Making - Music - Making - Movies

MUSIC:
Musical Jackson Heights Family Lisa Burns, Sal Maida and Dylan Maida have been a creative force in the community for many years...

now check out our local sensation's latest video:

singer and songwriter LISA BURNS... "Pretty Disillusion"

new video shot in Jackson Heights in December 2010

the first track off Lisa's Channeling Mary disc. Bass - Sal Maida, keys & drums- Dylan Maida, cello - Jessie Reagen, Percussion- Mark Johnson.

Written by Lisa Burns and Dylan Maida,

Produced by Lisa, engineered by Joe Ford at

South Brooklyn Sound for Rottentoof Record.

TONIGHT PREVIEW:

Thursday, January 27th

Jackson Heights Photographer and Filmmaker -

Richard Shpuntoff

- focuses on Jackson Heights History in his

work-in-progress documentary "Julio of Jackson Heights".

more info : "letters for Julio" on FB and Kickstarter

Jewish Center of JH - on 77th street/corner 37th Ave

Time:6:30PM tonight

SAVE THE DATES! Queens World Film Festival

Jackson Triplex Theatre

March 4-5-6

hosting 3 days of international and domestic films

panels and parties

www.queensworldfilmfestival.com

for updates and information

tickets go on sale FEBRUARY 10th online

there will be blocks of films throughout the weekend with Q&A's with filmmakers, actors and resource professionals. COMMUNITY NEWS:
	GARDEN SCHOOL PARK UPDATE: Despite lightning, thunder, sleet and snow, upwards of 150 people went to a meeting in Jackson Heights last night to support an 11th hour effort to turn an athletic field at the Garden School into an extension of Travers Park. The meeting followed a vote last week by the Board of Directors of the financially troubled Garden School to sell the field to a developer for construction of an apartment building. The next step appears to be a renewed effort to seek loans from community members and land trust organizations in the hope of helping the Garden School get past its immediate financial crisis until the signing of a contract for purchase of the land by the city. The city has set aside $5 million for that purpose. Attending the meeting were Garden School officials, Councilman Daniel Dromm, Assemblyman Michael DenDekker and commuity advocates. The Green Agenda for Jackson Heights, http://thegreenagenda.webs.com

Exploring JH Artist at 93

Visited with Jackson Heights Artist Laura M. Schiavina and she shared her work for this "exploring..." slideshow: an incredible, inspiring, smidgen of her prolific life's work. It all began with a fashion course and an industrious talent for drawing and designing blouses which evolved into painting for over 60 years and still creating new works on a daily basis today...

Laura M. Schiavina has lived in Jackson Heights since 1951. Included in the Who’s Who of American Art, her award winning work has been collected and exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Islip Art Museum, NY; Sumner Museum, Washington D.C.; DuPont Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Citicorp Gallery, LIC; Eleftherias Park Art Center, Athens, Greece; National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, NY; New York City College of Technology, CUNY; and Ringel Gallery at Purdue University, IN. One of the first female members of the Salmagundi Club, Laura was chosen by Cynthia Maris Dantzic for her book “100 New York Painters,” published in 2006.

Laura is member of N.A.W.A, National League of American Pen Women, National Art League, Jackson Heights Art Club, Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, and Audubon Artists. Laura came to New York in 1944 from Springfield, MA to become a fashion illustrator, completing evening courses at the Traphagen School of Fashion, while working in business. Deciding to continue in business, she studied fine art weekends, evenings and vacations from the late 1950's through 1980 with artists including Will Barnet, Carl Molno, Joseph Caine and Paul Puzinas.

Plans are in place to showcase Laura's beautiful paintings in Jackson Heights very soon!

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NYTimes visits with Espresso 77 owners:

Afzal Hossain and Julie Nymann

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start 2011 off right...
#1 check out:
TOP TEN MISTAKES in Behavior Change and how you can fix 'em!

Top 10 Mistakes in Behavior Change

View more presentations from Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford.

NEW Year NEW Jackson Heights

HOPE reigns in the New Year!

the Bright Lights on houses and shops make everything seem so alive and HOPEful...we have so much going on in the New Year in our own backyard featuring music, art and film...PLUS endeavors by our elected officials to make Jackson Heights prosper and grow!

Vote HERE to help 78th Street playstreet win the
"2010 Streetsies" Award - your voice is heard and just one click away. Thank You CB3 and Councilmember Danny Dromm and State Senator Jose Peralta for making this happen for the kids of all ages last summer - with our limited park space, we HOPE to make it open again in 2011.

and Don and Katha Cato are keeping HOPE alive for all our visual artists in the 'hood with the Queens World Film Festival - which will be 4 days of films and fun right here on 82nd Street in March -featuring local and international entries...send in your submission NOW via Without a Box- and www.queensworldfilmfestival.com


AND the Jackson Rep Theatre is hosting a local CONCERT SERIES at PS 69 and other Theatrical events - you won't even have to spend money on the subway...MORE to come with dates and performances which we HOPE will showcase all the talent here in Queens!

PLUS! a year end gift
COME OUT FOR A Pre-New Year Celebration and
new ART opening

NOVO LOUNGE (78-23 37th ave)
THURSDAY DEC 30th
6-9pm
2 for 1 drink specials to thank everyone who has been so supportive through the year and with HOPE and wishes for a healthy - happy - better - NEW YEAR!

See you on the avenue!
Celeste

FREE WHISKY & other Holiday events

Whisky (the movie!)

by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll

Winner of the Sundance NHK Award and the "Un Certain Regard" Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Whisky tells the story of Jacobo, the 60 year old owner of a sock factory in Montevideo, Uruguay, whose younger and more successful estranged brother is r

eturning from Brazil after twenty years on the occasion of the matzeveh of their mother. Desperate to prove his life has added up to something, Jacobo asks Marta, an employee at his factory, to pose as his wife.

Monday, December 13, 2010

6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Jewish Center of Jackson Heights

37-06 77th Street (corner 77th Street and 37th Avenue)

Admission: is FREE

Note: the film is in Spanish with English subtitles.

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS

from NOVO LOUNGE and ART SPACE.

Richard and Edwin are asking their patrons and neighbors to please come to their FUNDRAISER Holiday Dance Party complete with DJ - raffles - surprise guests on FRIDAY, DEC 17th ...beginning at 8pm!

We know this is trying times for everyone and especially for NOVO... they love Jackson Heights and want to continue to serve great food, host art openings and music events and provide that cozy meeting place for friends and family!

NOVO needs a helping hand this month in regard to a business situation - and so if you can come and join in the festivities, $40 at the door * will include 2 drinks and delicious appetizers raffles- special guests - and a holiday dance extravaganza!

* you will also receive a coupon for $10 off a dinner in january!

See you on the avenue!

Celeste

FREE in Jackson Heights MUSIC-FILMS-and Giving Thanks!

FOUND OUT LOTS OF STUFF HAPPENING RIGHT HERE - under our noses

Free! in Jackson Heights this weekend!

why go anywhere else ? plus the Clean Jackson Heights program is in full swing - so please shop locally and THANK the 40 + store owners for keeping JH Clean!

Thanks to our Councilmember Daniel Dromm for this initiative and Andrew Ronan for pulling it all together... to see stores listing: Clean Jackson Heights

below are more links - so you can click and get more info and come to the events:

Films at the JH LIbrary on Saturday DEC 4th - FREE... time TBD

presented by QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development, is a non-for profit cultural organization co-founded and presently under the direction of New -media artist, Hector Canonge and his ongoing FRAMING AIDS initiative since 2005.

PIANO CONCERT with SUNNY KNABLE

via the Jackson Heights Concert Series on SUNDAY DEC 5th - FREE

JH Jewish Center at 77th St /37th Ave - 4 pm

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OPEN CALL TO FILMMAKERS

from everywhere and anywhere

March Forth!

will launch a festival of features, shorts and kid film fun at the JACKSON THEATRE on 82nd Street -

MARCH 3-6 in 2011

maybe one of them will be yours...

find out more about submissions:

Without a Box - Facebook - Twitter

Please visit for more information:

queensworldfilmfestival.com

All roads lead to Queens...

The new destination for filmmakers.

See you on the avenue! Celeste

Family of Inspiration

NOVO ART OPENING this THURSDAY November 18th

FEATURES talented J.H. MOTHER and DAUGHTER ...

Raised in Jackson Heights, CAITLIN GILBRIDE

received a BS in Art Education and a BFA in Printmaking from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Caitlin began working mainly in oil paint, however her interest shifted to the use of printmaking techniques and incorporating thread into them

Caitlin continues to reside and create work in Jackson Heights and hopes to become an art teacher, just like her mother:

MICHELE GILBRIDE

who was born in Jackson Heights but grew up on the north shore of Long Island.

Some of her favorite childhood memories were coming back to Jackson Heights for visits to her aunt's studio, where she learned how to draw and paint. Michele received a BFA in painting from Pratt and a MSAE from Queens College.

Michele explores the light in Cape Cod while Caitlin experiments with printmaking, monotypes and collage elements in her work.

Come meet and greet this month's artists Michele and Caitlin

NOVEMBER 18th from 5-9!

NOVO is on 37th ave between 78 & 79th Streets

Happy Hour serves up some specials from 4-7pm too

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ANOTHER LIFELONG resident - our Councilman, Daniel Dromm, has launched "CLEAN Jackson Heights!" imploring all our local businesses to commit to beautifying their stores and making sure their storefront and street are maintained. Visit www.cleanjacksonheights.com for more info.

Awards and certificates will be given to the businesses that are participating in DECEMBER to THANK THEM for the role they play in attracting and serving the neighborhood and beyond - you can show your appreciation too by shopping locally this holiday season!

here also was a recent study about how LOVE for a community helps its ECONOMIC GROWTH:

Residents' Emotional Attachment to Community May Boost Local Economy, Study Finds According to a Knight Foundation-funded study of twenty-six U.S. cities, regions with the highest levels of resident attachment also had the highest GDP growth rate over time....

It's all about LOVE in Jackson Heights!

see you on the avenue,Celeste

BOO-TEE - FULL!

HAPPY 21st HALLOWEEN PARADE sponsored by the JHBG, which began with a seed and bloomed into a safe and renowned event with candy distributed to over 3000 local children.

OCTOBER ends on a clear and sunny note but the wind carries a slight chill...

inspiring jack o'lanterns are everywhere...

and painter Carla Lobmier continues to showcase her fantastic paintings in the AUTUMN window of Ultima Florals

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PLUS please visit and see the haunting art at NOVO...

Jeff Terzi 's photographs (above) reveal a texture and a palette that

pop, making everyday scenes come alive. Sara Armstrong creates these dreamy, nuanced panels that draw you in to get a closer look.

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Espresso 77 is highlighting the works of

local artist Nitin Mukul .

Artists of Jackson Heights are emerging! What they have to offer are works that are thoughtful, sophisticated and worldly.

We also say THANKs! to all the people in the neighborhood that appreciate the arts and come out to hear the music, stop by the openings and support the businesses ... working together to highlight all the talent and diversity

in our community.