November 19, 2009

*The New York Public Library

"Mama from Mars"

4:00 PM

Morningside Heights Library, 2900 Broadway, Manhattan

Mama visits from Mars to introduce children to the solar system. Through rocking music and audience participation, children will learn about the planets, the stars and the way our galaxy works. Presented by C.C. Campbell, with musical accompaniment by Brother Ah on guitar. Recommended for ages 7 to 12.

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 864-2530 or visit

www.NYPL.org

The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

Glenda Baily in conversation with Valerie Steele

6:00 PM

The Fashion Institute of Technology, 27th Street at 7th Avenue, Katie Murphy Amphitheatre, Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Manhattan

Glenda Bailey, the award winning editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, joins Dr. Valerie Steele, MFIT director and chief curator, for a conversation about her career in fashion publishing. Bailey took charge at Harper’s Bazaar in 2001 and has reinvented the magazine on her own terms. Its sales have risen ever since.

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 217-4585 or visit

www.fitnyc.edu/335.asp#GlendaBailey

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Great Evenings in the Great Hall: Women's Suffrage and Women's Rights

6:30 PM

7 East 7th Street, Between 3rd and 4th Avenues, Manhattan

Cooper Union's Great Evenings in The Great Hall presents Women's Suffrage and Women's Rights, a dynamic celebration of history past and a rallying cry for the future. Performance artist Karen Finley, NOW co-founder and ex-president Karen DeCrow and Broadway actress Brenda Wehle bring to life feminist pioneers Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Victoria Woodhull and Emma Goldman. Tony, Obie and Drama Desk award winner André De Shields portrays outspoken statesman and suffragist Frederick Douglass. Director Lauren Keating helms the evening.

FREE For more information, please contact events@coopers.edu or call

(212) 353-4195 or visit

www.cooper.edu

French Institute Alliance Française

Beaujolais Nouveau 2009

6:30 PM

Gallery and Tinker Auditorium, 22 East 60th Street, Manhattan

The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) is calling all wine-lovers and Francophiles for the latest edition of the annual Beaujolais Nouveau Fête. FIAF is offering thirsty New Yorkers the chance to be among the first to taste the new vintage on the American shore, while also providing a sampling of French music, entertainment and joie.

Admission: $55; $40 FIAF members. For more information, please call

(212) 355-6100 or visit

www.fiaf.org

The New School

Bookforum at The New School - Labor Issues in the 21st Century

6:30 PM

The New School, Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, Manhattan

Bookforum, in conjunction with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, investigates how the American workforce has changed and how to maintain fairness in a difficult, post-industrial economy. With Kim Bobo, Thomas Frank, Thomas Geoghegan, and Andrew Ross. Moderated by Bookforum Editor, Chris Lehmann.

Admission: $5; free for all students and New School faculty, staff and alumni with ID. For tickets, please contact the New School Box Office at (212) 229-5488 or boxoffice@newschool.edu.

(212) 229-5353 or visit

newschool.edu/eventDetail.aspx?id=36587

The CUNY Graduate Center

Jazz Legacies

6:30 PM

Proshansky Auditorium, 365 Fifth Ave, Manhattan

In this second Jazz Legends and Legacies conversation, Gary Giddins speaks with Manfred Eicher about his distinguished work for ECM records, the state of the recording industry, and the future of jazz.

FREE For more information, please call

(212) 817-2005 or visit

www.centerforthehumanitiesgc.org

*Baruch College

“Justice: What’s The Right Thing To Do?”

7:00 PM

Mason Hall, 17 Lexington Avenue at 23rd Street, Manhattan

Join Harvard University professor and author Michael Sandel for a discussion on many of today’s hot topics including affirmative action, same-sex marriage, patriotism and individual rights. In this discussion, Sandel will discuss how the most hotly contested issues can be clarified and revisited through reasoned moral argument.

FREE For more information, please call

(646) 660-6113 or visit

www.Baruch.edu

The Jewish Theological Seminary

"Have a Little Faith" with Author Mitch Albom

7:30 PM

The Jewish Theological Seminary, 3080 Broadway, At 122nd Street, Manhattan

Mitch Albom, best-selling author of "Tuesdays with Morrie" and other works, will discuss his new book, "Have a Little Faith," at JTS’s Jack and Lewis Rudin Lecture.

FREE Reservations and photo ID required. For more information or to make a reservations please contact publicevents@jtsa.edu or call

(212) 280-6093

Barnard College

Dissident Acts: 3 Plays

8:00 PM

Barnard College, West 117th Street and Broadway, Minor Latham Playhouse, 118 Milbank Hall, Manhattan

Barnard College and Columbia University’s theater students perform three plays delineating the treacheries of today’s political terrain. Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s "Catastrophe" is an allegory about the power of totalitarianism and the struggle to oppose it. In "The Police," Slawomir Mrozek explores a country where enemies and crimes are invented to keep a dictatorship alive. Finally, in Vaclav Havel’s Obie Award-winning comedy "Unveiling," an affluent couple invites a friend to their home to persuade him to adopt their materialistic lifestyles.

Tickets: $10; $5 with student ID. For more information, please call

(212) 854-2037 or visit

www.barnard.edu/theatre