Top 5 Picks for the Week
MUSIC
Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum
Juilliard415, the school’s period-instrument ensemble, joins with Yale’s chamber choir Schola Cantorum for a varied program that includes Beethoven’s “Mass in C Major” along with Daniel Kellogg’s contemporary composition, “Shout Joy!” with text from works by author and poet Madeleine L’Engle, as well as series’ by Roderick Williams and Franz Joseph Haydn.
Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum
Saturday, May 2
Lincoln Center
Alice Tully Hall
1941 Broadway, between W. 65th and W. 66th Streets
8 p.m.
Tickets $20
To purchase tickets, visit events.juilliard.edu or call the Alice Tully Hall box office at 212-721-6500
LEARN
High Line as Habitat
The High Line’s horticulturalist Maryanne Stubbs takes visitors on a walking tour of the elevated park and its gardens, and discusses how insects and migratory birds take advantage of the park’s flora.
High Line as Habitat
Saturday, May 2
High Line
(exact location sent via email)
8 a.m.
FREE, RSVP required at http://www.thehighline.org/activities/tour-high-line-as-habitat
For more information, visit thehighline.org or call 212-206-9922
DANCE
Movement Speaks
Dances for a Variable Population, a multigenerational dance company with a focus on bringing dance to seniors, joined with Goddard Riverside Senior Center to create an original dance piece featuring members of the center alongside the company’s professional dancers.
Movement Speaks
Wednesday, May 6
Goddard Riverside Senior Center
593 Columbus Ave., at W. 88th Street
1:45 p.m.
FREE
For more information, visit www.dvpnyc.org/ or call 347-683-2691
FILM
New York African Film Festival
This annual film festival, now in its 22nd year, returns to Film Society with six days of short films and features from filmmakers working in Africa and in the diaspora. The festival opens with South African director Carey McKenzie’s “Cold Harbour” a noir drama centered on township cop Sizwe, who uncovers corruption within his department, and also screens “Red Leaves,” about an Ethiopian immigrant living in Israel, from emerging director Bazi Gete.
New York African Film Festival
May 6-12
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, 144 W. 65th St.
Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St., near Amsterdam Avenue
Assorted show times
Tickets $14, or $33 for three films
To purchase tickets, visit filmlinc.com or call the box office at 212-875-5601
GALLERIES
Yigal Ozeri: Recent Work
Israeli painter Yigal Ozeri’s portraits are so realistic that viewers would be forgiven for confusing them with photographs. His young female subjects, alone in dramatic landscapes, are often bathed in light and fashionably dressed, as if styled for a fashion magazine spread. Ozeri’s mid-career retrospective in a pair of Manhattan galleries includes recent work and never-before-seen portraits.
Yigal Ozeri: Recent Work
May 7-June 17
Louis K. Meisel Gallery
141 Prince St., near West Broadway
Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery
37 W. 57th St., between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
FREE
For more information, visit meiselgallery.com or bernarduccimeisel.com, or call 212-677-1340 or 212-593-3757