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Battery Park City Neighbors and Parents’ Association

www.bpcnpa.com

free for senior citizens Free shopping trips to Pathmark for Senior Citizens every Thurs. There are two van pick-up spots at 8:45am on River Terrace across from Pan Latin and at 9am on South End Ave. & Rector Place. The van leaves Pathmark at 11am for the return trip to BPC. Sponsored by BPCNPA and the Downtown Alliance. For reservations, please contact Ella Reape at 212-945-2197.

Battery Park City Parks Conservancy

2 South End Avenue • 212-267-9700 • www.bpcparks.org

ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION Kids, teens and adults show their work created in BPCPC’s painting & drawing programs. Continues weekdays from 2 to 4pm thru March 31. Free.

Church Street School of Music and Art

74 Warren St. • 212-571-7290

Drama Workshop Free workshops will be lead by a group of experienced drama therapists and professional artists. Groups available for ages 7-11, 12-15, as well as adults. Continues thru May. Free.

Downtown Alliance

Downtown Third Thursdays Join Joan H. Geismar, urban archeologist who discovered a 92-foot ship buried in the South Street Seaport, for a lecture on “Is it Trash or Treasure,“ reflections on historical debris. Thurs., March 16 at 7pm. Seaman’s Church Institute, South Street Seaport, 241 Water St. Free. Reservations required. Call 212-835-2773 beginning the first day of March.

Historic Downtown Walking Tour A free 90-minute walking tour exploring the historic area around City Hall. An expert guide will reveal the area’s architectural marvels and colorful characters. Tuesdays at noon. Meet at the New York City Tourism Center on Broadway bet Vesey & Barclay Sts. 212-606-4064.

Wall Street Walking Tour A free 90-minute guided walking tour weaving together the history, events architecture and people of Downtown. Thursdays and Saturdays at noon. Meet at the steps of the National Museum of the American Indian, One Bowling Green. 212-606-4064.

Educational Alliance Art School

197 E. Broadway, bet Jefferson & Clinton Sts. • 212-780-2300 x378

Parent/ Artist Discussion Come for a panel discussion exploring the conflicts of being a parent and a working artist. Sun., March 5 from 2-4pm. Free, donations accepted to cover refreshments.

Writers at the Alliance A new reading series bringing together established and emerging novelists, poets and essayists whose work, in both form and content, reflects the energy, divsersity and history of dissent which have always characterized the Lower East Side. On Mon., March 6 from 7-9pm, hear readings by Heather McGowan, Honor Moore and Frederic Tuten., Free.

The Hallmark of Battery Park City Retirement Community

455 North End Avenue • 917-522-1318

caregiver support group Every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month from 6:30 – 8:15pm. Co-sponsored by the Alzheimer’s Association.

League for the Hard of Hearing

50 Broadway, 6th Floor • 917-305-7766

Free Hearing Screenings Every Tues. from 12-2pm and every Thursday from 4-6pm. Call to make an appointment.

Murry Bergtraum High School

411 Pearl St • www.NorthRiverSquadron.org • 212-217-2900

Basic Boating Course A good beginning course for anyone interested in pleasure boating, either sail or power, and a good refresher course for those with experience. Offered by North River Sail and Power Squadron, a nonprofit boating organization. The eight week course begins March 28. Classes are Tuesdays from 6:30 – 8:30pm. Register on the first or second night of classes.

New York Industrial Retention Network

Annual Fundraising Breakfast and Trade Show Program is to honor Douglas Durst, CEO of the Durst Organization, Gail Mellow, President of LaGuardia Community College, and the NYC Manufacturer of the Year. Wed., May 3 from 8-10:30am. Bridgewaters, 11Fulton St. For more information, contact 212-404-6990.

New York Law School

57 Worth Street., bet Church St & West Broadway • 212-431-2115

City Law Breakfast Join Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President, for “His Vision for the Borough.” Fri., Feb. 24 at 8:15am. Free.

The Roxy

515 W. 18th St. at 10th Ave. • www.Smarttix.com

AIDS Benefit Enjoy a bit of the Big Easy in the Big Apple with MANHATTAN MARDI GRAS. This special event will benefit NO / AIDS Task Force, a New Orleans based AIDS organization that was virtually wiped out by hurricane Katrina. Headliners include M.C. Hammer ( "U Can’t Touch This" & "2 Legit 2 Quit") and dance music diva Barbara Tucker. The party will also feature DJ Chip Duckett spinning the biggest dance hits of the 70s, 80s, 90s and today, gorgeous go-go girls and boys, The Glamazons and Billionaires for Bush . Tues., Feb. 28. Doors open at 10pm. Dancing until 2am. $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Mardi Gras beads and masks will be available for purchase. 21+ to enter.

South Street Seaport

Fulton and South Streets • www.southstseaport.org

Through the Fish’s Eye Over the past two years, artist Naima Rauam documented the final months of life and work in the Fulton Fish Market. Come as she presents a slide lecture of her work and get a sneak preview of this photography project produced by an artist who has spent most of her career painting and photographing the market and Seaport District. Wed., March 1 at 7pm. Melville Gallery, 213 Water St. between Fulton & Beekman Sts. $6, $3 members. 212-748-8786.

New York Packet Come for an evening celebrating songs of the Atlantic packet ships, New York’s Sailortown and Irish-America, featuring banjo, guitar and passionate vocals. Sun., March 5 at 3 pm. Melville Gallery, 213 Water St. bet Fulton & Beekman Sts. $5 adults, $2 kids. 212-748-8735.

Jonathan Lethem Book Talk New York Review of Science Fiction presents Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude. Tues., March 7 at 7pm. Melville Gallery, 213 Water St. bet Fulton & Beekman Sts. $5 suggested donation. 212-748-8735.

Torchlight Tour Explore the preserved ruins of the Fulton Ferry Hotel, step back in time with a sneak peek of the museum’s renovation of historic Schermerhorn Row. Take a guided tour of the building and get a behind the scenes look at areas not yet open to the public, including original rooms from the Fulton Ferry Hotel made famous in Joseph Mitchell’s Up in the Old Hotel. Wed., March 15 at 6 pm. 12 Fulton St., bet. Front & South Sts. $10, $8 members. Reservations suggested. 212-748-8786.

Tuesday Evening Hour

49 Fulton St. • 212-385-3650

French Polynesia Join Jesus Salillas for a digital Power Point presentation on Paradise Island reefs and whales. Tues., March 7 at 6:30pm. $2 donation.

Padova, Trieste & Capodistria View a slideshow lecture on Italy & Slovenia with Vlassios Pyrpyris. Tues., March 14 at 6:30pm. $2 donation.

Iceland Join Phyllis and Geoffry Cohl for a slide show lecture on glaciers, geysers and geothermal springs. Tues., March 21 at 6:30pm. $2 donation.

World Financial Center

Winter Garden, West Street bet. Vesey & Liberty Sts • 212-945-0505 • For information, call 212-904-1330

Dance Sizzles Enjoy a series of dance presentations. Enjoy the animated puppetry and energetic dancing of Batoto Yetu on Feb. 22 at 12:30pm. Andrea Haenggi will perform a world premiere site-specific dance work entitled “escalator” for four performances on March 10 & 11 at 7 & 8:30pm. Last Christine Jowers/Moving Arts Projects performs an unusual mix of modern dance history and fantasy in Isadora and the Dancing Goddesses of NYC on March 22 at 12:30 & 8pm. Free.

Yamuna Studio

132 Perry Street • www. yamunastudio.com • 212-633-2143

Free Dancer’s Workshop Yamuna Body Rolling helps heal and prevent injuries. With small balls specially designed by Yamuna Zake, you can roll out every muscle group and free your body’s restrictions. You will elongate your individual muscles, increase your flexibility and help keep your body properly aligned. Workshop is offered the third Saturday of the month to professional dancers from 4-6pm. Please RSVP the Friday before and present proper identification.

Exhibits

American Indian Community House Gallery

708 Broadway, 2nd Floor

From Manhattan to Menatay Enjoy works by Star Wallowing Bull and Janice Toulouse Shingwaak. Exhibit continues thru Feb. 25.

ApexArt

291 Church Street • 212-431-5270

Neo-Sincerity Approaching black comedy as social protest and profundity, the exhibit takes its title from a phrase coined by artist Art Spiegelman to describe his antic attack on the primal, universal and unpalatable. Thru April 1.

Asian American Arts Centre

26 Bowery • 212-233-2154

The Annual Lunar New Year Festival & Exhibition Featuring an exhibition of Nuo Masks (Thru Mar. 10) & an exhibition of Tibetan Thangka paintings (Thru Mar. 10) .

DFN Gallery

176 Franklin St., bet Greenwich & Hudson Sts.

New Paintings by David Shevlino This recent work explores the physical relationship between urban landscapes and the objects that fill them, or leave them startlingly vacant. Thru March 4.

Educational Alliance Art School

197 East Broadway bet Jefferson and Clinton Sts • 212-780-2300 x 378/428

Seeing Elsewhere Exhibit addresses questions of representation as it relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The work represents a new generation of artists investigating the way related images construct our historical memory and influence our perception of events. March 15 – May 15. Panel discussion on Wed., March 15 from 6:30-7:30 and reception from 7:30-9pm.

Ethan Cohen Fine Arts

18 Jay St., bet Hudson & Greenwich • 212-625-1250

NEW CHINESE OCCIDENTALISM A show about artists whose work is at the cusp of an art world wrestling with a contradiction. Chinese art made in America, has up until recently, gone relatively unnoticed. This show is the first to address this special community and focus on its lineage and contribution. Thru Feb. 28.

Gigantic ArtSpace

59 Franklin St • 212-226-6762

Artificial Afrika An exhibition that considers contemporary artistic appropriations of African visual culture through mythology, religious traditions, musical forms and other culturally-specific practices. Continues thru March 17.

Invisible NYC

n148 Orchard St. • 212-228-1358

Grime A solo exhibit of mixed-media self-portraits by Grime addressing ideas such as life, death, beauty and consumerism. Thru March 25.

National Museum of the American Indian

One Bowling Green • 212-514-3700 • www.americanindian.si.edu

Women’s History Month Lecture Join Winona LaDuke and Gail Small for a lively dialogue about their commitment to preserve Native lands against the ravages of environmental abuse. The lecture will be followed by a book signing of LaDuke’s “Recovering the Sacred.” Thurs., March 16 at 6pm. Collector’s Office.

Arctic Transformations An exhibition of the jewelry of Denise and Samuel Wallace. This 25-year retrospective includes 150 works created from silver, gold, fossil ivory and semi-precios stones. March 2 – July 23.

Lorenzo Clayton: Expeditions of the Spirit View 20 large-scale mixed media assemblages and works on paper. Works investigate religious and philosophic world views and reflect the artist’s belief that forms of abstraction can reveal the core of human experience. Thru April 9.

gallery discussion Every Mon. – Fri. come for an informal gallery discussion with one of the museum’s cultural interpreters. Rotunda, 2nd floor. 2pm.

Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust

36 Battery Place

Jewish Life Photography In Bukharan Odyssey, photographer Zion Ozeri presents his body of work depicting Jewish life around the world. Thru March 12.

Mela Foundation

275 Church Street, 3rd Floor (between Franklin & White Sts.) • 212-925-8270

“Dream House: Seven + Eight Years Of Sound And Light” Composer La Monte Young and visual artist Marian Zazeela produce a collaborative sound and light environment utilizing concepts of structural symmetry. Thursdays and Saturdays from 2pm until midnight. $4 contribution.

PhotoGraphic Gallery

252 Front Street • 212-227-2287

Fulton Fish Market View portraits by Barbara Mensch of the men of the Fulton Fish Market and Kenneth Van Sickle. March 18 – April 30.

The War in Iraq View 4 Unembedded Photojournalists in Iraq: Kael Alford, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Thorne Anderson and Rita Leistner. May 6 – June 4. .

South Street Seaport

12 Fulton St., 212-748-8600

The Lost Waterfront An exhibition of photographs depicting the Hudson River waterfront in Greenwich Village . Taken more than 30 years ago, the photos document a time when the waterfront was in transition from a strictly commercial past to a recreationally oriented future. Photos are by Shelley Seccombe. Thru Oct. 31.

Synagogue for the Arts

49 White Street • 212-966-7141

Still Lifes, Interiors & Flowers Paintings and Collages by ArinaMalukova with imagery inspired by architecture and ornamental art including geometric and organic forms with an attention to surface and borders. Continues thru Feb 26.

Subways of New York A group show by Members of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors consisting of paintings, drawings and prints of elevated cars, the people who ride the trains, transit workers and the stations themselves. Opening reception is March 2 from 6-8pm. Continues thru April 2.

Tribeca Gallery Association

Second wednesday nights The galleries of the Tribeca Gallery Association will offer an open gallery night on Wed., March 8 from 6-8pm. Participating galleries include: Art in General, 79 Walker St; Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts,13 Jay St; DFN Gallery, 176 Franklin St; Franklin 54 Gallery, 54-56 Franklin St; Gigantic Art Space, 59 Franklin St; Latin Collector, 153 Hudson St; MELA Foundation, 275 Church St; and Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, 86 Walker St.

World Financial Center

Winter Garden, West Street bet. Vesey & Liberty Sts • 212-945-0505 • For information, call 212-904-1330

The Art of African Puppetry Exhibition features nearly 100 animated puppets, marionettes and puppet sculptures used in traditional and contemporary theatrical performances from two of Africa’s most respected and popular companies, the Handspring Puppet Theater of South Africa and the Sogolon Troupe from Mali. Thru April 15.

Music

BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

Peter J. Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave. bet Ashland Pl and St. Felix St., Brooklyn • 718-636-4100

The Brooklyn Philharmonic Nicholas Leichter and his company, nicholasleichterdance present a full-length dance performance to Carl Orff’s secular paean to earthly love, student life and ribald frivolity, “Carmina Burana.” Sat., Feb. 25 at 8pm. $20 – $60.

DEKK

134 Reade Street • 212-941-9401

jazz brunch Join “The Tony DiGregorio Trio” as they perform original compositions and the music of Duke, Django, Monk, Mulligan and more. No Cover. No Minimum. Every Sunday from 1- 4pm.

live jazz The jazz group Rifftide, with Bryant DuPre and Roman Ivanoff, performs each Monday from 7 -10 pm. No cover.

Julia Richman Auditorium

317 E. 67th St. at Second Ave.

New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble Concert Featuring Beethoven’s Symphony # 3 "Eroica" and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto # 1 with soloist Steven Graff. Rescheduled for Sun., Feb. 26 at 3pm. $10 suggested admission, $7 seniors.

Knitting Factory

74 leonard st • www.knittingfactory.com • 212-219-3006

Upcoming Shows Fri, Feb 24: Ariel Pink, Psychic Ills, Belong & Rusty Santos. Sat, Feb 25: Anime Exodus. Sun, Feb 26: The Onion presents Moistboyz featuring Dickie and Mickie Moist & Wineskin. Mon, Feb 27: The Honorary Title, Limbeck, Koufax & Cory Branan. Tue, Feb 28: Corey Crowder, Story Side B, Woodale, Orange Park & Forever Changed. Thu, March 2: US Air Guitar Championships with special musical guests Gods of Fire. Fri, March 3 :The Clipse. Sat, March 4: Whitehouse, Wolf Eyes & Pig Destroyer . Sat, March 4: Ester Drang & Metal Hearts.

Tribeca Performing Arts

Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers St., bet Greenwich & West Sts • 212-220-1460

Highlights in Jazz I Love a Piano, enjoy music by Barbara Carroll with Jay Leonhart & Joe Ascione. Also hear the sounds of the Cyrus Chestnut Trio. Barbara Carroll is an elegant jazz pianist, composer and vocalist who has long been regarded as one of the most fascinating purveyors of swinging jazz piano. Thurs., March 9 at 8pm. $30, $27.50 students.

Trinity Church

Broadway & Wall Street

Concerts at One Series The Ensemble Corund will present a program featuring songs by Frederick Delius, Ralph Vaughn Williams and Dominick Argento. Thurs., March 2 at 1pm. $2 suggested donation. 212-602-0747.

Theater

Atlantic Theater Company

336 W. 20th St. • 212-645-8015

THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE Playwright Martin McDonagh’s black comedy is the tale of Padraic, a terrorist with no feelings for those he blows up but has an obsessive attachment to his cat Thomas. Performance is not for children.

Dixon Place

258 Bowery • 212-219-0736

OLSEN TERROR In the course of a long sleepless night, a man tries to resist the fact that he is turning into the Olsen Twins. Equal parts performance art, musical comedy, b-movie, and Kafkaesque cabaret, Olsen Terror is a creepily fun exploration of America’s obsession with celebrity, youth, addiction and greed. Mondays at 8pm. Thru March 31. $10-$12.

HERE Arts Center

145 Sixth Ave., one block below Spring St. • 212-868-4444

Phenomenon A multi-media theatrical event set in 1980 just 24 hours prior to the infamous eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Phenomenon takes a look at the impact of this historic event through up-close stories of various people in the town including a waitress, a busboy, a journalist, a geologist and a cowboy. As these citizens go about their daily lives, the stage is set for a look at the interaction between mundane moments and a natural disaster. March 3 – 25, Thurs. – Mon. at 8:30pm. $18. .

Gene Frankel Theater

24 Bond St., bet Lafayette & Bowery • 212-868-4444

Shiloh rules Set on the eve of the reenactment of the Battle of Shiloh, one of the bloodiest encounters in the Civil War. Rival Civil War buffs begin the battle prematurely setting off a firestorm. Six women caught in the drama fight each other, help each other and learn that there is more to remembering the Civil War than costumes and bandages. Appropriate for ages 13 and up. March 18 – April 9. $18.

La MaMa ETC

First Floor Theater, 74A E. Fourth St. • 212-475-7710

Death and the Ploughman This lyrical prose poem is based on the 1947 English translation. The staging will include music and movement with imagery drawn from medieval illuminated manuscripts and paintings of Bosch and Breughel. Thru Feb. 26, Thurs. – Sat. at 8:00 pm, Sun. at 2:30pm and 8pm. $15.

Minetta Lane Theater

18 Minetta Lane • 212-420-8000

The music teacher A unique blend of theatre and opera, the work tells a story of creation and sexual obsession in which a younger teacher and his brilliant female student conceive and perform a new opera. Thru April 8, official opening is March 6. Mon. – Sat. at 8pm and Sat. at 2pm. $50.

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