QUEENS
HARLEM COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
QUEENS UPCOMING EVENTS December 24-26 All Day Funkin’ for Jamaica A historic gathering of world class Jazz and R&B mu-
sicians 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)
December 24 3:00-6:00pm Christmas Eve Dinner Giveaway + Volunteer Opportunity 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.
Ed Jackson Quartet (Dec 26)
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-
Art Talks with QPL (Dec 28)
ses (1888-1981) for the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair and other diverse body of works by artists today to explore the formal and conceptual principles of panoramas as devices of wonder and the many ways in which we see, imagine, and comprehend worlds both familiar and unfamiliar. Join online at queensmuseum.org FREE.
December 29 7:00-9:00pm Virtual Holiday Festival Show The Black Spectrum Theatre presents Virtual Holiday Festival Show, an online Zoom event featuring spoken word artists, jazz, R&B with the Gentlemen of Soulism, Brother Kwanzaa and more. Join online at blackspectrum.com for FREE.
Harlem Community Newspapers | December 24. 2020
Kwanzaa Celebration (Dec 29)
Join online at blackspectrum.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. 5
