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    Gothamist Early Spring Guide: 20 Fun Things To Do In March

    by Nell Casey
    Published February 28, 2014
    Modified February 28, 2014
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    Polar vortex be damned—spring officially begins this month! Yes, spring. The stories are true, brothers and sisters. Winter will not break us. Let us water the thawing gardens of NYC with our weary tears of exhaustion, and put this long, grueling winter behind us once and for all.

    <br/><br/>Polar vortex be damned—spring officially begins this month! Yes, <em>spring.</em> The stories are true, brothers and sisters. Winter will not break us. Let us water the thawing gardens of NYC with our weary tears of exhaustion, and put this long, grueling winter behind us once and for all.

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    <br/><br/>Polar vortex be damned—spring officially begins this month! Yes, <em>spring.</em> The stories are true, brothers and sisters. Winter will not break us. Let us water the thawing gardens of NYC with our weary tears of exhaustion, and put this long, grueling winter behind us once and for all.
    (Jane Kratochvil/Flickr)
    Polar vortex be damned—spring officially begins this month! Yes, spring. The stories are true, brothers and sisters. Winter will not break us. Let us water the thawing gardens of NYC with our weary tears of exhaustion, and put this long, grueling winter behind us once and for all.
    21-year-old Canadian photographer, curator and occasional muse Petra Collins has never once in her burgeoning career receded into the background, but nor has she played the petty reactionary (even though the media's given her plenty of impetus to lash out). As a university undergraduate, after ceasing her usual shaving rituals in correlation with a research project, Collins liked the look and decided to keep it. She lived her life and made her art as a staff photographer for Rookie Magazine, a protegee to the still-sticky underground filmmaker Richard Kern, and a clothing designer whose t-shirts printed with bleeding vaginas were enough to scare off even TMZ. Collins's Instagram account was deleted in an infamous episode last year (it's since been restored), after she posted a picture of herself from the waist down wearing a pair of bikini bottoms. It's not that she was indecent, but in the eyes of Instagram her pubic hair was. Now, on February 28, Collins will launch her first solo exhibition at Capricious 88 that will run through the end of April. The show is called Discharge, and it "is a culmination of work that illustrates changed prospective as it relates to the different stages of female development in a hypersexualised beauty-obsessed society" (per the press release). Though ringed with a halo of rubbed gold hair, nothing about Petra demurs. She'll stomp all over the voices calling "cover up!" and continue to do what she's been doing since she was 15: making the type of statement that can't be deleted, wiped blank or shaved away. (Helen Holmes)Runs through April 27th // Capricious 88 // Free
    Louisa May Alcott's coming of age novel Little Women comes to life in a hysterical stage show that blends the lives of the March sisters with HBO's Girls. There are definitely traces of Hannah in the strong-willed Jo, as well as other parallels between the Women and the Girls, all of which come to light during this 50 minute live show. The production recently enjoyed a sold out run at the Kraine and now the ladies are performing a one-off show to benefit Housing Works this month. Following the show, NY Mag/Vulture associate editor Lindsay Weber leads a discussion with the cast and crew. Tuesday, March 4th, 7 p.m. // Housing Works Bookstore Cafe // Tickets $5
    While every month is a good month to be a cinephile in New York, March is almost too good to be true. A horde of special screenings will be on hand at Anthology, and Film Forum is working its way through Hitchcock's entire oeuvre. Most exciting, though is the Queens World Film Festival, which will bring some of the planet's greatest cinematic work to the borough's finest screens. The festival opens with a night of shorts at Museum of the Moving Image, and each evening offers multiple short to medium-length films that are sure to keep your twitter-ravaged attention span duly satiated. Highlights include March 7th's "She-He-Him-Her" series on transgender living and the following night's "Outer Regions," which promises film narratives of robot soldiers, painting in blood, and love triangles galore. Buying a $50 pass (bargain!) will get you into every screening all week except for opening night (passes that include the opening festivities are $75, which is still a great deal). Pass the popcorn! (Scott Heins)March 4th - 9th, screenings 1:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. // Museum of the Moving Image, The Secret Theater, Nesva Hotel, P.S. 069 // Tickets $10-75
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