Monday, January 12
As part of Cornelia Street Café’s inaugural “Fork it Over” food talk series, photographer Henry Hargreaves and artist, Caitlin Levin will speak Monday evening about their personal relationship to food and what it is that inspires them to be working as artists using food as the medium. Chef Dan Latham will be on hand to create food pairings. $25 (includes a taste). From 6 p.m. at 29 Cornelia St., Greenwich Village.
Tuesday, January 13
Pen Parentis, an organization devoted to supporting writers who are also parents, open their 13th Literary Salon season with their annual Winter Poetry night this evening. Five poets — Diana Whitney, Adam Penna, Sarah Gutowski, Jared Harel, and Jennifer Michael Hecht — will read from new works and discuss how they balance a career in poetry with an active young family at home. Andaz Wall Street, 75 Wall St. from 7 p.m. Free, but booking is required.
Wednesday, January 14
In a talk co-sponsored by The New York Review of Books at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, American author Darryl Pinckney will be discussing his latest book, “Blackballed” as part of the Museum's Martin Luther King Day Program. Up for discussion will be the struggle for African American voting rights, the place of Jews in that struggle, and where the Black-Jewish relationship stands now, particularly amid recent civil rights protests in Missouri and New York. Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Pl., Battery Park City. From 7 p.m. $10.
Thursday, January 15
The Film Forum is midway through “Orson Welles 100," a month-long celebration of the legendary filmmaker's work, to mark the 100-year anniversary of his birth. Screening at Film Forum are some of his greatest movies alongside rarities including “Too Much Johnson,” his first professional film, which was abandoned before completion and miraculously discovered in 2013 in a warehouse in Pordenone, Italy. Thursday evening at 7:10 p.m. historian Joseph McBride will introduce “Touch Of Evil,” Welles’ 1958 film noir masterpiece.
