The organizers of the first annual Lower East Side History Month have announced next month’s lineup, featuring over 80 events organized by over 60 cultural and community groups based in the LES, East Village, Chinatown and Little Italy. The month-long celebration of downtown lore kicks off May 3, when various sites will have been chalked up with neighborhood trivia and poetry (passersby will be encouraged to add their own) and continues May 4 with a picnic at Pier 42, featuring salsa dancing and gypsy swing. An LES Heroes award — which is exactly what it sounds like — will also be announced. Here, courtesy of Fourth Arts Block, is the lineup, starting with the Real Estate Show events we told you about earlier.
EXHIBITS
RESx (The Real Estate Show extended)
ABC No Rio
4/10 – 5/8
Wed & Thu @ 2-5PM
156 Rivington St
The Real Estate Show, What Next: 2014
Artists Alliance Inc / Cuchifritos Gallery
4/19 – 5/18
Tu-Sun, @ 12-6PM
Opening Reception 4/19 @ 8PM
120 Essex St
No City is an Island (Colab revisited)
The Lodge Gallery
4/10 – 5/11
Wed-Fri 2pm-10pm, Sat/Sun 12pm-10pm
131 Chrystie Street
FABLES: a public art project of FABnyc
5/1 – 7/31
First Street Green, Centre-Fuge Public Art Project, Ideal Glass Gallery, City Lore
Details at www.fabnyc.org/fables.php
Tredwell Brides: Changing Wedding Traditions in the 19th Century
Merchant’s House Museum
5/1 – 6/30
Mon, Thu-Sun 12-5PM
29 E 4th St
Vanished Spaces
ABC No Rio
5/16 – 6/20
Opening reception 5/16 @ 7-10PM
Sun @ 2-5PM, Wed-Thu @ 4-7PM
156 Rivington St
FESTIVALS & COMMUNITY EVENTS
Chalk/LES
LES History Month
5/2 – 5/4
Locations throughout the LES
Fabric of the LES: A Workroom Social
Made in the Lower East Side (miLES)
5/3 – 5/4 @ 10AM
37 E 1st St
Birthday Block Party!
Henry Street Settlement
5/3 @ 12PM-3Pm
265 Henry St
First Saturdays for Families: Neighborhood
New Museum
5/3 @ 10AM-12PM
235 Bowery
LES History Month’s Opening Picnic on the Pier!
LES History Month
Sun, 5/4 @ 1:30-4PM
Pier 42, East River Park
Back in the Day Play
Grand St. Settlement
5/16 @ 1:15-3:15PM
80 Pitt St (playground)
Sacred Sites Open House
Museum at Eldridge Street
5/18 @ 12-2PM
12 Eldridge Street
Open House, Sharing Stories
Andrew Glover Youth Program
5/20 @ 5-7PM
100 Ave B
Lower East Side Festival of the Arts
Theater for the New City
5/23 – 5/24 @ 6PM
155 1st Ave
The Loisaida Street Festival
Loisaida Festival
5/25 @ 12-6PM
Ave C (btw 6th & 12 Streets)
Neighborhood Open House
Tenement Museum
5/31 @ 6-8:30PM
103 Orchard St
MUSIC
Evolving Music Series
The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
Mon, 4/14 – 5/26 @ 7:30-11PM
107 Suffolk St
Klezmer Travels the World with the David Glukh Ensemble
Museum at Eldridge Street
5/18 @ 3-4:30PM
12 Eldridge St
The Shape of Jazz to Come: Downtown Jazz in 1959 and Now
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
5/28 @ 6:30-8:30PM
55 W 13th St
TALKS
Tenement Talks: How The Other Half Lives
Tenement Museum
Mon, 4/28 @ 6:30-9PM
103 Orchard St
A History of 155 Ave C from the Beginning of the New World to the End of the Derelict Dynasty
Museum of Urban Reclaimed Space (MORUS_
5/2 @ 7-9PM
155 Ave C
The Brides of the Merchant’s House: What They Tell Us about Fashion and Social Customs
Merchant’s House Museum
5/6 @ 6:30-7:30PM
29 E 4th St
Tenement Talks “Family Life” with Akhil Sharma
Tenement Museum
5/7 @ 6:30-8PM
103 Orchard St
Artists at the Vanguard of Gentrification
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MORUS)
5/9 @ 7-9PM
155 Ave C
A Mother’s Day Tribute to Eliza Tredwell
Merchant’s House Museum
5/11 @ 12-5PM
29 E 4th St
You Be The Judge: Jewish Courts of Conciliation in Action
Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy
5/13 @ 6:30PM
400 Grand St
MOCATALKS: David Henry Hwang & Huang Ruo on “An American Soldier,” an opera
Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA)
5/15 @ 7-9PM
215 Centre St
Making Italian America
Tenement Museum
5/14 @ 6:30-8PM
103 Orchard St
America’s Romance with Chocolate: A Sweet Social History
Merchant’s House Museum
5/21 @ 6:30-7:30PM
29 E 4th St
Tenement Talks: Urban Appetites
Tenement Museum
5/21 @ 6:30-8PM
103 Orchard St
A Dialogue on Neighborhood & Civic Projects
Made in Lower East Side (MiLES) & Manny Cantor Center
5/21 @ 7-9PM
197 E Broadway
The Production of Nabe: Loisaida’s land use and environmental activism, past and present
Loisaida Festival & GOLES
5/24 @ 2-6PM
701 E 9th St
On the Block: Capturing the Disappearing Storefronts of the LES
LES Preservation Initiative
5/28 @ 6:30-8:30PM
232 E 11th St
FOOD
Cafetal Social Club
Open daily for Breakfast, lunch, dinner and apertivos
Sun-Thu @ 8AM-10PM, Fri-Sat 8AM-11PM
285 Mott St
Food Tour of the Essex Street Market
Enthusiastic Gourmet / Essex Street Market
5/10 @ 11AM-1PM
120 Essex Street
MOVEABLE FEAST: An Afternoon in the Lower East Side
Lower East Side Preservation Initiative
5/18 @ 2-6PM
Corner of Bowery & Houston (Liz Christy Garden)
THEATER
East Village Stories
Metropolitan Playhouse
Daily, 4/14 – 5/4 @ 7PM, Sat-Sun @ 1PM & 4PM
220 E 4th St
The News – an outdoor performance
Downtown Art
Sat, 5/3 – 5/24 @ 1-2PM, 5/10 @ 3:30-4:30PM
Location TBA – www.downtownart.org
Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show
Dixon Place
5/5 @ 7:30PM
161A Chrystie St
The Waistmaker’s Opera
Downtown Art
5/21 – 5/23 @ 7:30-9:30PM
184 Eldridge St
Performing Loisaida
Loisaida Festival & City Lore
5/23 @ 7-11PM
56 E 1st St
Sarah Jones: a new work in progress
Nuyorican Poets Café
5/28 @ 6:30-8:30PM
236 E 3rd St
TOURS
Synagogue Tours
Museum at Eldridge Street
Sun-Thu, 5/1 – 5/29 @ 10AM-5PM
12 Eldridge St
Chinatown: A Walk Through History
Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA)
Sat, 5/3 – 5/31 @ 1-2:30PM
215 Centre St
Crossing Delancey Tour
Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy
5/4 @ 10:45AM
400 Grand St
Bialystoker the Beautiful: A Tour
Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy
5/4 @ 11AM & 3PM
400 Grand St
Renewability & the Lower East Ride
Green Map NYC
5/4 @ 1-3PM
Meet at Tompkins Square Park on E 9th St
Walking Tour of 19th Century NoHo: Glamour & Greed, Money & Murder
Merchant’s House Museum
5/4 – 5/25 @ 1-2PM
29 E 4th St
Gallery Highlights Tour
Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)
5/4 @ 2:30-3:30PM
215 Centre St
Radical Alphabet City Tour
Museum of Urban Reclaimed Space (MORUS)
5/4 & 5/18 @ 3-5PM
155 Ave C
Shine a Light – Neon Tour of the LES
LES Preservation Initiative
5/8 @ 6:30-8:30PM
302 E 12th St
Teeming Tenements Transformed: A Lower East Side Walking Tour
Friends of the Lower East Side
5/10 @ 12-2PM
SE corner of Delancey & Orchard St
A Walking Tour of Republic of 9th Street with Jerry the Peddler
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MORUS)
5/10 @ 1-3PM
155 Ave C
Alphabet City Squats and Gardens Tour
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MORUS)
Sat, 5/10 – 5/24 @ 3-5PM
155 Ave C
Yiddish Mamas – Mother’s Day Walking Tour
Museum of Eldridge Street
5/11 @ 11AM-12:30PM
12 Eldridge St
Heroines of the Lower East Side: A Special Mother’s Day Historic Walking Tour
Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy
5/11 @ 10:45AM
400 Grand St
Strauss Square (btw E Broadway & Canal St)
Lag B’omer Family Picnic & Tour of the Stanton Street Synagogue
Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy
5/18 @ 11:30AM
180 Stanton St
Lower East Side: Then and Now Walking Tour
Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy
5/25 @ 10:45AM
400 Grand St
From Coffeehouses to Banquet Halls Walking Tour
Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA)
5/31 @ 1-2:30PM
215 Centre St
LITERATURE
May Day Literacy Celebration with Pen World Voices
Nuyorican Poets Café
5/1 @ 7-9PM
236 E 3rd St
Shipbuilders and Shipbuilding in the Dry Dock District, 1805-1875
LES Preservation Initiative & Art Loisaida Foundation
5/7 @ 5-6:30PM
331 E 10th St
Book Review: Before and Behind The Curtain
Art Loisaida Foundation & LES Preservation Initiative
5/17 @ 2-4PM
331 E 10 St
DANCE
Spring Dance Fundraiser
East Village Dance Project
5/4 @ 4-7PM
55 Ave C
La MaMa Moves presents embrace
La MaMa E.T.C.
5/2 – 5/4 @ 5:30-6:30PM
74 E 4th St
La MaMa Moves presents a Benefit Dance Concert: Dancing for Japan
La MaMa E.T.C.
5/7 @ 7:30-9PM