Manhattan Happenings
BY MICAELA MACAGNONE
PRIDE
LaMaMa gathering: L.G.B.T.Q. artists
from New York City, Philadelphia,
Paris, Italy and South Korea will participate
in Stonewall 50 at La MaMa,
at Tony Award-winning venue La
MaMa ETC, at 66 E. Fourth St., from
May 23 to June 30, as part of World
Pride. This weekend they present
“Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral
For Heroes.” Created and performed
by Dito Van Reigersberg (a.k.a. Martha
Graham Cracker), K. Elizabeth
Stevens and John Jarboe, “Contradict
This!” features drag, table dancing,
power ballads, gender deconstruction
and more. Shows on June 27, 28 and
29 are at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 to $25
and can be bought at http://www.lamama.
org/stonewall/.
Celebrate L.G.B.T. families: Presented
in partnership with the
L.G.B.T. Community Center, Family
Festival: Kidding Around Pride Picnic
is a celebration of L.G.B.T.Q. families
and Pride. Young ones and their families,
caregivers and friends are invited
to a summer festival with carnivalstyle
games, face painting, a musical
performance and lots more. Refreshments
will be served. Every week more
than 6,000 people visit The Center’s
home in Greenwich Village to access
life-changing and life-saving services.
“Kidding Around” is The Center’s series
of monthly play days for L.G.B.T.Q.
families with children. Sat., June 29,
10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at The High Line, at
16th St. and 10th Ave. Free.
Youth work it: In collaboration with
SummerStage, World Pride NYC hosts
a Youth Pride event for L.G.B.T.Q.
teens. This event is free and open to
the public under age 21, but registration
is required. There is a $10 registration
fee for individuals 21 and over.
Artist Ava Max will headline the event,
which will also feature Deetranada and
16-year-old DJ Nhandi. The event will
also include a fashion show. Sat., June
29, noon to 6 p.m., at SummerStage,
Central Park, at E. 69th St. near Fifth
Ave.
Artistic uprising: “Art After Stonewall,
1969-1989,” coinciding with the
50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising,
is the fi rst major exhibition to
examine the impact of the L.G.B.T.Q.
civil-rights movement on the art world.
Much has been written on the impact
of the gay-and-lesbian liberation movement
on American society —and yet,
almost 50 years after Stonewall, key
artists and their artworks are little
known. This exhibition, including
more than 150 art pieces and related
materials, focuses on the work of openly
L.G.B.T.Q. artists, like Vaginal Davis,
Michela Griffo, Lyle Ashton Harris,
Enjoy a festive night in the beautiful Elizabeth St. Garden while helping
raise funds to save it from the de Blasio administration’s wrecking
ball.
David Hockney, Greer Lankton,
Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie
and Andy Warhol, and also considers
the practices of such artists as Vito Acconci,
Diane Arbus, Judy Chicago, and
Barkley Hendricks, in terms of their engagement
with a newly emerging queer
subculture. Divided into two parts, the
show is on view at the Leslie-Lohman
Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, at 26
Wooster St., which will primarily present
works from the 1970s, and at the
Grey Art Gallery, at 100 Washington
Square East, which will focus on art
from the 1980s. Through Sun., July 21.
Free.
Piecing it together: Brookfi eld Place
is partnering with the WorldPride /
Stonewall 50 AIDS Memorial Quilt
Display Initiative. In collaboration with
L.G.B.T.Q. community leaders, Brookfi
eld Place, along with other city-based
institutions, will display nine panels
from the The AIDS Memorial Quilt.
This is the second time The AIDS Memorial
Quilt initiative is visiting Brookfi
eld Place. One thousand quilts were
displayed in the Winter Garden in June
1992. Through July 1, at the Winter
Garden at Brookfi eld Place, 230 Vesey
St. Free.
FOURTH OF JULY
Some history, by George: Join the
New-York Historical Society for its
Revolutionary Summer opening day
by exploring George Washington’s encampment.
Enter the Headquarters
Tent, meet the man himself, and experience
daily life in the Continental
Army. Events include a reading of the
Declaration of Independence by a “live
historian” portraying President John
Adams. Free Admission for kids age 17
and under, otherwise tickets are $21
for adults. Buy tickets online at www.
nyhistory.org/childrens-museum/visit.
Thurs., July 4, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the
New-York Historical Society, 170 Central
Park West.
FACTS ’N’ FUN
Revolutionary trivia: Do you know
who won the Battle of Brooklyn? How
about what George Washington’s favorite
breakfast beverage was? Can
you name three important Revolutionary
War sites in New York? If you know
the answers to those questions (or even
if you don’t), bring your friends for a
fun night of trivia at the historic New-
York Historical Society’s Library, courtesy
of the fact fanatics at Trivia, AD.
Ages 21 and up. Wine included with
ticket, $20 (members $18). Buy tickets
by phone at 212-485-9268 or at www.
nyhistory.org/programs/revolutionarytrivia
night. Fri, July 12, 8 p.m., at the
Library at the New-York Historical Society,
170 Central Park West.
OUTDOORS
Garden defense: This Thursday, the
Elizabeth St. Garden will be holding a
fundraiser to support a legal team trying
to protect and preserve the garden
from development for city-sponsored
housing project. The funds will also go
toward supporting public programming
and maintance for the garden. There
will be live music, free food and beverages.
$50 suggested donation. RSVP to
events@elizabethstreetgarden.com.
From Freight to Flowers: Join the
High Line docents for a free 75-minutelong
tour that provides an insider’s perspective
on the elevated park’s history,
design and landscape. Tuesdays, 6:30
p.m. to 7:45 p.m., and Saturdays, 10
a.m. to 11:15 a.m., until October. Meet
on the High Line at Gansevoort St.
MOVIES
Tangled, troubling legacy: This
screening is part of “Prison Images: Incarceration
And The Cinema.” “13th,”
directed by Ava DuVernay, is one of the
most informative and accessible documentaries
about the American prison
system to be released in recent years,
“13TH” traces the roots of today’s disproportionately
high incarceration rate
of African Americans back to the creation
of the 13th Amendment, which
offi cially abolished slavery after the
Civil War — “except as punishment
for a crime.” As numerous scholars,
lawyers, politicians and activists in the
fi lm argue, the 13th Amendment was a
veiled means of continuing the legal enslavement
of black people living in the
American capitalist democracy. Sun.,
June 30, 4 p.m., at Anthology Film Archives,
32 Second Ave. Free.
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