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  • Hester Street Fair

    Jewelry. Art. Baked goods and local vintage. Home goods. Live DJs.

    Free

  • The History of Antisemitism: The Truths and Mysteries of Leo Frank

    Museum of Jewish Heritage

    Leo Frank was a pencil factory superintendent in Georgia in April 1913 when his coworker, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, was murdered. Her body was found in the factory’s basement, and Frank was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. Many since have examined the case and posited that Frank was denied a fair trial and […]

    $10

  • Good People – Anashim Tovim: The Songs of Naomi Shemer

    Museum of Jewish Heritage

    Poet and composer Naomi Shemer (1930–2004) wrote hundreds of moving, beautiful popular songs, most of which became immortal classics in Israel’s musical tradition. The Quartet performs a special selection of these classics in new and original arrangements. Lely Shemer, Naomi’s daughter, will talk about her mother, her unique life, and her writing and composing so […]

    $8

  • Set It Off

    Film screening outdoors.

    Free

  • Hester Street Fair

    Jewelry. Art. Baked goods and local vintage. Home goods. Live DJs.

    Free

  • Urban Farm Tour

    Dis­cov­er a world of bees, com­post, and organ­ic gar­den­ing right in New York City! Join the Bee Con­ser­van­cy, Earth Mat­ter NY, and GrowNYC for a tour of the Urban Farm on Gov­er­nors Island, and learn about each orga­ni­za­tion’s work. Meet at Gate 14 (Urban Farm entrance near Yan­kee Hang­er and Liggett Ter­race) at 1:55pm to […]

    Free

  • Sea Chanteys and Maritime Music

    Includes a 45-minute performance by various local artists singing a variety of traditional maritime work songs and ballads. Attendees are invited to sing along with the featured guests or just sit back and enjoy their performance. Following the set, the stage will open for a round-robin where attendees––in-person and virtual––can sing and share their favorite […]

    Free

  • The Moon is Just a Mirror: Lantern Giveaway

    Governors Island

    Artists Rhon­da Wep­pler and Trevor Mahovsky host a spe­cial evening event mark­ing the trans­for­ma­tion of their instal­la­tion, there is noth­ing you can think that is not the moon, on view at Low­er Man­hat­tan Cul­tur­al Coun­cil (LMCC)‘s Arts Cen­ter at Gov­er­nors Island. This instal­la­tion cur­rent­ly hous­es over 300 hand­made lanterns the artists start­ed mak­ing in 2022. […]

    Free

  • Harry Seidler’s Australia Square: Sydney’s First Modern Skyscraper

    Completed in 1967, six years before Jørn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House, Australia Square was the first truly modern skyscraper on the continent and, arguably, the world’s tallest lightweight concrete building. The 50-story cylindrical tower once stood alone as the focal point of a full city-block development in Central Sydney and with a popular plaza that […]

    Free

  • Tennis With a View

    Rooftop tennis. Skyline views. Refreshments and a chance to win tickets to the final matches. It’s happening at the pop-up tennis court on The Rooftop at Pier 17. Outside of […]

  • Fresh Prints

    This 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 will showcase some of the more eccentric parts from the Seaport Museum’s printing and graphic arts collection. Established in 1775, this letterpress print […]

    Free

  • “FOUR WINTERS” Film & Panel Discussion

    Museum of Jewish Heritage

    “All I owned was a rifle, a leopard coat and my camera,” says Faye Schulman, whose clandestine photographs of Jewish partisans living in the forests documented their efforts to disrupt the Nazi killing machine by blowing up bridges, derailing trains, and smuggling Jews. The image of Schulman with an ammunition belt slung over her fashionable […]

    $8