Onstage

Lehman College, located at 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. W., continues to offer free music concerts throughout May. For a schedule and detailed information, call (718) 960-8247/8715.

The Bronx Opera Company presents Don Pasquale, comic opera, sung in English, performed at Lehman College’s Lovinger Theatre, 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. W., May 7 and 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15 to $30 with discounts for students, seniors and children. For more information or tickets, call (800) 838-3006 or visit www.bronxopera.org or www.brownpapertickets.com/event/98900.

The Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, located at 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. E., presents Concierto de Trios, featuring bolero music, May 8 at 8 p.m. (tickets are $20 to $45); and Latin Passion, featuring tango, gauchos, salsa, and more, May 15 at 8 p.m. (tickets are $25 to $35; $10 for ages 12 and under). For more information, call (718) 960-8833.

Christ Church Riverdale, located on West 252nd Street and Henry Hudson Parkway East, hosts Favorite Opera Choruses, classical music performed by the Riverdale Choral Society, May 8 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $15; $13/with Cultural Card. For more information, call (718) 543-2219 or visit www.riverdalechoral.org.

The Albert Einstein Symphony Orchestra presents its season finale featuring classical music, May 16 at 3 p.m., in the Robbins Auditorium, Forchheimer Building of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave. Contributions are suggested. For more information, visit einsteinorch.tripod.com.

The Bronx Arts Ensemble presents Beauty and the Beast, May 9 at 1 and 3 p.m., in the New York Botanical Garden’s Ross Lecture Hall. For more information, call (718) 601-7399.

The Bronx Library Center, at 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd. off Fordham Road, hosts Grupo Caribe in Concert, May 8 at 2:30 p.m.; and Music and Dance From Hawaii and Other Polynesian Islands, by Dance Aloha, May 15 at 2:30 p.m. For more information, call (718) 579-4244/46 or visit www.nypl.org.

The Mosholu Library, at 285 E. 205th St., hosts Unsinkable Women: Stories and Songs From the Titanic, May 8 at 2 p.m. for the entire family; and Dorothy in the Land of Oz, for children, May 11 at 4 p.m. For more information, call (718) 882-8239.

The Bronx Museum, located at 1040 Grand Concourse (at 165th Street), presents First Fridays! And the Beat Goes On!, featuring jazz pianist Dr. Valerie Capers, May 7 from 6 to 10 p.m., free, in the South Building, lower gallery. For more information, call (718) 681-6000.

The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!), located at 841 Barretto St., presents its Boogie Down Dance Series 2010 from May 7 to 23 featuring a variety of shows. For a complete schedule, call (718) 842-5223 or visit bronxacademyofartsanddance.org.

The Bronx Hoot Reunion concert (featuring members of the famous Hunter College Hoots of the early’60s), for the benefit of the Bronx River Alliance, will be held at Lehman College’s Lovinger Theater, 250 Bedford Pk Blvd. W., on May 21 at 8 p.m. Cost is $35 or two for $40. For tickets or more information, call (718) 430-4613 or visit bronxhoot.org.

Events

The Woodlawn Cemetery, located at the corner of Bainbridge and Jerome avenues, presents Woodlawn in Bloom, a spring blossom walking tour led by author Edward Sibley Barnard, May 16. Meet at the Jerome Avenue entrance at 2 p.m. Fee: $10; $5/seniors/students; free for ages under 6. Woodlawn also offers free End of Life Planning Seminar, featuring family service counselors discussing arrangements for final resting places, May 19 at 7 p.m. in the Woolworth Chapel. For more information, call (718) 920-1470 for the tour and (718) 920-1463 ext. 252 for the seminar.

The public is invited to an open house bake-off at the COVE community center, located at 3418 Gates Place, on May 6. Arrive at 7:30 p.m. with your best homemade specialty. Judging begins at 8 p.m. Enjoy great food, music, games, and meet your neighbors. For more information, call (718) 405-1312.

Wave Hill, located at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, offers two family art projects: Design a Bouquet for Mother’s Day, May 8 and 9, and Draw, Draw, Draw, using novel materials and methods, May 16; both in the Kerlin Learning Center from 1 to 4 p.m. The Big Draw at Wave Hill, features a variety of drawing activities for all ages, free, and grounds admission is free until noon, on May 15 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and from 1 to 4 p.m. For more information, call (718) 549-3200 or visit www.wavehill.org.

The Bronx Writers Center and Bronx Council on the Arts present “To the Other Side,” a film in Spanish with English subtitles about a young man in Mexico who must decide between trafficking drugs or illegally crossing the border into the United States, May 12 from 7 to 9 p.m., at the Bruckner Bar & Grill, 1 Bruckner Blvd., followed by Q&A. For more information, call (718) 931-9500 ext. 21 or (718) 665-2001.

Bronx Council on the Arts’ Bronx WritersCorps will host “Floetry” – Poetry in Motion Preliminary Slam on May 13 at 5 p.m. at the Owen Dolen Recreational Center, 2551 Westchester Ave. This is the 14th Annual Bronx WritersCorp Poetry Slam, in which the borough’s most talented teen poets compete to become the best slam team in the Bronx. Earl Majette will host the preliminaries, and the finals will be held on May 20. The slam is open to the public and admission is free. For more information, call (718) 931-9500 ext. 33.

Exhibits

The Museum of Bronx History, located at 3266 Bainbridge Ave. (at 208th Street), presents Parkchester: City Within a City, through Oct. 3. For more information, call the Bronx County Historical Society at (718) 881-8900.

The New York Botanical Garden hosts the following events: Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers, through June 13; Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale, May 7 to 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., in a tent outside the Haupt Conservatory (preview party will be held on May 6 from 6 to 8 p.m.); Auricula Theatre on Display, an arrangement of tiered staging used to showcase these rare and choice primroses when they are in flower, through May 9; and Endangered Plants Here and Around the World, a traveling exhibition on display in the Ross Gallery May 6 through July 25 (featured artists will teach botanical art and illustration courses during this period). Additional programs include Children’s Poetry Garden, through June 13 in the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden; Dig, Plant, Grow! through June in the Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden; Mother’s Day Celebrations, May 8 and 9 featuring a variety of Garden activities; and Bronx Day, May 15 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Clay Family Picnic Pavilions, featuring musical entertainment, fun events for the entire family and health, finance and education resource information kiosks (send a stamped, self-addressed envelope, with number of tickets requested, to receive required advance tickets; six maximum), followed by A Season in Poetry, featuring poets reading from their works, 3 p.m. in the Jane Watson Irwin Perennial Garden. For more information and class and program schedules, call (718) 817-8700.

The Bronx River Art Center, located at 1087 E. Tremont Ave. is presenting Dialects IV, through May 29. For more information, visit www.nyc.gov/urbanart.

The Lehman College Art Gallery, located at 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. W., will hold a fund-raising exhibition in honor of its 25th anniversary, May 11 through June 4. The opening reception on May 11 is from 4 to 8 p.m. Small works by friends and artists who have exhibited at the Gallery over the past 25 years will be exhibited, and are priced at $500 or less. All proceeds will be split between the Gallery and the artist. For more information, call (718) 960-8731.

Library Events

The Bronx Library Center, at 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd. off Fordham Road, presents the following programs for preschoolers and school-aged children: Preschool Story Time, May 6, 13 and 20 at 11 a.m.; and films, May 12 and 19 at 4 p.m. Adults can attend History of the Bronx, a lecture by Bronx historian Lloyd Ultan, May 17 at 6 p.m. For more information, call (718) 579-4244/46 or visit www.nypl.org.

The Mosholu Library, at 285 E. 205th St., hosts Toddler Story Time, May 6 at 10:30 a.m.; and Preschool Story Time, May 13 at 10:30 a.m., both for children; and Knitting Circle, May 6, 13 and 20 at 3 p.m. for adults. For more information, call (718) 882-8239.

The Jerome Park Library, at 118 Eames Place, presents Crafternoons, May 6, 13 and 20 at 4 p.m. for teens and young adults; and films, May 11 at 4 p.m. and Toddler Story Time, May 16 at 11 a.m.; both for children. For more information, call (718) 549-5200.

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