Here are the following events taking place this week in and around Woodside, Queens for local families to take part in:
- Going Green With LEAP @ Queens Library: Dec. 13
Time: 3PM
Price: Free
Ages: Kids aged 11 to 14
Location: Woodside Public Library
54-22 Skillman Avenue Woodside, NY 11377
Telephone: 718 429 4700
Description: Students create and play games focusing on ecology and their neighborhood environments, and learn to use research and analytical skills in order to better understand ecological concerns. Kids will also organize a "Go Green" campaign.
- Recycled Plastic Magnets, Pins, And Barrettes: Dec 13
Time: 4PM
Price: Free
Ages: Kids aged 6 to 12
Location: Woodside Public Library
54-22 Skillman Avenue Woodside, NY 11377
Telephone: 718 429 4700
Description: Kids learn to use cross-stitch and embroidery to make brightly-colored magnets, pins, barrettes, or anything else they wish from old plastic bags and packaging. Preregistration is required to participate.
- Visit The School For Language And Communication Development: Dec 15
Time: 10 AM
Price: Free
Ages: All ages
Location: SLCD Woodside Campus
70-24 47th Avenue Woodside, NY 11377
Telephone: 516 609 2000 ext. 210
Description: Earlier a profile was done here on Examiner.com about the School For Language And Communication Development. This coming Thursday SLCD's Woodside campus will host a special tour of its school for parents interested in enrolling their kids there. SLCD is involved in teaching students with language disorders, autism spectrum disorders, emotional disturbances, learning disabilities, and mental retardation among other health impairments. If you are interested in attending this tour, please call the Admissions Office at the phone number provided above.
- Sunnyside Greenmarket: Dec. 17
Time: 8AM-3PM
Price: Free admission
Ages: All ages
Location: Skillman Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets, Sunnyside
Description: Come check out all the delicious food available at this greenmarket including specialty Mexican produce and herbs, eggs, seasonal fruit, cider, baked goods, fresh-caught fish, cheese, pickled vegetables and more.
- Jack Eichenbaum's Public Walk Through Flushing's Chinatown: Dec. 18
Time: 11AM-1PM
Price: $10 for members; $15 for non-members
Ages: All ages
Location: Meetup will be at the second floor of New World Mall outside the restrooms. The mall is located between the #7 train Main St. stop (SE corner of Main Street/Roosevelt Ave) and Macy's on Roosevelt Avenue. Walk sponsored by the Municipal Art Society.
Website: Public Tour Schedule
Description: Come take a walk through NYC's other Chinatown located in Queens. Unlike its Manhattan counterpart, this community is predominantly Taiwanese rather than Cantonese in nature. Come check out the various office buildings, hotels, residential condos, specialty shops, cultural institutions and malls run by members of this thriving immigrant community. Afterwards tourists can break for lunch on dim sum if they wish.
- An Educational And Musical Evening (Program in Nepali): Dec. 19
Time: 5:30 PM
Price: Free
Ages: All ages
Location: Woodside Public Library
54-22 Skillman Avenue Woodside, NY 11377
Telephone: 718 429 4700
Description: Speaker Binod Roka Esq. will first talk about how to obtain a US green card. Next participants will listen to Nepali folk music by Bimal Budathoki and Sapana Shree using the madal (a small drum), flute, harmonium and other percussion instruments.
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