Interesting. Unusual. Uniquely NYC. Highlights of this week’s top events include an open call for Buglisi Dance Theatre’s 9/11 Table of Silence, the youth arts festival: REBEL VERSES, the Bard Music Festival, and more. Get the NYC-ARTS Top Five in your inbox every Friday and follow @NYCARTS on Twitter to stay abreast of events as they happen.

9/11 Table of Silence Project Open Call
Steps on Broadway
Manhattan
Wed, Aug 14, 2019, 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Buglisi Dance Theatre is proud to partner with Dance/NYC, Steps on Broadway, and all of our professional colleagues and friends from the NYC dance community on the ninth presentation of the 9/11 Table of Silence Project at Lincoln Center, a performance ritual for peace and healing streamed live around the world. Since the inaugural performance in 2011, close to one million people have viewed the live stream across all 50 states and around the world in 129 countries. A ...

Battery Dance Festival
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park
Manhattan
Sun, Aug 11, 2019 - Sat, Aug 17, 2019
Battery Dance, in association with Battery Park City Authority, announces the 38th Annual Battery Dance Festival with free performances from August 11-16, 2019 from 7 - 9 pm against the backdrop of New York Harbor at Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park in Battery Park City, culminating in a closing performance on August 17, 2019, from 6pm to 8pm at The Schimmel Center at Pace University. Battery Dance Festival Lineup 2019 Ashlé Dawson-Breaking Conformity Productions Ballet Boy Productions Battery DanceB-E - Lithuania Buglisi Dance Theatre Emma Evelien Dance - ...

REBEL VERSES
Vineyard Theatre and Workshop Center
Manhattan
Thu, Aug 08, 2019 - Sat, Aug 17, 2019
REBEL VERSES is a two-week festival of performances by some of the best youth companies in NYC and beyond. With a mission to nurture the unapologetic, unrestrained creativity of the next generation, REBEL VERSES provides an opportunity for young artists ages 13-19 to perform their own original work and to collaborate and network with their peers and prominent guest artists. Founded 16 years ago by Developing Artists, and co-produced by Vineyard Theatre, REBEL VERSES celebrates the ...

Bard Music Festival: Korngold and His World
The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Fri, Aug 09, 2019 - Sun, Aug 18, 2019
This summer, the Bard Music Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary season with a two-week, in-depth exploration of “Korngold and His World.” In twelve themed concert programs, complemented by pre-concert lectures, a film screening, panel discussions, and expert commentary, Bard examines the life and career of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957), the undersung yet hugely influential composer whose lush Romanticism would come to define the quintessential Hollywood sound. Offering an immersion in the worlds he straddled, first as a classical prodigy in fin-de-siècle Vienna ...

Totally Tomato Weekend
New York Botanical Garden
Bronx
Sat, Aug 10, 2019 - Sun, Aug 11, 2019
The New York Botanical Garden celebrates all things tomato with a menu of cooking demonstrations, hands-on gardening activities, a puppet show, and more in a fun and delicious weekend at NYBG's state-of-the-art Edible Academy facility for garden-based education. Gardening Activities Ongoing, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Enjoy drop-in, hands-on activities throughout the gardens of the Edible Academy. Culinary Demonstrations 10:30 a.m., 12 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 3 p.m., & 4:30 p.m. Pauline Gillespie Gossett Overlook Pavilion Ongoing garden and culinary workshops presented by garden educators, ...
Bard Music Festival: Korngold and His World
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Manor Ave
new york NY 12504
845-758-7914
This summer, the Bard Music Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary season with a two-week, in-depth exploration of “Korngold and His World.” In twelve themed concert programs, complemented by pre-concert lectures, a film screening, panel discussions, and expert commentary, Bard examines the life and career of Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957), the undersung yet hugely influential composer whose ...
Totally Tomato Weekend
2900 Southern Boulevard
bronx N.Y. 10458
7188178700
The New York Botanical Garden celebrates all things tomato with a menu of cooking demonstrations, hands-on gardening activities, a puppet show, and more in a fun and delicious weekend at NYBG's state-of-the-art Edible Academy facility for garden-based education. Gardening Activities Ongoing, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Enjoy drop-in, hands-on activities throughout the gardens of the ...