Queens Library Celebrates: It's Time For Kind

Hunters Point Library*

Join the Queens Library's  It’s Time for Kind  – during this holiday season, they will focus on acts of kindness at the library.  From November 18 to December 31, the library will be hosting a food drive, having kindness story times, and offering ways for you to take action and be kind to your family, friends, neighbors, and everyone you meet.

Activities include making a kindness chain, writing cards for the homebound, participating in a memory kaleidoscope activity and kindness read-alouds on December 4. All Queens Public Library branches, are participating in a canned food drive in partnership with Food Bank from November 18 to December 7.  Share your acts of kindness, and get involved in programs for all ages.

*After much delays and controversy, families can visit and enjoy the newly opened Hunters Point Library

Town Square's Santa Brunch

Town Square's Annual Santa Brunch
Sunday, December 8th | Seatings at 9:30 AM, 11:30 AM & 1:30 PM
PSC, 176 Java Street, Brooklyn

Hey kids, what's that sound? Is it the jingle of Santa's bells? Yes, kids! Santa's coming to Greenpoint/Williamsburg! So ready your list with all your wishes, to whisper to Santa with all your kisses!

$20 pp online ($30 at door if any are available) includes a delicious homemade pancake brunch with Santa, fun crafts, live music, Queen Elsa and, of-course, precious moments and photos with Santa! Cash bar wtih yummy-licious holiday drinks for moms & dads.

Bring your camera and take your own family photos with Santa for FREE! A fabulously talented professional photographer will also be on hand to take photos for purchase along with gorgeous face paintings. What a fun low-key way to kick off your holiday season.

Tickets sold out last year...and the years before. In fact, there weren't any available for purchase at the door. So hurry and get those tickets before they sell out.

Yayoi Kusama Will Debut A New Ballon At The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Yayoi Kusama the artist known for whimiscal and quirky designs will debut a new ballon at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Nov 28.  Kusama’s Love Flies Up to the Sky balloon will join in the annual holiday spectacle in front of more than 3.5 million spectators and more than 50 million viewers nationwide, as the latest entry in the Parade’s Blue Sky Gallery series, which invites celebrated contemporary artists to contribute artworks to the high flying lineup.

"The Love Flies Up to the Sky balloon was developed by the artist from face motifs that appear in her My Eternal Soul series of paintings—a body of work that she began in 2009. Vibrant and animated, the paintings embody Kusama’s innovative exploration of form and revolve around a tension between abstraction and figuration. " The 90 year old artist will also feature her signature polka dots.

You can also see Kusama's work in the upcoming solo exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery, EVERY DAY I PRAY FOR LOVE, which opens on Saturday, November 9, from 6–8 PM at 537 West 20th Street, New York. 

Other new balloons at the parade include the beagle Snoopy, which Macy’s says got an “out-of-this-world makeover” as an astronaut this year, Guy and Sam from Netflix’s “Green Eggs and Ham” and Smokey the Bear celebrating the advertising icon’s 75th birthday.