Today’s Calendar May 14

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The Telephone Kiosk
12:30PM
Blitz Chess
Battery Park City Parks

A lunch time program for passersby on their lunch break to play chess. Actually, not just chess…Blitz chess! Blitz chess is a form of speed chess played on a clock where each opponent gets five minutes. It is fast, furious and fun. Rockefeller Park House. FREE

6PM
Community Board 1’s Youth & Education Committee

Community Board 1 – Conference Room 1 Centre Street, Room 2202A-North
AGENDA
1) Support for New American Youth Ballet to perform on stage at Stuyvesant High School – Discussion with Bonnie Fernandez

2) Update on elevators at 26 Broadway and 81 New Street

6:30PM
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World
Skyscraper Museum

Visionary Women is the story of four renegades – Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall and Alice Waters – who found their voice in the early 1960s and profoundly shaped today’s world. 39 Battery Place.

7PM
Pen Parentis May Salon
Pen Parentis at Westfield World Trade Center Oculus

Tenth anniversary season grand finale featuring the talents of bestselling New York Times author Domenica Ruta, National Book Critics Circle finalist and American Book Award winning author Rahna Reiko Rizzuto and Marina Budhos, author of several critically-acclaimed and award-winning novels, including one that won a Chicago Library’s Best of the Best Award.  http://www.penparentis.org/calendar/ FREE