Webinar. Has there ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln has gone silent? Our immortal conscience on civil rights and individual freedom is speaking to us yet again in the time of COVID and public unrest. Yet Lincoln has managed to become even more relevant as we tackle infrastructure, healthcare, climate change and human rights. […]
In December 1941, Alfred Kantor arrived at the Terezin Ghetto. An 18 year old artist from Prague with one year of study at the Rotter School of Advertising Art under his belt, Kantor began to draw scenes around him. “My commitment to drawing came out of a deep instinct of self-preservation,” he later wrote, “and […]
Skyscraper Museum webinar. Supertall projects have been central to Dennis Poon’s career as a structural engineer. Poon worked on the teams for the Petronas Towers (1998) in Kuala Lumpur and Taipei 101 (2004) in Taiwan, the first skyscrapers outside of the United States to become, in succession, the world’s tallest buildings. Dennis has extensive experience […]
In celebration of Earth Week 2021, BPCA presents Artichoke Dance Company. This innovative and captivating dance troupe creates performances that connect to civic engagement, education and environmental activism. They will perform a few pieces from their repertoire and artistic director Lynn Neumann will discuss their ecologically focused work. Limited socially-distanced seating is available via free […]
What does a Chinese artist do in a time of chaos and oppression? Flee to the mountains, to the wilderness, of course, to cultivate upright Confucian values, write poetry, paint paintings, and, naturally, drink some tea and lots of wine. And in the paintings, he might hide some delicately rendered political commentary. But Arnold Chang, […]
Playwright, novelis, director and educator Ifa Bayeza reads scenes from her work, drawing on the reconstruction of archives of the plantation and Archives of Black Survival.
The Stella Adler Studio of Acting hosts a reading with poets Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Sonia Sanchez, and Aracelis Girmay, among others. RSVP to [email protected].
Explore the diversity of migrating birds that find food and habitat in The Battery. The walk will be led by Gabriel Willow, an educator from NYC Audubon. Gabriel is an experienced birder and naturalist, and is well-versed in the ecology and history of New York City. He has been leading walks for NYC Audubon for […]
Less than two months after hatching, the tiny Spoon-billed Sandpiper begins the long journey from Russia’s arctic tundra to the coast of China. No guide, no map, no GPS. But the baby birds instinctively know exactly where to go: to the mudflats of Jiangsu province. Unfortunately, industry and reclamation threaten the birds’ habitats. Spoon-billed Sandpipers […]
As organizations prepare to welcome people back to their physical locations, they must incorporate learnings from the past year. New ways of working have emerged, including fully distributed and hybrid digital-physical workplaces, offering new opportunities to support long-term individual and organizational thriving. Join Melissa Marsh, Founder and Executive Director of PLASTARC, a social research, workplace […]
Manfred Ohrenstein was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1925. He grew up under increasingly restrictive Nazi rules, holding his Bar Mitzvah at age 13 on the precipice of the Holocaust. In November 1938, less than a week before Kristallnacht, Ohrenstein and his family escaped Germany, made their way to London, and then found refuge in […]
Celebrate National Park Week’s Wayback Wednesday with a virtual walking tour of lower Manhattan with park rangers! Virtual visitors, on each site’s social media, will start at Castle Clinton National Monument go to Federal Hall National Memorial and finish at the African Burial Ground Nation Monument with selected stops along the way that tell the […]
Fitness classes via Instagram released every Tuesday and Thursday, featuring Trooper Fitness, Pure Barre and Lyons Den Power Yoga.
Neuroscientist Dr. Daniela Schiller, who leads the Affective Neuroscience Lab at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has spent years exploring “reconsolidation” — the biological process of rewriting painful memories. Her groundbreaking work is shaped by her personal experiences with her elderly father in Israel, who remains haunted by the Holocaust decades after he survived […]
Support local restaurants and food-security charities from the comfort of your home with the Downtown Alliance’s ”Dine Around Downtown: Cooking At Home Edition,” a web series hosted by James Beard Award-winning chef and author Rocco DiSpirito. Join Rocco as he chats with Executive Chef Roberto Caporuscio of Kesté Pizza & Vino. Chef Roberto will show […]
During the summer of 1776, patriots worked frantically to head off a British invasion from Canada. Their effort culminated in a wild three-day naval battle on Lake Champlain in northern New York. In this lecture, Jack Kelly will argue that, although the campaign has often been neglected by historians, its success was an important impetus […]
The Seaport Museum's Sea Songs and Sea Lives: Voices of the Many series continues as we explore the roles of diverse sailors and their treatment in traditional maritime songs. Join tugboat captain Ann Loeding and Harbor School graduate/SUNY Maritime student Ashley Cruz, along with chantey singer Bonnie Milner of the Johnson Girls, to discuss the […]