Summer in the City: Week 3

EVERYWHERE
Description: National Theatre Live will broadcast the highly-anticipated West End production of The Audience, with Helen Mirren reprising her Academy Award winning role as Queen Elizabeth II, live from London's Gielgud Theatre on 13 June.
Date: 6/13/2013 GET YOUR TICKETS NOW . . . These things sell out quickly!



Boston

EN-ER-GY 4 

Description: It is an evening in which the Audience and the Artists will give each other as much love, life, experience and Energy as they possibly can. It is an opportunity to bring a diverse cast of artists and guests under one roof to celebrate the excitement of art. It is more than a talent show! 
Date: 6/07/2013
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge
Price: $15+

Description: Presented by Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre, DWC Festival is a  free indoor/outdoor event for everyone, that brings together a diverse group of the area’s dance performers, dance instructors, and social service and advocacy agencies to “celebrate the power of dance to create social change.”
Date: 6/7/2013 – 6/9/2013
Time: Varies
Location: Cambridge Commmon, Harvard Square
Price: FREE
Selected Shorts on Tour: Springtime, Sex & Baseball
Description: Tony and Emmy Award nominee Kate Burton ("Grey's Anatomy," The Cherry Orchard, and the upcoming The Seagull at the Huntington), Emmy Award nominee and Tony Award winner Denis O'Hare ("True Blood" and "American Horror Story"), and Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) perform powerful, surprising, romantic, and funny stories by comic master Dorothy Parker, baseball writer W. P. Kinsella (Shoeless Joe), and quirky contemporary humorists Aimee Bender and N. M. Kelby.
Date: 6/08/2013
Time: 4:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Location: Huntington Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston
Price: $25+


Description: Boston’s Annual parade and festival to celebrate gay pride and public awareness
Date: 6/8/2013
Time: 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Parade Kicks-Off at noon!
Location: The Festival is located at City Hall Plaza, the last stop on the Parade route
Price: FREE

34th Annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival
Description: North America's longest running Dragon Boat Festival! Enjoy  performances,  arts and craft demonstrations,  and amazing Asian foods. 
Date: 6/8/2013 – 6/9/2013
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM; Boat Races begin @ 8:00 AM Saturday and 9:00 AM Sunday
Location: Along Charles River Near Harvard
Price: FREE


Boston Early Music Festival: Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation Quartet
Description: Experience this once-in-a-lifetime musical event as the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation brings Mozart’s own violin and viola to the United States for the first time!
Date: 6/10/2013
Time: 8:00 PM Performance, 6:30 PM Talk
Location: New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston
Price: $25+


Los Angeles

Description: Jubilee Music and Arts Festival is an annual 2-day sampling of emerging and touring musicians, authors, and comedians that has become a staple in the Los Angeles arts and culture scene. The festival strives to inspire a lifelong engagement with the arts. Promoting creative experiences and sustainable habits, the festival delivers rad entertainment, supports the local arts and upholds an awesome eco-commitment.
Date: 6/07/2013 – 6/08/2013
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: 590 S. Santa Fe Avenue, Los Angeles
Price: $30+

Description: Paying tribute to the percussion master Francisco Aguabella, who passed away in 2010, the band Aguabella continues to honor their mentor with brilliant recordings and concerts. With the recordsNuestra Era and Baker-Gateway to Death Valley, the voice of the band has begun to emerge, without losing the edge that Francisco Aguabella introduced, and with added color and texture to the music.
Date: 6/8/2013
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: LACMA, Hancock Park
Price: FREE

Street Food Cinema: Escape from Planet Earth

Description: The animated family comedy catapults moviegoers to planet Baab where admired astronaut Scorch Supernova finds himself caught in a trap when he responds to an SOS from a notoriously dangerous alien planet.
Date: 6/8/2013 + 6/9/2013
Time: 5:00 PM Doors, 8:30 PM Film
Location: 6/8: Grand Hope Park W 9th & Hope 90017 (in front of FIDM); 6/9: Exposition Park 700 Exposition Park Dr 
Price: $10+ (Kids $5)

Description: a two-day event with wine, food trucks, craft brews and more. Expect L.A.'s usual roster of hipsters and foodies, along with oenophiles old and new. Between sips, boost your knowledge about everything from wine-and-cheese pairings to what it takes to own a winery, straight from California winemakers. 
Date: 6/07/2013 – 6/08/2013
Time: 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Saturday), 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Sunday)
Location: Historic Raleigh Studios, 5300 Melrose Avenue
Price: $65+ ($20 Designated Driver Tickets)

Description: NHM is officially 100 years old! Bring your family to kick off summer with kid-friendly activities, workshops in the gardens, behind-the-scenes tours of NHM's collections with our scientists, and musical entertainment from The Ranger Band and Rhythm Child. Nature after dark is even more fun, so join JPL’s Adam Steltzner for a discussion about Mars rover Curiousity, visit food trucks, and take garden tours. DJs Raul Campos, Anthony Valadez, and Canyon Cody will be in the Mammal Halls, and see outdoor shows with DEVO and GZA/The Genius IN CONCERT!
Date: 6/09/2013 2013
Time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Location:  Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd.
Price: $25 (Members FREE)


New York

Cabaret Cinema: Singin’ in the Rain Introduced by playwright Sarah Ruhl
Description: In this film series, screenings of world cinema explore themes featured in the museum's galleries. Each film is introduced by a notable guest to provide context. 
Date: 6/07/2013
Time: 9:30 PM
Location: Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W. 17th Street, New York
Price: Free ticket with a $7 bar minimum

Russian Winter Screening
 + Post Screening Q+A with Concert
Description:
SCREENING In this documentary, Forté—a producer of the legendary 1990s hip-hop outfit The Fugees—goes on a unique tour and humanitarian mission through Russia. While traversing the snow-shrouded landscape of a country in transition, he reflects on music, his time in prison for a drug conviction, and second chances.
PERFORMANCE: This live performance follows the BAMcinématek screening of The Russian Winter, a film documenting Forté’s tour of Russia in 2011, and the opening night film of the TransCultural Express series Russian Cinema Now. He will be joined by international hip-hop artist SunSay and other musicians Forté collaborated with on his 2011 tour.
Date: 6/07/2013
Time: 7:00 PM Film, 9:30 PM Performance
Location: BAM Rose Cinemas + BAM Cafe, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn
Price: $13 Film, FREE Performance (Limited Capacity . . . personal experience speaking here)





Description: ETHEL is one of the most acclaimed string quartets in the contemporary classical field. With an eye on tradition and an ear to the future, ETHEL is a leading force in concert music's reengagement with musical vernaculars, fusing diverse traditions into a vibrant sound. Expect familiar classical tunes mixed with a fair share of the group's signature, cutting-edge repertoire. Guest artists and collaborators will also make periodic appearances. Relax and enjoy cocktails and appetizers while looking out over the majestic Great Hall.
Date: 6/07/2013 + 06/08/2013
Time: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: Metropolitan Museum, Great Hall Balcony, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York
Price: FREE with Admission
Description: I adore this band! Think next generation Bangles . . . you remember the Bangles don’t you? Walk like an Egyptian . . .
Date: 06/08/2013
Time: 11:00 PM Doors,  11:30 Show
Location: Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn
Price: $15

You're Causing Quite A Disturbance featuring Erykah Badu
Description: Pairing Badu with Brooklyn composer Ted Hearne, the Brooklyn Philharmonic will perform an evening of seamlessly integrated new music featuring collaborative arrangements of songs from Badu’s 2008 album New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War, along with new music by Hearne featuring perspectives from prominent contemporary African-American thinkers on New Amerykah’s ideas about identity, hip-hop, and community.
Date: 6/08/2013 + 6/09/2013
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn
Price: $35+

The Seagull

Description: A classic work of Anton Chekov takes a stroll through Central Park as New York Classical Theater brings The Seagull to Life. And if you missed it check out the NYTimes Review of the production.
Date: thru 6/23/2013
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Central Park (West 103rd Street & Central Park West)
Price: FREE


San Francisco

Description: Every Thursday night a new adventure unfolds.  Set out with friends on a journey to the stars and to the depths of the sea with a cocktail in your hand and wonder in your eyes— only at NightLife at the California Academy of Sciences.  21+ In honor of World Ocean’s Day, NightLife presents its fifth annual night of sustainable seafood cooking demonstrations.
Date: 6/6/2013
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Dr. Golden Gate Park San Francisco
Price: $12 General Public, $10 Members

Description: SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Ishmael Reed brings a diverse group of poets center stage, many riffing with improvising instrumentalists. Following each night’s final performance, young poets will have a chance to get onstage during an open-mic session and perform their work beginning around 10:30PM
Date: 6/6/2013 – 6/9/2013
Time: 7:30 PM + 9:00 PM
Location: SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin Street, San Francisco  
Price: $15

Description: Is that you Mayer Hawthorne? If you Like live music and (somewhat) affordable food? Then join 15,000+ in Golden Gate Park for a free one-day food, music and beer festival with cooking demonstrations by celebrity chefs, live music, local food artisans, regional beer and wines, a special Chipotle festival menu.
Date: 6/8/2013
Time: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Location: Golden Gate Park, Hellman Hollow
Price: FREE 

Description: This woman is a genius  even the MacArthur Foundation says so. YBCA welcomes Anna Deavere Smith, the MacArthur Award-winning actress, playwright, and educator. Her work has been described as “a blend of theatrical art, social commentary, journalism, and intimate reverie,” combining the journalistic technique of interviewing her subjects with the art of interpreting their words through performance. Her most recent work Let Me Down Easy deals with the subject of healthcare. It ran for six months at New York’s Second Stage Theater, and then toured for nine months around the U.S. She has had roles on television on Nurse Jackie and The West Wing, has appeared in several films, authored two books, and has written for publications including The New York TimesNewsweek, and The New Yorker. Smith will be joined on stage by Steven Anthony Jones, the Artistic Director of the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, who is an actor, director, and teacher who has worked in theater companies across the country, and has been a member of the Core Acting Company at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater
Date: 6/8/2013
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco
Price: $25 Advance, $30 Door

Haight-Ashbury Street Fair
Description: The Haight-Ashbury Street Fair originally started in 1978 with the help of civil rights icon Harvey Milk, the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair has grown from a celebration of all things Haight Street into one of San Francisco's favorite festivals. Expect tie-dye vendors, "special" brownies and live jam-band rock, in addition to more typical street fair foods like hot dogs and kettle corn.
Date: 6/9/2013
Time: 11:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Location: Haight Street
Price: FREE
Description: After decades of braving dirty fantasies, obscure sex questions and all things taboo in his bawdy advice column "Savage Love," Dan Savage has become America’s go-to sweetheart for everything from parenting trans children to legitimizing poly relationships. Now, fresh off the success of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better Campaign, aimed at the prevention of LGBT youth suicide, provocateur Savage is at it again in long form with his newest book, American Savage. An evening of straight talk, scandalous insights and political banter - infused with some trademark Savage Love.
Date: 6/11/2013
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Commonwealth Club, 595 Market Street, San Francisco  
Price: $10+

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