FILM

A BLACK AUGUST Spanish filmmaker Marc Recha is the subject of BAMcinématek’s annual series, “The Next Director.” In his semi-autobiographical feature, “August Days” (2006), a director (played by Mr. Recha and also named Marc) drives through Catalonia with his twin brother (played by Mr. Recha’s twin brother, David) in search of inspiration for his next film. Mr. Recha participates in a question-and-answer session after the screening. Friday, 6:50 p.m., BAMcinématek, Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave., between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 718-636-4100, $11 general, $7.50 students, seniors, and children, $7 members.

DANCE

DANCING ON THE EDGE The program for Garth Fagan Dance’s 2007 season at the Joyce Theater includes the world premiere of “Edge/Joy,” a full-company piece that re-envisions space on the stage with action taking place along the periphery and overlapping entrances and exits. The Eastman Music Ensemble performs accompanying music, a suite of three works composed by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, during two performances. Mr. Fagan is the recipient of a Tony Award in 1998 for his choreography for “The Lion King.”

Friday, 8 p.m., Saturday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Sunday, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., the Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., between 18th and 19th streets, 212-242-0800, $44.

JAZZ

MOODY’S MOOD FOR LOVE Jazz at Lincoln Center presents “Singers Over Manhattan: The Genius of Eddie Jefferson,” a concert to celebrate the jazz vocalist credited with inventing a new song form. With vocalese, a kind of jazz scat, a singer usually sings lyrics over a famous instrumental composition or solo. Carla Cook, Allan Harris, and the Eric Reed Trio are among the featured guest performers. Program selections include “Miles Davis Walked Off the Stage,” based on the Davis classic “So What,” and “Lester’s Trip to the Moon,” inspired by Lester Young’s inimitable “It’s Only a Paper Moon” solo.

Friday and Saturday, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., JALC, Frederick P. Rose Hall, the Allen Room, 33 W. 60th St. at Columbus Circle, 212-258-9800, $67.50.

MUSIC

FOLK EXCHANGE Original voices boom in the dark at the Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange. This month, singer-songwriter Jen Chapin and her trio (composed of her husband, bassist Stephan Crump, and guitarists Jamie Fox and Liberty Ellman) perform an enchanting mix of story, melody, and musicianship with the depth of jazz and the heart of folk. Other genre-bending musicians selected by Ms. Chapin also join the lineup, including the Dang-it Bobbies and Akiko Pavolka on Sunday, KJ Denhert and Debbie Deane (November 18), and Bato the Yugo and Gonzalo Silva (November 25). Sundays, 7–9 p.m., through November 25, Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth Ave. at President Street, Brooklyn, 718-857-4816, $10.

TO WEIMAR AND BACK Carnegie Hall and the Neue Galerie New York present “Berlin Cabaret: Isengart,” a concert featuring the acclaimed vocalist. The event, preceded by a formal dinner, is featured as part of the ongoing “Berlin in Lights” series. Isengart performs a program that includes selections from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht collaborations, popular Weimar hits, and some of the sultry standards made famous by film star and chanteuse Marlene Dietrich. The Neue Galerie, a museum devoted to German and Austrian art of the early 20th century, is home to an intimate 60-seat café with well-appointed period objects. Friday, dinner at 7 p.m., concert begins at 9 p.m., Neue Galerie New York, Café Sabarsky, 1048 Fifth Ave. at 86th Street, 212-628-6200, ext.-485, $103 includes prix fixe dinner. For complete information and to purchase, call or go to neuegalerie.org.

TALKS

A WOMAN’S WORTH The Center for Jewish History hosts a painter and printmaker, Miriam Stern, who gives a talk about her gallery art installation “Ezrat Nashim.” The site-specific work tackles women’s issues such as they relate to Jewish tradition and religious texts. The title of her artwork refers to the women’s area in an Orthodox synagogue. Sunday, 3 p.m., Center for Jewish History, 15 W. 16th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-294-8330, free for members and children under 5, or with museum admission, $8 general, $6 seniors, students, and children ages 5 to 16.

ART KLATCH The National Academy Museum and artcritical.com host a review panel on a selection of exhibits showing around the city. Featured panelists include critics Vincent Katz of Art in America and Linda Yablonsky of Bloomberg News. Among the shows under review are Kara Walker’s “My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love” at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Isaac Julien’s “Western Union: Small Boats” at Metro Pictures, and Kate Shepherd’s exhibit of abstract art, “No Title Here,” at Galerie Lelong. A critic for The New York Sun, David Cohen, is moderator of the event. Friday, 6:45 p.m., National Academy Museum, 1083 Fifth Ave. at 89th Street, $5, free for National Academicians, friends of the Academy, and students.

DRAWING FROM FEAR In the arts and in the press, the medium of illustration has been used to convey images of anxiety and fear when there is unease in a cultural climate. This is the focus of a daylong symposium, “Illustration in the Age of Anxiety,” presented by Parsons the New School for Design. The event comprises three talks. “Shaky Line, Shaky Times” features satirical illustrators Ed Sorel and Ed Koren, who discuss their own famously angst-ridden drawing styles. An associate professor at Parsons, Dan Nadel, is moderator of the talk. “Reading in Public” features graphic novelist Ben Katchor in a discussion about the difficulty of seeking solace in reading in troubled times. And in “A Light in the Dark,” artists Camille Rose Garcia and Tara McPherson talk about depicting the dark sides of life, with the chairman of the Parsons illustration department, Steven Guarnaccia. Saturday, 3–6 p.m., the New School, 55 W. 13th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-229-8919, free.

DRAWINGS

STOP AND GO Karen Yasinsky turned to Jean Vigo’s 1934 cinematic triumph “L’Atalante” for her latest exhibit of the same name. The exhibit is composed of four short, stop-motion animation pieces, featuring detailed black-and-white line drawings of two main characters, Jean and Juliette. Selections from the exhibit include “Jean and Juliette” (2007), a detail of which is pictured above. Through Saturday, November 17, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Mireille Mosler Ltd., 35 E. 65th St. at Madison Avenue, 212-249-4195, free.

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