WEEK-END EVENTS

Dance Listings

EMERGENCY FUND FOR STUDENT DANCERS (Saturday and Sunday) Advanced students from the Ailey School, Merce Cunningham Studio, Dance Theater of Harlem School, Limón Institute, Houston Ballet and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance present a concert to assist dance students and teachers in emergency or crisis situations. Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., Dance Theater of Harlem School, 466 West 152nd Street, Hamilton Heights; $20; $15 for students and 65+; reserve seats at tantulov@dancetheatreofharlem.org.

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SAVION GLOVER
(Tuesday through Thursday) This virtuosic and imaginative artist
celebrates tap as a form of music as well as of dance in “Savion
Glover’s Solo in Time,” which merges his melodic footwork with live
flamenco music. (Through March 22.) Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.;
Thursday at 8 p.m.; Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street,
Chelsea, (212) 242-0800, joyce.org; $19 to $59.

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Events

AFRICAN DRUMMING
Saturday at noon, a discussion about African culture and the history of
drum instruments like the djembe and udu, with the Urban Park Rangers. Inwood Hill Park, 218th Street and Indian Road, nyc.gov/parks/rangers; free.20090226

AFRICAN SCULPTURE AND PAINTINGS
Through March 31, a display of Ghanian sculptures from the 13th to the
17th centuries and bark paintings by Congolese pygmies. Open Monday
through Friday, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Saturday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. LaGuardia Community College, Shenker Hall, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, (718) 482-6037; free.

SECRETS OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
Sunday at 2 p.m., a look at items not readily visible at the cathedral,
like a statue of Peter Stuyvesant and images in stained-glass windows. Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, at 112th Street, Morningside Heights, (212) 932-7347, stjohndivine.org; $10, $8 for students.

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Walking Tours

BIG ONION WALKING TOURSSaturday
at 1 p.m., “Historic Chinatown,” meeting on the southeast corner of
Grand and Chrystie Streets. Monday at 1 p.m., “Historic Harlem,”
meeting on the northwest corner of 135th Street and Lenox Avenue. Each,
$15; $12 for 63+, students and members of the New-York Historical Society.(212) 439-1090, bigonion.com.

SHOREWALKERSSaturday at 9:30 a.m., the “Great Manhattan Bridge Walk,” a 12-hour walk of more than 25 miles, crossing over all of the bridges that connect to Manhattan, meeting at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Washington Heights, 178th Street and Broadway; (917) 783-6540 or (718) 398-3561.shorewalkers.org; $3.

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