Onstage

The Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, located at 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. E., presents El Gran Combo featuring salsa music, with La Excelencia on June 11; and with 8 y Más on June 12; both at 8 p.m. (tickets are $35 to $55 for each). For more information, call (718) 960-8833.

The Orchestra of the Bronx will perform a Spring Concert featuring classical music, June 6 at 3 p.m. at Lehman College’s Lovinger Theatre, 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. E. For more information, call (718) 365-4209.

Singer/songwriter Rod MacDonald will perform at the Uptown Coffeehouse, located at the Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture Building, 4450 Fieldston Rd., June 6 at 5 p.m. Admission is $15; Bronx Cultural Cards are accepted. For more information, call (718) 885-2955.

Bronx River Art Center (BRAC), 1087 E. Tremont Ave., presents free, Bronx River Sounds: From Africa to the Boogie Down!, a hip-hop/jazz concert featuring vocalist Kalae All Day, June 4 at 8 p.m. For more information, call (718) 589-5719.

Woodlawn Cemetery hosts Swing Into Summer – Latin Jazz/Salsa Concert, June 6 at 2 p.m., in the open space just inside the Jerome Avenue entrance (at Bainbridge Avenue). In case of rain, the concert will be held in the Woolworth Chapel. Also offered is Lost at Sea Walking Tour, featuring visits to final resting places of personalities with a connection to the sea, June 13 at 2 p.m. Meet at the Jerome Avenue entrance. Tickets for each event is $10; $5/seniors/students. End of Life Planning Seminar, featuring family service counselors, will be held, free, June 16 at 7 p.m. in the Woolworth Chapel. For more information, call (718) 920-1470/1463 ext. 252.

Pregones Theatre, located at 571-575 Walton Ave., presents Until We Win, June 5 at 8 p.m., a tribute to poet Sandra Maria Esteves, recipient of the theatre’s 2010 NEA Master Artist Award, featuring composers, actors, poets and dancers, performing pieces inspired by Esteves. This will be preceded by views of upcoming works, and scenes from a book. Residents from the Bronx and Manhattan in certain zip codes can attend for half price with proof of residence. For more details, call (718) 585-1202 or visit www.pregones.org.

Wave Hill, located at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, hosts the following: Orchestra of St. Luke’s, performing a free all-Mozart concert, June 8 (concert attendees are encouraged to bring nonperishable food donations for NYC’s homeless); and Mannahatta Project, a concert performed by Quintet of the Americas, June 15. Pre-registration is strongly recommended for both; grounds admission is free until 2 p.m. for both, and both are in the Wave Hill House at 2 p.m. For more information, call (718) 549-3200 ext. 305 or visit www.wavehill.org.

Events

The Bronx Stage & Film Company presents the 8th Bronx International Film Festival, June 17-19 at 8 p.m., to showcase new narrative and documentary films and filmmakers from around the world, at Lehman College, 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. E. For more information and to reserve, call (718) 907-0079 or visit www.bronxfilmfestival.com.

The Bronx Council on the Arts presents Viva Cultura!, to celebrate Puerto Rican Heritage, June 5 from noon to 5 p.m. as part of its free Trolley Saturdays. The trolley travels round-trip from and back to the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse at 149th Street. Trolley stops include live performances and exhibitions and riders may get on and off at any time. For more information, call (718) 931-9500 ext. 23.

The Bronx Underground hosts the Underground Prom, an alcohol-free prom-themed event, June 5 at 5:30 p.m. for all ages, at the First Lutheran Church of Throggs Neck, 3075 Baisley Ave. at Hollywood Avenue in Pelham Bay. Featured will be live bands and DJs, and a photo booth. Wearing your prom best is suggested but not required. Admission is $10 per person. For more information, visit www.bronxunderground.com.

The Bronx Museum of the Arts presents First Fridays! Bronx Night Cinema, a summer outdoor film screening, “Shadow Ball,” a tribute to the Negro Baseball League,” free, at Lou Gehrig Plaza at 161st Street and the Grand Concourse, June 4 from 6 to 10 p.m., including live music (rain location will be at the museum, 1040 Grand Concourse, at 165th Street, 2nd floor); and Teen Council Presents! featuring Teen Council members presenting a selection of videos, DJ music, performances, refreshments, and special guests, free, June 5, 3 to 6 p.m., in the museum’s north building’s 2nd floor. For more information, call (718) 681-6000.

Wave Hill, located at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, offers two family art projects: Roll Out the Landscape, to sketch a landscape and extend it onto a paper movie scroll, June 5 and 6; and Rainbow Feathers of Clay, to draw birds, then model a colored clay relief, June 12 and 13; both in the Ecology Building, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information, call (718) 549-3200 or visit www.wavehill.org.

Exhibits

The Museum of Bronx History, located at 3266 Bainbridge Ave. (at 208th Street), presents Parkchester: City Within a City, through Oct. 3; and Bronx High School Valedictorians Awards Program, presented by the Bronx Council Historical Society, June 6 from 1 to 3 p.m. featuring entertainment, tours of the museum, and food and refreshments. Reservations are requested; donations are tax deductible. For more information, call (718) 881-8900.

The Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, located at 4450 Fieldston Rd., hosts Focus on Flowers, a one-woman show by June artist-of-the-month Joyce Dutka. The public is invited to the free reception on June 6 from 1:15 to 3 p.m., on the 2nd floor. For more information, call (718) 548-4445.

The New York Botanical Garden hosts the following events: Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers, through June 13; Endangered Plants Here and Around the World, a traveling exhibition on display in the Ross Gallery through July 25 (featured artists will teach botanical art and illustration courses during this period); Children’s Poetry Garden, through June 13 in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden; and Dig, Plant, Grow! through June in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden. For more information and class and program schedules, call (718) 817-8700.

The Bronx River Art Center, together with the NYC Department of Transportation, present an abstract wooden art sculpture, Aurora, 14 feet tall, 11 feet wide and 11 feet deep, to be on view for 11 months until June at the center of West Farms Square Plaza located at the base of the West Farms Square/East Tremont Avenue subway station on the corner of East Tremont Avenue and Boston Road, one block away from BRAC which is located at 1087 E. Tremont Ave. For more information, visit www.nyc.gov/urbanart.

The Lehman College Art Gallery, located at 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. W., will hold a fund-raising exhibition in honor of its 25th anniversary, through June 4. Small works by friends and artists who have exhibited at the Gallery over the past 25 years will be exhibited, and are priced at $500 or less. All proceeds will be split between the Gallery and the artist. For more information, call (718) 960-8731.

Library Events

The Bronx Library Center, at 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd. off Fordham Road, presents the following programs for preschoolers and school-aged children: Preschool Story Time, June 3, 10 and 17 at 11 a.m.; Meet Morgan Taylor of Gustafer Yellowgold, June 5 at 2 p.m.; films, June 9 and 16 at 4 p.m.; and Summer Reading Program, June 10, includes Kickoff at 11 a.m., Make Art at 12:30 and Birds of Prey at 1 p.m.  For teens and young adults, there is What’s Love Got to Do With It, to learn about relationships, June 8 at 4 p.m. Young adults and adults can enjoy the film, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” June 16 at 2 p.m. Adults can attend Let’s Talk About HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health, June 9 and 16 at 10 a.m.; and adult immigrants can attend free Citizenship Preparation Classes, June 4, 11, and 18 at 6 p.m. For more information, call (718) 579-4244/46 or visit www.nypl.org.

The Mosholu Library, at 285 E. 205th St., hosts Summer Reading Program, June 10 at 3 p.m., for ages 3 to 5; Toddler Story Time, June 3 at 10:30 a.m.; Preschool Story Time, June 10 at 10:30 a.m.; and Cool Rainforest Connection, June 12 at 11 a.m.; all for school aged children; Teen Study Time, June 12 at 2 p.m. for teens and young adults; and Knitting Circle, June 3 and 17 at 3 p.m. for adults. For more information, call (718) 882-8239.

The Jerome Park Library, at 118 Eames Place, presents Crafternoons, June 3, 10, and 17 at 4 p.m. for teens and young adults; and films, June 15 at 4 p.m. for children. For more information, call (718) 549-5200.
                                         
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