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PACT (Power Action Change for Teens)
(The Center for Anti-Violence Education, 327 7th Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215) Self defense for teen women and Trans youth. (sliding fee scale) Event Website
Note: this event runs July 9, 16, 23, 30, and August 6
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Melissa Etheridge in Concert
(WAMU Theater, 4 Penn Plaza, New York, NY 10001) (8pm) Melissa is touring with her ninth studio album, The Awakening. ($39.50 - $104.50) Event Website
Note: this event runs July 9 - 10
Arts & Entertainment
10th Annual OUTDOOR CINEMA 2008
(Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd, Long Island City, NY 11106) (Performances: 7pm; Screening at Sunset) Each evening focuses on a different country or culture and visitors are invited to sample regional cuisine from neighborhood restaurants, picnic on the grass, listen to performances by local musicians, enjoy the cool waterfront breeze as the sun sets over the Manhattan skyline and watch exceptional international films on an outdoor screen. (Free) Event Website
Note: this event runs July 9, 16, 23, 30, August 6, 13, 20, and 27
Arts & Entertainment
Die Soldaten
(Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065) This impressive and startling production of German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann�s iconic opera Die Soldaten, staged in the Park Avenue Armory, achieves the intimate and immersive �total theater� experience the composer took �decisive steps� to realize more than four decades ago. The audience, literally traveling along the length of a narrow stage extending 220 feet, is transported into Zimmermann�s monumental and exhaustive transformation of Jakob Lenz�s 1776 play and the composer�s dark � and timely � comment on World War II. Event Website
Note: this event runs July 5, 7, 9, and 11 - 12
Starting Today
Arts & Entertainment
River Flicks for Grown-Ups
(Hudson River Park Pier 54, Near 14th St, New York, NY 10014) (Dusk) Set yourself humming to catchy tunes all summer with Hudson River Parks's RiverFlicks' Summer of Music. This all-star line-up of movies satisfies all your music needs including fake heavy metal wannabes, Broadway hits and classic music-themed movies from the 70's and the 80's. Movies include: La Bamba, Almost Famous, Purple Rain, Dream Girls and Saturday Night Fever. (Free) Event Website
This event runs through August 20
Ongoing Events
through July 12
Arts & Entertainment
The Bacchae
(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) Backed by a gospelsinging female cult of Maenads, Alan Cumming�s inimitably narcissistic Dionysus arrives at Thebes to claim godly recognition from a disbelieving, ascetic King Pentheus. Event Website
This event runs July 2 - 12
through July 13
LGBTSports
KSA Pride Armada
(NY Harbor to Provincetown) Members will sail from NY Harbor to the east end of Long Island for the 4th of July and on to Provincetown. Event Website
This event runs June 30 - July 13
through July 13
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
Arias With A Twist
(Here, 145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013) Two national treasures unleash their epic imaginations to conjure a modern and intimate fantasy. Twist�s signature magic envelopes Joey Arias� legendary voice, transporting us to unpredictable worlds, channeling ecstatic desires, lavish nightmares and bizarre premonitions in a bejeweled cabinet of curiosities that could only be found in one of downtown's last enclaves for bohemian New York style. Event Website
This event runs June 12 - July 13
through July 13
Arts & Entertainment
Sex in Design/Design in Sex
(Museum of Sex, 233 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016) Highlights the best and most compelling sexually inspired contemporary designs from around the world. Event Website
This event runs January 31 - July 13
through July 13
Arts & Entertainment
Amazonia Design, Fashion and Sustainable Economy
(World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, 200 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10281) Objects by contemporary designers from the Amazon region who utilize raw materials in their work. Event Website
This event runs April 17 - July 13
through July 18
Arts & Entertainment
Takashi Murakami
(Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238) The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami includes more than ninety works in various media that span the artist�s entire career, installed in more than 18,500 square feet of gallery space. ($10/$8) Event Website
This event runs April 5 - July 18
through July 19
Arts & Entertainment
Shakespeare in the Parking Lot
(Ludlow & Broome Municipal Parking Lot, Lower East Side) (Thursdays - Saturdays, 7:30pm) Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" like you've never seen before. (Free) Event Website
This event runs July 3 - 19
through July 19
Arts & Entertainment
Turntables on the Hudson
(Water Taxi Beach/Hunters Point stop on the Water Taxi, #2, Borden Ave, Long Island City, Queens, NY 11101) Celebrating 10 Years of Music, Dance, Culture & GOOD TIMES with an all-star lineup of DJ's from the crew who been down with us since day 1... every Friday all Summer long featuring guests & sounds from over the years. ($10) Event Website
This event runs June 20 - July 19
through July 26
Arts & Entertainment
BRiDGE as iCON
(Tabla Rasa Gallery, 224 48th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11220) Artists Reception: Sunday, May 25, 2008, 2 - 4:30pm. In celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, Tabla Rasa Gallery presents BRIDGE as ICON. This exhibition offers substantive artwork inspired by the world's best known bridge. The universally recognized Gothic arches provide a soaring visual metaphor for the spirit of ingenuity. As the omnipresent symbol of Brooklyn itself, the bridge has been an inspiration for poetry, cinema, music, advertising, as well as painting and graphic arts. Whether literal or symbolic, each artwork captures an individual essence of connection. (Free) [email protected] Event Website
This event runs May 22 - July 26
through July 26
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Midsummer Night Swing
(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) Smoking dance bands play everything from Salsa to Swing, Tango, Disco and more during these sizzling summer nights, including: July 11: Night at the Disco; July 15: Swing Shift Orchestra; July 22: Harlem Renaissance Orchestra; and July 25: La Troba Kung-Fu. Event Website
This event runs July 8 - 26
through July 26
Arts & Entertainment
Pilobolus
(Joyce Theater, 175 8th Ave, New York, NY 10011) The new full-company work by Pilobolus immerses us in the luminous spirit of the natural world, and uses ritual and mythology to create a mysterious and irresistibly sensual celebration of the supernatural. Event Website
This event runs June 30 - July 26
through July 27
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Emergence / Governor's Island Summer Season
(Governor's Island, Ferries leave from Battery Maritime Building, South and Whitehall, Manhattan) Experimental, participatory art involving more than 30 artists/art collectives working in a variety of media, including artist talks, workshops and performances. Historic Building 14 on Governors Island is transformed from an abandoned outpost into an interactive, three-dimensional living exhibit. (Free) Event Website
This event runs May 30 - July 27
through July 27
Arts & Entertainment
Lincoln Center Festival
(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) See the startling RuhrTriennale production of Bernd Alois Zimmermann�s iconic post-war opera Die Soldaten and three one-man Samuel Beckett dramas starring Ralph Fiennes, Barry McGovern, and Liam Neeson. The Festival also features The Bacchae, starring Alan Cumming and acclaimed choreographer William Forsythe�s masterpiece Impressing the Czar. Extraordinary performance-artist Laurie Anderson returns to the Festival this season with her most sophisticated production to date, Homeland, a �concert poem� driven by the political urgency of contemporary American culture. Another highlight is a concert featuring an eclectic group of artists from around the world � including Tony Allen, Afel Bocoum, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Kokanko Sata, Candi Staton, Lobi Traore, Simone White, and Victoria Williams � all of whom have recorded for Honest Jon�s, the record label founded by former Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn, who will perform as well. The Festival also welcomes the return of the charismatic Goran Bregovic and his Wedding & Funeral Band, who had the audience dancing in the aisles in 2006 with their brass-powered Balkan folk arrangements. Event Website
This event runs July 2 - 27
through July 31
Arts & Entertainment
ROCKERS
(Morrison Hotel Gallery, 313 Bowery at Bleecker St, New York, NY 10003) Nearly 300 photographs taken by rock-and-roll chronicler Bob Gruen in conjunction with the publication of his latest book, ROCKERS. For more than thirty years, Gruen has been documenting such acts as the Sex Pistols, the Rolling Stones, the Clash, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen, New York Dolls, Blondie, Kiss, the Who, and many more. In the center of the gallery is a re-created teenager's bedroom, the walls lined with pictures of musicians ripped out of magazines, all taken by Gruen. Event Website
This event runs June 15 - July 31
through July 31
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
ART & AIDS: LIVING WITH PRIDE
(GMHC, The Tisch Building, 119 West 24th St, New York, NY 10011) (6 - 8pm) GMHC�s Annual Client Art Show entitled ART & AIDS: LIVING WITH PRIDE. The opening reception will be on Friday June 20th 6 - 8pm on the 4th Floor Galleries at GMHC. The exhibition will run Monday thru Friday 10am - 8pm through July 31, 2008. All are invited and welcome to attend this very special exhibition of the creative and inspirational work of the featured artists. (Free) (212-367-1000) [email protected] Event Website
This event runs June 20 - July 31
through August 9
Arts & Entertainment
Celebrate Brooklyn!
(Prospect Park Bandshell, 9th St, Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215) (8pm) A fun and fantastic lineup of summer entertainment in the forms of world music, pop, hip hop, dance, silent films with live scores, readings and more. Artists include: July 12: Beth Orton; July 25: Philip Glass Ensemble; July 31: Mark Morris Dance Group; August 3: African Guitar Festival; August 7: Alvin Ailey II; and August 8: Lila Downs. Event Website
This event runs June 12 - August 9
through August 9
Arts & Entertainment
World of Jazz at CAM
(Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011) (Saturdays July 5th through August from 12-2) The Chelsea Art Museum is proud to present World of Jazz, a six-week concert series to be held in the museum�s exhibition galleries. The program, developed in collaboration with jazz saxophonist Lars Haake, will focus on the distinctly international character of contemporary jazz. Featuring a diverse pool of talented emerging jazz musicians. The World of Jazz series provides both regular museum patrons and first time visitors with an opportunity to listen to jazz in a beautiful, artistic Chelsea space. ($15 general, $10 students and seniors, $5 members) (212-255-0719) Event Website
This event runs July 5 - August 9
through August 10
Arts & Entertainment
Playing the Building
(Battery Maritime Ferry Building, 10 South St, New York, NY 10004) David Byrne's massive installation in the historic Battery Maritime Building features an organ that triggers sounds from its metal beams, pipes and electrical conduits that invites you to play along. Event Website
This event runs May 1 - August 10
through August 20
Arts & Entertainment
River Flicks for Grown-Ups
(Hudson River Park Pier 54, Near 14th St, New York, NY 10014) (Dusk) Set yourself humming to catchy tunes all summer with Hudson River Parks's RiverFlicks' Summer of Music. This all-star line-up of movies satisfies all your music needs including fake heavy metal wannabes, Broadway hits and classic music-themed movies from the 70's and the 80's. Movies include: La Bamba, Almost Famous, Purple Rain, Dream Girls and Saturday Night Fever. (Free) Event Website
This event runs July 9 - August 20
through August 21
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Fourth Annual LGBT NYC Photo Club Exhibition
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) (6pm) Summer Exhibits series featuring As We See It, the fourth annual exhibition of works by our Photo Club. Nearly 100 works from club members will be on display for As We See It, representing a wide variety of themes, styles and techniques. Work is available for purchase directly from the photographer and 25% of all sales will be donated directly to The Center. (free) (646-338-3627) [email protected] Event Website
This event runs June 9 - August 21
through August 24
Arts & Entertainment
Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy
(Broadway Theater, 1681 Broadway, New York, NY 10019) (Previews June 16, Opens June 26) An exotic encounter inspired by nature�s unpredictable creations that are brought to life by an international cast of soaring aerialists, spinebending contortionists, acrobats, jugglers and musicians. Event Website
This event runs June 16 - August 24
through August 25
Arts & EntertainmentLGBT
HOT! The NYC Celebration of Queer
(Various Locations) Full length and short works in performance, dance, spoken word, burlesque and circus. Event Website
This event runs July 2 - August 25
through August 26
LGBTSports
Big Apple Softball League
(Various Locations) (Weekends) Celebrating its 31st Anniversary, the league includes both competitive and recreational teams. Players of all skill levels are welcome. Event Website
This event runs May 26 - August 26
through August 31
Arts & Entertainment
The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
(Winter Garden, World Financial Center) This colorful crocheted panoply of kelps, corals and anemones is an homage to Earth�s endangered coral reefs. Event Website
This event runs April 5 - August 31
through September 7
Arts & Entertainment
Polaroids: Mapplethorpe
(Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave at 75th St, New York, NY 10021) This special exhibition traces Robert Mapplethorpe's use of instant photography from 1970 to 1975. Included are self-portraits, figure studies, still lifes, and portraits of lovers and friends including Patti Smith, Sam Wagstaff, and Marianne Faithfull. Many of these small, intimate photographs convey tenderness and vulnerability. Others depict a toughness and immediacy that would give way in later years to more classical form. Unlike the highly crafted images Mapplethorpe staged in the studio and became famous for, these disarming pictures are marked by spontaneity and invention. Event Website
This event runs May 3 - September 7
through September 7
Arts & Entertainment
The 183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
(National Academy Museum, 1083 Fifth Ave at 89th St, New York, NY 10128, 212-369-4880) An exceptional selection of contemporary works by over 125 of the finest artists from across the country. This Annual consists of works by newly emerging artists and established artists, providing an exhibition of diverse ideas, mediums, and techniques. Event Website
This event runs May 29 - September 7
through September 15
Arts & Entertainment
Dal�: Painting and Film
(MoMA, 11 West 53 St, New York, NY 10019) Bringing together more than 130 paintings, drawings, scenarios, and films by Salvador Dal� (1904�1989), this exhibition explores the role that cinema played in the artist's work. Collaborations between Dal� and legendary filmmakers are displayed alongside his paintings and other works, illuminating the ways in which ideas, iconography, and pictorial strategies are shared and transformed across mediums. In conjunction with the gallery exhibition, a series of screenings in the MoMA theaters presents the classic and avant-garde motion pictures Dal� treasured, films on which he collaborated, and examples of his legacy in contemporary cinema. Event Website
This event runs June 29 - September 15
through September 21
Arts & Entertainment
Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe
(Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave at 75th St, New York, NY 10021) One of the great American visionaries of the twentieth century, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) endeavored to see what he, a single individual, might do to benefit the largest segment of humanity while consuming the minimum of the earth's resources. Doing "more with less" was Fuller's credo. The results of more than five decades of Fuller's integrated approach toward the design and technology of housing, transportation, cartography, and communication are displayed here, much of it for the first time. Event Website
This event runs June 26 - September 21
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
through September 28
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JellyNYC Pool Parties at McCarren Park
(McCarren Park Pool, Lorimer St btwn Driggs Ave & Bayard St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211) Mix kids water games like Slip 'n Slide and indie, rock, dance and world bands, and you've got THE coolest way to spend your summer Sundays! (Free) Event Website
This event runs June 6 - September 28
through September 28
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Louise Bourgeois
(Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) A full-career retrospective of one of the most important artists of our time. The exhibition, which fills the entire Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda and one adjacent gallery, will be the most comprehensive examination to date of Bourgeois�s long and distinguished career. Born almost a century ago, Louise Bourgeois has remained steadfastly at the vanguard of the development of contemporary art for more than 70 years, and continues to create new bodies of work with characteristic energy and restless innovation. Event Website
This event runs June 27 - September 28
through October 10
Arts & Entertainment
Piano in the Park
(Bryant Park, 25 West 40th St, New York, NY 10018) (12Noon - 1:45pm) Monday through Fridays. New artist every week performing for the public. Including Junior Mance, Armen Donelian, Joel Forrester, Russ Kassoff, Mike LeDonne, Todd Robbins, Yuka Aikawa, Dona Carter, Dan Manjovi, Deanna Witkowski, Roy Eaton, Victor Lin, Frank Owens, Jill McManus, Larry Ham, Luiz Simas, Ayako Shirasaki. Event Website
This event runs May 19 - October 10
through October 13
Arts & Entertainment
The Waterfalls
(Various Locations) (7am - 10pm) Public Art Fund presents The New York City Waterfalls, a major new work of public art by internationally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson. The exhibition of four man-made 90-to 120-foot-tall waterfalls of monumental scale will be on view at four sites: one on the Brooklyn anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge, one between Piers 4 and 5 near the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, one in Lower Manhattan at Pier 35 north of the Manhattan Bridge, and one on the north shore of Governors Island. Event Website
This event runs June 26 - October 13
through October 31
LGBTSocial
The Woods Campground
(Pocono Mountains, PA) The Woods Campground is a private, members-only, alternative campground catering to LGBT campers 18 years of age and older. Event Website
This event runs May 23 - October 31
through November 2
Arts & Entertainment
Henry Moore Sculpture at the Garden
(New York Botanical Garden, 200th Street and Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458) This landmark presentation of monumental works will be the largest outdoor installation of Henry Moore sculpture in one location in the U.S. Event Website
This event runs May 24 - November 2
through November 8
Arts & Entertainment
Arbiters of Style: Women at the Forefront of Fashion
(FIT, 27th St & 7th Ave, New York, NY 10001) This exhibition features work by female designers as well as clothing and accessories worn by female department store executives, influential clients, magazine editors, muses and models. Event Website
This event runs May 21 - November 8
through December 31
LGBT
Oscar Wilde in NYC Guided Walking Tour
(By Request) This tour is based on new and unique research into the people and places Oscar Wilde visited in the NY of the gilded age. Event Website
This event runs January 1 - December 31
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Front Runners New York
Tuesdays at 7pm, 3rd St & Prospect Park West; Wednesdays at 6:45pm, 236 West 73rd St; Saturdays at 9:15am, 236 West 73rd St Event Website
This event runs Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays
Organizations
Service & Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE)
(LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th St, New York, NY 10011) The world's oldest and largest not-profit agency dedicated to serving LGBT senior citizens. Activities include Daytime Discussion, Art Studio, 75+, Support Group, Scrabble & Bridge and Women's and Men's activities. Event Website
This event runs Monday through Friday