Out & About

| 06 Dec 2016 | 04:03

    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