2/1/11, 2/8/11, 2/15/11, 2/22/11 Skills for Sucess (for Teens) @ Westchester Square Library

Tuesdays in Feb. 2011 at 4:00pm

Westchester Square Library
2521 Glebe Avenue
Bronx, New York 10461
(718) 863-0436
Cost: Free
For ages 12 to 18

NYC can be a crazy place! Learn how to talk to people, get strategies to organize yourself, and discover new ways to survive friend drama, family feuds, and school situations!

http://www.hypo.org/locations/tid/86/node/97057?lref=86%2Fcalendar

1/31/11 Pre-Columbian Art Opening @ Mid-Manhattan Library

Monday, January 31, 2011 at 7:00pm

Mid-Manhattan Library
455 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Cost: Free
For all ages

Join the library for a bilingual discussion about pre-Columbian art. Artist Monica Sarmiento discusses nature's role in art and the Native American confluence of the printed image with the environment.

A general introduction of Monica Sarmiento, followed by a brief "cocktail hour" will accompany the discussion. Please join this unique and captivating event. Both English & Spanish speakers are welcome.

For more about artist Monica Sarmiento, visit:
http://www.monicasarmientocastillo.com/

http://www.hypo.org/events/programs/2011/01/31/pre-Columbian-art-opening?nref=62451

Ongoing Tuesdays in Feb. 2011 Financial Literacy Seminars (in Mandarin Chinese) @ Flushing Library

Ongoing Tuesdays in February, 2011 at 6:00pm

Flushing Library

41-17 Main Street
Flushing, NY 11355
(718) 661-1200

Cost: Free

For adults

Financial Literacy Seminars
Five part series of workshops in Mandarin on topics related to managing your personal finances. 

February 1 – Starting your own investment club

February 8 – How to make a budget that really works

February 15 – Credit and debt management

February 22 – Making use of bank products

February 28 – Planning for retirement

Programs are made possible by a grant from the FINRA Investor Education Foundation through Smart investing@your library.

1/30/11 Lunar New Year Festival Family Day @ Museum of Chinese in America

Sunday, January 30, 2011 from 10am to 5pm

The Museum of Chinese in America

215 Centre Street

New York, NY 10013

(212) 619-4785

Subway: N, R, Q, W, J, M, Z, 6 to Canal Street

Bus: M9, M15, M103

For ages 4 and up

Cost: $10 per person; Free for MOCA members and children under 1 year of age.

Join MOCA for a full-day of family festivities in celebration of the Lunar New Year. MOCA will ring in the year of the Rabbit with storytelling with Kam Mak, celebrated children’s book author, and artist of the Lunar New Year Stamp Series , a noodle-making workshop, a special lion dance performance and workshop, and family-friendly gallery talks through MOCA’s core exhibit as well as through our newest exhibit, Chinese Puzzles: Games for the Hands and the Mind. There will also be arts and crafts activities throughout the day.

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

WORKSHOPS

11:00 am-12:00 pm Lion Dance and Workshop

Learn about why we see Lion Dancing during the Lunar New Year and participate in the ancient art of the Chinese Lion Dance with the United East Athletic Association. All 4 and up.

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Meet the Author: Celebrate Lunar New Year with Kam Mak

Kam Mak, children's book illustrator and author will present his book, My Chinatown: One Year in Poems. Learn about Chinatown using your senses as Kam Mak leads us through the neighborhood using the images and poems in his book. He will also unveil the newest image for the USPS Lunar New Year Stamp series. Ages 4 - 8.

1:45 pm – 2:45 pm Noodle Making Demonstration

Noodles are one of the many foods eaten during the Lunar New Year. Learn why it is so important to eat noodles during this holiday as Howard Li leads a noodle making demonstration. All ages

*3:15 pm – 4:30 pm Calligraphy Workshop

New Year spring couplets are simple decorations of well wishes for homes and businesses. Using basic materials such as red paper and Chinese calligraphy brushes and ink, create your own lunar new year spring couplet with Mingmei Yip, multitalented artist and children’s book author. Ages 6 and up. * All participants must pre-register for this workshop.

FAMILY FRIENDLY TOURS

*Lunar New Year Gallery Tour

Join us on a family friendly tour and learn about some customs and traditions of the Lunar New Year.

10:00 am; 1:00 pm; 2:00 pm;

3:00 pm; 4:00 pm

*Puzzles Exhibit Tours

Come on this family friendly tour of our rotating exhibit, Chinese Puzzles: Games for the Hands and Mind and try your hand with modern reproductions of classic puzzles, including: the tangram – the game that sparked the world’s first international puzzle craze.

10:30 am; 1: 45 pm; 2:45 pm; 3:45 pm

* Gallery Tours and some workshops will be limited on a first come—first serve basis. MOCA Members can sign up in advance by emailing education@mocanyc.org. The general public can sign up in-person starting at 10 am on the day of the event.

DROP IN ARTS AND CRAFTS

10:00 am-4:30 pm Drop-in Arts & Craft Activities

Celebrate the year of the Rabbit by making your own Lunar New Year decoration using traditional Chinese Arts Forms at one of our arts and crafts activity stations: Paper Folding, Tangram Collage Making & Knot Making.

2:15-2:45 pm Calligraphy Demonstration

New Year spring couplets are simple decorations of well wishes for homes and businesses. Artist, Mingmei Yip, will make spring couplets to give away.

Major support for MOCA's Festival Family Day Series is provided by:

MOCA’s Festival Family Days series is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State’s 62 counties; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

http://www.mocanyc.org/visit/events/lunar_new_year_family_day

1/29/11, 2/7-2/8/11, 2/11/11, 2/18/11, 2/23-2/25/11 Polar Opposites

Antartica and the Arctic Circle are two sides of the world that look and feel the same. However, very different types of animals call these icy lands home. Children explore the similarities and differences through two shows, “Polar Bear and the Beat” and “A Penguin State of Mind.” Presented by the Central Park Zoo Wildlife Theatre Company.

Cost: Free
For ages 4 to 8

Sat., January 29, 2011 at 2:00pm
Bronx Library Center

310 East Kingsbridge Road (at Briggs Avenue)
Bronx, NY 10458
(718) 579-4244

Mon., February 7, 2011 at 4:00pm

67th Street Library

328 East 67th Street (near First Ave.)

New York, NY 10065-6204

(212) 734-1717

Tues., February 8, 2011 at 4:00pm
Morris Park Library

985 Morris Park Avenue (between Radcliff and Colden Aves.)

Bronx, NY 10462

(718) 931-0636

Fri., February 11, 2011 at 3:30pm

Spuyten Duyvil Library

650 W. 235th St. (at Independence Ave.)
Bronx, NY 10463

(718) 796-1202

Fri., February 18, 2011 at 3:30pm

Kips Bay Library

446 Third Avenue (at E. 31st St.)
New York, NY 10016-6025
(212) 683-2520

Wed., February 23, 2011 at 3:30pm

Parkchester Library

1985 Westchester Avenue (at Pugsley Ave.)

Bronx, NY 10462

(718) 829-7830

Thurs., February 24, 2011 at 3:30pm

West New Brighton Library

976 Castleton Avenue (at N. Burgher Ave.)
Staten Island, NY 10310
(718) 442-1416

Fri., February 25, 2011 at 3:00pm
Mosholu Library

285 East 205th Street (near Perry Ave.)

Bronx, NY 10467
(718) 882-8239

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1/29/11 Family Day: Moon over Manhattan--Celebrate the Lunar New Year @ Asia Society and Museum

Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 1:00pm

Asia Society and Museum

Lila Acheson Wallace Auditorium

725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)

New York, NY

(212) 288-6400

Cost: $5 students, seniors, children, $7 members (Dual Family members FREE), $12 nonmembers
For all ages

Asia Society rings in the Lunar New Year with incredible performances and traditional craft activities inspired by Lunar New Year traditions. Don’t miss an auspicious Lion Dance, Kung Fu demonstrations, and the extraordinary Chinese Theatre Works Company performing folk dance and classic scenes from Peking operas.

Chinese Theatre Works presents stunning performances from classic Chinese operas and folk dances. All opera excerpts include child-friendly explanatory talks in English, and are sung in the original Chinese by classically trained performers in full stage makeup and costume with traditional musical accompaniment. For more about Chinese Theatre Works, visit

http://www.chinesetheatreworks.org/

http://asiasociety.org/events-calendar/family-day-moon-over-manhattan-celebrate-lunar-new-year

1/25/11-2/1/11 Dance on Camera Festival

The Film Society of Lincoln Center

and Dance Films Association, Inc.

present the 39th internationally touring

Dance on Camera Festival

January 25 through February 1, 2011

Participating venues:

Baryshnikov Arts Center: Billy Cowie Retrospective

Beacon School

Big Screen Project—Shorts (schedule still to be set)

Walter Reade Theatre—10 programs that repeat January 28–February 1

Sponsored by DFA since 1971, co-sponsored by The Film Society of Lincoln Center since 1996, Movement Research since 2008, Beacon School since 2010, Baryshnikov Arts Center and Big Screen Project since 2011, Dance On Camera Festival celebrates the immediacy, energy, and mystery of dance as combined with the intimacy of film. DFA’s Festival has been a revenue source for dance filmmakers through their touring program since 2000.

2011 Jury Prize to be decided by Canadian filmmaker Laura Taler, American Producer Rhoda Grauer, producer Tanja Meding, and photographer/producer David Michalek.

Go to website for the full listing of all events.

http://www.dancefilmsassn.org/DanceOnCamerMain.html

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Baryshnikov Arts Center
Billy Cowie Retrospective

Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th Street, Studio 6B
New York, NY

Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) in collaboration with DFA brings to New York for the first time the master illusionist Billy Cowie for his 3-D video installation, that includes MEN IN THE WALL, a four-screen stereoscopic screen dance. 3D glasses allow the viewer to enter this multi-cultural world of four men, whose shared framed lives reveal a public quartet of private differences. The piece runs on a continuous 25-minute loop. Also to be shown will be GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE (variation on MEN IN THE WALL for women), and TANGO DE SOLEDAD. Award-winning Scottish video artist/composer Billy Cowie creates a delightfully amusing montage that beguiles as it inspires.

January 25-February 1. Free. 1-6pm viewing.

Jan 26., installation continues until 6:30

Lecture/Reception January 26, 6:30–8pm. RSVP

Free to DFA and NYFV members, $10 general admission and $5 students and seniors

Billy Cowie will perform a lecture entitled “Hi Jinx,” an homage to Heidi Dzinkowska, the seminal early 20th-century dancer, choreographer and filmmaker. A cheeky take on the creation of mythologies, personal gurus and the history of art. Co-sponsored by The New York Film/Video Council.

Jan. 27, 8–8:30 Big Screen Project screens videos by Cowie & Liz Aggiss including MOTION CONTROL as part of Dance on Camera.

Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie, known collectively as Divas Dance Theatre, are renowned for their highly visual, interdisciplinary brand of dance performance that incorporates elements of theatre, film, opera, poetry and vaudevillian humour. Anarchic Dance, consisting of a book and DVD-Rom, is a visual and textual record of their boundary-shattering performance work. Published January 30th 2006 by Routledge.

http://dancefilms.org/festival/39th-annual-festival-2011/baryshnikov-arts-center/

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DESTINO: A Contemporary Dance Story

Beacon School

227–243 W 61st Street
New York, NY

Beacon School is an alternative public high school on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City with a focus on aesthetics, arts and technology.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 1:30pm Workshop led by Director Caswell Coggins

3pm Special free showing and discussion

DESTINO: A Contemporary Dance Story

Caswell Coggins, 2010; UK, 56m

Staged as a tribute to their extraordinary journey from the streets of Addis Ababa to that iconic stage in London, DESTINO, starring Junaid Jemal Sendi and Addisu Demissie, celebrates the power of the arts to bring people together across generations and ethnic divides. Director Caswell Coggins will introduce the program, hosted by Beacon’s Vice Principal Harry Streep.

http://dancefilms.org/festival/39th-annual-festival-2011/beacon-school/

Saturday Family Programs: Miracles of Magic with Myron the Magnificent

Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 1:00pm

Central Library (Brooklyn), Dweck Center

Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Cost: Free

For all ages

From the crown princes of Europe to the Sultans of the Sahara, Myron the Magnificent has amazed audiences across the globe with his unbelievable magic. With secrets learned from the great masters of the Himalayas he will present a program of miracles that will entertain the whole family. Whether producing items from thin air, reading unknown thoughts, or creating mysterious transformations, Myron will leave you astounded at the magic he creates. Come enjoy and even participate in a program that is sure to produce wonder, laughter, and mystery for all who attend.

Events for youth and families are supported by The Hearst Foundation, Inc.

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/calendar/EventList.do?addEvents=&audList=1&cntrlClickFlag=&colFlag=0&collapse=1&count=1&dateSearchFlag=on&deleteFlag=&entryKey=eventlist&eventID=9922&eventStatus=0&eventType=&exportFlag=false&formAction=eventdetaillink&identifier=&isLive=0&isSubmitted=0&langId=1001&listTab=&listUser=patron&oneDateSearchFlag=&searchFlag=true&shiftClickFlag=&showModified=&sortKey=&sortOrder=&VCol=&start_date=01%2F29%2F2011&end_date=&group_date=&all_date=&month=0&year=2011&scriptMonth=0&scriptYear=2011&audiencesSelected=1&branchesSelected=0&catIdSearch=0&languagesSelected=0&eventNameForSearch=