Out & About

| 11 Apr 2016 | 08:41

    Thu 14

    Sneak a PeekAlong West 22nd Street between Eighth and 10th Avenues.

    8-9:30 p.m.

    Sneak a Peek is a street exhibition that features video art works displayed on TVs placed behind the windows of the apartments facing West 22nd Street.

    646-667-7390. www.facebook.com/events/130427954019099/

    The Argonauts: a Salon in Honor of Maggie NelsonBarnard College James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall, West 117th and Broadway.

    6 p.m. Free.

    Join the Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) for a discussion of Maggie Nelson’s widely acclaimed memoir, The Argonauts.

    212-854-2037.

    Fri 15

    Moonlight, Magic, and the NightingaleBloomingdale School of Music, 323 West 108th St.

    7-8 p.m.

    Join BSM voice teacher Katherine Copland for opera arias and songs against the backdrop of night.

    212-663-6021. www.bsmny.org/concerts/april-2016-1

    Barnard/Columbia Dances at Miller TheatreMiller Theater, 2960 Broadway.

    7 p.m. $20/$12 with BC/CUID.

    The Barnard College Department of Dance presents three world premieres along with a revival of excerpts from Trisha Brown’s 1995 spare and richly complex M.O.

    212-854-2037.

    Sat 16

    26th Annual Upper Broadway Spring FestivalBroadway, 110-116 Streets.

    11 a.m.-5 p.m.Free.

    Fun for the whole family. Featuring: arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games and much more.

    212-764-6330. mortandray.com

    Light to Dark West Park Presbyterian Church, 165 West 86th St., (enter on Amsterdam Avenue)

    April 15 and 16 at 8 p.m. $20, cash only

    Watusi Regime III presents a collaborative dancer performance aiming to create a social and immersive experience for both audience and artist.

    www.westparkpresbyterian.org/category/west-park/

    Sun 17

    25th Annual West Side Spring FestivalBroadway, 96-106 Streets.

    11 a.m.-6 p.m.Free.

    Fun for the whole family. Featuring: arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games and much more.

    212-764-6330. mortandray.com

    ‘Sunshine,’ a Musical Play based on ‘Madeline’Merkin Concert Hall, 129 West 67th St.

    11 a.m. $20.

    A musical play based on “Madeline” by Ludwig Bemelmans.

    212-501-3330. www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/sunshine/

    Mon 18

    Community Board 7 Parks & Rec CommitteeBoard Office, 250 West 87th Street,

    7 p.m.

    Department of Parks & Recreation presents on Phase 6 of Riverside Park. Presentation on the Waterline, and Reclaiming NYC’s Old Croton Aqueduct as a civic asset.

    212-362-4008

    Martha Graham’s ‘Blood Memory’New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza

    11 a.m.

    In celebration of the Martha Graham Dance Company’s 90th anniversary, The Library hosts a marathon reading of Graham’s autobiography.

    917-275-6975. www.nypl.org/locations/lpa

    Tue 19

    Great Music in a Great Space Concert SeriesThe Cathedral of Saint John The Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Ave. at 112th Street.

    7:30-9:30 p.m.

    Raymond Nagem, associate organist of St. John the Divine and C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at The Juilliard School, showcases organ music from J.S. Bach’s ‘Prelude and Fugue in D Major.’

    212-316-7540. www.stjohndivine.org

    “Animal Internet”St. Agnes Library, 444 Amsterdam Ave. 5 p.m. Free

    Alexander Pschera discusses how wome 50,000 creatures around the globe — including whales, leopards, flamingoes, bats and snails — are being equipped with digital tracking devices. The data gathered and studied will radically transform our relationship to the natural world.

    212-621-0619. www.nypl.org/locations/st-agnes

    Wed 20

    The Lady From ShanghaiRiverside Library, 127 Amsterdam Ave.

    11:15 a.m. Free

    A seaman becomes involved in the murderous intrigue of a crippled lawyer and his homicidal, frustrated wife. Culminates in a shoot-up in a hall of mirrors. With Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane.

    212-870-1810. www.nypl.org/locations/riverside

    ‘This is London: Life and Death in the World City’Columbia University, International Affairs Building, room 1219

    Noon-1:30 p.m.

    Ben Judah discusses his new book Judah’s writing has featured in The New York Times, the Evening Standard, the Financial Times and Standpoint.

    events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo. jtm2170@columbia.edu