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Happenings

DANCE | Southeast Asian Night

The Harvard Vietnamese Association, the Harvard Philippino Forum, the Thai Society, and the Indonesian Student Association will host a party to appeal to all cultures. With dance, music, and a fashion show featuring traditional Asian dress, such a festival would be tough to miss. It will all be topped off with ethnical cuisine from four different regions. Tickets $8. 8:15 p.m. Leverett House Dining Hall. (ACE)

Sunday, May 2

MUSIC | Boston Philharmonic Orchestra

The world-renowned Boston Philharmonic will stop in Cambridge on a local tour featuring the music of Gustav Mahler. Founding conductor Ben Zander will lead the orchestra through Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 as well as a brief discussion on the composer and the music to take place at 1:45. Tickets $23-$63, Student Rush $5 at 1:30 day of concert. 3:00 p.m. Sanders Theater. (ACE)

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MUSIC | Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus

The Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus will perform their spring concert featuring German favorites by Brahms and Schoenberg. Phillip Lima, bass, and Andrea Matthews, soprano, will solo in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. $12 and $15 Regular, $8 and $6 Students. 3 p.m. First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St. (ACE)

Monday May 3

FILM | Stroszek

Werner Herzog’s 1977 work remains one of his most enjoyable, showing the tongue-in-cheek travails of three Berliners who optimistically venture to America, only to find a depraved community obsessed with sports, television and trailers. The title character is an alcoholic with minimal musical skills and even less intelligence, whose world-view is forever skewed by the tragedy of the corrupted nation he stumbles upon. Tickets $6. 7 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. (BBC)

Thursday, May 6

MUSIC | Currier House ARTS FIRST Recital

This annual event spotlights talented house musicians for an evening of classical tunes. Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public. 7:30 p.m. Currier House Senior Common Room. (WBP)

MUSIC | Liz Carlisle CD Release Party

Come celebrate the release of singer-songwriter the second album by Liz Carlisle ’06. Liz has played at venues like the Kendall Café and Club Passim, and she will be playing some of her new pop-ready folk tunes live. Hors d’oeuvres will be served. Free and open to the public. 5:30 p.m. Quincy Junior Common Room. (WBP)

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