Out & About
Thu 19
FOOTPRINTS: A Modern Dance Festival Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater at the West Side YMCA, 5 West 63rd St.
May 19-21, 7:30 p.m. $15; $10 for students/children; $10 for YMCA NYC members
This second annual dance festival will celebrate innovative works of contemporary dance from diverse new and established voices in NYC dance.
www.ymcanyc.org/
Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre presents FOOTPRINTS: a Modern Dance FestivalMarjorie S. Deane Little Theater, 10 West 64th St.
7 p.m. $10-$15.
This second annual dance festival will celebrate innovative works of contemporary dance from diverse new and established voices in nyc dance. Appropriate for children and adults.
866-811-4111. web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/957283
Fri 20
Rhythms, Repair and RenovationWest Park Presbyterian Church, The Chapel 165 West 86th St. 7-11 p.m.
Offering the UWS a new venue for players and stayers. Bring your talent, instrument, voice, and song, and join us as we share with the UWS community. Sign-up is from 7-7:30 p.m., after which time slots are choosen.
212-362-4890
Amy GustafsonBloomingdale School of Music, 323 West 108th St.
7-9 p.m.
Faculty concert, featuring works by masters of the keyboard influenced by dance, song, culture, and spirit: Bach, Mozart, Debussy and Liszt.
212-663-6021. www.bsmny.org/concerts/may-2016-1
Sat 21
A Tribute to Anna SokolowJackie Onassis School for International Studies Theatre, 120 West 46th St.
7:30 p.m. $14; dance student, $10
on her 116th birthday anniversary, presented by Linda Diamond & Company.
Tickets: 845-679-7757 or reviewddancing@yahoo.com
The Art of the Park TourDairy Visitor Center, mid-Park between 64th and 65th Streets
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $15, print at home only
Discover the Park’s most artfully executed landscapes on this tour led by Central Park Conservancy guides. Highlights of this tour include Sheep Meadow, the Mall, Bethesda Terrace, Bow Bridge, the Ramble and Belvedere Castle.
www.centralparknyc.org/events/
Sun 22
‘Love Your Street Tree Day’
Urban Assembly School for Green Careers, Amsterdam Avenue at West 84th Street
Noon
The Second Annual community gathering for tree care, neighborhood cleanup and beautification day! There will be street tree bed care demonstrations by Trees NY and Goddard Greenkeepers, a worm bin composting demonstration by LES Ecology Center, coffee and snacks provided by Irving Coffee and Jacobs Pickles.
Sign up at loveyourstreetday.eventbrite.com. Questions: info@west80s.org
On the Home Front: Memories and Music of WWIINew York Society for Ethical Culture, Ceremonial Hall - 4th floor, 2 West 64th St.
11 a.m.
Brief stories of how two little girls experienced WWII, interspersed with songs popular (and written) in each of the war years, 1942-45. Lyric sheets will be passed out.
212-874-5210. www.nysec.org/
Mon 23
35th ANNUAL SPIRIT OF THE CITY GALAThe Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Ave., at 112th Street
6:30–9:00 p.m. Starting at $750
Honoring Patti LuPone, the award-winning Broadway, film, and television performer. Moving between chapels to dine at community tables, guests will discover the Cathedral’s Chapels of the Tongues anew and discover culinary delights of the nations represented within each space.
212-316-7540. www.stjohndivine.org/
20th Precinct Community CouncilPrecinct, 120 West 82nd St.
7 p.m.
The precinct’s Community Council meetings are usually held the fourth Monday of each month (except July and August).
212-580-6411
Tue 24
CB 7 Health & Human Services CommitteeCommunity Board office, 250 West 87th St.
7 p.m.
Panel discussion on domestic violence.
212-362-4008. www.nyc.gov/mcb7.
An Evening with Leon Botstein and Barbara Haskell The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West,
6:30 pm, $38; members, $24
Join us for a unique experience with musical historian Leon Botstein and renowned curator and art historian Barbara Haskell as they discuss the influence of folk art, popular culture, and classicism on composers and artists of the 1920s and ’30s.
212-873-3400. www.nyhistory.org/
Wed 25
Cunningham’s ‘Points in Space’New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Third Floor Screening Room
1 p.m. Seating is first come, first served.
David Vaughan, aka The Dance Historian, will introduce and screen Cunningham’s videodance “Points in Space.” Filmmaker Elliot Caplan will be on hand to introduce.
917-275-6975. www.nypl.org/locations/lpa
Bloomingdale Neighborhood Walking Tour Meet at Straus Park, 106th & Broadway
6-7 p.m. Free
With Upper West Side historian Jim Mackin.
212-666-9774. info@columbusamsterdambid.org