Brookfield Place Open
pop-up tennis courts. Volley, serve, and swing your way into the 9th annual Brookfield Place Open.
Free
pop-up tennis courts. Volley, serve, and swing your way into the 9th annual Brookfield Place Open.
Join the lively chantey experience either in-person at the Seaport Museum’s introduction galleries or virtually via Zoom, allowing you to join from anywhere. Each sing will be hosted by a local artist who will lead the sea-song sing-along, featuring a variety of traditional maritime work songs and ballads. Attendees are encouraged to sing along with […]
Join Álvaro Enrigue, Francine Prose, Natasha Wimmer, and Andrew Martin for a panel on the life and work of Roberto Bolaño, in celebration of Picador’s reissues of By Night in Chile, The Return, and Antwerp.
Join our community of artists of all skill levels as we are inspired by our surroundings to create with drawing materials, pastels and watercolors. Embolden your artwork amidst the flower-filled and seasonally evolving palette of BPC’s verdant gardens. An artist/ educator will provide ideas and instruction. Materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their […]
Ross Benjamin presents The Diaries of Franz Kafka, in conversation with Elif Batuman. An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers.
Outdoor concert. See website for ticket price.
Celebrate Catherine Barnett and Jason Koo as they each read from their fourth full-length poetry collections. The pair will discuss metaphysics, grief, and what new poetic territory they’ve breached in their most recent books.
In celebration of the new palm trees in the Winter Garden, Brookfield Place will present a site-specific, restorative sound bath experience. Led by shamanic sound healing artist, Robin Kang in collaboration with Adrian DiMatteo (the Sonic Institute) and Diego Bravo, this therapeutic and rejuvenating experience will combine multi-instrumental sacred sound, breath, and energy work among […]
Open house will feature a breadth of printing equipment that you will be invited to use. You’ll get to see how the designers at Bowne lock up limited edition designs that showcase some of the more eccentric parts from the Seaport Museum’s printing and graphic arts collection. Established in 1775, the original Bowne & Co., […]
UnBroken chronicles the plight of the seven Weber siblings who, following their mother’s murder at Auschwitz, evaded certain capture and death as mere children in war-torn Nazi Germany. After being hidden in a laundry hut by a benevolent farmer, the children spent two harrowing years on their own. Emboldened by their father’s mandate that they […]
Kids discover how architect Shigeru Ban uses paper and cardboard to create innovative structures as we read the book, Shigeru Ban Builds a Better World by Isadoro Saturno and Stefano Di Cristofaro. Students will learn about different materials used in construction and get the chance to design their own buildings made from paper tubes.