November 17, 2009

*Kingsborough Community College

Maidens, Moons and Monsters: The Imagined Worlds of Alex Niño

2:00 PM

2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn

“Maidens, Moons and Monsters” celebrates the work of comics illustrator Alex Niño, who has an experimental approach to visual storytelling. This exhibit, running until the end of the month, will feature original panels from science-fiction comics published between 1978 and 1983, highlighting the imaginative graphic skill of this artist.

FREE For more information, please call

(718) 368-5449 or visit

www.Kingsborough.edu

St. Francis College

Reading by Aleksander Hemon

3:00 PM

St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn

The winner of the first ever $50,000 St. Francis College Literary Prize, Aleksandar Hemon, will return to the college to read from his winning collection of short stories, "Love and Obstacles." Hemon, raised in Sarajevo and now residing in Chicago, wrote his first work in English in 1995.

FREE For more information, please call

(718) 489-5404 or visit

www.stfranciscollege.edu

The CUNY Graduate Center

Tendencies: Poetics and Practice

6:30 PM

The Skylight Room, 365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan

AMY KING, WAYNE KOESTENBAUM, R. ERICA DOYLE The Skylight Room (9100) A new series of talks by major poets, curated by Tim Peterson and titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, will explore the intersection of contemporary poetic manifesto, practice, queer theory and pedagogy. Speakers include Amy King, Wayne Koestenbaum, and R. Erica Doyle.

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 817-2005 or visit

www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org

*Brooklyn Academy of Music

Biking Rules Festival

7:00 PM

30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn

Transportation Alternatives, advocates for bicycling, walking and public transit, kicks off its new campaign, Biking Rules, with a film program comprised of short narratives, animations and documentaries that promote bicycling in New York City. The event will include prizes for films and a special reception.

Admission: $11. For more information, please call

(718) 636-4100 or visit

www.BAM.org

The CinSational Dancer

Nightclub Salsa Beginner Crash Course

7:00 PM

218 West 37th Street, Between 7th and 8th Avenues, 5th Floor, Manhattan

Sign up with or without a partner. Mondays in November and December. This class is designed for those who have never danced before or danced very little. You will learn the following: the basic step pattern, giving and receiving turns, proper body positioning and hands and footwork styling options.

Admission: $15 per class. For more information, please call

(646) 938-8092 or visit

www.cinsationaldancer.com

The Jewish Theological Seminary

Creation and Evolution

7:30 PM

3080 Broadway, At 122nd Street, Manhattan

First of three conversations exploring the complementary/competitive relationship between science and religion. Dr. Lenn Goodman (Vanderbilt University) and Dr. Philip Kitcher (Columbia University) address the perceived conflict between the Bible’s perspective, a benevolent God creates a good world, and a Darwinian conception of a universe governed by accident and chance. Cosponsored by the Louis Finkelstein Institute for Religious and Social Studies of JTS and the Center for the Study of Science and Religion at Columbia University.

FREE Reservations required. For more information, please call

(212) 280-6093 or visit

www.jtsa.edu