Out & About
Thu 12
Film Matinee — AlohaMuhlenberg Library, 209 West 23rd St.
The Library’s Thursday film series continues with the Cameron Crowe directed feature starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, and Bill Murray.
212-924-1585. www.nypl.org/events/programs/2015/11/12/muhlenberg-library-thursday-afternoon-film-matinee-presents-aloha
Music Workshop Series at Trinity ChurchTrinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street.
6-7:30 p.m. Free.
Enrich and expand your musical skillset (vocal skills, sight-reading, musicology, hymnology) at this workshop series led by Julian Wachner and Trinity’s music staff. All levels and ages welcome.
212-602-0800. www.trinitywallstreet.org
Fri 13
Tribeca New Music Festival Opens with Jerome Kitzke CelebrationDiMenna Center, 450 West 37th St.
7-9 p.m. $20-35.
Marking the commencement of the 2015-16 Tribeca New Music festival, An american maverick | jerome kitzke AT 60 celebrates composer-storyteller jerome kitzke in a two-night concert series.
www.tribecanewmusic.org
MOBY-DICK: A MARATHON READINGWhitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort St.
11 a.m.-10 p.m. Free with museum admission.
In dialogue with Frank Stella’s “Moby Dick” series, artists and writers read Herman Melville’s epic novel “Moby-Dick; or, The Whale” in the Whitney’s fifth-floor galleries. The two-day event culminates on the 164th anniversary of the novel’s publication.
212-570-3600. whitney.org/Events/MobyDickAMarathonReading
Sat 14
Abraham.In.MotionThe Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave.
2 & 8 p.m. $10 and up
Highlighting the program — “The Gettin’,” featuring music by Grammy Award-winning jazz artist Robert Glasper and his trio, who reimagine Max Roach’s We Insist! Freedom Now Suite, and the New York premiere of “Absent Matter,” a new work created in collaboration with Blue Note recording artist Otis Brown III, multimedia artist Tahir Hemphill and costume designer Karen Young.
212-242-0800. www.joyce.org/performance/abraham-in-motion/#.VkDL-rerTIU
Artists on Artists Lecture Series Dia Chelsea, 535 West 22nd St., 5th Floor
6:30 p.m. $10 general admission; $6 admission for students and seniors, Free for Dia members
Scott Lyall on On Kawara
212 989 5566. www.diaart.org/events/main/697
Sun 15
a Conversation Between axis Dance Company and Heidi Latsky DanceNYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Pl.
8:30 p.m. Free.
NYU Skirball, in collaboration with Dance/NYC, presents a conversation between axis Dance Company and Heidi Latsky Dance. Join us for a discussion with Judith Smith, Artistic Director of axis Dance.
212-966-4452. www.dance.nyc
IN:PICTURES The Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St.
3 p.m., $30
Discussion with artist and writer Frank Miller in which he revisits the three films that have most inspired his journey as the fabled re-inventor of the comic book form.
www.frankmillerlive.com/
Mon 16
Community board 4353 W. 30th St. between Eighth and ninth, Community Room
6:30 p.m.
The Board’s Chelsea Land Use committee meets.
212-736-4536. www.nyc.gov/html/mancb4/html/calendar/calendarnew.shtml
The Kitchen Benefit Art AuctionThe Kitchen, 512 West 19th St.
7–9 p.m. $150
Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and silent auction, with a special performance by Emily Sundblad and Matt Sweeney.
212-255-5793. www.thekitchen.org/event/the-kitchen-benefit-art-auction-2015
Tue 17
Hetrick-Martin Institute’s Emery After PartyCipriani Wall Street, 55 Wall St.
9:30 p.m. $65.
Party for a cause, and enjoy open bar and desert bar, at Hetrick-Martin Institute’s 2015 Emery Awards After Party. Featuring celebrity DJ Andy Bell of Erasure.
212-674-2400. www.hmi.org/emeryafterparty2015
working writers reading series: Ada Limón Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street
1-2 p.m.
Limón, the author of four books of poetry, “Lucky Wreck,” “This Big Fake World,” “Sharks in the Rivers” and “Bright Dead Things,” was one of the judges for the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry. She is currently working on a book of essays and a novel.
212-220-8270. events.cuny.edu/eventDetail.asp?EventId=67907
Wed 18
MEMORY, trauma and resilience panelIntrepid Sea Air & Space Museum, Pier 86 (46 Street and 12 Avenue).
7:30 p.m. $10-$20.
The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum will host Memory, Trauma and Resilience, an exciting evening with renowned scientists discussing breakthroughs in our understanding of memory and the brain.
212-843-9352.
Olga Trofimova, Trombone New School, School of Jazz Performance Space, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th St.
7-8 p.m. Free
In addition to performing as a sidewoman, Trofimova also leads her own projects, Ktotam Quartet (2011-2013) and Lîla (since 2014), for which she composes all the repertoire.
events.newschool.edu/event/olga_trofimova_trombone_fall_15_ensemble_recital_series_school_of_jazz#.VkDTZ7erTIU