ART

CAREER PREPARATION The Educational Alliance offers a workshop for aspiring artists who want to submit their work to galleries and the press in digital forms. The workshop covers how artists can transfer images from slides to digital formats, how to take digital images, and how to present them professionally. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., Educational Alliance, 197 East Broadway, between Jefferson and Clinton streets, 212-780-2300 ext. 378, $20, reservations required.

DANCE

SIGHT AND SOUND Vietnamese choreographer Le Vu Long presents the premiere of his piece “Stories of Us,” by his company of deaf performers. Mr. Long fuses Western dance forms, live music, and unusual visual design to reflect on gender stereotypes and life-threatening illness. Tonight through Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Dance Theater Workshop, 219 W. 19th St., between Seventh and Eighth avenues, 212-924-0077, $20 general, $12 adults.

WEST SIDE ARRIVAL The Buglisi Dance Theatre, headed by artistic director Jacqulyn Buglisi, arrives at the Joyce Theater with two programs of new and repertory works. Two premiere works are featured, “Caravaggio Meets Hopper” and “Acapelorus (a walrus tale).” Performers include guest dancers Martine van Hamel and Robert La Fosse and company dancers Terese Capucilli and Christine Dakin. Repertory pieces include “Against All Odds” and “Sand.” Tonight through Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Thursday and Friday, 8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m., Joyce Theater, 715 Eighth Ave. at 45th Street, 212-242-0800, $36.

DRAWINGS

GIVE ME MORE A retrospective of Aline Kominsky Crumb’swork, “Need More Love, Drawings & Other Works 1971-2006” features numerous works that the cartoonist has done for various comic series and magazines. The exhibit coincides with the publication of Ms. Crumb’s graphic memoir. Selections include “Need More Love” (2006), above. Through Saturday, 11 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Adam Baumgold Gallery, 74 E. 79th St., between Park and Madison avenues, 212-861-7338, free.

FILM

CAMERON, WAKE UP The films of director John Hughes are celebrated with a talk and a screening of his classic film about teenage life, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (1986). After the screening, editor Jaime Clarke discusses his anthology, “Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes” (Simon & Schuster), with three contributors to the collection, Lisa Borders, Allison Lynn, and Elizabeth Searle. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave. at 3rd Street, 212-924-7771, $11 general, $8 members, $7.50 seniors.

MUSIC

A PROGRAM OF FAREWELLS The Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs Strauss’s String Sextet from “Capriccio,” Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor,” and Mozart’s Symphony No. 40. The program represents a series of “lasts” — an excerpt from Strauss’s last opera, one of the symphonies Mozart wrote in his last encounter with the genre, and Beethoven’s final completed piano concerto, composed just as his hearing was nearly faded. Conductor Hans Graf leads the orchestra, and pianist Garrick Ohlsson is a featured performer. Tonight, 8 p.m., Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium, 54 W. 57th St. at Seventh Avenue, 212-247-7800, $23–$75.

A GYPSY’S LAMENT The New York Philharmonic performs Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 (Rhenish), Bach’s “Ricercar No. 2” from “A Musical Offering,” and the late Jewish Hungarian composer György Ligeti’s Violin Concerto. Ligeti, whose works have been featured in such feature films as “Eyes Wide Shut,” drew on his Hungarian heritage to create a sort of Gypsy lament in this concerto. The five-movement piece features shifting timbres and harmonies. Conductor Alan Gilbert leads the orchestra, and violinist Christian Tetzlaff is a featured soloist. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., tomorrow, 2 p.m., Saturday, 8 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, between Broadway and 65th Street, 212-875-5900, $28–$94.

READINGS

TALE OF THE TWINKIE Steve Ettlinger reads from the expansively titled “Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats” (Hudson Street Press), about his travels to discover where and how the ingredients polysorbate 60, baking powder, and Red Dye no. 40 are made. Mr. Ettlinger went from the western Wyoming desert to an egg compound in New Jersey to recount this comic tale. Champagne and a tasting of commercial knock-offs, gourmet, organic, vegan, and authentic Twinkies follow. Tonight, 7 p.m., McNally Robinson, 52 Prince St., between Mulberry and Lafayette streets, 212-274-1160, free.

GIRLS, INTERRUPTED The Three Lives & Co. bookstore hosts an evening of historical fiction with readings by two young novelists. Ellis Avery reads from “The Teahouse Fire” (Riverhead), about a 9-year-old taken to Japan from New York in 1865 by her missionary uncle while her ailing mother dies at home. Her uncle soon vanishes in a fire, leaving the orphaned girl alone in Kyoto, where she is soon taken in by the teenage daughter of a family of master teachers of temae, or the tea ceremony. Emily Barton reads from “Brookland” (Picador), a tale of sisters who run a gin distillery in late-18th-century Brooklyn. Tonight, 7 p.m., Three Lives & Co., 154 W. 10th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-741-2069, free.

SOIRÉES

BIALYSTOCK AND BEYOND The Center for Jewish History at the Yeshiva University Museum holds a benefit for a new Museum of the History of Polish Jews, to be built on the grounds of the former Warsaw ghetto in Poland. The benefit honors a Holocaust survivor and museum supporter, Sigmund Rolat. The groundbreaking for the museum is scheduled for this June. Tonight, 7 p.m., YUM, 15 W.16th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-836-1536, $250.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY

ANTICIPATING GREEN The influences behind the music of Irish singer-songwriter Susan McKeown include the ancient Irish legend of the Táin, the words of Chief Seattle, the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and urban life in Manhattan. She performs a program of contemporary and traditional Irish songs in anticipation of St. Patrick’s Day. Friday, 12:30 p.m., World Financial Center, Winter Garden, 220 Vesey St. at West Street, 212-945-0505, free.

MARCH AWAY The 246th annual St. Patrick’s Day parade features traditional family clans marching together past Central Park. This year’s grand marshal is Raymond Flynn, a former mayor of Boston, and a former ambassador to the Vatican. Recommended viewing spots include the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd Street), or the ending point of the parade at Fifth Avenue and 86th Street. Saturday, 11 a.m., parade begins on 44th Street and Fifth Avenue, free.

SHAMROCK SHAKE The Scholastic Store hosts a family-friendly St. Patrick’s Day celebration, featuring arts and crafts for children. Families are encouraged to wear their best green attire. Saturday, 3 p.m., the Scholastic Store, 557 Broadway, between Prince and Spring streets, 212-343-6166, free.

STATEN ISLAND SOUNDS Historic Richmond Town celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with Irish Fever, a trio of lively performers playing traditional Irish songs, ballads, and upbeat melodies. Musicians include banjoist Peter Becker, guitarist Michal Bobryk, and bassist Denny Ryan. Saturday, 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., Historic Richmond Town, Guyon Tavern, 441 Clarke Ave., Staten Island, 718-351-1611 ext. 281, $15 general, $12 members of the Staten Island Historical Society.

TALKS

SUBTERRANEAN “Revealing Hidden Layers: The Archaeology of Manhattan” is a lecture by an archaeologist for the National Parks Service, Joel Grossman. He discusses how the landscape of the borough was altered from prehistoric times, to Native American settlements, and through Dutch and English colonization. Featured in the lecture is a virtual reconstruction of prehistoric and Revolutionary War-era encampments in Inwood Hill Park bordering Spuyten Duyvil in northern Manhattan. Tonight, 7 p.m., East 54 Street Recreation Center, 348 E. 54 St., between First and Second avenues, 212-754-5411, free.

OLD NEW YORK “Greetings From New Amsterdam: How Manhattan Became the Island at the Center of the World” is a lecture by author Russell Shorto, presented as part of the Downtown Third Thursdays lecture series by the Alliance for Downtown New York. Mr. Shorto discusses the lecture in conjunction with his book, “Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America” (Knopf). Tonight, 7 p.m., National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green at State Street, 212-835-2770, free.

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