Monday, April 23,
Philip Glass, the Bill Frisell trio, the Clogs, and other perform while experimental gems -- including Harry Smith's "Abstractions" are screened. Jonas Mekas, one of the Film Maker's Cooperative's founders will accompany his own films on vocals and with the band Now We Are Here.
Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts, 172 Norfolk St., NY NY
Tuesday, April 24, 6:00, 8:30 & 10:30
Patti Smith will perform three 30-minute concerts which will include acoustic music, spoken word performances, and in-concert surprise shows.
Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey Street, NY NY
Wednesday, April 25, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Shin-pei Tsay and Lisa Chamberlain invite one and all to raise a glass to Jane Jacobs on the first anniversary of her passing, April 25, at the White Horse. Darren Walker, VP of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Alex Washburn, the first ever Chief of Urban Design for NYC, will both talk for a few minutes.
White Horse Tavern, Hudson & West 11th St., NY NY
Wedneday, April 25, 7:00 p.m. (refreshments at 6:30 p.m.)
Chelsea Tenant Action Committee Bilingual Housing Forum. Learn how you can protect yourself from landlord harassment and more. Panelists include Benjamin Dulchin (Deputy Director for Neighborhood and Housing Development), Wassim Lone (from the Good Old Lower East Side) and Lauren George (from the Citizens Committee for New York City). Daniel Peckham will also speak.
John Lovejoy Elliott Center, 441 West 26th St., NY NY
Thrusday, April 26, 10:30 p.m.
Susanne Bartsch and Kenny Kenny say goodbye to Tuesday and hello to Thursday with Kino 41. Kino 41 starlets: Amanda Leopore, Lady Fag, Moondust, Furey and Andre J. Cine Sounds & Show: TBD . Life is Like a Movie. Stop by every Thursday for your close up.
135 West 41st, NY NY
Patti Smith and Sam Shepherd will take the stage along with spoken-word poet and musician Saul Williams, Nona Appleby (aka Victoria Roberts, cartoonist for The New Yorker), and one or two other surprise guests. Pull up a chair, grab a martini from the bar, sit back, and enjoy the show.
The Bowery Ball Room, 6 Delancey, NY NY
Sunday, April 29, 4:30 p.m. - FREE
Two compositions by Gerald Busby, The Beard Songs and Speak, a saxophone quartet, is being performed by an ensemble of students from the Manhattan School of Music. Gerald Busby is best known for his film score for Robert Altman’s "3 Women," which received international critical acclaim and was issued as a DVD in the Criterion Collection of classic films. His dance score for Paul Taylor’s "Runes" has had hundreds of performances since its premier in Paris and was featured on the PBS Great Performances series, Dance in America. It is now available on the Nonesuch label. With playwright Craig Lucas, Busby wrote the opera Orpheus in Love, which premiered in New York at the Circle Repertory Company. Gerald also hosts a radio show, "Collaborations." (Photo of Gerald is by Mia Hanson)
John Stevenson Gallery, 338 West 23rd St., NY NY
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