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Friday, December 6
"Unbound: Dancing From Here to Here"
Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue btwn 9th and 10th Streets
9 p.m.
$15; $10 students/seniors/diabled; Free for PCA's
Kitty Lunn's Infinity Dance Theater, the company for dancers with and without disabilities. Features five new and revived modern dance works including "Door," a solo choreographed and performed by wheelchair dancer Alice Sheppard.
212-254-1109; infinitydance.com
Art Mob's Fall 2013 Concert Series: Deadpan Alley
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 31 Mercer Street btwn Grand and Howard Streets
8 p.m.
$10 suggested donation
Come hear the Art Mob, an uncommon a cappella chorus of 17-ish intrepid singers. They will show their mix of offbeat, witty, and occasionally heart-rending Victorian parlor songs, sacred harp hymns, and radio gospel, with some jazz, country, and new music mixed in. Concludes with a sing-along of favorite holiday carols.
518-727-9600; artmob.org; jbstamm@yahoo.com
Saturday, December 7
Whiskers in Wonderland: Pet Adoption
Petco - Union Square, 880 Broadway at 17th Street, 11 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Free
The Whiskers in Wonderland holiday pet adoption event, presented by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, in partnership with the Petco Foundation, features more than 300 loveable cats, kittens, and rabbits just waiting to be welcomed into new homes for the holidays. In return, these furry new friends will give the gift of unconditional love.
212-575-4545; animalalliancenyc.org
Annual Candlelight Concert with Gail Archer
The Church of Ascension, 221 West 107th Street
8 p.m.
$5
Grammy nominated organist Gail Archer will perform with the Bernard-Columbia to celebrate the holiday season. Archer is college organist at Vassar College, and director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University where she conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus.
212.-854-5096; barnard.edu
Sunday, December 8
The Women's Stories Project
Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue btwn 9th and 10th Streets
3 p.m.
Unique and inspiring theater and dance work featuring four women with telling their stories of love, loss, illness, and aging. Lynn Bar lost her husband of 50 years: Lucy lost her mother to breast cancer and discovered she has the same: Alice became a wheelchair user from a spinal disease: and Kitty Lunn became a paraplegic after taking a fall at her first Broadway show.
212-254-1109; infinitydance.com
Fuhmentaboudit: Chocolate and Spice Home Fermentation Fest
Jimmy's No. 43 43 East 7th Street
8 p.m.
$20
Heritage Radio Network, East Village craft brew pub Jimmy's No. 43 and Divine Chocolate have invited home brewers and fermenters in the NYC area to take part in Chocolate and Spice Home Fermentation Fest, a special chocolate and spice home fermented beverage and food competition, featuring Divine Chocolate, the premium chocolate brand and Fair Trade social enterprise co-owned by cocoa farmers in Ghana. Includes tastings and drink samples. 21+
917-319-8303; http://fuhmentaboudit.com
Monday, December 9
French and Jewish: Defining a Modern Jewish Identity in the 19th Century
YIVO Institute at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street
6:30 p.m.
$10; $7 students/seniors
The transition from ghetto to emancipation heralded a major transformation in Jewish status, and nowhere was the metamorphosis more striking than in Metz. Looking at the Jews through the lens of French literature, politics and religion, three scholars will consider the far-reaching impact of Jewish emancipation on the meaning of being Jewish in the modern world.
yivo.org; 212.868.4444
Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce Holiday Party
Tio Pepe, 168 W 4th St
6 ? 8 p.m.
$10 or gift donations
GVCCC's end of the year holiday party in conjunction with NY Foundling, a non-profit dedicated to supporting children and parents in NYC. Bring children's wipes, diapers (pampers/Organic brand), formula, lotion, baby oil, soap, diaper rash cream, and similar items.
info@villagechelsea.com; villagechelsea.com
Tuesday, December 10
Youth and Education Committee Meeting
Community Board #1 Office, 49-51 Chambers Street, Room 709
6 p.m.
Free
1) Crossing guard issues ? Report by Sarah Diaz, Assemblymember Glick's office
2) 2014 Capital Budget as it affects CB #1 ? Report
3) Speaker's Overcrowding Task Force ? Report
4) 71 Thomas Street and 66 John Street issues ? Discussion
man01@cb.nyc.gov ; 212-442-5050; nyc.gov
Community Board 2
Future Events and Sidewalk Street Activity Meeting
NYU Silver Building, 32 Waverly Place, Room 411
6:45 p.m.
Free
212-979-2272; nyc.gov
Wednesday, December 11
Tribeca Committee Meeting
Community Board #1 Office, 49-51 Chambers Street, Room 709
6 p.m.
Free
1) 285 West Broadway, application for a liquor license for PJ150 LLC ? Resolution
2) 279 Church Street, application for a beer and wine license for Baked ? Resolution
3) 222 West Broadway, application for unenclosed sidewalk café license for Terra ? Resolution
4) 249 West Broadway, application for renewal of unenclosed sidewalk café license for Anotherroom ? Resolution
man01@cb.nyc.gov ; 212-442-5050; nyc.gov
Community Board 2's 75 Morton Street Task Force
CB 2 Conference Room, 3 Washington Square Village
8:45 a.m.
Free
212-979-2272; nyc.gov
Thursday, December 12
Encounters with Nature Exhibition
22 W. 22nd Street, btwn 5th and 6th Avenues
8:30 a.m. ? 6 p.m.
$6 suggested donation
The Sierra Club Photography Committee presents its third gallery show that shows 105 works of landscapes, wildlife, macros and abstracts and abstracts photographed throughout the United States and the world.
sierraphotonyc.com
Safe City, Safe Streets
80 5th Avenue, btwn 13th and 14th streets
1-3 p.m.
$90 includes three-course lunch
Join the Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce in honoring officers from the 6th, 9th, 10th, 13th, and 14th precincts for the heroic work they do to keep the city and streets safe. Past award presenters have included District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., Senator Brad Holyman, and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.
info@villagechelsea.com; villagechelsea.com