It’s In Queens! (June 4 to June 10) – Western Queens Gazette
The importance of oysters. Relief for cancer victims. LGBTQ history. Composting tips. The UN’s local secrets. The next Spider hero. Queens offers a little bit of everything over the next few days. Enjoy the Merry Go Round and light painting.
June 4, Zero, June 27. Yu-Whuan Wang’s very blue exhibition features twigs and branches that seem to dance around the space. Opening reception on June 5 at 4 pm. The Garage Art Center, 26-01 Corporal Kennedy St., Bayside.
June 4, Direct Filmmaking, 2 pm. Steve Cossman, founder of the cinema-arts nonprofit Mono No Aware, teaches cameraless animation with direct filmmaking via a partnership with the Museum of the Moving Image and The Blue Bus Project. New York Hall of Science Parking Lot, 47-01 111st St., Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
June 4, First Free Friday, 11 am. Admission is free all day, but visitors must schedule in advance due to COVID. The Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Rd., LIC.
June 4, The Host + Short Films (Snow and the Ball Method), 7 pm. Drive in and watch Oscar-winning Korean master Bong Joon-ho’s breakthrough monster movie with an introduction by scientist Kendra Phelps who specializes in the diseases bats spread. New York Hall of Science Parking Lot, 47-01 111st St., Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
June 5, Apple Blossom Carnival, June 13. Celebrate the season with rides on a Merry Go Round in the orchard, hayrides, midway games, food vendors, and farm animals. Carnival runs June 5, 6, 11, 12, and 13. Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway, Glen Oaks.
June 5, Historic Houses of Queens, 2:30 pm. Queens Economic Development Corporation Director Rob MacKay discusses and offers a slide presentation on his new book, “Historic Houses of Queens,” with a Q&A session.
June 5, Game Play: Masks (Part I), 1 pm. Museum of the Moving Image Education’s Game Artist-in-Residence Sharang Biswas leads a role-playing trip through a superheroic story, as players explore fantasy worlds with a dash of realist drama and romance.
June 6, Compost & Farm Site Tour, 10 am. Get a behind-the-scenes tour of a mid-scale composting facility and learn techniques to process food scraps and look for macro-organisms that make compost. Tours at 10 am, noon, and 2 pm. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing.
June 6, Healing Sound Bath for Cancer, 6 pm. As part of his ongoing Planeta Abuelx exhibition, Guadalupe Maravilla presents free healing sound baths just like the ones he discovered while treating his colon cancer. This one is aim at those who are suffering from cancer and family members. Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd., LIC.
June 6, Video Game Lab, 1 pm. Participants explore haptic video games and design avatars using cardboard polygon shapes with multi-disciplinary artist Ahmed El Shaer during this workshop with the Museum of the Moving Image and The Blue Bus Project. Beach 59th Street Playground Association, 60-06 Beach Front Rd, Arverne.
June 6, Paddington 2, 7:30 pm. Queens Drive-In screens a family film about a young bear that buys a special present for his beloved Aunt Lucy and then has to keep it out of the hands of a master thief. New York Hall of Science Parking Lot, 47-01 111st St., Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
June 7, Forgotten Queens, 7 pm. Greater Astoria Historical Society President Bob Singleton presents on the borough during the Depression. He’ll draw on information from his agency’s archives and the book “Forgotten Queens.”
June 8, Center of Attention: Cross Beam, 8 pm. Matthew Capezzuto from Noguchi Museum leads a workshop/conversation about the materials and process behind Isamu Noguchi’s 1933 sculpture “Cross Beam.”
June 8, Inspiring Change: Ridgewood Reservoir, 6 pm. The nonprofit NYC H2O and Queens Museum present a panel discussion in conjunction with the current exhibition on the Ridgewood Reservoir.
June 9, Sunnyside Gardens, 7 pm. Long-time resident Jeffrey Kroessler, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, discusses his new book on the history of Sunnyside Gardens, an icon of urbanism and planning since its inception in the 1920s.
June 9, Virtual Jazz Jam, 7 pm. Flushing Town Hall hosts its monthly jazz jam. The theme is Pride Month so the emphasis will be on gay composers and performers. Don’t play? Listen!
June 9, The History of NYC and Oysters, 7 pm. Thomas Hynes, who wrote Wild City: A Brief History of New York City in 40 Animals, discusses how oysters shaped the Big Apple and how the bivalve might be the best chance to ensure a clean and healthy tomorrow during this Alley Pond Environmental Center adult workshop.
June 9, Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse, 7:30 pm. Park and watch this 2018 film that introduces Miles Morales, a 13-year-old living in Brooklyn who’s secretly training to be the new Spider-Man. New York Hall of Science Parking Lot, 47-01 111st St., Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
June 10, Gay As They Say, 7 pm. Mark Nadler kicks off Flushing Town Hall’s month-long Gay Pride celebration with a fun and tuneful show that explores the theory that Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Larry Hart and Billy Strayhorn meant what you think they meant when they wrote provocative, gay sounding phrases in their lyrics. The virtual audience is invited to stay for a live Q&A with Nadler following his performance.
June 10, Brazilian Rhythms, 7 pm. The Kupferberg Center for the Arts streams a concert with Davi Vieira, a Brazilian percussionist who will demonstrate some of his country’s most popular rhythms on different instruments.
June 10, Tribeca Festival: Belly, 5:30 pm. A free outdoor screening of a movie starring DMX as a self-assured gangster from Queens. Missy Elliott, Nas, Jay-Z and Method Man also appear. 30th Street Playground, Rockaway.
June 10, Tribeca Festival: Raising Victor Vargas, 8 pm. A free outdoor screening of this feature film about a Lower East Side teenager who struggles to find some sanity while surrounded by an eccentric grandmother, a crazy new girlfriend, and a longing younger brother. 30th Street Playground, Rockaway.
June 10, Light Painting, 3:30 pm. Lewis Latimer House Museum presents a special program with Beam Center Youth Leaders on the basics of Light Painting, which dates back to the late 1880s and was initially used to track human motion. Light painting has since become a popular alternative photography method that can produce unique images.
June 10, Literary Thursdays, 4 pm. Queens Public Library streams a conversation with Pamela Hanlon, author of A Worldly Affair: New York, the United Nations, and the Story Behind Their Unlikely Bond.