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HAMMERED DULCIMER WORKSHOPS
with KEN KOLODNER
Sponsored by the The Golden Link Folk Singing Society and Sampler Records Ltd.
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Rochester Christian Reformed Church, 2750 Atlantic Avenue, Penfield 14526
Advanced registration encouraged. Handicapped accessible
For a detailed schedule of the day and registration, contact Mitzie Collins at samplerrec@aol.com or call 585-464-9377.

Grace O’Malley – A Notorious Woman
Marni Gillard, storyteller
Traditional Irish Musicians— Eric Everson, Hilary Lawton, and Kara Doyle
Edward Munger (classical guitar), Nancy Munger (piano)
Vocalists: Kitty Trimarco, Erica Sparrow, and Noreen Fargione
7:30 p.m.
Sanctuary, First Reformed Church, (Corner of Union and Church Streets, in the Historic Stockade), Schenectady, NY
Cost: $15 at the door, $13 with advanced reservations (call 518/384-1700)
Marni performs six tales from the life of Grace O’Malley, Irish clan chieftain’s daughter, political activist and pirate (1530-1603). The stories are backed by traditional Irish musicians debuting Tom O’Hare’s suite of tunes, A Notorious Woman. A Notorious Woman is a true story, and as captivating and refreshing as the beauty of the west cost of Ireland. As we began to connect the music to the stories, the production effort has taken on a life of its own, the recruitment of some wonderful traditional Irish musicians and a building interest in the character and times. It’s a great story, accented and balanced by some beautiful music, all performed with style and if you excuse the pun “grace.”

Genesee Valley Council on the Arts and York Central School present
Annual Round and Square Dance
8:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
2578 Genesee St. (Route 63), Retsof, NY 14539
Contact: 585-243-6785, info@gvcaonline.org
Cost: $5 Adults, $3 Seniors and Spectators, 18 and under free
The annual Round & Square Dance features Kelly’s Old Timers and the Geneseo String Band. Kelly’s Old Timers are now in their 60th year of providing dance music to our region, with continuing generations of the Kelly family of Perry. The Geneseo String Band, led by Jim Kimball, has encouraged SUNY students to carry on old time music since 1976. Dance instruction at 7:15 for newcomers.

Los Pleneros de la 21 presents
Goza & Baila la plena...y LA Bomba — A musical stew and lively social dance concert!
9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.
Bruckner Bard & Grill, 1 Bruckner Blvd, Bronx NY 10454
Contact: nellientanco@aol.com, 212.427.5221 Cost: $15
LP21 proudly expands its unique Goza & Baila la Plena series with GOZA & BAILA LA PLENA...Y LA BOMBA — UN SANCOCHO MUSICAL, that combines live musical performances by LP21, invited musical guests and inspiring bomberos and pleneros, delicious food and beverages and an open jam session as the savory ingredients that creates a scrumptious musical stew designed to get you singing, dancing, drumming and enjoyiing the swinging music from Puerto Rico. Through these social dance concerts, LP21 expands the stage and blurs the lines between performer and audience in a highly interactive concert of original and new Bomba and Plena compositions and open community jam that are guaranteed to have you dancing all night long. Shine your dancing shoes and tune your drums for this event that you MUST NOT MISS!

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Masters of Indian Music: Shujaat Husain Khan
8:00 p.m.
Peter Norton Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street, New York
Tickets $30, WMI Friends $25, Students $18
The extraordinary sitarist Shujaat Husain Khan, son and disciple of the late Ustad Vilayat Khan, is one of the leading Indian classical musicians of his generation. Seventh in an unbroken line in a family that has produced many musical masters, he performs in the gayaki ang style, which is imitative of the subtleties of the human voice. He has been noted for his solo appearances of Indian music, as well as for his tours and recordings with the Grammy-nominated Indo-Persian Ghazal Ensemble. He is accompanied by the remarkable tabla player Abhiman Kaushal.

Caffè Lena presents
Freedy Johnston
With Special Guest Rebecca Pronsky
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $18 advance/$20 at the door (How to get tickets)
Kansas native Freedy Johnston is often called a “songwriter’s songwriter” for his brilliantly crafted, sometimes witty, often poignant folk-rock portraits of characters who seem unaware of how their lives have gone wrong. Once named Rolling Stone’s “Songwriter of the Year,” Johnston will be focusing tonight on material fromRain on the City, his first album of new originals in eight years. Recorded in Nashville with producer Richard McLaurin, it’s one of the best song collections of Freedy’s career, featuring a diverse array of rockers, heartbreaking twang, even hints of blue-eyed soul and bossa nova.

The Golden Link Folk Singing Society presents
Ken Kolodner
7:30 p.m. Rochester Christian Reformed Church, 2750 Atlantic Ave, Penfield, NY
Admission: $18 ($15 for Golden Link members; $10 for students; 12 years and under free)
Purchase advance tickets online at http://www.goldenlink.org/html/kkolodner.html
As a member of the trios Helicon (with Chris Norman and Robin Bullock) and Greenfire (with Laura Risk) and in solo appearances, Ken has toured extensively in the U.S. and abroad. Ken was the first American to be featured at the International Hackbrett Festival in Germany. Widely known for his expressive and improvisational style, Ken is highly sought after as a teacher of the dulcimer having taught at countless festivals and music camps throughout the U.S. including The Swannanoa Gathering (nine years), Common Ground, the John Campbell Folk School (four years), the Augusta Heritage Festival, the Summer Solstice Festival, Meadowlark (four years) and numerous others. Among Ken’s eight recordings, Ken’s first solo release of Celtic music in 1997, Walking Stones, hit the top of the World Music charts and was a top seller for BMG in their Classical/World Music category.

The Dewey Hall Folk Series presents
JEFFREY FOLMER
7:30 p.m.
Dewey Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA
Mark your calendars for the first Saturday of each month — beautiful, intimate setting, checkered tablecloths, superior acoustics, and exceptional local, national, and international musicians. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Jeffrey Folmer’s CD, Fire in the Night, received glowing reviews including listings as a top-ten album of the year. Whether singing soft ballads, high-energy tunes, or songs of off-beat humor, with his clear voice and commanding stage presence, Jeffrey’s shows purely sparkle with passion and vigor.

Stoop, Synagogue, Soapbox Walking Tour 2 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldrige Street, New York, NY 10002
Tickets: $15
Get ready to rumble on our “Stoop, Synagogue, Soapbox” walking tour. Enter the ring of early 20th-century Lower East Side politics, when pious Jews, secular firebrands, capitalist businessmen and impoverished peddlers faced off in the crowded work spaces, residences, and cafes of this densely populated area.

Lag Ba’omer Concert With Daniel Najman and Choir
4 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldrige Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: Concerts are $20 adults; $12 students and seniors.
RSVP hgriff@eldridgestreet.org or call 212/219-0888x205
Cantor Daniel Najman and choir, and Cantors David Presler, Avraham Israel, Shmuel Braun, Ron Donenfeld, and Josh Lissauer present a concert inspired by the rich musical legacy of our landmark site. His stirring renditions of classic melodies recall the era of cantorial superstars, when Yossele Rosenblatt and Moshe Koussevitsky packed synagogues and concert halls on the Lower East Side.

Long Island Traditions presents
Seafood Screening and Tasting
12:30 p.m.
Town of Hempstead Conservation and Waterways, Lido Blvd., Point Lookout, 516-767-8803
Cost: $35, including lunch
This past fall the Belgium-based VRT television visited Long Island to film a program on Frank Sinatra’s love of clams. In one of the segments, Belgian celebrity chef Jeroen Meus went clamming with bay house owners Eddie Sheehan and Rich Van Wicklen and then prepared a traditional clam stew. The production has aired on Belgium TV. We will be screening the show on Sunday, May 2, at 12:30 p.m. at the Town of Hempstead’s Conservation and Waterways headquarters, and then we’ll go to Artie’s South Shore Fish Market and Restaurant in Island Park, where we will meet the owner and commercial fisherman Artie Hoerning. We will have a sumptuous feast and a chance to learn how fish markets are affected by fishing regulations. In case of rain, the lunch will take place on May 16. The price is $25 for members and $35 for non-members. Space is limited so sign up early! For more information, call us at (516) 767-8803.

Caffè Lena presents
Loon
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $14 advance/$16 at the door (How to get tickets)
Banjoist and founding member of the Dry Bones Band, Dan Hubbs has joined forces with fiddle great Frank Orsini and Saratoga’s own Jeff Walton to form a traditional acoustic music band — Loon. Loon kicks out high-energy string band jams, summons haunting Irish airs, weaves the blues into clawhammer/fiddle tunes, performs Native American flute music, and delivers old-time literary originals.

New York State Cultural Data Project Demonstrations and Discussions Announced Is your organization one of the more than 1,800 already taking part in the New York State Cultural Data Project? If not, now is a great time to attend a demonstration and discussion training session to help you get started with the CDP. This powerful tool will, at no cost, allow arts managers and artistic leaders to understand and analyze their organization’s financial performance through easy-to-run reports. By participating in the New York State CDP, you will be part of a successful and growing project that will allow researchers and the arts community as a whole to better articulate and provide evidence for the sector’s assets and needs, as well as its contributions to the state and the country. By completing the online form annually, you will also be able to generate reports to be submitted to grantmakers with the click of a button. Join us to learn how you can begin to use the New York State CDP, free of charge! Get the most from the New York State CDP. Attend a free demonstration and discussion. In these 90-minute demonstration and discussion sessions we will give you an overview of the New York State CDP and everything you need to get started using it. Refreshments will be served. May 3, 2010, 2:00-3:30 p.m. Westchester ArtsWestchester Arts Exchange, 31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains, NY 10601 Register online May 4, 2010, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Poughkeepsie Dutchess County Arts Council, The Cunneen-Hackett Arts Building, 9 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Register online May 5, 2010, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Hudson Hudson Opera House,West Room, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534 Register online May 6, 2010, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Albany Shaker Heritage Society, 875 Watervliet Shaker Road, Albany, NY 12211-1051 Register online Join a demonstration and discussion from your home or office. Attend a training ONLINE via webinar! April 19, 2010, 2:00-3:30 p.m. Register online May 12, 2010, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Register online Upcoming Demonstrations and Discussions June 7-10, 2010 Adirondack Region Questions? Visit www.nysculturaldata.org or contact the New York State CDP Help Desk at help@nysculturaldata.org or call 1-888-NYSCDP-1 (1-888-697-2371). To receive alerts when new sessions are added, please email help@nysculturaldata.org or call 1-888-NYSCDP-1 (1-888-697-2371) to be added to the New York State Cultural Data Project email list.

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY presents the
“Documented Italians” Film and Video Series
Spring 2010
RICORDATI DI NOI! (2007), 26 min.
Paul Tana, dir.
HO FATTO IL MIO CORAGGIO (2009), 50 min.
Giovanni Princigalli, dir.
6 p.m.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, NY
Free and open to the public.
Seating is Limited
These two films look at post-World War II Italian immigration to Montreal and the ways in which it is remembered. Ho fatto il mio coraggio features contemporary interviews with immigrants who arrived in Montreal in the 1950s and 60s, often to fulfill arranged marriages or reunite with fiancées they met in Italy. Among the protagonists are Carlo, one of the few Italian-Canadian communists in Montreal, and Lina, who celebrates the ritual of Saint Anthony in her home every year. The film features archival film footage and photographs from personal and institutional collections. Ricordati di noi! documents the Cinematique Quebecoise’s effort to salvage, catalogue, and preserve footage from the television show Teledomenica. Broadcast every Sunday from 1964 to 1994, Teledomenica was Montreal’s first and favorite Italian-language television program. More than a decade after the final show aired, hundreds of discarded film reels were discovered in the basement of the program’s old office headquarters. The long-forgotten footage provides a vivid, intimate record of the life of Montreal’s Italian community.

El Taller Boricua presents SALSA WEDNESDAYS Doors open 5:30 p.m. 1680 Lexington Avenue, 105 St. & 106 St., The 6 Train to 103rd St., New York, 212/831-4333 May 5 Mambo Legends 21-piece orchestra (former all stars of the Tito Puente Orchestra with Frankie Vasquez and Cita Rodriguez) May 12 Manny Oquendo’s Libre May 19 Orch. Broadway $10 all night May 26 Hector Lavoe All Star Band Renzo, Jose Mangual, Jr., Prof. Joe Torres and Reynaldo Jorge

Polish Community Center presents
A Polish Festival 2010 featuring Dingus Day
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Empire State Plaza, South Concourse
We will have the opportunity to introduce the general public to our culture as well as our food, will have a cultural exhibit, traditional Polish and Polka music, and of course we will have the St. Adalbert’s Dancers perform. Hope to see you there, show us your support!

The Gotham Center for New York City presents the next program in their Gotham History Forum Series for Spring 2010:
Sweatshop Cinderella — Documentary Film Premiere
6:30 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street – Recital Hall, New York, NY
FREE. Reservations required. www.gc.cuny.edu/events
Please join historian and award-winning film maker Suzanne Wasserman for the New York City premiere of her new short documentary, Sweatshop Cinderella. The documentary examines the life of Jewish immigrant writer Anzia Yezierska. Using archival film and stills, footage from the 1922 silent film Hungry Hearts, letters, newspaper clippings and a tape-recorded interview, this film will tell the amazing story of the early 20th century novelist. The film is distributed by Women Make Movies.

Caffè Lena presents
Poetry Open Mic With Featured Reader Jared Smith
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $3 at the door (How to get tickets)
Jared Smith’s seventh volume of poetry, The Graves Grow Bigger Between Generations, was released in the spring of 2008 and was nominated for a Tufts Award. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee (2007 and 2008). He has had hundreds of publications in literary journals across the nation over the past 30 years, in addition to several foreign countries.

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance invites you to TRADITIONAL COLOMBIAN MUSIC AND DANCE IN NY A Five-Part Workshop Series in collaboration with the Queens Museum of Art and El Taller Latin Americano April 14, 7-8:30 p.m. Queens Museum of Art, Opening Event and Reception: Pablo Mayor presents a traditional music and dance tour of Colombia. Free! April 21, 7-8:30 p.m. Queens Museum of Art: Martin Vejarano presents the unique sounds of the qaita flute from the Atlantic coast; and Diego Obregón offers marimba music of Colombia’s Pacific coast. Free! May 6, 7-8:30 p.m. El Taller Latino Americano: Ronald Polo explores of the percussion sounds of the Atlantic coast; and Johanna Castañeda presents a music workshop with cuatro from Colombia’s plains. Suggested donation $5. May 13, 7-8:30 p.m. El Taller Latino Americano: Rafael Gomez & Guillermo Penate explore the vallenata sounds of Colombia’s north coast; and Daniel Fetecua Soto presents dances from throughout Colombia. Suggested donation $5. June 16, 7-8:30 p.m. Queens Museum of Art, Closing Event & Reception: Rafael Leal Ramirez demonstrates traditional Colombian rhythms for the drum set; and Andrés Garcia presents traditional Andean music for tiple, flauta and bass. Free! For information, call 212-571-1555 ext 27 or email gmhamilton@ctmd.org.

The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes presents
A Gathering of Dancers
4-9 p.m.
The Clemens Center Theater 207 Clemens Center Parkway Elmira, New York 14901
Cost: Free
For more information, call 607/962-5871 x 222 or email folkARTS@eARTS.org
A Gathering of Dancers brings together dancers from many traditions to learn from each other, participate in demonstrations, and workshops. The dance traditions featured include: Irish, South Asian, Polish, Greek, Chinese, Native American and others.

Architecture as Icon:
An Off-Site Gallery Talk by Dr. Katherine Marsengill
6:30 p.m.
Neighborhood Preservation Center, 232 East 11th Street, New York, NY 10003
RSVP required at 212-228-2781 or info@neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org
Admission is free, but space is limited.
Princeton University’s current exhibition, “Architecture as Icon” studies the perception and representation of architecture in Byzantine Art through an exhibit of rarely viewed objects from Greece, Romania, Armenia, and Russia. This is the first exhibit of its kind to move the focus of iconic artwork beyond the foreground images and acknowledge the often overlooked backgrounds, celebrating the relevance of architectural figures within the composition. Dr. Katherine Marsengill will give an illustrated presentation of works from the exhibit based on her gallery talk. Dr. Marsengill received her BA and MA from the University of Georgia, and Ph.D. from Princeton University. She studies Byzantine art, specializing in portraiture and icons. Architecture as Icon is on exhibit at the Princeton University Art Museum until June 6, 2010. Gallery hours, location, and other visiting information can be found on the museum’s website. This program is sponsored by the Neighborhood Preservation Center and by US/ICOMOS. US/ICOMOS is the US National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites, fostering world cultural heritage through advocacy, education, policy and science. More about US/ICOMOS, their mission and May International Symposium can be found at their website: usicomos.org.

Caffè Lena presents
Austin Lounge Lizards
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $22 advance/$24 at the door (How to get tickets)
The Austin Lounge Lizards have long been known for their Texas-sized twisted tales and humorous songs, charming their fans around the globe for more than twenty-five years. Singing in five-part harmonies with instrumentals that spoof the conventions of bluegrass, country, rock and pop music, it’s no surprise that band members count among their influences Frank Zappa, George Jones, Spike Jones, Flatt & Scruggs, Tom Lehrer, and Steve Goodman. The core band members, Hank Card and Conrad Deisler, met as history majors at Princeton in 1976. Both wound up at the University of Texas law school, where they hooked up with banjo and steel guitar player Tom Pittman, who had the right academic credentials (a degree in philosophy from the University of Georgia). While holding down day jobs as varied as bailiff, construction foreman, and administrative law judge, the Lizards fine-tuned their talent for writing bizarro social and politically themed songs, overflowing with tongue-in-cheek twang.

The American Revolution: Iroquois Indian Perspectives
7:30-8:45 p.m.
Geneva Historical Society, 543 South Main St., Geneva, NY 14456
Cost: Free
For more information call 315-789-5151 or visit www.genevahistoricalsociety.com
In this lecture, Laurence Hauptman, SUNY Distinguished Professor of History, will examine the American Revolution from the perspective of Native Americans in New York State. The Six Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Nations were dramatically affected by the war and its consequences and found themselves pulled by both the Patriot and British sides. Professor Hauptman’s slide program presents the war from diverse Iroquois perspectives and makes use of the rich oral traditions and archival research he has gathered over the past thirty-five years. Professor Hauptman has taught history at SUNY New Paltz for the past 37 years. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of 15 books that focus on the history of Native Americans.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Sones de Mexico
10:00 p.m.
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, 57th St. and 7th Ave., New York
Tickets $38, $46, WMI Friends $32, $40, Students $10
This acclaimed Grammy-nominated Mexican folk music ensemble from Chicago specializes in the various regional styles of son, recreating the atmosphere of a traditional fandango (dance fiesta).

Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters
8:00 p.m.
Earlville Opera House Arts Cafe, 8 East Main Street, Earlville, NY 13332 (near the intersection with NYS Route 12B), 315-691-3550
Tickets: $17 regular, $15 member, $12 student; call to reserve your seats at 315-691-3550.
See Amy Gallatin and Stillwaters in a special 5-piece format joined by an award-winning fiddler: The powerhouse duo of Amy Gallatin and renowned resophonic guitarist Roger Williams joined forces a few years ago to explore their mutual love of country standards, served up with an acoustic treatment in the bluegrass vein. The result is a toe-tapping blend of heartfelt vocals, soaring harmonies and red-hot picking, traditional yet modern and distinct. The two are enhanced by the recent addition of Roger’s son J.D.Williams, veteran bassist Eric Levenson, and National Fiddle Champion Kimber Ludiker

Community Arts Partnership announces:
SPRING (W)RITES: The 2010 Finger Lakes Literary Festival
Ithaca, New York (various locations)
Events for writers, readers, and book-lovers are occurring all over town at locations like the Tompkins County Public Library, Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca College, the Friends of the Library Book Sale, and more! The full schedule of events can be found at the festival website..

The Golden Link Folk Singing Society presents
April Verch
7:30 p.m. Rochester Christian Reformed Church, 2750 Atlantic Ave, Penfield, NY
Admission: $18 ($15 for Golden Link members; $10 for students; 12 years and under free)
Purchase advance tickets online at http://www.goldenlink.org/html/verch.html
When you see April Verch perform, the first thing that strikes you is the pure energy that infuses her fiddle playing and stepdancing. When you listen to her, though, what draws you in are more subtle things̵;her pure voice, the finely detailed elegance of her fiddle phrasing and the depth of a repertoire that ranges through material from bluegrass to Brazilian to Celtic, from a jaunty Canadian folk- song to a poignant contemporary ballad. April is world-class fiddler, a champion Ottawa Valley stepdancer, an acclaimed composer, and a vocalist whose voice has been hailed as “absolutely captivating” by the Toronto Star. In addition to April’s talents, the April Verch Band features world-class musicians Marc Bru on percussion, Lincoln Meyers on guitar, and Cody Walters on upright-electric bass.

Valley Folk Music of Corning, NY presents
Gathering Time
Pre-concert Jam from 6 p.m.,concert at 7:30 p,m.
155 Cedar St., Corning, NY 14850
For information, contact (607) 962-4461 info@valleyfolk.org
Cost: $12 cash or check on the door only. Half price full-time students, wheel chair occupants, free kids 14 and under with adult.
Imagine the dyed-in-the-wool folk sound of Peter, Paul and Mary crossed with the harmonic complexity of Crosby, Stills and Nash. Three Long Island singers and songwriter, Glen Roethel, Hillary Foxsong and Stuart Markus as Gathering Time are fast becoming known for their seamless vocal blend, memorable melodies, meaningful lyrics, and easy-going, fun performance chemistry. They created a buzz at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance Conference—come see why and you’ll be delighted.

Caffè Lena presents
Stony Creek Band
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $15 advance/$17 at the door (How to get tickets)
Stony Creek Band is one of the Adirondack region’s most enduringly popular bands. Since first forming in the early 1970s, Stony Creek has evolved from an acoustic trio playing traditional folk and country to an eclectic Americana outfit featuring exhuberant, superbly tight electric arrangements. Their inspiring songs ring with the unsilenceable voices of everyday heroes. Never saccharine or self-absorbed, Stony Creek is a band of mature, seasoned artists who play with an intuition only possible among first-rate artists whose collaboration has spanned four decades.

Wild Geese
8:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.
Mulconry’s Irish Pub, 17 Lift Bridge Lane, Fairport 14450, 585-678-4516
Band members performing include....Maeve MacAnTuile- bass and vocals, Peg Dolan- guitar and vocals, Kevin Reynolds- acoustic and electric guitars and vocals,abd Eamon McCormack- vocals and bodhran.

Jewish Mysticism & the Kabbalah
Lecture with Dr. Sharon Flatto
11 a.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldrige Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: Free. RSVP asteinmilford@eldridgestreet.org or call 212/219-0888 x201
Dr. Sharon Flatto (Brooklyn College) looks at contemporary culture’s fascination with the kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, and how this ecstatic, esoteric tradition has been, by turns, embraced, incorporated and expunged from American Jewish practice. Beginning June 1: Sunday-Thursday at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. — Ways We Worship - Jewish Ritual Tour: Explore 120 years of Jewish practice in America. Trace the path of a Sabbath service at Eldridge Street, circa 1887. See, hear and touch objects associated with Jewish rituals and culture. Discover how Jewish practice has been maintained, adapted and innovated upon in America. $10 adults, $8 students and seniors.

Caffè Lena presents
Uccello with Matt Haimovitz
2 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $20 advance/$22 at the door (How to get tickets)
Renowned as a musical pioneer, cellist Matt Haimovitz has inspired classical music lovers and countless new listeners by bringing his artistry to concert halls and clubs, outdoor festivals and intimate coffee houses—any place where passionate music can be heard. Through his visionary approach—bringing a fresh ear to a familiar repertoire, championing new music and initiating groundbreaking collaborations, as well as mentoring an award-winning studio of young cellists at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music in Montreal—Haimovitz is re-defining what it means to be an artist for the 21st century. Uccello is comprised of Haimovitz’s finest cello students. The ensemble is on tour in the Northeast with a truly stunning program of jazz arrangements for eight cellos, including Ornette Coleman’s  W.R.U.,” Miles Davis’s “Half Nelson,” Billy Strayhorn’s “Blood Count,” and Charles Mingus’s “Haitian Fight Song.𔄤

Caffè Lena presents
Matthew Carefully
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $10 advance/$12 at the door (How to get tickets)
Always inventive and seeking fresh collaborations, Matthew Carefully (known previously as Matthew Loiacono) brings us the fruits of his latest explorations. His new album is called Community Balloon. It’s all songs that were made from suggestions, ideas, challenges, words, feelings, and artwork by his fans and followers. Matthew is best known to area audiences for his years as mandolinist with folk-rock band the Kamikaze Hearts. He has subsequently released two solo albums that feature rich, lush acoustic soundscapes with a feel of poignancy and thoughtfulness.

New York State Archives announces a Documentary Heritage Workshop
From the Western New York Library Resources Council (WNYLRC)
The Internet and Local Resources for Researching Military History
Presented by Heidi Bamford, WNY DHP Regional Archivist
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
WNYLRC Training Center, 4455 Genesee Street, Cheektowaga, NY
Cost: $10 for WNYLRC members; $15 for non-members
Registration: http://www.wnylrc.org
For more information, call 716-633-0705 x 114
“Dead Men Do Tell Tales” as we will discover during this final session in the series, focusing on “voices” from the past that help increase our understanding about significant periods of military conflict in local and national history. From great military leaders to everyday foot soldiers, this session examines ways in which individual experiences in military conflicts have been documented and preserved, and how they have enduring value for us today.

The Gotham Center for New York City presents the last program in their Gotham History Forum Series for Spring 2010:
The “Weaker Sex” Takes Gotham: Fighting For Women’s Right to Vote
6:30 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street – Recital Hall, New York, NY
FREE. Reservations required. www.gc.cuny.edu/events
Author Louise Bernikow will trace the places, the characters, and the tactics involved in winning the vote for women in New York. The battle for female suffrage played out against the city landscape with more drama than anything mounted on the Broadway stage. Filling Fifth Avenue with marchers, Union Square with leaf letters, Carnegie Hall with speechifiers, and surrounding the Statue of Liberty with demonstrators in small boats, suffragists left no corner of the city untouched. Across generations, geographies, and class, the tale features American aristocrats like Alva (Vanderbilt) Belmont, world-famous actress Lillian Russell, feminist royalty Harriot Stanton Blatch, flamboyant stockbroker/presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull, and labor organizer Rose Schneiderman, all allied with thousands of “anonymous” city residents, college students, immigrant garment workers, and working women.

Caffè Lena presents
Emerging Artists Breakout
Featuring Aaron Butler
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $5 at the door

CALL FOR ARTISTS Third Annual CIAO ITALY PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL Where: Associazione San Cono, 233 Ainsle Street, Ground Floor, Williamsburg, Brooklyn When: Saturday June 19, 2010 - 6:00-10:00 p.m. Coordinated by Anabella Lenzu and Todd Carroll We are looking for artists in the following performance genres: Dance, Theater, Visual Arts, Music, and Poetry. Performances should be 20 minutes maximum and either Italian-inspired or traditional Italian-based works. A small performance stipend will be provided to selected artists. Applications must be submitted by Wednesday May 12, 2010. To apply please submit completed application form, a short bio, and a work sample. Applications may be submitted by e-mail to info@AnabellaLenzu.com or by mail to Anabella Lenzu, 126 Ainslie Street, Apt. 3L, Brooklyn, NY 11211. Work samples can be submitted as a CD/DVD or electronically as a link, youtube clip, e-mail attachment, or mp3 file. Artists will receive notification by Monday May 17 2010. This year’s festival has been made possible in part through the generous support of the Brooklyn Arts Council, and sponsored by Associazione San Cono.

Embroiderers’s Guild Show
Wednesday, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, 10 a.m - 8 p.m.
Friday-Sunday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Pruyn House, 207 Old Niskayuna Road, Newtonville, NY 12128, 518.783.1435
Admission: $3.00 adults, children under 12 are free
The New York Capital District Chapter of the Embroiders’ Guild of America, Inc. presents an exhibit of fine stitchery, Creating Heritage in Stiches.

Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) presents
ARTIST SHOW & TELL 8-10 p.m.
208 Bay St., between Victory Blvd. and Hannah St., Staten Island
Call: 718.447.3329 with questions
Free tea/coffee on COAHSI
ARTIST Show & Tell AND Networking! — Looking to NETWORK with other artists? Want to make new friends, or catch up with old ones? Got a poem, a skit, a painting, a song, a film, an animation, a hands-on activity, a dance that you want to SHARE?? Artists of ALL DISCIPLINES! are invited to this Show & Tell. Show off the great work you’re doing, and see what other artists in the community are creating.

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Ancient Strings of India: Joydeep Ghosh
7:30 p.m.
Leonard Nimoy Thalia @ Peter Norton Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th Street, New York
Tickets $25. WMI Friends $21, Students $18
This program provides a rare opportunity to hear the surshringar, a lute that is nearly extinct in India today. The surshringar, derived from ancient instruments and probably introduced in the early 19th century, can be described as a bass sarod and is used mainly in the introspective dhrupad and dhamar styles. The award-winning Joydeep Ghosh, who has been hailed as one of India’s most respected surshringar players, is helping to keep alive this venerable tradition. Tabla accompaniment by Subhen Chatterjee. This program is dedicated to the late sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan.

NYFA Connects featuring Willie Perdomo
7 p.m.
Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 236 East 3rd Street b/w Ave B & C, New York City
Donation: $5 in advance, $7 at the door
$5 Heineken specials to benefit NYFA and the Nuyorican!
Buy tickets online
Join NYFA and the Nuyorican for a spring party featuring a reading by three-time NYFA Fellow, Willie Perdomo. Meet and mingle with artists, writers and NYFA staff. Learn how NYFA has been providing funding and resources to artists and writers for over 30 years! Willie Perdomo is the author Where a Nickel Costs a Dime and Smoking Lovely, which received a PEN America Beyond Margins Award. He has also been published in The New York Times Magazine, Bomb, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, OCHO, and African Voices. His children’s book, Visiting Langston, received a Coretta Scott King Honor and his follow-up, Clemente! will be published in May 2010. He has been a Pushcart Prize nominee, a Woolrich Fellow in Creative Writing at Columbia University, and is a 2009 fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is co-founder/publisher of Cypher Books.

Hamilton Hill Arts Center presents
An Evening with Melba Moore
7:30 p.m.
Proctors GE Theater, 432 State Street, Schenectady, NY
Tickets: $25 advance (Buy online); $35, door
The Hamilton Hill Arts Center is proud to present An Evening with Melba Moore. Ms. Moore, a notable Broadway performer, has received many accolades and was the first African American to win a Tony Award. Her repertoire will include music from Broadway, Jazz and Gospel. All proceeds from this concert will benefit the Hamilton Hill Art Center, a free, safe and creative haven where young people are encouraged to discover and express their own special gifts. A deeply spiritual person, Melba is a strong advocate for children and is proud to be a part of this wonderful event.

YWCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts presents
Steve Forbert
8:00 p.m.
Boulton Center, 37 West Main Street, Bay Shore, NY, 631/969-1101
Cost: Tickets available, $30
Anointed “the new Dylan” upon his recording debut, folk-rock singer/songwriter Steve Forbert was born in Meridian, Mississippi, in 1955. After learning guitar at age 11, he spent his high school years playing in a variety of local bands before quitting his job as a truck driver and moving to New York City at the age of 21. There, he performed for spare change in Grand Central Station before working his way up to the Manhattan club circuit. After signing to Nemperor, Forbert debuted in 1978 with Alive on Arrival, which earned critical acclaim for its taut, poetic lyrics. The follow-up, 1979’s Jackrabbit Slim, was his most successful outing, reaching the Top 20 on the strength of the hit single “Romeo’s Tune” (allegedly inspired by the late Supreme Florence Ballard). On Stage at World Cafe Live appeared in 2007 from Decca Vision as well as a new studio set, Strange Names and New Sensations, from 429 Records that same year. The Place and the Time arrived in 2009.
Tickets for this performance are available at www.boultoncenter.org or by calling toll free 866-811-4111 or at the YMCA Boulton Center box office: 37 West Main Street, Bay Shore, NY (631) 969-1101. Box office hours: Weds, Fri., Sat., from 12-4, Thurs. 12-6 and extended hours on performance days.

Caffè Lena presents
Fred Eaglesmith Band
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $22 advance/$24 at the door (How to get tickets)
Canadian singer-songwriter Fred Eaglesmith is a prolific artist whose work explores spirituality, faith, life, love, labor and more within a full-blooded musical and lyrical experience that draws from folk, country, rock, gospel, old-time, bluegrass and even spoken word. “It is Tom Waits meets Pink Floyd meets Hank Williams.” (Calgary Herald). Eaglesmith is a fiercely independent and original artist who works amazingly hard. He hosts a number of music festivals across North America, feeds songs to fellow songwriters, puts out albums that reliably hit the top of the Americana music charts, and leads a devoted band of fans who feed on the “fury and fun” of his concerts. This will be his long-anticipated debut at Caffè Lena and he’s bringing his full band for the event!

Caffè Lena presents its
50th Anniversary Decade Concert: The 2000s
Jeremy Wallace Trio and the Ramblin Jug Stompers
8 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $25 (How to get tickets)
As we come to the eve of Caffè Lena’s 50th anniversary weekend, we celebrate the most recent decade with two of the period’s best-loved bands, both launched onto the Caffè stage in the last five years. Playing a little folk, a tinge of rock, some country, and loads of gritty blues, northern New Jersey’s Jeremy Wallace Trio pumps out “Americana with a Bite.” The band (Jeremy on vocals, guitar and piano; Matt Gruenberg on upright bass, and Tom Costagliola on drums) has immediate appeal for fans of Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett and Bruce Springsteen. Pick a little banjo...Blow a little jug...Strum a little six-string...Scratch that ‘board...Put it all together, and what do you get? The Ramblin Jug Stompers, the premier jug band of New York’s Capital Region! This acoustic quartet takes their fun seriously, and they love the music they make. That’s something that you just can’t fake, and you can hear it in the frailing, high-mountain hoedown of “Fix Me a Pallet” or the poor-side-o’-town ballad “Down in the Boondocks” (done up in RJS’ patented “Appalypso” style).

The World Music Institute (WMI) presents
Conga Kings: Candido Camero, Francisco Aguabella, and Giovanni Hidalgo
8:00 p.m.
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU, 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South, New York
Tickets $32, WMI Friends $27, Students $18
This dynamic 9-member rumba group features three master congueros of Afro-Cuban music: Candido Camero, the 88-year-old elder statesman of congas who is a living encyclopedia of Cuban music; 83-yearold Francisco Aguabella, the “John Coltrane of the conga” and winner of the prestigious National Heritage Fellowship; and Giovanni Hidalgo, the current master of congas who melds Afro-Caribbean, jazz and folkloric influences with his signature style. The program is directed by Ray Santos and features guest dancers.

Old Songs, Inc. presents
Malinky
8:00 p.m.
Old Songs Community Arts Center, 37 S. Main St., Voorheesville, NY, 518/765-2815, oldsongs@oldsongs.org
Cost: $20/adults; $5/ages 12 and under
Buy tickets online
Ranked among today’s foremost young exponents of Scottish song, Malinky combine an array of vocal talent with a highly distinctive instrumental palette, in fresh yet timeless arrangements of both traditional and contemporary material. Their fast-track progress on the international Celtic scene, since forming in 1998, has been underpinned by outstanding musical prowess, fruitful artistic evolution and a maturity well beyond their years.

A Nation of Nudniks
Lecture with Dr. Allan Nadler
11 a.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldrige Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: Free. RSVP asteinmilford@eldridgestreet.org or call 212/219-0888 x201
Putz, shmegegi, klutz, and nudnik. What language better expresses an insult than Yiddish? Dr. Allan Nadler (Drew University) will explore the long-term effects of this contentiousness on the very nature of Jewish discourse and on the Yiddish-speaking community in America as it encountered Western conventions of politeness. Beginning with samples of remarkable rudeness in Hebrew rabbinical writings, Nadler focuses on the origins, contexts and uses in daily life of the vast array of insults and curses in the Yiddish linguistic arsenal. Beginning June 1: Sunday-Thursday at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. — Ways We Worship - Jewish Ritual Tour: Explore 120 years of Jewish practice in America. Trace the path of a Sabbath service at Eldridge Street, circa 1887. See, hear and touch objects associated with Jewish rituals and culture. Discover how Jewish practice has been maintained, adapted and innovated upon in America. $10 adults, $8 students and seniors.

Cantorial Concert With The Belz School of Jewish Music
3 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldrige Street, New York, NY 10002
Cost: Concerts are $20 adults; $12 students and seniors.
RSVP hgriff@eldridgestreet.org or call 212/219-0888x205
We celebrate the Golden Age of American cantorial music with a concert of classical liturgy and Shavuot-themed songs performed by the Belz School of Jewish Music. Conducted by Cantor Eric Freeman and with commentary by Cantor Bernard Beer.

Caffè Lena presents
Anaïs Mitchell
Opener Anne Heaton
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
Cost: $16 advance / $18 at the door (How to get tickets)
From her birthplace on a Vermont sheep farm to Beirut cafés, Cairo apartments, and Austin recording studios, Anaïs Mitchell has been around. Her listeners hear the Virginia countryside, bathe in New Mexico moonlight, and hear the world whizzing by from inside a hobo’s train car. This remarkable young artist, who set out to do no more than indulge her love of language and truth, was catapulted into the national folk spotlight after capturing the prestigious Kerrville New Folk Award and being signed to Righteous Babe Records. Anaïs is looking forward the imminent release, on the Righteous Babe label, of an album of songs from her “folk opera” Hadestown, based on the Orpheus myth but set in a vaguely futuristic Depression Era-esque company town. Boston singer-songwriter Anne Heaton will open the show with her organic vocals, pop melodies and piano-led arrangements. The music is lush and whimsical, urging the listener to both take risks and take comfort.

International Black Film Festival at Alice Austen House Museum
HUMMING BIRD a film by Holly Moser
6:30 p.m.
Alice Austen House, 2 Hylan Blvd., Staten Island, NY
Screenings are free of charge
The International Black Film Festival and the Alice Austen House Museum are proud to present a string of films that are entertaining and raise important human issues, and non-traditional points of views. Each film is followed by a discussion. Humming Bird is a film about the beautiful city of Recife, Brazil—the capital of sex tourism—and two women who try to break the cycle of violence by getting kids off the street.

Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) presents
Freshkills Park Talks: Photographer Nathan Kensinger on the Post-Industrial Shores of Staten Island 6:30 p.m.
Cargo Cafe, 120 Bay Street, Staten Island, NY
Nathan Kensinger has photographed abandoned and post-industrial sites along New York City’s waterfront for the past seven years. His photographs from Staten Island’s shores include images not only from the closed Fresh Kills Landfill, but also an abandoned chewing gum factory, a partially demolished color works, rotting train stations, empty hospitals, and boat graveyards. As the Staten Island Advance puts it, he photographs “places that even the forgotten have forgotten.” The Freshkills Park development team partners with the Council for the Arts and Humanities on Staten Island (COAHSI) for this colorful slideshow celebrating Staten Island’s historic and eccentric waterfront.

Lunch and Learn: Spanish Cuisine
12 p.m.
Staten Island Museum, 2075 Forest Avenue, Staten Island, NY
Cost: $33/$30 Staten Island Museum members
Call Maureen LaCapria at (718)483-7104 to reserve a seat and for more information.
Maria, owner of the Real Madrid will share her experiences of her youth in Spain. A movable feast with fascinating presentations.

American Banjo Fraternity presents its
Spring Rally
Players and listeners are invited
Genetti Hotel, 200 West Fourth St., Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 17701, 800-321-1388 or 1-570-326-6600
Free performance, 7:30 p.m., May 22, 2010
For more information, please contact: Paul Heilman, Executive Secretary, abfbanjo@rochester.rr.com
This presentation features solo and group performances on 5-string banjos of different sizes using nylon strings and bare fingers, no picks. This was the primary form of urban banjo playing in the 1900s.

Writing New York Stories City Lore’s Steve Zeitlin will be teaching Writing New York Stories for Cooper Union again this summer. Wednesday, 6:30 -9:30 p.m. 9 sessions starting June 2, 2010, ending July 28, 2010 Tuition: $300.00 Classroom location: City Lore, 72 E 1st St. 2nd floor, New York, NY 10003 To sign up and for an official class description, please visit the Cooper Union Continuing Education website. If you have a question about the class itself call or email Steve at (212) 529-1955 ext 301, steve@citylore.org. This popular writing workshop is a celebration of New York City in words. Participants have a great opportunity to write about their favorite urban legends, local characters, subway stories, childhood games, vanishing occupations or endangered spaces, and to discover their own voice in the process. Students develop writing exercises in class, and write sketches and stories at home that they read aloud in class. The class assists each writer with the process of discovering what forms they gravitate towards and what is distinctive about their own writing. A number of essays by students have later been published in a variety of publications, and a reading by students and formers students takes place each year at the Bowery Poetry Club at the conclusion of the class. The instructor is Steve Zeitlin, the director of City Lore, as well as the author of a number of award-winning books for both children and adults. The class is taught at City Lore on the corner of First and First, a corner once described on Seinfeld as the “Nexus of the Universe.”

Vance Gilbert
With Maria Gillard opening
A Heartland Concert
8 p.m.
Harmony House, 58 East Main Street, Webster NY
Tickets: $23
Vance Gilbert inspires superlatives be it for his songwriting, voice, delivery or storytelling. “With the voice of an angel, the wit of a devil, and the guitar playing of a god..."—Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Heartland Concerts is an all volunteer folk and acoustic music series, presenting the finest in local, regional and national performers in the Rochester, New York area.

The Arts Center of the Capital Region presents a book signing:
Marion Roach Smith and Writing What You Know
6:00 p.m.
University Club, Albany, NY
The Art Center’s own Marion Roach Smith has published a new book with the same title as her long running popular class at the Arts Center, Writing What You Know.

Nathan & Zydeco Cha Chas
8:00 p.m.
Earlville Opera House, 8 East Main Street, Earlville, NY 13332 (near the intersection with NYS Route 12B), 315-691-3550
Tickets: $20, $18, $15; order online
For over twenty years, Rounder Records recording artist Nathan Williams and his hard working band the Zydeco Cha Chas have toured the world bringing their unique brand of authentic Zydeco music to fans around the globe. At the same time, they have managed to remain one of the most sought after regional acts back home in Louisiana.

Caffè Lena presents its
50th Anniversary Celebration
Arlo Guthrie with Robin and Linda Williams
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
7 p.m.
Arthur Zankel Music Center, Skidmore College, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Cost: $50 (How to get tickets)
Caffè Lena invites the community to enjoy a full day of free music and family activities in celebration of its 50th anniversary. An outdoor stage and indoor stage will run all day, and fun activities for kids will be happening in the Caffè’s Black Box theater. Later that evening the party moves up to Skidmore’s new Zankel Music Center as Caffè Lena and Skidmore team up to present Arlo Guthrie with Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group in the Filene Ladd Concert Hall.

A very young Arlo Guthrie rode into Saratoga Springs and came “stompin’ up to Caffè Lena” where he “got took care of.” Arlo and Lena Spencer became fast friends, and Arlo’s loyalty to the little club that once extended a helping hand has endured down through the years. More than once, following his rise to national prominence with hits such as “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” and “City of New Orleans,” he came to the struggling venue’s rescue with a benefit concert. The ties between Caffè Lena and the Guthrie family have grown even deeper in recent years as son Abe and daughters Sarah Lee and Cathy Guthrie have joined the Caffè roster. Our 50th Anniversary Celebration wouldn’t be complete without Arlo.

Coming up from Virginia to launch this magical evening are Robin and Linda Williams and Their Fine Group with country, bluegrass and gospel songs sung in spectacular harmony. After years of touring clubs and the festival circuit, including numerous appearances at Caffè Lena where they camped out on the floor during weekend-long gigs, Robin and Linda gained a world-wide following through weekly appearances on A Prairie Home Companion. Robin and Linda will be joined by Jim Watson (formerly of the Red Clay Ramblers) on bass and harmony vocals, and bluegrass veteran Jimmy Gaudreau on mandolin.

Staten Island Maifest
10 a.m.
Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, South Meadow
Cost: Over 16 yrs.$3.50 in advance, $5.00 at the door, Children under 16 are FREE
For more information, call 718.447.0526
Come to the Staten Island Maifest — a celebration of German culture on Staten Island! There will be food/drinks, games, German music, crafts and activities for children. Come celebrate Spring and enjoy German-inspired fun! Hosted by Trinity Lutheran Church and School.

The Arts Center of the Capital Region presents
Habiba’s Springtime Shimmies
A Belly Dance Party
7:00 p.m.
The Arts Center of the Capital Region | 265 River Street | Troy | NY | 12180 $5 Members | $5 Kids Under 12 | $7 Non-Members
Join the Arts Center’s favorite diva for a new kind of dance party. Groove to Middle Eastern and Internationally inspired dance music, enjoy performances by professional and student dancers, and celebrate spring with a new flavor. Come, watch, participate and celebrate springtime with Habiba’s Shimmies! No experience is necessary. Beer from Brown’s Brewery, Middle Eastern food from Arnet’s on Broadway, and authentic henna hand painting will be available for purchase.

LGBT Pride Kick Off Night
7 p.m.
Staten Island Museum, 75 Stuyvesant Pl., Staten Island, NY
Cost: $3 entrance, RSVP (718)483-7105
The Staten Island Museum and Staten Island Pride Events (SIPE) will host the annual LGBT Pride season kick-off party; recognizing 5/22 as Harvey Milk Day of Action. Live music, exhibits, raffles, refreshments and cash bar.

Gangster, Writer, Rabbi — Lower East Side Walking Tour
2 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldrige Street, New York, NY 10002
$15 per person. $20 in combination with a tour of the Museum
RSVP: Email ncohen@eldridgestreet.org or call 212.219.0302 x 5
Join the entourage. Gangster Big Jack Zelig, writer Sholem Aleichem, and Rabbi Jacob Joseph all lived and died on the Lower East Side, and all three attracted thousands to their funeral processions. Follow the path of these solemn marches, and learn about the political, cultural, and religious legacies of these larger-than-life figures.

The Noble Maritime Collection presents the
Quintet of the Americas concert: The Harbor from 1609 to Today
2 p.m.
Noble Maritime Collection, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Building D, Staten Island, NY
Cost: Free Celebrating its thirtieth anniversary in New York City, the Quintet brings its musical programs about the history of the New York Harbor and the Hudson River to all five boroughs. The Quintet will perform three new works which represent a musical response to the history and ecology of Manhattan and the Hudson River. While playing, they will present a film about the Hudson River.

Colombian Vallenato Band
Very Be Careful
Doors open 7:00 p.m., show 8:00 p.m.
SOB’s, 204 Varick Street, New York, NY, 212.243.4940
Tickets $12 in advance/$18 day of
LA’s Very Be Careful may be rootsy Colombian vallenato with accordion, bass and percussion, but the music is raw and groove-oriented. The material is mostly their own, and their attitude owes more to punk than anything else. The result is trance-like, hypnotic cumbias from a place no one seems to have ever gone to. The group is lead by accordionist Ricardo and his bass playing brother Arturo Guzman who are backed by Richard Panta on caja vallenata, Craig Martín on guacharaca, and Dante Ruiz on bell. They have become a huge party favorite among Cumbia aficionados and hipster revelers in both in their hometown of LA and in New York, where their 4th of July shows have become legendary.

Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) presents
What’s Next with Staten Island’s Music Scene?
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Cargo Cafe, 120 Bay Street, Staten Island, NY
Call: 718.447.3329 with questions
What’s Next with Staten Island’s Music Scene? will bring together musicians/bands from all over the island to talk about what matters to them...Panelists include: Christina LaRocca, Singer/Songwriter who started the band Heavy Weather, has self produced albums and owns her own freelancing booking agency LRock the Party Booking; Milton Henry, an international music superstar who performs R&B/Reggae and more; D’Andre Tyre and Rick Hernandez, members of Staten Island-Metal band Mystic Union; Bob Wright, Bluegrass musician, and banjo aficionado; Melange & JTJ, an R&B band based on Staten Island; Adam Tilzer, lead singer, guitarist for the Avon Junkies, a punk rock/ska band on Staten Island; Andrew Paladino, lead singer/guitarist/producer for Curious Volume; Benny Rosario, drummer for Ghost of Eden and guitarist/manager for No Change for Machines; Nick Fevelo, lead singer/guitarist for Orchard; Frank Duffy, guitarist for The Headlocks; Stacy Lee, drummer for Plastiq Passion, and Jay Miller, Talk Show Host of Mid Evenings with Jay Miller, and musician for rock band Monty Love. The moderator for this event will be Ben Johnson, AWE Music Writer for the Staten Island Advance.

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY presents the
The Philip V. Cannistraro Seminar Series in Italian American Studies
Spring 2010
From Gangsters to Gangstas: African Americans, Italian Americans, and the Culture of Crime
Kimberly Sims, American University
6 p.m.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th floor, New York
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Please call (212) 642-2094 to pre-register with the Calandra Institute. Be prepared to show a photo ID to the building’s concierge.
The idea that there is a similarity between Italian-American and African-American criminality dates back to the late nineteenth century and persists to this day. Kimberly Sims will examine this presumption by looking at the political and cultural significance of symbols and stereotyping, which play out in African-American hip-hop artists’ adoption of Italian-American gangster iconography, as well as anti-defamation groups’ continued attempts to shape pop-culture representations of African-American and Italian-American criminals.

The Arts Center of the Capital Region presents a book signing:
Marion Roach Smith and Writing What You Know
6:00 p.m.
The Arts Center of the Capital Region | 265 River Street | Troy | NY | 12180
The Art Center’s own Marion Roach Smith has published a new book with the same title as her long running popular class at the Arts Center, Writing What You Know. During the May 28 signing, a part of Troy Night Out, Marion will also entertain patrons with an activity she calls “Pitch Me!” in which she will help prospective authors hone ideas into book concepts in five minute intervals.

Five Points in America — Lower East Side Walking Tour
2 p.m.
The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldrige Street, New York, NY 10002
$15 per person. $20 in combination with a tour of the Museum
RSVP: Email ncohen@eldridgestreet.org or call 212.219.0302 x 5
The roots of the community that would one day build the Eldridge Street Synagogue lie in the former Five Points area and today’s Chinatown. Stroll the streets of these historic areas, discovered traces of the Jewish immigrant experience at every turn. Visit former synagogues, an early collect pond, and a cemetery in bustling Chatham Square.

Caffè Lena presents its
6th Annual Memorial Day Open Stage
7 p.m.
Caffè Lena, 47 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY, 518-583-0022
7 p.m.
Cost: Free
This event is an annual tradition at Caffè Lena, each year bringing together poets, songwriters, storytellers, and speech-makers for a respectful and deep-hearted sharing of views about our soldiers, and conflicts past and present. All styles and points of view are welcome. Excessive profanity is strongly discouraged. No advance reservations will be accepted. Performer sign-up goes from 7 to 7:30. Performances will get underway at 7:30. Time limits will be determined by the number of participants. This event is co-sponsored annually by the Saratoga Peace Alliance and Adirondack Veterans for Peace.

NYFS to Sponsor Gatherings for Latino Artists The New York Folklore Society will be sponsoring three gatherings for Latino artists in New York State. Supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the gatherings will take place on three locations on three separate dates: October 24, 2010 at Long Island Traditions, Port Washington March 19, 2011 at Go Art!, Batavia May 14, 2011 at Centro Civico, Amsterdam Designed for musicians, dancers, craftspersons, and others who are practicing a traditional artform with its origin in any of the Spanish-speaking communities of North and South America, the gatherings will assist artists in sharing resources and experiences. They will provide an opportunity for future collaborations and technical assistance. For additional information, or to find out how to become a delegate for the gatherings, please contact Lisa Overholser at the New York Folklore Society.

Taller Boricua presents the 2nd in their series:
4 SOLO EXHIBITIONS BY:
Las Hermanas Iglesias: EVERYBODY LIKES TO DANCE
Migdalia Luz Barens-Vera: AHORA / NOW
Traci Molloy: MISSED / DISMISSED
Jorge Rojas: NATURALEZA MUERTA / STILL LIFE
Curated by Fernando Salicrup and Christine Licata
Opening Friday, March 26, 2010, 6-9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12-6 p.m.
Thursday 1-7 p.m., Closed Sunday and Monday
Taller Boricua Galleries at the Julia De Burgos Latino Cultural Center, 1680 Lexington Avenue, NYC, N.Y. 10029, 212.831.4333
For more information, contact the Taller Boricua: contact@tallerboricua.org

As part of their 40th anniversary celebration, the Taller Boricua presents the second in our series of multiple, solo exhibitions by artists who share facets of our mission: art and aesthetics, community, art activism as well as music and performance.
Las Hermanas Iglesias (Janelle and Lisa Iglesias) create multimedia and multidisciplinary works that address their shared autobiographical experiences. For “Everybody Likes to Dance,” Las Hermanas create an audio-visual installation involving custom-made disco balls that reference imagery of their Dominican and Norwegian cultures and spin over an interactive dance floor diagram. The step-by-step instructions encourage viewers to listen to the music while trying to trace and learn the dance movements. For these original tracks, Las Hermanas approached six international musicians to each create “mash-ups” of a Dominican Merengue and a Norwegian Pols: Chris Gooris, Christopher “Ryan” Spence, Colin Bragg, Mark Vicente and Guilt and Johannes Brechter with mastering by Gregory Adkins. To complement these mash-ups, Las Hermanas developed a unique choreography, inviting the viewer to experience a fusion of the two traditional, yet diverse, dances and cultures.
“Ahora / Now: Stop III, El Barrio, New York” is the third incarnation of Migdalia Luz Barens-Vera’s multimedia three-channel video, sound, art object installation and public intervention. This site-specific performance takes place through the lens of a video camera and is executed, recorded and edited by the artist. The piece is an evolving allegory of a woman who, both literally and figuratively, takes the walls of her “home” – the symbolic transporter, collector and guardian of memories – with her as she relocates. Poignantly moving her Plexiglas "house" through the streets, she gathers newfound belongings, reconfiguring and recreating it as she goes along. In “Ahora / Now,” diverse worlds are fused together and familiar spatio-temporal realities are shifted, negating the concepts of “local” and “global” and creating a hybrid sense of identity and place. In this instance, her final stop is the Taller Boricua in El Barrio where her collected objects will be exhibited along with the first two chapters of “Ahora / Now: Stop I, Puerto Rico” and “Stop II, Cuenca.”
Traci Molloy’s exhibition “Missed / Dismissed” uses text, photography, painting, and digital imaging to examine loss in relation to adolescent violence, with an emphasis on youth who have murdered their peers. The paradox between the public’s desire for sensational stories involving brutality and death and the private emotions that come as a result of grief and bereavement play a pivotal role in her work. While the media often overlooks the victim’s lives and experiences, instead focusing on the scandalous aspect of the crime, her ongoing series “Kids that Kill Kids” explores the psychological, social and political portraiture of the individuals involved. In her prints from the “White Dandelions” series, she manifests the ramifications of death and the absence of loved ones. For Molloy, it is the universal feeling of loss—of identity, life, and innocence—that ties the work together.
In the exhibition “Naturaleza Muerta / Still Life,” Jorge Rojas incorporates abstract, wax sculptures along with video, sound and light to examine the themes of artistic process, the creation of art, and the foundations of aesthetics. Collectively, Rojas’ work addresses the classical relationship of the beautiful and the sublime to contemporary notions of technology, nature, isolation and transcendence. For this exhibition, his process emphasizes the inherent metaphors within beeswax that in itself is a living force of nature in constant flux. Born of pain and pleasure, it has the power to separate and unite as well as obscure and clarify. Combined with prefabricated metals and sounds, Rojas’ sculptures navigate the ever-present dichotomies in life such as the ephemeral and the concrete, permanence and impermanence and creation and annihilation.

March 26, 2010 –May 8, 2010

The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art presents:
Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion
Winter Hours: Thursday-Sunday, 1-5 p.m.
Museum of Tibetan Art, 338 Lighthouse Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10306, 718/987-3500
Admission: $5 adults; seniors/students $3; children under 6 - free
Please email info@tibetanmuseum.org for additional information
Tibetan Portrait highlights photographic portraits of Tibetan people by renowned contemporary artist Phil Borges. Borges’ portraits introduce viewers to individuals from a deeply spiritual culture who have been marginalized and displaced by the occupation of their homeland. The portraits range from images of everyday people, including nomads and children, to important historic figures such as the Dalai Lama. Tibetan Portrait also features interactive displays focusing on aspects of traditional Tibetan culture such as a map of Tibet’s changing borders, a moveable display of Himalayan mountains, audio recordings of mantra chanting, and a hands-on display of Tibetan prayer wheels.

March 29, 2010 – December 31, 2010

History: Wayne County and the Burnt-Over District
Museum of Wayne County History, 21 Butternut St., Lyons, NY
For more information ,call 315-946-4943 or visit www.waynehistory.org
The new exhibit, “Wayne County and the Burnt-Over District” is on display in the Changing Exhibition Room of the Museum of Wayne County History. Wayne County is unique in that many religions and religious movements had major connections to the area and three can even call Wayne County their birthplace: Mormonism, Modern Spiritualism, and the Neversweats. This exhibit examines this part of the “Burnt-over District,” a term coined by Charles Grandison Finney who in his 1876 book Autobiography of Charles G. Finney referred to a “burnt district” to denote an area in central and western New York State during the Second Great Awakening. The name was inspired by the notion that the area had been so heavily evangelized during antebellum revivalism as to have no “fuel” (unconverted population) left over to “burn” (convert).

March 10, 2010 – August 7, 2010

The Asian American Arts Centre (AAAC) presents
America’s Chinatown Voices:
Silent Auction and Exhibition Bidding and Opening Reception: April 22, 6-8 p.m. and online at www.chinatownvoicesNY.com
Closing silent auction and Mother’s Day Party: May 9, 4-7 p.m.
Exhibition on view 7 days-a-week: 3:30-11:30 p.m.
Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center (CSV), 3rd floor, 107 Suffolk Street (between Delancey and Rivington), New York, NY
In Columbus Park last summer, America’s Chinatown Voices was a special outdoor exhibition of RED PANELS that circled the park fence. Many community residents including young students, local artists and community leaders participated by submitting their poems, messages, thoughtful reflections, memories, and artwork. To rouse New Yorkers and particularly to enable the local Chinatown community to see and hear itself, new panels in Chinese and English were hung regularly every weekend for three months. The red panels have been repainted, reinstalled, and are on view at Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center in the Lower East Side. See the entire collection at CSV and online at www.chinatownvoicesNY.com.

Starting this Thursday April 22nd, with an Opening Reception, nearly 80 of the beautiful panels will be auctioned. The artists, Nathalie Pham and Avani Patel, have generously donated the sale of the panels to benefit Asian American Arts Centre. In addition, photographs of Chinatown’s community life and activities in the midst of the red panels will also be available to bid on in this silent auction.

April 19 - May 22, 2009

John Michael Kohler Arts Center presents:
Lynda Barry and Roz Chast
Open daily at 10:00 a.m.
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 608 New York Ave, Sheboygan, WI 53081
Free admission
For more information, contact: 920-458-6144, info@jmkac.org
Often working outside of the mainstream with work appearing in alternative weeklies, Lynda Barry has found great success producing comics that are humorous yet carry serious undercurrents. Known primarily for Ernie Pook’s Comeek, Barry relates stories of childhood angst and examines personal and social topics through a large cast of characters. Since the 1970s, Roz Chast has drawn humor from everyday emotions and experiences for The New Yorker, poking fun at such subjects as guilt, anxiety, aging, families, friends, money, and real estate. Her brand of humor takes routine incidents and events and flips them inside out, exposing them as flawed but funny moments.

May 30, 2010 – September 19, 2010

Also, check out the Norman Pettingill Exhibition: These humorous works by well known Wisconsin illustrator Normal Pettingill are a part of the Arts Center's permanent collection and are available for public viewing for the first time since 1995.

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