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AAA projects 43.4 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, a decrease of 1.5 percent from the 44 million people who traveled last year. This decrease falls just shy of last Thanksgiving's four-year peak since the recession-driven declines in 2008-2009 when Thanksgiving travel fell by 25 percent. The Thanksgiving holiday travel period is defined as Wednesday, Nov. 27 to Sunday, Dec. 1.

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG, with Steven Blier, Artistic Director, and Michael Barrett, Associate Artistic Director, continues its 2013-14 Mainstage series at Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center with 'CUBANS IN PARIS, CUBANS AT HOME', featuring Cuban music's rich history in the concert halls, theaters, and nightclubs of two continents.

Cape Town audiences have the chance to catch popular performer, and everyone's favourite Belgian, Gaetan Schmid, in his new show THE BELGIAN. It runs at Kalk Bay Theatre from 6 to 30 November. Gaetan has delighted audiences with his quirky energy and style in shows such as RUMPSTEAK, BODY LANGUAGE and THE DOG'S BOLLOCKS. Directed by Brent Palmer (BENCH, RACE CARD), THE BELGIAN is Gaetan's hilarious trip into the mind of a most misunderstood species: Belgians! Behind the facade of their clean little houses with their neat little front garden patrolled by smirking garden gnomes… something obscurely wicked is lurking….

During November and December the Brooklyn Museum presents a variety of public programs for adults and kids, including special Veterans Day Weekend programming, a Thursday evening listening event presented by StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, musical performances by the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra and the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, and the seventh annual Brooklyn Children's Book Fair with readings by Brooklyn-based authors Adam Gidwitz and Oliver Jeffers.The full line up is as follows:

Nathan Lane, Harold Prince, Angela Lansbury, Laura Osnes, Harriet Harris, Kate Burton, Kristine Nielsen, Alfred Uhry will salute actress Dana Ivey and arts patron Barbara Fleischman at The Acting Company's Gala on Monday, October 21 at Capitale. Ms. Ivey will receive the John Houseman Award recognizing her profound commitment to the development of American actors and a national audience for the theater. Ms. Fleischman will be presented the Warburg Humanitarian Award for her outstanding philanthropic endeavor and support of the arts. Harriet Harris (Cinderella) and Barclay Collins are Gala Chairs, Nathan Lane (The Nance) and Hal Prince (21 Tony Award winner) will present the awards; Stephen DeRosa (Boardwalk Empire) will host, Laura Osnes (Cinderella) will perform. Tributes will be offered by a host of celebrities. Three hundred guests complete an industry-filled audience of producers, directors, entertainers and other notables including TheHonorable Thomas Kean, record producer Clive Davis, playwrights Alfred Uhry and Elizabeth Egloff, actresses Angela Lansbury (upcoming in London's Blithe Spirit), Debra Monk (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Kate Burton (Scandal), Kristine Nielsen(Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) and Patricia Conolly, directors Nicholas Martin (Vanya and Sonia and Masha an Spike),Jack O'Brien (Macbeth), Mark Lamos (Harbor) and Walter Bobbie (Venus in Fur) and producers Jack Viertel, James Houghtonand Edgar Lansbury.

BRIC has announced programming for its inaugural season in BRIC Arts | Media House (BRIC House), the new, 40,000-square-foot multi-disciplinary facility the organization will open in the former Strand Theatre at 647 Fulton Street today, October 3.

The National Gallery, London, is presenting a major retrospective of one of the most startling and fascinating artists: Johannes Vermeer, painter of the famous Girl with a Pearl Earring.

ASHLAND, Neb., Sept. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ MathAlive! , a highly interactive traveling exhibition that has drawn record-breaking attendance across the United States by inviting visitors to experience math in action, opens Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland, Neb. Presented nationally by Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), this featured exhibition will run through Jan. 5, 2014.

Chalk Repertory Theatre is pleased to announce the cast of GALLERY SECRETS, presented in conjunction with the Natural History Museum of L.A. County's 100th Anniversary. Performances take place at the NHM on September 21, 22, 27, 29 and October 5, 6, 11 and 13 at 7:00pm.

Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that the inaugural exhibition of the newly renovated Costume Institute in spring 2014 will examine the career of legendary 20th-century Anglo-American couturier Charles James (1906-1978). Charles James: Beyond Fashion, on view from May 8 through August 10, 2014 (preceded on May 5 by The Costume Institute Benefit), will be presented in two locations-The Costume Institute's new galleries as well as special exhibitions galleries on the Museum's first floor.

Stage, screen and television personality, Loretta Swit, and Producer, Jan Thompson, co-hosted the premiere Never The Same: The Prisoner of War Experience at The Museum of Tolerance, in Los Angeles. Scroll down for photos from the event!

In conjunction with the Natural History Museum of L.A. County's 100th Anniversary, Chalk Repertory Theatre will premiere GALLERY SECRETS, four new short plays commissioned by four Los Angeles playwrights performed after hours at NHM. Each play is inspired by an assigned gallery, and set in the time period when that gallery was built, uncovering 100 years of history, architecture and exhibits.

Following the extraordinary success of its inaugural edition last summer, Art Southampton (presented by Art Miami), the premiere international contemporary and modern art fair and marketplace for acquiring the finest works of art available in the Hamptons, will return at the height of the social and cultural season this summer today, July 25 through 29, 2013.

Some of the best ways to collect art at reasonable prices is to make a habit of going to the many art sales aimed at benefitting an important arts organization. Usually these sales bring together a group of artists around the organization that are vested in the organization, the area or the scene. This Monday July 22 from 5-9pm you can sip some wine, have an hors d-oeuvre or two and meet and see works by some 50 artists that have congealed around the BRONXARTSSPACE.

A new a cappella musical comedy comes to Kalk Bay Theatre from today, 12 July to 10 August, hot off its premiere at the National Arts Festival.

A new a cappella musical comedy comes to Kalk Bay Theatre from 12 July to 10 August, hot off its premiere at the National Arts Festival.