Out & About

Thu 8

Xaviera Simmons: CODEDThe Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street

Dec. 8 and Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. $15

Xaviera Simmons continues the CODED project with a new movement-based performance that mines art-historical, online and archival images.

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

‘Sins of the Flesh’Cinepolis, 260 West 23rd St.

9:50 p.m. $13-15

Part of the African Diaspora International Film Festival, Egyptian director Khaled el Hagar’s 2016 feature considers love, revenge, passion and the misuse of power that illustrates the larger conflicts in the country.

nyadiff.org/

Fri 9

MATH AND MANDALAS: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPThe Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th St.

4-7:30 p.m. Free for teachers in NYCDOE Title 1 Schools

This professional development workshop will share information about mandalas through gallery conversations, movement activities, and art making.

212-620-5000. rubinmuseum.org/events/events

Teen Event: UnravelWhitney Museum, 99 Gansevoort St. Floor 3

4-7 p.m. Free for teens

Youth Insights Leaders invite NYC teens to celebrate the moving image at Teen Event: Unravel.

youthinsights@whitney.org. whitney.org/Events

Sat 10

LGBT Philosophy ForumMuhlenberg Library, 209 West 23rd St.

2:45-4:45 p.m. All are welcome

For over 15 years the Forum has provided the LGBT community and its friends an open opportunity to gather and informally discuss important works of philosophy.

212-924-1585. www.nypl.org/events/calendar

Neighborhood Tree Lighting and Holiday ConcertFulton Houses, West 17th St. between Ninth and 10th Avenues & Fulton Senior Center, 119 Ninth Ave.

5:30-8 p.m.

Celebrate the holidays with a neighborhood tree lighting and holiday concert.

212-206-9922. www.thehighline.org/activities

Sun 11

New School State of Hip HopEugene Lang College, 65 West 11th St. Wollman Hall

3-6 p.m. Free

An afternoon of interactive presentations, performances and panel discussions addressing the State of Hip Hop Music, Culture and Community, prompted by student-developed inquiry.

212-229-5600. events.newschool.edu/

EC: MOTHERAnthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave.

3:30 p.m.

Essential Cinema screening of the film that established Pudovkin as one of the major figures of the Soviet cinema.

212-505-5181. anthologyfilmarchives.org/

Mon 12

CB2 Quality of Life MeetingLittle Red School House, 272 Sixth Ave. Auditorium

6:30 p.m.

Application to install planters on Prince St. and presentation on the 311 system.

212-979-2272. www.nyc.gov/html/mancb2

Cell Phone Buying Guide: SmartphonesMulberry Street Library, 10 Jersey St.

1-3 p.m. First come, first served

Learn about the differences in smartphones to determine which phone is the best one for you.

212-966-3424. www.nypl.org/events/calendar

Tue 13

STATE OF THE UNION: Poetry of WitnessJefferson Market Library, 425 Sixth Ave.

6-8 p.m. Free

This event presents writers Camille Rankine and Janani Balasubramanian, who write poetry in response to their experience of America.

212-243-4334. events.nyu.edu/

Embracing SurvivalEdmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Pl.

7 p.m. Free

Umunyana recounts how she barely survived the Rwandan Genocide after being separated from her family and how she coped in the aftermath of the massacre.

646-437-4202. www.mjhnyc.org/calendar.html

Wed 14

Guided Tour of Hanne Darboven and Kishio SugaDia:Chelsea, 541 and 545 West 22nd St.

6:30-8 p.m.

New York City joins us for an educator-led tour of Dia’s newest installations.

212-293-5602. www.diaart.org/sites/main/chelsea

Crafternoon: Ornaments!Battery Park City Library, 175 North End Ave.

4 p.m. Free for children ages 5 and older

Join us to make your very own ornament.

212-790-3499. www.nypl.org/events/calendar