November 15, 2009

The Brain Tumor Foundation

Brain Tumor Awareness Day

8:00 AM

The Lighthouse, 111 East 59 Street, Manhattan

Brain Tumor Awareness Day is a conference featuring prominent medical professionals specializing in brain tumor diagnosis, treatment and research. Support Sessions for patients and caregivers, panel discussions. Free MRI brain scans will be offered to registrants (first come, first served).

Registration fee: $20. For more information and to register, please call

(212) 489-0600 or visit

www.roadtoearlydetection.org

The Jewish Theological Seminary

A Day of Reinventing Ritual and Rudin Lecture

9:30 AM

3080 Broadway, At 122nd Street, Manhattan

Family-friendly workshops and commentary by artists and scholars on reinventing Jewish ritual. Presented by JTS in collaboration with The Jewish Museum. Concert with Galeet Dardashti and wrap-up session with Dr. Vanessa Ochs, author of Inventing Jewish Ritual. Appropriate for children age 7 and above.

Full-Day program: $36 for adults; free for children ages 7-17 and JTS students and alumni. For more information, please visit

www.jtsa.edu/reinventingritual

Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership

Free Historic Flatiron Walking Tour

11:00 AM

William Seward Statue, South-West Corner of Madison Square Park, At 23rd Street and Broadway, Manhattan

A professional guide will lead participants on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood to see some of the city’s most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance building, the MetLife tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building.

FREE

(212) 741-2323

www.discoverflatiron.org

Bronx Museum of the Arts

Performa 09

1:00 PM

1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx

Working with radio scanners and synthesizer modules, artist Kabir Carter will create a sound piece specifically for this event that commemorates the centennial of the futurist movement. As a pre-performance talk, literary critics Marjorie Perloff and Richard Sieburth, and poet Charles Bernstein will discuss topics related to the legacy of futurism.

FREE For more information, please call

(718) 681-6000 or visit

www.bronxmuseum.org

Wave Hill

Nature Talk: The Unknown Palisades

1:00 PM

West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, Bronx

Through images and narrative, Eric Nelsen of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, brings the story of the Palisades to life. Learn about the villages that once dotted the shores, the palatial estates along the summit and the oasis that the park has become today.

FREE with admission to grounds. For more information, please call

(718) 549-3200 or visit

www.wavehill.org

*Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum

5 Dutch Days: Contemporary Dutch Design

2:00 PM

895 Shore Road, Bronx

This discussion with designer Alissia Melka-Teichroew, will take a look at the influences, styles and techniques of contemporary Dutch designs.

Museum admission: $5; $3 for seniors and students. For more information please call

(718) 885-1461 or visit

www.BartowPellMansionMuseum.org

*New York Public Library

“Oliver Twist”

2:00 PM

Bronx Library Center, 310 East Kingsbridge Road, Bronx

This Charles Dickens classic is about a young orphan, Oliver, who overcomes great hardships in Victorian London. It is a coming of age tale about survival and friendship. This production will be presented by the Hamptead Stage Company.

FREE For more information, please call

(718) 579-4244 or visit

www.NYPL.org

21C Media Group

Leon Botstein and American Symphony Orchestra Present "The Remains of Romanticism"

3:00 PM

Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, Manhattan

Leon Botstein and the ASO present a concert featuring pieces by artists who worked to revive Romanticism musically. Unexpected examples by composers Robert Fuchs, Hermann Goetz, Friedrich von Hausegger, Ludwig Thuille and Richard Strauss, at least one of which has never before been heard in the United States, will be performed.

All Tickets: $25. For more information, please call

(212) 868-9276 or visit

www.americansymphony.org

Brooklyn Public Library

Author Talk: John Wray

7:00 PM

Central Library, Dweck Center, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn

Wray reads from his novel "Lowboy," about a paranoid schizophrenic teenager on a mission to stop the planet's destruction by radical climate change.

FREE For more information, please call

(718) 230-2100 or visit

www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org