November 11, 2009

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU (ISAW)

Opening of The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 BC

11:00 AM

15 East 84th Street, Manhattan

An unprecedented exhibition brings to the U.S. over 250 objects recovered from Old Europe, a period of related prehistoric cultures that achieved a peak of sophistication between 5000 and 4000 BC, and then mysteriously collapsed by 3500. The exhibition features goddess figures, jewelry, art and metalwork from Europe's earliest civilization.

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 992-7843 or visit

www.nyu.edu/isaw/oldeurope/

*Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Gifts from Nature: Tools and Art of the Native Americans

11:30 AM

145 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn

See, touch and learn about tools and art from different groups of Native Americans. Discover the relationships among different natural environments, the materials they produced and how people used them to forge tools and create beautiful pieces.

Museum admission: $7.50. For more information, please call

(718) 735-4400 or visit

www.BrooklynKids.org

Midtown Concerts

Repast Baroque Ensemble: German Baroque Trio Sonatas

1:15 PM

St. Bartholomew's Church, Park Avenue at 51st Street, Manhattan

Repast is a collaboration of three period-instrument virtuosi presenting vivid renditions of music of the baroque era. The program will feature works by J.S. Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude and Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, performed by Amelia Roosevelt (baroque violin), John Mark Rozendaal (baroque violoncello and viola da gamba) and Avi Stein (harpsichord).

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 967-9157 or visit

www.midtownconcerts.org

Professional Lighting Designers

Walking Tour of The High Line

6:00 PM

The High Line, Sunken Plaza at 17th Street, Manhattan

Herve Descottes, Principal, and Jason Neches, Project Lighting Designer of La Observatoire International will provide a walking tour and presentation of the internationally acclaimed High Line. Learn about the challenges and innovations developed for the lighting of this 1.2 mile elevated train track.

FREE Registration required. For more information, please call

(443) 655-7912 or visit

www.iesnyc.org/LightMappingNYC

Poets Out Loud

Acentos Poets

7:00 PM

113 West 60th Street, 12th Floor Lounge, Manhattan

Poets Out Loud at Fordham University presents Acentos Poets with Tara Betts, Rachel McKibbens and Willie Perdomo. Also with graduate student Li Yun Alvarado. Reception and book signing to follow.

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 636-6792 or visit

www.fordham.edu/pol

Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies

Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever

7:30 PM

301 Philosophy Hall, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan

A book reading and signing with Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University) and Salim Washington (Brooklyn College). In their new book, "Clawing at the Limits of Cool," Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington focus on the profound implications of the collaboration between Miles Davis and the John Coltrane, that would change the landscape of jazz.

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 851-1633