Apartment Therapy New York | Weekly Events Calendar: 12.14.05

Art & Design Events...

It's Party month at ApartmentTherapy. Join us in getting our/your party on and doing it right!

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

Green Drinks - Holiday Party
- All the greatest 'green' groups get together to host a party for anyone working on environmental issues, studying them, or thinking green--to network and be social.
- Tuesday, December 13th, 2005, 7-10
- Sweet and Vicious Bar, 5 Spring Street, between Elizabeth and Bowery
- Light food, $10 cover

Unsilent Night (the Christmas Piece)
- Phil Kline produced a score to be played on a limitless number of boomboxes
- December 18th, 7-8pm.
- Meet at the Arch in Washington Square at 6:45 pm. Walk from Washington Square Park to Tompkins Square Park. Bring boombox if you have one.

Vivavi Showroom Opening and Holiday Party
- Evening of Sustainable Design (guests receive a black walnut necklace)
- Screening of Scrapile: A Look Inside
- December 15th, 7-11pm
- 644 Manhattan Ave, 2nd Floor, Greenpoint Brooklyn
- RSVP to jodi at jfontana@vivavi.com

Dyker Heights Christmas Lights
- Lawns on Tenth Avenue are littered with high-voltage dioramas, 20-foot toys, and life-size reindeer. Approximately 100,000 people visit each season
- December
- 83rd & 84th sts, btwn Tenth & 13th aves, Bklyn

Aneta Grzeszykowska and Jan Smaga
- Apartment Therapy from an aerial view. Two young Polish artists take hundreds of pictures of lived-in apartments, all from above.
- Through April 23rd
- Mann Gallery , 210 11th Ave. 212.989.7600

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.

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

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