Grammy Award winners
perform at Lehman Center
BRONX TIMES REPORTER, O 98 CTOBER 11-17, 2019 BTR
Don & Pete Perignon will be performing at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts.
Photo courtesy of Lehman Center for the Performing Arts
Lehman Center for the Performing
Arts and Goya Foods presents Grammy
Award winner José “El Canario” Alberto
with Don and Peter Perignon in their debut
Lehman Center performance for a captivating
night of salsa on Saturday, October
12, at 8 p.m.
Lehman Center for the Performing
Arts is on the campus of Lehman College/
CUNY at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard
West. Tickets for José Alberto on Saturday,
October 12, at 8 p.m. are VIP*$125,
$65, $55, $50, $45, and can be purchased
by calling the Lehman Center box offi ce at
(718) 960-8833 (Monday through Friday,
10am–5pm, and beginning at 4pm on the
day of the concert), or through online access
at www.LehmanCenter.org.
*VIP Reception: The Havana Café,
Goya Foods and Lehman Center special
VIP pre-concert wine and hors d’oeuvres
reception will start at 6:30 p.m. VIP tickets
include the reception and the best seats
in the house. Sponsored by Havana Café
Restaurant and Goya Foods. Low-cost
on-site parking available for $5.
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Sea: My Journey, a solo exhibition by
Alice Mizrachi, is an immersive installation
that honors the migration of Mizrachi’s ancestors.
From Spain to Morocco, to Jerusalem,
Tel Aviv and fi nally New York, the
exhibition explores the ways in which Mizrachi’s
family joys and tribulations have informed
her identity and worldview.
On view until Saturday, November 30,
at the Andrew Freedman Home, located
at 1125 Grand Concourse, SEA investigates
Mizrachi’s personal journey while
also noting the universality of every person’s
migrations, whether literal or metaphorical.
With this solo exhibition of sculpture,
assemblage and collage, Mizrachi
combines the immediacy of found materials
with her signature representations of
femininity to create an environment of history,
beauty and mystery.
Mizrachi, an interdisciplinary artist,
has worked as an arts educator and advocate
in the fi eld of socially engaged art for
over two decades for organizations including
BRIC Arts, The Laundromat Project,
Hi-ARTS, Miami Light Project, and The
Studio Museum in Harlem. As a painter,
she has exhibited work at the Museum
of the City of New York, the National Museum
of Women in the Arts, The United
Nations and has been commissioned as
a mural artist for projects in Amsterdam,
Berlin, Tel Aviv, and across the United
States. SEA marks a shift in Mizrachi’s focus
from mural painting to sculpture and
assemblage, after years of work engaging
local communities in projects that refl ect
positive visual responses to social issues.
Alice Mizrachi has been an artist-in-residence
at The Andrew Freedman Home
since 2016.
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The New York Botanical Garden
announces that until Friday, November
1, tickets to the upcoming Holiday Train
Show® and Bar Car Nights will be available
at 30 percent off regular prices for
NYBG’s All-Garden Pass. At the Holiday
Train Show, model trains zip through an
enchanting display of more than 175 New
York landmarks, each re-created from natural
materials such as birch bark, acorns,
and cinnamon sticks. Discounted tickets
are available at nybg.org/holiday30 using
the code HOLIDAY30. During this limitedtime
offer, NYBG members, who receive
All-Garden Pass access as part of their
membership, can save even more on Holiday
Train Show and Bar Car Nights tickets
for friends—50 percent off, using the discount
code MEMBER50 at the link above.
The Holiday Train Show opens to the
public on Saturday, November 23, and
runs through Sunday, January 26, 2020.
On select evenings, Bar Car Nights will offer
after-dark viewing of the exhibition for
adults 21 and over, along with food, specialty
cocktails, live entertainment, and
more.
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Upcoming Wave Hill events and programs
include:
Saturday, October 19; Sunday, October
20: Family Art Project: The Walking
Snag: Is your bark peeling? Are there bugs
at your roots? Is there fungus among us?
Which decomposers lurk within? Once
a tree has lived its life, it either falls and
becomes a log in the forest or a snag—
a standing dead tree. Outfi t yourself as a
snag and cover yourself with fungus, lichens
and other decomposers that you
create! Join a parade of walking snags to
celebrate our decomposer friends. Free,
and admission to the grounds is free until
noon. Scavengers & Decomposers Weekend
event. Wave Hill House, 10 a.m. to 1
p.m.
Saturday, October 19; Sunday, October
20: Decomposition Central: What do
lowly millipedes, mushrooms and land
mollusks have in common? They are star
players on the decomposition squad that
makes life on earth sustainable for all of
us. Stop by Decomposition Central to
chat with entomologist Lindsay Velazco
and naturalist Pam Golben as they demystify
the de-composition process. Visit
the Scavenger and Decomposer Petting
Zoo to see and touch some friendly scavengers
and decomposers, and observe
scavenging dermestid (fl esh-eating) beetles
at work. Then pick up a self-guided
garden scavenger hunt to look for—what
else?—scavengers! Free, and admission
to the grounds is free until noon. Scavengers
& Decomposers Weekend event.
Wave Hill House, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday, October 19; Sunday, October
20: The Boneyard: Skulls, bones,
teeth, shells, antlers—see what’s left after
an animal carcass decomposes. Meet
Lawrence Forcella, an oddities expert and
bone collector, and learn about osteology,
the study of bones and skeletal elements.
Team up to try to reassemble a skeleton!
Free, and admission to the grounds is free
until noon. Scavengers & Decomposers
Weekend event. Wave Hill House, 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
Saturday, October 19; Sunday, October
20: Decomposer Detectives Family Walk:
Are you curious about worms, insects,
fungi, and other creatures that live on the
forest fl oor? Grab a magnifying glass and
join us as a Decomposer Detective! Learn
all about the activities of the organisms
that help break down dead leaves, wood,
and other organic matter in Wave Hill’s
Abrons Woodland. Please wear closedtoed
shoes and appropriate clothing to be
out on our woodland adventure! Ages fi ve
and up welcome with an adult. Free with
admission to the grounds. Scavengers &
Decomposers Weekend event. Meet at
Wave Hill House, noon and 1 p.m.
Saturday, October 19: Wave Hill History
Walk: Discover the fascinating history
of Wave Hill’s architecture and landscape
on a walk with a Wave Hill Garden Guide.
Hear about the people who once called
Wave Hill home, among them Mark Twain,
Theodore Roosevelt, Bashford Dean and
Arturo Toscanini. Free with admission to
the grounds. Meet at Perkins Visitor Center,
1 p.m.
Saturday, October 19: Vulture Culture:
A Live Bird Presentation: Often misunderstood,
vultures and other scavengers are
essential members of nature’s clean-up
crew, eating dead animals and halting the
spread of dangerous diseases. Observe
vultures and other scavenging birds of
prey and hear about their adaptive (and
somewhat cringeworthy) behaviors with
Brian Robinson of Robinson Wildlife Lectures.
Free, with admission to the grounds.
Scavengers & Decomposers Weekend
event. Wave Hill House, 2 p.m.
Saturday, October 19: Gallery Tour:
Tour Glyndor Gallery with Wave Hill’s
Curatorial Assistant or Gallery Greeter
to get an insider’s view of current exhibitions.
A fl ower’s life cycle of budding,
blooming and pollinating, as well as its
process of decay, strongly echoes the
human condition. The exhibition Figuring
the Floral features artists who apply
this symbolism to their work—touching
on race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual
orientation, aging and other facets
of identity. Participating artists are Derrick
Adams, Nicole Awai, Bahar Behbahani,
Christian Ruiz Berman, Sanford
Biggers, Cecile Chong, Max Colby, Abigail
DeVille, Valerie Hegarty, Christopher
K. Ho and Kevin Zucker, Diana Lozano,
Natalia Nakazawa, Ebony G. Patterson,
Bundith Phunsombatlert, Lina Puerta, Simonette
Quamina, David Rios Ferreira,
Alexandria Smith, Katherine Toukhy,
Lina Iris Viktor, William Villalongo and
Saya Woolfalk. In the Sunroom, Emily Oliveira
creates a vibrant, installation using
large-scale, textile pieces, sculpture and
video to transform the Sunroom into a devotional
space for a decolonized, queer
utopia 1,000 years into the future. In the
Sun Porch, Duy Hoàng creates a sculptural
installation inspired by his research
and material experimentation. In his laboratory
like setting, Hoàng creates a shelter
and uses intersecting Paracords and
tree branches to juxtapose found objects,
such as fallen plants and photographs of
fauna and fl ora sourced from Wave Hill.
Free with admission to the grounds. Glyndor
Gallery, 2 p.m.
Sunday, October 20: Secret Lives of
Scavengers…A Trail Camera Project:
What happens to a deer when it dies in
the woods? Lots! A parade of scavengers,
from common raven to bald eagle to bobcat,
recycle the carcass in short order. Using
dramatic images captured by motion
activated cameras, Dr. Ed McGowan, Director
of Science at the Trailside Museums
& Zoo, with the Palisades Interstate Park
Commission, chronicles the expected and
unexpected wild animals drawn to the lifesupporting
protein of a dead deer. These
images captured in NY State Parks reveal
the importance of scavenging for regional
rarities, such as the golden eagle, and the
risks to wildlife from lead poisoning from
unrecovered hunter-shot deer. Free with
admission to the grounds. Scavengers &
Decomposers Weekend event. Wave Hill
House, 2 p.m.
Sunday, October 20: Garden Highlights
Walk: Join a Wave Hill Garden Guide for a
public tour of seasonal garden highlights.
Free with admission to the grounds. Meet
at Perkins Visitor Center, 2 p.m.
Wave Hill is located at 675 West 252nd
Street. For further information call (718)
549-3200.
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