Halloween
Happenings

n Bring your pet pooch to Howl-O-Ween, Oct. 28, from noon to 2 p.m. at the Canine Court at Van Cortlandt Park (enter at Broadway). Dress yourself and your pet in costume for Halloween fun, costume contests and prizes. Registration is $10 per dog and $5 for each additional dog. For more information, call (718) 796-4541.

n The Bronx Library Center is spookin’ things up across the board with Pumpkin Mask Making for children ages 7 to 12 on Oct. 25 at 4 p.m., Horror Writing Workshop for young adults Oct. 19 at 4 p.m., and a special holiday program, Get Your Chills On, Oct. 31 at 5 p.m. The Center is located at 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd. off Fordham Road. For a detailed schedule, call (718) 579-4244/46 or visit www.nypl.org.

n Halloween Story Time, for children ages 5 and over, is Oct. 29 at 4 p.m. at the Mosholu Library, 285 E. 205th St. For more information, call (718) 882-8239.

n Wave Hill presents two family art projects: Pumpkins, Pie, Rhythms and Song, Oct. 20 and 21, with pumpkin poems, song and dances, and Creepy Masks and Shadow Plays, Oct. 27 and 28, for skits about uncanny critters, followed by making a mask for yourself. Both are in Wave Hill’s Kerlin Learning Center from 1 to 4 p.m. Wave Hill is at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue in Riverdale. For more information, call (718) 549-3200 or visit wavehill.org.

Onstage

n Enjoy World Guitar Music, Don Witter Jr. performing classical guitar music on Oct. 22 at 3:30 p.m. at the Mosholu Library, 285 E. 205th St. For more information, call (718) 882-8239.

n The Orlando Marin Quartet will perform Latin-American music including mambo and cha-cha Oct. 20 at 2:30 p.m. at the Bronx Library Center. Also, there will be bluegrass with the Ebony Hillbillies Oct. 27 at 2:30 p.m. and latin with Sonido Costeno Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. all at 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd. off Fordham Road. For a detailed schedule, call (718) 579-4244/46 or visit www.nypl.org.

n The Instrument Cabinet – Dennis Koster, Flamenco Guitar is at the Wave Hill House on Oct. 28 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $24, $21 for seniors (includes admission to grounds) and $15 for members. The House is located at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue in Riverdale. For more information and tickets, call (718) 549-3200 ext. 385.

n The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance presents BlakTino Performance Series, a festival celebrating works by black and Latino artists. The festival, first presented in 2002, runs through Saturday, Oct. 27, at BAAD!, 841 Barretto St. in the Hunts Point section of the south Bronx. For more information and tickets, call (718) 842-5223 or visit www.BronxAcademyofArtsandDance.org.

n Lehman College’s Center for the Performing Arts hosts Danny Rivera from Santurce, Puerto Rico, Oct. 27 at 8 p.m. (tickets are from $40 to $55), and Smokey Robinson, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. (tickets are from $55 to $85). Lehman is located at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard W. For more information, call (718) 960-8833.

n Mass Transit Street Theatre & Video presents Ain’t Easy, a play with live rap and film. This play, which tells the true story of a Bronx youth incarcerated in maximum security for killing a classmate in self defense, with the stories of four Bronx teens, will take place at Hostos Center for the Arts and Culture, 450 Grand Concourse at 149th Street on Oct. 23 and Nov. 6 and 13 at 10 a.m. and noon, and Oct. 30 and Nov. 20 at noon and 4:30 p.m. Ten free tickets are available for groups of 100. For $6 tickets, call (718) 882-2454 or baylalyn@earthlink.net.
n Bronx Hispanic Festival presents Lagrimas Negras on Oct. 18 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., in the Cesar Galarce Auditorium of Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, 234 E. 149th St. For more information and to confirm, call (917) 699-7598.

Events

n The Bronx River Alliance hosts Tour de Bronx Bike Ride, a Bronx River start to New York City’s largest free cycling event, Oct. 21 and Hunters Moon Paddle, to celebrate the Hunters Moon with a canoe trip under the stars, followed by a riverside party, Oct. 27. For more information and to register, call (718) 430-4636 or visit www.bronxriver.org.

n The Farmers Market continues at the New York Botanical Garden’s Tulip Tree Allée Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. through Oct. 31. Admission only to Garden grounds is free all day Wednesdays. For more information, call (718) 817-8700.
Exhibits

n Norwoodian Barbara Korman presents sculpture in a show called Beyond the Cactus at the WPA Gallery, Oct. 24 through Nov. 23, with an opening reception Sunday, Oct. 28 from 3 to 5 p.m. The Ward Pound Ridge Reservation is located at Route 121 and South Route 35 in Cross River, New York. For more information call (914) 864-7317 or visit or bkormanstudio.com.

n Lehman College’s Art Gallery hosts Beatrice Coron: The Secret Life of Cities, through Dec. 15 in the Edith Altschul Lehman Wing. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 250 Bedford Park Blvd. W. For more information, call (718) 960-8731.

n At Wave Hill, artists install works based on the writings of two authors who lived briefly in the Bronx – Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain. Artists Simon Leung, Allison Smith and Amy Yoes, create special projects, including sculpture, video and architecture, each in a separate room of Wave Hill’s Glyndor Gallery, through Dec. 2. Poets and writers will read selected works by Poe and Twain in a program offered in collaboration with Poets House, Nov. 1. Also, there is a solo exhibition by a New York-area emerging artist in the sunrooms: Joianne Bittle Knight from Oct. 19 through Dec. 2 (meet the artist on Oct. 21 at 2 p.m.). Wave Hill is at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue in Riverdale. For more information, call (718) 549-3200 or visit www.wavehill.org.

n The Bronx Museum of the Arts hosts Quisqueya Henríquez: Outside Traditional Art in the artist’s first major appearance in the United States through Jan. 27, 2008. The exhibition is a selection of her work examining the sensory qualities of urban life, including a daily visual dispa–tch from Santo Domingo, where she currently lives. The museum, located at 1040 Grand Concourse at West 165th Street, is open Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 6 p.m., except for Friday, when it is open until 8 p.m. Suggested admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students and seniors and free on Fridays for members and for children under 12. For more information, call (718) 681-6000 or visit www.bronxmuseum.org.

Learning

n The Bronx Library Center has events for all ages:
For children ages 3 to 12, there’s a film on Oct. 24 and 31 at 4 p.m.; Preschool Story Time, featuring picture book stories and songs for ages 2 to 5 with parent or caregiver on Oct. 18, 25 and Nov. 1 at 11 a.m.; and Family Time Stories & Craft, for all ages with parent or caregiver, Oct. 27 at 11 a.m. (pre-registration is required).
Young adults can Play Chess! in a workshop with Ramon A. Hernandez, Oct. 22 and Nov. 5 at 4 p.m.; and Meet the Authors, Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier, Oct. 24 at 10:30 a.m.
Adults can attend Honore Jaxon: Prairie Visionary, a lecture led by Professor Donald B. Smith, Oct. 22 at 6 p.m.
The Center is located at 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd. off Fordham Road. For a detailed schedule, call (718) 579-4244/46 or visit www.nypl.org.

n The Mosholu Library hosts Stories of Heroes for children ages 5 to 12, presented by Victor Stanton, Oct. 23 at 4 p.m.; and Toddler Time for children ages 18 to 36 months with parent or caregiver, Nov. 1 at 10:30 a.m. (pre-registration is required). The library is located at 285 E. 205th St. For more information, call (718) 882-8239.

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