Seven Picks a Week is our guide to what’s worth catching in arts, culture and activities during the week ahead, with contributions from reporters throughout the WNYC/Gothamist newsroom and colleagues from WQXR and “All of It.”
Celebrate the culture and art of Manhattan’s Lower East Side
Theater for the New City is hosting its 28th annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts Friday through Sunday, featuring contributions from more than 200 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and filmmakers to celebrate the storied neighborhood’s cultural and ethnic heritage. The theme is “Global Warming: The Heat Is On,” so you can anticipate a strong showing of activist art in various forms. The festival mostly centers around Theater for the New City, at 155 First Ave. between Ninth and 10th streets. But Saturday is an even bigger deal: There’s a street fair on East 10th Street between First and Second avenues, starting at 10 a.m., an outdoor stage starting at 1 p.m., a slate of children’s activities from 2 to 4 p.m, and more. It’s all free of charge, though donations are gladly accepted; find out more here.
– Steve Smith
See your neighbors’ secrets (or maybe yours) exposed in vivid paint
As part of her new show, NYC artist Sonya Sklaroff will take all your secrets and possibly make a painting out of them. For her exhibition “Secrets of New York,” on display at the Algonquin Hotel in Times Square, Sklaroff collected cards on which people wrote some previously undisclosed piece of information like “a confession, a regret, an adventure, a hidden romance, a guilty pleasure.” Her only requirement is that the secret had to have taken place in the city. For example, one anonymous note read, “Sometimes I sunbathe nude on my fire escape,” causing Sklaroff to render a nude woman on a West Village fire escape. The show runs though May 30, and it’s accessible Tuesdays through Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m. or by appointment. Learn more
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