Astoria Performing Arts Center Virtual Season

Astoria’s award-winning community theater, Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) is opening its virtual season.

OANA has been a long-time supporter, and we urge everyone to enjoy the performances as we all get used to these new virtual mediums for the performing arts!

For more information on their theatrical piece, American Arcana, please see their newsletter.

We also urge everyone to let their Councilman, Costas Constantinides, know they support the proposed construction of a new theater on the site of Max Finkelstein Tire at Newtown and 30^th St.

APAC badly needs a home, and the developer has included theater construction as part of their proposed development.  APAC lost their long-time home a few years ago. We cannot afford to let this local cultural institution, with all they do for children, seniors and the general public, to be without a home in our community.

OANA strongly supports this new theater.

Richard Khuzami

Mr. Khuzami has been a member of Community Board 1 in Astoria, NY for the last 20 years. He sits on the Zoning and parks Committees and is on the Executive Board. Previously, he served as Parks and Culture chair of Community Board 1 for eleven years and also chaired Capital and Expense priority Committee. He is a member of the Queens General Assembly and had been a panelist for grant submissions for the Queens Council on the Arts (QCA). Richard also is an officer of The Eastern Mediterranean Business Culture Alliance (EMBCA) and President of OANA.