Be a part of Season Two of Battle of the Boroughs in The Greene Space — the unique talent series for the best up-and-coming performers in New York City. Last year, over 168 artists and 45 groups from across the five boroughs performed in our SoHo performance space.

France's Gramophone Award-winning Quatuor Ébène performs Debussy's classic String Quartet and arrangements of pieces by Miles Davis and Astor Piazzolla, plus "Misirlou," the tune made famous on the soundtrack to Pulp Fiction and featured on the group's new Virgin/EMI recording, Fiction.

Members of the Chamber Music Society Lincoln Center will play Brahms’ rich, impassioned Piano Quartet in G minor.

Musicians from New York's Ensemble ACJW perform Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello, as well as David Bruce's octet Steampunk, written especially for the group.

New York City's ETHEL Quartet, a group dedicated to new music, performs Julia Wolfe's Early That Summer....; Dohee Lee's HonBiBaekSan; Jacob TV's Syracuse Blues; Pamela Z's ETHEL Dreams of Temporal Disturbances; an excerpt of Huang Ruo's The Flag Project and Anna Clyne' Roulette.

The Brooklyn-based trio Janus will play works by Debussy, Treuting and Negron.

The JACK Quartet, a New York-based group specializing in contemporary music, performs Tetras by Iannis Xenaxis and Death Valley Junction by Missy Mazzoli, as well as Ari Streisfeld's arrangements of pieces by the haunted Renaissance composer Gesualdo.

The Escher Sting Quartet will perform Zemlinsky and Brahms.

The renowned Tokyo String Quartet performs – on its "Paganini Quartet" of matched Stradivarius instruments – Haydn's String Quartet in F Major Op. 77 No. 2, the fourth movement of Bartók's String Quartet No. 4, and Beethoven's "Grosse Fugue" Op. 133.

Meet a new generation of filmmakers. Leonard Lopate welcomes four young filmmakers and Emmy-winning director Jon Alpert, co-founder of a program that teaches video production to disadvantaged youths. They'll screen excerpts from their films.

Create Your Writing Destiny: Novels, E-Books & Niches is the theme of this year's Circle Conference. Professional editors, publishers and authors will come together to share their successful journeys in carving out a prosperous writing career through finding their niche and voice. From teen novels to business magazines, many writers launch their careers as niche writers specializing in specific genre then exploring limitless possibilities once they establish an audience.  

Karen Hunter, the president of FIRST ONE Digital Publishing, and Yvonne Bynoe, the founder of SoulAffluence and author of Stand & Deliver: Political Activism, Leadership and Hip Hop Culture, will explore ways writers can live abundantly as artists by building an audience for their work.

The annual conference offers workshops that provide information on exploring opportunities for writers and artists interested in independent and mainstream publishers and using new technology to promote their work.

Tom Stoppard, one of the most celebrated dramatists of his time, cut his dramatic teeth on radio dramas at the BBC.  The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space at WNYC and WQXR presents two of his radio dramas as part of “T” Is for Tom, a cycle of rare early works by England’s most intellectually nimble playwright.

Join us for a celebration of East African artists, including an exhibition of photographs taken by Philippa Ndisi-Herrmann on the island of Manda, Kenya, Ugandan playwright Lucy Judith Adong, and Rwandan musicians Samuel Kamanzi and Moise Mutangana. 

Hear Igor Belov and Ksenia Shcherbino, two of Russia’s young, rising literary talents, read from their latest works and delight in exquisite musicianship of pianist Svetlana Smolina. A conversation about the global impact of Russian culture will follow. 

Join Brian Lehrer as he welcomes television and radio host Tavis Smiley to New York City as part of Smiley’s six-city tour that celebrates his 20 years in broadcasting.

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