Sign-up to receive our newsletter!
  Home  |  About Us  |  Community Directory  |  Sponsor Directory  |  Reccuring Events  |  GLBT History
March 2008
SuMoTuWeThFrSa
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31
 
 
 
 
 
march 30, 2008 / sunday 
Sports
2008 Indoor Classic Soccer Tournament
(Chelsea Piers, Pier 60, New York, NY 10011) This all-day soccer tournament also includes an awards brunch. Event Website
Note: this event runs March 28 - 30
Sports
Big Apple XXV Volleyball Tournament
(Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities, 18th St, New York, NY 10011) Gotham Volleyball Tournament. Event Website
Note: this event runs March 29 - 30
Arts & Entertainment
15th ENCORES! Season presents "Juno"
(NY City Center, 131 West 55th St, New York, NY 10019) Based on the 1924 play "Juno and Paycock" by Sean O'Casey, the Encores! Production of "Juno" is directed by Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes. Music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein; Book by Joseph Stein; Music Director, Eric Stern; Musical Staging by Warren Carlyle. Event Website
Note: this event runs March 27 - 30
Arts & Entertainment
The Armory Show 2008
(Pier 94, 711 12th Ave, New York, NY 10019) World's leading art fair devoted to contemporary art. 150 international galleries, including many of the most important dealers, will be showcasing art from around the world. Event Website
Note: this event runs March 27 - 30
Arts & Entertainment
I've Got Your Number: Romance, the Rat Pack and Carolyn Leigh
(Kaufmann Concert Hall, 1395 Lexington Ave, at 92nd, New York, NY 10128) (8pm) Carolyn Leigh's songs, including "Young at Heart," "The Best is Yet to Come" and "Witchcraft," were immortalized by hipsters from Frank Sinatra to Peggy Lee and Tony Bennett. Event Website
Note: this event runs March 29 - 31
Woman's Interest
Instant Date - Professional Lesbians 40'50's & Up.
(The Center, 208 West 13th Street, new york, NY 10011, Venue Website) (1:30-3:30pm) Also known as A Danish, A Dame & A Date. Speed dating with a twist. In just 2 hours you have the most conducive environment to meet more professional, quality, down to earth women than at any other lesbian event. You get one on one in mini-dates about 3-5 minutes with 15-25 women. Meet more women during the free refreshment break. Write down who you would like to see for a second date. You will receive your mutual matches. Must arrive on time. ($25) (212-989-8549) [email protected] Event Website
Arts & EntertainmentOrganizations
11th Anniversary of DINING BY DESIGN
Dubbed the "Cannes of Tabletop" by John Waters, DIFFA's signature multi-city fundraising event brings together some of the most talented and celebrated individuals in the worlds of fashion, interior design, art and architecture to create spectacular, over-the-top dining environments. Event Website
Note: this event runs March 30 - April 1
Woman's Interest
The Immigrant, Radical and Notorious Women of Washington Square
(The Arch at Washington Sq, 5th Ave below 8th St) (1pm) Celebrate Women's History Month with OP/LYNX and Manhattan historian, Joyce Gold, who will present a 2-hour walking tour through Washington Square. Perhaps in no other six blocks on earth have so many notable women lived and achieved for the last 150 years, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Edith Wharton, Louisa May Alcott, Lila Acheson Wallace, Paulette Goddard, Emily Roebling, Bella Abzug, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Ida Tarbell, Emily Post, and even the woman who invented the kewpie doll, all shared this famed New York neighborhood. 3:00 Post-Walk Lunch. ($15/$12) Event Website
Ongoing Events
through March 30
SportsYouth & Family
Lasker Ice Skating Rink
(Central Park, Near 110th St & Lenox Ave) For a more intimate New York City ice skating experience, visit Lasker Skating Rink. The comfortable setting appeals to inexperienced skaters, as well as recreational skaters practicing before a pick-up game of hockey. Event Website
This event runs January 1 - March 30
through March 30
Arts & Entertainment
34th Annual Macy's Flower Show
(Macy's Herald Square, 151 West 34th St, New York, NY 10001) Over two million flowers and exotic topiaries from all over the world are arranged by renowned horticulturalists to create urban sanctuaries for flowers and visitors alike. (34th Annual Macy's Flower Show) Event Website
This event runs March 16 - 30
through March 30
New York International Auto Show
(Jacob Javits Center, 655 West 34th St, New York, NY 10001) The coolest in concept cars, design previews, gadgets and alternative fuel innovations. Event Website
This event runs March 21 - 30
through April 6
Arts & Entertainment
Sunday in the Park with George
(Studio 54, 254 West 54th St, New York, NY 10019) This musical celebrates the art of creation and the creation of art. Music and Lyrics composed by Stephen Sondheim. Event Website
This event runs January 25 - April 6
through April 6
Arts & Entertainment
The Orchid Show
(New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458) Escape winter's chill as you stroll through the country's premier orchid exhibition that showcases the exquisite shapes, breathtaking colors and alluring fragrances of one of the world's most exotic flowers. Event Website
This event runs February 23 - April 6
through April 6
Arts & EntertainmentWoman's Interest
27 Rue de Fleurus
(Urban Stages, 259 West 30th St, New York, NY 10001) A new musical about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. The celebrated couple confronts each other about love, marriage, jealousy, genius and a few other delicious topics while Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mabel Dodge, Sylvia Beach and even Jean Harlow drop by for a visit. Event Website
This event runs March 1 - April 6
through April 19
Arts & Entertainment
Art! Actually! Painting, Drawing, Sculpture
(Leslie/Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster St, New York, NY 10013) A large group show of LGBT artists. Opening Reception: March 11, 6 - 8pm. Event Website
This event runs March 11 - April 19
through April 26
Arts & Entertainment
Tavern Concert Series
(La Tourette Park & Golf Course, 441 Clarke Ave, Staten Island, NY 10306) (7:30 - 11pm) Enjoy a delightful evening of unplugged music in an intimate 19th-century tavern at Historic Richmond Town in the heart of Staten Island. Musical styles include bluegrass, traditional, old-time, sea chanteys, singer-songwriter, jug band, Irish, and more. Warm yourself by the wood-burning stove and enjoy. Event Website
This event runs January 19 - April 26
through April 27
Arts & EntertainmentWoman's Interest
The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
(37 ARTS THEATER, 450 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018) (Tues 7pm; Wed-Fri 8pm; Sat 5 & 9pm; Sun 3 & 7pm) Adapted from groundbreaking lesbian pulp novels, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles is set against the backdrop of 1950s Greenwich Village -- the era when lesbian love dared not speak its name. Meet legendary author Ann Bannon at two post-show talks: March 2: Moderated by Kurt Brokaw. March 4: Moderated by journalist Barbara Raab. (212-560-8912) Event Website
This event runs February 19 - April 27
through April 28
Arts & EntertainmentWoman's Interest
VITA AND VIRGINIA
(Zipper Factory, 336 West 37th St, New York, NY 10018) (7pm) Award winning actresses Kathleen Chalfant (Wit, Angels in America) and Patricia Elliott (�One Life to Live,� A Little Night Music, The Shadow Box) star in Vita and Virginia, a play by Eileen Atkins adapted from the correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. The play, about two extraordinary 20th Century women exploring their passions - literary and otherwise - takes place in the 1920s and 1930s and through the first years of WWII. It deals, in a very timely way, with women seeking their place in the world as they face personal and professional conflicts. ($35) Event Website
This event runs March 3 - April 28
through May 3
Arts & Entertainment
Two Men Talking
(Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow Street, New York, NY 10014) (7:30 pm) Two Men Talking is the live performance of a friendship. Paul Browde and Murray Nossel are a psychiatrist and an Academy Award nominated filmmaker, who have known one another since they were twelve years old. Over a period of ten years this unscripted piece continues to develop through its live performance, shaped by the listening of each audience.It has now been performed in South Africa, London's West End, Edinburgh, Canada and Australia. ($25 (discounts available)) (212 239-6200) Event Website
This event runs February 29 - May 3
through May 7
Arts & Entertainment
Exoticism
(The Museum at FIT, 295 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001) Over 40 modern designers featured along with beautiful 18th and 19th-century fashions and textiles that highlight Japanese, Chinese, Indian and North African styles. Event Website
This event runs January 1 - May 7
through May 11
Arts & Entertainment
The Four of Us
(NY City Center, 131 West 55th St, New York, NY 10019) A poignant new play about friendship and memory, the gap between our stories and our lives, and what happens when your dreams come true - for your best friend. Event Website
This event runs March 6 - May 11
through May 26
Arts & EntertainmentYouth & Family
The Butterfly Conservatory
(American Museum of Natural History, 175 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023) Celebrate the 10th annual return of this re-created tropical forest environment filled with over 500 live butterflies. Event Website
This event runs January 1 - May 26
through May 28
Arts & Entertainment
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
(Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) Cai Guo-Qiang is internationally acclaimed as an artist whose creative transgressions and cultural provocations have literally exploded the accepted parameters of art making in our time. This is especially true of Inopportune: Stage One, Cai�s largest installation to date, which presents nine real cars in a cinematic progression that simulates a car bombing, occupying the central atrium of the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda. Event Website
This event runs February 22 - May 28
through June 1
Arts & Entertainment
2008 Biennial Exhibition
(Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave at 75th St, New York, NY 10021) This will be the 74th in the series of Whitney Annual and Biennial exhibitions inaugurated in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Event Website
This event runs March 6 - June 1
through June 15
Arts & Entertainment
South Pacific
(Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th St, New York, NY 10023) During World War II in the South Pacific, love is found between a young nurse, Nellie Forbush and an older French plantation owner, Emile de Becque. The war is tearing them apart. Event Website
This event runs March 1 - June 15
through September 28
Arts & Entertainment
Magic in Ancient Egypt: Image, Word and Reality
(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) How the Egyptians, known throughout the ancient world for their expertise in magic, addressed the unknown forces of the universe is explored in this exhibition of twenty objects from the Brooklyn Museum's world-famous collection. Event Website
This event runs January 1 - September 28
Recurring Events this Sunday
Sports
Metro Wrestling Practices
(LGBT Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (2 - 5pm) Metro Wrestling is New York City's gay freestyle wrestling club. Gay, straight, male or female, all are welcome to attend. Event Website
This event runs Sundays
Spiritual
Dignity New York Weekly Liturgy & Social
(St. John's in the Village Church, 222 W 11th St, New York, NY 10014) (7:30pm) Event Website
This event runs Sundays
Spiritual
Metropolitan Community Church of NY Services
(MCCNY, 446 West 36th St, New York, NY 10018) (9am, 11am & 7pm) Event Website
This event runs Sundays