Book Presentation: Tarde en Manhattan [Manhattan Afternoon] by Salvadorean Poet Karla Coreas
Please join Salvadorian-born poet, Karla Coreas as she reads from her book of poetry, Tarde en Manhattan [Manhattan Afternoon]. Author will autograph copies that will be available for sale.
Please join Salvadorian-born poet, Karla Coreas as she reads from her book of poetry, Tarde en Manhattan [Manhattan Afternoon]. Author will autograph copies that will be available for sale.
Saturday, April 3 at 3:00 pm
Corona Library
Corona Library
Uncle Yao’s Chorus: Spring Concert & Dance Performance
After traveling to China and bringing back a Silver Cup for the First South China Choral Festival this past November, Uncle Yao's Chorus is back and presenting an ode to the season of hope and renewal. Renowned Maestro Xue Yan Yao and Director Pei Ping Wang are leading the chorus to showcase a musical banquet comprised of songs for full chorus, quartets, duets, solos and traditional Chinese folk dances. In Auditorium, Lower Level
Saturday, April 3 at 2:00 pm
Flushing Library
Flushing Library
Flushing Lecture Series: Chinese Culture & Arts Workshop
Queens Library at Flushing and NACCA (North American Chinese Calligraphy Association) will present Flushing Lecture Series—Chinese Culture & Arts workshops. The purpose of the workshop is to promote Chinese culture & arts with the focus on classic Chinese calligraphy. IRC Conference Room, 3rd Floor
Saturdays, April 3, 10, 17 at 6:30 pm
Flushing Library
Flushing Library
Shruti Laya Presents: Carnatic Music Concert
Featured musicians will be Nivedita ShivRaj on the Veena (stringed instrument) and Shenthuraan Tharmarajah on the Mridangam (double-sided drum). Carnatic music is more concerned with song than symphony and the voice is the supreme instrument. Instruments are used to accompany the voice. This music is devotional, spiritual and meditative. In Auditorium, Lower Level
Saturday, April 10 at 2:00 pm
Flushing Library
Flushing Library
Classical & Popular International Songs with Galina Gergel & Alex Malayv
Enjoy a concert of arias from operas and operettas, hits from famous American musicals and popular Russian, Ukrainian, Italian and Hebrew songs.
Saturday, April 10 at 2:00 pm
Briarwood
Briarwood
Monday, April 12 at 6:00 pm
Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill
Pathway to U.S. Citizenship: Becoming a U.S. Citizen & Building Your Civic Knowledge
These four sessions, conducted in English, include information workshops and basic civics lessons.
4/10-Part 1: Are you ready to be a U.S. citizen?/Introduction to American history
4/17-Part 2: What documents do you need to Present?/Introduction to American government & politics
4/24-Part 3: What are common barriers to naturalization?/American culture & geography
5/1-Part 4: Naturalization interview & beyond/Review of 100 questions.
These four sessions, conducted in English, include information workshops and basic civics lessons.
4/10-Part 1: Are you ready to be a U.S. citizen?/Introduction to American history
4/17-Part 2: What documents do you need to Present?/Introduction to American government & politics
4/24-Part 3: What are common barriers to naturalization?/American culture & geography
5/1-Part 4: Naturalization interview & beyond/Review of 100 questions.
Saturdays, April 10, 17, 24, May, 1 at 2:30 pm
Bellerose
Bellerose
This program is funded by donations to the Queens Library Foundation.
Sunday Concerts @ Central: Raya Brass Band
Experience the swirling, carnivalesque, dynamic wedding, dance and celebratory music of northern Greece and the southern Balkans with a sound that is deliberate, funky and wildly danceable.
Sunday, April 11 at 3:00 pm
Central Library
Central Library
This program is funded by the Billy Rose Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Hearst Foundation.
Children’s Book Presentation: El viaje de Lucita [Lucita’s Voyage]
Please join our very own Queens librarian Elizabeth Garcia for a reading of, “El viaje de Lucita, [Lucita’s Voyage],” a delightful little story set in Guatemala and New York City. Written for children 3 years of age and on, this time-worn story of a little girl who travels from her village to the U.S.A. will touch a cord in all.
Please join our very own Queens librarian Elizabeth Garcia for a reading of, “El viaje de Lucita, [Lucita’s Voyage],” a delightful little story set in Guatemala and New York City. Written for children 3 years of age and on, this time-worn story of a little girl who travels from her village to the U.S.A. will touch a cord in all.
Wednesday, April 14 at 4:00 pm
Corona
Corona
Wednesday, April 21 at 4:00 pm
Jackson Heights
Jackson Heights
Friday, April 23 at 4:00 pm
Auburndale
Auburndale
In Collaboration with Poets House: One City, Many Poems
Poetry discussion with an international flair!
Thursday, April 15 at 2:00 pm
Auburndale
Auburndale
Thursday, April 15 at 6:30 pm
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
Friday, April 16 at 3:00 pm
Bayside
Bayside
Monday, April 19 at 2:00 pm
Bellerose
Bellerose
Thursday, April 22 1:30 pm
Bay Terrace
Bay Terrace
One City, Many Poems is the first part of a broad initiative of Poets House and the three NYC library systems: Brooklyn, Queens and New York Public. It is made possible by generous funding from the Brooklyn Community Foundation.
NY Vocal Artists Research Center Presents: 7th Annual Immigration Heritage Week Concert
After its debut in 2009, the New York Vocal Artists Research Center, a group of well-known professional vocal artists and pianists, will give another performance at this double celebration concert to inspire New Yorkers to take pride in their immigrant roots and heritage. There will be singers, pianists and Chinese folk dancers. In Auditorium, Lower Level
Monday, April 16 at 6:00 pm
Flushing Library
Flushing Library
Cinderella performed by World Dance Theatre
Take a trip around the world through dance, as World Dance Theatre tells the story of “Cinderella,” a fairy tale whose timeless message transcends racial and cultural barriers. Audiences will get the opportunity to view the story from a different culture's perspective including that culture's dance, music and traditional costumes.
Take a trip around the world through dance, as World Dance Theatre tells the story of “Cinderella,” a fairy tale whose timeless message transcends racial and cultural barriers. Audiences will get the opportunity to view the story from a different culture's perspective including that culture's dance, music and traditional costumes.
Saturday, April 17 at 2:00 pm
Central Library
Central Library
This program is funded by fees collected by Queens Library.
Okinawan Traditional Dance and Music Performance!
Miyagi Ryu Nosho-kai Ryukyu Dance and Music school presents a variety of styles of traditional Okinawan dance and music in colorful costumes.
Miyagi Ryu Nosho-kai Ryukyu Dance and Music school presents a variety of styles of traditional Okinawan dance and music in colorful costumes.
Saturday, April 17 at 2:00 pm
Flushing Library
Flushing Library
This program is funded by fees collected by Queens Library.
Citizenship Application Assistance Day
Free Application assistance by experienced professionals from the CUNY Immigration Center.
Saturday, April 17 at 11:00–3:00 pm
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
Citizenship Day at the Library
Want to apply to become a citizen? Need help with the application process? Eligible immigrants will receive free assistance and information from the volunteers of the Immigrant and Refugee Rights Clinic of CUNY School of Law. Applicants should bring any documents that may be helpful in the application process.
Saturday, April 17 at 2:00–6:00 pm
Flushing
Flushing
Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York—Author Talk with William Grimes
William Grimes, former New York Times restaurant critic, discusses NYC’s social transformation from provincial to cosmopolitan through the history of its food and restaurants. Book available for sale and signing.
William Grimes, former New York Times restaurant critic, discusses NYC’s social transformation from provincial to cosmopolitan through the history of its food and restaurants. Book available for sale and signing.
Saturday, April 17 at 2:30 pm
Forest Hills Library
Forest Hills Library
Bengali New Year Festival
Bengali New Year or Pohela Boisakh is the first day of the Bengali calendar. Celebrated by the people of Bangladesh and in the state of West Bengal, India, people wear new clothes, prepare feasts, dance and sing. Help us welcome in the year 1416 with music and dance performances by the group Sur-Chanda Shilpi Gousthy.
Bengali New Year or Pohela Boisakh is the first day of the Bengali calendar. Celebrated by the people of Bangladesh and in the state of West Bengal, India, people wear new clothes, prepare feasts, dance and sing. Help us welcome in the year 1416 with music and dance performances by the group Sur-Chanda Shilpi Gousthy.
Saturday, April 17 at 3:00 pm
Jackson Heights
Jackson Heights
This program is funded by fees collected by Queens Library.
American Composers Orchestra presents Coming to America: Immigrant Sounds, Immigrant Voices
with Sirius String Quartet
with Sirius String Quartet
Sirius String Quartet is a New York-based ensemble that performs music of the masters as well as music that ignores the boundaries between classical music and rock. Members are Gregor Huebner, violin; Fung Chern Hwei, violin; Ron Lawrence, viola; and Mike Block, cello. The quartet will perform works by immigrant composers from the greater New York City area. Meet the artists and discuss the role of new Americans in the continuing drama that is America, how they contribute to and are affected by a changing American culture, and issues of identity and access.
Monday, April 19 at 6:30 pm
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
How We Came to Queens: An Intergenerational Storytelling Workshop
Celebrate Immigrant Heritage Week at the Library by creating your own stories. Storyteller Robin Bady will guide parents and children to work together and create a story about how their own families or others arrived in Queens. Storytelling and theatre techniques will be taught. Admission is free. Space is limited. Preregistration is required. For Parents & Children
Celebrate Immigrant Heritage Week at the Library by creating your own stories. Storyteller Robin Bady will guide parents and children to work together and create a story about how their own families or others arrived in Queens. Storytelling and theatre techniques will be taught. Admission is free. Space is limited. Preregistration is required. For Parents & Children
Wednesday, April 21 at 3:30 pm
Broadway
Broadway
This program is funded by fees collected by Queens Library.
Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series
presents Kakande
presents Kakande
featuring
Famoro Dioubate, balafon & vocals
Missia Saran Dioubate, vocals
Raul Rothblatt, cello
Sylvain Leroux, flutes
Mamadi "Djelike" Kouyate, guitar
Yacouba Cissoko, kora
Peter Fand, bass
Sean Dixon, drums
Avram Fefer, sax
Famoro Dioubate, balafon & vocals
Missia Saran Dioubate, vocals
Raul Rothblatt, cello
Sylvain Leroux, flutes
Mamadi "Djelike" Kouyate, guitar
Yacouba Cissoko, kora
Peter Fand, bass
Sean Dixon, drums
Avram Fefer, sax
Lush vocals, sinewy guitars, flutes, and cellos meet the virtuosic balafon of this master griot from Guinea.
Saturday, April 24 at 2:00 pm
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Concert Series is sponsored by Target.
International Love Songs
Galina Gergel and Alex Malayv perform popular love songs from Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekestan, Tajikistan, Moldavia, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Israel and the United States, sung in their native languages.
Saturday, April 24 at 2:00 pm
Forest Hills
Forest Hills
This program is funded by fees collected by Queens Library.
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