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IT’S IN QUEENS EXPERIENCE THE NEW YEAR IN QUEENS

Here’s a New Year’s Resolution that will hopefully last longer than most. This magazine will print a monthly column on cultural events in the borough called “It’s In Queens.” It will include music, art, film, theater, recreational activities, and even workshops.

This January features a nice mix of inside-outside, youth-senior, and free-ticketed fun. If you have any future events to add, please email them to rmackay@queensny.org.

•January 7, Free First Friday,

11 am to 6 pm. Admission is free on the first Friday of every month. However, visits must be scheduled in advance due to Covid-safety protocols. The Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Rd., Long Island City.

•January 7-10, Veintitres: Our

Labor Saved Lives. The premiere of Djali Brown-Cepeda’s “Veintitres” screens continuously for three days. The film documents the 23-day hunger strike by workers across New York State in spring 2021 to secure $2.1-billion in pandemic relief funding for excluded workers, many of whom are undocumented. (BrownCepeda created the museum’s digital project Nuevayorkinos.) MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City.

•January 8, Making Scents of

Herbs, 2 pm. Herbs create fragrances and flavors for food, cosmetics, and medicines. Learn about different plant parts, identify their functions, and discover which of them humans use every day. The activity includes a visit to the Herb Garden to see edible plants and make tea bag blends to take home. Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St., Flushing.

• January 9-March 27, Dance

for PD. The Mark Morris Dance Group presents an adaptive program for people living with Parkinson’s disease twice monthly at 2 pm on Sundays, starting on January 9 and continuing on January 23, February 13 and 27, and March 13 and 27. In person and streaming online, the classes get participants to engage with a teaching artist and each other during a 50-minute movement session based on ballet, modern, tap, jazz, traditional cultural dance forms, and Mark Morris repertoire. Queens Theatre, 14 United Nations Ave. S., Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

• January 9, ‘Year of Uncer-

tainty’ Reception, 2 pm. A celebration of the projects that will unfold over the next 12 months. Six Artists-In-Residence, nine Community Partners, and 12 Co-Thinkers are at the center of this process of exhibition making, programming, and shared thinking. Queens Museum, NYC Building, Flushing MeadowsCorona Park.

•January 16, MLK Day Cel-

ebration, 3 pm. Kupferberg Center for the Arts presents an annual homage to Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 speech on peaceful resistance at Queens College. This year’s event features Trey McLaughlin & The Sounds of Zamar. This multimember choir from Georgia gets crowds moving and grooving with fresh, harmony-enhanced adaptations of Contemporary Gospel, Neo Soul, and Show Tunes. Queens College’s LeFrak Concert Hall, 153-49 Reeves Ave., Flushing.

•January 20-March 28, Liz Larner: Don’t Put It Back Like

It Was. Los Angeles-based artist Liz Larner exhibits about 30 works, including early experiments with bacterial cultures and destructive machines, installations that respond to architecture, sculptures that reconsider figuration, and wallbased works in ceramic. SculptureCenter, 44-19 Purves St., Long Island City.

• January 21-23, Three Days of

Dance. The monthly Take Root program presents sarAika and RanardoDomeico Grays at 8 pm on Jan. 21 and Jan. 22. The monthly Fertile Ground program presents a suite of artists, who offer works-in-progress, followed by a conversation with the audience, on Jan. 23 at 7 pm. Green Space, 37-24 24th St., Ste. 211, Long Island City.

•January 22, Winter With

Pearls, 1 pm. Create an ensemble with jewelry designer Phyllis Ger, who teaches tips and techniques for fashioning several pieces. A selection of faux and freshwater beads and accents will be available. Voelker Orth Museum, 149-19 38th Ave., Flushing.

• January 27, Hip Hop The-

ater, March 3. Geared for teenagers, this weekly winter camp program includes performance genres such as spoken word, acting, theater, poetry, storytelling, public speaking, and crowd persuasion with teaching artist Malik Work. Students conceptualize, write, and perform their own pieces from 4 pm to 6 pm on the following Thursdays: January 27; February 3, 10, 17 & 24; and March 3. Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Ave.

MLK DAY CELEBRATION DANCE FOR PD