Out & About
Thu 17
The Arts of MusicThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave.
11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Free with museum admission
Highlighting connections between musical traditions of different people, places and time periods.
212-535-7710
Picture Book Story Time 67th Street Library, 328 East 67th St.
4 p.m. Free
Enjoy a story with friends.
212-734-1717
Fri 18
Art in the RoundGuggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave.
2 p.m. Free with museum admission
Focused on artwork by Vasily Kandinsky and freeing shape, line and color
212-423-3500. www.guggenheim.org/new-york/calendar-and-events/2016/03/18/art-in-the-round-kandinsky-tour-19/21574
Cast Members from ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Barnes & Noble. 86th & Lexington Avenue, 150 East 86th St.
4:30 p.m. Free
Celebrate the release of “Fiddler on the Roof” with Danny Bursting and lyricist Sheldon Harnick and performances by cast members
212-369-2180. stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780061765385-0
Sat 19
Sketching New York Lives Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave.
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free
Try pencil sketching and practicing with live models to create your own New York portraits.
212-534-1672. www.mcny.org/event/sketching-new-york-lives-0
Broadway Panhandler BenefitBroadway Panhandler, 65 East Eighth St.
Sat and Sun, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $12 for three knives
The likely last edtion of Broadway Panhandler’s semiannual knife sharpening event, benefiting City Harvest. The cookware store, in business for decades, will close this spring.
www.broadwaypanhandler.com
Sun 20
The Pop Ups Family Concert 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd St, Scheuer Auditorium
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Adults/children, $18/$13; adult members/children, $15/$11
212-423-3200. thejewishmuseum.org/calendar/events/2016/03/20/family-concert-the-pop-ups-3.20.16
NYC Half 2016 Central Park, 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue
7:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Join the Central Park Conservancy team and help them run the Park all year long. Guarantee your spot in this exciting race and support their mission to restore, manage, and enhance Central Park by raising 1,000 in honor of the Conservancy’s 35th Anniversary.
www.centralpark.com/events/
Mon 21
CB8 Committee MeetingsLenox Hill Hospital, 130 East 77th St., Aron Board Room
6:30 p.m. Free
Joint Zoning & Development and Transportation Committees meeting
212-758-4340. cb8m.com/events/joint-zoning-development-and-transportation-committees
‘Elling’Neue Galerie, 1048 Fifth Avenue, Cafe Fiedermaus
4 p.m. Free
Petter Naess’ 2001 feature.
212-994-9492
Tue 22
Ellen Feldman The Corner BookStore, 1313 Madison Avenue at 93rd St.
6-7:30 p.m.
Ellen Feldman reads from her new book “Terrible Virtue.”
212-831-3554. cornerbookstorenyc.com/event/ellen-feldman-reads-from-her-new-book-terrible-virtue/
‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ 92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
2 p.m. From $30
Film historian Philip Harwood discusses and presents screenings of classic film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in honor of the 450th anniversary of the playwright’s death.
212-415-5500. www.92y.org/Event/Shakespeare-Goes-to-Hollywood
Wed 23
Conflicts, Human Rights, and International Justice in Africa Hunter College. Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute, 47-49 East 65th St. Room 204
1:15-2:45 p.m. Free
Student-faculty roundtable discussion, in which Professor Jill Rosenthal, will address conflicts human rights issues, and resistance of many African states to prosecutions by International Criminal Court
212-396-7948. www.hunter.cuny.edu/calendar/#/?i=1
Remembering Womanhouse National Academy Museum, 1083 Fifth Avenue at 5 East 89th St., Assembly Hall
6:30-8 p.m. Free
A panel featuring original Womanhouse artists Mira Schor and Faith Wilding, along with curator, writer, and gallerist Kat Griefen.
212-369-4880. www.nationalacademy.org/remembering-womanhouse-panel-discussion/