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EVENT: Art exhibition by Aoife Collins: Wet Eye
DATE: Friday, April 25th through Saturday, June 14th
ORGANIZATION: Location One
LOCATION: 26 Greene Street (between Grand & Canal)
INFO:www.location1.org
EVENT: Open Forum for Public School Parents on the State of Our Schools
DATE: Saturday, May 22 from 5:00pm – 9:00pm
ORGANIZATION: Commission on School Governance and Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum
LOCATION: Oberia Dempsy Multi Service Center at 127 West 127th Street at Lenox Avenue
INFO: 212-669-4659 or www.pubadvocate.nyc.gov/advocacy/schools
EVENT: Pathmark Multi-Cultural Arts Festival
DATE: May 31st and June 1st; 12 p.m. - 5 p.m.
ORGANIZATION: Pathmark & Arts for Business
LOCATION: South Street Seaport
INFO: (914) 762-2278
EVENT: Exhibition of Word Prints & Numbers One
DATE: Now through May 3rd
ORGANIZATION: New York Public Library
LOCATION: Jersey St. (between Lafayette & Mulberry)
INFO: 212-966-3424.
EVENT: "3 On the Fringe"
DATE: Sunday, April 27th through Sunday, May 18th
ORGANIZATION: HPT The H.A.D.L.E.Y. Players
LOCATION: North Presbyterian Church 529 West 155th Street
INFO: 212-368-9314
EVENT: Sallie Benton's "Dancer's"
DATE: Tuesday April 29th through Saturday, May 24th
ORGANIZATION: First Street Gallery
LOCATION: 526 West 26th Street, Suite 915
EVENT: "New York Paintings" by John Smith-Amato.
DATE: Now through Saturday, May 24th
ORGANIZATION: Synchronicity Space Fine Arts
LOCATION: 106 West 13th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues)
INFO: 646-230-8199 or www.synchronicityspace.com
EVENT: Henry James's "The Aspern Papers"
DATE: Now through Saturday, May 24th
ORGANIZATION: Turtle Shell Productions
LOCATION: The Turtle's Shell Theater, 300 W. 43rd Street, 4th Floor
INFO: Jeremy@offtheleashproductions.com
EVENT: Crafts on Columbus
DATE: Now through May 18th
ORGANIZATION: The American Arts & Crafts Alliance
LOCATION: Columbus Avenue from 77th to 81st Streets
INFO: 212-866-2239
EVENT: 2008 Student Scholarship Competition
DATE/TIME: Wednesday, April 30th through Saturday, May 17th
ORGANIZATION: Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators
LOCATION: 128 East 63rd Street (between Lexington and Park Avenues)
INFO: 212.838.2560 or www.societyillustrators.org
EVENT: Video Amazônia Indígena: A View from the Villages Film Showcase
DATE: Thursday, May 1st through Sunday, May 4th
ORGANIZATION: Health & Happiness Project and Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
LOCATION: Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
INFO:www.si.edu
EVENT: Mystery In Black: A Cosmic Journey ˆ Works by Joseph Paul Fox
DATE: Friday, May 2nd through Saturday, May 24th
ORGANIZATION: Canvas Paper and Stone Gallery
LOCATION: The Gallery in The Bradhurst at Strivers Row, 2611 Frederick Douglass Blvd, Studio 2N
INFO: 212-694-1747
EVENT: Free Hip Hop Classes For Boys & Girls Ages 7 & Up
DATE: Saturday, May 3rd through Sunday, May 25th
ORGANIZATION: Young Ambition Dance Co.
LOCATION: Boys And Girls Harbor, 1 East 104th Street (5th Avenue)
INFO: 347-213-5094
EVENT: Idle-Free NYC
DATE: Tuesday, May 6th
ORGANIZATION: Asthma Free School Zone and the City of New York
LOCATION: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island
INFO:www.idle-free.info
EVENT: Exhibition: Power of "Superheroes" Imagery in Fashion
DATE: Wednesday, May 7th through September 1
ORGANIZATION: Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute
LOCATION: 1000 5th Ave.
INFO: 212.535.7710 or www.metmuseum.org
EVENT: Durang's "The Actor's Nightmare" and Stoppard's "The Real Inspector Hound"
DATE: Thursday, May 8th through Sunday, June 15th
ORGANIZATION: T. Schreiber Studio
LOCATION: The Gloria Maddox Theater at T. Schreiber Studio, 151 West 26th Street, 7th Floor
INFO:www.tschreiber.org
EVENT: Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music"
DATE: Thursday, May 8th through Sunday, May 18th
ORGANIZATION: The St. Jean's Players
LOCATION: St. Jean's H.S. Auditorium, 167 East 75th Street
INFO: 212-868-4444 or www.SmartTix.com
EVENT: Sprout Film Festival
DATE: Friday, May 9th through Sunday, May 11th
ORGANIZATION: Sprout
LOCATION: Metropolitian Museum of Art, New Uris Education Center
INFO:www.sff.gosprout.org
EVENT: Spring Arts Festival of East Harlem. Part II
DATE: Thursday, May 15th through Sunday, June 15th
ORGANIZATION: East Harlem Presents
LOCATION: Poet's Den Theater, 309 East 108th Street
INFO: 212-426-7248 or www.eastharlempresents.org
EVENT: A Year with Children 2008: Selected Works from Learning Through Art
DATE: Friday, May 16th through Wednesday, June 11th
ORGANIZATION: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
LOCATION: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
INFO:www.learningthroughart.org
EVENT: Americans Abroad: J.C. Leyendecker and the European Academic Influence on American Illustration
DATE/TIME: Wednesday, May 21st through July 12th
ORGANIZATION: Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators
LOCATION: 128 East 63rd Street (between Lexington and Park Avenues)
INFO: 212.838.2560 or www.societyillustrators.org
EVENT: Washington Square Park Outdoor Art Exhibit
DATE: Saturday, May 24th though Sunday, June 1st
ORGANIZATION: Washington Square Park Outdoor Art Exhibit
LOCATION: University Place from 12th street to 3rd Street and Washington Place
INFO: 212-982-6255 or www.washingtonsquareoutdoorartexhibit.org
EVENT: Concerts@One performance series presents a variety of concerts in the month of May
DATE: May 5th, 8th, 12th, 15th, 19th, 22nd, and 29th at 1:00 PM
ORGANIZATION: Trinity Wall Street
LOCATION: Trinity Church; Broadway at Wall Street
INFO:www.trinitywallstreet.org
EVENT: New Works #11 an Annual Photography Exhibition
DATE: Friday, May 23rd through July 5th
ORGANIZATION: En Foco
LOCATION: El Taller Boricua Galleries The Julia De Burgos Cultural Center, 1680 Lexington Avenue
INFO: 718-931-9311 or www.enfoco.org
EVENT: Buglisi Dance Theatre: Under the Buttonwood Tree.com
DATE: Wednesday, May 28th through Friday, May 30th, 12:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Lower Manhattan Cultural Council as part of the River To River Festival
LOCATION: Outside the Stock Exchange at 18 Broad Street
INFO:www.lmcc.net/sitelines
EVENT: Nami Yamomoto: a howling flower
DATE: Wednesday, May 28th through Saturday, May 31st, 7:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Dance Theater Workshop
LOCATION: Dance Theater Workshop
INFO:www.dtw.org
EVENT: Hollywood Science: Movies, Science, and the End of the World with Author Sidney Perkowitz
DATE: Thursday, May 1st, 6pm to 7:30pm
ORGANIZATION: New York Academy of Sciences
LOCATION: 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St. 40th Floor
INFO:www.nyas.org/movies
EVENT: I Hate That I Love: A Concert of the 20th Century Choral Music
DATE: Thursday, May 1st, 8pm
ORGANIZATION: The Dessoff Choirs
LOCATION: Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center, Goodman House, 129 W. 67th Street
EVENT: Citizenship and Immigration Issues, lecture by Allan Wernick (Citizenship and Immigration Project, CUNY)
DATE: Friday May 2nd
ORGANIZATION: Asian American/Asian Research Institute, City University of New York
LOCATION: 25 West 43rd Street, 19th Floor
INFO:www.aaari.info or 212-869-0182
EVENT: QuickBooks Pro Training Class for Small Business
DATE: Friday, May 2nd, 9am to 4 pm
ORGANIZATION: Computer Training Source
LOCATION: 575 Madison Avenue, between 56th and 57th
INFO: 212-278-0609, or visit www.CTStrainingEast.com
EVENT: New York Jazz Choreography Project: a concert featuring original pieces by 14 choreographers
DATES: Friday, May 2nd, 8 pm; Saturday, May 3rd, 8 pm; Sunday, May 4th, 2 pm
ORGANIZATION: Jazz Choreography Enterprises
LOCATION: New Dance Group, 305 W. 38th St
INFO: 212-369-8775 or mkh718@aol.com
EVENT: EIF Revlon Run/Walk for Women
DATE: Saturday, May 3rd
ORGANIZATION: Entertainment Industry Foundation
LOCATION: Times Square & Central Park
INFO:www.revlonrunwalk.com/ny or 212-379-3199
EVENT: Luke's Rock ŒN Stroll, 5K walk/stroll to raise awareness of SIDS
DATE: Saturday, May 3rd, 7:30am; Raindate Sunday, May 4th
ORGANIZATION: FirstCandle LLC
LOCATION: Pier 46 West Street, Charles Street Hudson River Park
INFO:www.firstcandle.org
EVENT: May White Elephant Sale
DATE: Saturday, May 3rd, 10am to 8pm and Sunday, May 4th, 10am to 6pm
ORGANIZATION: The New York Theosophical Society
LOCATION: 242 East 53 Street
INFO: 212-758-5521
EVENT: Beyond the Machine 8.0: The Art of the Groove
DATE: Saturday, May 3rd, 8pm
ORGANIZATION: The Juilliard Music Technology Center
LOCATION: Miller Theatre at Colombia University, 2960 Broadway (at 116th Street)
INFO: 212-769-7406 or www.juilliard.edu
EVENT: Quisqueya: Voices of the Haitian and Dominican Diaspora in the United States.
DATE: Saturday, May 3rd, 12:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Grupo Quisqueyano and the Haitian Student Association
LOCATION: Columbia University's Hammer Health Science Center, 701 168th Street
INFO: 917-239-9381 or am2360@columbia.edu
EVENT: Steve Suffet and Joel Landy
DATE: Saturday, May 3rd, 8pm to 10:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Peoples' Voice Cafe
LOCATION: Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33rd St.
INFO: 212-787-3903 or www.peoplesvoicecafe.org
EVENT: Voter registration Drive
DATE: May 3rd, 2pm to 5pm
ORGANIZATION: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Sigma Nu Zeta Chapter
LOCATION: Pathmark; 300 W. 145th Street
INFO: 718-309-7588
EVENT: Columbia Greenhouse Nursery School's Spring Fair
DATE: Saturday May 3rd, 11am to 4pm (Rain DATE: May 4)
ORGANIZATION: Columbia Greenhouse Nursery School
LOCATION: 116th Street bet Amsterdam Ave and Morningside Drive
EVENT: Bachelor's Program Prospective Students Day
DATE: Saturday, May 3rd, 10am to 1pm
ORGANIZATION: The New School
LOCATION: 66 West 12th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
INFO:www.adultba.newschool.edu
EVENT: Correspondences: Bilingual Readings by Coral Bracho and Forrest Gander
DATE: Saturday, May 3rd, 2pm
ORGANIZATION: Poets House
LOCATION: NYPL Mulberry Street Branch, 10 Jersey Street
INFO: 212-431-7920 or www.poetshouse.org
EVENT: May Fair Street Fair
DATE: Saturday, May 3rd
ORGANIZATION: Church of the Holy Trinity
LOCATION: East 88th Street between First and Second Aves
INFO: (212) 289-4100 or mailbox@holytrinity-nyc.org
EVENT: The Great Saunter 2008
DATE: Saturday, May 3rd, 7:30am
ORGANIZATION: Shorewalkers
LOCATION: Starting at South Street Seaport and walking clockwise around Manhattan Island
INFO: mail@shorewalkers.org or www.shorewalkers.org
EVENT: Drums Along the Hudson
DATE: Saturday, May 3rd, 11am to 6pm
ORGANIZATION: Lotus Music & Dance
LOCATION: Inwood Hill Park, 218th Street
INFO: 212-627-1076x18 or www.lotusmusicanddance.org
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EVENT: American Cancer Society's DogsWalk Against Cancer
DATE: Sunday, May 4th
ORGANIZATION: The American Cancer Society
LOCATION: Riverside Park in Manhattan
INFO: 800-ACS-2345, www.dogswalk.com
EVENT: A Tribute to Robert DeCormier Concert
DATE: Sunday, May 4th, 3 pm
ORGANIZATION: The Glass Menagerie Chorus.
LOCATION: St. Joseph's Church, 371 Sixth Avenue
INFO:www.glassmenagerie.org
EVENT: Encounters: Beyond the Jewish Ghetto: Lecture with Professor Tony Michels
DATE: Sunday, May 4th, 11am
ORGANIZATION: Museum at Eldridge Street
LOCATION: 12 Eldridge Street, between Canal and Division Streets
INFO:www.eldridgestreet.org
EVENT: Choral Evensong by the Adult Choir. Works by Ayleward, Gibbons, and Tallis
DATE: Sunday, May 4th, 4pm
ORGANIZATION: Grace Church in New York
LOCATION: 802 Broadway at 10th Street
INFO: 212-254-2000 or www.gracechurchnyc.org
EVENT: Eighth Annual NYC CROP Hunger Walk
DATE: Sunday, May 4th, 1pm
ORGANIZATION: New York City CROP Hunger Walk Committee
LOCATION: Church of the Heavenly Rest, 5th Avenue and 90th St.
INFO:www.nyccropwalk.org or 212 865-6115
EVENT: Celebrate Israel's Independence Day
DATE: Sunday, May 4th, 2pm to 5pm
ORGANIZATION: Children's Galleries for Jewish Culture
LOCATION: 515 West 20th Street, Suite 4E
EVENT: Bellevue Literary Review Poetry & Prose Reading featuring Maud Casey, Elaine Sexton, Leslie Jamison, and Jessica Greenbaum
DATE: Sunday, May 4th, 5pm
ORGANIZATION: Bellevue Literary Review (NYU School of Medicine)
LOCATION: Bellevue Hospital Rotunda, 462 First Avenue (at 28th Street)
INFO: 212-263-3973 or www.BLReview.org
EVENT: Free Children's Book Writing Workshop with Marissa Walsh
DATE: Sunday, May 4th, 6pm to 7pm
ORGANIZATION: Gotham Writers' Workshop
LOCATION: McNally Robinson Booksellers, 52 Prince Street
INFO: 212-974-8377 or www.writingclasses.com
EVENT: Soprano Katia Paschou
DATE: Sunday, May 4th, 5:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Carnegie Hall
LOCATION: Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and 7th Avenue
INFO: 718-801-3712
EVENT: Performance by legendary Quartet Tashi
DATE: Sunday, May 4th, 5pm
ORGANIZATION: Free For All At Town Hall
LOCATION: Town Hall, 123 West 43 Street
INFO: 212-707-8787 or info@twinlions.org
EVENT: St. Vincent's Patient Pet Care Fundraiser
DATE: Monday, May 5th, 6:30 pm
ORGANIZATION: St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan
LOCATION: The Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South
INFO: mfischer@svcmcny.org
EVENT: Free Seniors Day
DATE: Monday, May 5th
ORGANIZATION: Rubin Museum of Art
LOCATION: 150 West 17th Street
INFO:www.rmanyc.org
EVENT: "Torture team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the betrayal of American Values"
DATE: Monday, May 5th, 6pm to 7:30 pm
ORGANIZATION: NYU's Center on Law and Security
LOCATION: NYU School of Law, Lipton Hall, 108 West 3rd Street
INFO: 212-992-8854
EVENT: The Alps: A Hiker's Paradise. A slide Show by Laurent Langoisseur
DATE: Monday, May 5th, 7:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Mountain Travel Sobek
LOCATION: The North Face Store, 2101 Broadway at 73rd Street
INFO: davids@mtsobek.com
EVENT: NYPD 19th Precinct Community Council Meeting
DATE: Monday, May 5th, 7pm
ORGANIZATION: New York City Police Department
LOCATION: Park East Synagogue, 163 East 67th Street
INFO: 212-452-0613 or www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_019.shtml
EVENT: The Eighth Annual Concert with The Choir of Men and Boys and The Girls‚ Choir
DATE: Tuesday, May 6th, 7pm
ORGANIZATION: Grace Church in New York
LOCATION: 802 Broadway at 10th Street
INFO: 212-254-2000 or www.gracechurchnyc.org
EVENT: Brooklyn/Queens East River Waterfront: Transforming the View
DATE: Tuesday, May 6th, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Museum of the City of New York
LOCATION: 1220 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
INFO:www.mcny.org/public_programs/all/842.html
EVENT: Emergency Medicine for Seniors: Preparing for the Unexpected
DATE: Tuesday, May 6th, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION: New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College
LOCATION: Uris Auditorium, 1300 York Avenue at 69th St.
INFO: 212-821-0888
EVENT: An Autism Awareness Event
DATE: Wednesday, May 7th, 10am to 5pm
ORGANIZATION: Resources for Children with Special Needs and AHRC
LOCATION: The New York Public Library, 125th Street Branch
INFO: 212-677-4650 or 212-780-2534
EVENT: Lecture and book signing: Ishmael Beah
DATE: Wednesday, May 7th
ORGANIZATION: Pace University
LOCATION: Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts theater on Spruce Street
INFO:www.pace.edu
EVENT: Performance by Amy Bartram & Dongsok Shin: Mozart Lieder
DATE: Wednesday, May 7th, 1:15 pm
ORGANIZATION: Midtown Concerts
LOCATION: St. Bartholomew's Church (Chapel), Park Avenue at 51st Street
INFO: (212) 967-9157 or midtownconcerts@gmail.com
EVENT: Who Runs New York? The Labor Movement and the Economy in New York City
DATE: Thursday, May 8th, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Museum of the City of New York
LOCATION: 1220 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
INFO:www.mcny.org/public_programs/all/843.html
EVENT: Gilda's Club NYC's Benefit Luncheon "Celebrating Women Working & Living with Cancer"
DATE: Thursday, May 8th,12pm to 2:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Gilda's Club New York City
LOCATION: The New York Palace Hotel, 455 Madison Avenue
INFO:www.gildasclubnyc.org
EVENT: Benefit for Synchronicity Space Fine Arts
DATE: May 8th, 6pm to 8pm
ORGANIZATION: Synchronicity Space Fine Arts
LOCATION: 106 West 13th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues.)
INFO: 646-230-8199 or benefit@synchronicityspace.com
EVENT: Behind the Book Reading: Kelly McMasters and Abigail Thomas
DATE: Thursday, May 8th, 7pm to 9pm
ORGANIZATION: Behind the Book
LOCATION: KGB Bar, 85 East Fourth Street
INFO:www.behindthebook.org
EVENT: Adobe Illustrator Intermediate Training
DATE: Thursday, May 8th, 9am to 4pm
ORGANIZATION: Computer Training Source
LOCATION: 575 Madison Avenue (between 56th and 57th Streets)
INFO: 212-278-0609 or www.CTStrainingEast.com
EVENT: Free Screening for Diabetes or Glaucoma
DATE: Friday, May 9th, 9am to 2pm
ORGANIZATION: Lenox Hill Hospital's Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Institute
LOCATION: 210 East 64th Street (Between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
INFO: 212-434-2400
EVENT: Does Doing Good Lead to Doing Better? Insights and Challenges, lecture by Sankar Sen
DATE: Friday May 9th
ORGANIZATION: Asian American/ Asian Research Institute, City University of New York
LOCATION: 25 West 43rd Street, 19th Floor
INFO:www.aaari.info or 212-869-0182
EVENT: Miles For Moms Eighth Annual Charity Run/Walk For Cancer Research
DATE: Saturday, May 10th, 9:15am
ORGANIZATION: Miles for Moms
LOCATION: Central Park/NYC
INFO:www.milesformoms.org
EVENT: Celebrate May Day at a book launch for "Viva La Raza"
DATE: Saturday, May 10th, 7:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Freedom Socialist Party and the National Comrades of Color Caucus
LOCATION: Freedom Hall, 113 West 128th Street
INFO: 212-222-0633or www.socialism.com
EVENT: Locked to Picture: New chamber music and video art
DATE/TIME: Saturday, May 10th, 8pm
ORGANIZATION: Avian Music/The Performance Project@University Settlement
LOCATION: 184 Eldridge Street
INFO:www.avianmusic.com
EVENT: Author Talk and Book Signing with Daniel Ostrow
DATE: Saturday, May 10th, 2pm to 4pm
ORGANIZATION: New York Public Library, Chatham Square Branch
LOCATION: 33 East Broadway
INFO:www.nypl.org
EVENT: 29th Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival
DATE: Saturday, May 10th, 12pm to 6pm
ORGANIZATION: Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans
LOCATION: Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (47th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
INFO:www.capaonline.org or 212-989-3610
EVENT: Italian American Writers Assoc. Literary Reading Featuring Fred Misurella and Frank Polizzi
DATE: Saturday, May 10th, 5:45 pm to 7:45 pm
ORGANIZATION: Italian American Writers Assoc.
LOCATION: 29 Cornelia St., Cornelia St. Cafe
INFO: 212-989-9319 or iawa.net
EVENT: "Mason's Who Cook" a Pre Mothers Day tasting event honoring mothers, sisters and special friends
DATE: Saturday May 10th, noon to 6pm
ORGANIZATION: Prince Hall Masons of New York State
LOCATION: 454 West 155th (between St Nicholas and Amsterdam Avenues)
INFO: (917) 940-6062
EVENT: Tribute Concert for Dave Van Ronk
DATE: May 10th, 8pm
ORGANIZATION: Peoples' Voice Cafe
LOCATION: Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33rd St. (between Madison & Park)
INFO: 212-787-3903, www.peoplesvoicecafe.org
EVENT: Mother's Day
DATE: May 11th, 2pm to 5pm
ORGANIZATION: Children's Galleries for Jewish Culture
LOCATION: 515 West 20th Street, Suite 4E
EVENT: An Evening of Music by Michael Hersch for Solo Strings
DATE: Sunday, May 11th, 8pm
ORGANIZATION: Michael Hersch
LOCATION: Merkin Hall, 129 West 67th Street
INFO: 212-501-3330 or www.kaufman-center.org
EVENT: Lecture on Jewish Immigrant Adaptation to America
DATE: Sunday, May 11th, 11am
ORGANIZATION: Museum at Eldridge Street
LOCATION: 12 Eldridge Street, between Canal and Division Streets
INFO:www.eldridgestreet.org
EVENT: Women At Risk Seventeenth Annual Luncheon
DATE: Monday, May 12th, 11:30 am
ORGANIZATION: Women At Risk
LOCATION: The Waldorf-Astoria, Grand Ballroom, Park Avenue
INFO: (212) 305-9525 or mlin@womenatrisknyc.org
EVENT: Performance by Israel Gripka
DATE: Monday, May 12th, 9pm
ORGANIZATION: Kenny's Castaways
LOCATION: 157 Bleeker between Sullivan and Thompson
INFO:www.israelgripka.com or www.kennyscastaways.net
EVENT: Women's Networking
DATE: Mondy, May 12th, 6pm to 8pm
ORGANIZATION: ACCION NY and Women's LINK
LOCATION: Adam Clayton Powell Office Building, 163 West 125th Street
INFO: 212-387-0377 or DPrince@accionnewyork.org,
EVENT: "An Evening of Lullabies"
DATE: Monday, May 12th, 8 pm
ORGANIZATION: Dreamgates Children's Movement
LOCATION: Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th Street at 7th Avenue
INFO: 212.247.7800 or carnegiehall.org
EVENT: In concert-Mike Longo's 18 piece NY State of the Art Jazz Ensemble with vocalist Hilary Gardner
DATE: Tuesday, May 13th
ORGANIZATION: Jazz Tuesdays
LOCATION: The John Birks Gillespie Auditorium in the NY Baha‚i Center-53 East 11th
INFO: 212-222-5159
EVENT: The Great War of the Architects: Religious Architecture in New York during the Victorian Period
DATE: Tuesday, May 13th, 6pm
ORGANIZATION: Metropolitan Chapter, the Victorian Society in America
LOCATION: Donnell Library Auditorium, 20 West 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
INFO:www.metrovsa.org
EVENT: Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York
DATE: May 13th, 6:30pm to 8pm
ORGANIZATION: Gotham Center for NYC History/CUNY
LOCATION: 365 Fifth Avenue, Recital Hall
INFO:www.gothamcenter.org
EVENT: NYPD 22nd Precinct Community Council Meeting
DATE: Tuesday, May 13th, 7pm
ORGANIZATION: New York City Police Department
LOCATION: YMCA, 7W 63rd Street & Various locations
INFO: 212-570-4842 or www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_022.shtml
EVENT: Hank Jones with Gerald Clayton and special guest Roy Hargrove: Jazz concert celebrating the Harlem Stride movement
DATE: Wednesday, May 14th, 7:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Harlem Stage
LOCATION: The Harlem Stage Gatehouse
INFO:www.harlemstage.org
EVENT: "Kids with Asthma Can Do Anything"-Asthma Carnival Celebration For World Asthma Day
DATE: Wednesday, May 14th, 3pm to 5pm
ORGANIZATION: The Mount Sinai Medical Center
LOCATION: 1468 Madison Ave (100th Street)
EVENT: Free Creative Writing Workshop with author Richard Goodman
DATE: Wednesday, May 14th, 7:30pm to 8:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Gotham Writers' Workshop
LOCATION: Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Center (1972 Broadway at 66th Street)
INFO: 212-974-8377 or www.writingclasses.com
EVENT: The New York Continuo Collective: English Opera
DATE: Wednesday, May 14th, 1:15 pm
ORGANIZATION: Midtown Concerts
LOCATION: St. Bartholomew's Church, Park Avenue at 51st Street
INFO: (212) 967-9157 or midtownconcerts@gmail.com
EVENT: Zikrayat Celebrates the Egyptian Movie Musical
DATE: Thursday, May 15th, 7:30pm
ORGANIZATION: City of the World
LOCATION: Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street
INFO: 212-817-8607
EVENT: LOLA's 4th Annual New York City Hepatitis C Walk
DATE: Thursday, May 15th
ORGANIZATION: Latino Organization for Liver Awareness (LOLA)
TIME: Event Day Registration 9:00am to 11:30am. Walk Begins 12 Noon Sharp
LOCATION: Walk begins at Battery Park and concludes at City Hall Park
INFO: 718-720-4370 or www.lola-national.org
EVENT: Sixth Annual Adam Jeffrey Katz Memorial Lecture Series
DATE: Thursday, May 15th, 5pm to 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION: NYU Child Study Center
LOCATION: Columbia Grammar & Preparatory 5 West 93rd Street
INFO: Rachel.bornak@nyumc.org or 212-404-3924
EVENT: CUNY Conference on Asian American Women: Celebrating Successes, Meeting Challenges
DATE: Friday, May 16th, 8:30am to 5pm
ORGANIZATION: Asian American/Asian Research Institute, CUNY
LOCATION: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
INFO: 212-869-0182 or www.aaari.info
EVENT: Cultural Animators: "H" directed by Kaia Calhoun
DATE: Friday, May 16th and Saturday, May 17th, 8pm
ORGANIZATION: Riverside Theater
LOCATION: Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Avenue at 120th Street
INFO:www.theriversidetheatre.org
EVENT: Frees Stroke Alert Screening Fair. Free Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Screenings.
DATE: Friday, May 16th, 11am to 3pm
ORGANIZATION: St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan
LOCATION: 170 W. 12th Street, Cronin Auditorium, 10th Floor
INFO: 1-800-CARE-421
EVENT: Children's Day
DATE: Saturday, May 17th, 1pm to 4:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Midori & Friends in partnership with Sony Wonder Technology Lab
LOCATION: Sony Plaza Public Arcade, 550 Madison Avenue between 55th and 56th Streets
INFO: 212-767-1300 or www.midoriandfriends.org
EVENT: Chelsea Stoop Sale
DATE: May 17th, 11am to 4pm, rain date May 18th
ORGANIZATION: 300 West Block Association
LOCATION: 22nd Street from 7th Avenue to 10th Avenue
INFO: 300westblockassociation@prodigy.net
EVENT: Akua Dixon and Her Swing Quartet Featuring the Hip Hop Blues Project
DATE: Saturday, May 17th, 2pm
ORGANIZATION: Harlem Stage
LOCATION: The Harlem Stage Gatehouse
INFO:www.harlemstage.org
EVENT: Home Design in New York conference
DATE: Saturday, May 17th, 10am to 4pm
ORGANIZATION: Museum of the City of New York
LOCATION: 1220 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
INFO:www.mcny.org/public_programs/all/845.html
EVENT: Cystic Fibrosis Walk
DATE: Saturday, May 17th
ORGANIZATION: St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan
LOCATION: Battery Park
INFO: http://www.svcmc.org/
EVENT: Music for Philip II, Compositions for the Capilla Flamenca by Pierre de Manchicourt
DATE: Saturday, May 17th, 8pm
ORGANIZATION: Polyhymnia
LOCATION: The Church of St. Ignatius of Antioch
INFO: 917-838-4636 or www.polyhymnia-nyc.org
EVENT: P.S. 163 Fair
DATE: Saturday May 17th, 11am to 6pm
ORGANIZATION: P.S.163
LOCATION: 163 West 97th Street (inside park)
INFO: janrc24@aol.com
EVENT: Write-A-Thon
DATE: Saturday, May 17th, 10:30am to 6pm
ORGANIZATION: NY Writers Coalition
LOCATION: NY Center for Independent Publishing, 20 West 44th Street
INFO: 718-398-2883 or www.nywriterscoalition.org
EVENT: 2nd Annual Health and Fitness Day on Roosevelt Island
DATE: Saturday, May 17th, 11am to 4pm
ORGANIZATION: Presented by the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation
LOCATION: Located at Capobianco Field
INFO: 212-832-4540 or www.RIOC.com
EVENT: Free Children's Festival
DATE/TIME: Saturday, May 17th and Sunday, May 18th, noon to 5pm
ORGANIZATION: The National Museum of the American Indian in New York
LOCATION: One Bowling Green between State and Whitehall Streets
EVENT: New York City Labor Chorus
DATE: May 17th, 8pm
ORGANIZATION: Peoples' Voice Cafe
LOCATION: Workmen's Circle, 45 East 33rd St. (between Madison & Park)
INFO: 212-787-3903 or www.peoplesvoicecafe.org
EVENT: The Amazingly Queer Race for Economic Justice: Part scavenger hunt, part obstacle course
DATE: Saturday, May 17th, 11am
ORGANIZATION: Queers for Economic Justice
LOCATION: Check-points throughout the city TBA.
INFO: (212) 564-3608 or QEJRace@gmail.com
EVENT: Major New Exhibition: The Horse
DATE: Opens Saturday, May 17th
ORGANIZATION: American Museum of Natural History
LOCATION: West 79th Street
INFO: 212-769-5200 or www.amnh.org
EVENT: Field Trip: Watershed Bus Tour
DATE: Saturday, May 17th, 8:30am to 5pm
ORGANIZATION: American Museum of Natural History
LOCATION: Guided tour of New York City's Catskill watershed
INFO: 212-769-5200 or www.amnh.org
EVENT: 7th Annual NYPD Memorial 5K Run
DATE: Sunday May 18th, 10am
ORGANIZATION: NYPD Running Club
LOCATION: Liberty and West Street
INFO: 212 978-3732 www.nypdrunningclub.com
EVENT: The Beautiful Treasure: Songs from Near & Far
DATE: Sunday, May 18th, 3pm
ORGANIZATION: Angelica Women Chamber Singers
LOCATION: St. Vincent Ferrer Church, 152 E. 66th St. at Lexington Ave
INFO: (914) 478-3267 or www.angelicavoices.org
EVENT: Motherlode Trio in Concert
DATE/TIME: May 18th, 2:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Church of the Good Shepherd
LOCATION: 543 Main Street, Roosevelt Island
INFO:www.goodshepherdchapel.net
EVENT: Concert: Bach b minor Mass
DATE: Sunday, May 18th, 7pm
ORGANIZATION: Choral Symphony Society
LOCATION: Christ & St. Stephen's Church, 120 West 69th Street INFO: (212) 864-7541 or www.choralsymphonysociety.org EVENT: Action/Abstraction Family Day
DATE: Sunday, May 18th, 2pm
ORGANIZATION: The Jewish Museum
LOCATION: 1109 5th Ave
INFO: 212-423-3337
EVENT: Navh.org Showcase/Vision Awareness
DATE: Sunday, May 18th, 1pm to 4pm
ORGANIZATION: National Assoc. for Visually Handicapped (NAVH)
LOCATION: Einhorn Auditorium, Lenox Hill Hspital, 131 East 76th Street
EVENT: World Hepatitis Awareness Day Event
DATE: Monday, May 19th, 6pm to 8pm
ORGANIZATION: Weill Cornell Medical College and The Center for the Study of Hepatititis C
LOCATION: 1305 York Avenue 2nd Floor
INFO: 646-962-5392
EVENT: Word for Word Poetry: Philip Levine with Edward Hirsch
DATE: Tuesday, May 20th, 6:30 pm
ORGANIZATION: Bryant Park Reading Room
LOCATION: 42nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues
INFO: 212-768-4242 or www.bryantpark.org
EVENT: NYPD 9th Precinct Community Council Meeting, East Village Residents
DATE: Tuesday, May 20th, 7pm
ORGANIZATION: New York City Police Department
LOCATION: NYPD 9th Precinct Station House, 200E 5th Street or 170 Avenue C (Varies)
INFO: 212-477-7826 or www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_009.shtml
EVENT: NYPD 13th Precinct Community Council Meeting, Gramercy Park Residents
DATE: Tuesday, May 20th, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION: New York City Police Department
LOCATION: NYPD 13th Precinct Station House, 230E 21st Street
INFO: 212-477-7427 or www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_013.shtml
EVENT: NYPD 18th (Midtown North) Precinct Community Council Meeting
DATE: Tuesday, May 20th, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION: New York City Police Department & Residents Fountain House
LOCATION: 425 W 47th Street
INFO: 212-767-8447 or www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_018.shtml
EVENT: NYPD PSA #4 Community Council Meeting For Housing Developments in the 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th and 13th Precincts
DATE: Tuesday, May 20th, 7pm
ORGANIZATION: New York City Police Department
LOCATION: NYPD PSA #4, 130 Avenue C at 8th Street
INFO: 212-375-9370
EVENT: Concert of original chamber music works by eight NYCC Composers
DATE: Tuesday, May 20th, 8pm
ORGANIZATION: The New York Composers Circle (NYCC)
LOCATION: Frederick Loewe Theatre, New York University, 35 West 4th Street
INFO: 646-312-3924 or www.nycomposerscircle.com
EVENT: "Subway Moon" with Roy Nathanson and The Jazz Passengers
DATE: Wednesday, May 21st, 6pm
ORGANIZATION: New York Transit Museum
LOCATION: The Cooper Union, The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
INFO: 718-694-1600
EVENT: Word for Word Author Series: Augusten Burroughs
DATE: Wednesday, May 21st, 12:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Bryant Park Reading Room
LOCATION: 42nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues
INFO: 212-768-4242 or www.bryantpark.org
EVENT: NYPD 24th Precinct Community Council Meeting
DATE: Wednesday, May 21st, 7pm
ORGANIZATION: New York City Police Department
LOCATION: NYPD 24th Precinct Station House, 151W 100th Street, Room 206
INFO: 212-678-1803 or www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/precincts/precinct_024.shtml
EVENT: Bachelor's Program Information Session
DATE: Wednesday, May 21st, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION: The New School
LOCATION: 66 West 12th Street
INFO:www.adultba.newschool.edu
EVENT: The 3rd Annual Garage and Tag Sale
DATE: Wednesday, May 21st, 6pm to 8pm
ORGANIZATION: The Bead Society of Greater New York
LOCATION: Fashion Institute of Technology, Bldg. A, 8th Floor, West 27th St. & 8th Ave
INFO: (212) 591-1127 or http://www.nybead.org
EVENT: ARTEK: Cantatas of Francesco Conti
DATE: Wednesday, May 21st, 1:15pm
ORGANIZATION: Midtown Concerts
LOCATION: St. Bartholomew's Church (Chapel), Park Avenue at 51st Street
INFO: (212) 967-9157 or midtownconcerts@gmail.com
EVENT: Free Fiction Writing Class with Novelist Susan Breen.
DATE: Thursday, May 22nd, 7:30pm to 8:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Gotham Writers' Workshop
LOCATION: Barnes & Noble, 396 6th Ave (corner of Sixth Avenue and 8th Street)
INFO: 212-974-8377 or www.writingclasses.com
EVENT: An Evening of Modern Dance: Original Works of Lynn Barr
DATE: Friday May 23rd and Saturday May 24th, 8pm
ORGANIZATION: New Dance Group
LOCATION: 305 West 38th Street at 8th Avenue
INFO: 212-904-1990 or www.ndg.org
EVENT: A Cyclist's History of New York
DATE: Saturday, May 24th, 2 pm
ORGANIZATION: Museum of the City of New York
LOCATION: 1220 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
INFO:www.mcny.org/public_programs/all/848.html
EVENT: American Ballet Theatre Pre-Performance Workshops
DATE: Saturday May 24th, 11am, Le Corsaire
Friday, May 30th, 4:30pm, 890 Broadway
Saturday, May 31st, 9:30am ABTKids
Saturday June 21st The Sleeping Beauty
ORGANIZATION: American Ballet Theatre
LOCATION: Metropolitan Opera House, 150 W. 65th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenue
EVENT: Free Kayaking on the Hudson (with instruction)
DATE: Sunday, May 25th from 10am to 5pm and all Saturdays after through October 12
ORGANIZATION: Summer On the Hudson Festival
LOCATION: 71st Street Soccer Field, Riverside Park South
INFORMATION: Call 311 or www.nyc.gov/parks/soh
EVENT: 21st Loisaida Neighborhood Festival
DATE: Sunday, May 25th, 12pm to 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Loisaida
LOCATION: Avenue C in the East Village
INFO: 212-353-0272 or www.loisaidainc.org
EVENT: Reflections on Citizen Movements: Peace and Politics in the U.S and Japan
DATE: Tuesday, May 27th, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Japan Society
LOCATION: 333 E. 47th St.
Contact: (212) 715-1258 or www.japansociety.org
EVENT: New York Neighborhoods/Development and Preservation: Re-Saving Greenwich Village
DATE: Tuesday, May 27th, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Museum of the City of New York
LOCATION: 1220 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
INFO:www.mcny.org/public_programs/all/849.html
EVENT: On the Waterfront and the Catholic Labor Priests (with screenwriter Budd Schulberg)
DATE: Wednesday, May 28th, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Museum of the City of New York
LOCATION: 1220 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
INFO:www.mcny.org/public_programs/all/850.html
EVENT: Word for Word Author Series: Award Winning Playwright Theresa Rebeck
DATE: Wednesday, May 28th, 12:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Bryant Park Reading Room
LOCATION: 42nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues
INFO: 212-768-4242 or www.bryantpark.org
EVENT: New York Infrastructure: The Steamy Side of New York City
DATE: Thursday, May 29th, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION: Museum of the City of New York
LOCATION: 1220 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street
INFO:www.mcny.org/public_programs/all/851.html
EVENT: Microsoft Project Introduction Training
DATE: Thursday, May 29th, 9am to 4pm
ORGANIZATION: Computer Training Source
LOCATION: 575 Madison Avenue, 10th Floor (between 56th and 57th)
INFO: 212-278-0609 or www.CTStrainingEast.com
EVENT: The Crane Wife
DATE/TIME: Friday, May 30th and Saturday, May 31st, 8pm. Family Matinee May 31st at 3pm
ORGANIZATION: C. Eule Dance and The Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble
LOCATION:The University Settlement, 184 Eldridge (F to 2nd Ave.)
INFO: reservations: 212-453-4532. project.audience@gmail.com
EVENT: Cultural Animators: "Axes to the Roots" directed by Kaia Calhoun
DATE: Friday, May 30th and Saturday, May 31st at 8pm
ORGANIZATION: Riverside Theater
LOCATION: Riverside Church, 91 Claremont Avenue at 120th Street
INFO:www.theriversidetheatre.org
EVENT: ABTKids Performance
DATE: Saturday, May 31st, 11:30am
ORGANIZATION: American Ballet Theatre
LOCATION: Metropolitan Opera House, 150 W. 65th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenue
INFO: (212) 362-6000.
EVENT: Breathe NYC: Asthma Walk 2008
DATE: Saturday, May 31st. Registration begins at 8:30am. Walk begins at 10am.
ORGANIZATION: American Lung Association of the City of New York
LOCATION: Battery Park
INFO: (212) 889 3370 ext. 24 or ahenes@alany.org
EVENT: Sunset Cinema Series, "Nana"
DATE: Saturday, May 31st, 7pm to 10pm
ORGANIZATION: Asian American / Asian Research Institute, CUNY
LOCATION: Columbus Park Pavilion, 67 Mulberry Street
INFO:www.aaari.info
EVENT: The Makaha Sons with Hawaii's Legends and Japan's Best
DATE: Saturday, May 31st, 8pm
ORGANIZATION: U'ilani, Inc.
LOCATION: Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall,
INFO:www.territorialairwaves.com
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