All the world’s their stage over at LaGuardia CC

LaGuardia Community College student Julio Trinidad won the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival regionals and now heads to the finals in Washington. Photo courtesy LaGuardia Community College

LaGuardia Community College students have been acting up lately.

Julio Trinidad won the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival northeast regional acting competition — try saying that five times fast.

The aspiring actor earned a $500 scholarship, an invitation to compete at the nationals in Dee Cee later this spring,  plus a $1,200 scholarship to the Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.’s Summer Intensive in Boston.

Trinidad was not the only LaGuardia student to make a splash at the competition.

John Cosentino made it to the final round and Toni Ryan was a semi-finalist.

Yuka Taga so impressed the judges with her reading of a one-woman student play, they created an award on the spot — Best Performance in a New Play — and presented it to her.

Japanese rakugo storytelling comes to Long Island City

Mr. Sunshine, aka Gregory Robic, performs traditional Japanese rakugo comic storytelling at LaGuardia Community College Sept. 30.

We’re not sure if any of Katsura Sunshine’s stories begin along the lines of two guys walk into a sushi bar…

But we do know that he will perform traditional Japanese rakugo comic storytelling at LaGuardia Community College on Sept. 30.

Dressed in a kimono, kneeling on a cushion and with only a fan and hand towel, Mr. Sunshine, aka Gregory Robic, will share a comic monologue and a more traditional story with the audience.

Mr. Sunshine’s performance begins at 6 p.m. and takes place in LaGuardia’s Little Theater, 31-10 Thompson Ave. Long Island City.

The event is free and open to the public.

LIC Artists group opens show at LaGuardia Community College

“Huipil Beauties,” digital archival print on bamboo mount, © Mary Teresa Giancoli. Image courtesy Courtesy Crisma Imaging

Artists from around the globe now call Queens home, but they continue to be connected to their old lives and homelands through their work.

The Long Island City Artists group taps into this dichotomy with its “Bridging the Gap” show of 50 works by 40 artists.

After a successful run at Flushing Town Hall earlier this summer, the show — albeit a scaled-back version — makes the trip to LaGuardia Community College starting next week.

Pieces included in the show include photographs, paintings and mixed-media creations.

“Bridging the Gap” opens in Long Island City on Sept. 12 and runs through Nov. 20. A second, smaller version of the original show also opens on Nov. 7 at the Queensborough Community College Art Gallery in Bayside.