Out of Here Calendar of Events Outside of Rye

– Compiled by Sarah Martin –

JANUARY 16
Vienna Teng in Concert

Come enjoy a night of music with Vienna Teng at the Emelin Theater at 8 p.m. Her recent albums have landed on three Billboard album charts and have reached No.2 on Amazon's Bestseller List. She’s been hailed as “a child of Chopin and Sarah McLachlan” by the San Jose Mercury News.
Tickets are $28. For more information call 698-0098.

JANUARY 17
Sweet James

The Emelin Theater presents a Two Beans Production of “James and the Giant Peach” at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Come join James and his friends on this magical journey based on the Roald Dahl classic.
Tickets are $18 for adults, $13 for children. The show is geared for ages 5 and up. For more information, call 698-0098 or log on to www.emelin.org.

JANUARY 19
Martin Luther King Jr. Day

The Bruce Museum is open all day to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This year’s theme, “Celebrating a Life of Love,” features special performances by the Messiah Baptist Gospel Choir from Bridgeport, at 11 a.m. and again at 1 p.m. Students of all ages and abilities will have the opportunity to make “I have a dream …” buttons and add their self-portraits to the Circle of Friends mural, as well as explore the museum’s galleries and exhibitions. All events are free with museum admission.

The museum’s youth volunteers will honor Dr. King as a part of the national King Day of Service initiated by the U.S. Congress in 1994. This year, youth volunteers will assist with special activities to commemorate this national holiday.

JANUARY 21-22
Play With Your Food

The Greenwich Arts Council presents its popular lunchtime play-reading series “Play With Your Food” at noon. A gourmet buffet lunch from Garelick and Herbs will be served in the galleries, followed by readings of award-winning one-act plays by talented actors in the recital hall. A brief conversation with the cast will follow the performance.

The one-act plays featured are "Dreams of Glory" by Frank Gilroy, "The Rental" by Mark Harvey Levine, and "Signs of Life" by Fred Stroppel. Tickets are $40 for non-members, $38 for GAC members. To order tickets, call 203-259-1036 or log on to www.playwithyourfood.org.

JANUARY 23
Chinese New Year Splendor

The Divine Performing Arts' Chinese New Year Splendor comes to The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College as part of its 2009 world tour – for two shows only at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Over 100 of the world's foremost and classically-trained Chinese dancers, singers and musicians will perform in one unforgettable show. China's glorious arts and divinely inspired culture — five millennia in the making — come to life as never before.

Tickets range from $48 to $118. For more information, call 251-6200 or log on to www.artscenter.org.

JANUARY 24
Modern Sculpture Masterpieces

“Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of Our Time” opens today at the Bruce Museum. The exhibit showcases over 40 masterpieces of modern sculpture and addresses how ideas about the medium, size, presentation, patronage, and techniques of sculpture in the 20th and 21st centuries have created exciting and startling new possibilities.

The exhibition, which runs through May 24, features notable examples of sculpture, from Rodin to Archipenko and Calder through Louise Nevelson, Henry Moore and others. More recent, cutting-edge sculptures by Jeff Koons, Folkert de Jong, Do Ho Suh, and Sue Webster and Tim Noble are also on view.

JANUARY 25
Having a Mime of a Time

Michael Cooper brings his acclaimed show, "Masked Marvels & Wondertales" to The Performing Arts Center, Purchase College at 3 p.m. Cooper is an extraordinary visual artist and mime whose one-man extravaganza combines creative handcrafted masks, original stories of courage and wonder, stilt dancing and a physical repertoire that ranges from the madcap to the sublime.

Tickets to the show, recommended for ages 8 and older, are $24.50 and $17.50. For more information, and to buy tickets, call 251-6200 or log on to www.artscenter.org.

JANUARY 28
Hail to the Chiefs

The John Jay Homestead in Katonah will host an impressive lecture series exploring the legacies of U.S. Presidents Jackson, Lincoln and Jefferson. On Jan. 28, Professor David S. Reynolds will read from and discuss his most recent book, "Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson." Learn of the changes that America underwent in the first half of the 19th century as the era of “Founding Fathers” ended and the tremendous growth of our young country began.

The reception and book signing for this and upcoming talks will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by the lecture at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 for members, $20 for non-members and free for students. Call 232-8199.

JANUARY 29
Soaring Satire

The Manhattanville College Departments of Music and Dance & Theatre present Leonard Bernstein's "Candide". Performances are January 29, 30 and 31 at 8 p.m., and Saturday, January 31 and February 1 at 2 p.m. in the college’s Little Theatre.

Based on Voltaire's satirical masterpiece, "Candide" follows the journey of a young man who is determined to follow his tutor's philosophy of absolute optimism.
The Manhattanville production is under the direction and musical direction of Artist-in-Residence Mark Cherry. Admission is $10, $5 for students and senior citizens. For tickets, call 323-7175.

THROUGH JANUARY 31
Flora and Fauna

The Bendheim Gallery of the Greenwich Arts Council presents two new art exhibitions, on display through January 31. "Landscapes" from Frank Murlo is a series of landscape paintings inspired by the Hamptons, where the artist spends his summers. Murlo's work is regarded as engaging and inviting, "a studied meditation on light and shadow."

Also featured is David Webber's "Animals," a photography exhibit of wild animals in their natural environments. Webber provides up-close and personal portraits of some ferocious animals, none too shy to pose for this photo safari.
Call 203-862-6750.