Out & About
Thu 4
Mirror Cells: A Salon The Whitney Museum, 99 Gansevoort St.
6:30–8:30 p.m. $10
The artists from Mirror Cells host a conversation about their work with an interdisciplinary group of scientists, scholars, and curators.
www.whitney.org
Impossible BlossomAnna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, 2 West 13th St.
Free. 12-6 p.m.
This group of paintings from The New School Art Collection has no particular perspective, nor does it serve to illustrate a point other than the sheer possibility/impossibility of it all.
events.newschool.edu
Fri 5
Friday Night Swings Chelsea Piers Golf Club
6:30-8:00 p.m. $40
Practice your driving with the help of professional teachers, complete with an open bar.
www.chelseapiers.com
Penguins of Madagascar Pier 46 in Greenwich Village
Free. 8:30 p.m.
Bring the family out to watch this comedy on the Hudson
www.hudsonriverpark.org
Sat 6
Video Game Tournament Babycastles Gallery, 137 West 14th St.
3-7 p.m. $10
Babycastles is throwing an all day indie video game tournament complete with live announcers, and prizes, including an on spot helicopter ride around Ellis island.
www.babycastles.com/super_rumble/
Poetic Abstraction Max Laniado Gallery 522 West 23rd St.
10:30-6 p.m. Free
Catch the last days of Chinese artist Chhour Kaloon’s celebrated gallery exhibit, featuring works bursting with color and texture.
www.visiodellarte.com
Sun 7
Moon Over Mangroves Hudson Guild Theater 459 West 26th St.
3:30 p.m. $23
On the evening four homeless Key West men are to be given a boat, they meet on the beach to celebrate, but fates twist and taunt their future in this play.
Newyorktheaterfestival.com
Urban Parkour HUB Seventeen, 114 Fifth Ave.
5–6:30 p.m. $20 and RSVP online.
Join us for HUB seventeen’s first Parkour session, where coaches from the Movement Creative will teach new ways to jump, climb, vault, and swing through the urban jungle.
www.hubseventeennyc.com
Mon 8
Big City Fishing Pier 25 in Tribeca
5 p.m. Free
Learn about the Hudson River’s ecosystem first hand by learning how to fish with professional instructors.
www.Hudsonriverpark.org
Sarasota BalletThe Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave.
7:30 p.m. $10
In celebration of its 25th season, the Sarasota Ballet presents the New York City premiere of A Knight of the British Ballet, a program dedicated to the choreography of Sir Frederick Ashton.
www.joyce.org
Tue 9
Roman Ondak: Learning to Walk The High Line at 13th St.
11 a.m.–noon. Free
The Slovakian born artist invites mothers to teach their young children how to walk as part of a performance piece, based on his experience of teaching his own child how to walk.
Art in the ParkMadison Square Park
10 a.m.-noon & 1-3 p.m. Free
Children are provided with materials to create pieces inspired by Big Bling, the park’s current installation
Madisonsquarepark.org
Wed 10
A Toothache SVA Gramercy Gallery, 209 East 23rd St.
Free. 6-8 p.m.
Come from the opening reception of A Toothache, a collection of SVA students’ work selected by a jury their peers.
www.sva.edu
Mindfulness Meditation with Sharon Salzberg The Rubin Museum, 150 West 17th St.
1-1:45 p.m. $15
Mentally unwind with a meditation session led by Sharon Salzberg, author of “Real Happiness.”
www.rubinmuseum.org