Editor’s Pick

The Bronx Museum of the Arts is to host Cuban avant-garde artist Quisqueya Henríquez for her first major appearance in the United States in an exhibit called The World Outside from Sunday, Sept. 16 through Jan. 27, 2008, with an open house Sept. 16 from 2 to 6 p.m. The exhibition consists of a selection of sculptures, installations, drawings, photographs, videos, and light and sound works spanning the last two decades of the artist’s career, in which she examines the sensory qualities of urban life, including a daily visual dispatch 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.

Onstage

• Enjoy An Afternoon of Guitar Music with virtuoso guitarist and composer Don Witter, Jr., on Sept. 24 at 3:30 p.m., free, at the Mosholu Library, 285 E. 205th St. For more information, call (718) 882-8239.

• People for Progress presents the 17th Annual 52 Latin Jazz Concert Series ’07, free, on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. through Sept. 26. The show is at 52 Parks Miranda Theatre on Kelly Street between Avenue Saint John and Leggett Avenue. For more information, call (718) 548-0315 or (718) 893-9135.

Events

• The Bronx River Alliance hosts Paddling: Tidal Paddle, to explore the tidal flats of the Bronx River, Sept. 8; Second Sunday Cycling, a 5-mile bike tour along the Bronx River Greenway, Sept. 9; and Paddling: Upper River Run, a canoe trip through the Bronx River Forest, the NY Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo, Sept. 15. For more information and to register, call (718) 430-4636 or visit ww.bronxriver.org.

• Caribbean programming continues at the New York Botanical Garden on Sept. 8 with Caribbean Crafts, where visitors can learn the art of Carnival costume and masquerade design, in the Conservatory Courtyards at 12:30 p.m. Also there’s Taste of the Caribbean, with a cooking demonstration Sept. 8 in the Shop Courtyard at 2:30 p.m. and another tasting event featuring chocolate dishes in the Conservatory Courtyards on Sept. 9 at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. Admission only to Garden grounds is free from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays and all day Wednesdays. All other times, grounds admission is $6 for adults, $3 for seniors, $2 for students with ID and $1 for children ages 2 to 12. For more information, call (718) 817-8700.

• 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.

• Kick off Hispanic Heritage Month Sept. 15 and 16 at the New York Botanical Garden with Fiesta de Flores, a celebration of the people and plants of Latin America and the Caribbean, featuring live music, dancing, food, storytelling and more. Admission only to Garden grounds is free from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays and all day Wednesdays. All other times, grounds admission is $6 for adults, $3 for seniors, $2 for students with ID and $1 for children ages 2 to 12. For more information, call (718) 817-8700.

• It’s Honey Weekend at Wave Hill featuring beekeeping demonstrations on Sept. 15 at 11 a.m. in the Wave Hill House, with Honey Extraction, including sampling honey fresh from urban hives, followed by Cooking with Honey, including a tasting, at 2 p.m. on the grounds. Also, Sept. 16 from 2 to 4 p.m. on the grounds, there will be a Hives and Honey Information Station, to learn about bees, try on gear, and sample a variety of honey. Round out the weekend with a Candle Making Workshop on Sept. 16 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Wave Hill House to create candles from beeswax ($35 or $30 member; registration is required at ext. 305). Wave Hill is at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue in Riverdale. For more information, call (718) 549-3200 or visit wavehill.org.

Exhibits

• Caribbean Gardens: Journey to Paradise, celebrating Caribbean flowers and culture, continues through Sept. 16 at the New York Botanical Garden’s Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. For more information, call (718) 817-8700.

• In the last installment of Wave Hill’s series of exhibitions exploring art and nature, artists install works based on the writings of two authors that 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 rooms of Wave Hill’s Glyndor Gallery, Sept. 8 through Dec. 2. Also, there are three solo exhibitions by New York-area emerging artists in the sunrooms: Jeff Feddersen and Margie Neuhaus, Sept. 8 through Oct. 14 and Joianne Bittle Knight from Oct. 19 through Dec. 2. There’s an opening reception Sept. 9 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 www.wavehill.org.

Learning

• Wave Hill offers family art projects. At the Fish Out of the Pond on Sept. 8 and 9, children turn colorful paper bags into 3-D fish. Also, at Be a Bee on Sept. 15 and 16, enjoy wings and antennae, a kazoo to buzz with and a pollen cup to sip from. 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.

• The Bronx Library Center has events for all ages:

For children ages 3 to 12, there’s a film on Sept. 12 and 19 at 4 p.m.; Preschool Story Time, featuring picture book stories and songs for ages 2 to 5 on Sept. 6, 13 and 20 at 11 a.m.; and Autumn Canvas Making, a crafts workshop for ages 7 to 12, on Sept. 13 at 4 p.m.

For young adults, there is Game On (for which games are supplied), for ages 12 to18, Sept. 11 and 18 at 4 p.m. Adults can bring their own materials and enjoy Crochet for Adults, a crafts program, on Sept. 14 at 3 p.m., and attend several lectures, including MOMA at the Library, featuring Picasso, Matisse and Africa, Sept. 8 at 2:30 p.m., Simple Steps to Better Health by family practitioner Dr. Darwin Deen, Sept. 10 at 6 p.m. and The Bronx Park System by Bronx County archivist Dr. Peter Derrick, Sept. 17 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.

• The Mosholu Library will host Toddler Time for children ages 18 to 36 months with a parent or caregiver, featuring picture book stories and songs on Sept. 6 at 10:30 a.m. The library is located at 285 E. 205th St. For more information, call (718) 882-8239.