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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Queens Museum\u2019s summertime staple, Passport Thursdays: International Dance, Music, and Film Series, returns for another exciting season featuring some of the many international locales that fuel Queens\u2019 cultural and artistic vitality. This year\u2019s adventure includes stops in the Caribbean, Taiwan, India, Colombia, Korea, and South Africa. So leave your baggage at home and bring a picnic blanket out to Flushing Meadows Corona Park for an evening in the shadow of the majestic Unisphere. There will be free artmaking workshops for families before the films start, our galleries and caf\u00e9 will remain open until 8pm, and we won\u2019t let a little rain spoil the fun, we\u2019ll just move the whole event indoors.<\/p>\n
On this Thursday event there will be Caribbean and Jamaican folk music performed by the The Braata Folk Singers. There will also be a film screening of Pan! Our Music Odyssey a story of the national instrument of T+T, the only new acoustic musical instrument invented in the twentieth century. The film dramatises the mythical invention of pan in the 1940s, and then surges forward to tell the stories of people from all over the world\u2014T+T, France, Japan, the USA\u2014who have staked everything on their love of the instrument, and whose passion and daring draw them each year to the \u201cworld championships\u201d of steelband.<\/p>\n