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10/08/2009 12:00PM - 06:00PM Art+Community Gallery: Annie Hickman

Art+Community Gallery
56 E. 1st Street
NYC, NY 10003
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat from 12-6

Celebration: October 29 // 6–8PM

Annie Hickman – Weaving the Wild: Costumes Extraordinaire

Fairies, insects, and reptiles galore! Check out this multi-media costume designer and performance
wizard online.

11/03/2009 07:15PM - 08:45PM Lower East Side Community Choir

All voices are invited. Whether you are an experienced singer or have always wished you could sing, you are welcome to join our choir. Choir meets every Tuesday evening at the Girls Club. Sliding Fee Scale. Lynn Anderson, Director.

Art+Community Gallery
56 E. 1st Street
NYC, NY 10003

11/10/2009 07:15PM - 08:45PM Lower East Side Community Choir

All voices are invited. Whether you are an experienced singer or have always wished you could sing, you are welcome to join our choir. Choir meets every Tuesday evening at the Girls Club. Sliding Fee Scale. Lynn Anderson, Director.

Art+Community Gallery
56 E. 1st Street
NYC, NY 10003

11/14/2009 01:00PM - 03:00PM Literary Ladies: Meet Author Barbara Dana

A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson

Author, actor and Dickinson scholar Barbara Dana reads from her biography of the young Emily Dickinson.

December 1 – January 1, 2010
Emily Dickinson: Our New Friend
All Emily, all the time!

Art+Community Gallery
56 E. 1st Street
NYC, NY 10003

Check our website for activities, readings and exhibitions.
devoted to the poet Emily Dickinson.

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.

11/17/2009 07:15PM - 08:45PM Lower East Side Community Choir

All voices are invited. Whether you are an experienced singer or have always wished you could sing, you are welcome to join our choir. Choir meets every Tuesday evening at the Girls Club. Sliding Fee Scale. Lynn Anderson, Director.

Art+Community Gallery
56 E. 1st Street
NYC, NY 10003

11/21/2009 12:00PM - 03:30PM Cemi Guzman Hosts Benefit at Bowery Poetry Club

Youth Tix: bring canned goods for Middle Church. Adult tix: $20 and up!

PAY AT DOOR OR BUY TICKETS ONLINE HERE

On Saturday November 21st from Noon to 3:30 PM,
join host and MC Cemi Guzman at The Bowery
Poetry Club (308 Bowery at 1st Street, F Train to
2nd Avenue), for a celebration of the work of The
Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York.

Following in the footsteps of his father, actor and
activist Luis Guzman, Cemi is producing this
fundraising event as his high school senior year
Capstone Project.

Teens (and their adult friends and supporters) will be entertained by:

· Speakers: Luis Guzman, Liz Murray and author
Ivan Sanchez

· Performances by: Cuculand from Yerba Buena,
La Bruja, Kess (from the L.E.S), Krazy Race (From
L.A), Mike Imperiale (From L.E.S) & Leon Heartman

· Comedy: Ruperto Vanderpool

· And dropping by to talk about art: Local fashion
designer Victoria Keen, The one and only Lee
Quinones, one of the originators of graffiti and New
York Street Art

In addition to live performances, community moms
are pulling out the stops when it comes to rice and
beans and tamales and The Girls Club Sweet Things
Bake Shop will be serving up their “to-die-for”
cupcakes. Raffle tickets will be sold for some
exceptional donated items including a number of
signed Burton Snow Boards, theater tickets and
dinners at local restaurants.

Admission to this event will be sliding scale for adults (tix sold online here and at the door for $20 and
up). Youth are being asked to bring a donation of
canned or packaged food, which will be donated to
the Middle Collegiate Church Food Pantry.

PAY AT DOOR OR BUY TICKETS ONLINE HERE

Event contact: Adriana Pezzulli;
212-928-1633 × 107

11/21/2009 01:00PM - 03:00PM Crafty Chicas: Holiday Crafts

Bring your knitting needles, crafts supplies and creative ideas to this monthly “Crafty Chicas” craft-a-cular. Supplies and ideas will also be provided.

The Art+Community Cafe will be open, serving hot chocolate, coffee and snacks.

This program is funded in part by a grant from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

11/24/2009 07:15PM - 08:45PM Lower East Side Community Choir

All voices are invited. Whether you are an experienced singer or have always wished you could sing, you are welcome to join our choir. Choir meets every Tuesday evening at the Girls Club. Sliding Fee Scale. Lynn Anderson, Director.

Art+Community Gallery
56 E. 1st Street
NYC, NY 10003