Bayside Historical Society welcomes violinists Trina Basu and Arun Ramamurthy to the Castle for a stirringly beautiful live performance. Husband and wife duo Trina and Arun reimagine the potential of string chamber music with a unique sound both deeply intimate and cinematically expansive. Deeply rooted in traditions of South Indian classical music, Western chamber music, jazz and folk styles, the duo creates a sound that feels ancient, orchestral, and contemporary. Combined with the duo’s fluency in improvisation, there is a clear architecture to their sound that still gives space for the two violins to be delightfully indiscernible and shine individually.
Light refreshments will be served before the show. Admission is $10 for BHS members and $15 for non-members. Purchase tickets on the BHS website: www.baysidehistorical.org/events-1/a-concert-of-south-indian-inspired-music.
This event is part of Bayside Historical Society’s “Passport Concert Series: Bringing Cultures from Around the World to the Castle at Bayside.” Visit our website for our ongoing concert schedule!
Plan your Spring garden at Queens Botanical Garden in an introductory workshop on crop planning and basic soil health. Attendees will learn about seasonality, companion plants, and how to maximize harvest in small growing spaces. Participants can take spring seedlings to bring home! All materials provided. Recommended for adults.
The Queens Borough Board, chaired by Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., will hold a meeting on Monday, March 4, 2024, at 5:30 PM in Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens.
The meeting will feature a presentation from the Queens Solid Waste Advisory Board (QSWAB) a group of volunteers who advise Borough President Richards and other officials on issues related to solid waste management. The presentation will offer an overview of QSWAB and highlight some of the ways it can strengthen its partnerships with each of the Queens Community Boards.
This meeting will be conducted in-person in the Borough President’s second-floor conference room at Queens Borough Hall, located at 120-55 Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens. The meeting will also be live-streamed to the public on the Borough President’s website at www.queensbp.org and on the Borough President’s YouTube page.
This is class #5 in TEES. Marketing is a cumbersome chore and tools like ChatGPT and MidJouney have proven to be effective in coming up with a marketing strategy, organizing and creating content, and even generating images and videos! When used correctly, these tools are a time saver and game changer. This intensive will cover multiple AI tools that you can utilize in your daily life to market your business more easily and efficiently, and elevate your marketing materials
By the end of this intensive, you will achieve the following:
-You will understand how important and valuable AI will be in the world
-You will organize your content pillars and generate social media posts much faster
-You will utilize ChatGPT and Google Bard and know when to use one over the other
-You will practice engineering prompts and how to manipulate them to get the best possible response
-You will save countless hours trying to figure this out all on your own
Class Dates: March 5th, 2024 – March 28, 2024 6-8PM EST*
Class Schedule:
3/4 – Class 1: AI 101: Understanding AI’s impact and Use Examples – Jai Bhagat
3/5 – Class 2: Generating Pictures for your Business Using AI – Mitch Tobol
3/7 – Class 3: Generating Videos for your Business Using AI – Mitch Tobol
3/14 – Class 4: Planning Content and Strategy Using AI – Femi Lewis
3/19 – Class 5: Storytelling for Your Media Platforms Using AI – Femi Lewis
3/21 – Class 6: Developing Email Sequences and Lead Magnets Using AI – Femi Lewis
3/28 – Class 7: Analyzing Popular AI Tools for Efficient Use – Joe Apfelbaum
* 3/28 class is 6:00pm – 7:00pm EST
The Queens Borough Cabinet, chaired by Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr., will hold a meeting on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, at 9:30 AM in Queens Borough Hall, 120-55 Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens.
The meeting will include a presentation from Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit (CAU) about the development of Neighborhood Support Teams (NSTs). These teams will work with a number of local neighborhoods to clearly identify and understand neighborhood issues and to create and execute action plans to address those issues.
It will also include a presentation from the New York City Department for the Aging (DFTA) about Silver Corps, a newly launched workforce development program for older adults.
In addition, the meeting will include updates from representatives from other city agencies about recent developments at their agencies.
This meeting will be conducted in-person in the Borough President’s second-floor conference room at Queens Borough Hall, located at 120-55 Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens. The meeting will also be live-streamed to the public on the Borough President’s website at www.queensbp.org and on the Borough President’s YouTube page.
Please join us for an opportunity to learn more about our students, mentoring best practices, and iMentor’s program model. Attending a virtual orientation is the first step to becoming a mentor with iMentor!
RSVP at www.queensbp.org/rsvp
In this workshop, students will learn to create a classic plant hanger, specialized to fit one of their favorite plants or pots. In class, students will learn the lark’s head, half square, square, and half square spiral knots. All of these are classic macrame knots that can be used in further projects, including wall hangings, purses, and even clothing. Students will leave with a finished piece!
March 8th & 9th at 8pm
Advance sale tickets: $20 online
Tickets purchased at door: $25 cash or card
About the Works:
Grant Jacoby & Dancers
The impetus for softshell was built out of the acknowledgment, and acceptance, of the aging dancing body. In particular, navigating a “post”-pandemic world has created a strange space where deferred dreaming permeates beneath a simmering surface. softshell takes that notion and filters it through the lens of embodied trauma. Sliding the liminal space between joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, the work is a quiet, queer experiment that seeks no solution. Dancers cohabitate a universal, yet individualized landscape of symbiotically shared movement language where by design, no intentional crescendos can be found. Instead, softshell asks the viewer to slow down alongside it, embracing its current stasis of intimacy, and preparing for the inevitable mess that has yet to materialize.
softshell is performed by Tori Breen, Grant Jacoby, Sarah Liebau, Arielle Ridley, and Anne Tantuico. Music is by Michael Wall. The work was made possible thanks to support from the Monira Foundation, Dance Local, Center for Dance Arts, and Morven Museum & Garden.
Althea Dance Company
Lazar is a duet choreographed by Thea Bautista based on an extract from a novel written by the French author Olivier Benyahya. While the music was composed using the text, the movement is inspired by the words and plays with the musicality and the rhythm the text creates. The novel becomes a visual and sound experience in which words translate into movements.
The work was partly created in 2017 and 2019 during two residencies in Oaxaca and was composed of dance and literature.
The Jamaica branch of JP Morgan Chase, located at 161-10 Jamaica Avenue, is hosting a free financial health workshop on Saturday, March 9 from 3pm to 6pm, covering all the essentials of family estate planning. Space is limited and registration by Monday, March 4 is required. If you are interested in attending the financial health workshop, please click here to register.