Out & About

Thu 12

Half Moon BayCherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street

8 p.m. Tickets start at $18

After a chance encounter in the bar of a bowling alley, two broken hopefuls share a boozy, electric evening. A darkly comic, raw new play about the lovers we take to bed and the strangers we find there in the morning.

www.lesseramerica.com

Author Talk: Ed HamiltonMuhlenberg Library, 209 West 23rd St.

5:30 p.m. Free

Ed Hamilton, author of “Legends of The Chelsea Hotel,” will talk about his new book, “The Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York.”

www.nypl.org/events/

Fri 13

(Un)Silent Film NightThe New School Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Ave.

7 p.m. Free

Jazz student Nathan Kamal’s original score will be played life by the college’s theater orchestra alongside Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “The Birds.”

www.newschool.edu/jazz/events

Ed Atkins, “Performance Capture” The Kitchen, 512 West 19th St.

1:30 p.m. Free

An expansive new work explicitly concerned with how contemporary technologies of representation mediate our lives.

212-255-5793. www.thekitchen.org/

Sat 14

Ninth Avenue Food FestivalNinth Avenue between 42nd and 57th Street

Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Free

Dozens of food, beer and wine vendors from all over the city will be set up along Ninth Avenue, along with live music and games for children.

(212) 581-7029

‘Music from the Roof of the World’Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street

3–4:30 p.m. General admission $20, members $18. Tickets available online.

The premiere of the documentary “Music from the Roof of the World” about one of Tibet’s most important performing artists who has made efforts to preserve Tibetan performing arts traditions.

www.rubinmuseum.org

Sun 15

Book SaleSt. Clements Episcopal Church, 423 West 46th Street

Saturday and Sunday, noon–5 p.m.

Most books will be on sale for $1 and $2 with the proceeds going to the church’s current capital campaign to make building repairs and to fund community programs like the food pantry.

(212) 246-7277

Open Studio at the WhitneyWhitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort St,

10:30 a.m.–3 p.m. Free with museum admission (adults $22, children under 18 free).

Families with children of all ages are invited to get creative at the Whitney’s art space where they can make their own artworks based on works on view in current exhibitions. Each week features a different art-making project.

Mon 16

Community Board 4353 West 30th Street, Community Room

6:30 p.m.

Chelsea Land Use Committee Meeting

212-736-4536

‘Jim: The James Foley Story’CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, 219 West 40th St., room 308

6-9 p.m.

A showing of Brian Oakes’ film about an American photojournalist kidnapped and killed in Syria at the dawn of America’s war with ISIS. Q&A with Oakes follows.

646-758-7700. RSVP essential: events.cuny.edu/

Tue 17

Cuba Festival: DanzAbiertaJoyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave.

7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $10, available online.

As part of the Joyce’s Cuba Festival, dance group DanzAbierta uses the classic Cuban cabaret stage as a metaphor for life, interspersing popular Cuban styles with stark electronic music.

www.joyce.org/calendar

‘Fortune’s Wheel’

Irish Arts Center, 553 West 51st Street

7:30 p.m. $12, tickets available online.

A documentary about the love story between Bill Stephens, a lion tamer, and his wife, Mai, set up in Dublin in 1951 when one of their animals escaped.

www.irishartscenter.org

Wed 18

Design Tour: Elevated DesignThe High Line, exact location provided via email following RSVP

6–7:15 p.m. Free, online RSVP required.

Get an insider’s look at the unique design and architecture elements of the High Line on this free guided tour.

www.thehighline.org/activities/

Grief, Death, Violence, PoliticsRubin Museum, 150 West 17th St.

7-8:30 p.m. $20; members, $18

In a discussion moderated by Sadia Shepard, two Indian-American authors, Hirsh Sawhney (“South Haven”) and Karan Mahajan (“The Association of Small Bombs”), who will talk about their latest novels and discuss political violence in India and its reverberations around the world.

212-620-5000. rubinmuseum.org/