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Writing for BTTN and as a former marketing director, I'm on the receiving end of a lot of cool events from all sorts of different organizations in New York - and happily. As city-folk, we're all inundated with invites, especially in this field of planning, development, urbanism and design (one impressive calendar listing I received last month felt like it was about 50 events long, and does anyone actually go through the AIA one?)
To cut through all of it, I thought I'd start a Places to Be edition, a weekly listing of a few but choice events that address the issue of place in an interesting way, with a preference for the free and public. Think of this as my vicarious social calendar. So, keep those events coming, and here's the inaugural issue, out to you by Tues PM from now on:
THURSDAY, APR 27
I posted (sorry, the image has changed) about the making of Independent America last summer, where two journalists documented their drive across the country on local roads and stopping only at mom-and-pop places. The film premiere will be at Pioneer Theater, when the filmmakers will be present. Buy tix here, 7 PM, 155 East 3rd Street (between Avenues A and B).
SATURDAY, APR 29
Culture Clash: Latino-Anglo Relations in New York City - An all-day forum with workshops, films, exhibits and performances. Presented in collaboration with East Harlem-based Art for Change at the Museum of the City of New York. (No info about price...) 10 AM - 4 PM, Reserve: 212.534.1672, ext 3393; 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street.
SUNDAY, APR 30
Shelter - The Foundry Theater hosts a panel on artists' unavoidable participation in gentrification in making the next "new" neighborhood, with Oona Chatterjee, Brad Lander, Esther Robinson (formerly with Creative Capital Foundation), and Elizabeth Streb. Free. 12 - 2 PM; 140-142 Second Ave (Ninth Avenue)
ONGOING
MAS launched a photo competition, Shoot It Down. Send in your pix of over-sized ads that over-dominate our public spaces, and you might win a $50 gift certificate to Center for Urban Books, a drool-inducing store for all printed matter on urban and design. Best and worst pix will be posted on the site. Details here.
4.24.2006
Inaugural "Places to Be": April 24
Posted by Shin-pei at 4:15 PM
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Consider using www.upcoming.org and having a Shin-pei endorsed calendar in your sidebar... It's a bit of a pain in that you end up entering a lot of events, but other people can link to your entries and propagate the listings further (there's even another blog that actually feeds my calendar listing).
It's in part the network effect. As more people use upcoming and enter events, it becomes easier to use and more useful. I seem to be one of the early adopters in DC (DCist started using it after me I think...).
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