Music to Mend a Broken Heart

10:00 am
South Ozone Park
128-16 Rockaway Boulevard
718-529-1660

We will have a playlist of music to help you recover from your wounded heart. We will also have a display board where you can post your sentiments and air your feelings in a healthy way.  

Blind Date with a Book

11:00 am
Court Square
25-01 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
718-937-2790

In Blind Date with a Book, you will take a chance and check out a book we’ve selected, without knowing exactly what the book is until you get it home. Books will be paper-wrapped, with a descriptive blurb and genre information. Books for all ages will be available. Maybe you’ll love it, maybe not. We’ll include cards too for you to “Rate your Date”. Completed Rating cards received will be entered in a raffle for prizes – sponsored by Friends of Queens Library at Court Square. 

Movie Screening: The Descendants

12:00 pm
Glen Oaks
256-04 Union Turnpike
718-831-8636

Enjoy your Saturday afternoon with a movie. This week, we’ll be screening “The Descendants”. A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident. Rated R. 

Heartbreak in Books and Film

12:00 pm
Pomonok
158-21 Jewel Avenue, Flushing
718-591-4343

The Pomonok Library will play a number of movies that focus on lost loves, broken hearts and how people have dealt with these situations. In addition, throughout the week the library will have a display of books on the same topics.   

Broken Heart Week Film Festival

1:00 pm
Windsor Park 
79-50 Bell Boulevard, Bayside
718-468-8300

Notting Hill 

Movie Screening: Bridget Jones’s Baby

2:00 pm
Fresh Meadows
193-20 Horace Harding Expressway
718-454-7272

Bridget’s focus on single life and her career is interrupted when she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch ... she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her baby’s father. 

Movies That Break Your Heart

2:00 pm
Seaside
116-15 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Rockaway Park
718-634-1876

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Lauren Elder Presents Broadway Standards – Heartbreak at the Great White Way

2:30 pm
Central Library
89-11 Merrick Boulevard, Jamaica
718-990-0778

Broadway performer, Lauren Elder, will present a comprehensive list of beloved and lesser known Broadway standards about love and loss.  

Heartbreak Hilarities

2:45 pm
Bayside
214-20 Northern Boulevard
718-229-1834

Bring the entire family and enjoy animated cartoons of the 1920 and 30s that show the downside of love and romance with film archivist, animation historian and lifelong Queens resident Tommy Stathes.

The Science of a Broken Heart

3:00 pm
Jackson Heights
35-51 81 Street
718-899-2500

If you’ve ever had your heart broken, then you know heartbreak is very real. Come learn from a doctor what is happening when you’re going through a powerfully emotional experience like a heartbreak.

The Allegro Singers present Tragic Love Stories in Opera

3:00 pm
Forest Hills
108-19 71 Avenue
718-268-7934

A concert of beloved arias and duets from Il Trovatore by Verdi, Carmen by Bizet, Romeo et Juliette by Gounod, and some popular music selections. Featured artists are soprano Liora Michelle, tenor Hamid Rodriguez and baritone Ricardo Rosa who have performed on the operatic stage. 

Sonia Olla Flamenco Dance Company

3:00 pm
Langston Hughes
100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona
718-651-1100

From flirtatious expressions to footwork perfection, experience The Sonia Olla Flamenco Dance Company will present Tablao Sevilla, a traditional flamenco repertoire ideal to celebrate the Queens Library’s Broken Heart Week.

Movie Screening: Clara’s Heart

3:00 pm
Laurelton
134-26 225 Street
718-528-2822

Clara’s Heart depicts the story of a young boy who grows fond of his housekeeper. Join us for the viewing of a heartwarming film.

Glassware Painting

3:00 pm
Rochdale Village
169-09 137 Avenue, Jamaica
718-723-4440

Break into your creative side and have fun while painting your own glassware. Bring your own choice of glassware and join us as we paint them.

Humor and Heartbreak: “I Thought I’d Never Laugh Again…”

3:00 pm
Steinway
21-45 31 Street, Long Island City 
718-728-1965

Join us for an afternoon of “clean” comedy focused on the failed romances and unsuccessful relationships we’ve all encountered at one time or another. Meet this talented lineup of comedians like Michelle Slonim, YouJean Chang, Jennifer Lap, Sandip Sen, Ben Rosenfeld, and Ryan Arnold.

Broken Heart Week Film Festival

3:30 pm
Arverne  
312 Beach 54 Street 
718-634-4784

Pretty Woman, directed by Garry Marshall (1990), Rated R 

Blind Date with a Book

4:00 pm
Sunnyside 
43-06 Greenpoint Avenue, L.I.C.
718-784-3033

Go on a blind date with a book! It’s a book discussion group with a twist - no need to read ahead of time.