Out & About

| 18 Apr 2016 | 10:32

    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/