Out & About
Thu 21
‘SUFFRAGETTE’
Muhlenberg Library, 209 West 23rd Street
2 p.m.
In this 2015 feature, a working-class laundress in 19th century London becomes radicalized when she meets a brave group of women organizing to obtain the vote.
212-924-1585
Community board 4 Committee353 West 30th St.
6:30 p.m.
Housing, Health, and Human Services
212-736-4536
Fri 22
Touch TourWhitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort St.
10–11:30 a.m. Free.
A 90-minute tour for visitors who are blind or have low vision to feel selected works of 21st century American art.
www.whitney.org/events/
Hand of Fashion: Artisanship in the Supply ChainFIT Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
6 p.m. Free, but online RSVP requested.
Guest speaker Hirofumi Kurino, co-founder of Japanese brand United Arrows, will speak on the value of sustainable practices in the fashion industry.
www.fitnyc.edu/category/events/
Sat 23
Hudson river park green teamLocation tbd. Call for more information: 347-515-2242
10 a.m.-1 p.m.
This volunteer program is an opportunity for community members to nurture their inner green thumb alongside their neighbors while improving public greenspace.
www.hudsonriverpark.org/events/hrpgreenteam
Culture ShockThe High Line from Gansevoort to West 26th Street
Noon-4 p.m. Free.
Celebrate the beginning of spring at the High Line with music, performances, poetry, and food.
www.thehighline.org/activities/
Sun 24
Otherwise: Queer Theory into SongJoe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St.
7-9 p.m. $15
An evening of performance conceived by & featuring Kay Turner, Viva DeConcini, Mary Feaster, & many others
www.csgsnyu.org/events/
Taulant Mehmeti, Guitar New School, School of Jazz Performance Space, 55 West 13th Street, Arnhold Hall
4:00 p.m. Free
Mehmeti, a Kosovo-born Albanian guitarist, is a natural improviser, drawing upon the rich Balkan rhythms and gypsy music he grew up hearing and playing.
events.newschool.edu/
Mon 25
TEENAGE KICKS ARE HARD TO BEAT: JOHN PEEL IN 2016
New York University, 721 Broadway, at Waverly Place, room 674.
6:30. Free
The rarely-screened 1981 documentary about Peel, followed by discussion between Dan Fox, B. George and Paul Myerscough
For info, email ss162@nyu.edu
Ed Atkins: Performance CaptureThe Kitchen, 512 West 19th St.
Through May 14. Free
Atkins presents an expansive new work explicitly concerned with how contemporary technologies of representation mediate our lives.
212-255-5793. www.thekitchen.org/event/ed-atkins-performance-capture
Tue 26
‘In The Morning’FIT, Seventh Avenue and 27th Street, Pomerantz Center, Room D207
6:30-8:30 pm
As part of the institute’s Film and Media Screening series, Nefertite Nguvu presents her first feature-length film.
news.fitnyc.edu/category/events/
StargazingOn the High Line at West 14th Street
Tuesdays, April through October, dusk to 30 minutes before park closes
Peer through high-powered telescopes provided by the knowledgeable members of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York to see rare celestial sights.
www.thehighline.org/activities/stargazing
Wed 27
What Emotion Smells LikeThe Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th St.
7-8:30 p.m. $30; $27, members.
Inventor and Harvard professor David Edwards discusses his digital scent project with olfactory neurobiologist Richard L. Doty and you. Bring a smartphone.
212-620-5000
Poetry Forum: Susan WheelerNew School, 66 West 12th Street, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
6:30 p.m.
Wheeler is the author of several books of poetry and the novel Record Palace (Graywolf, 2005)
events.newschool.edu/