QUEENS LIBRARY MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2015 ISSUE NO.2

EVENTS INSIDE!

Back to School! Learn at the Library.

SHAKESPEARE IN QUEENS ADULT LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY FUN PROGRAMS AND MATH PROGRAMS FOR KIDS FOR OLDER ADULTS

QUEENSLIBRARY.ORG A Message from the Interim President and CEO

You spoke, and the Mayor and the New York City Council listened! Thanks to your efforts on behalf of New York City’s libraries, we will Queens Library Magazine receive $43 million citywide in additional funding for 2016. A Queens Library Publication This investment will allow us to bring six days of service to every community library 89-11 Merrick Boulevard in Queens. We look forward to bringing you Jamaica, NY 11432 more hours of service, more library staff to support you, more books and more programs and events! queenslibrary.org The new City Budget also includes a capital funding allocation of more than $300 million to the City’s libraries over Produced by: the next 10 years, which will go toward improving and enhancing our Queens Library library facilities. Marketing and Communications Thank you again to Mayor Bill de Blasio, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Finance Committee Chair Julissa Ferreras, Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer, outgoing Libraries Sub-Committee Chair Costa Constantinides, Editors: incoming Library chair Andy King, and the entire City Council for investing Yves H. Etheart in our City’s libraries. We are also very thankful for Borough President Lynn Mathias Melinda Katz’s generous investment of $14.2 million in capital funds for Gini Wallace Queens libraries. And, of course, thank you—for attending our advocacy rallies, writing Layout and Design: to your elected officials and providing such tremendous support. We Laura E. Sgambati couldn’t have done it without you! Senior Interactive and Print Designer I hope you will enjoy all the great things happening at Queens Library—and enjoy this issue of Queens Library Magazine! Vincent Sgaglione Assistant Director, Creative Services

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Bridget Quinn-Carey Please contact the Editor with any questions or concerns. Admission is free to all programs. Some programs require preregistration. Please preregister with the library where the event is taking place, or sign up at queenslibrary.org/events E-mail: i olie eistatio is oee [email protected] Programs are subject to change without notice, and some may not appear in this magazine. For the most up-to-date Phone: listings, call the library where an event is taking place, or go to 718-990-0859 queenslibrary.org/events. Get our Biweekly Newsletter, with highlights of upcoming programs and events and links to full listings, in your email We welcome your feedback inbox. Go to queenslibrary.org and click on Signup for and suggestions. Updates at the top right side of the page. Sign-language interpretation is available by request for https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ most library programs. Call Special Services at least two queenslibrarymagazine weeks in advance at 718-990-0853; TTY 718-990-0809. Please note that Queens Library will try to accommodate your sign- facebook.com/queenslibrarynyc language interpretation needs; however, this service may not be available for all programs. twitter.com/queenslibrary All Queens Library locations, with the exception of Astoria, instagram.com/queenslibrary Glendale and Queens Village, are fully or partially accessible to the handicapped. For more details on handicapped accessibility, plus.google.com/+queenslibrary visit queenslibrary.org or inquire at your local library. queenslibrary.tumblr.com Contents September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine Magazine 4 What’s Happening Now at Queens Library? 5 Grand Reopening Welcome Back, Peninsula Library! 6 Cover Story Enrich Your Love of Learning at Queens Library This Fall! 8 Tech and Services How Do You Say “Hello” in Swahili? Learn a New Language Online! 9 Calling All Kids: You’re Never Too Young to Start with STEM! 10 Lincoln Center Local Queens Library Brings World-Class Performances to You 6 Queens Library Celebrates Asian Culture 11 Serving the 60+ Set Fun and Enrichment for Older Adults

12 Thank You to Our Friends at Douglaston! Help Raise 1,000 Voices! 10 13 Get the Facts about Planned Giving 14 The Play’s the Thing See Shakespeare Performed at Queens Library! 15 The World’s Music in the World’s Borough 30 Years of Sunday Concerts @ Central 41 What’s Your Favorite Scary Story?

Events 17 All Ages 12 21 Adults 33 Mail-a-Book 35 JobMap

37 Other Languages• • • • по русски•國語•Español 42 Teens 46 Children

1037-7/15 icko to indergarten and amil Places Our Kickoff to Kindergarten eight-week program, which teaches parents and caregivers how to nurture the skills that their children will need to be successful before they start kindergarten, starts in late September at eight library locations, with more coming this fall! And you can visit a What’s Family Place—a special area with toys, books and programs specifically designed for children age 5 and under—at five of our community libraries, Happening including the newly reopened Peninsula library! Visit queenslibrary.org for more information. Now at Hispanic Heritage at Langston Hughes! September 15–October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month, and we will be celebrating with an all-day program of events at Langston Hughes Queens Library? Community Library in Corona—including cooking demonstrations, and performances by Guillermo and Gabriel Ariza and by David Cedeño’s Orchestra. It’s on Saturday, September 19, from 11:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Call 718-651-1100 to learn more. StartUP Your Business Plan th 10 Annual The Queens Economic Development Corporation’s annual StartUP! Competition begins in September. BUSINESS StartUP! helps new entrepreneurs gain the skills PLAN they need to help their businesses succeed, and Queens Library’s Job & Business Academy will COMPETITION provide resources and workshops at Central Queens Library for everyone participating in this year’s competition. Visit our JBA webpage at queenslibrary.org/services/job-business-academy to find out more. Library Renovations Our community libraries at Elmhurst and Kew Gardens are still undergoing construction and are projected to reopen in early 2016. We thank you for your patience! Makerspaces at Long Island Cit Our summer Maker Camp at Long Island City was a huge success, so our LIC staff has decided to start Makerspace programs during the upcoming year, including Maker Thursdays for kids starting this September and a Maker Spot for older adults occurring later this fall. Contact the library at 718-592-3700 for a full schedule. Bigger and Better at Rocdale illage The newly expanded Adult Learning Center at Rochdale Village will have its grand reopening in late September. Be sure to visit the Rochdale Village ALC to learn more about the services available there and to tour the new space, which has a much larger classroom and a beautiful reading garden! Call 718-723-4440 for more details.

4 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 rand Reopening Welcome Back, Peninsula Library!

We’re proud to announce that Queens Library at Peninsula has re-opened! Hurricane Sandy filled Peninsula Library with more than four feet of floodwater, and the damage required major reconstruction and replacement of all the library’s contents. A library trailer has served the community since then.

The rebuilt library has entirely new responders and other community and updated print and non-print library members who played such critical collections, eight public computers and roles in supporting the community “wired” reading tables in during Hurricane Sandy the adult reading room. and the continuing recovery in the We’ve also expanded September 8 Rockaways. Peninsula’s Adult through Learning Center, which All week long, the now has a classroom, an September 12: library will offer special open group tutoring area programs to introduce and its own computers Celebrate a week the community to and meeting room. its renovated library, including a week-long Our younger customers of events! open house at the library’s will enjoy a teen area Adult Learning Center. with six computers, gaming and reading lounges and group These events and programs will work areas, and a larger children’s area culminate in our Day at the Beach with an early childhood alcove, six celebration on Saturday, September computer workstations and “Family 12, where community and civic Place” enhanced programming. groups will join us and the Friends of Peninsula Library for food, games, In addition to new furniture and music and more! shelving, Peninsula now has a “beach and boardwalk” decor theme “We saw how important libraries are throughout the library, and—very to their communities during Hurricane important—resiliency features designed Sandy,” said Queens Library Interim to help minimize damage in case of President and CEO Bridget Quinn-Carey. future weather events. “We’re proud that Queens Library could help offer critical emergency services Now that the last of the libraries in the hardest-hit areas during the damaged by Hurricane Sandy has been storm. The long-awaited re-opening restored, we’ve scheduled a week of of Peninsula is another step in the events to celebrate its return. recovery process in the Rockaways, On Tuesday, September 8, we will and we are pleased to restore full hold a kick-off ribbon-cutting with library services and programs to the elected officials to formally reopen community. We thank you for your the library. Everyone is welcome to patience and can’t wait to celebrate attend, especially the firefighters, first with you!”

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 5 Enrich Your Love of Learning at Queens Library This Fall! While we’ll all miss the fun of summer, there’s a world After their homework is done, students will have an opportunity of learning opportunities available for everyone this to work on a research project fall at Queens Library! based on what they’re learning in school. They will be asked an We have a brand-new, free, after- build the skills they need to reach interesting question about a topic school program, Stacks After School, their learning goals. and will spend the rest of the which will provide a safe haven for week investigating it and creating grade-school kids to improve their Here is some more information presentations to share with their social and academic skills and build about Stacks After School and our fellow program participants! on the learning that happens every adult literacy program. day in school. We’re also partnering with our Stacks After School friends at Asia Society to offer a For those looking to improve Every Queens Library location has Global Citizenship curriculum for their job skills, our Job & Business homework help and enrichment our Stacks students, where they Academy offers several options activities every day after school. will learn how to communicate with for your professional education. A new format for after-school people of different cultures and Basic, intermediate and advanced programs will be available for appreciate their customs. They’ll computer classes are always students in grades 1-8 at 18 Queens also enjoy an optional educational available at several library locations. Library locations starting this field trip to Asia Society’s You can even learn HTML coding September, with potential new headquarters in Manhattan. and how to create an app or a locations offering the program in the Each Stacks location is designed website using Treehouse, a great near future. to serve a small group of about online tool that will help you learn From 3:00-6:00 p.m., Mondays 20 students, who will enroll with tech skills at your own pace. For through Fridays, Stacks will provide their parents’ permission. Check more information, visit a structured learning environment our website or visit or call your queenslibrary.org/learn for students, with the first half of local Queens Library for more the program dedicated to homework information and details on when We also offer adult learners several help and the rest to fun learning and how to enroll. ways to work toward their high activities focused on arts, crafts, school equivalency diploma and science, games and more.

6 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 offers the National External Diploma Stacks After School Locations Program (NEDP), which allows * Pomonok * Flushing independent study and focuses Arverne Queensboro Hill* Jackson Heights* on evaluating a portfolio of skills Cambria Heights U/S Ridgewood* instead of formal testing. * Laurelton Central Library CLDC South Hollis All the hard work our adult learners * Lefferts Corona South Ozone Park* Lefrak City do, including those in ESOL classes, East Elmhurst* Woodside* is directed toward helping them Long Island City Far Rockaway achieve their own personal goals. Many are earning a high school diploma, and we applaud them. We *Asia Society Partnership Sites had 140 men and women invited to walk in their caps and gowns at a graduation ceremony in May 2015 at Thank you to Carnegie Corporation of Our Young Adult Literacy Program Central Library! New York, whose generous funding is also available at Queens Library makes Stacks After School possible! locations in Jamaica, Long Island City “Our goal is to accommodate and Far Rockaway. It’s an intensive everyone who walks into our Adult More Opportunities for program designed for youth (ages Learning Centers and wants to Adult Learning 16-24) who left school without the continue their education,” said Queens Library has the largest library- reading, writing and math skills Diosdado Gica, Ed.D., Director of run adult literacy program in the U.S., necessary for pre-HSE classes. Learning and Literacy at Queens serving more than 3,000 students Library. “With so many locations, in our English for Speakers of Other Queens Library runs four Testing there are a lot of different class Languages (ESOL) classes and 1,500 Assessment for Secondary Completion schedules available for students, students who are on the road to (TASC) centers where students can who we know are often working earning their high school equivalency take the test that leads to an HSE multiple jobs and raising families. (HSE) diplomas. diploma. (The TASC test has replaced Our case managers and counselors the GED as the official HSE test in are here to work with and support Adult learners can take classes at New York State.) And we’ll be adding students in any way they can.” any of our seven library-based Adult a fifth testing site this fall! Students Learning Centers (ALCs), where staff who need additional tutoring to Registration and pre-testing for and volunteers lead small groups succeed will get the help they need in the fall semester of ALC classes at and classes focused on reading and free library workshops, conveniently Queens Library begins the week writing, English conversation and scheduled. of September 14, and the 12- HSE test preparation. We also offer week semester starts the week of structured ESOL classes at more For adult learners who want an September 21. To learn more, visit than 25 community library locations alternate route to their high school queenslibrary.org/adultlearning. throughout Queens. diploma, the Adult Learning Center at Queens Library in Long Island City September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 7 Tec and Services How Do You Say “Hello” in Swahili? Learn a New Language Online! According to the NYC Department of City Planning, the Program and International Relations. “Our language databases residents of Queens come from almost 200 different offer a fun, free and time-effective countries and speak over 150 languages. It’s just one of way for our customers to learn the basics of a new language at the many reasons we’re called the World’s Borough. their own speed and expand their Queens Library is proud to help languages, including English for knowledge of other customs and many of these New Americans Spanish Speakers and American Sign cultures.” learn English as a Second Language. Language. Customers can stream And we’re pleased to be able to lessons from Rocket Languages or And, of course, for people who help English speakers learn other download them for easy access on prefer learning offline, we also languages, too. You’re never too old, all MP3 compatible devices. provide access to great classes, and you can do it for free! All you books and audio CDs offering need is a Queens Library card! Transparent Language Online instruction in several languages. For provides an effective, fun and example, as part of a grant from the We provide access to more than engaging experience for language Korean Education Center in 44 different databases for Queens learners of all levels. It makes New York, classes in Korean Library customers to do research, lessons in more than 95 different language and culture are offered read news articles and find other languages available, including frequently at McGoldrick Library. information in different languages. English for speakers of over 25 other And we’re starting classes in Haitian Our two language-learning languages! It combines flexible Creole at Central Library this databases, Rocket Languages and lessons, supplemental resources and September! Transparent Language Online, are dozens of learning activities and available on any library computer, videos, and has its own dedicated To access our language learning and are also accessible on home app for iPhone and Android devices. databases, visit queenslibrary.org/ computers and mobile devices. services/learn-language. “Many people in Queens want Rocket Languages is an award- to learn the languages that their winning, online language-learning neighbors are speaking,” said system that offers 62 hours of Fred J. Gitner, Assistant Director of interactive instruction in 13 Queens Library’s New Americans

8 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 Calling All Kids: You’re Never Too Young to Start with STEM! During the next decade, the United States demand for scientists and engineers is expected to increase at four times the rate for all other occupations. But, according to a 2013 National Center for Educational Statistics report, the U.S. ranks 31st among 65 countries in teen math literacy and 24th in science literacy. The need to start STEM (science, learning to children, in a special activities” on a daily basis and run technology, engineering and math) program sponsored by the City’s all the science events at CLDC. The learning—and interest in STEM— First Readers initiative. Discovery Team also travels to our early in our kids’ lives is clear, and community libraries as they are Queens Library continues to make Great STEM activities like our needed, making sure that science early STEM learning a huge part of weekly Saturday Science Lab learning at Queens Library is always our educational activities. and Science Tuesdays programs hands-on and interactive, and that for young children will continue the natural curiosity of kids is This past June, we hosted a Spring at CLDC. And don’t miss our 5th encouraged and engaged! Science Showcase with our partners Annual Discovery Day Street Fair at Time Warner Cable where on Saturday, September 12 outside “We always want our community everyone could view the STEM Central Library, where we will have libraries to design and develop more projects that kids and their families STEM fun provided by ArchForKids, science activities for children and had worked on throughout the year. Vinny Voltage and our own their families,” said Daniel Nkansah, And at our Summer Reading kick- Discovery Team. Coordinator of Children’s Services off, the New York Hall of Science, at Queens Library. “Our Children’s Queens Botanical Garden and The Discovery Team—a group of Librarians even visited the Museum PBS were among our community young people trained by us, the New of Natural History to train and partners greeting children and their York Hall of Science, the Museum of get more ideas for programming. families. Natural History and other science Sixty-five percent of scientists with organizations—is an important advanced degrees say their interest All summer, at the very successful part of Queens Library. Team in science started before middle Maker Camp at our Long Island members conduct “pop-up science school. The earlier kids start STEM, City location, young inventors and the more interested they become.” artists made wonderful projects that demonstrated basic science and To see the full list of children’s engineering principles. Our LEAP programming at Queens Library this into Science partnership with The fall, visit queenslibrary.org/events— Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and read the Events Section of provided STEM activities at the Queens Library Magazine! Children’s Library Discovery Center (CLDC) at Central Library. And our Early Learning Educators traveled to day care and Head Start centers throughout Queens to bring science

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 9 Queens Library Brings World-Class Performances to You

Enjoy the magic of thrilling concerts and stage productions from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts right in your neighborhood! Queens Library has partnered with Lincoln Center to bring free events to a community library near you.

Lincoln Center Local offers both live and previously filmed programs that combine great performances with question-and-answer sessions and showcase a diverse range of music, theater and other performing arts.

Whether you’re a fan of opera, classical music, show tunes, jazz, folk music or world rhythms, programs you won’t want to miss are coming to your community library from Lincoln Center Local now and through the end of the year! Queens Library To see the list of Lincoln Center Local events Celebrates Asian Culture happening at Queens Library, please visit queenslibrary.org/events/lincoln-center-local. We’ve partnered with Asia Society to bring new and interesting programming to Queens Library at Flushing this fall.

Asia Society is dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening relationships among the people, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States.

These programs will introduce new aspects of Asia to Queens Library’s customers and offer them more opportunities to share and celebrate Asian culture.

On September , Michael Zhao, the founder of the interactive website China Air Daily, will speak to us about air pollution and environmental issues in China. And in October, Adriana Proser, Asia Society’s Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art, will provide an exclusive preview of their fall exhibit, “Philippine Gold.” Both programs will be followed by a question-and-answer session.

To learn more about these programs, please visit queenslibrary.org/events.

10 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 Serving the 60+ Set Fun and Enrichment for Older Adults According to the NYC Department for the Aging, New York City’s older adult population includes 1.4 million people over the age of 60. As increasing numbers of baby-boom New Yorkers cross that age threshold in better health than previous generations, the population of people 60 and older is projected to increase to 1.84 million by 2030. Over the last 10 years, New York City has also seen increases in the number of seniors who are poor, who are people of color and/or immigrants, and who are living alone.

Older adults in all these categories older adults together to put on Postal Service. Books in large and want to stay as active and socially dramatic works and experience, regular print, audiobooks, eBooks and intellectually engaged as or re-experience, the thrill of the and eReaders, movies, music and possible, especially when they are stage. games are all available to loan. retired. Queens Library has always provided programs for seniors, but Seniors also need to keep tabs on Through Mail-a-Book and other now more than ever, the library their health, of course. For that, library programming “without offers great ways for older adults Queens Library offers StayWell walls,” homebound customers have to socialize, have fun and stay exercise, meditation and health- found a vital lifeline to the outside mentally and physically active, education programs for adults  world. Queens Library offers a whether or not they can actually and older and regular Shape Up full calendar of virtual programs visit the library. NYC programs for adults of all through teleconference and ages, providing classes in yoga, Skype, including book and topical “Anyone at home who cannot Pilates, Zumba and other great discussion groups, bingo, concerts, get to a library should be able ways to keep their minds sharp poetry and art history workshops to get everything that a person and bodies strong. and informal chats. gets when they walk into a library—programming, materials, We’re also addressing the need “We’ve had many seminars on information, socialization, learning expressed by older adults to different aspects of Queens and opportunities, everything,” said continue learning and growing. have had elected officials speak Madlyn Schneider, who runs In partnership with Lifetime to us, including our Borough Queens Library’s award-winning Arts’ “The Creative Aging Public President,” said Mail-a-Book Older Adult/Mail-a-Book Services Libraries Project,” Queens Library customer Bonnie Sue Pokorny, who program. is offering multi-session courses also moderates book and short- with professional teaching artists story discussion groups. “We have Those who can get to a Queens in which seniors can learn more health seminars over the phone Library location can take part in about drawing, photography, with health care providers, which events like AARP-affiliated tax help memoir writing and more. are informative and educational. and defensive driving courses; The community has become more attend introductory courses on But if you or someone you love aware of us, and we are no longer how to use computers, the Internet can’t leave your home, Queens the ‘invisible’ population.” and email; and receive one-on-one Library can come to you. We help with operating a mobile offer library services for seniors You can learn more about these device or tablet—all in programs and adults of all ages who are services at queenslibrary.org/ geared especially to older homebound through Mail-a-Book. services/older-adults. adults. Queens Library’s Senior Last year, we circulated more than Theater Acting Repertory gathers , free items through the US

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 11 Thank You to Our Friends at Douglaston!

On a beautiful June afternoon at the Douglaston Club, the Friends of Douglaston/Little Neck Library raised more than $25,000 for books and other resources! This funding will provide more than 1,500 books for their library.

Attendees chatted over drinks The Chairman of the Library’s Board and hors d’oeuvres, enjoyed live of Trustees, Carl Koerner, Esq., along music and participated in a raffle with Interim President and CEO and silent auction, which featured Bridget Quinn-Carey and Queens restaurant dinners, tickets to Library Foundation President sporting events and a painting by a Vincent Arcuri, Jr., warmly local artist. thanked and congratulated those Help Raise 1,000 New Voices! Queens Library is the largest away more than , potential We hope to raise enough funds to provider of free English instruction students. That’s why we’ve made teach ESOL to , more students for adult Speakers of Other raising support for ESOL the main next year, and to showcase the Languages (ESOL) in Queens. These focus of this year’s Fundraising programs and services that we programs are funded primarily Gala. provide to our city’s new through public grants and other Americans. city and state funds. We hope you will join us this December at Mulan Restaurant, For more information about our Last year, we helped raise the located in the heart of Flushing at Fundraising Gala, please visit the voices of more than , non- - th Avenue. This beautiful Foundation’s website at English speaking Queens residents restaurant is a symbol of Queens’ foundation.queenslibrary.org. As at our Adult Learning Centers. Still, global diversity, just like Queens always, we thank you for your the demand for our ESOL classes Library at Flushing, the city’s most support. has never been greater—we turned visited library.

12 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 gathered. They also expressed their appreciation for the local Fundraising Committee, headed by J. Douglas Montgomery and John F. Duane.

Thank you to the sponsors for this wonderful event, including Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Duane, Ken and Maryann Munoz, Friends President Arline Abdalian, Jim Flaherty, Douglaston Development, Arpi Candan, Maruja Coddington, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gresser, Charles and Marcy Manna, Steve Newman and Dr. Rosemary Polsky-Newman, and media sponsor The Queens Courier.

Get the Facts about Planned Giving Planned giving, sometimes also Donors can support their favorite Association to present Elder Law referred to as gift planning, deferred causes by designating a nonprofit Seminars which are free to the giving or estate planning, can or charity as a beneficiary of cash, public. Legal experts in elder law enable philanthropic individuals to stocks, real estate, life insurance provide attendees with important make larger gifts than they could policies, IRAs, pension funds, and facts on a variety of issues, such make from their current income. other assets in their wills. There as health care proxies, long term are also a number of more complex care, estate planning and bequests, One difference between a regular financial gift instruments which so that they can learn more donation and a planned gift is may meet the donor’s needs, such information that will help them that the planned gift takes place as a living trust, charitable trust, choose the charitable giving option in the future and requires more or annuities that enable the donor that works best for them. preparation. A popular method of to receive benefits during his or her supporting nonprofit organizations lifetime. For more information, visit our is to make a deferred gift or bequest website at at some future date. Queens Library Foundation partners foundation.queenslibrary.org/ with the Queens County Bar ways-to-give-nav.

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 13 The Play’s the Thing See Shakespeare Performed at Queens Library!

William Shakespeare Now, the play’s the thing at Queens The performances will take place Library! We’re proud to announce every first Monday of the month at is considered history’s that the TITAN Theatre Company : p.m., starting with: greatest playwright—and will team with us to present “Shakespeare in Queens.” Much Ado About Nothing on his plays are, of course, October  at Queens Library at at their best when Every month, actors from TITAN Forest Hills, - st Avenue performed onstage. will present a free dramatic reading Othello on November  at Central of a Shakespeare play at one of Library, - Merrick Boulevard, our community libraries. This is Jamaica an ambitious project—one that will The Merchant of Venice on take TITAN three years to complete, December  at Queens Library at since Shakespeare wrote  plays! Flushing, - Main Street TITAN Theatre Company was Antony and Cleopatra on January created to breathe new life and ,  at Queens Library at clarity into classical works of Woodside, - Skillman Avenue theater through challenging, adventurous and ensemble-driven TITAN will also hold “Talking productions. Shakespeare” discussions at Flushing community library, TITAN began performing in  where they will answer your ques- in a restaurant in Long Island City. tions about the plays. The first Since then, their work has discussion will be held on been embraced by Monday, January , . audiences from all walks of life, For a full list of upcoming and TITAN Theatre performances, visit Company is a proud queenslibrary.org/shakespeare contributing member or TITANtheatrecompany.com. of the new, exciting and innovative Queens theater scene.

14 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 Photo by Jack Vartoogian, Front Row Photos © Photos Row Front Vartoogian, Jack by Photo

The New York-based Ologundê ensemble celebrates the rich Afro-Brazilian culture of Salvador, Bahia through a diverse repertoire of music, dance and martial arts. The World’s Music in the World’s Borough 30 Years of Sunday Concerts @ Central The cultural diversity of Queens has been celebrated more and more over the past few years. It’s one of the main reasons Lonely Planet chose Queens as their number-one travel destination in 2015.

Visitors to Central Library in jazz harp (Brandee Younger), Latin At Sunday Concerts @ Central, Jamaica have long enjoyed one of fusion from Mexico (the Villalobos artists and audience members alike the most entertaining displays of Brothers), a Japanese drum share their pride and speak about Queens’ diversity—the enormously ensemble (Soh Daiko), Afro-Brazilian their cultures in a community popular Sunday Concerts @ Central dance (Ologundê) and Bengali folk setting; and library materials, books series, which for almost  years music (Wahid and Nasreen Azad). and CDs relating to the performance has celebrated the music of different are displayed to help enhance our cultures from around the world. These free performances are customers’ educational experience. “edutainment” at its best, where Every month, people of all ages and attendees can broaden their cultural The next Sunday Concerts @ Central backgrounds join us for concerts in knowledge and see traditional performance takes place on a rich variety of musical genres and music and songs performed in October , with the band Queens styles, featuring emerging artists their original languages, often with Court, featuring Keisha St. Joan and and seasoned professionals. This authentic instruments and dress. an all-star lineup of musicians. We year alone has featured American hope to see you there!

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 15 September/October Events

“I LOVE ROCK ’N’ ROLL” UNPLUGGED MASTER SINGER-SONGWRITER Alan Merrill Sunday, September 26 4:30 p.m. Central Library (Auditorium)

Free tickets available at Eventbrite https://amerrill.eventbrite.com

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PROGRAMS FOR ALL AGES (Prereg.) = Preregistration is required

ASTORIA AUBURNDALE BROADWAY 14-01 Astoria Boulevard, 718-278-2220 25-55 Francis Lewis Blvd., 718-352-2027 40-20 Broadway, 718-721-2462 Thursday @ 5:00PM - 9/10 Fridays @ 3:30PM Saturday @ 10:00AM - 9/5 Lincoln Center Local Screening: Chess Club Book and Clothing Swap-o-Rama Kristin Chenoweth - The Dames of Practice your skills, learn new strategies and Our swap is a great way to get free, new-to- Broadway...All of ‘Em!!! make new friends. you items, find a home for your old items, Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens make friends and help the environment. You Library to bring free screenings of world- BAYSIDE bring clothes and books, other people bring class performances to your neighborhood. 214-20 Northern Boulevard, 718-229-1834 clothes and books and you swap! Broadway and television star Kristin Saturday @ 2:00PM - 9/19 Chenoweth offers a fond salute to the great Lincoln Center Local Screening: Saturday @ 3:00PM - 9/12 ladies of Broadway. Chamber Music Society of A Celebration of Brazilian Lincoln Center Independence Day Thursday @ 5:00PM - 9/24 Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens with Quarteto Moderno Lincoln Center Local Screening: Library to bring free screenings of world- Quarteto Moderno is a contemporary Patina Miller class performances to your neighborhood. Brazilian jazz ensemble featuring guitarist, Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens This festive all-Mozart program features the vocalist and composer Richard Boukas. Library to bring free screenings of world- exquisite Piano Trio in B-flat major, K. 502; the Performing primary Brazilian genres, class performances to your neighborhood. charming Horn Quintet in E-flat major, K. 407; including samba, choro, baião, frevo, Enjoy Patina Miller in her first concert and the exuberant Viola Quintet in C major. maracatu, marcha and guarânia, the group’s special, featuring music ranging from R&B repertoire ranges from Boukas’s original classics to the best of Broadway. Saturday @ 2:30PM - 10/3 compositions to interpretations of legendary Music from China: Brazilian composers. Boukas is joined by the Thursday @ 5:00PM - 10/8 Erhu and Pipa Music heralded young saxophonist Lucas Pino and Lincoln Center Local Screening: Wang Guowei and Sun Li perform traditional Brazilian all-stars Gustavo Amarante on bass New York Philharmonic Gala solo and duet works on two major Chinese and Maurício Zottarelli on drums. with Yo-Yo Ma string instruments, the “erhu” and the “pipa.” Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens CENTRAL LIBRARY Library to bring free screenings of world- BELLEROSE 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, 718-990-0778 class performances to your neighborhood. 250-06 Hillside Avenue, 718-831-8644 Tuesday, Wednesday andThursday @ This “Live from Lincoln Center” broadcast of Thursday @ 6:00PM - 9/17 9:00AM - 9/1, 9/2, 9/3 the New York Philharmonic features music Country Divas: From the ‘90s Borrow a Book in the Park director Alan Gilbert and special guest cello to the Present Greater Jamaica Development Corporation soloist Yo-Yo Ma. Naomi Zeitlin performs the music of Carrie and Queens Library come to Rufus King Park Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Shania (150 Jamaica Ave.) to provide books for your Thursday @ 5:00PM - 10/22 Twain, Faith Hill, Brandi Carlile, Martina reading pleasure. Learn more about Google Lincoln Center Local Screening: McBride, Dixie Chicks, The Judds and Trisha tablets and Hot Spots. On Tuesday get a Latin Beat Yearwood. free library card and find out the many ways Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens Queens Library can enrich your life. Library to bring free screenings of world- Thursdays @ 4:00PM - 10/15, 10/22, 10/29 class performances to your neighborhood. Not-So-Spooky Movies Wednesdays @ 6:00PM - 9/2-9/30 Alexander Wu and the ZigZag Quartet take Feel free to bring your own snacks. 10/15 Movie Night Wednesday audiences of all ages on a journey across - “Hotel Transylvania” (2012, PG); 10/22 In September, we will screen the following Latin culture through music and dance. - “Ghostbusters” (1984, PG; 10/29 - “The movies, all released in 2015: 9/2 - “Far from Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2” the Madding Crowd” (PG-13); 9/9 - “In the (2012, PG-13) Dark” (unrated, advance screening and director talk starting at 6:30 p.m.); 9/16 - “The Age of Adaline” (PG-13); 9/23 - “Little Boy” (PG-13); 9/30 - “Cinderella” (PG).

September/OctoberSeptember/October 2015 2015 Queens Queens Library Library Magazine Magazine 17 17 Saturday @ 11:00AM - 9/12 the environment and conduct a honey-tasting. Saturday @ 5:00PM - 9/26 Discovery Day Street Fair Light refreshments will be served. QL International Resource Center Check out the Children’s Library Discovery Presents Dances of South India Center at our fourth annual Discovery Day EAST FLUSHING Enjoy folk and classical dances, including Street Fair! Dazzle your senses, amaze your 196-36 Northern Boulevard, 718-357-6643 “Bharatanatyam” to the Lord Shiva and mind and explore the wonders of science! Monday @ 6:00PM - 9/28 “kuchipudi” to the Lord Krishna. There will be activities for all ages. Come play! Grigoris Maninakis and the LL AGES Mikrokosmos Ensemble Present Sunday @ 2:00PM - 9/27 A Sunday @ 2:30PM - 9/13 Greek Music and Songs Les Deux A Sunday Afternoon with the Cool Hear traditional and contemporary Greek This violin duo, featuring Clare Elena Semes Modern and Classic Jazz Vocals of instrumentals and songs. and Chelsea Starbuck Smith, offers a dazzling Pauline Jean performance of classical and pop pieces. Pauline Jean is a Haitian-American composer, FAR ROCKAWAY arranger, vocalist and rising jazz star whose 1637 Central Avenue, 718-327-2549 Saturday @ 1:30PM - 10/3 vocal and compositional creativity blends Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 9/9 1940s Swing Jazz with M.A.S. Swing Kreyòl roots with modern and classic jazz. Co ee with a Cop Enjoy big band music live! M.A.S. Swing is a Her rich contralto and inventive interpretations Stop by for coffee and share questions, 15-piece band that plays hits originally written make her a favorite with audiences of all ages. concerns and thoughts about local policing or performed by Frank Sinatra, Tommy with Officer Kevin Campbell, Community Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller. Thursday @ 6:30PM - 9/17 Affairs, 101 Precinct. Psychic Medium Sunday @ 2:00PM - 10/4 Professional intuitive and psychic medium Long Island Chorus Presents: FLUSHING Emily Stroia will give a talk on communicating Sound of Long Island Concert 41-17 Main Street, 718-661-1200 with the afterlife and developing your own The Long Island Chorus, a group composed Saturday @ 1:30PM - 9/12 psychic abilities. There will be short readings of members of diverse backgrounds sharing A Concert in Memory of 9/11 after the talk, if people are interested. a passion for vocal music and a dedication to The Peace of Heart Choir is a volunteer New society, presents an enchanting mix of world York City group that came together after 9/11 to Saturday @ 4:30PM - 9/26 and Chinese masterpieces and popular songs. “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” Unplugged: promote healing, diversity, community bonding and mutual understanding through music. Singer-Songwriter Alan Merrill Wednesday @ 6:00PM - 10/14

Alan Merrill is the singer and songwriter of the Sunday @ 12:00PM - 10/18 Sunday @ 2:00PM - 9/13 original 1975 Arrows version of “I Love Rock Queens Memory in Flushing Quintet of the Americas Presents ‘n’ Roll,” subsequently covered by Joan Jett Join Queens Memory and Asian Americans for Another Realm: Unusual Music and Britney Spears. He will perform acoustic Equality for a community-history event! The Combinations versions of some of his greatest songs Queens Memory team will scan your photos, Quintet of the Americas will perform music interspersed with his own unique narratives, poscards and memorabilia and save them to a combining Western music with that of China, followed by a question-and-answer session. thumb drive you can take home. Latin America and Africa. The flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn and bassoon quintet will DOUGLASTON/LITTLE NECK Sunday @ 2:00PM - 10/25 be joined by electronics, harp, “mbira” (African New York Korean Traditional 249-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-225-8414 thumb piano) and Latin American folk rattles Marching Band Thursday @ 4:00PM - 9/3 and flutes. Zimbabwean master “mbira” player Rosh Hashanah Concert This percussion group consists of Chartwell Dutiro is the featured guest artist. professional “samulnori” players who This Jewish New Year concert features have performed at venues throughout the Irene Failenbogen. All ages are invited. Light Thursday @ 6:00PM - 9/17 tri-state area. refreshments will be served. Fall Classical Sing-Along Concert with Young Student Artists Mondays @ 3:30PM (except holidays) Enjoy a piano performance of famous classical FOREST HILLS Knit and Crochet Club (Prereg.) tunes! Learn the history and meaning of each 108-19 71 Avenue, 718-268-7934 Adults, teens and kids of all levels are piece, and hear how composers translate Monday @ 5:30PM - 10/5 welcome. Bring your own yarn, needles and nonmusical ideas into music. Shakespeare in Queens: ideas. Space is limited. “Much Ado about Nothing” Thursday @ 6:00PM - 9/24 It’s opening night for our new series of staged Thursday @ 4:00PM - 10/15 East Meets West with Hannah Hsu readings of Shakespeare’s plays at various The Joys of Beekeeping Wang and Raymond Malone Queens Library locations, presented by Douglaston resident Ruth Harrigan, a core Western music merges with that of Taiwan, TITAN Theatre Company. This evening, member of the New York City Beekeepers China, Korea and Japan in a performance enjoy one of Shakespeare’s most beloved Association, will lecture on the joys of by pianist Hannah Hsu Wang and violinist comedies, in which love and scandal rock the beekeeping and the importance of bees to Raymond Malone. Sicilian town of Messina.

18 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 Monday @ 5:30PM - 10/26 2013 Gala celebrates the centennial of the discussion of the roots of violence and how Saturday @ 2:00PM - 10/31 birth of the beloved tenor with performances to overcome it. Through an exhibit, dramatic A Celebrate the Filipino Community by many of the world’s greatest voices. presentation and discussion, we’ll explore LL AGES in Queens how we can change ourselves and the world Join Queens Memory and My Baryo, My Thursday @ 2:00PM - 10/8 around us. Presentations and discussions will Borough and help document and share the Lincoln Center Local Screening: New be held on September 17 and 24; the exhibit history of the Filipino community. We will scan York Philharmonic Gala will be on view September 17-24. your photos, postcards and memorabilia and with Yo-Yo Ma save them to a thumb drive you can take home. See “Astoria,” 10/8. NORTH HILLS 57-04 Marathon Parkway, 718-225-3550 FRESH MEADOWS JACKSON HEIGHTS Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/25 193-20 Horace Harding Expwy., 718-454-7272 35-51 81 Street, 718-899-2500 Lincoln Center Local Screening: Monday @ 2:30PM - 9/28 Saturdays @ 3:00PM - 10/17, 10/24, 10/31 One Singular Sensation! Celebrating Lincoln Center Local Screening: Jamaica Drum Jam Marvin Hamlisch New York Philharmonic Gala 10/17 - The Roots of Afro-Latin Rhythms: Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens with Yo-Yo Ma Latin percussionist Geraldo Flores discusses Library to bring free screenings of world-class See “Astoria,” 10/8. and demonstrates Afro-Latin rhythms with performances to your neighborhood. Audra various instruments. 10/24 - Unleash Your McDonald and other Broadway and television Monday @ 2:30PM - 10/26 Groove: Mike Veny instructs and leads a luminaries join the New York Philharmonic in Lincoln Center Local Screening: drum circle. 10/31 - West African Drum and this tribute to the composer, replete with “A The Chamber Music Society of Dance Circle: Brendan Finnegan teaches Chorus Line” kick line. Lincoln Center basics and leads a drum circle. Instruments See “Bayside,” 9/19. will be available for 50 participants. Friday @ 1:00PM - 10/30 Lincoln Center Local Screening: GLEN OAKS LANGSTON HUGHES Unsung Carolyn Leigh 256-04 Union Turnpike, 718-831-8636 100-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-651-1100 Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens Thursday @ 1:00PM - 9/3 Saturday @ 2:00PM - 9/5 Library to bring free screenings of world-class Summer Intergenerational Knit and A Visit with Loretta Long, EdD performances to your neighborhood. Ten Crochet Club Loretta Long, who plays Susan on “Sesame performers and a trio of musicians present Learn to knit and crochet! Experienced crafters Street,” will talk to children of all ages and 20 melodic gems by the lyricist behind will assist youngsters and beginners. Please their families about her life and career. “Witchcraft,” “Young at Heart” and several bring your own supplies. Broadway musicals. Saturday @ 11:00AM - 9/19 Wednesday @ 1:30PM - 9/9 Hispanic Heritage Festival: Prepare RIDGEWOOD Lincoln Center Local Screening: Mexican Dishes and Enjoy the Music 20-12 Madison Street, 718-821-4770 New York Philharmonic Gala of Spain and Latin America Saturday @ 3:00PM - 9/19 with Yo-Yo Ma 11:00AM - Learn to make tostadas and Seven-String Swing Songs of the See “Astoria,” 10/8. tamales; 1:00PM - Guillermo and Gabriel Swing Era Ariza perform rumba flamenca; 3:00PM - Guitar and vocal jazz duo Carol and Ed Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday @ David Cedeño’s Orchestra plays salsa hits. Nicodemi perform. 3:00PM - 9/15, 9/23, 9/24 Family Movies LEFFERTS Saturday @ 2:30PM - 10/17 Films are: 9/15 - “The Pirate Fairy” (2014, G); 103-34 Lefferts Boulevard, 718-843-5950 Lincoln Center Local Screening: 9/23, 9/24 - “Cinderella” (2015, PG). Saturday @ 2:30PM - 10/3 The Villalobos Brothers Saturday Movie Matinee: Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens Wednesday @ 1:30PM - 10/14 “Avengers: Age of Ultron” Library to bring free screenings of world-class Lincoln Center Local Screening: Things go wrong when Tony Stark and performances to your neighborhood. The Patina Miller in Concert Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant Villalobos Brothers blend the sounds of their See “Astoria,” 9/24. peacekeeping program, and it’s up to Earth’s native Veracruz, Mexico with the intricate heroes to make thing right. (2015, PG-13). harmonies of jazz and classical music. HILLCREST 187-05 Union Turnpike, 718-454-2786 LEFRAK CITY ROSEDALE Thursday @ 2:00PM - 9/10 98-30 57 Avenue, 718-592-7677 144-20 243 Street, 718-528-8490 Lincoln Center Local Screening: Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 9/17, 9/24 Tuesdays @ 4:00PM Richard Tucker Centennial Opera Gala Victory Over Violence: Dramatic Chess for All Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens Presentation and Talk with Exhibit Beginners, advance and in-between players Library to bring free screenings of world-class Victory Over Violence is a movement for are welcome. performances to your neighborhood. This peace based on respect, self-awareness and September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 19 Mondays @ 5:45PM - 9/7, 9/28, 10/5, 10/26 WINDSOR PARK WOODSIDE Family Movies 79-50 Bell Boulevard, 718-468-8300 54-22 Skillman Avenue, 718-429-4700 Enjoy feature movies appropriate for all ages. Thursday @ 6:30PM - 9/24 Friday @ 12:30PM - 9/11 Lincoln Center Local Screening: Lincoln Center Local Screening: ST. ALBANS Audra McDonald in Concert Jason Isbell - Moving Forward 191-05 Linden Boulevard, 718-528-8196 “ Go Back Home” Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens Monday and Thursday @ 6:00PM - 9/21, 9/24 Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens Library to bring free screenings of world-class LL AGES Library to bring free screenings of world-class performances to your neighborhood. Jason A Queens Memory in St. Albans Share your Queens memories and get those performances to your neighborhood. Five-time Isbell and his band stay true to their southern family photos digitized for free! The Queens Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald performs roots. Memory team will scan your photographs, favorites from her album “Go Back Home.” postcards and other memorabilia and save Wednesday @ 2:30PM - 9/23 them to a thumb drive you can take home. Thursday @ 6:30PM - 10/15 Seven-String Swing Songs of the Lincoln Center Local Screening: Swing Era SOUTH JAMAICA Ring Them Bells! A Kander and Ebb See “Ridgewood,” 9/19. 108-41 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., 718-739-4088 Celebration Wednesdays @ 4:00PM Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens Friday @ 12:30PM - 9/25 Movie Night Library to bring free screenings of world-class Lincoln Center Local Screening: Join us for a family-friendly movie! Snacks performances to your neighborhood. Marin Melissa Hughes will be served. Mazzie and Jason Danieley perform “All That Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens Jazz,” “Cabaret,” “New York, New York” and Library to bring free screenings of world- Thursday @ 5:00PM - 10/29 other Kander and Ebb songs, with special class performances to your neighborhood. Lincoln Center Local Screening: guests Joel Grey and Chita Rivera. Rising star soprano Melissa Hughes offers a Harlem Renaissance Orchestra recital of solos works written for her by close Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens Monday @ 1:00PM - 10/19 contemporaries and her own interpretations Library to bring free screenings of world-class Movie Time: “McFarland, USA” of popular songs. performances to your neighborhood. The Kevin Costner plays a high school football Harlem Renaissance Orchestra plays music coach who leads a cross-country track team Friday @ 12:30PM - 10/9 of Basie, Ellington, Lionel Hampton and of impoverished Latino students to a state Lincoln Center Local Screening: Illinois Jacquet. championship. (2015, PG) Ring Them Bells! A Kander and Ebb Celebration Thursday @ 6:30PM - 10/29 See “Windsor Park,” 10/15. SUNNYSIDE Lincoln Center Local Screening: 43-06 Greenpoint Avenue, 718-784-3033 James Naughton - The Songs of Thursday @ 12:00PM - 10/22 Thursday @ 4:00PM - 10/22 Randy Newman Celebrate the Filipino Community Lincoln Center Local Screening: in Queens A Memorial Concert for Pete and Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens Library to bring free screenings of world-class See “Forest Hills,” 10/26 and 10/31. Toshi Seeger performances to your neighborhood. Tony Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens Award-winner James Naughton performs the Friday @ 12:30PM - 10/23 Library to bring free screenings of world-class music of Randy Newman, whose pop songs Lincoln Center Local Screening: performances to your neighborhood. An all- and film scores have delighted audiences Curtain Up - The School of American star lineup of friends and family honor these for decades and earned Oscar, Emmy and Ballet Workshop Performances leaders in folk music and activism. Grammy awards. Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens

Library to bring free screenings of world-class WHITESTONE WOODHAVEN performances to your neighborhood. Go 151-10 14 Road, 718-767-8010 85-41 Forest Parkway, 718-849-1010 behind the scenes to experience the intensive Thursday @ 5:00PM - 10/22 training of ballet’s future stars as they prepare Celebrate Italian Heritage Month Monday @ 4:00PM - 9/14 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 9/17 for their end-of-year performances. with Italian Music and Craft! Queens Memory in Woodhaven 5:00PM - Learn how to paint glass with Italian (in English and Spanish) artist Cristina Cipriani using the reverse- Share your Queens memories and get those painting technique and special paint in a family photos digitized for free! The Queens workshop dedicated to Italian decorated Memory team will scan your photographs, tableware. 6:30PM -Terra, Sangue e Mare, postcards and other memorabilia and save composed of songstress Michela Musolino, them to a thumb drive you can take home. world percussionist Michael Delia and accordion virtuoso Fabio Turchetti, combine Sicilian folk music with world music traditions.

20 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS (Prereg.) = Preregistration is required

ASTORIA Tuesday @ 1:30PM - 10/13 Saturday @ 2:30PM - 9/26

14-01 Astoria Boulevard, 718-278-2220 Keisha St. Joan Sings Barbra Streisand Good Ol’ Rock ‘n’ Roll with A Wednesday @ 11:00AM - 9/16 The singer pays a musical tribute to Eddie Lee Isaacs and Friends DULTS Knit and Crochet for a Cause Barbra Streisand with selections such as Veteran blues guitarist Eddie Lee Isaacs We need experienced craftspeople to make “Somewhere” and “The Way We Were.” invites you on a “sea cruise” to Kansas City beanies for premature babies. Yarn will be and the beat of Elvis, Chuck Berry and others. provided. All completed hats will be donated BAYSIDE to Bellevue Hospital. 214-20 Northern Boulevard, 718-229-1834 Saturday @ 2:00PM - 10/10 Thursday @ 12:15PM - 9/3 Lincoln Center Local Screening: Monday @ 6:00PM - 9/28 Blockbuster Matinee: “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Tenant Rights in Rent Controlled, “Mad Max: Fury Road” of Fleet Street” Rent Stabilized and Unregulated A stark desert landscape of broken humanity Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens Apartments gives rise to a couple of rebels attempting Library to bring free screenings of world-class Central Astoria LDC, which provides to restore order: Max, a man of action but performances to your neighborhood. In this housing advice and assistance to the public, few words, and Furiosa, a woman seeking to screening, Stephen Sondheim’s musical presents a workshop on tenant and landlord return to her childhood homeland.(2015, R) masterpiece returns to life with murder, responsibilities; basic rights of tenants; rent, mayhem and the ultimate revenge in a new rent increases and rent surcharges; and Thursdays @ 12:15PM - 9/3, 10/1 performance by The New York Philharmonic, complaint forms and procedures. Matinee Thursday starring Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson. Watch a newly-released film! AUBURNDALE BELLEROSE 25-55 Francis Lewis Blvd., 718-352-2027 Thursdays @ 5:30PM 250-06 Hillside Avenue, 718-831-8644 Fridays @ 11:00AM Liam Neeson Film Series Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 9/2-9/30 Computers for Beginners (Prereg.) If you’re a fan, these films are for you: 9/3 - STARs A half hour of one-on-one computer training “Unknown” (2011, PG-13); 9/10 - “Non-Stop” Senior Theater Acting Repertory presents is available by appointment only. Participants (2014, PG-13); 9/17 - “A Walk Among the acting with spontaneity, where you, too, can are limited to three sessions per day. Sign up Tombstones” (2014, R); 9/24 - “Krull” (1983, be a STAR! for classes at 11:00AM, 11:30AM or 12:00PM. PG); 10/1 - “K-19: The Widowmaker” (2002, PG-13); 10/ 8 - “Battleship” (2012, PG-13); Tuesdays @ 1:30PM - 9/8-9/29 Tuesdays @ 3:15PM - 9/15-10/27 10/15 - “The Dead Pool” (1988, R); 10/22 English for Speakers of Other English Conversation Club (Prereg.) - “Darkman” (1990, R); 10/29 - “Seraphim Languages (ESOL) Improve your conversation skills, vocabulary, Falls” (2006, R). This class is for those who need to learn pronunciation and grammar! Our group English in order to pursue further education, is recommended for advanced English- Mondays @ 6:45PM (except 9/7) apply for jobs or increase social skills. language learners. ShapeUp NYC: Zumba for Adults Instructor Tanya Gonzalez-Jorge teaches Wednesdays @ 10:30AM (except 9/2) Monday @ 12:30PM - 9/21 this fusion of Latin, international and popular Computer Class Poetry Club music dance themes that create a dynamic, Learn the basics of how to use the Internet Let’s read and discuss great poetry together! exciting and effective fitness workout. and social media and work with Microsoft Word, Excel and Publisher 2010. A valid BAY TERRACE Thursday @ 6:00PM - 9/24 Queens Library card is required. 18-36 Bell Boulevard, 718-423-7004 Book Discussion Group Thursday @ 1:00PM - 9/3 This month’s selection is “Unbroken: A World Thursday @ 2:00PM - 9/10 Popular Music from the ‘40s to ‘80s War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Improving Your Life through Vocalist Tony DiBetta performs classic Redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand. Meditation popular songs by Frank Sinatra, Neil Join psychotherapist Renate Lanotte, MS, Diamond, Elvis, The Drifters, Bobby Darin, LCSW, and learn the benefits of meditation Lionel Richie and more. and how it can positively impact your life.

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 21 Thursday @ 11:00AM - 9/17 Tuesdays @ 2:00PM - 9/29-10/27 Saturday @ 3:00PM - 9/19 Book Discussion Goup Drawing to See: A Creative Aging A Tribute to the Music of Stevie Pick up a copy of this month’s selection at the Program (Prereg.) Wonder, Curtis Mayeld and Circulation Desk and join us! Adults age 50 and up will learn a variety of John Legend drawing techniques that will sharpen their Pop and jazz vocalist Cody Childs performs BRIARWOOD capacity to see in ways artists see. The classics of soul legends. 85-12 Main Street, 718-658-1680 final session will include a gallery showing Fridays @ 12:00PM of participants’ work. Preregistration for the Wednesday @ 1:30PM - 10/7 ShapeUp NYC: Moving and entire session is required. The Sounds of Ray Charles, Stevie Grooving with Tenaria Wonder and Marvin Gaye This aerobics fitness class uses easy-to- Saturday @ 3:00PM - 10/3 L A Blacksmith and Wayne Holmes take you follow dance steps to increase cardiovascular Vocalist Abby Powell in their time machine to share some of these health and tone the body. The instructor is Abby Powell has performed on the operatic great artists’ hits. Tenaria Drummond-Smith. and world recital stages and been praised by

DULTS “The New York Times” as a vocalist of “solid Friday @ 10:30AM - 10/16

A Thursday @ 3:00PM - 10/1 and youthful” tone. Unclaimed Funds Information Session Presented by Find out if New York State owes you money! Center for the Independence Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 10/13 Representatives from the Comptroller’s Office of the Disabled Tenant Rights in Rent Controlled, will conduct a presentation and assist you in Representatives of the Center for Rent Stabilized and Unregulated finding out if you have unclaimed funds. Independence of the Disabled, in partnership Apartments with Queens Library, will describe free See “Astoria,” 9/28. Saturday @ 3:00PM - 10/17 services it provides to people with disabilities, King Solomon Hicks: Why the Blues their family and their friends. It will also Saturday @ 3:00PM - 10/17 Makes Us Happy provide general information on public benefits Full Circle Writer’s Workshop Teenage guitar prodigy and singer Solomon for the disabled. Author Alex Clermont brings together local Hicks, known by fans in Harlem as King aspiring fiction writers to share their work Solomon, Li’l B.B. and East Montgomery, Monday @ 2:30PM - 10/5 and receive feedback to improve their craft. plays a program of blues favorites by Ray Lois Bruno Sings the Girls of the ’60s Writers are encouraged to submit a story or Charles, Little Milton and Muddy Waters. Lois Bruno offers a tribute to the girl groups excerpt of 10 pages or less a week ahead of the ’60s, with selections made famous by of time so others can give a critique in an Wednesday @ 6:00PM - 10/28 the Supremes, Shirelles, Ronettes, Vandellas informal, conversational format. An Evening of Art and more. The Cambria Heights Library Craft Artists CAMBRIA HEIGHTS Extraordinaire present their first artists’ BROAD CHANNEL 218-13 Linden Boulevard, 718-528-3535 reception and exhibition. A wide array of 16-26 Cross Bay Boulevard, 718-318-4943 Wednesdays @ 10:30AM artwork will be on display, including yarn Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 9/9 Adult Activity Hour crafts, watercolor and acrylic paintings, Crazy Quilt Block Workshop (Prereg.) Learn to make jewelry, explore yarn crafts, jewelry, line art and photography. Alacia Stubbs teaches you how to create a paint with watercolors and play board games. Refreshments will be served. “crazy quilt” block, so-called because pieces of random shapes and sizes are sewn Thursdays @ 6:00PM CENTRAL LIBRARY together to make an abstract, non-repeating Adult Craft Hour 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, 718-990-0778 design. Materials will be provided. Learn to crochet, knit, make jewelry, explore Tuesdays @ 2:00PM paper crafts and create collages. Independent Films: Fall Series 2015 BROADWAY Films in September, all released in 2014, are: 40-20 Broadway, 718-721-2462 Friday @ 10:30AM - 9/11 9/1 - “Inherent Vice” (R); 9/8 - “Mommy” (R, Eat Light, Eat Right Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 9/16 in French); 9/15 - “Feast” (G, animated short) Making Jewelry from Fabric Participants exchange their favorite recipes and “Salt of the Earth” (PG-13, documentary); Phyllis Ger demonstrates how to use fabric in for invigorating, simple meals. 9/22 - “Cesar Chavez” (PG-13); 9/29 - making designer jewelry for any occasion “Leviathan” (R, in Russian). Films for October Monday @ 10:30AM - 9/14 will be announced. Citizen Preparedness Corps Workshop Monday @ 2:00PM - 9/21 Find the Hidden Artist in You (Prereg.) New York State is offering a 2-hour training Wednesday @ 4:30PM - 9/2 Artist Doug LeBlang shares tips and session to residents to provide them with the How to Read a Knitting Pattern techniques in this painting workshop. tools and resources they need to prepare for Learn terminology and how to read and follow a disaster, respond accordingly and recover patterns. Basic knitting skills are required. as quickly as possible. Bring a ball of yarn and a pair of size 7 knitting needles.

22 Queens Library Magazine Septmeber/October 2015 Thursdays @ 2:00PM Wednesday @ 6:30PM - 9/9 Wednesday @ 6:00PM - 9/16 Classic Movies @ 2:00 Advance Screening of Horror Movie Tuesday @ 6:00PM - 10/13 In September and October we will screen: “In the Dark” with David Spaltro Answering Questions about 9/3 - “The Caine Mutiny” (1954); 9/10 - “The and Kayla Leasure Child Support Sweet Smell of Success” (1957) (customer Award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter The New York City Office of Child Support suggestion); 9/17 - “Some Like It Hot” (1959) David Spaltro, whose other credits include Enforcement is holding an informational (customer suggestion); 9/24 - “Golden “The Cat’s Cradle” (2014), “Things I Don’t session to explain how child support is Boy” (1939); 10/1 - “Sweethearts” (1938) Understand” (2012) and “…Around” (2008), determined and collected. Representatives (customer suggestion); 10/8 - “The Lady will present an advance screening of his new will answer questions about the process and Vanishes” (1938); 10/15 - “The Tarnished horror movie, “In the Dark” (2015), adapted offer assistance to help manage child-support

Angels” (1957); 10/22 - “Horse Feathers” from Gothic horror novelist Steven Peck’s “A payments. A

(1932); 10/29 - “Frankenstein” (1931) Short Stay in Hell.” A question-and-answer DULTS (customer suggestion). session with Spaltro and Kalya Leasure, a Saturday @ 2:00PM - 9/19 principal actress in the film, will follow. Meet Ginger Adams Otis, Author of Thursdays @ 6:00PM “Fireght” Haitian Creole for Beginners Saturday @ 11:00AM - 9/12 Veteran reporter Ginger Adams Otis This course is for people with little or no The Art of Thinking Positively examines the struggle of black firefighters to prior knowledge of Haitian Creole (Kreyòl). Swami Radheswarananda, Hardik Sevak and integrate the FDNY and shares the stories Participants will learn speaking, reading, Serita Babulal, of Divya Jyoti Jagrati Kendra, of the black men and women who battled writing and listening comprehension within teach meditation and how to harness the to join New York’s Bravest. Members of the a Haitian cultural context. Core concepts of mind’s positive energy to attain true peace Vulcan Society, the fraternal organization grammar, phonetics and other aspects of and sustained happiness. of black firefighters who sued the FDNY for language structure will be covered. At the discrimination, will be on hand to discuss end of the course, participants will be able to Saturday @ 2:00PM - 9/12 their experiences. Books will be available for conduct simple conversations in Kreyòl and Painting Workshop: Paint in the sale and signing. write at the basic level. Style of Matisse (Prereg.) Artist and professor Donna Davis will lead a Monday @ 6:30PM - 9/21 Thursday, Tuesday and Wednesday @ 6:00PM painting workshop exploring the art of Henri Life, Love and Loss: A Spiritual 9/3, 9/8, 9/9 Matisse. All materials will be supplied. Perspective Saturdays @ 3:00PM - 10/10, 10/17, 10/24 Licensed mental health professional and self- Microsoft Word (in Bengali) (Prereg.) Monday @ 6:00PM - 9/14 published author Kathleen Crews-Hall will Learn to create documents and work with Meet Arthur Browne, Author of discuss the positive and negative aspects of tables. Part 1 - Introduction to Microsoft “One Righteous Man” life, love and loss from a clinical and spiritual Word; Part 2- Creating and saving In “One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and perspective. documents; Part 3 - Working with tables and the Shattering of the Color Line in New printing. Participants should be able to use York,” prize-winning journalist Arthur Browne Wednesdays @ 1:00PM - 9/23, 10/7, 10/21 the keyboard and mouse and open and close reveals the drama and impact that marked Bingo applications, and must attend all 3 classes. the ascension of Samuel Jesse Battle from Older adults are invited to join us for a fun Preregister at the Cyber Center Reference house servant and luggage porter to first afternoon. Prizes will be awarded. Desk beginning at 9:00AM on September 3 black cop, first black sergeant and, ultimately, for the September course and October 3 for first black lieutenant in the New York City Thursday @ 2:00PM - 9/24 the October course. Police Department. Books will be available Permanent Opportunity: for sale and signing. You Have a Green Card; Get More! Fridays @ 4:30PM - 9/4-9/25 (in Spanish and English) Knitting for Beginners (Prereg.) Monday @ 6:30PM - 9/14 If you have your green card, you might be Learn how to cast on, knit, purl and bind off. Business Financing Roadmap ready to get the full benefits of citizenship, All supplies are provided. (in Bengali) which will allow you to vote in your next local, Whether you are just starting or expanding state and national elections as well as enjoy Wednesdays @ 6:00PM - 9/9, 9/16, 9/23 a business, this course will help you learn many other opportunities. Computers for Beginners about credit and financing opportunities for (in Spanish) (Prereg.) small business and provide insight into what Thursday @ 6:00PM - 9/24 Learn how to turn on a computer and write an lenders look for so you can be prepared Anesthesia and You: What to Expect email. Participants must attend all 3 classes. when applying for financing. When Having Surgery Preregister at the Cyber Center Reference Sandhya Malhotra, MD, of the Global Desk or call 718-990-0967 beginning Physicians Network Foundation, will discuss Wednesday, September 2 at 9:00AM. what to expect from medical procedures and how to prepare for them to optimize your health before and after surgery.

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 23 Sunday @ 2:00PM - 9/27 CORONA who will present information about indoor Sunday Movie: “Tracers” 38-23 104 Street, 718-426-2844 and outdoor composting, what and why to An ace bicycle messenger in New York City Thursdays @ 5:00PM - 9/10, 10/8 compost, the decomposition process and (Taylor Lautner) tries to repay a debt to a group Corona Community Health and compost troubleshooting. of organized criminals. His fast-paced world Prevention Series (in Spanish) becomes even more explosive after he crashes This series is presented in collaboration with Thursday @ 6:00PM - 9/10 his bike into a sexy stranger. (2015, PG-13). AIDS Center of Queens County (ACQC). Documentary Film Screening 9/10 - Sexually transmitted infections; and Discussion Thursday @ 6:00PM - 10/1 10/8 - HIV/AIDS Director Stuart Hersh screens his acclaimed Celebrate World Vegetarian Day documentary, “More than a Singer,” about the Find out what being a vegetarian is all about Mondays @ 6:30PM (except holidays) music of the synagogue and the religious role and the health benefits of a vegetarian Moving for Life of the cantors. Cantor Irene Failenbogen will lifestyle with Jenné Claiborne, a New York Moving for Life incorporates gentle dance give a demonstration. City-based private chef, health coach and and yoga accompanied by different types

DULTS creator of the 21-Day Vegan Blueprint. of music to accentuate the body-mind Thursday @ 6:00PM - 9/24

A connection. The Ongoing Struggle for Civil Rights: Sunday @ 3:00PM - 10/4 1870-Present Sunday Concerts @ Central Presents Thursday @ 5:45PM - 9/17 Louise Dente and William Seraile will present Queens Court, Featuring Superfoods: Healthy and Delicious a lecture and discussion on the history of the Keisha St. Joan Eating Plans for Families (in Spanish) Civil Rights Movement in the United States The Queens Court performs some of Billie Nutritionist Christina Camacho will present from 1870 to the present. Holiday’s great hits, including “Fine and recipes and tips on how to incorporate Mellow,” “Lover Man,” “God Bless the Child” nutrient-packed “superfoods” into your meals Tuesdays @ 2:00PM - 9/29, 10/27 and “Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do.” and snacks, and how to introduce these Films at 2:00 foods to your family. 9/27 - “Water Diviner” starring Russel Crowe Wednesday @ 7:00PM - 10/7 (2014, R); 10/27 - “Last Knights” starring You Can Prevent Diabetes Tuesday @ 10:30AM - 10/13 Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman (2015, R). If you are at risk for Type 2 diabetes, you Breastfeeding Basics (in Spanish) may be eligible for this year-long diabetes Mothers, future mothers and their partners, Thursday @ 4:00PM - 10/1 prevention program, which provides group family members and friends are encouraged Songs from Latin America and individual support, educational materials, to attend this workshop, which will provide Argentinian-born singer and musician Irene personalized feedback, an introduction to support, build confidence and assist with Failenbogen celebrates National Hispanic physical activity and other health information. problems associated with breastfeeding. Heritage Month with a performance of songs Call Tamara at 718-990-5197 for more from Latin America. information or to preregister. Sessions will Monday and Wednesday @ 4:00PM take place near Central Library at the First 10/26, 10/28 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 10/8 Presbyterian Church in Jamaica. Halloween Face-Painting Documentary Film Screening with Gianina Enriquez (in Spanish) Director Stuart Hersh screens his acclaimed Wednesdays @ 6:00PM - 10/14, 10/21, 10/28 (Prereg.) documentary film “La Raza,” about the history Microsoft Word (in Spanish) (Prereg.) This 2-part workshop will teach you how to and culture of Mexican Americans. Learn how to create a document and work use fantasy makeup, hairstyles and fingernail with tables. Participants should have basic decorations to create an original Halloween Friday @ 1:30PM - 10/16 computer skills and must attend all 3 classes. disguise for your child. The program is limited Fall Prevention for Older Adults Preregister at the Cyber Center Reference to 30 participants. Preregister at the library Certified health education specialist Catherine Desk or call 718-990-0967 beginning just before the first class. Dunckley of North Shore University Hospital Wednesday, October 7 at 9:00AM. will demonstrate simple balance and strength DOUGLASTON/LITTLE NECK exercises and discuss footwear, home safety, Wednesday @ 10:00AM - 10/21 249-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-225-8414 medication, vision and other factors that can Elder Law, Estate Planning, Trusts Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 9/2 contribute to or help prevent falls. and Asset Protection Sinatra and Garland, Performed by Noted elder-law and estate-planning attorney Naomi Zeitlin Tuesday @ 3:00PM - 10/20 Murder, Madness and Poe Juliet Gavriel will discuss aspects of elder Naomi Zeitlin performs songs made memorable law, powers of attorney, estate and disability by Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. In this performance of a fictional monologue planning, and long-term care to help you by America’s unequaled master of the increase lifetime income, preserve wealth, Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 9/9 macabre, Edgar Allan Poe seeks to convince avoid estate taxes and provide for heirs and Composting (Prereg.) New York booking agents of his sanity and charitable interests. Queens Botanical Garden will host an expert reliability by reciting from his poetry and from the New York City Compost Project prose works.

24 Queens Library Magazine Septmeber/October 2015 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 10/22 Fridays @ 1:00PM - 9/4, 10/2 Wednesday @ 6:30PM - 9/23 Solar Power for Queens Homeowners Book Discussion Group Lincoln Center Local Screening: Here Comes Solar, a nonprofit initiative, will We will read “The Other Wes Moore” by “New York Philharmonic Opening discuss the benefits and costs of solar power Wes Moore in September and “The Art of Gala with Itzhak Perlman” and the incentives, tax credits and financing Hearing Heartbeats” by Jan-Philipp Sendker Lincoln Center is partnering with Queens options that can make it affordable. in October. Library to bring free screenings of world- class performances to your neighborhood. EAST ELMHURST Saturdays @ 9:30AM - 9/12, 9/19, 9/26 This month, world-renowned violinist Itzhak 95-06 Astoria Boulevard, 718-424-2619 Microsoft Excel (in Spanish) (Prereg.) Perlman joins the Philharmonic to perform his Wednesdays @ 10:15AM Learn how to create a worksheet and perform personal favorites.

StayWell calculations. Participants should be familiar A Seniors meet every Wednesday for exercise, the computer and must attend all sessions. Thursday @ 10:30AM - 9/24 DULTS yoga and other health-related programs. Preregister at the Cyber Center Reference Hepatitis B (in Chinese) Desk or call 718-661-1280 beginning As part of the Community Health Education Thursdays @ 6:30PM September 12 at 9:00AM. Partnership series, gastrointestinal specialist ShapeUp NYC: Cardio Sculpt Michael Li, MD, will explain the causes of This cardio-aerobics class for adults includes Monday @ 6:00PM - 9/14 hepatitis B and its route of infection. exercises to popular music and is designed Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease to get your heart rate up while toning and (in Chinese) Sunday @ 1:00PM - 10/4 sculpting the body. Bring a towel and bottle of Learn what Alzheimer’s disease is, what Tradition Meets Online in Literature water. The instructor is Jessica Merulla. the warning signs and treatments are, why (in Chinese) early diagnosis is important and how the Mr. Zongzi Zhang, a renowned Chinese Monday @ 12:30PM - 9/14 Alzheimer’s Association can help you. author living in New York, will share his Computer Boot Camp perspective on reading and writing for Learn basic computer terminology and find Tuesday @ 3:00PM - 9/15 Chinese Americans; and Lan Zhang, a well- out how to set up an email account, use a WeChat Public Platform (in Chinese) known online blogger and writer, will discuss browser and safely search the Internet. Basic Zhemiao Chen, of the law office of Jiali Pan her experiences establishing “Yi Xiang mouse and keyboarding are recommended. and Associates, PLLC, will speak about the Fang Wen Xue City” (WeChat Literature in advertising uses of the messaging and calling Chinese). Friday @ 7:00PM - 9/18 app WeChat and the proper way to use it to King Solomon Hicks Band of Brothers: avoid legal risk. There will be a question-and- Monday @ 10:30AM - 10/5 From Gospel, Blues and Jazz answer session following the presentation. Stroke and Spinal Injuries to R&B and Funk and Illnesses (in Chinese) Hear R&B and soul favorites by Bill Withers, Wednesday @ 6:30PM - 9/16 As part of the Community Health Education James Brown, B.B. King, Michael Jackson Life Skills Seminar (in Chinese) Partnership series, Ning Lin, MD, a and more. Find out about Medicaid and Medicare bill neurosurgeon with New York-Presbyterian/ issues, fee waivers for naturalization and Weill Cornell Medical Center and New Mondays @ 6:00PM - 9/28, 10/26 senior benefits. York Hospital Queens, will discuss stroke Open Mic and its impact on a patient. He will also Sing, dance, rap, read poetry, play an Friday @ 2:00PM - 9/18 discuss diagnoses and treatment options instrument or showcase another talent! Information Session Presented by for conditions affecting the central nervous Center for the Independence system, including the spine. of the Disabled EAST FLUSHING 196-36 Northern Boulevard, 718-357-6643 See “Briarwood,” 10/1. Wednesday @ 6:30PM - 10/7 A Tale of Two Kidneys Thursdays @ 1:00PM - 9/3-9/24 Bridge Club Saturdays @ 3:00PM - 9/19, 10/17 This program, presented in collaboration with Caring for a Person with Play bridge and learn how to win! Northshore LIJ, will explain how to prevent a Memory Problem (in Chinese) and treat chronic kidney disease as well as The Alzheimer’s Association, New York City other common problems, such as diabetes, FLUSHING Chapter, offers a monthly support group in that can damage kidneys. 41-17 Main Street, 718-661-1200 Mandarin Chinese for people caring for a Thursdays @ 6:30PM - 9/3, 10/1 person with Alzheimer’s or any of the other Saturdays @ 9:30AM - 10/10, 10/17, 10/24 Open Mic Night dementias. Our support group is a secure Computers for Beginners Performers share their talents in a 5-minute and safe place to share your experiences. (in Spanish) (Prereg.) presentation of poetry, written word, music, Learn how to turn on a computer and use comedy or spoken word. email. Participants must attend all 3 classes. Preregister at the Cyber Center or call 718-661- 1280 starting Saturday, October 3 at 9:00AM.

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 25 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 10/15 Mondays @ 6:30PM (except holidays) Mondays @ 3:00PM - 9/28, 10/26 Clinical Trials Ballroom Dancing with Jing Chen New York Cares What are they, how do they work and why Jing Chen studied ballroom dance at the New York Cares will offer an orientation do we need them? This lecture will help you school founded by internationally acclaimed meeting to recruit volunteers. understand the benefits and challenges of dancers Mr. and Mrs. Lu Ming Da. Mr. Chen clinical research and highlight questions to is a skilled instructor who will give lessons Tuesday @ 3:30PM - 9/29 ask your healthcare provider so you can make in ballroom basics for beginners and offer Citizen Preparedness Corps Workshop informed decisions regarding your health. training for more advanced students. See “Cambria Heights,” 9/14.

Thursday @ 6:00PM - 10/22 Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 9/16 Wednesday @ 2:30PM - 10/7 On the Spectrum: Autism Diabetes 101 Steps to Self-Publishing and Its Treatments Learn about diabetes prevention and Local author Joseph Cognard discusses Autism-spectrum disorders rates affect more management at a program presented in self-publishing hurdles and whether to self- than 3 million Americans. Each person with collaboration with the Janet and John Raggio publish or submit your work to a traditional

DULTS autism has his or her own areas of ability and Nephrology Institute of North Shore LIJ publisher.

A challenge. Find out more about the diagnosis Health System. and signs and symptoms of these disorders, Saturday @ 10:30AM - 10/10 and common treatments. Saturday @ 12:00PM - 9/19 Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) Foundation for Fighting Blindness and Colony Care Workshop Saturday @ 12:00PM - 10/24 This networking group is an opportunity Learn the basics of TNR and cat colony care Halloween Blood Fest 2015 for those with retinal disease, or the in this hands-on workshop. The all-female rock band Shattered Serenade sighted supporters of those who have it, to will perform in a festival that includes a share experiences, learn about research Thursday @ 2:00PM - 10/15 séance with flying ghosts, magicians, a development and meet others with the same Anesthesia and You: What to Expect psychic, movies and ghost stories. There will condition. When Having Surgery also be a costume and scream contest with See “Central,” 9/24. special guest The Great Pumpkin and, live Saturday @ 2:30PM - 9/19 onstage, Freddy vs. Jason: The Final Battle. Vocalist Abby Powell Saturday @ 2:30PM - 10/17 See “Broadway,” 10/3. Songs from Classic Motion Pictures Tuesday @ 6:00PM - 10/27 Pianist William Gati will perform a selection of Accent Reduction for Everyday Tuesday @ 3:00PM - 9/22 songs from classic motion pictures, including Success Information Session Presented by “As Time Goes By,” “Over the Rainbow” and Do people have difficulty understanding you? Center for the Independence “Singing in the Rain”. Is your accent preventing you from finding of the Disabled work or reaching other goals? Speech- See “Briarwood,” 10/1. Monday @ 6:00PM - 10/19 language pathologists will teach you tips Starting and Running a Small and techniques to help you approximate an Saturday @ 2:30PM - 9/26 Business American English speaking style. Meet the Author of “Stealing Fire: Learn helpful tips for turning a hobby or skills Memoir of a Boyhood in the Shadow into a business and find out where to obtain FOREST HILLS of Atomic Espionage” free resources to help plan a business. 108-19 71 Avenue, 718-268-7934 Professor Boria Sax, a scholar in the field of Thursdays @ 2:30PM, Fridays @ 3:45PM human/animal studies, will discuss the writing Thursday @ 6:00PM - 10/29 Recovery International of his memoir, the stress of growing up in a Murder, Madness and Poe A Recovery International meeting is a safe, home in which his father lived in fear of the See “Douglaston/Little Neck,” 10/20. free and confidential place to get help for FBI, and the broader world of patriotism, anxiety, fear, obsessions, anger, stress and betrayal, espionage and counter-espionage. FRESH MEADOWS depression. 193-20 Horace Harding Expwy., 718-454-7272 Saturday @ 3:00PM - 9/26 Tuesdays @ 1:15PM Thursdays @ 5:00PM - 9/10, 9/24, 10/8 Naturalization: Are You Eligible Scrabble Club 10/22, 10/29 and Should You Apply? Please bring your own Scrabble material. Queens Stamp Club (in English and Russian) Philatelists meet to discuss their hobby. Find out about the rights and responsibilities Thursdays @ 6:15PM of U.S. citizenship, naturalization eligibility ShapeUp NYC: Cardio Dance Fusion Mondays @ 1:00PM - 9/14, 9/21, 9/28 as it relates to criminal history, and how to Instructor Katwicia Desruisseaux leads a Watercolor Club prepare for the English and civics tests. mix of dance fitness, aerobics, low-impact Adults meet to paint and explore the medium strength training and stretching exercises for of watercolor. adults that help relieve stress. Bring a towel and bottle of water.

26 Queens Library Magazine Septmeber/October 2015 Fridays @ 10:30AM Fridays @ 1:00PM - 9/11-10/30 Wednesday, 10:00AM - 10/7 Knitting Club English Conversation Classes Older Adults Day Please bring your own knitting material. Adults improve their English through group Older Adult Services presents a program conversations about everyday topics. of information and entertainment for Mondays @ 6:00PM (except holidays) seniors.10:00AM - Technology One-on-One: English Conversation Club Mondays @ 12:00PM (except holidays) Bring your tablet or similar device and learn If English is your second or third language Chess and Dominoes Club how to use it; 10:00AM - Ask the Pharmacist: and you want to improve your speaking skill, We welcome players of all skill levels, Bring your prescriptions, vitamins, medicines, practice here with native speakers! including absolute beginners. supplements and questions. 10:15AM - Zumba: Join a dance workout; 11:30AM -

Saturdays @ 2:30PM - 9/12, 9/26, 10/10, 10/24 Thursday @ 2:00PM - 9/17 Drawing Techniques: Learn contour drawing A

Film Screenings Book Discussion Group (clear definition of details and complex DULTS Films will be listed in the monthly calendar. This month’s selection is “Dark Harbor: shapes), and gesture drawing (quick The War for the New York Waterfront” by sketching); 2:00PM - Brain Games: Test Saturday @ 2:30PM - 9/19 Nathan Ward. your memory; 2:00PM - Abby Powell sings Violinist Akiko Kobayashi Broadway hits. New York-born violinist Akiko Kobayashi Friday @ 2:00PM - 9/25 performs the works of Telemann, Kreisler, Broadway Show Tunes Wednesday @ 1:30PM - 10/28 Ysaye and Bach. William Gati performs classic Broadway show Murder, Madness and Poe tunes on the piano, including “Fiddler on the See “Douglaston/Little Neck,” 10/20. Saturday @ 3:00PM - 10/17 Roof,” “I Dreamed a Dream,” “All I Ask of Keisha St. Joan Sings Barbra Streisand You” and more. GLENDALE See “Bay Terrace,” 10/13. 78-60 73 Place, 718-821-4980 Mondays @ 1:00PM - 9/28, 10/5, 10/19, 10/26 Thursday @ 3:00PM - 9/10 Monday @ 2:00PM - 10/19 Introduction to Watercolor: Book Discussion Group International Film Screening A Creative Aging Program (Prereg.) This month’s selection is “The Maltese and Discussion: “The Dark Valley” This course, for adults age 50 and up, will Falcon” by Dashiell Hammett. In this award-winning film, a lone rider focus on getting comfortable with watercolor makes his way to a small village in the Alps, painting techniques: learning the basics of HILLCREST where he is met with distrust. For a fistful of materials, tools, techniques, color, value and 187-05 Union Turnpike, 718-454-2786 gold coins, the sons of the village patriarch, composition. Works by Paul Cezanne, Paul Wednesday @ 11:00AM - 9/9 provide him with shelter for the winter. (2014, Klee and Georgia O’Keeffe will serve as Google Nexus for Beginners in German with English subtitles) inspiration, and the course will culminate in Learn how to download e-books, music a special event and exhibit of student work. and more with the Google Nexus Tablet. Thursday @ 2:00PM - 10/22 Preregistration for the entire series is required. Participants must have a valid Queens Art of Portraiture: Realistic and Library card, pin number and email address. Abstract (Prereg.) Tuesdays @ 1:15PM beginning 9/29 Please arrive 15 minutes early if you need to Beginning Mahjong Artist Rita Tabb will discuss the difference sign up for an Adobe ID. between realistic and abstract portraiture. Donna Miller-Small will teach you the skills Participants will use materials provided to for beginning play, so you can share in the draw a portrait. fun, excitement and camaraderie. Beginners HOLLIS and experienced players are both welcome. 202-05 Hillside Avenue, 718-465-7355 Wednesdays in September @ 10:30AM GLEN OAKS Introduction to Computers Wednesday @ 1:00PM - 9/30 256-04 Union Turnpike, 718-831-8636 and the Internet (Prereg.) Diabetes 101 Wednesdays @ 10:15AM - 9/2, 9/9 Participants will learn about the basic Drawing Club Learn about diabetes prevention and management at a program presented in components of the computer, computer Practice your drawing skills and share terminology and how to use email, search experiences with others. collaboration with the American Diabetes Association. the Internet and navigate folders, files and programs. Thursdays @ 12:00PM (except 93) Knit and Crochet Club Fridays in October @ 1:00PM Moving for Life Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 9/15 Please bring your own supplies. Citizen Preparedness Corps Workshop Gentle dance and yoga accompanied by different types of music accentuate the body- See “Cambria Heights,” 9/14. Thursdays @ 5:30PM - 9/10, 9/24, 10/8, 10/22 Meditation Club mind connection. Wednesday @ 2:30PM - 10/7 Experienced or beginner, share breathing Lois Bruno Sings the Girls of the ’60s exercises and meditation techniques that can See “Briarwood,” 10/5. help reduce stress. September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 27 HOWARD BEACH Thursday @ 5:30PM - 10/8 Monday @ 6:00PM - 9/21 92-06 156 Avenue, 718-641-7086 Budget? Do I Really Need a Budget? A Tribute to the Finer Dinah Thursday @ 6:30PM - 10/8 (in Spanish) Jazz vocalist Keisha St. Joan recreates the Keisha St. Joan Sings Barbra Streisand A budget is really just a spending plan, a vocal stylings of Dinah Washington with See “Bay Terrace,” 10/13. system that lets you know how much money such memorable selections as “What a is coming in and going out every month. This Difference a Day Makes,” “This Bitter Earth,” JACKSON HEIGHTS workshop will help you understand your “Unforgettable” and many others. 35-51 81 Street, 718-899-2500 financial situation and why you probably need Monday @ 6:00PM - 9/21 a budget, and help you save for things you Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 9/22 Starting and Running a Small want without getting caught short by bills and Citizen Preparedness Corps Workshop Business emergencies. See “Cambria Heights,” 9/14. See “Forest Hills,” 10/19. Saturday @ 2:00PM - 10/10, 10/17, 10/24 Monday @ 6:00PM - 9/28 Microsoft Excel (in Spanish) (Prereg.) Monday @ 6:00PM - 10/5 Laurelton Reading Society

DULTS The Healing Science of Meditation Learn how to create a worksheet and perform We will discuss “Michelle Obama: A Life”

A Andrew Vidich, PhD, will discuss how calculations. Participants should know how by Peter Slevin. Light refreshments will be meditation can improve our physical, mental to use a computer and must attend all 3 served. and spiritual health. sessions. Preregister at the Reference Desk beginning October 3 at 10:00AM. LEFRAK CITY Thursday @ 6:00PM - 10/15 98-30 57 Avenue, 718-592-7677 Hispanic Authors Discuss Thursday @ 5:30PM - 10/22 Mondays @ 6:00PM (except holidays) the World of Writing and Publishing Preparing for Homeownership ShapeUp NYC: Boot Camp (in Spanish) (in Spanish) Instructor Ronald Williams provides a Hispanic authors Yvonne Conde, Jorge Those contemplating buying a house will total-body workout that addresses muscle Luis Seco and Héctor Santiago present an hear about important issues to consider: strength and endurance while keeping the informal but informative discussion on writing the responsibility of home ownership, the heart rate up to burn calories and improve and publishing for an international audience. real costs of buying and owning, and how to cardiovascular health. Bring a towel and increase their ability to borrow. bottle of water. Thursday @ 1:00PM - 10/15 Permanent Opportunity: LAURELTON LONG ISLAND CITY You Have a Green Card; Get More! 134-26 225 Street, 718-528-2822 37-44 21 Street, 718-752-3700 (in Spanish and English) Thursdays @ 6:00PM Mondays through Saturdays @ 10:00AM See “Central Library,” 9/24. Quilting Club (Prereg.) (except holidays) This quilting program is offered to help keep National External Diploma Program Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 10/27 African-American quilting history and culture (NEDP) Tenant Rights in Rent Controlled, alive. You can earn a high school diploma online Rent Stabilized and Unregulated through the National External Diploma Apartments Tuesdays @ 5:00PM - 9/8, 10/6 Program (NEDP), a high school diploma See “Astoria,” 9/28. Laurelton Homeowners Club option for adults who have significant life Share your ideas on how to make Laurelton a experience and can demonstrate academic LANGSTON HUGHES better community. competencies and real-world skills. Individuals 100-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-651-1100 enrolling in NEDP must pass qualifying math Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 9/12, 9/19, 9/26 Thursdays @ 6:30PM (except 9/3) and reading tests. For more information and ShapeUp NYC: Microsoft Word (in Spanish) (Prereg.) orientation dates, call 718-752-3723. Total Body Conditioning Learn how to create a document and work with tables. Participants should have basic Instructor Catalina Thomas combines Thursdays @ 6:00PM computer skills and must attend all 3 classes. body-weight strength training, low-impact ShapeUp NYC: Cardio Sculpt Preregister at the Reference Desk beginning aerobics and active stretching to great music. See “East Elmhurst,” Thursdays. The Saturday, September 12 at 10:00AM. Participants should wear loose clothing and instructor is Susie Nin. sneakers and bring an exercise mat or large towel and a bottle of water. Friday @ 6:00PM - 9/25 MASPETH Tenant Rights in Rent Controlled, 69-70 Grand Avenue, 718-639-5228 Mondays @ 6:00PM - 9/14, 9/21 Rent Stabilized and Unregulated Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 9/8 Booker T. Washington and Africa Apartments Sinatra and Garland, Performed by Tyrene Wright, PhD, author of “Booker See “Astoria,” 9/28. Naomi Zeitlin T. Washington and Africa,” will discuss See “Douglaston/Little Neck,” 9/2. Washington’s evolution as a Pan-Africanist and his clandestine role in African affairs.

28 Queens Library Magazine Septmeber/October 2015 MCGOLDRICK Mondays @ 12:00PM (except holidays) Wednesdays @ 2:00PM - 9/23, 10/21 155-06 Roosevelt Ave. (off Northern Blvd.) ShapeUp NYC: Dance Fitness Book Discussion Group 718-461-1616 Instructor Shirlyn Diego-Lucas teaches In September we discuss “Everything I Never Wednesdays in September @ 2:00PM easy-to-follow dance steps to increase Told You” by Celeste Ng. Our October book is Tai Chi cardiovascular fitness and tone your body. “A Spool of Blue Thread” by Anne Tyler. Learn and practice this gentle exercise, believed to reduce stress and promote Mondays @ 6:30PM - 9/14, 9/28 POPPENHUSEN relaxation. Belly-Cise! 121-23 14 Avenue, 718-359-1102 Instructor Cashel Campbell combines a Wednesdays @ 12:00PM - 9/9-10/14 Mondays @ 1:00PM - 9/14, 10/19 heart-healthy aerobic workout with the fun Introduction to Computers (Prereg.)

Korean Book Club of belly dance in an exercise program that’s Learn how to use the mouse, keyboard, A Share your reading experiences! great for all levels. toolbar and scroll bars and open and close DULTS windows. A valid Queens Library card is Wednesdays @ 3:30PM beginning 9/16 NORTH HILLS required. Elementary Korean 57-04 Marathon Parkway, 718-225-3550 This weekly class teaches the Korean Thursdays @ 5:30PM - 9/3, 10/1 QUEENS VILLAGE alphabet, Hangul, using a special method Book Discussion Group 94-11 217 Street, 718-776-6800 that enables non-Korean speakers to read In September we will discuss “The Martian” Mondays and Thursdays @ 5:30PM independently in a short time. The course is by Andy Weir. In October we will discuss (except holidays) designed to acquaint learners with Korean “Joshua: A Brooklyn Tale” by Andrew Kane. Chess Club through repetition of daily expressions, and Copies are available at the Circulation Desk. Practice your chess skills with other adults. includes a cultural component providing insights into Korea and its society. Thursday @ 1:30PM - 9/17 Fridays @ 10:00AM Popular Music from the ‘40s to ‘80s STARs: Senior Theater Acting Wednesdays @ 4:30PM beginning 9/16 See “Bay Terrace,” 9/3. Repertory Intermediate Korean Calling all older adults! Join our galaxy of This weekly class continues the development OZONE PARK STARs and perform theatrical works at the of Korean language skills, covering phonetics, 92-24 Rockaway Boulevard, 718-845-3127 library with a great group of people! syntax and vocabulary with a focus on Thursdays @ 4:30PM (except 9/24) reading, listening, speaking and writing. Computer Classes (Prereg.) Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 9/9, 10/14 Learners will increase their knowledge of Adults will learn about computer Movie Afternoon Korean language and culture through an basics, Microsoft Word and the Internet September’s selection is “Focus” (2015, R). overview of classical Korean literature. Preregistration is required in person. October’s is “McFarland USA” (2015, PG).

MIDDLE VILLAGE Monday @ 5:30PM - 9/21 Thursdays @ 6:00PM (except 9/3) 72-31 Metropolitan Avenue, 718-326-1390 Crazy Quilt Block Workshop (Prereg.) ShapeUp NYC: Boot Camp Monday @ 2:00PM - 9/28 See “Broad Channel,” 9/9. See “Lefrak City,” Mondays. The instructor is Broadway Show Tunes Kiersten Clay. See “Glen Oaks,” 9/25. PENINSULA 92-25 Rockaway Beach Blvd., 718-634-1110 Mondays @ 12:00PM - 9/14, 9/28, 10/5, 10/19 MITCHELL-LINDEN Thursday @ 6:00PM - 9/10 Knit and Crochet Club 31-32 Union Street, 718-539-2330 Zumba: Dance for Your Health Bring your supplies and make new friends! Thursdays in September @ 2:00PM Certified instructor Maxine Davis leads this Tai Chi Latin dance-inspired exercise and aerobics Wednesdays @ 2:00PM - 9/16, 10/21 See “McGoldrick,” Wednesdays. class. Book Discussion Group We will discuss “Wild: From Lost to Found on Thursday @ 2:30PM - 10/15 POMONOK the Pacific Crest Trail” by Cheryl Strayed in Improving Your Life through 158-21 Jewel Avenue, 718-591-4343 September and “The Particular Sadness of Meditation Wednesdays @ 2:00PM Lemon Cake” by Aimee Bender in October. See “Bellerose,” 9/10. Mahjong Club Whether you’re a skilled player or have just Tuesdays @ 11:00AM - 9/22, 9/29 Internet for Beginners (Prereg.) NORTH FOREST PARK watched from the sidelines, this is a great 98-27 Metropolitan Avenue, 718-261-5512 place to meet people, engage in conversation Learn the basics. Participants should know Thursdays @ 6:00PM and exercise your ability to strategize. how to use a computer keyboard and mouse. Learn Chinese A valid Queens Library card is required. Lin San teaches Chinese to beginners.

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 29 Tuesdays @ 11:00AM - 10/20, 10/27 Wednesdays @ 4:00PM ROCHDALE VILLAGE Introduction to Email (Prereg.) ShapeUp NYC: Cardio Challenges 169-09 137 Avenue, 718-723-4440 Learn how to create and navigate an Instructor Bona Bhatia Khullar will lead easy- Saturdays @ 3:00PM - 9/12, 9/26 email account, log on, send and receive to-follow routines to increase cardiovascular SocaBelly email messages and attach documents. fitness, tone the body and burn calories. Cashel Campbell teaches a fusion of belly Participants must have basic computer skills. dance and soca/calypso movements that A valid Queens Library card is required. Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 9/17, 9/24 provides an aerobic workout and incorporates Classical Concerts a carnival theme. QUEENSBORO HILL with Gennady Kupisok 60-05 Main Street, 718-359-8332 Clarinetist Gennady Kupisok performs Saturday @ 2:30PM - 9/19 Thursdays @ 5:30PM - 10/1-10/22 classical works accompanied by pianist Ilya Citizen Preparedness Corps Workshop Pathway to U.S Citizenship: Ishchenko on 9/17 and works by Chopin, See “Cambria Heights,” 9/14. Becoming a U.S. Citizen and Brahms, Scarlatti, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky- Building Your Civic Knowledge Korsakov, among others, with pianist Dr. Olga Saturday @ 2:00PM - 9/26

DULTS Sessions are in English and include a Gurevich on 9/24. Nutrition for Seniors

A workshop and basic civics education. 10 Kathy Moran, RN, will present a program for /1 - Are you ready to be a U.S. citizen?/ RIDGEWOOD seniors about healthy eating. Introduction to American history; 10/8 - 20-12 Madison Street, 718-821-4770 Required documents and more/Introduction Wednesdays @ 5:00PM Thursday in October @ 1:30PM to American government and politics; 10/15 ShapeUp NYC: Yoga The Eight-Day Digital Photographer - Common barriers to naturalization/American Wahnita King leads this yoga class for adults Participants will become familiar with their culture and geography; 10/22 - Naturalization of all levels, focusing on bringing awareness camera and learn about different aspects of interview and beyond/Review of 100 questions. to the body through core strengthening and photography, such as lighting, color, angle, total-body flexibility. Bring your own mat. distance, foreground and background. REGO PARK 91-41 63 Drive, 718-459-5140 Monday @ 6:00PM - 9/14 ROSEDALE Thursdays @ 6:45PM (except 9/3) Painting Poems: An Exhibition of 144-20 243 Street, 718-528-8490 Sahaja Yoga Meditation New Work by Mollie Hosmer-Dillard Tuesdays @ 11:00AM, Thursdays @ 6:00PM Instructor Tina Chau teaches participants Meet artist Mollie Hosmer-Dillard for the Computer Basics how to relax using the mind to create a deep opening of her exhibit, a talk about her artistic Learn to navigate the Queens Library website inner peace. vision and a guided tour of her work. and get an introduction to typing and email.

Monday @ 2:00PM - 9/21 Monday @ 6:30PM - 9/14 Thursdays @ 6:30PM (except 9/3) Broadway Show Tunes Book Discussion Group ShapeUp NYC: Cardio Aerobics See “Glen Oaks,” 9/25. Join us for a discussion of “The Dinner” by for Adults Herman Koch. Instructor Leidilin Ramnarine leads a Monday @ 2:00PM - 10/5 moderate, heart-pumping workout that Georgia O’Kee e: Variations Mondays @ 6:30PM - 9/14, 9/21, 10/5 combines strength and toning exercises to on a Theme (Prereg.) 10/19, 10/26 help burn calories and improve heart health. Artist Rita Tabb will discuss the works of ShapeUp NYC: Latin Aerobics Georgia O’Keeffe, famed for her drawings of Instructor Maria Jarrys teaches Latin Monday @ 6:30PM - 10/19 nature, paintings of flowers and use of bold Aerobics, a fusion of Latin music and dance King Solomon Hicks: Why the Blues color and abstract shapes. Participants will themes like salsa, merengue, bachata, Makes Us Happy create their own works of art with crayons reggaeton and samba. Bring a towel and See “Cambria Heights,” 10/17. and colored pencils, using color photos of bottle of water. O’Keeffe’s work as inspiration. ST. ALBANS Saturday @ 2:30PM - 9/26 191-05 Linden Boulevard, 718-528-8196 Lincoln Center Local Screening: RICHMOND HILL Monday @ 6:00PM - 9/14 “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber 118-14 Hillside Avenue, 718-849-7150 Introduction to Latin Dance of Fleet Street” Tuesdays @ 12:00PM Davin McLeod instructs participants in Richmond Hill Quilters See “Bayside,” 10/10. Latin dance styles, from merengue to salsa We meet every Tuesday rain or shine. and more. Saturday @ 2:30PM - 10/3 Lois Bruno Performs Songs Mondays through Fridays @ 1:00PM Tuesdays @ 10:30AM - 9/15, 9/22, 9/29 of the Jazz Divas (except holidays) Introduction to Computers The Daily Puzzle Jazz vocalist Lois Bruno offers a musical Learn how to log on and off, use the The library makes puzzles available daily. tribute to Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and keyboard and mouse, open and close Barbra Streisand. windows, and navigate the Internet.

30 Queens Library Magazine Septmeber/October 2015 Fridays @ 10:30AM - 9/18, 9/25 Thursday @ 1:00PM - 10/15 WINDSOR PARK Movie Day Family-Type Homes for Medically or 79-50 Bell Boulevard, 718-468-8300 9/18 - “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” (2015, PG); Mentally Disabled Adults Tuesdays @ 1:30PM 9/25 - “5 Flights Up” (2015, PG-13) Representatives of the New York City Human Knit and Crochet Club Resources Administration will provide Bring your supplies and make new friends! Monday @ 5:30PM - 9/21 information on small state-licensed facilities Book Discussion Group that offer home-like care to adults who are Fridays @ 10:00AM - 9/4-9/25 This month’s selection is “Stand Your medically or mentally disabled. English Conversation Classes Ground” by Victoria Christopher Murray. Adults improve their English through group SUNNYSIDE conversations about everyday topics.

SOUTH JAMAICA 43-06 Greenpoint Avenue, 718-784-3033 A 108-41 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., 718-739-4088 Thursday @ 5:30PM - 9/10 Fridays @ 1:00PM DULTS Thursday @ 6:30PM - 9/3 Preparing for Homeownership Scrabble Club Introduction to Belly Dance (in Spanish) Test your skills and make new friends! Instructor Cashel Campbell discusses the See “Langston Hughes,” 10/22. history of “raqs sharqi” (belly dance), leads a Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 9/10, 10/8 mini-instruction session and provides a short Mondays @ 3:00PM (except holidays) Night Book Club performance. Classic Movie Mondays September’s selection is “The Narrow Road 9/14 - “Duck Soup” (1933); 9/21 - “To Kill to the Deep North” by Richard Flanagan, and Mondays @ 6:15PM (except holidays) a Mockingbird” (1962); 9/28 - “Sunset October’s is “Euphoria” by Lily King. ShapeUp NYC: Cardio Sculpt Boulevard” (1950); 10/5 - “It Happened One See “East Elmhurst,” Thursdays. The Night” (1934); 10/19 - “A Streetcar Named Monday @ 1:30PM - 9/21 instructor is Saunique Gee. Desire” (1951); 10/26 - “The Pit and the Movie Time: “71” Pendulum” (1961) A British soldier seeks sanctuary after being STEINWAY left behind by his unit in Belfast during the 21-45 31 Street, 718-728-1965 Monday @ 6:00PM - 9/14 1971 riots. (2014, R) Thursday @ 6:00PM - 9/10 Tenant Rights in Rent Controlled, Introduction to Computers Rent Stabilized and Unregulated Wednesday @ 10:30AM - 9/23 Participants will learn about the hardware Apartments Computers for Beginners (Prereg.) and software of a computer system and the See “Astoria,” 9/28. Adults will learn the basics. A valid Queens basics of using a computer. Library card is required. Saturday @ 3:00PM - 9/19 Thursdays @ 5:30PM - 9/17, 10/15 Steps to Self-Publishing Thursday @ 2:00PM - 9/24 Open Lab See “Forest Hills,” 10/7. Popular Music from the ‘40s to ‘80s Use this time to finish cover letters or fill See “Bay Terrace,” 9/3. out an online application, create an email Mondays @ 6:00PM - 9/21, 10/19 account or catch up with emails. Open Mic Night Wednesday @ 10:30AM - 9/30, 10/21 Poets, writers, musicians, comedians, orators Internet for Beginners (Prereg.) Mondays @ 6:30PM - 9/28, 10/26 and everyone else are invited to share their Participants should know how to use a Book Discussion Group talents onstage once a month. computer keyboard and mouse. A valid In September we discuss “Orphan Train,” Queens Library card is required. by Christina Baker Kline, a captivating novel WHITESTONE about two very different women who build an 151-10 14 Road, 718-767-8010 Thursday @ 4:30PM - 10/1 unexpected friendship. In October we discuss Tuesdays @ 1:00PM - 9/8, 10/13 Documentary Film Screening: “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Book Discussion Group “The Making of an Artist” Franklin” by Jill Lepore, a revelatory portrait We will read “Balzac and the Little Chinese Learn how three average people became of Benjamin Franklin’s youngest sister, whose Seamstress” by Dai Sijie in September and three extraordinary talents in this short film obscurity and poverty were matched only by John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” in chronicling the lives of three Queens artists. her brother’s fame and wealth. October. The film focuses on the textures, colors and sounds that surround and inspire each Thursday @ 6:00PM - 10/8 Wednesday @ 2:30PM - 10/14 artist, and is geared towards budding artists, Introduction to the Internet Lois Bruno Sings the Girls of the’ 60s art lovers, Queens-philes and pop culture Learn the basics of how to use the Internet See “Briarwood,” 10/5. enthusiasts of all kinds. An exhibition of the and conduct a productive online search. artists’ work runs through October 31.

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 31 Fridays in October @ 10:15AM Tuesdays @ 2:30PM Mondays @ 2:30PM (except holidays) We Are New York ShapeUp NYC: Low-Impact Aerobics ShapeUp NYC: Full Body Fitness This is a 10-session course to help adult Instructor Misty Gisonda teaches a moderate, Instructor Evelyn Matos teaches aerobic, New Yorkers practice English conversation heart-pumping workout to help burn calories anaerobic and everyday exercises designed and a great way for new immigrants to learn and improve heart health. Bring a towel and to develop agility, resistance, strength and valuable information about topics related to bottle of water. mental and physical well-being. Bring a towel daily living in New York City. and bottle of water. Wednesdays @ 5:00PM Monday @ 2:00PM - 10/5 Hatha Yoga with Sandhya Kaurwar Mondays @ 3:45PM (except holidays) Day Book Club Participants will learn yoga postures, Gentle Yoga This month’s selection is the novel yogic breathing exercises, yoga nidra and Relax with gentle yoga taught by Mirelle “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. meditation for stress-relief and peace of mind. Netelle!

Monday @ 1:30PM - 10/26 Thursdays @ 10:30AM Mondays @ 6:30PM (except holidays) Keisha St. Joan Sings Barbra Streisand New York Cares Presents Computers DULTS Mobile Device Computer Classes

A See “Bay Terrace,” 10/13. Bring your Google Android or Apple IOS for Beginners device and learn how to use it. Learn the basics: how to open an email WOODHAVEN account, navigate the Internet and use 85-41 Forest Parkway, 718-849-1010 Thursdays @ 12:30PM Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel Tuesdays @ 11:00AM - 9/1-10/6 Tai Chi and Qigong for Beginners programs. Computer Classes (Prereg.) Mirelle Netelle leads this course in basic tai Learn how to use email and Microsoft Word chi and qigong for health and well-being. Tuesday @ 4:30PM - 10/13 programs and search the Internet. Tenant Rights in Rent Controlled, Thursdays @ 6:00PM - 9/3, 9/17 Rent Stabilized and Unregulated Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 9/2 Monday @ 6:00PM - 9/14 Apartments Information Session Presented by Zumba: Dance for Your Health See “Astoria,” 9/28. Center for the Independence Certified Zumba instructor Lilia Rodriguez of the Disabled leads a Latin dance-inspired exercise and Thursday @ 12:30PM - 10/15 See “Briarwood,” 10/1. aerobics class. Getting the Most from Your Annual Doctor Visit WOODSIDE Thursdays @ 6:30PM Discover the benefits of a healthy relationship 54-22 Skillman Avenue, 718-429-4700 Job Readiness and Computer Class with your doctor and learn how you can work Tuesdays @ 2:00PM with New York Cares together to prevent and manage common Knitting and Crochet We will help participants search for jobs, fill health conditions. Skilled crafters work on their projects together. out online applications and prepare resumes and cover letters. Participants may also practice basic computer skills and receive guidance on preparing for and following up after a job interview.

September 25, 2015 Rochdale Village Adult Learning Center is Reopening

Welcome back! Let’s Celebrate! Come celebrate the grand reopening of the Adult Learning Center at Rochdale Village community library. There will be fun and informative programs and activities for everyone in the community.

32 Queens Library Magazine Septmeber/October 2015 MAIL-A-BOOK Mail-a-Book is a teleconferenced program open to older adults and the homebound. First-time participants must call 718-464-0084 to preregister and obtain access numbers.

Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 9/1 Friday @ 10:00AM - 9/11 Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 9/22 Vintage Glassware Popular Music of the ’40s and ’50s Protect Yourself against Frauds Arlene Sigeavsky leads a discussion on Danielle Cordovez of the New York Public and Scams collectible glassware such as milk glass. Library for the Performing Arts leads a A representative of the New York City discussion on music of the ’40s and ’50s. Department of Consumer Affairs talks about Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 9/2, 10/7 common frauds and scams and how to What Are You Reading? Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 9/15 protect yourself against them. Find out what other people are reading, and Ask the Pharmacist tell them what you’re reading now. Pharmacist Chung-Shien Lee will help you Wednesday @ 11:00AM - 9/23 understand more about the medications Friday @ 10:00AM - 10/23 Thursdays @ 8:00PM - 9/3, 10/1 you’re taking and why, and give tips on how Chit Chat After Hours: Topical Discussion to remember to take them. Chat and make friends over the phone. Group This is a topical discussion group on popular Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 9/16, 10/21 Fridays @ 10:00AM - 9/25, 10/30 culture and current events. The Poet in You Chit Chat and STARs Performance Tap into your natural ability to enjoy and Chat and make friends over the phone, then Friday @ 10:00AM - 9/4 create original poetry. enjoy scenes from classic plays performed by Golden Oldies Senior Theater Acting Repertory. Marion Mango leads a discussion about Thursdays @ 8:00PM - 9/17, 10/15 classic movies. After Hours: Short Story Discussion Tuesdays @ 2:00PM - 9/29, 10/27 Group Alice’s Kitchen Mondays @ 1:00PM (except 10/12) Bonnie Sue Pokorny moderates. Alice Morley leads a discussion on healthy Skype a Crossword Puzzle cooking, food and recipes. We solve the puzzle together using your Friday @ 10:00AM - 9/18 home computer and Skype. Bizarre and Unique Holidays Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 9/30, 10/28 We will discuss unique and different holidays Bonnie’s Book Discussion Group Tuesdays @ 2:00PM - 9/8, 10/6 celebrated in various locales. We will read and discuss “The Goldfinch” Bingo by Donna Tartt in September and “We Are We’re playing bingo, and you can join in Mondays @ 10:30AM - 9/21, 9/28, 10/5, 10/26 Water” by Wally Lamb in October. from home. Writing Workshop: Share Your Memories Friday @ 10:00AM - 10/2 Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 9/9, 10/14 Kathy Cohen leads this 4-session writing Marion’s Art History Class You Be the Judge workshop. Learn basic tips and techniques Marion Mango chats about great art and We discuss real court cases and verdicts. of memoir writing and share writing artists. assignments, thoughts and ideas.

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 33 Friday @ 10:00AM - 10/9 Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 10/13 Friday @ 10:00AM - 10/16 Piedmont Bluz Meditation Art History with Queens Museum Less known than the Delta blues of If you want to relax and let go of “mind Queens Museum’s Jason Yoon will lead a Mississippi, Piedmont blues arose in the chatter,” meditation might be good for you. discussion about current exhibits. southeastern United States and employs Helen Schwizer leads this guided meditation more fingerpicking and a ragtime-based session. All you have to do is sit and listen to Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 10/20 rhythm. The Piedmont Bluz acoustic duo the spoken imagery. Outstanding Women in History is dedicated to preserving the style and Cecile Walters will lead a game and educating audiences about this unique discussion called “Who Am I? Famous aspect of African-American culture. Women in History.”

Grand Opening for Peninsula Community Library A Celebration with Activities and Programs MAIL-A-BOOK

Tuesday, September 8 1:00-3:00 p.m. Grand Opening Reception and book bag giveaways for students. Food, music, and entertainment will be provided. 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Free Health Screenings 4:00 p.m. Magic Show with Yitzchak Cohen

Thursday, September 10 11:00 a.m. International Music and Food Day 4:00 p.m. Graffiti Art Workshop with David Alicea 6:00 p.m. Zumba Fitness Class

Saturday, September 12 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Community Day at the Beach

Available All Week Grand Opening Activities at Peninsula’s Adult Learning Center • Free Henna Body Art (Bengali and Egyptian style ) • Friends of Peninsula Membership Drive with Giveaways • Adult Learning Center Registration

September 8 – 12, 2015 QueensLibrary.org

34 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 Build the skills you need to nd a job, and the condence to get it. Preregister at jobmap.queenslibrary.org unless otherwise noted. Listings are subject to change without notice. For complete listings, go to jobmap.queenslibrary.org or call 718-990-8625. Program locations are: Arverne, 312 Beach 54 St.; Central Library, 89-11 Merrick Blvd.; Corona, 38-23 104 St. Flushing, 41-17 Main St. Long Island City, 37-44 21 St.; South Jamaica, 108-41 Guy R. Brewer Blvd. Computer Programs BEGINNERS’ EXCEL and a valid email address are required. INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS Learn how to navigate a spreadsheet, create Flushing: Thur @ 10:00AM - 10/8; Corona: Topics include computer terminology, using workbooks, enter and edit data, and create Wed @ 1:00PM - 10/14 (Spanish) the mouse and touchpad, basic keyboarding charts and graphs. Basic computer skills are Central Library: JOBMAP ORIENTATION (No prereg.) skills and navigating folders, files and required. Sat @ 9:30AM Flushing programs. Prior computer skills are not - 9/26; : Thu @ 10:00AM - 9/17; Jobmap is a Queens Library online tool that Corona: required. Arverne: Tue @ 11:00AM - Wed @ 1:00PM - 10/7 (Spanish) provides customized recommendations for 9/8, 9/29, 10/20; Central Library: Mon job-search help and computer training. Learn INTERMEDIATE EXCEL @ 10:00AM - 9/7, Sat @ 9:30AM - 9/12; how to use it to preregister for workshops Corona: Wed @ 1:00PM - 9/2 (Spanish) Topics include a review of the basics, creating and classes, store resumes and cover letters tables, and using formulas and functions. Basic online and get your resume reviewed online. INTRODUCTION TO THE INTERNET computer skills and knowledge of Excel are Arverne: Mon @ 12:00PM - 9/14, 9/28, Central Library: Topics include terminology, using a browser required. Sat @ 2:00PM - 10/5, 10/19, Wed @ 10:00AM - 9/23, Fri @ Flushing: Long Island City: and search engine, website basics and 9/26; Thur @ 4:00PM - 9/24 10:00AM - 9/18; Tue @ Internet safety. Basic mouse and keyboarding 2:30PM - 9/8, 9/22 BEGINNERS’ POWERPOINT skills are recommended. Arverne: Tue @ 11:00AM - 9/15, 10/6, 10/27; Central Library: Topics include creating slides, changing design Job Readiness Programs JOBMAP Mon @ 10:00AM - 9/14, Sat @ 2:00PM - and colors, inserting images, and presenting a RESUMES slide show. Basic computer skills are required. 9/12; Corona: Wed @ 1:00PM - 9/9 (Spanish) Topics include types of resumes, what to Central Library: Sat @ 2:00PM - 9/19 include and exclude, and tips for making INTRODUCTION TO EMAIL your resume stronger. Arverne: Mon @ OPEN LAB (No prereg.) Learn how to create and navigate an email 12:00PM - 9/21, Wed @ 10:00AM - 9/30, Use Open lab time to search for a job, edit account, send and receive emails and attach Wed @ 12:00PM - 10/7, 10/21, Thur @ your resume or practice your computer skills. documents. Basic mouse and keyboarding 12:00PM - 9/24; Central Library: Wed @ Participants are limited to two hours of lab skills are recommended. Arverne: Tue @ 10:00AM - 9/9, 9/23, 9/30; Flushing: Wed time. To use the computers, you must create 11:00AM - 9/22, 10/13; Central Library: @ 10:00AM - 9/2, 10/7; Long Island City: a Jobmap account at jobmap.queenslibrary. Mon @ 10:00AM - 9/21, 9/28, Thur @ Mon @ 5:30PM - 9/14, 9/28 Central Library: 6:00PM - 9/10, 9/24; Corona: Wed @ org. Tue @ 2:00PM 1:00PM - 9/16 (Spanish) COVER LETTERS GETTING MORE FROM YOUR Topics include what to include and exclude, GOOGLE ACCOUNT BEGINNERS’ WORD and tips for making a cover letter stronger. Learn about Gmail, Google Maps, Google Drive Learn how to create and save documents; Arverne: Thur @ 1:00PM - 10/1, 10/8, 10/22; and Google Groups. Basic computer skills format and edit text; copy, cut and paste Flushing: Wed @ 10:00AM - 9/9, 10/14; and a Google account are required. Central items; and use the basic functions of Long Island City: Tue @ 2:30PM - 10/6 Library Microsoft Word. Basic computer skills are : Thur @ 10:00AM - 9/10, 9/24 required. Central Library: Thur @ 6:00PM LINKEDIN FACEBOOK - 9/17, Sat @ 9:30AM - 9/19; Flushing: Learn how to use LinkedIn to network and Learn how to use Facebook to stay in touch Thur @ 10:00AM - 9/3; Corona: Wed @ look for a job. Basic computer and Internet with friends, keep up with news and expand 1:00PM - 9/23 (Spanish) skills are required. Flushing: Thur @ your job search. Basic computer and Internet 10:00AM - 10/1 INTERMEDIATE WORD skills and a valid email account are required. Central Library: Learn how to format documents and Thur @ 10:00AM - 9/17; RESUME KEYWORDS AND Corona: Wed @ 1:00PM - 10/21 (Spanish) bibliographies, and insert tables, charts, ACCOMPLISHMENT STATEMENTS headers and footers. Basic computer skills Learn what key words employers look for TWITTER and knowledge of Microsoft Word are in resumes and job applications and how to Learn how to “follow” friends, experts and required. Flushing: Thur @ 10:00AM - 9/10; identify and highlight your achievements. celebrities and receive breaking news, job Corona: Wed @ 1:00PM - 9/30 (Spanish) Flushing: Wed @ 10:00AM - 10/21 notifications and more. Basic computer skills

September/OctoberSeptember/October 2015 2015 Queens Queens Library Library Magazine Magazine 3535 JOB-MARKET REALITIES AND INTERVIEW PREPARATION them; develop their networking skills; and STRATEGIES Learn how to prepare for a job interview, begin charting a path to business success. Learn how the job market works and how deal with difficult questions and follow Flushing: Fri @ 10:00AM - 9/4,10/2 to begin a job search. Arverne: Thur @ up after an interview. Arverne: Mon @ 12:00PM - 10/1, 10/8, 10/22; Flushing: Tue 1:30PM - 9/21, Wed @ 11:30AM - 9/30, Wed LEAD UP TO STARTUP! @ 10:00AM - 9/1, Wed @ 10:00AM - 10/28; @ 1:30PM - 10/7, 10/21, Thur @ 1:30PM SETTING UP YOUR BUSINESS Long Island City: Tue @ 2:30PM - 10/6 - 9/24; Central Library: Tue @ 1:30PM - Topics include writing a winning business 9/22 , Wed @ 10:00AM - 9/16; Flushing: plan, legal structuring and other fundamental CREATIVE WAYS TO FIND JOB LEADS Wed @ 10:00AM - 9/23; Long Island aspects of setting up and starting a business. Learn new and innovative ways to find job City: Tue @ 3:30PM - 9/1, 9/15, 9/29 Flushing: Fri @ 10:00AM - 9/11, 10/9 opportunities. Flushing: Tue @ 10:00AM - 9/8, Thur @ 1:00PM - 10/22 ANSWERING 10 TOUGH INTERVIEW LEAD UP TO STARTUP! QUESTIONS BECOME A MARKETING EXPERT! ONLINE JOB APPLICATION Learn how to avoid common interview Learn about the exciting world of marketing Learn how to build an employment profile on a mistakes and answer 10 tough questions and which methods and technologies are job website, apply to job postings and upload potential employers often ask. Flushing: best suited to marketing your business. your resume. Basic computer skills and an Wed @ 10:00AM - 9/16 Flushing: Fri @ 10:00AM - 9/18,10/16 email account are required. Arverne: Thur @ 2:00PM - 10/1, 10/8, 10/22; Long Island MOCK INTERVIEWS LEAD UP TO STARTUP! City: Tue @ 2:30PM - 10/6 In these one-on-one practice sessions, you MANAGING PEOPLE—BUILDING will learn how to prepare for an interview, EXTRAORDINARY RELATIONSHIPS IDENTIFYING MARKETABLE JOB- deal with difficult questions and follow up Learn how to build strong networking SKILLS after an interview. Central Library: Wed relationships, foster partnerships in business Learn what skills are most sought by @ 2:00PM, 3:00PM (except 9/2), Thur @ and inspire enthusiasm and cooperation employers and how to identify and market 10:00AM, 11:00AM, 12:00PM, 1:00PM, among coworkers and colleagues. your skills. Arverne: Mon @ 1:00PM - 9/14, 2:00PM (except 9/3); Flushing: Thur @ Flushing: Fri @ 10:00AM - 10/23 9/28, 10/5, 10/19, Wed @ 11:00AM - 9/23, 10:00AM, 10:30AM, 11:00AM, 11:30AM, Fri @ 11:00AM - 9/18; Central Library: 12:00PM, 12:30PM - 9/30 LEAD UP TO STARTUP! Tue @ 1:30PM - 9/8, 9/15, 9/29; Flushing: SOCIAL MEDIA FOR YOUR BUSINESS Tue @ 10:00AM - 9/15, 10/6; Long Island NETWORKING Learn about social-media sites and strategies City: Tue @ 3:30PM - 9/8, 9/22 Learn how to exchange information with that can help you build your business. others about job opportunities and up-and- Flushing: Fri @ 10:00AM - 9/25, 10/30

JOBMAP IDENTIFYING JOB-RELATED SKILLS coming industries. Central Library: Fri Learn how to identify your most marketable @ 10:00AM - 9/25; Flushing: Thur @ FINANCIAL COACHING skills and achievements and highlight 10:00AM - 10/29 A financial coach can help you develop the them in your resume and job-applications. skills you need to manage money and gain Flushing: Tue @ 10:00AM - 9/29, 10/20 SALARY NEGOTIATION financial stability, including knowing how to Before you talk salary with a prospective review your credit report. Central Library: TRANSFERABLE SKILLS employer, you need to know how much Wed @ 10:00AM (except 9/2) Transferable skills are skills that show an you, and the job, are worth. Learn how employer you can do the job and more. to negotiate in this workshop! Central JOB-TRAINING INFORMATION Learn how to identify and highlight yours. Library: Fri @ 10:00AM - 9/11 SESSION: SECURITY GUARD Flushing: Tue @ 10:00AM - 9/22, 10/13 Queens Library is offering free classes for SMALL-BUSINESS WORKSHOP certification as a security guard. Find out SELF-MANAGEMENT SKILLS This workshop will cover how to create a more and preregister for the program at this Learn what personality traits employers look demand for a product or service, set goals Information Session! South Jamaica: Tue for, how to identify your self-management and objectives, budget and schedule, @ 10:00AM - 9/15 skills, and how to convince an employer you identify resources and networks, and get can do the job, get along with customers and ready to open your “doors.” Central JOB-TRAINING INFORMATION coworkers, and fit into the corporate culture. Library: Tue @ 7:00PM - 9/8, 9/15, 9/22 SESSION: CONSTRUCTION Flushing: Tue @ 10:00AM - 9/15, 10/27 Queens Library is offering free classes for LEAD UP TO STARTUP!: CHOOSING OSHA certification in construction. Find out JOB-SEARCH STRATEGIES USING ENTREPRENEURSHIP more and preregister for the program at this SOCIAL MEDIA Participants will get an overview of the Information Session! Arverne: Thur @ Learn how to use social-media websites to dynamic world of entrepreneurship, 10:00AM - 9/17 find and apply for jobs online. Flushing: assess their skills, aptitudes and interests; Thur @ 10:00AM - 10/15; Corona: Wed @ explore what type of business best suits 1:00PM - 10/28 (Spanish)

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FLUSHING 如何照顧失憶症患者？ 國語節目。阿滋海默症協會紐約分會定期與您 互動，交流 照顧老年癡呆症或其它智症患者時 面對的問題及獨特的挑 戰。互動小組將為您提 供一個可靠和安全的分享經歷及感 受的地方。 互動的時間是 星期六9月19日 和10月17日 with a Memory (in Chinese) Problem a Person for Caring a monthly offers City Chapter, York Association, New Alzheimer’s The support group in Mandarin Chinese for people caring for a person with Alzheimer’s or any of the other dementias. Our support group is a secure and safe place to share your experiences. Thursday @ 10:30AM - 9/24 乙型肝炎 作爲社區健康教育系列講座的一部份, 胃腸肝臟科黎陽醫 生會為大家講解關於乙型肝炎的成因和傳染的途徑. 如果 想了解 應該怎樣治療或預防乙型肝炎, 黎陽醫生會一一解 答. Saturdays @ 3:00PM - 9/19, 10/17 41-17 Main Street, 718-661-1200 9/14 Monday @ 6:00PM - 認識阿滋海默症 (老年癡呆症) 您會了解到甚麼是阿滋海默症，什麼是早期癥狀的征兆和 治療，盡早治療的重要性，以及阿滋海默症協會如何能幫 助你。 Disease (in Chinese) Understanding Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’sand disease is, what the warning signs Learn what diagnosis is important and how the treatments are, why early Association can help you. Alzheimer’s @ 3:00PM - 9/15 Tuesday 微信公共帐号的开通和使用 一个特别的社交媒体项目-旨在帮助企业如何利用微信公共 帐号提升自己的业务。主要内容包括微信公共帐号的开通 和使用、法律风险的规避。 (in Chinese) Platform Public WeChat Associates, PLLC, and Zhemiao Chen, of the law office of Jiali Pan messaging and calling will speak about the advertising uses of the There will way to use it to avoid legal risk. and the proper app WeChat the presentation. be a question-and-answer session following @ 6:30PM - 9/16 Wednesday 家在紐約，移民和福利講座 -入籍免申請費 -各項 -白卡，紅藍卡及 如何處理醫療帳單 老人福利 Skills Seminar (in Chinese) Life fee waivers for Find out about Medicaid and Medicare bill issues, naturalization and senior benefits

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89-11 Merrick Boulevard, 718-990-0778 89-11 – 9/3, 9/8, 9/9 @ 6:00PM and Wednesday Tuesday Thursday, - 10/10, 10/17, 10/24 Saturdays @ 3:00PM BAYSIDE Business-Financing Roadmap (in Bengali) Business-Financing Whether you are just starting or expanding a business, this course will help you learn about credit and financing opportunities for a small business and provide insight into what lenders look for so you can be prepared when applying for financing. Monday @ 6:30PM - 9/14 (in Bengali) (Prereg.) Word Microsoft Part 1 - Introduction toLearn to create documents and work with tables. tableswith Working - 3 Part documents; saving and Creating 2- Part Word; a keyboard and mouseand printing. Participants should be able to use all classes. Preregisterand open and close applications, and must attend at 9:00AM on September 3at the Cyber Center Reference Desk starting the October course. for the September course and October 3 for CENTRAL LIBRARY 214-20 Northern Boulevard, 718-229-1834 Saturday @ 2:30PM - 10/3 長風中樂團 “二胡與琵琶演奏會” 二胡和琵琶，是中國音樂中最主要的拉弦樂器和彈撥樂器。 這場演奏 會，將上演經典的獨奏曲和重奏曲，展現傳統音 樂的魅力。 Music and Pipa Erhu China: Music from duet works on Guowei and Sun Li perform traditional solo and Wang two major Chinese string instruments, the “erhu” and the “pipa.” Hepatitis B (in Chinese) Wednesdays @ 12:00PM - 9/2-9/30 As part of the Community Health Education Partnership series, 幼儿学绘画彩色 gastrointestinal specialist Michael Li, MD, will explain the causes of 画画彩色有助于幼儿手眼协调，认识颜色和形状，培养耐 hepatitis B and its route of infection. If you have suffered from or have 心，专注于细节，并让您和孩子享受优质时光. concerns about this disease, your questions will be answered here. Coloring Time for Toddlers Coloring helps develop hand-eye coordination, patience, focus and Sunday @ 1:00PM - 10/4 the ability to recognize color, line and shape. Our coloring time also 當傳統文學遇上網絡文學 provides some quality quiet time for parents and their toddlers. 歡迎參加我們的文學探討講座：著名旅美作家 張宗子將與 聽眾分享個人的讀書寫作經驗；同 時我們也邀請到新浪名 Thursdays @ 4:00PM (except 9/10) 人“紐約藍藍”分享創 建微信文學帳號“億鄉坊文學城”的心 兒童手工 得體會 。 制作手工使孩子在玩中自然愉快地学习, 增加成就感和自 Tradition Meets Online in Literature (in Chinese) 信心. Mr. Zongzi Zhang, a renowned Chinese author living in New York, will Craft Time for Kids share his perspective on reading and writing for Chinese Americans, Kids choose from a variety of materials to design and create their own and Lan Zhang, a well-known online blogger and writer, will discuss crafts, exercising their imaginations and increasing their confidence in her experiences establishing “Yi Xiang Fang Wen Xue City” (WeChat their ability to make choices and decisions. Literature in Chinese). IN ITALIANO / IN ITALIAN Sunday @ 2:00PM - 10/4 WHITESTONE 长岛合唱团 长岛之声音乐会 151-10 14 Road, 718-767-8010 长岛合唱团是一个独特的音乐团体, 由不同专业背景但共 Thursday @ 5:00PM - 10/22 同对声乐有着执着热爱和 对社会有奉献精神的成员组成。 Festeggiate con la musica e l’arte il mese del patrimonio 合唱团本着促 进社区文化交流的理念，经常为纽约社区居 italiano! 民 提供演出。他们的演唱受到了观众们及专业人 士们的 17:00 - Impara a dipingere su vetro con l’artista Italiana Cristina 赞赏，并在2014年纽约合唱比赛中 荣获铜奖。 本次音乐 Cipriani usando la tecnica di pittura sottovetro e colori specifici per il 会将以热爱和平为主 题，以声乐作品为主，由沈海华教授 vetro. La classe e’ dedicata all’arte Italiana di decorazione dei piatti 担任音乐 指导与指挥。演出形式丰富多彩，有混声合唱 da tavola. 18:30 - Terra, Sangue e Mare e’ un trio composto dalla 、男声合唱、女声合唱、重唱及男女声独唱等 。全场将演 cantante/attrice Michela Musolino, il rinomato percussionista Michael 出世界多首中外名曲。 Long Island Chorus Presents: Sound of Long Island Delia e dal e di fisarmonica Fabio Turchetti. Il trio unisce la musica Concert Siciliana folk e roots a ritmi tradizionali di altre parti del mondo. Celebrate Italian Heritage Month with Italian Music The Long Island Chorus is composed of members of diverse and Craft! backgrounds sharing a passion for vocal music and a dedication to 5:00PM - Italian artist Cristina Cipriani demonstration how to decorate society. The chorus has been actively involved in cultural activities, glass using the reverse-painting technique and special glass colors providing performances in New York City and on Long Island. Under in a workshop dedicated to Italian decorated plates. 6:30PM - Terra, the theme “Loving Peace,” this performance will present a mix of Sangue e Mare, composed of songstress Michela Musolino, world world and Chinese masterpieces and popular songs. percussionist Michael Delia and accordion virtuoso Fabio Turchetti,

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LANGUAGES 神經内科/中風/脊椎 作爲社區健康教育系列講座的一部份，林寧博士將與您討 한국어 / IN KOREAN 論中風，脊椎神經對患者的影響，以及探討治療中樞神經 系統的方案和最新的微創外科手術。 MCGOLDRICK Stroke and Spinal Injuries and Illnesses (in Chinese) 155-06 Roosevelt Ave. (off Northern Blvd.), 718-461-1616 As part of the Community Health Education Partnership series, Ning Mondays @ 1:00PM - 9/14, 10/19 Lin, MD, a neurosurgeon with New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell 맥골드릭 도서관 한국어 독서 클럽 Medical Center and New York Hospital Queens, will discuss stroke 독서를 좋아하십니까? 요즘 좋은 한국어 책을 and its impact and discuss diagnoses and treatment options for 읽으셨나요? 맥골드릭 도서관 한국어 독서클럽에 오셔서 conditions affecting the central nervous system, including the spine. 귀하의 독서 경험을 함께 나누십시요. Korean Book Club Have you read a good book lately? Share your reading experiences! QUEENSBORO HILL

60-05 Main Street, 718-359-8332 Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 9/2-9/23 2-4 岁幼儿听故事学唱歌。每週三上午11:30. 听老师读图画书，学唱儿歌, 玩游戏。 Toddler Storytime Toddlers and parents listen to stories and enjoy fingerplays and songs.

38 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 EM PORTUGUÊS / IN PORTUGUESE CENTRAL LIBRARY 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, 718-990-0778 BROADWAY Wednesdays @ 6:00PM - 9/9, 9/16, 9/23 40-20 Broadway, 718-721-2462 Clases de Computación para principiantes Saturday @ 3:00PM - 9/12 Aprenda a encender la computadora y como escribir un correo Uma celebração do Dia da Independência do Brasil electrónico a alguien. Se requiere preinscripción en el mostrador de com Quarteto Moderno referencia del Cyber Center a partir del miércoles, 2 de septiembre a Quarteto Moderno é um grupo brasileiro de jazz contemporâneo, las 9:00AM, o llame al 718-990-0967. que apresenta o célebre guitarrista, vocalista e compositor Richard Computers for Beginners (in Spanish) (Prereg.) Boukas. Com genuínos ritmos brasileiros o repertório inclui Learn how to turn on a computer and write an email. Participants must composições originais de Boukas e de legendários compositores attend all 3 classes. Preregister at the Cyber Center Reference Desk brasileiros de Minas Gerais, como Milton Nascimento, Toninho or call 718-990-0967 beginning Wednesday, September 2 at 9:00AM. Horta e Sérgio Santos. Boukas é acompanhado pelo renomado jovem saxofonista Lucas Pino e pelos brilhantes Gustavo Amarante, Thursday @ 2:00PM - 9/24 contrabaixo, e Maurício Zottarelli, bateria. Tiene la Residencia Permanente; Obtenga aún Mas! A Celebration of Brazilian Independence Day Si tiene la residencia permanente, podría estar listo para obtener with Quarteto Moderno los beneficios de la ciudadanía, incluyendo el derecho a votar en Quarteto Moderno is a contemporary Brazilian jazz ensemble las próximas elecciones locales, estatales, y nacionales. Y además, featuring guitarist, vocalist and composer Richard Boukas. Performing muchas otras oportunidades podrían estar a su alcance. primarily Brazilian genres, including samba, choro, baião, frevo, Permanent Opportunity: You Have a Green Card; Get More! maracatu, marcha and guarânia, the group’s repertoire ranges (in Spanish and English) from Boukas’s original compositions to interpretations of legendary If you have your green card, you might be ready to get the full benefits Brazilian composers. Boukas is joined by the heralded young of citizenship, which will allow you to vote in your next local, state and saxophonist Lucas Pino and Brazilian all-stars Gustavo Amarante on national elections as well as enjoy many other opportunities. bass and Maurício Zottarelli on drums. Wednesdays @ 6:00PM - 10/14, 10/21,10/28 на русском языке / IN RUSSIAN Microsoft Word para Hispanoparlantes FOREST HILLS Aprenda como crear un documento y trabajar con tablas. Los 108-19 71 Avenue, 718-268-7934 participantes deben tener conocimientos básicos de computación Saturday @ 3:00PM - 9/26 y es necesario que los participantes asistan a las tres. Se requiere preinscripción en el mostrador de referencia a partir del miércoles, 7 Натурализация: имеете ли Вы на нее право и следует de octubre, a las 9:00AM, o llame al 718-990-0967. ли Вам подавать на нее? Microsoft Word (in Spanish) (Prereg.) На этом семинаре на русском и английском языках Learn how to create a document and work with tables. Participants Вы узнаете о правах на получение гражданства и should have basic computer skills and must attend all 3 classes. натурализацию, о связи между уголовным наказанием LANGUAGES Preregistrater at the Cyber Center Reference Desk or call 718-990-

и натурализацией, а также что нужно для подготовки OTHER 0967 beginning Wednesday, October 7 at 9:00AM. к экзамену на гражданство и проверки знания английского языка. Naturalization: Are You Eligible and Should You Apply? CORONA (in English and Russian) 38-23 104 Street, 718-426-2844 Find out about the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship, Thursdays @ 5:00PM - 9/10, 10/8 naturalization eligibility as it relates to criminal history, and how to Serie de Salud y Prevención de la Comunidad de Corona prepare for the English and civics tests. Serie presentada en colaboración con ACQC. Todos son bienvenidos y este programa es gratuito y abierto al público. ¡Ven y únete a EN ESPAÑOL / IN SPANISH nosotros! 10 de septiembre - Enfermedades de transmission sexual; 8 de octubre - HIV/SIDA ASTORIA Corona Community Health and Prevention Series (in Spanish) 14-01 Astoria Boulevard, 718-278-2220 This series is presented in collaboration with AIDS Center of Queens Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 9/16-10/28 (except 9/30) County (ACQC). 9/10 - Sexually transmitted infections; 10/8 - HIV/AIDS. Wednesday @ 11:15AM - 9/30 Hora de Cuentos Bilingüe Mondays @ 6:30PM - 9/14-10/26 (except 10/12) Niños pequeños y sus cuidadores gozaran cantando canciones Moving for Life infantiles, escuchando cuentos, y haciendo manualidades. Este Moving for Life incorpora danza y yoga suave acompañados de programa es semanal, no es necesario registrarse pero por favor diferentes tipos de música para acentuar la conexión mente-cuerpo. llame antes de ir. Moving for Life Bilingual Storytime (in English and Spanish) Moving for Life incorporates gentle dance and yoga accompanied by Toddlers and their caregivers enjoy songs, finger rhymes, stories and different types of music to accentuate the body-mind connection. more and this weekly program. Please call before you come.

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 39 Thursday @ 5:45PM - 9/17 Computers for Beginners (in Spanish) (Prereg.) Súper Alimentos como parte de un plan de alimentación saludable See “Central,” Wednesdays. Preregister at the Cyber Center or by Usted aprenderá acerca de lo que es un “súper alimento,” recetas y calling 718-661-1280 beginning Saturday, October 3 at 9:00AM. consejos sobre cómo incorporar estos alimentos llenos de nutrientes principales en su plan de alimentación a sus adolecentes. JACKSON HEIGHTS Superfoods: Healthy and Delicious Eating Plans for Families 35-51 81 Street, 718-899-2500 (in Spanish) Thursday @ 1:00PM - 10/15 Nutritionist Christina Camacho will present recipes and tips on how to Tiene la Residencia Permanente; Obtenga aún Más incorporate nutrient-packed “superfoods” into your meals and snacks, Mira “Central Library,” 9/24. and how to introduce these foods to your family. Permanent Opportunity: You Have a Green Card; Get More! (in Spanish and English) Tuesday @ 10:30AM - 10/13 See “Central Library,” 9/24. Conceptos Básicos de la Lactancia Materna ¿Ha considerado dar pecho ahora o en el futuro? ¿Tiene preguntas Thursday @ 6:00PM - 10/15 sobre la lactancia? Madres o futuras mamas, sus parejas, familia, Charla de autores hispanos: el mundo de la escritura y amigos les invitamos a participar. Este taller le proveerá apoyo, y la publicación le ayudara a estar más segura y le ayudara a resolver problemas Charla de autores hispanos: escribir y publicar para una audiencia asociados con la lactancia y su bebe. internacional: por favor únase a Yvonne Conde, Jorge Luis Seco y Breastfeeding Basics (in Spanish) Héctor Santiago para un diálogo informal, pero informativo. Mothers, future mothers and their partners, family members and Hispanic Authors Discuss the World of Writing and Publishing friends are encouraged to attend this workshop, which will provide (in Spanish) support, build confidence and assist with problems associated with Hispanic authors Yvonne Conde, Jorge Luis Seco and Héctor breastfeeding. Santiago present an informal but informative discussion on writing and publishing for an international audience. Monday and Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 10/26, 10/28 Celebra el Día de las Brujas: Taller de Caritas Pintadas con Ginina Enriquez (en español) LANGSTON HUGHES Únase a nosotros para este taller en dos partes y aprenda hacer 100-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-651-1100 maquillaje de fantasía, peinados y adornos de uñas para un disfraz Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 9/12, 9/19, 9/26 original para su hijo el día de las brujas. El programa se limita a los Microsoft Word para Hispanoparlantes primeros 30 solicitantes. Registrarse en persona en la sucursal de Mire “Central.” Se requiere preinscripción en el mostrador de Corona justo antes de la primera clase. referencia a partir del sábado, 12 de septiembre a las 10:00AM. Halloween Face-Painting with Gianina Enriquez (in Spanish) (Prereg.) Microsoft Word (in Spanish) (Prereg.) This 2-part workshop will teach you how to use fantasy makeup, See “Central,” Wednesdays. Preregister at the Reference Desk hairstyles and fingernail decorations to create an original Halloween beginning Saturday, September 12 at 10:00AM. disguise for your child. The program is limited to 30 participants. Preregister in person just before the first class. Saturday @ 11:00AM - 9/19 Festival de la Herencia Hispana: ¡Prepare platillos mexicanos y disfrute de la música de España y América Latina! FLUSHING 11:00AM - Aprenda cómo hacer y pruebe favoritos de la cocina 41-17 Main Street, 718-661-1200 mexicana: tostadas y tamales; 1:00PM - Guillermo y Gabriel Ariza Saturdays @ 9:30AM - 9/12, 9/19, 9/26 tocan rumba flamenca; 3:00PM - David Cedeño toca éxitos de la salsa. Microsoft Excel para hispanoparlantes Hispanic Heritage Festival: Prepare Mexican Dishes Aprenda como crear una hoja de trabajo y realizar cálculos. Los and Enjoy the Music of Spain and Latin America participantes deben tener conocimientos básicos de computación y es 11:00AM - Learn to make tostadas and tamales; 1:00PM - Guillermo necesario que los participantes asistan a las tres clases. Se requiere and Gabriel Ariza perform rumba flamenca; 3:00PM - David Cedeño’s preinscripción en persona en el mostrador de referencia a partir del Orchestra plays salsa hits. sábado, 12 de septiembre a las 9:00AM o llame al 718-661-1280. OTHER OTHER Microsoft Excel (in Spanish) (Prereg.) Thursday @ 5:30PM - 10/8 LANGUAGES Learn how to create a worksheet and perform calculations. Presupuestos: Necesito crear un Presupuesto? Parece ser Participants should be familiar with computers and must attend all mucho trabajo sessions. Preregister at the Cyber Center Reference Desk or call El presupuesto es simplemente un plan de gastos. Es un sistema 718-661-1280 beginning September 12 at 9:00AM. que le ayuda a controlar cuánto tiene y cuánto gasta. Necesita hacer un presupuesto? Entender su situación financiera, planificar ahorrar Saturdays @ 9:30AM - 10/10, 10/17, 10/24 para compras futuras, evitar quedarse sin dinero para pagar sus Clases de Computación para principiantes cuentas, generar ahorros de emergencia. Mire “Central.” Se requiere preinscripción en el mostrador de referencia del Cyber Center a partir del sábado, 3 de octubre a las 9:00AM, o llame al 718-661-1280.

40 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 Budget? Do I Really Need a Budget? (in Spanish) SUNNYSIDE A budget is just a spending plan that lets you know how much money 43-06 Greenpoint Avenue, 718-784-3033 is coming in and going out every month. This workshop will help you Thursday @ 5:30PM - 9/10 understand your financial situation and why you probably need a Preparándose Para ser Propietario budget, and help you save for things you want without getting caught Mire “Langston Hughes.” short by bills and emergencies. Preparing for Homeownership (in Spanish) See “Langston Hughes,” 10/22. Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 10/10, 10/17, 10/24 Microsoft Excel para hispanoparlantes WOODHAVEN Mire “Flushing.” Se requiere preinscripción en persona en el 85-41 Forest Parkway, 718-849-1010 mostrador de referencia a partir del sábado, 3 de octubre a las Monday @ 4:00PM - 9/14, Thursday @ 6:00PM - 9/17 10:00AM. Queens Memory en Woodhaven Microsoft Excel (in Spanish) (Prereg.) ¡Comparta sus recuerdos de Queens y obtenga sus fotos familiares See “Flushing,” Saturdays. Preregister at the Reference Desk digitalizadas de forma gratuita! El equipo de Queens Memory beginning October 3 at 10:00AM. escaneará sus fotografías, postales y otros recuerdos y los guardara en una memoria USB que podrá llevar a casa. ¡Traiga sus materiales Thursday @ 5:30PM - 10/22 e historias y espera aprender algo nuevo acerca de su vecindario! Preparándose Para ser Propietario Queens Memory in Woodhaven (in English and Spanish) Quiere realmente obtener una casa propia? Puede usted costear la Share your Queens memories and get family photos digitized for free! compra de una casa? Cuál es el precio que puede pagar por la casa? The Queens Memory team will scan your photos, postcards and other Como puede aumentar su capacidad de endeudamiento? memorabilia and save them to a thumb drive you can take home. Preparing for Homeownership (in Spanish) Bring your materials and stories and expect to learn something about Those contemplating buying a house will hear about important issues your neighborhood! to consider: the responsibility of home ownership, the real costs of buying and owning a house, and how to increase the ability to borrow. What’s Your Favorite Scary Story? Halloween is on its way, and we asked our librarians to share some favorite terrifying tales from books, movies, children’s literature and more! “I manage the DVD collection at Skeleton Crew. Both explore the group starts experiencing strange Central Library, and there is one horror of helplessness. In the first things, including one member going movie we have that I find very story, some teenagers are stuck missing, cryptic messages and scary—The Collector, with Terence in the middle of a lake, cut off bloodstains. But is it all part of Stamp and Samantha Eggar, based from shore by something trying to the movie?” on the novel by John Fowles. There’s kill them. In the second, a group —Rosemary Kiladitis, Children’s no bloodshed, no big teeth and of townspeople are trapped in a Librarian, Queens Library at no imaginary monsters; what’s supermarket, surrounded by the Pomonok terrifying about it is that it could mist—and what’s in it—and unable easily happen in real life.” to venture out. I can’t imagine “I recall reading Edgar Allan Poe’s —Marina Rudko, Librarian, Central anything worse than being in a The Masque of the Red Death when Library situation where there is no hope I was fifteen. It was a riveting LANGUAGES for escape.” read. It’s short and concise, with “One of my favorites is Paul —Daniel Thom, Senior Librarian, nightmarish imagery. The story is OTHER Galdone’s version of The Teeny-Tiny Information Access Services, quite frightening because it mixes Woman. I love it because it’s for Central Library the vivid images of the splendor young kids and a little scary, but of the Prince’s court with the not enough to really frighten them. “I have a great young-adult pick: hideous specter of the Red Death. It’s also funny and has a surprise Welcome to the Dark House by It examines the fear of illness ending, and it’s great to read aloud. I Lauri Stolarz. Imagine an ’80s and death, which even the most love the illustrations in this version, slasher movie taking place on the privileged people in the kingdom too!” set of The Real World, and you’ve are at a loss to cope with. What a —Mary Blieka, Children’s Librarian, got some great old-school horror haunting story!” Queens Library at Flushing with a reality show twist. For six —Daniel Zaleski, Senior Librarian. contestants, it’s the chance of a Programming and Outreach, Central “Stephen King wrote two short lifetime: to meet and possibly be in Library stories, ‘The Raft’ and ‘The Mist,’ their favorite director’s next horror which both appear in his book movie. Shortly after settling in, the

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 41 PROGRAMS FOR TEENS (Prereg.) = Preregistration is required

ARVERNE Preregister at http://tinyurl.com/TPR-SHSAT Thursday @ 4:00PM - 10/1 312 Beach 54 Street, 718-634-4784 or call 646-362-0628, and include the event SHSAT Practice Exam Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 number 261334. with The Princeton Review Summer Meals 2015 See “Bayside,” 9/26. Include the event The Summer Meals Program provides BELLEROSE number 261358. nutritious meals to young people age 18 and 250-06 Hillside Avenue, 718-831-8644 under when school is not in session. Monday @ 4:00PM - 9/28 Monday @ 4:30PM - 10/5 SHSAT Practice Exam Education Is the Key to Success Friday @ 3:00PM - 10/23 with The Princeton Review Inspirationist Parthenia Brown will show you Magic Show See “Bayside,” 9/26. Include the event how to create a vision board to help make Jeremy the Magician will amaze you with his number 261455. your educational journey successful and keep magic, then teach you how to perform simple you inspired as you strive for success. tricks. Friday @ 4:00PM - 10/16 Teen Advisory Group (grades 7-12) CENTRAL LIBRARY ASTORIA There will be different activities at each 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, 718-990-0778 14-01 Astoria Boulevard, 718-278-2220 meeting, including Wii console games, crafts Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Tuesday @ 2:30PM - 9/1 and movies, with plenty of time left to discuss Summer Meals 2015 Gaming: Minecraft and Civilization your favorite books and films. Bring friends! See “Arverne.” Defeat zombie hordes while building a paradise fit for Steve, or build an empire and BRIARWOOD Thursdays @ 6:00PM rule the planet, advancing your civilization 85-12 Main Street, 718-658-1680 Haitian Creole for Beginners from the Stone Age to the Space Age! Wednesday @ 3:30PM - 9/16 This course is for people with little or no Animals Alive knowledge of Haitian Creole (Kreyòl). Thursdays @ 2:30PM Learn about and visit with an assortment Participants will learn speaking, reading, Anime and Manga Club of animals from Alley Pond Environmental writing and listening comprehension within Watch your favorite anime titles as they’re Center. a Haitian cultural context. Core concepts of released in Japan! We’ve got year-round grammar, phonetics and other aspects of access to Funimation and Crunchyroll and BROADWAY language structure will be covered. At the are bringing you titles such as “Naruto: 40-20 Broadway, 718-721-2462 end of the course, participants will be able to Shippuden,” “Bleach,” “Akira,” “Attack on Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 conduct simple conversations in Kreyòl and Titan,” “Dragon Ball Z,” “One Piece” and Summer Meals 2015 write at the basic level. many more. Cosplay is optional. See “Arverne.” Fridays @ 5:00PM BAISLEY PARK Dance Fitness CAMBRIA HEIGHTS Certified dance instructor Delicia B. Davis 117-11 Sutphin Boulevard, 718-529-1590 218-13 Linden Boulevard, 718-528-3535 Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 uses dance as a way to inspire teens to live Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 healthier lifestyles, build self-confidence and Summer Meals 2015 Summer Meals 2015 increase social awareness and personal See “Arverne.” See “Arverne.” development. TEENS BAYSIDE Thursday @ 4:00PM - 9/17 Wednesdays @ 3:00PM (except 9/2) 214-20 Northern Boulevard, 718-229-1834 Draw Manga with Eric Cheung Teen Talk (ages 13-19) Saturday @ 1:30PM - 9/26 Artist Eric Cheung teaches teens and Laugh, talk, share and learn while discussing SHSAT Practice Exam tweens basic techniques for drawing manga social issues and all things affecting teens. with The Princeton Review (Prereg.) characters. Take this free, full-length practice test to find Thursdays @ 4:00PM (except 9/3) out how you might score on the real thing! Friday @ 4:00PM - 9/25 Creative Writing Your personalized score report pinpointing Jewelry Making Is the next bestseller hiding between doodles your strengths and weaknesses will help Teens make beautiful jewelry with materials in your notebook? In our creative writing you know what to focus on as you prep. that are provided.

42 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 workshop, you can share your work with FAR ROCKAWAY of his memoir, the stress of growing up in a other teens aspiring to write the next “Hunger 1637 Central Avenue, 718-327-2549 home in which his father lived in fear of the Games,” “Divergent” or “insert your title here”! Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 FBI, and the broader world of patriotism, Summer Meals 2015 betrayal, espionage and counter-espionage. Fridays @ 3:30PM (except 9/4) See “Arverne.” TLA: Teen Leadership Academy FRESH MEADOWS TLA is a series of workshops designed to FLUSHING 193-20 Horace Harding Expwy., 718-454-7272 instill leadership skills in youth. There will be 41-17 Main Street, 718-661-1200 Thursday @ 3:00PM - 9/17 motivational speakers, leadership exercises, Fridays @ 4:00PM Animals Alive small-group sessions, interactive workshops, Happy Hour See “Briarwood,” 9/16. interviews with business professionals and an Join old friends and make new ones in the end-of-year recognition ceremony. Teen Room while playing with our new Saturday @ 2:30PM - 10/3 Nintendo Wii U, X Box 360 or an awesome SHSAT Practice Exam Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 9/16, 10/14 variety of board and card games, not to with The Princeton Review Teen Book Talks mention Connect Four and Jenga. See “Bayside,” 9/26. Include the event Do the books you’re assigned to read at number 261379. school not excite you? Join us to learn about Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 9/9 other great books! We will watch book trailers Drum Workshop Friday @ 3:00PM - 10/16 and discuss books in every genre and style. Make some noise in this hands-on drum Magic Show Copies will be available to check out. and percussion workshop with professional See “Arverne,” 10/23. musician Tony Genovese! Saturday @ 2:30PM - 9/19 GLEN OAKS SHSAT Practice Exam Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 9/12, 9/19, 9/26 256-04 Union Turnpike, 718-831-8636 with The Princeton Review Chess Club Friday @ 4:00PM - 10/2 See “Bayside,” 9/26. Include the event Learn the basics or improve your game! Drum Workshop number 261333. See “Flushing,” 9/9. Friday @ 4:00PM - 10/2 Sunday @ 2:00PM - 9/27 Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Monday @ 4:30PM - 10/5 Sunday Movie: “Tracers” Tournament SHSAT Practice Exam with A bicycle messenger in New York City (Taylor Teens and tweens are invited to a special The Princeton Review Lautner) tries to repay a debt to a group of happy-hour Super Smash Bros. tournament. See “Bayside,” 9/26. Include the event organized criminals. His fast-paced world Prizes will be awarded to the three finalists. number 261382. becomes more explosive after he crashes his bike into a sexy stranger. (2015, PG-13) Thursday @ 4:00PM - 10/15 HOLLIS Anime Club 202-05 Hillside Avenue, 718-465-7355 Thursday @ 6:00PM - 10/1 Hang out with friends and enjoy popular Celebrate World Vegetarian Day Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 anime films! Summer Meals 2015 Find out what being a vegetarian is all about and the health benefits of a vegetarian See “Arverne.” Saturday @ 12:00PM - 10/24 lifestyle with Jenné Claiborne, a New York Halloween Blood Fest 2015 JACKSON HEIGHTS City-based private chef, health coach and The all-female rock band Shattered 35-51 81 Street, 718-899-2500 creator of the 21-Day Vegan Blueprint. Serenade will perform in a festival that Friday @ 4:00PM - 9/11 includes a seance with flying ghosts, Tuesdays in October @ 3:00PM Magic Show magicians, a psychic, movies and ghost TEENS See “Arverne,” 10/23. College Prep stories. There will also be a costume and

College Prep is designed to help young scream contest with special guest The Great Friday @ 4:00PM - 9/25 people develop the skills and motivation Pumpkin and, live onstage, Freddy vs. Draw Manga with Eric Cheung necessary for educational success beyond Jason: The Final Battle. high school. The program specializes in See “Cambria Heights,” 9/17. assisting high school juniors and seniors FOREST HILLS meet the requirements of college admission Friday @ 4:00PM - 10/2 108-19 71 Avenue, 718-268-7934 and complete documentation for financial aid, Jewelry Making Saturday @ 2:30PM - 9/26 scholarships, grant research and more. See “Cambria Heights,” 9/25. Meet the Author of “Stealing Fire: Memoir of a Boyhood in the Shadow Thursday @ 4:00PM - 10/15 Friday @ 4:00PM - 10/30 of Atomic Espionage” Jewelry Making Halloween Craft Professor Boria Sax, a scholar in the field of See “Cambria Heights,” 9/25. Make something spooky! human/animal studies, will discuss the writing

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 43 LANGSTON HUGHES LEFFERTS Wednesdays @ 4:30PM beginning 9/16 100-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-651-1100 103-34 Lefferts Boulevard, 718-843-5950 Intermediate Korean Mondays @ 4:00PM - 9/14, 9/21, 9/28 Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 This weekly class continues the development Drawing for Teens Summer Meals 2015 of Korean language skills, covering A professional artist will teach teens basic See “Arverne.” phonetics, syntax and vocabulary with drawing skills and introduce them to artists’ a focus on reading, listening, speaking materials and how to use them. Wednesdays @ 4:00PM - 9/16, 10/14 and writing. Learners will increase their Simple Science Wednesdays knowledge of Korean language and culture (age 8 and up) through an overview of classical Korean LAURELTON literature. 134-26 225 Street, 718-528-2822 Teens and children do fun science Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 experiments and learn a little in the process. Summer Meals 2015 NORTH HILLS See “Arverne.” Saturday @ 2:30PM - 9/19 57-04 Marathon Parkway, 718-225-3550 Saturday Movie Matinee: Thursday @ 5:30PM - 9/24 “Furious Seven” Friday @ 3:00PM - 9/4 College Admissions Workshop Games and Movies Deckard Shaw seeks to avenge his brother. College-bound students, and their parents, Enjoy card games, board games and movies. (2015, PG-13) will find out everything they need to know about today’s highly competitive Mondays through Thursdays @ 4:00PM Friday @ 3:30PM - 10/30 college admission process, including how Magic Show (except holidays) - 9/8-10/29 students can determine the best college fit, Laptops for Students See “Arverne,” 10/23. differentiate themselves from other applicants Students learn how to use laptops to do and maximize admission and scholarship homework and search for information on the LEFRAK CITY potential. Internet. 98-30 57 Avenue, 718-592-7677 Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Friday @ 3:00PM - 10/2 Thursdays @ 4:00PM beginning 9/10 Summer Meals 2015 SHSAT Practice Exam with African-American History Club See “Arverne.” The Princeton Review Teen history lovers will learn about important See “Bayside,” 9/26. Include the event events in African-American history. LONG ISLAND CITY number 261354. 37-44 21 Street, 718-752-3700 Fridays @ 3:30PM (except 9/4) Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 OZONE PARK Game Time Summer Meals 2015 92-24 Rockaway Boulevard, 718-845-3127 Teens play chess and other games that test See “Arverne.” Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 their knowledge and skills. Summer Meals 2015 Saturdays @ 11:00AM (except 9/5 and 10/31) See “Arverne.” Monday @ 3:30PM - 9/14 Homework Help (ages 6-18) Animals Alive Help is available until 2:00PM. Monday @ 3:30PM - 10/5 See “Briarwood,” 9/16. Animals Alive MCGOLDRICK See “Briarwood,” 9/16. Wednesdays @ 4:00PM beginning 9/16 155-06 Roosevelt Ave. (off Northern Blvd.) Science Club (grades 5-8) 718-461-1616 POMONOK Our Youth Librarian guides science lovers Wednesdays @ 3:30PM beginning 9/16 158-21 Jewel Avenue, 718-591-4343 through science projects. Elementary Korean Wednesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/2-9/4 This weekly class teaches the Korean Summer Meals 2015 Monday @ 4:00PM - 10/5 alphabet, Hangul, using a special method See “Arverne.” Book Discussion that enables non-Korean speakers to In “J.W. Valentine” by Barbara Novack, read independently in a short time. The QUEENS VILLAGE

TEENS the 14-year-old J.W. wishes the world and course encourages learners to become 94-11 217 Street, 718-776-6800 everyone in it would leave him alone. His life acquainted with Korean through repetition Friday @ 3:30PM - 9/11 so far has not gone well and his defenses— of daily expressions and includes a cultural Connect Four Tournament anger and wit—have only gotten him in component that provides insights into Korea Think you’re the best Connect Four player trouble. Amid the distrust, there is discovery, and its society. walking? Join our tournament and see! and a moving story of love.

44 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 Friday @ 3:30PM - 9/25 Tuesday @ 3:30PM - 10/6 Tuesday @ 3:30PM - 9/8 Paint a Mural Animals Alive Nail Arts Use brushes, sticks and other materials to See “Briarwood,” 9/16. Teens turn their fingernails into works of art. paint a mural with a theme of your choice. ROCHDALE VILLAGE 169-09 137 Avenue, 718-723-4440 SOUTH JAMAICA Friday @ 3:30PM - 10/9 Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 108-41 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., 718-739-4088 Shaving Cream Prints Summer Meals 2015 Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Make unique, colorful prints using shaving See “Arverne.” Summer Meals 2015 cream and paint! See “Arverne.” SEASIDE QUEENSBORO HILL 116-15 Rockaway Beach Blvd., 718-634-1876 SUNNYSIDE 60-05 Main Street, 718-359-8332 Wednesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/2-9/4 43-06 Greenpoint Avenue, 718-784-3033 Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Summer Meals 2015 Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Summer Meals 2015 See “Arverne.” Summer Meals 2015 See “Arverne.” See “Arverne.” SOUTH HOLLIS Monday @ 4:00PM - 10/5 204-01 Hollis Avenue, 718-465-6779 WOODHAVEN Jewelry Making Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 85-41 Forest Parkway, 718-849-1010 See “Cambria Heights,” 9/25. Summer Meals 2015 Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 See “Arverne.” Summer Meals 2015 Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 10/14 See “Arverne.” Draw Manga with Eric Cheung Tuesdays @ 3:30PM See “Cambria Heights,” 9/17. Graphic Novel Discussion Group WOODSIDE Teens talk about graphic novels they enjoy. 54-22 Skillman Avenue, 718-429-4700 RICHMOND HILL Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 118-14 Hillside Avenue, 718-849-7150 Fridays @ 4:00PM Summer Meals 2015 Mondays through Fridays @ 4:30PM Video Games See “Arverne.” (except holidays) It’s video game time every Friday afternoon. Lanyard Club Make a lanyard keychain or bracelet!

Shakespeare in Queens Staged Readings by TITAN Theatre Company

Starting in October, actors from TITAN’s critically TEENS acclaimed resident company will present a dramatic reading of one of Shakespeare’s plays each month until the canon is completed! Each play will be presented for free in a different community library. All ages welcome.

For more information visit the website queenslibrary.org/events/shakespeare-in-queens

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 45 PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN (Prereg.) = Preregistration is required ASTORIA Mondays @ 1:30PM - 9/28-10/26 PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS 14-01 Astoria Boulevard, 718-278-2220 (except holidays) Mondays @ 11:30AM - 9/14, 9/21, 9/28 Picture Book Time (3½ to 5 years) Queens Library regularly offers free Mother Goose Time (3-17 months) See “Preschool Programs.” programs for children up to age 5. See “Preschool Programs.” Each child must be Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 9/30-10/28 accompanied by a parent Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 9/16, 9/23, 10/7 Mother Goose Time (18-30 months) or other adult caregiver. For 10/14, 10/28, Wednesday @ 11:15AM - 9/30 See “Preschool Programs.” specifics regarding ages, dates and Bilingual Storytime (in English and times, see listings in the “Children” Spanish) Wednesdays @ 1:30PM - 9/30-10/28 section of this guide and speak Toddlers and their caregivers enjoy songs, Toddler Time (2½ to 3½ years) directly to the Children’s Librarian finger rhymes, stories and more. Call before See “Preschool Programs.” at the location of that program. All you come. programs are free; however, some BELLEROSE require preregistration or are on a 250-06 Hillside Avenue, 718-831-8644 first-come, first-served basis. Please BAISLEY PARK Friday @ 4:00PM - 9/4 check back monthly for updated 117-11 Sutphin Boulevard, 718-529-1590 Board Game Time (grades 3-6) program information. Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Summer Meals 2015 We offer a wide variety of board games. MOTHER GOOSE TIME – This See “Arverne.” interactive program for infants Wednesdays @ 3:30PM - 9/16, 9/30 features nursery rhymes, fingerplays BAY TERRACE Lego Building Club (grades 1-6) and songs. 18-36 Bell Boulevard, 718-423-7004 Children get creative with Legos! TODDLER TIME – These are Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 9/2, 10/7-10/28 carefully designed, age-appropriate Family Storytime (18-36 months) BROADWAY programs of stories, rhymes, songs Toddlers listen to fingerplays, music, rhymes 40-20 Broadway, 718-721-2462 and fingerplays that encourage and stories with their parents or caregivers. Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 literacy development in toddlers and Summer Meals 2015 the youngest preschoolers. Wednesday @ 3:00PM - 9/2 See “Arverne.” PICTURE BOOK TIME – These End-of-Summer Arts and Crafts programs incorporate stories with (4-12 years) CAMBRIA HEIGHTS a variety of other activities (songs, Children make a craft relating to summer. 218-13 Linden Boulevard, 718-528-3535 rhymes, crafts, circle time) and Parents and adult caregivers are welcome Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 are designed to give preschoolers as well! Summer Meals 2015 important skills to encourage later See “Arverne.” success, while providing an early BAYSIDE window into the pleasures of literacy. 214-20 Northern Boulevard, 718-229-1834 CENTRAL LIBRARY Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday @ 2:30PM 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, 718-990-0778 9/15, 9/23, 9/24 Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 ARVERNE Day-O Cinema Summer Meals 2015 312 Beach 54 Street, 718-634-4784 9/15 - “Despicable Me 2” (2013, PG); 9/23 - See “Arverne.” Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 “Cinderella” (2015, PG); 9/24 - “Monkey Summer Meals 2015 Kingdom (2015, G) Fridays @ 4:00PM (except 9/25, 10/30) The Summer Meals Program provides Fun Friday nutritious meals to young people age 18 and Mondays @ 11:00AM - 9/28-10/26 Join us for something different every week: under when school is not in session. (except holidays) arts and crafts, games, movies or…who

Baby and Me (7-18 months) knows? Stop in to find out! This interactive program is for infants and their caregivers. CHILDREN

46 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 Thursdays @ 6:00PM (except 9/3, 10/15) Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 9/15-10/27 they were young, recounting personal Tech Thursdays Game Time family stories and recalling memorable life Join us to explore the basics of computers, Play traditional board games! challenges and achievements—some related from typing skills to Microsoft Office to the Civil Rights struggle and some not. programs, animation and more! GLEN OAKS 256-04 Union Turnpike, 718-831-8636 LAURELTON Fridays @ 10:30AM - 9/25, 10/23 Fridays @ 10:30AM (except 10/23) 134-26 225 Street, 718-528-2822 Family Place Playtime (up to 3 years) Toddler Time (2-4 years) Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Children and their caregivers play games and See “Preschool Programs.” Summer Meals 2015 learn. See “Arverne.” Mondays through Thursdays @ 3:30PM Friday @ 4:00PM - 9/25, 10/30 (except holidays) beginning 9/21 Tuesday @ 3:00PM - 9/1 Amazing Readers Kids’ Book Club Study Hall English Literature at Laurelton (8-12 years) School-age children can get help with (grades 3-8) In September we will discuss John David homework and reading and, if there is Young people refine their reading and writing Anderson’s “Sidekicked,” and in October interest, participate in book discussions or skills while enjoying great English literature. we will discuss Peggy Eddleman’s “Sky reading circles. Jumpers.” Participation counts toward the Thursday @ 3:00PM - 9/3 Read Down Your Fees program. HOLLIS African-American History 202-05 Hillside Avenue, 718-465-7355 Summer Camp Thursdays in October @ 10:00AM Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Participants will study a collection of readings Toddler Learning Center Summer Meals 2015 based on the lives of Americans of African (18-35 months) (Prereg.) See “Arverne.” heritage and watch classical movies that Children play and interact while their reflect African-American experiences. caregivers listen to a presenter talk about child development. JACKSON HEIGHTS 35-51 81 Street, 718-899-2500 Friday @ 3:00PM - 9/4 Games and Movies Wednesdays @ 10:30AM - 10/7-10/28 Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 9/16-10/28 Mother Goose Time (up to 23 End the summer with card games, board Timeless Tales (3-5 years) (Prereg.) months) games and great movies! Children and their caregivers join us for stories, songs and fingerplays. See “Preschool Programs.” Mondays @ 5:00PM (except holidays) Math Club (grades 3-5) Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 9/16-10/28 FAR ROCKAWAY Toddler Time (2-4 years) Math club is for kids who love math and kids 1637 Central Avenue, 718-327-2549 See “Preschool Programs.” who want to get better at it. Participants Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 share their experiences, tackle puzzles and Summer Meals 2015 Saturday @ 3:00PM - 10/10 problems, and help one another improve their See “Arverne.” Jamaica Drum Jam: Found Sounds math skills. Craft and Play (5 years and up) FLUSHING (Prereg.) LEFFERTS 41-17 Main Street, 718-661-1200 Visual artist Jaiquan Fayson shows 103-34 Lefferts Boulevard, 718-843-5950 Saturdays @ 2:00PM - 9/12-9/26 participants how to turn ordinary household Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Chess Club (8 years and up) objects into small percussion instruments Summer Meals 2015 Children and teens learn the basics or such as mini steel drums, maracas and See “Arverne.” improve their game. shakers. Families will have a chance to decorate instruments, then learn a basic LEFRAK CITY Wednesday @ 4:30PM - 9/23 rhythmic pattern with our percussionist. 98-30 57 Avenue, 718-592-7677 Bookbusters Discussion and Every child must be accompanied by a Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Drawing Workshop (grades 4-6) parent or other adult caregiver. Summer Meals 2015 Children will read, discuss and create See “Arverne.” caricatures of characters in “Just My Rotten LANGSTON HUGHES

Luck” by James Patterson. CHILDREN 100-01 Northern Boulevard, 718-651-1100 LONG ISLAND CITY

Saturday @ 1:00PM - 9/5 37-44 21 Street, 718-752-3700 FRESH MEADOWS Reading Is Grand! Sharing Our Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 193-20 Horace Harding Expwy., 718-454-7272 Stories (5-12 years) Summer Meals 2015 Fridays @ 4:30PM Elders of the African-American community See “Arverne.” Kids’ Chess Club (8 years and up) talk about their youth, describing what Children learn or master the game. libraries and schools were like when

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 47 Mondays through Fridays @ 3:00PM NORTH HILLS Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 10/27 (except holidays) beginning 9/8 57-04 Marathon Parkway, 718-225-3550 Two of Everything (grades 1-6) Book Buddies (grades 1-6) Fridays @ 10:30AM - 9/11-10/30 Listen to this Chinese folktale of a magic pot Teen volunteers are paired with children (except 10/16, 10/23) that causes double trouble, then create some who want to practice reading aloud or have Toddler Time (18-36 months) doubles of your own! someone read to them. Children will also See “Preschool Programs.” participate in fun literacy games and other QUEENS VILLAGE activities. OZONE PARK 94-11 217 Street, 718-776-6800 92-24 Rockaway Boulevard, 718-845-3127 Wednesdays @ 11:00AM Mondays through Fridays @ 3:00PM Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Toddler Time (2-3 years) (except holidays) beginning 9/8 Summer Meals 2015 See “Preschool Programs.” Saturdays @ 11:00AM beginning 9/12 See “Arverne.” Homework Help (grades 1-6) Fridays @ 3:30PM Children get help from our Homework Wednesdays @ 11:00AM Game Day (grades 1-6) Helpers volunteers. Toddler Time (1-3 years) Children play board games, card games and See “Preschool Programs.” more. Mondays through Fridays @ 3:00PM 9/14-9/25 Fridays @ 11:00AM QUEENSBORO HILL Back-to-School Extravaganza Picture Book Time (up to 4 years) 60-05 Main Street, 718-359-8332 Do you need to borrow materials from the See “Preschool Programs.” Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 library for school assignments but owe too Summer Meals 2015 many fees on your library card? Help is on See “Arverne.” the way! For any children’s or tween library POMONOK

program you attend during the program 158-21 Jewel Avenue, 718-591-4343 Wednesdays @ 11:30AM - 9/2-9/23 period, you will earn a $20 Library Buck Wednesday @ 10:30AM - 9/2 Toddler Storytime Toddler Storytime Voucher. Each voucher can be used to Toddlers and their parents listen to stories reduce your fees! Some programs may Reading time is cuddle time! Bring your and enjoy fingerplays and songs. require preregistration. You may preregister infants and toddlers to our storytime, learn a

for and attend more than one program to song and fingerplay or two, and enjoy some Wednesdays @ 12:00PM - 9/2-9/30 earn more than one Library Buck Voucher. playtime! Coloring Time for Toddlers

Coloring helps develop hand-eye Mondays @ 3:00PM (except holidays) Wednesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/2-9/4 Summer Meals 2015 coordination, patience, focus and the ability Chess Club for Kids to recognize color, line and shape. Our Why chess? It’s a universal game that teaches See “Arverne.” coloring time also provides some quality quiet strategy, patience, focus and anticipating and time for parents and their toddlers. understanding the consequences of actions. POPPENHUSEN

Plus, it’s a lot of fun! 121-23 14 Avenue, 718-359-1102 Thursdays @ 4:00PM (except 9/10) Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 9/16 Craft Time Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 9/15-10/13 Teasers and Twisters (grades 1-6) Kids choose from a variety of materials to Spelling Bee Preparation and Children get a mental workout figuring out design and create their own crafts, exercising Practice (grades 3-4 and 5-6) our brainteasers and pronouncing our zany their imaginations and increasing their (Prereg.) tongue twisters. confidence in their ability to make choices It’s time to get ready for the LIC Spelling Bee! and decisions. If you would like to participate, sign up at the Thursday @ 4:00PM - 9/24

Children’s Desk. Practice sessions will be Create-o-Rama (grades 1-6) held on Tuesdays until the October bee. We will read “Roberto the Insect Architect” by RICHMOND HILL Nina Laden and build our own bugs with pipe 118-14 Hillside Avenue, 718-849-7150 Thursday @ 4:00PM - 10/15 cleaners, straws and beads. Mondays through Fridays @ 4:30PM Spelling Bee (grades 3-4 and 5-6) (except holidays) This is it! The two winners of this Bee will go Wednesday @ 4:00PM - 10/7 Lanyard Club on to the final Spelling Bee at Central Library Seussmania! Teens and tweens make a lanyard keychain in April 2016. Come to compete, come to We will enjoy a story by Dr. Seuss, then make or bracelet. cheer, come to learn for next year! tall hats inspired by “The Cat in the Hat.” Children under age 8 must be accompanied Wednesdays @ 11:30AM by an adult. Picture Book Time (up to 5 years) See “Preschool Programs.”

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48 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 Thursdays @ 1:15PM Wednesdays @ 11:00AM SOUTH OZONE PARK Mother Goose Time Preschool Stories 128-16 Rockaway Boulevard, 718-529-1660 See “Preschool Programs.” Preschoolers will enjoy songs, dance and Tuesday @ 4:00PM - 9/8 storytime. Craft Time (5-8 years) RIDGEWOOD Join us for a back-to-school craft. 20-12 Madison Street, 718-821-4770 Fridays @ 3:00PM - 9/4, 9/18, 10/9 Mondays @ 11:00AM - 9/14, 9/21, 9/28 West Indian Days Thursday @ 4:00PM - 9/10 Mother Goose Time (6-18 months) Children will make flags and participate in Craft Time (9-12 years) See “Preschool Programs.” activities related to the West Indies. See above.

Mondays @ 11:30AM - 9/14, 9/21, 9/28 Thursday @ 3:00PM - 9/10 Wednesday @ 11:00AM - 10/14, 10/21, 10/28 Toddler Time (19 months to 3 years) French Language Workshop Toddler Time (18-36 months) See “Preschool Programs.” Children will learn basic French grammar and See “Preschool Programs.” vocabulary.

ROCHDALE VILLAGE STEINWAY Fridays @ 3:00PM - 9/11, 9/25, 10/16 169-09 137 Avenue, 718-723-4440 21-45 31 Street, 718-728-1965 Board Games Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Thursdays @ 5:00PM - 9/3, 10/1 We have loads of popular board games. Summer Meals 2015 Family Movie Time

See “Arverne.” Read the book, watch the movie and decide Monday @ 3:00PM - 9/14 which you like best! Our September selection Take Care of Your Teeth! is “Spiderwick Chronicles” (2008, PG), and ROSEDALE Kids will learn about good dental hygiene so our October selection is “Charlotte’s Web” 144-20 243 Street, 718-528-8490 they can keep their smiles beautiful. (2006, G). Wednesdays @ 10:30AM Picture Book and Story Hour Wednesdays @ 3:00PM - 9/16, 9/30 (18-36 months) Thursdays @ 3:00PM - 10/15, 10/29 SUNNYSIDE Children enjoy storytime with their caregivers Spelling Bee (grades 1-6) 43-06 Greenpoint Avenue, 718-784-3033 in a program interlaced with music, Kids compete to see who can spell the most Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 fingerplays, dance and age-appropriate arts words. Summer Meals 2015 and crafts. See “Arverne.” Tuesday @ 2:00PM - 9/22 Mondays @ 4:00PM (except holidays) Arts and Crafts WINDSOR PARK Crafternoon Children work on crafts projects together. 79-50 Bell Boulevard, 718-468-8300 Children and teens explore their artistic side, Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 9/8, 9/15, 9/22 using a variety of media, including fabrics. Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 9/23 10/6, 10/20 Typing Workshop Lego Building Club (6 years and up) ST. ALBANS Children will learn how to create documents (Prereg.) 191-05 Linden Boulevard, 718-528-8196 with Microsoft Word and do research using Children make exciting Lego creations. Tuesday @ 1:30PM - 9/15 the Internet. Wednesday @ 2:00PM - 9/23 Fridays @ 4:00PM (except 9/4) Family Movie Days SOUTH JAMAICA Board Games and Chess (5-12 years) Relax with a movie! 9/15 - “Strange Magic” 108-41 Guy R. Brewer Blvd., 718-739-4088 Children may choose from chess, Candy (2015, PG); 9/23 - “Cloudy with a Chance of Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Land, Monopoly and many more games. Meatballs 2” (2013, PG) Summer Meals 2015 See “Arverne.” Wednesdays @ 10:15AM - 9/16-10/28 SEASIDE (except 9/23) 116-15 Rockaway Beach Blvd., 718-634-1876 Fridays @ 4:00PM - 9/4-9/25 Mother Goose Time (7-23 months) Wednesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/2-9/4 Battle with Words Spelling Bees (Prereg.) Summer Meals 2015 Children of all ages compete to spell the See “Preschool Programs.” See “Arverne.” most words on their grade level. Everyone gets goodies. The winner gets pizza! Wednesdays @ 11:00AM - 9/16-10/28 CHILDREN SOUTH HOLLIS (except 9/23) 204-01 Hollis Avenue, 718-465-6779 Saturday @ 2:00PM - 9/19 Toddler Time (2-4 years) (Prereg.) Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Hola! Kids Learn Spanish See “Preschool Programs.” Summer Meals 2015 Children will learn to speak and read Spanish See “Arverne.” using the fun, interactive website Oh Noah!

September/October 2015 Queens Library Magazine 49 Thursday @ 4:00PM - 9/17 WOODHAVEN Fridays @ 5:00PM - 9/18, 10/16 September Craft (4-8 years) 85-41 Forest Parkway, 718-849-1010 Yoga for Kids Join us for a fun craft and related story. Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Classes are taught by a certified instructor. Children age 4 must be accompanied by a Summer Meals 2015 parent or guardian. See “Arverne.”

Tuesdays @ 4:00PM - 9/29, 10/13, 10/27 WOODSIDE Afternoon Storytime and Craft 54-22 Skillman Avenue, 718-429-4700 (3-6 years) Tuesday through Friday @ 1:00PM - 9/1-9/4 Children listen to a story and make a craft. Summer Meals 2015 See “Arverne.”

Festival de Herencia Hispana ¡Aprenda a preparar platos mexicanos y deleita en la música de España y Latinoamérica! Queens Biblioteca Nacional celebra Mes de la Hispanidad con un festival de un día de duración que incluirá música, comida y un montón de orgullo hispano.

11:00 a.m. Con Margarita Larios aprenda cómo hace y pruebe favoritos de la cocina mexicana: Tostadas y Tamales*

1:00 p.m. Guillermo y Gabriel Ariza Interpretan Rumba Flamenca

3:00 p.m. La Orquestra de David Cedeño Toca Éxitos de Salsa

Sábado, septiembre 19 | 11:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | Langston Hughes 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, 718-651-1100 Por tren, #7 hasta 103rd Street | Por autobus: Q66 Mes Nacional de la Herencia Hispana es 09 15 hasta 10 15. * Primero en llegar, será el primero en ser servido. Comida está limitada. Están bienvenidos los participantes en este taller a probar la comida. Queens Library no es responsable por cualquier reacción alérgica o enfermedad resultando de su participación. CHILDREN

50 Queens Library Magazine September/October 2015 Hispanic Heritage Festival Celebrating Mexican Cuisine and the Music of Spain and Latin America! Queens Library celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month with a day-long festival that will include music, food and a whole lot of Hispanic pride. 11:00 a.m. Chef Margarita Larios Hosts a Food Workshop to Make Tostadas and Tamales, Notable Favorites of the Mexican Kitchen.*

1:00 p.m. Talented Musicians Guillermo and Gabriel Ariza Perform Rumba Flamenca

3:00 p.m.

David Cedeño’s Orchestra Plays Salsa Hits

Saturday, September 19 | 11:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. | Langston Hughes 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, 718-651-1100 Train: 7 to 103rd Street/Corona Plaza | Bus: Q23, Q66, Q72 National Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 to October 15. * Food is available on a rst-come, rst-served basis. Participants in this workshop are welcome to sample the food prepared. Queens Library is not responsible for any allergic reactions or illnesses as a result of their participation. Enrich Your Life® Jamaica, NY11432 89-11 MerrickBoulevard Long Island City Experience ItAll.

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