Editor’s Pick 

Clothing and Food Drives 

Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, 4450 Fieldston Rd., is having a clothing drive to benefit Part of the Solution (POTS), where clothing is distributed to the homeless, people going back to work in need of business attire, and anyone else in need of new clothing. Please only donate suitable clothing, including shoes, belts, ties, and bedding until the end of October.  RYSEC is also having an ongoing food drive to benefit the Kingsbridge-Riverdale-Marble Hill Food and Hunger Project, Inc. (KRMH). Donate canned food (nothing perishable or expired) for low-income families, homeless, underemployed and unemployed families. For more information, visit POTS at www.potsbronx.org; and for KRMH, call (718) 548-4445. 

Onstage 

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. W., presents Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, featuring Wynton Marsalis and Carlos Henriquez: Back in the Bronx, Sept. 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 to $65. For more information, call (212) 721-6500.

The Bronx Library Center, 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd., presents Elektra by Richard Strauss, performed by the New York Opera Forum, Sept. 12 at 2:30 p.m. For more information, call (718) 579-4244/46/57 or visit www.nypl.org.

Events

The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, 895 Shore Rd., Pelham Bay Pk., presents First Friday! Music & Bronx Trolley, Sept. 4 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Singer/guitarist Mary Courtney performs Irish music. Tickets are $10/adults; $8/seniors/students; members/free. For more information and to register, call (718) 885-1461 or email info@bpmm.org.

Wave Hill, a Bronx oasis at 675 W. 252nd St. in Riverdale, offers Family Art Projects: Mattiasdottir’s Outdoor Painting, to use watercolors and find inspiration in Icelandic-American painter Louisa Mattiasdottir, Sept. 5 and 6; and Palisades in Plaster, to create your own sculptural rock formation, then color, Sept. 12 and 13; both in WH House from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Grounds admission is free until noon Saturdays and Tuesdays all year. For more information and a schedule of events including tours and walks, call (718) 549-3200.

Exhibit 

Lehman College, 250 Bedford Pk. Blvd. W., presents an Art Department Faculty Exhibit, Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., through Sept. 26. On Sept. 9, there will be an opening reception from 4 to 6 p.m. and artist talks from 3 to 4 p.m. For more information, call (718) 960-8731.

Library Events

The Bronx Library Center, 310 E. Kingsbridge Rd., presents the following events for adults (all require in-person advance registration): Computer Basics: Sept. 3 and 15 at 2 p.m.; E-mail for Beginners: Sept. 10 at 1 p.m.; Advanced Microsoft Word 2010: Sept. 10 at 6 p.m.; Saving and Recovering Data: (save data to flash drives and recover data that might be lost), Sept. 16 at 2 p.m.; and Annual job Expo:  (includes workshops; 40 companies are expected), Sept. 16 at 11 a.m. For more information, call (718) 579-4244/46/57 or visit www.nypl.org.

The Mosholu Library, 285 E. 205th St., offers for adults: Knitting Circle at 3 p.m.: Sept. 3, 10 and 17; and Free Computer Classes: to learn email and basic computer information, Wednesdays, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. For more information, call (718) 882-8239.

The Jerome Park Library, 118 Eames Place (near Kingsbridge Road), offers for kids: Afternoon Arts at 4 p.m.: (ages 5 to 12), to learn about art, then create a piece, Sept. 9 and 16; and Kids Get Active Fridays at 3 p.m.: (ages 5 to 12), dance and zumba, Sept. 4 and 11. Teens/young adults can enjoy Art Club at 4:30 p.m.: to draw and paint with materials provided, Sept. 8 and 15.  Adults can attend Computer Basics at noon: for beginners, Sept. 3, 10 and 17. For more information, call (718) 549-5200. 

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