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Op Ed Editorial
QUEENS UPCOMING EVENTS
December 24-26 All Day
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Funkin’ for Jamaica
A historic gathering of world class Jazz and R&B musicians who came home to Jamaica to perform in honor of Weldon Irvine, writer of the hit song, “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black.”
Christmas Eve Dinner Giveaway (Dec 24)
Join online at blackspectrum.com for FREE.
December 24 3:00-6:00pm
The Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District will be hosting a Christmas Eve Dinner Giveaway. Volunteers are needed. For additional information, email sutphinblvdbid@ verizon.net or call (718) 291-2110.
December 26 8:30pm
The Ed Jackson Quartet
Ed Jackson will have his full band, including Cecilia Coleman on Piano, Bill Moring on Bass, Lionel Cordew on drums, and Ed Jackson on Saxophone. Join online at www. jacksonroom.com $10.
December 28 12:00-1:00pm
Art Talks at the QPL
Based on the Queens Museum exhibition Bringing the World into the World(2014), Hitomi Iwasaki will guide us in examining the largest object in the Queens Museum’s collection, the Panorama of the City of New York, a 9,335 square foot scale model of the metropolis commissioned by master builder Robert Mo-
Ed Jackson Quartet (Dec 26)
Art Talks with QPL (Dec 28)
ses (1888-1981) for the 1964-65 New December 29 York World’s Fair 7:00-9:00pm and other diverse Virtual Holiday body of works by Festival Show artists today to ex- The Black Specplore the formal trum Theatre presand conceptual ents Virtual Holiday principles of pan- Festival Show, an oramas as devices online Zoom event of wonder and the featuring spoken many ways in which word artists, jazz, we see, imagine, R&B with the Genand comprehend tlemen of Soulism, worlds both familiar Brother Kwanzaa and unfamiliar. Join and more. Join ononline at queens- line at blackspecmuseum.org FREE. trum.com for FREE.
December 29 6:00-7:00pm
Kwanzaa Celebration
Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz and the African American Heritage Committee will host a virtual Kwanzaa Celebration. The livestream of the event will be viewable at www. queensbp.org FREE.
