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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.
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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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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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Farzad Mahootian will explore the imaginal space between four themes: alchemy, Jung, the history of science, and AI. He will consider chemists and historians of chemistry. Chemists have benefited greatly by integrating computational tools to exponentially expand chemical space. By contrast, historians of chemistry and alchemy have been somewhat less enthusiastic about applying computational methods […]
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3 events,Professional development program centered around the legacy of the Holocaust in the creation of the State of Israel. The first part is an hour-long virtual lecture given by NYU Professor Avinoam Patt, building on key themes that are explored in his book Israel and the Holocaust. In this in-depth lecture, Professor Patt will focus on […]
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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
Illustrating the dramatic range of the new pipe organ, Trinity organist Avi Stein and organ scholar Alex Leonardi will perform Louis Vierne’s stunningly grandiose Messe solennelle — a piece that explores the depths of the organ’s colors and sonic possibilities — in concert with Trinity Choir. The evening’s tour of the rich legacy of French music will also feature the work of three of Vierne’s preeminent pupils: Nadia Boulanger, her younger sister Lili Boulanger, and Marcel Dupré.
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4 events,John Larkin - a fast-living, hard-playing, stuttering jazz pianist - overcame abuse, addiction, ageism, and obscurity to stage one of the most improbable debuts in pop music history by turning his greatest pain into his purpose. Based on rare archives and interviews with those who knew him best, this authorized biography is a redemptive, deeply […]
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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 […]
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Cameron Awkward-Rich, Jennifer Espinoza, Chet’la Sebree, and Annie Wenstrup’s newest collections explore rifts between personal and collective memory, penning moving poems on history and survival. Upon finding themselves in contended spaces—the museum, the archive, the dictionary, and the airport—these poets radically attend to the world around them through some of the most elegant, ontological verse […]
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This gathering brings together alumni of the “Chinese Bridge” Eastern U.S. Competitions and China Institute study abroad programs to share stories, reflections, and cultural experiences, as well as members of the public who want to share their stories.
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5 events,Have you noticed how tall buildings ‘pop-up’ all around our city? In this family program, kids will explore the fun and surprising world of architectural pop-ups, learning how artists and designers turn flat paper into three-dimensional structures. We’ll look at creative examples of pop-up buildings, then use those techniques as inspiration to design our own […]
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Author and illustrator Julia Sarcone-Roachreads her story The Ice Cream Vanishes! New York alumni associations of five universities from Shanghai are hosting their 2026 Spring Festival Gala, a signature event to celebrate Chinese New Year.
$25
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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.
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Live robotic cooking show alongside curated Chinese cuisine and wine tastings in an open, interactive program. From hands-on heritage activities to a relaxed wine and cocktail experience, you’re invited to watch, taste, and explore China at your own pace.
$38
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5 events,Celebrate the Year of the Horse at the China Institute. Held in the Institute's Culinary Center, the evening features an 8 course banquet prepared by five master chefs from Beijing. Festivities include a cocktail reception, lion dance, gift bag and gourmet dinner.
$500
A new collection of evocative personal essays from one of America’s most beloved nonfiction writers, Anne Fadiman. In Frog, Anne Fadiman returns to her favorite genre, the essay, of which she is one of our most celebrated practitioners. Ranging in subject matter from her deceased frog, to archaic printer technology, to the fraught relationship between […]
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Come in and warm up from the cold with a Colonial style mulled wine as we discuss and celebrate the sequential art (comic book) of George Washington. Join author Renee Witterstaetter* as she presents on her book, Cloaked Crusader: George Washington in Comics and Pop Culture, looking at the visage of Washington in everything from […]
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Smooth-talking dating coach Alex “Hitch” Hitchens (Will Smith) makes a living helping lovelorn men find romance — until his own love story gets in the way. Enjoy this screening of “Hitch” followed by a conversation with Gina Cherelus, journalist and author of The New York Times’ “Third Wheel” column, and A Little Nudge dating coach […]
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In her new book, Road to Nowhere: How a Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore, historian Emily Lieb describes the Baltimore suburb of Rosemont, which in the 1950s was a vibrant Black middle-class neighborhood of rowhouses and small businesses. By the end of the decade, Rosemont was effectively destroyed by plans for an expressway that was planned, […]
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4 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.
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Book reading and signing by Justin C. Key, author of The Hospital at the End of the World. Part fever dream, part cautionary tale, Station of the Birds spins a narrative about fathers and sons, addiction's hollow banging at the gate, and the ritual sacrifices rooted in agrarian cultures.
$5
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2 events,By the close of World War II, six million Jews had been erased from the face of the earth. Those who eluded death had lost their homes, families, and entire way of life. Their response was quintessentially Jewish. From a people with a long history of self-narration, survivors gathered in groups and wrote yizkor books […]
$10
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3 events,Celebrate Clifford the Big Red Dog’s birthday on February 14th all day long! Join us for a Clifford storytime and meet and greet! Stephan Said is an internationally acclaimed musician, writer, and activist. His songs have helped spark and sustain social justice movements around the globe, and Billboard has called him “this generation’s Woody Guthrie.”
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4 events,The Paper Bag Players return with a joyful new show packed with zany stories, foot-stomping dances, audience participation, and paper-and-cardboard magic! Kids (ages 3–9) will laugh, sing, and dance as they meet a parade of cats, galloping horses, cake-eating sleepwalkers, and more. Classic sketches like “Tree Angel” mix with brand-new fun from the beloved children’s […]
$40
The San Diego Jewish Men’s Choir presents an uplifting afternoon of music celebrating Jewish life, tradition and heritage in the Yiddish, Ladino, Hebrew and English languages. Under the direction of Ruth Hertz Weber, this award-winning, and 2-time Top 5 Billboard Charting, group of 25 Jewish guys that sing and dance bring their unique blend of […]
$10
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Symposioum. Every American President passed through New York City. Some were born here such as Theodore Roosevelt. Some lived here including Herbert Hoover who spent his post Presidential years residing in the Presidential Suite at the Waldorf Astoria. Some were married here. In 1844, for instance, John Tyler wed Julia Gardiner at the Church of […]
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2 events,Join us for our Lunar New Year Family Program as we explore the vernacular architecture of East Asia from ancient times to the skyscraper spires of today. By learning about history, architecture, and planning, we’ll build a broader understanding of how these buildings came to be, what they teach us about height in history, and […]
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3 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.
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This Black History Month, join Theatre Communications Group for a special event to celebrate the publication of "The Struggle Continues: Robbie McCauley,” a collection of scripts, essays, reflections by the groundbreaking playwright, director, and performer. A vital voice in the American theatre, McCauley’s work, which centers her experience as a Black woman growing up in […]
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Sahar Khraibani, Farid Matuk, Michelle Peñaloza, and Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s decolonial poetics linger on speech, sound, and names. These poets parse language in every way—its mouthfeel, memory, non-meaning, and haunting reverberations. Don’t miss our next to last reading in the 30th Poets House Showcase, a literary exhibition and reading series that captures the breadth […]
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6 events,100 years ago, Black artists, architects, and activists of the Harlem Renaissance defined a cultural movement that celebrated and fought for civil rights in the heart of New York City. In the lively uptown neighborhood, many forms of artistic expression – jazz poetry, musical theater, literature, and architecture – energized culture. Join us to learn […]
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Co-organized with the Shanghai Museum, a world-class museum dedicated to ancient Chinese art, this year’s festival at the China Institute features rich traditions, music, crafts, interactive workshops, and mesmerizing performances for all ages.
$18
Celebrate the life and writing of Baron Wormser (1948-2025). Family, friends, and colleagues will share favorite poems, including work from his new book, James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette and Other Poems (Slant Books, 2026). Readings from Indran Amirthanayagam, Rachel Basch, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Philip Fried, Shaun Griffin, Andrey Gritsman, Richard Hoffman, Howard Levy, Dawn Potter, […]
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3 events,Join author Suzy Levinson as she reads her story Dinos that Drive! Brontosaurus, Triceratops, Pterodactyl and T. rex are all here to show off their driving, flying and diving skills in this riotous, fully illustrated book of poems about dinosaurs and their favorite things-that-go. Plunderer is a feature-length documentary that focuses on the career of Bruno Lohse, a Nazi art dealer who served as Göring’s art agent in Paris and headed the ERR, the Nazis’ clearinghouse for confiscated art in France. Captured and interrogated by the Monuments Men after the war, Lohse served a brief prison sentence. Following his […]
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2 events,Fifth meeting of the Infinite Jest Monthly Read-Along Bash group. Read pages 508-601 (plus relevant endnotes) for this month's gathering. We'll have free drinks upstairs when you arrive :) .
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3 events,Expect to be deeply moved by the soprano and alto voices of the Trinity Choir during this evening of choral music that glorifies Mary, compassion, and the spirit of Lent. With Hildegard von Bingen’s luminous Ave generosa at its center, the program also presents Francis Poulenc’s Litanies à la Vierge noire and Marian gems by Maurice Duruflé, Bernat Vivancos, Edvard Grieg, and Ola Gjeilo. A trio of newer composers (Zanaida […]
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2 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.
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2 events,Celebrate the launch of Her Hidden Fire with author Clíodhna O’Sullivan in conversation with author of A Stage Set for Villains, Shannon J. Spann. In a world where dragons soar through the skies and magical abilities are an elite privilege, the ruling family of Ailm’s Keep is on a knife-edge: Can their son Ionáin prove […] |
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5 events,When the class gets lost on the way to the planetarium, Ms. Frizzle saves the day by blasting into outer space for an epic interplanetary field trip! But when rivalries both old and new threaten to tear the students apart, our young heroes must learn to pull together or risk getting forever lost in the […]
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Meet at the Brooklyn Bridge Manhattan side entrance at 1:00 PM sharp to kick off a Lunar New Year celebration with a live lion dance and festive procession through Gotham Park. The event wraps with a performance, with celebrations continuing throughout Chinatown.
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26th season gala, with performances, auction, hors d'oeuvres and cocktails, dance party.
$125
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