn some Mom Bucks PG), color a cool picture (or three), make Teens and tweens make a lanyard to put toward goodies! your own superhero logo, and get sworn keychain or bracelet. in as a Gotham City detective to go on a Monday @ 10:00AM - 11/13, Tuesday @ Bat-Signal search. Defend your city and Thursdays @ 1:15PM - 11/2 - 12/28 10:00AM - 11/14, Wednesday @ 10:00AM - come in costume! Mother Goose Time 11/15, Thursday @ 10:00AM - 11/16, Friday See “Court Square”, 11/2. @ 10:00AM - 11/17 Monday @ 10:00AM - 11/20, Thankful Handprints: Join the Bunch Tuesday @ 10:00AM - 11/21, Fridays @ 11:30AM - 11/3 - 12/29 What are you thankful for? When you Wednesday @ 10:00AM - 11/22, Toddler Time stop by Queensboro Hill Library, ask Friday @ 10:00AM - 11/24 See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. the librarian for a piece of construction Post-It Art Gallery: Thankful Theme paper, trace your hand, and write Please contribute to our Post-It art Saturdays @ 11:00AM - 11/4 - 12/30 what you’re thankful for this family gallery! Ask the children’s librarian for Saturday Kids Craft holiday season. We’ll be displaying a Post-It, and draw something you’re Make some Saturday creations in arts and the handprints as wreaths around the thankful for this family holiday. We’re crafts in the Children’s Room. children’s room. displaying all of the artwork! RIDGEWOOD Monday @ 3:00PM - 11/13 Friday @ 3:00PM - 11/24 20-12 Madison Street, 718-821-4770 Elephant and Piggie Party Practice Spelling Bee for Grades 3-6 Who loves Mo Willems’ characters, How are your spelling skills? Put them Thursday @ 1:00PM - 11/2 Elephant and Piggie? If you do, join us for to the test in this practice spelling bee, a Toddler Learning Center Craft an Elephant and Piggie party! We’ll make warm-up for the big one in February. Toddlers age 18 to 38 months old are masks, play a game, read a book or two, invited to create a simple craft. A parent or and maybe—just maybe—The Pigeon will Friday @ 4:30PM - 11/24 guardian must be present. show up and try to drive a bus! Get Crafty! Minecraft Selfies Ever wonder what you’d look like in 8-bit? Thursdays @ 3:30PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Fridays @ 10:30AM - 11/17, 11/24 Create your self-portrait with construction Spelling Bee Toddler Yoga paper squares in this fun program! You can Children in grades 1-6 are invited to join Breathe in, breathe out. Bring your 2-to- make yourself an Enderman, a ghost, or us for a weekly spelling bee. A parent or 3-year-olds to a soothing and fun yoga just your fantastic self. guardian must be present. storytime. We’ll enjoy some yoga poses while breathing through stories and Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/27 Fridays @ 5:00PM - 11/3 - 12/22 songs, and you’ll get to take home a sheet Book to Movie Club: “Coraline” Nail Polish Workshop of poses your child can do with you at Ever see a movie and think, “The book Join our nail art activity. home too! We provide the mats; just was better!” Or read a book and wonder, bring your toddler and wear comfortable “Is the movie any good?” We wondered Saturdays @ 10:30AM - 11/4 - 12/30 clothing. the same thing, so we’re starting a Family StoryTime book-to-movie club! The first movie is Children and their families are invited to Friday @ 4:00PM - 11/17 “Coraline” (2009, PG), based on the book join us for songs, books, and parachute play. Get Crafty: Slime Lab by Neil Gaiman. Come watch the movie, A parent or caregiver must be present. It’s Slime Time at Queensboro Hill! We’re pick up a copy of the book, and be the making edible marshmallow slime, so get judge! 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Mondays @ 11:30AM - 11/6 - 12/18 Fridays @ 10:15AM - 11/3 - 12/29 ROSEDALE Toddler Time Mother Goose 144-20 243 Street, 718-528-8490 See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. Infants ages 30 months and younger can enjoy a half-hour of nursery Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Mondays @ 12:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 rhymes, songs, fingerplays, and Picture Book Hour Toddler Craft simple picture books. Children can enjoy picture book reading, Toddlers ages 1-4 accompanied by a interlaced with music, fingerplays, and parent or guardian can create a simple Fridays @ 11:15AM - 11/3 - 12/29 dancing. Age-appropriate arts and crafts craft. Toddler Time conclude this fun hour. See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26 Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27 Book Bingo Fridays @ 3:30PM - 11/3 - 12/22 Crafternoon Children ages 5 to 12 are invited to join Fun Friday Children will use their creative minds us each week for a literary-themed game Join us on Fridays for some fun during this program, using different media: of bingo. A parent or guardian must be each week! Games, crafts, science paper, fabric, beads, and more. present. experiments, movies, or...who knows? The program is open for Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28 Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26 children ages 5-12. Although space is Scratch Computer Program Jeopardy limited, registration is not required. Children will learn to create their own Children ages 7 to 12 are invited to join us computer games using Scratch. for an exciting kid’s version of the trivia Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6, 11/13, 11/20 game Jeopardy. A parent or guardian Digital Design using TinkerCAD SEASIDE must be present. Learn how to create your own digital 116-15 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, 3D objects such as toys, game pieces, 718-634-1876 Fridays @ 4:00PM - 11/24, 12/29 and jewelry! No previous computer Children’s Movie Series experience necessary. Ages 7-12. Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Children ages 5-12 are invited to join Please register for this 3-session Toddler Time us the last Friday of each month for a workshop at queenslibrary.org or call See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. different children’s film. A parent or 718-723-4440. guardian must be present. Fridays @ 10:30AM - 11/3 - 12/29 Friday @ 2:00PM - 11/24 Mother Goose Friday @ 4:00PM - 12/8 Drop-In Holiday Crafts Children ages 6-18 months and their parent/ Crafternoons Join us for a drop-in craft with a caregiver are invited to join us for stories, Children ages 5 to 12 are invited to make holiday theme. nursery rhymes, fingerplays, songs, and a seasonal craft. A parent or guardian playtime. must be present. Saturday @ 11:00AM - 12/9 Itty Bitty Book Club: Pete the Cat Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26 Saturday @ 3:00PM - 12/9 Join us for a fun discussion of Family Art Day Newtown Literary: What a Character! a favorite cool cat in children’s Join us for a creative and fun weekly Develop a fun and interesting character literature! We’ll hear stories, play the art program featuring painting, collage, from even one small detail by using your “Find Pete the Cat’s Button” game, origami, and more! imagination and powers of observation! and make crafts. Ages 3 and up. Thank you to NYC Council Member Siblings are welcome. Wednesday @ 3:30PM - 11/22 Elizabeth Crowley for her support of this Thanksgiving Craft for Kids event. Thursday @ 6:30PM - 12/21 Celebrate Thanksgiving with a fun craft! Pajama Storytime! Children ages 5-11 are welcome. ROCHDALE VILLAGE Come dressed in your comfy pajamas 169-09 137 Avenue, 718-723-4440 with your favorite stuffed animal to SOUTH HOLLIS enjoy books, rhymes, and songs! 204-01 Hollis Avenue, 718-465-6779 Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1 - 12/20 Music and Sound: Google CS First Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 12/27 Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27 Create your own digital music and Minecraft Madness NBA Basketball Discussion Group sounds! Use the computer to design your If you build it, they will come. Join Do you like basketball? We’ll discuss current own music, create your own instruments us at Rochdale Village to build, to news, basketball history, who the best team and music videos, and learn how explore, to gather…to Minecraft. is, and who all the best players are. You’ll get technology is used in the music industry! Open to kids and teens. to make your own fantasy basketball team. No previous computer experience necessary. Ages 8+. Please register at queenslibrary.org or call 718-723-4440.

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Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/3 - 12/29 SOUTH OZONE PARK ST. ALBANS Preschool Stories 128-16 Rockaway Blvd., 718-529-1660 191-05 Linden Boulevard, 718-528-8196 Preschoolers and toddlers will get together for stories with songs and Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 12/13 Friday @ 4:00PM - 11/3 dance. Baby and Me Kid’s Board Game Day Babies ages 9-18 months and their parents Come and play various board games! Mondays @ 4:30PM - 11/6 - 12/18, or adult caregivers can enjoy simple Tuesdays @ 4:30PM - 11/7 - 12/26, stories, songs, and nursery rhymes, and Saturday @ 12:00PM - 11/4 Wednesdays @ 4:30PM - 11/8 - 12/27 play with educational toys and games. Mother & Daughter Book Club: “Jada Kids Homework Club Jones: Class Act” Got homework? Get it done at the Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1 - 12/13 The nominations are in, and Jada is library! Drop in to our Homework Toddler Storytime officially a student council candidate! She Club sessions where a helper will Join us for toddler storytime! Children even gets to run against her friend Miles in be available to offer assistance and ages 18 months to 4 years with a parent/ the election. But it isn’t long before Jada’s helpful resources. adult caregiver may join us for stories, classmates starting pressuring her to songs, nursery rhymes, and a coloring make promises she can’t keep. And when Tuesday @ 5:00PM - 11/21, Thursday @ page. rumors spread about her secret fear of 5:00PM - 11/9 public speaking, she isn’t sure who she can Kids Health Workshop Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/2, 12/7 trust. Could winning votes mean losing a Join us for this kids health workshop. Picture Book StoryTime friendship? Children ages 4-6 and parents/adult Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 11/22 caregivers will hear delightful stories Wednesdays @ 10:00AM - 11/8, 11/22 Thanksgiving Arts and Crafts and sing songs while children continue to Family Picture Book Time It’s turkey time! Join us and make a develop their reading skills. See “Elmhurst”, 11/3. Thanksgiving handprint, footprint, and fingerprint art, plus turkey crafts Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/9 Friday @ 4:00PM - 11/17 for all school-age kids. Lego Time Thanksgiving Craft Children ages 5 to 12 are welcome to have Make a Thanksgiving-themed craft to SOUTH JAMAICA fun working together with Legos. celebrate the holiday. 108-41 Guy R. Brewer Boulevard, 718- 739-4088 Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/16 STEINWAY Thanksgiving Hand Wreaths 21-45 31 Street, 718-728-1965 Thursdays @ 2:00PM - 11/2 - 12/21 Come make a colorful Thanksgiving Picture Book Storytime decoration by tracing your hand and Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Come join us for our themed making a wreath! For kids age 5 and up. Baby & Me storytime. Read books, sing songs, Nursery rhymes, short stories, songs, and and learn fingerplays and play Thursday @ 4:00PM - 12/14 simple movements for babies ages 6-20 movements. Older preschoolers, ages Christmas Crafts for Children months. 3-5, are welcome. Stop in and join us to create holiday crafts. Supplies are provided and the Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/2 Thursdays @ 3:00PM - 11/2 - 11/30 program is free. Children ages 5-12 are Spelling Bee Zen Coloring welcome. Each child under the age of 6 Children in grades 3-6 are invited to join Join the South Jamaica Kids Club for must be accompanied by an adult. the competition. Be sure to pick up the Zen Coloring! word list from the library. Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 12/19 Monday @ 3:00PM - 11/20 Holiday “Ugly T-Shirt” Decorating Mondays @ 10:30AM - 11/6 - 12/4 Thanksgiving Story & Craft Come join the festivities as we decorate StoryTime Come one and all to the South a t-shirt in the holiday spirit with Join us for short stories, nursery rhymes, Jamaica Library for a thankful Christmas decorations. T-shirt provided and fingerplays. storytime and craft. Gobble! Gobble! for children ages 8-14. Gobble! All ages welcome! Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/9 Thursday @ 4:00PM - 12/21 Tall Ships & Pirate Tales with Thursday @ 3:00PM - 12/21 Holiday StoryTime! Sciencetellers Winter Wonderland Storytime & Let’s read picture books together! Ahoy! People don’t just build on land. They Craft Children ages 4-8 and their caregivers will build on water too! Set sail with us on a On this first day of winter, join us participate in a reading program, which thrilling action-packed adventure about for a wintry story and “cool” craft at includes stories and music celebrating the a crew of quirky pirates marooned on a the South Jamaica Library. All ages different holidays during this season. deserted island. Don’t miss this refreshing welcome! nautical tale with a twist!

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Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/16, 12/21 on a deserted island. Don’t miss this Saturdays @ 3:30PM - 11/4 -12/16 Steinway Globe Trotters refreshing nautical tale with a twist! ProjectArt Watercolor Class for Explore the world with the Steinway Children Ages 8-12 Library. Join us each month as we take WINDSOR PARK ProjectArt offers free art classes for a trip to a new country. While you are 79-50 Bell Boulevard, 718-468-8300 children ages 8-12. All art supplies are there, you will learn about the country’s provided. Preregistration is required. people, culture, celebrations, language, Wednesdays @ 10:15AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Children have to register at http://www. food, music, and more! For ages 7-12. Mother Goose Time projectart.org/nyc. See “Court Square”, 11/2. Friday @ 10:30AM - 11/17 Mondays @ 4:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18 Toddler Learning Center: Ask the Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1 - 12/27 Chess Club Pediatrician Toddler Time Children ages 6 years and up are invited We all want our children to develop See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. to join us for chess. Instruction will be lifelong habits that promote health and provided to beginners. Preregistration is learning. Come learn from pediatricians Mondays @ 3:00PM - 11/6 - 12/18, required by phone or in person only. from Mount Sinai Queens. There will be Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/7 - 12/26, plenty of time for Q&A. Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/1 - 12/27, Thursday @ 4:00PM - 11/16 Thursdays @ 3:00PM - 11/2 - 12/28, Thanksgiving Craft Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 11/30, 12/14 Fridays @ 3:00PM - 11/3 - 12/29 Children ages 5-12 are invited to join us to Kids Knit Homework Help make a Thanksgiving craft. Kids in grades 4-8 are invited to join the Elementary-age children can come and knitting club. All levels welcome. Limited get help with their homework during the Thursday @ 4:00PM - 12/28 supplies available. weekdays based upon the availability of Winter Craft for Kids! the volunteers. Come and celebrate winter with us as we SUNNYSIDE create a simple and fun craft! 43-06 Greenpoint Avenue, 718-784-3033 Fridays @ 10:30AM - 11/3 - 12/8 Kickoff to Kindergarten WOODHAVEN Wednesdays @ 10:00AM - 11/1 - 12/20 Parents and other caregivers can help 85-41 Forest Parkway, 718-849-1010 Toddler Time young children ages 3-4 learn the See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. key skills they need to be successful Wednesdays @ 10:15AM - 11/1 - 12/20 in school well before they start Toddler Music Fridays @ 11:00AM - 11/3 - 12/22 kindergarten. During 8 weekly sessions, There will be songs, instruments, crafts, Mother Goose Time library staff and early childhood teachers marching, and dancing! For ages 1-3, and See “Court Square”, 11/2. will coach parents and caregivers the caregiver must attend. on how to use book reading, games, Tuesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/7 - 12/12 and hands-on activities to help build Wednesdays @ 11:15AM - 11/1 - 12/20 Kickoff to Kindergarten the most important language skills. Mommy or Daddy and Me Parents and other caregivers can help Preregistration is required. Space is Simple rhymes, songs, and stories are children learn the skills they need limited. Please speak to the Children’s followed by free play! For ages 1 year and to be successful before they start Librarian to register. younger, and the caregiver must attend. kindergarten. During eight weekly sessions, library staff will show parents, Fridays @ 3:00PM - 11/3 - 12/15 Fridays @ 10:15AM - 11/3 - 12/22 caregivers, and children how to use ProjectArt for Children Ages 4-7 Toddler Time games, hands-on activities, and stories ProjectArt offers free visual art classes See “Baisley Park”, 11/1. that help build the most important for children ages 4-7 on Fridays at language and social skills. Children will Windsor Park Community Library. All Saturdays @ 10:15AM - 11/4, 12/2, 12/23 be able to keep the games and stories and art supplies are provided. Preregistration Mommy or Daddy and Me use them again at home. is required. Children have to register at There will be simple rhymes, stories, and http://www.projectart.org/nyc. songs. This is followed by free play. The WHITESTONE event is for ages 1 year and younger, so 151-10 14 Road, 718-767-8010 Fridays @ 4:15PM - 11/3 - 12/15 the caregiver must attend. ProjectArt Drawing Class for Children Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/27 Ages 8-12 Saturdays @ 11:00AM - 11/4, 12/2, 12/23 Tall Ships & Pirate Tales with ProjectArt offers free drawing art classes Musical Storytime Sciencetellers for children ages 8-12 on Fridays at An interactive adventure for children Ahoy! People don’t just build on land. Windsor Park Community Library. All (ages 3-8) and their caregivers. Get ready They build on water too! Set sail with us art supplies are provided. Preregistration to use your imagination! on a thrilling action-packed adventure is required. Children have to register at about a crew of quirky pirates marooned http://www.projectart.org/nyc.

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Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 11/4, 12/2, 12/23 Mondays @ 6:00PM - 11/20, 12/18 first come, first served. Please pick up Craft Time Story Night a ticket at the children’s librarian desk Get your craft on! For ages 6-12. An interactive adventure traveling on prior to the program. the neural pathways of the imagination! Saturdays @ 3:00PM - 11/4 - 12/30 Say what? Come and have fun! Plus a Tuesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/7 - 12/12 Lego Hour craft! Ages 3-8. Baby & Me Even the greatest Master Builder has Children ages 1 year old and younger and humble beginnings...so join us for Lego Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/27 their caregivers are invited for stories, Fun! This event is for ages 6 and up. S.T.E.A.M. songs, and free play. There will be hands-on activities in Mondays @ 10:30AM - 11/6 - 12/4 Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Tuesday @ 3:00PM - 11/7 Kickoff to Kindergarten and Math for ages 8-15. Kids Movie Parents and other caregivers can help Since there’s no school today, please join young children learn the key skills they Mondays @ 4:00PM - 12/4, 12/11, 12/18 us for a movie! need to be successful in school well Talent Show Practice before they start kindergarten. During 8 Practice, practice, practice! We will use Friday @ 2:00PM - 11/24 weekly sessions, library staff and early this time to polish up your acts so you Kids Karaoke childhood teachers will coach parents can bring your best to the talent show on Enjoy your day off from school by coming and caregivers on how to use book Tuesday, December 19 at 4:00 p.m. This in to sing your favorite pop songs! reading, games, and hands-on activities event is for ages 8-15. to help build the most important language Tuesday @ 3:00PM - 12/26 skills. Preregistration is required. Space is Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 12/5, 12/12, 12/19 Kids Movie limited. For ages 3-4. Reading and Writing Help for 3rd Start off winter recess with a movie! Grade Tuesdays @ 3:00PM - 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28 Improve comprehension, writing, Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 12/27 Reading and Writing Help for 3rd and vocabulary. For third graders. Kids Games Graders Preregistration is required. Signups start Enjoy your winter break by playing Third graders can improve their Monday, November 20. games at Woodside! comprehension, writing, and vocabulary on Tuesdays. Preregistration is required. Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 12/12, Wednesday @ Friday @ 2:00PM - 12/29 Space is limited. 4:00PM - 12/6 Kids Crafts Holiday Crafts Keep busy during winter break by joining Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 11/7 - 12/5 Get your craft on holiday style! Ages 6-12. us at the library for crafts. Rock Band Do you have what it takes to be in a rock Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 12/19 band? Learn about and play different Holiday Talent Show instruments, including the guitar, Do you have a special talent? Do you percussion, accordion, and xylophone want to show the world? Then first show (why not?), then form your own rock your community! Join our talent show! band and perform! Yes, the Rock Band is Signups start on Monday, November 20. happening for ages 8-15. Practice starts on Monday, December 4 at 4 p.m. Monday @ 4:00PM - 11/13, Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 12/13 WOODSIDE Meditation for Kids 54-22 Skillman Avenue, 718-429-4700 Learn different meditation techniques and why meditating is awesome for kids Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 11/1 - 12/20 ages 5-12. StoryTime Children ages 1-3 and their caregivers are Saturdays @ 10:00AM - 11/18 - 12/30 invited for stories, songs, and movement. Self-Serve Craft Space is limited; first come, first served. All materials will be provided for this Please pick up a ticket at the children’s unguided pastime, so come anytime and librarian desk prior to the program. get your craft on! This event is for ages 6-12. Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 11/1 - 12/20 Storytime Children ages 1 year old and younger and their caregivers are invited for stories, songs, and movement. Space is limited;

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This one-day festival celebrates writers and the power of writing in our diverse Queens community. Come along for a day of engaging, informative panels on the craft of writing and the realities of the publishing industry, as well as talks by accomplished authors. Saturday, December 2 Langston Hughes Community Library Visit for details! & Cultural Center 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona 11368 QueensLibrary.org 718-651-1100 4 QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE