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To celebrate her seventy-fifth birthday, artist Judy Chicago will create A Butterfly for Brooklyn, a monumental pyrotechnic performance piece drawing inspiration from her earliest explorations of feminist imagery, in Brooklyn's Prospect Park tonight, April 26, at 7:30 p.m.

To celebrate her seventy-fifth birthday, artist Judy Chicago will create A Butterfly for Brooklyn, a monumental pyrotechnic performance piece drawing inspiration from her earliest explorations of feminist imagery, in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Saturday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. The site-specific work, measuring approximately 200 feet wide by 180 feet high, will appear to levitate, swirl, and move. Presented by the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum in partnership with the Prospect Park Alliance, the project is an outdoor component of the exhibition Chicago in L. A.: Judy Chicago's Early Work, 1962-74, on view in the Sackler Center at the Museum from April 4 throughSeptember 28. A Butterfly for Brooklyn will transform the imagery Chicago used most famously in her iconic installation, The Dinner Party, into a twenty-minute fusion of color and dazzling visual effects on the Long Meadow of Prospect Park.

After four years following his critically acclaimed, award-winning and best-selling book 'BEREOLAESQUE: The Contemporary Gentleman & Etiquette Book for the Urban Sophisticate,' ghostwriter to the stars author, Enitan Bereola II, releases his new ladies etiquette book 'GENTLEWOMAN: Etiquette for a Lady, from a Gentleman,' available at www.gentlewomanbook.com.

HENDERSON, Nev., Nov. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ The Chip Hustler, an original Las Vegas love story and adult fairy tale, is the tale ofcharismatic Elizabeth Von Doleger, an aspiring actress in Hollywood. She falls in love with baseball icon Sam Bradshaw. After Sam Bradshaw jilts her, she goes to Las Vegas broke in 1968, where she heard girls can make money. Her favorite casinoswere Caesars Palace and the Sands, now the Plazzo and Venetian Resort.After arriving in Las Vegas, she becomes a chip hustler, using gamblers' money to win bets for herself.

In partnership with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Dimensions Dance Theater, the Bay Area's preeminent African-American dance company, is proud to announce the celebration of its 40th anniversary on October 5, 2013. This momentous occasion will be marked with a formal procession followed by a retrospective of the company's four decades of creativity and community-building. The evening will conclude with the world premiere of all four parts of Rhythms of Life: Down the Congo Line, a monumental work representing the legacy of traditional Congolese dance forms in the New World. Dance performances will be attended throughout by live music and ritual enactments.

In partnership with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Dimensions Dance Theater, the Bay Area's preeminent African-American dance company, is proud to announce the celebration of its 40th anniversary on October 5, 2013. This momentous occasion will be marked with a formal procession followed by a retrospective of the company's four decades of creativity and community-building. The evening will conclude with the world premiere of all four parts of Rhythms of Life: Down the Congo Line, a monumental work representing the legacy of traditional Congolese dance forms in the New World. Dance performances will be attended throughout by live music and ritual enactments.

AfroSolo Arts Festival 19 in collaboration with the African American Art and Culture Complex, present its seminal performance series Black Voices featuring Byb Chanel Bibene, Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, and Jovelyn Richards.

AfroSolo Arts Festival 19 in collaboration with the African American Art and Culture Complex, present its seminal performance series Black Voices featuring Byb Chanel Bibene, Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, and Jovelyn Richards.

National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Inc. (NBLCA) will host its 25th Anniversary Choose Life Awards Hall of Hope and Remembrance Benefit Reception on Thursday, June 7, 2012, at 583 Park Avenue in New York City.

Last night, April 28, at the Four Seasons San Francisco, more than 380 people celebrated Tony Award-winning Berkeley Repertory Theatre with actor Rita Moreno, who hosted an evening for theatre lovers, gourmands, and philanthropists. Moreno entertained the crowd with a series of songs and jokes. A gala held each year to benefit Berkeley Rep, ONSTAGE raised more than $510,000 to support the nonprofit's artistic efforts and its education and outreach programs for the local community.

On April 28, Berkeley Repertory Theatre presents its ONSTAGE gala! Actress Rita Moreno hosts an evening at the Four Seasons San Francisco, featuring a gourmet dinner, wines and spirits, and an opportunity to bid on getaways and culinary adventures.

On April 28, Berkeley Repertory Theatre presents its ONSTAGE gala! Actress Rita Moreno hosts an evening at the Four Seasons San Francisco, featuring a gourmet dinner, wines and spirits, and an opportunity to bid on getaways and culinary adventures.

The Concord-based Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy is celebrating its 15th anniversary, and as part of the celebratory lineup of events throughout the season will present Misters and Sisters ? A Love Story in Song and Dance, a new dance theater cabaret by David Parker and Jeffrey Kazin of The Bang Group for two performances only, Wednesday January 11 and 18, 2012 at OBERON, corner of Arrow Street and Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard Square, Cambridge.

Dame Edna - Live and Intimate in Her First Last Tour will present a sign language interpreted performance on Saturday, January 3 at 3 p.m. at San Francisco's Post Street Theatre (450 Post Street).

Dame Edna - Live and Intimate in Her First Last Tour will present a sign language interpreted performance on Saturday, January 3 at 3 p.m. at San Francisco's Post Street Theatre (450 Post Street).

Chicago Cabaret Professionals will again spread joy and music in their 10th annual holiday concert, in it's 10th anniversary year, with TWO SHOWS. Over two nights, audiences will enjoy over 40 talented singers. All proceeds will benefit Teen Living Programs (Dec 1) and Save the Children (Dec 2).

Simply put, Elvis Presley changed music forever. With one swivel of his hips, he brought down all previous structure of American music and performance and ushered in a new era and a sound that is still influencing artists and their music today.