ART

GIVING PEACE A CHANCE The Rubin Museum of Art presents the opening of the “Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama,” an exhibit that explores the Dalai Lama’s multiple roles and iconic status through the works of more than 80 contemporary artists from around the world. The exiled Tibetan lama’s work and identity are addressed in a range of media, from painting and sculpture to installation and video. A selection of paintings and sculptures from the museum’s collection, depicting the historical lineage of the Dalai Lama, is also included. Through Monday, September 3, Monday, 11 a.m.– 5 p.m., Wednesday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m., Thursday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m., Friday, 11 a.m.–10 p.m., Saturday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Rubin Museum, 150 W. 17th St, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-620-5000, $10.00 general, $7 students, seniors, artists, and museum neighbors, free for children and members. For complete information, go to rmanyc.org.

DANCE

CLAPPING OF THE HANDS The Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival presents a Madrid-based dance troupe, Noche Flamenca, which performs a passionate program of flamenco. Among the accompanying performers are a young dance company, CPD Plus, and the modern Irish-step troupe, Darrah Carr Dance. The ongoing summer festival features an array of performances, through Saturday, August11. Tomorrow,7:30p.m., Prospect Park Bandshell, Prospect Park West at 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-855-7882, free. For complete information, go to celebratebrooklyn.org.

TAPPING WITH HAPPY FEET An American dancer and choreographer, Savion Glover, performs a summer season at the Joyce. Mr. Glover is the force behind the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, “Bring in the Noise, Bring in the Funk” (1996), and the choreographer for the tap dancing penguin featured in the animated film “Happy Feet” (2006). For this show, Mr. Glover delivers an energetic program including his signature style of tap, “hitting,” and footwork that appears to double as musical accompaniment. Through Saturday, tonight, 2 and 7:30 p.m., Thursday–Friday, 8 p.m., Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m., Joyce Theater. 175 Eighth Ave., between 18th and 19th streets, 212-242-0800, $44 general, $33 members.

FILM

MOVIES IN THE LOT Quisqueya Henríquez is a Cuban-Dominican artist who has been highly regarded during her decades-long career for fashioning art from the simplest of city sights and sounds. The Bronx Museum of Art plans to open a retrospective of her work in September. As a preview, the museum holds a free outdoor viewing in Manhattan of some of Ms. Henríquez’s films, including “El mundo de afuera” (“The World Outside”) (2006), which depicts over three years of street life that the artist shot from her balcony in Santo Domingo. Tonight, 8 p.m., at a Chelsea parking lot at 7 W. 21st St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 718-681-6000, free, e-mailed reservations are required to anne@anneedgar.com or lsalmon@bronxmuseum.org.

ENGLAND ON THE STREETS Woodfall Film Productions was founded in Britain in 1956, and released inexpensive films that showed the true nature of British street life by utilizing new and young actors, location shooting, and a philosophy of realism in filmmaking. The Film Society of Lincoln Center honors the work of the production company with a two-week showcase, “Leading the Charge: Woodfall Film Productions and the Revolution in ’60s British Cinema.” Actors Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave and Michael Sheen introduce select films throughout the series. The showcase opens with a screening of Tony Richardson’s “Tom Jones” (1963), featuring Albert Finney as the title character, as he mischievously journeys around London, adventuring with rich women and the authorities. The film features Lynn Redgrave’s first big screen appearance; she introduces the film for the series. Friday, 6:30 p.m., FSLC, 165 W. 65th St. at Amsterdam Avenue, 212-875-5600, $11 general, $7 students, seniors, and members.

MUSIC

BLACK BEAT The Nigerian-born scion of the father of Afrobeat, Femi Kuti, performs with his band, the Positive Force, as part of the Central Park SummerStage concert series. Mr. Kuti took up the musical and political mantle left in the wake of the AIDS-related death of his father, Fela Kuti, in 1997. Among Mr. Kuti’s acclaimed recordings are “Fight To Win” and “Shoki, Shoki,” for which he collaborated with such artists as Mos Def and Common. DJ Rich Medina spins a signature set of soul, hiphop, and world music. A screening of Stephane Tchal-Gadjieff’s and Jean Jacques Flori’s “Music Is a Weapon” (1982), a documentary on the life of Fela Kuti, is also featured. Tonight, 7 p.m., Central Park SummerStage, Rumsey Playfield, enter on 69th Street at Fifth Avenue on the east side, or 72nd Street at Central Park West on the west side, 212 360-2756, free.

CLASSICAL DUET Pianist Maxim Pakhomov and violinist Steven Zynszajn perform a program of five pieces, including Fauré’s Sonata for Violin & Piano in A Major, Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 21 “Waldstein,” and Goldmark’s Violin Concerto, First Movement, Opus 28. Mr. Zynszain was formerly the director of the Lautreamont Concert Series. Tomorrow, 8:30 p.m., Steinway Hall, 109 W. 57th St. at Sixth Avenue, 212-246-1100, $15 general, $10 students and seniors.

BROTHERLY LOVE The Kin consists of two Australian brothers, Isaac and Thorry Koren, who perform a mix of jazz and contemporary pop. The duo didn’t start making music together until they were teenagers, and arrived to make it in America in 2001. They perform with the drumstick-less percussion performer Shakerleg. Tomorrow, 9:30 p.m., Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St., between Astor Place and Broadway, 212-539-8536, $15.

THEATER

STRUGGLE TO THE STAGE Bonnie Dickenson’s advanced theater class at Wilton High School in Wilton, Conn., experienced an unexpected wave of publicity earlier this year when its class project play, “Voices in Conflict” — based on the actual words of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians — was banned by the school’s principal. The play arrives in New York, with direction by Ms. Dickenson. Student actors include Cameron Scott Nadler and Allie Rizzo. Tonight through Friday, tonight, 7 p.m., tomorrow and Friday, 7 and 9 p.m., Vineyard Theater, 108 E. 15th St., between Irving Place and Park Avenue South, 212-353-0303, free.

READINGS

LIFE-CHANGING ESCAPE Lucette Lagnado’s “The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World” (HarperCollins) describes the life of her Egyptian Jewish family in between World War II and the rise of Gamal Abdel Nasser to power. During that period, Ms. Lagnado’s family flourished as her father completed business on the balcony of Cairo’s Shepheard’s Hotel and the lounge of the Nile Hilton. When Nasser rises to power, her family, along with many other Jewish families who were established in Cairo’s cosmopolitan society, escaped to Europe and America. Ms. Lagnado reads from and discusses her book with writer Arthur Gelb. The photos above show, left to right, the author’s parents at their wedding; the author’s father holding her brother, and the author’s childhood home in Malaka Nazli. Tonight, 7 p.m., Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 36 Battery Place at Little West Street, 646-437-4200, free.

AMERICAN SQUARE-OFF A Chicago newspaper journalist, a New York editor, and an Oregon artist square off in an American “readoff” at the New York Center for Independent Publishing. A former senior financial editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, Shane Gericke, reads from his crime thriller “Cut to the Bone” (Kensington). A former book editor, Jason Pinter, reads from his mystery novel, “The Mark” (Mira), and an artist from Portland, Ore., Bill Cameron, reads from his own mystery novel, “lost dog” (Midnight Ink). Tonight, 6:30 p.m., NYCIP, 20 W. 44th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 718-418-2419, free.

ONLINE STORIES The L Magazine is an online event guide for city dwellers, providing feature articles, reviews, and event listings for theculturallyaware. The magazine holds its second annual summer fiction issue reading, featuring writers Tom Hopkins, Ned Vizzini, and more. Friday, 7 p.m., KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St. at Second Avenue, 212-505-3360, free.

RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL

TINKERBELL’S COLLEAGUES “Enchanted Fairies and Elves: Protectors of Woods and Streams,” also co-presented by the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, features storyteller Laura Martin as she regales children with fairy stories found in worldwide cultures. Children can make fairy houses and wings to take home. Sunday, 11 a.m., Battery Park City, Teardrop Park, River Terrace, between Warren and Murray streets, 212-267-9700, free.

TALKS

THROUGH THE WIRE The New York Book Club hosts “Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered New York City,” a panel discussion with leading photographers and correspondents of the country’s oldest continuous news organization. Featured panelists include an AP photographer, Richard Drew, a United Nations correspondent, Edie Lederer, the corporate archives director, Valerie Komor, and a longtime photo editor, Hal Buell. Tonight, 6 p.m., New York Book Club at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 108 Orchard St., between Delancey and Broome streets, 212-982-8420, free with RSVP by phone or e-mail to bookclub@tenement.org.

MIND ON THE MEMORY Columbia University neuroscientist Eric Kandel, who won a Nobel Prize in 2000, speaks at the “Secret Science Club” at the Park Slope bar and restaurant Union Hall. He speaks on “Memory and the Mind,” a talk about how human psychology is linked to biology, and how one can study self-awareness. Prof. Kandel is most recently the author of “In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind” (W.W. Norton). Tonight, 8 p.m., Union Hall, 702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue, Park Slop, Brooklyn, 718-638-4400, free.

TOURS

WHARTON’S CENTRAL PARK The Central Park Conservancy hosts “Views from the Past,” a one-hour promenade through the heart of the park. Guests are invited to imagine life as it was lived in 19th-century New York City, including a guided tour of the park’s history, and how its designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, struggled to create the public greens. Tonight, 6 p.m., meet at the Central Park Dairy Visitor Center, mid-park at 65th Street, 212-794-6564, free.

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