Drop-In Chess
Play the popular strategy game while getting pointers and advice from an expert. Chess improves concentration, problem solving, and strategic planning — plus it’s fun! For ages 5 and up.
Free
Events
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Events
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Battery Park City Library Book Discussion
Discuss Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson. Repeated April 10 at 2pm.
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Visual Narrative
Discover your narrative voice and tell your story through drawing and painting. Each week will feature a different prompt, helping you to create images and words. Explore creating character, using perspective, drawing the human figure, and incorporating text and simple bookmaking techniques that will allow you to put your stories into a readable form. Registration […]
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Downtown Beats Chorus
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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On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe
Jamieson Webster presents On Breathing: Care in a Time of Catastrophe in conversation with Alissa Bennett.
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Passwords:Cecilia Vicuña on The Other Poetry
Cecilia Vicuña discusses three poem sequences sang for the earth in indigenous North and South America. In this performance talk, Vicuña illustrates how oral traditions in Chile, Paraguay, and Arizona continue renewing themselves as individual/collective practices in the 21st century.
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Meet Me in the Kitchen: Making Healthy Choices
Asphalt GreenNutritionist Lauren C. Kelly offers creative twists on classic recipes, food prep and cooking trends. From appetizers, to entrees, to dessert, learn how to design menus using helpful tips and current research findings for better health and eating. Registration required.
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Fiber Art Crafts Studio
Join this group of fiber art crafters for a fun afternoon of creativity and camaraderie. Bring your projects, which can include—but are not limited to—knitting, crocheting, embroidery and small-loom weaving.
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Mah Jongg & More
Join a dedicated group of Mah Jongg enthusiasts for friendly games, or try your hand at other card and board games.
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Stephanie June
Born to Persian immigrant parents in New York City, Stephanie June has always turned to music as a universal language.
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Readings by the 2025 Whiting Award Winners
Since 1985, the Whiting Awards have been given annually to ten of the most promising emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Hear the 2025 winners read from their work the day after they’re announced at an evening hosted by Tony Tulathimutte (Rejection)! Wine and cheese will be served.
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Latin American Film Series
This series explores modern and contemporary Latin America through cinema. Tonight, see Guie’dani’s Navel (Xavi Sala, 2018) A rebellious Zapotec girl moves from her small village to Mexico City when her mother takes a job as a maid for a wealthy family. Free popcorn will be served, and a discussion will follow the screenings.
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Liminal Lives: Trans between Weimar and Nazi Germany
The story of trans life under Nazism is anticipated as tragic. Following the hard-won recognitions of gay and lesbian victims of the Holocaust and in the maelstrom of contemporary global attacks on trans existence, scholarly and public investments in this history are at their apex—provoking debates in the German Bundestag and libel cases. Yet the […]
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Conversations: David Letterman with Paul Shaffer
Late night legend David Letterman brings his trademark dry humor, irreverence, and sincere curiosity back to PAC NYC for a conversation with his long-time friend and former music director, Paul Shaffer.
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