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A time to celebrate loves won and lost
Queens Library’s 3rd annual Broken Heart Week pays tribute to endings and beginnings in matters of the heart. We will be hosting blind dates with books, movie screenings, comedy, a dance performance, arts and crafts, and more.
Upcoming Featured Programs
Sonia Olla Flamenco Dance Company
From flirtatious expressions to footwork perfection, experience The Sonia Olla Flamenco Dance Company. The Company will present Tablao Sevilla, a traditional flamenco repertoire.
2pm
Flushing 41-17 Main Street
Songs from the Golden Age of Mexican Bolero
Adderesound is a Mexican group that renders tribute to music of the golden era of boleros, using traditional elements of Mexican folkloric and Latin American music, Afro-Mexican beats, American Jazz, and even rock, all in original arrangements and compositions. Co-founders Rudyck Vidal and Marilyn Castillo will present some of the songs featured in their first album “Cómo Le Hizo?” and a couple of surprises from their upcoming second album.
6pm
Woodhaven 85-41 Forest Parkway
Chloe Perrier & Her French Heart Jazz Band
This program has been cancelled due to weather. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Featuring Chloé Perrier, vocals, Aki Ishiguro, guitar, Daniel Foose, bass, Rodrigo Recabarren, drums,
They say the French invented romance and – alas! – heartbreak but, hey, at least they make it sound beautiful! French singer Chloé Perrier and her new ensemble, The French Heart Jazz Band, will lull your heartache and uplift your spirits with a unique mix of French chansons, Brazilian, and occasionally Gypsy-tinged numbers in French as well as in English, including American jazz standards from the ’20s to the ’40s with a continental flare! Join us and listen as exes get dissed and relationships gone wrong are remembered, dissected, and forgotten within a span of a song! Life might not always be en rose, but you will always have Paris!
Chloe Perrier and her French Heart Jazz Band have performed in numerous venues in Paris such as Le Sunset, Le Sunside, Les 7 Lezards, and in New York City at the Zinc Bar, The Iridium, and Club Bonafide, among others. She also has performed live on the radio show Jazzbox on Radio Aligre, and the TV show Telematin in France.
6:30pm
Central Library 89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica
Chinese Theatre Works presents White Snake
This best-loved romantic tale in every genre of Chinese literature and stage performance tells the great tragic love story of White Snake, a snake spirit with magical healing powers who falls in love with a human named Xu Xian, a handsome young herbalist. The result is a unique cross-cultural theatrical experience that will delight audiences of all ages, followed by our artists sharing their own love stories with the audience.
2pm
McGoldrick 155-06 Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing
Frida Kahlo’s A Broken/Feisty Heart
Claudia Norman, producer and executive director of the Celebrate Mexico Now Festival, will offer a multimedia presentation of Frida Kahlo’s passionate and often devastating love life that inspired some of her most famous and celebrated works. Fragments of love letters, diary entries, music and, of course, art will bring the feisty artist to life in celebration of her uncompromised spirit in art and love.
3pm
Seaside 116-15 Rockaway Beach Boulevard
Rockaway Park
Comedy with Comedians Michelle Slonim and Ben Rosenfeld + Friends
Husband and wife comedians Michelle Slonim and Ben Rosenfeld and friends present Broken Heart Week Comedy, an evening of clean standup comedy geared to those who have been in love, want love, or hate love.
6pm
Broadway 40-20 Broadway, Long Island City
Urban Stages presents Venus & Adonis
In this one-woman show, Misha Bouvion presents the story of Venus and Adonis, using only Shakespeare’s text from his little-known poem about what happens when Venus, the goddess of love, faces rejection.
3pm
Glen Oaks 256-04 Union Turnpike
Chinese Theatre Works presents White Snake
This best-loved romantic tale in every genre of Chinese literature and stage performance tells the great tragic love story of White Snake, a snake spirit with magical healing powers who falls in love with a human named Xu Xian, a handsome young herbalist. The result is a unique cross-cultural theatrical experience that will delight audiences of all ages, followed by our artists sharing their own love stories with the audience.
2pm
Bayside 214-20 Northern Boulevard
Urban Stages presents Venus & Adonis
In this one-woman show, Misha Bouvion presents the story of Venus and Adonis, using only Shakespeare’s text from his little-known poem about what happens when Venus, the goddess of love, faces rejection.
2pm
Peninsula 92-25 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Rockaway Beach
Songs from the Golden Age of Mexican Bolero
Adderesound is a Mexican group that renders tribute to music of the golden era of boleros, using traditional elements of Mexican folkloric and Latin American music, Afro-Mexican beats, American Jazz, and even rock, all in original arrangements and compositions. Co-founders Rudyck Vidal and Marilyn Castillo will present some of the songs featured in their first album “Cómo Le Hizo?” and a couple of surprises from their upcoming second album.
2:30pm
Jackson Heights 35-51 81 Street
Tragic Love Stories in Opera
The Allegro Singers present a concert of beloved arias and duets from famous operas such as “Il Trovatore,” “Rigoletto,” “Traviata” by Verdi, “La Boheme,” “Madama Butterfly” by Puccini, “Romeo et Juliette” by Gounod, “Lakme” by Delibes, and “Carmen” by Bizet, including some popular music selections.
2:30pm
Forest Hills 108-19 71 Avenue
