Tuesday, October 1 @ 4:00 p.m.
Queens Library Gallery
Hey Kids! Create a Postcard: Discover historic postcards of Queens' neighborhoods. Then use watercolor paint to design your own postcard to take home or mail to friends and family.

Monday, October 7 @ 6:30 p.m.
Kew Gardens Hills Branch, 72-33 Vleigh Place, 261-6654
Spotlight on Kew Gardens Hills: A lecture and slide presentation by Jeff Gottlieb, Queens Historical Society. Learn about the development and history of Kew Gardens Hills.

Tuesday, October 8 @ 4:00 p.m.
Queens Library Gallery
Hey Kids! Create a Postcard: Discover historic postcards of Queens' neighborhoods. Then use watercolor paint to design your own postcard to take home or mail to friends and family.

Tuesday, October 8 @ 6:30 p.m.
Fresh Meadows Branch, 193-20 Horace Harding Expressway, 454-7272
The Twentieth Century Borough: One Hundred Years of Modern Architecture in Queens
A lecture and slide presentation with James Driscoll, Queens Historical Society. Explore the explosive growth of Queens, from the 1900 through today, as expressed during its planning and local architecture.

Thursday, October 10 @ 6:00 p.m.
Steinway Branch, 21-45 31 Street, Astoria, 728-1965
The Twentieth Century Borough: One Hundred Years of Modern Architecture in Queens
A lecture and slide presentation with James Driscoll, Queens Historical Society. Explore the explosive growth of Queens, from the 1900 through today, as expressed during its planning and local architecture.

Tuesday, October 15 @ 4:00 p.m.
Queens Library Gallery
Hey Kids! Create a Postcard: Discover historic postcards of Queens' neighborhoods. Then use watercolor paint to design your own postcard to take home or mail to friends and family.

Saturday, October 19 @ 2:00 p.m.
Queens Library Gallery
Gallery Tour: Learn more about the history of Queens' neighborhoods. Throughout historic photography and documents, learn how Queens has progressed and changed.

Tuesday, October 22 @ 4:00 p.m.
Queens Library Gallery
Hey Kids! Create a Postcard: Discover historic postcards of Queens' neighborhoods. Then use watercolor paint to design your own postcard to take home or mail to friends and family.

Tuesday, October 29 @ 4:00 p.m.
Queens Library Gallery
Hey Kids! Create a Postcard: Discover historic postcards of Queens' neighborhoods. Then use watercolor paint to design your own postcard to take home or mail to friends and family.

Tuesday, October 29 @ 6:00 p.m.
Queens Library Gallery
Gallery Tour: Learn more about the history of Queens' neighborhoods. Throughout historic photography and documents, learn how Queens has progressed and changed.

Wednesday, October 30 @ 3:30 p.m.
Elmhurst Branch, 86-01 Broadway, 271-1020
Queens: Then & Now; A slide lecture with Historian Fred Hadley
Queens has its own engineers who are responsible for the infrastructure of New York City's largest borough. The Queens Topographical Bureau's collection of photographs of locations in Astoria, Elmhurst, Flushing, Jamaica, Little Neck and Fresh Meadows from the 1920s and 1930s, along with slides taken of the same locations by Mr. Hadley show the changes that took place over a 70-year span.

Tuesday, November 12 @ 6:00 p.m.
Flushing Library, 41-17 Main Street, 661-1200
Razzmatazz: A Touch of Jazz; Journey through the evolution of jazz and experience jazz forms spanning "Satchmo" and the urban blues of the '20s through the bop and cool sounds of Monk and "Trane" in the early '60s. This is a featured program of Mary Ann Shaw Program Series. A presentation by Blackberry Productions.

Tuesday, November 12 @ 6:30 p.m.
Jackson Heights Branch, 35-51 81 Street, 899-2500
The Roaring '20s: A musical concert featuring The Linda Ipanema Quartet
The songs and music of the great Gatsby era take center stage with familiar favorites like "Ain't She Sweet," "Minnie the Moocher," "My Buddy," "It Had to be You," "For Me and My Gal," and many, many more.

Saturday, November 16 @ 2:00 p.m.
Howard Beach Branch, 92-06 156 Avenue,641-7086
The Roaring '20s: A musical concert featuring The Linda Ipanema Quartet
The songs and music of the great Gatsby era take center stage with familiar favorites like "Ain't She Sweet," "Minnie the Moocher," "My Buddy," "It Had to be You," "For Me and My Gal," and many, many more.

Thursday, November 14 @ 6:30 p.m.
Steinway Branch, 21-45 31 Street,728-1965
A Walk Through Astoria and Other Places in Queens:
Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt
Speaker: Richard Turnbull, Museum of Modern Art
This slide-illustrated lecture examines photographs taken by Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt who played an important role in the movement commonly known as the New York School in the 1940s and 50s. His photos document the borough of Queens, specifically Astoria on two separate occasions (1940 and 1943).

Thursday, December 5 @ 7:00 p.m.
Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, 100-01 Northern Boulevard,
651-1100
Razzmatazz: A Touch of Jazz
Journey through the evolution of jazz and experience jazz forms spanning "Satchmo" and the urban blues of the '20s through the bop and cool sounds of Monk and "Trane" in the early '60s. This is a featured program of Mary Ann Shaw Program Series. A presentation by Blackberry Productions.

Tuesday, December 3 @ 6:00 p.m.
Flushing Library, 41-17 Main Street, 661-1200
Rudy Burckhardt and his Photographs of Queens: A Slide-Illustrated Lecture
Speaker: Sarah Hermanson Meister
This slide-illustrated lecture examines photographs taken by Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt who played an important role in the movement commonly known as the New York School in the 1940s and 50s. His photos document the borough of Queens, specifically Astoria on two separate occasions (1940 and 1943).

For information on programs not yet posted, please call 990.8665.