Fingers Are for Seeing, and Massaging Babies

Here’s what’s happening in Rye and Port Chester this week. Be sure and share your own events for Rye and Port Chester by adding them to our community calendars. Need help? E-mail community editor Lisa Gentes at lisa.gentes@patch.com.

Monday, Nov. 18

• Municipal Meetings in the Village: The Port Chester Board of Trustees is meeting at 7 p.m. in the Village Courtroom, 350 N. Main St., and the village Architectural Board of Review is meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Conference Room, 222 Grace Church Street
• Rye BAR: The Rye Board of Architectural Review also is meeting (full agenda here), and they’re going to discuss several proposed bulding projects, including a continued discussion of a retaining wall and driveway bridge at 255 Grace Church St.

Tuesday, Nov. 19

• Spin A Yarn: Join area knitters for a weekly handwork circle from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Rye Library.
• Something to Talk About: Bonnie Raitt, and personal favorite Marc Cohn, will be play the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 20

•  Weezie D.'s 5th Annual Holiday Charity Fashion Show: This kicks off at 7:30 p.m. with a cocktail hour down in Bronxville (more details here). Fifteen percent of all proceeds during this event will be donated to My Sisters’ Place, a charity that addresses domestic violence in Westchester. 
• Baby Massage Workshop: This is taking place at Wainwright House in Rye (details here). According to the notice posted in Rye Patch, “You will learn strokes and stretches to promote relaxation, build a strong, healthy immune system, facilitate weight gain, and help develop body awareness and coordination. You will also learn techniques to offer relief from colds, colic, hiccups, constipation, diarrhea and teething irritability.”
• Rye City Council also is meeting at 8 p.m. in City Hall.

Thursday, Nov. 21

• The Port Chester Zoning Board is meeting at 7 p.m. in the Courtroom at 350 N. Main St.
• Exhibition at Sarah Lawrence College: This is a free exhibition and it opens at 5 p.m. “See with Fingers,” the college tells us in their event posting here, “is a group exhibition of ten artists whose work conflates painting and sculpture practices. Each artist engages “experimental abstraction”, through the use of unorthodox materials such as, burn holes, rugs, jingle bells, collage, glitter, papier-mâché, foil, fabric, stitching, rope, wood and industrial materials. This exhibition is a reflection on the diverse history of abstraction and the ongoing expansion of painting as a categorical medium.” Go to the Barbara Walters Gallery in the Heimbold Visual Arts Center to check it out.
• Mamaroneck Artists Guild’s Annual Holiday Show: Opening on Thursday, November 21, 2013, and continuing through Tuesday, December 24, 2013, affordable gifts for everyone on your list can be found at this annual event. Join us for a Preview Reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, November 23, 2013. The Gallery, located at 126 Larchmont Avenue in Larchmont, New York. Check out the Mamaroneck Arists Guild website here.

Friday, Nov. 22

• Stick around afterwards: Garcia’s after-show at Port Chester’s Capitol Theatre kicks off with Mr. Breakdown, doors opening at 11 p.m.