Sat., Oct. 24

MoMA talk

The Spuyten Duyvil Public Library, located at 650 W. 235th St., will host a slide/lecture presentation, “Around the World in Twenty Artworks,” at 2 p.m.

Lecturer Midori Yamamuri, a Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center specializing in women’s contemporary practice and postcolonial art as well as a profressor of undergraduate art history at SUNY, New Paltz, has curated numerous exhibits.

The event is part of MoMA at the library and is free and open to the public.

For more informaion, call 718-796-1202.

Ugandan Jews

Congregation Tehillah, Hebrew Institute of Riverdale and Riverdale Temple, in conjunction with Manhattan College’s Department of Campus Ministry and Social Action, will host JJ Keki, a leader of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda. Mr. Keki will share the story of his 1,000-member community, from its struggle to maintain its Jewish identity in the face of persecution, to the remarkable development of ties with neighbors of different faiths. A GRAMMY nominee in traditional music, he will also perform some Abayudaya songs.

The event will be held at Manhattan College in the O’Malley Library, at 4513 Manhattan College Parkway.

For more information, call 718-884-3441 or e-mail dan3720@optonline.net.

Art workshop

Lehman College Art Gallery, located at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, will host a free art workshop and gallery tour from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Visitors will participate in a guided tour of the exhibition “Beyond Appearances,” a collection of work that investigates portraiture and includes painting, photography, video and sculpture. The tour, led by a bilingual teaching artist, will be followed by a hands-on art activity where visitors will create a mixed-media family portrait. All ages are welcome and the event is free.

For more information, call Sember Weinman at 718-960-8732.

This is part of the October 15, 2009 online edition of The Riverdale Press.

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