Weekly Events Calendar: 11.23.05

Art & Design Events...

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Apartment Therapy Holiday party!
- Drinks, people, and the Chair Photo Exhibition
- December 15th, 7-9 pm
- Built. 22 Howard St.

Green Drinks Holiday Party!
- Tuesday, December 13, 6-11 pm
- Sweet and Vicious, 5 Spring Street (between Elizabeth and Bowery).
- $10 Cover Charge.

Municipal Art Society Walk of BATTERY PARK TO SOUTH STREET SEAPORT
- Saturday, November 26, 11:00 a.m.
- Meet at the dioramas in the exhibit room inside Castle Clinton in historic Battery Park. (Transit: R train to Whitehall St.; #1 train to South Ferry; or #4, 5 trains to Bowling Green.)

Municipal Art Society Walk of MIDTOWN EAST
- November 27th, 11:00 a.m.
- Meet at the S.E. corner of 3rd Ave. and 48th St.

City Harvest's New York Canned Food Drive
- Organize your office, school, community center or place of worship in collecting non-perishable food items and donate them to City Harvest. They will pick up donations of 100 pounds or more.
- November 14, 2005 - January 6, 2006
- If you collect less than 100 pounds or you can't organize a food drive, drop off food donations at your local firehouse.
- contact Jill Kogan at 917.351.8765 or jkogan@cityharvest.org.

Safe: Design Takes on Risk at the MOMA
- 300 contemporary products and prototypes designed to protect
- Through January 2nd
- MOMA, 11 West 53 Street, 212.708.9400.

Space Downtown is planning 2nd Annual Shop Happy Holiday Bazaar
- Invitation to designers of home and fashion accessories, or beauty and spa products to sell their overstock
- Submit merchandise by Thanksgiving week and whatever is not sold will be
  returned by the end of the year.
- 276 W. 25 Street, Red Door, 212.352.9968

Designing the Taxi: Rethinking NYC's Moveable Public Space
- November 2nd through January 15th
- Parsons The New School for Design. 2 West 13th St.

Duncan Hannah: Imaginary Friends
- Oil Paintings on display
- Through December 17th
- JG Contemporary, 1014 Madison Ave. 212.535.5767

Broadway Panhandler: Gingerbread Houses - NYC Style
- An assortment of New York City's top pastry chefs have created NYC Gingerbread Houses - gingerbread brownstones, 1 bedroom apartments, lofts and more
- Raffle to take home a yummy structure on November 28th (100% of the proceeds from the raffle will be donated to City Harvest)
- Broadway Panhandler 477 Broome Street

Housing Works Thrifts 10th Street Grand Opening
- 100% of the profits from this store go towards fighting HIV/AIDS and Homelessness
- Every Sunday through winter--partake in free baked goods from local bakeries
- 245 W. 10th St. (hudson/bleecker) 212.352.1618

Field Experiments in art-architecture-landscape: Hombroich spaceplacelab
- View 14 projects integrating art, architecture and landscape by renowned architects and artists from around the world. Hombroich spaceplacelab is a laboratory for alternative modes of living.
- Through December 31st
- Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, 212.358.6111

Art Billboards
- Alex Katz's "Give Me Tomorrow" at 40 East 4th St
- Gary Hume's "Cheerleader" at 55 Houston St
- Lisa Sanditz's "Tie-Dye in the Wilderness" 343 Canal St