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4 events,Opening day of a new exhibition that highlights works by 28 contemporary artists of Chinese descent, who explore themes of personal, cultural, historical and material metamorphosis in dynamic and innovative ways. Across painting, sculpture, photography, animation and installation art, these works by established and emerging artists of different generations and backgrounds use experimentation to draw […] PAC NYC brings the acclaimed production of A Christmas Carol from London’s The Old Vic to New York in a uniquely intimate staging. Two visionary Tony Award® winners—playwright Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Netflix’s Adolescence), director Matthew Warchus (Matilda The Musical, God of Carnage)—offer a magical interpretation of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic. […]
$68
Congregation, a choral installation, features large-scale chalk and charcoal portraits of 50 Londoners who have experienced forced displacement from their homelands. Presented as a projection-mapped tiered sculpture, the work offers a luminous encounter with those who bring their gifts to a new country. The work was co-authored by the 50 portrait sitters – reflecting on […]
$5 – $20
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5 events,Singers of all levels, as well as listeners, are welcome to join in the choruses throughout the free Chantey Sing, lead or request a song in the round-robin, or just listen.
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3 events,Join us for a compelling online book talk with historian Scott D. Seligman, author of The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906, as he unpacks a dramatic and little known chapter in American Jewish history. Set in New York at the dawn of the twentieth century, this meticulously researched account begins in the winter of 1905-1906 […]
$10
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5 events,Directed by Church Street School of Music, the Downtown Beats adult chorus is open to all who love to sing! Learn contemporary and classic songs and perform at community events throughout the year.
Free
In 1943, the German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Forty-seven women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play to other inmates as they left each morning and as they returned at the end of the […]
$10
Do you find poetry intimidating? Do you race past the poems in The New Yorker on your way to the fiction or the cartoons? Have you persuaded yourself that you’ll “just never get it?” Join the South Street Seaport Museum and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former Poetry Editor of The New Yorker Paul Muldoon for […]
$45
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4 events,Though the 1800s are often portrayed in a sentimental way, they were actually so messy and contradictory that our modern world is still feeling the ripple effects. If, as the adage goes, “History is written by the victors,” Mandylion Press seeks out the voices of history’s losers. The Mandylion version of the 19th century focuses […]
$5
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The CUNY Public Interest Tech (PIT) lab returns to the Oculus in a temporary, immersive event where technology, art, science, and community converge. Part gallery, part workshop, and part future commons, this shared space for co-creation and imagination showcases how technology can be designed to serve justice, equity, and community empowerment.
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Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, Inc. and its Fraunces Tavern Museum are joining the New York City Bar Association Legal History Committee to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. At this event, members of the New York City Bar Legal History Committee will orate […]
$10
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5 events,
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Open session where families can bring children to a cozy indoor playground space to play, socialize, and meet children and families interested in exploring Chinese language and culture. All are welcome.
Free
American modern dance pioneer and Jewish cultural icon, Anna Sokolow (1910-2000) was a dancer and choreographer of uncompromising integrity. She is a very important part of American Jewish culture, though her story is not well known. Anna’s choreography closely reflects her intense commitment to the social, political, and human conflicts of her times. Beginning in […]
$10
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4 events,Scholar Eve M. Kahn discusses her new book, Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death: Gilded Age Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris. Zoe Anderson Norris was a Kentucky belle turned restless Kansas housewife who became a celebrated writer, reformer, and publisher on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Queen of Bohemia retraces Zoe’s path across the city, bringing to […]
Free
The South Street Seaport Museum is teaming up with Quick Eternity and Widow Jane to bring you a one-of-a-kind evening that ties maritime skills with whiskey—set in The Gam, Quick Eternity’s cozy upstairs dining room. Get your ticket today to join this unique guided sampling of five drinks provided by Brooklyn-based Widow Jane paired with […]
$60
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3 events,Directed by the Church Street School of Music, the Downtown Beats adult chorus is open to all who love to sing. Learn contemporary and classic songs, and perform at community events throughout the year.
Free
Fifth meeting of the Infinite Jest Monthly Read-Along Bash group. Read pages 396-508 (plus relevant endnotes) for this month's gathering. Enjoy free drinks upstairs when you arrive.
$5
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A night of readings features four visionary collections of 2024 and 2025. Ching-In Chen reads from Shiny City (Airlie Press, 2025), jason b. crawford reads from YEET! (Omnidawn, 2025), charles theonia reads from Gay Heaven Is a Dance Floor but I Can’t Relax (Archway Editions, 2024), and Nora Treatbaby reads from Our Air (Nightboat Books, […]
$10
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2 events,
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Experience captivating live performances featuring some of China’s most iconic instruments — from the graceful guqin (古琴) to the ethereal, harp-like konghou (箜篌) and the lush, harmonizing sheng (笙)— performed by talented musicians who bring these ancient sounds to life. As music fills the room, slow down and immerse yourself in the serene practice of […] |
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Online lecture by Lu Xinhua. In 1978, a short story published in The Wenhui Paper changed the course of contemporary Chinese literature. Lu Xinhua’s Scar exposed the psychic wounds inflicted during the Cultural Revolution through the unforgettable tragedy of a daughter compelled to “draw a line” against her persecuted mother. Its appearance ignited nationwide reflection […] |
3 events,In the spirit of Louis Malle’s Au Revoir les Enfants and Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, the Emmy® Award-winning documentary The Children of Chabannes has been called “a moving record of the unassuming, uncompromising heroism of ordinary people” (New York Times) and “one of the most heartening Holocaust films ever made: splendid, informative and emotionally involving.” […]
$10
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2 events,A 2025 National Jewish Book Award Finalist that judges described as “reads like a thriller” and winner of Zibby Awards for Best Family Drama & Best Story of Overcoming, Irena’s Gift explores how reckoning with family betrayal, moral complexity, and hidden histories can reframe our identities—and why excavating these truths matters at a time when […]
$10
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5 events,Directed by Church Street School of Music, the Downtown Beats adult chorus is open to all who love to sing! Learn contemporary and classic songs and perform at community events throughout the year.
Free
Ross Perlin, author of Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York, examines the past, present, and future of the world’s most linguistically diverse city, New York. He will also discuss multilingualism, language policy, and the role technology plays in the evolution and documentation of languages. Today, half of the world’s […]
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Patrice Nganang, the acclaimed author of Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and, most recently, A Trail of Crab Tracks, which was a 2022 New Yorker Book of the Year, writes about his vibrant, animated youth in Cameroon, a period of upheaval and change in the country’s history and in his life. Scale Boy is a memoir […]
$5
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4 events,
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Monthly session featuring performances by Tribeca Jazz Institute students and rotating special guest band leaders.
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Evening dedicated to poetry that addresses and responds to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Ahmad Almallah, Mandy Shunnarah, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s work bears witness, speaks truth, and offers space for grief, resistance, and solidarity.
$10
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2 events,In The Flower Bearers, Rachel Eliza Griffiths inscribes the trajectories of two transformational relationships with grace and honesty, chronicling the beauty and pain that comes with opening oneself fully to love.
$5
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2 events,Happy New Year! Every year many new buildings in New York City are being planned, constructed, and finished! We will learn about how NYC’s iconic skyline will be changing in 2026, as well as the process of approval for building something new in the city. After, we will be finishing our own skyscrapers with the […]
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2 events,Eighty years after his liberation from Buchenwald, we seek to understand the man behind Elie Wiesel’s searing and widely read memoir Night. Told largely through his own words and eloquent voice, Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire seeks to penetrate to the heart of the known and unknown Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) – his passions, his conflicts […]
$10
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2 events,Nazism has always faced resistance – from the German artists who risked their lives by drawing caricatures of the Nazis in the 1920s, or the man who infiltrated the SS to try to expose the Holocaust in the 1940s, or the people who uncovered former Nazis as part of a groundbreaking documentary in the 1970s. […]
$10
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4 events,Tricia Romano, the author of The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture, will discuss the symbiotic relationship between New York City and the alternative weekly - the Village Voice - and how this relationship benefited both entities.
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The apartment buildings and hotels designed by Emery Roth in the 1920s and 1930s – blue chip buildings such as Park Avenue's Ritz Tower and the Central Park West landmarks, the Beresford, the San Remo, the Ardsley – have shaped the ideal of residential luxury evoked in the phrase “prewar building.” In this new edition […]
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3 events,Directed by the Church Street School of Music, the Downtown Beats adult chorus is open to all who love to sing. Learn contemporary and classic songs, and perform at community events throughout the year.
Free
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3 events,Join Aperture and McNally Jackson Books in a conversation between artist Hal Fischer and writer Jarrett Earnest, celebrating the launch of Hal Fischer’s latest monograph, Hal Fischer: Seminal Works (Aperture, 2025).
$5 – $65
In 1942, the Nazis established a unique ghetto/concentration camp outside Prague in an old army garrison known as Terezín, which the Germans renamed Theresienstadt. Terezín was a prison to thousands of scholars, performers, musicians, actors, writers, and philosophers. Overwhelmingly Jewish, these prisoners turned to the arts and humanities as both balm and sword. They performed, […]
$10
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4 events,Read-aloud of Andrea Beaty’s Rosie Revere, Engineer to hear how the kid- engineer Rosie uses household objects to invent her gadgets and gizmos. Can you do the same for skyscrapers? We’ll learn about the role of engineers and then use our own creative minds to use everyday materials to build tall structures! Ages 5+.
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The latest book by acclaimed author and journalist Julian Sancton hits shelves on January 27, 2026—and you’re invited to its New York launch at the South Street Seaport Museum! Sancton’s new work, Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire, tells the riveting true story of the San José, a legendary […]
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4 events,Dancer/Choreographer Anna Sokolow and Composer Alex North connected as young artists in the midst of the 1930’s Great Depression. Both came from Russian Jewish immigrant families and were committed to the social justice issues of the time, including workers rights and anti-fascism. Their art focused on lifting the spirit of the masses and improving the […]
$10
Singers of all levels, as well as listeners, are welcome to join in the choruses throughout the free Chantey Sing, lead or request a song in the round-robin, or just listen.
Free
Trumpeter, conductor, composer, and educator Jon Faddis has shaped both jazz performance and music education with a depth of influence few can match. Following in the footsteps of his mentor Dizzy Gillespie, he launched his career at just 17 with Lionel Hampton’s band, later rising to prominence as lead trumpet in the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis […]
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