Out & About
Thu 10
8th Annual ReelAbilities: ‘STILTS AND SPOKES’ 67th Street Library, 328 East 67th St, 3rd Floor
4:30-6:30 p.m. Free
A heartfelt, entertaining, and comedic documentary, part of the NY Disabilities Film Festival.
212-734-1717. www.nypl.org/events/programs/2016/03/10/8th-annual-reelabilities-ny-disabilities-film-festival-presents-stilts
Genius Solutions to Social Issues Lexington Avenue at 92nd St., Classroom
8 p.m. from $25
Social entrepreneurs Nick Ehrmann, Andrew Klaber, and Lily Liu with Zachary D. Kaufman, tackle issues, such as: poverty, civil rights, among more in innovative and “genius” ways.
212-415-5500. www.92y.org/Event/Genius-Solutions-to-Social-Issues
Fri 11
Teen NightThe Frick Collection, 1 East 70th St.
5:30 p.m. Free for high school students w/ ID
Explore galleries of the Gilded Age mansion and enjoy drawing activities, talks, and live music by a quartet from the Fat Afro Latin Jazz Cats.
212-288-0700. www.frick.org/calendar#/?i=1
Heart of the Park Tour Samuel F. B. Morse statue, 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free
Visit some of the park’s most famous landmarks.
www.centralpark.com/events/show/3030/heart-of-the-park-tour
Sat 12
volunteer gardeningCarl Schurz Park, 86th Street Mall at East End Avenue
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
The Carl Schurz Park Volunteer Gardeners are an adult group that meets monthly to work in the park. Students or children who wish to participate must be accompanied by adults or parents who work along with them.
212-459-4455. www.carlschurzparknyc.org/
‘UN BALLO IN MACHERS’96th Street Library, 112 East 96th St.
1-4 p.m. Free
New York Opera Forum performs the complete opera.
212-289-0908. www.nypl.org/events/programs/2015/03/12/music-verdis-un-ballo-maschera-performed-new-york-opera-forum
Sun 13
Become a Paper Bag Player1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd St, Scheuer Auditorium
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. $12, adults, $10, children; Members: $10, adults, $8 children
Behind-the-scenes workshop of theater games, costume designing and developing mini performances.
212-423-3200. buy.acmeticketing.com/orders/213/tickets?eventId=5665c39ee4b0fc3701643827&date=2016-03-13T00:00:00-0500
Art in the Round Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave.
2 p.m. Free with admission
Architecture tours led by gallery educators and focus on architecture of the Frank Lloyd Wright building and themes.
212-423-3618. www.guggenheim.org/new-york/calendar-and-events/2016/03/13/art-in-the-round-architecture-tour-23/21564
Mon 14
CB8 Youth & Education Committee New York Blood Center, 310 East 67th St., Conference Room 1&2
6:30 p.m. Free
212-758-4340. cb8m.com/events/youth-education-committee-21
Wine Tour de France FIAF, Le Skyroom; 22 East 60th St.
7 p.m. $115; members, $95;
Learn how a vintage can bring out the best in the world’s finest wines on a tasting and understand what makes each vintage unique .
800-982-2787. fiaf.org/events/winter2016/2016-03-14-vintage.shtml
Tue 15
Emigration, Migration and Self-DeterminationJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute; 25 W. 43rd Street
6-8 p.m. Free
212-396-6545
A panel discussion on “Italians, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans in Search of an American Dream.”
www.centropr.hunter.cuny.edu
Deported: Policing Immigrants, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism 92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced, argues that deportation has become a state strategy of social control that serves the aims of global capitalism.
Noon. $25
www.92y.org/Event/Deported
Wed 16
The Family We MakeBarnes & Noble, 150 East 86th St.
7 p.m. Free
Three young and up-and-coming writers, Kristopher Jansma, Jacob Rubin and Marie-Helene Bertino, explore the theme of what makes a family.
212-369-2180. stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780061756152-0
The Exchange of Princesses Albertine, 972 Fifth Avenue
7 p.m. Free
212-461-3670
Award-winning French novelist Chantel Thomas discusses her novel, “The Exchange of Princess,” alongside John Cullen, who translated the novel into English, and Sal Robinson.
www.albertine.com/events/the-exchange-of-princesses/