Mah Jongg & More
2025-03-25 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-04-01 14:00 - 16:00, 2025-04-03 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Join a dedicated group of Mah Jongg enthusiasts for friendly games, or try your hand at other card and board games.

Drop-In Chess
2025-03-25 15:00 - 16:30, 2025-04-01 15:00 - 16:30
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.

Trauma Plot
2025-03-25 18:30
Book reading. From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival.

Downtown Beats Chorus
2025-03-26 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-02 13:00 - 14:00
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.

Figure Drawing
2025-03-26 14:00 - 16:00
Challenge your artistic skills by drawing the human figure. Each week a model will strike short and long poses for participants to draw. Artists/ educators will offer constructive suggestions and critique. Materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their own favorite media. Free program, space is limited, registration required, please email: registration@bpca.ny.gov.

Craft Studio
2025-03-27 13:00 - 15:00
Open studio craft session.

Groundbreaking Women Who Shaped Lower Manhattan
2025-03-27 18:00
From pioneering professionals to groundbreaking activists and maritime leaders, this walking tour brings to light the stories of women who fought against gender and racial discrimination to leave their mark on history. Discover the impact of those who established the first hospital staffed entirely by women, led the charge for workplace equality—including something as fundamental as a women’s restroom in the New York Stock Exchange—and much more. This engaging 90-minute journey winds through the streets of the South Street Seaport Historic District and Lower Manhattan, uncovering the often under-recognized contributions of the women who helped build this city. Registration is required. Tours are rain or shine. Content is appropriate for attendees aged 13 and up.

Smorgasburg
2024-04-05 11:00 - 18:00
New York City’s favorite outdoor food market, Smorgasburg, is back at the World Trade Center. Starting on April 5, on Fridays through October, come out to Fulton Street and enjoy a variety of eats and treats from over 20 local vendors.

Music and Maritime: An After-Hours Experience
2025-03-28 17:00 - 20:00
Enhance your visit to the newly-opened exhibition Maritime City with live music after-hours. Stop by anytime between 5pm and 8pm for a free self-guided exploration of the three-floor exhibition that highlights how New York City, as we know it today, arose from the sea. From 5:30pm to 7:30pm, enjoy a live performance by musician and songwriter Blair Lamb, who will fill the first-floor gallery with beautiful piano and vocals.

Stewardship Day at Gotham Park
2025-03-29 10:00 - 12:00
Clean-up and gardening.

Soul of Jade: The Culture of Ancient Jade and Its Collection Among Overseas Chinese
2025-03-29 14:00
For overseas Chinese, ancient jade is more than just a collectible—it is a bridge to their ancestral heritage, carrying deep family memories and cultural connections to their homeland. The appreciation, study, and collection of ancient jade allow collectors to immerse themselves in the profound traditions of Chinese civilization while expressing nostalgia for their roots and loved ones. In recent years, the market for ancient jade has gained increasing recognition, with more collectors acknowledging its historical, artistic, and investment value.

Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden
2025-03-30 15:00
Hear Trinity Youth Chorus take on the challenging and dramatic Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden by Johann Sebastian Bach. Accompanied by the period instruments of Trinity Baroque Orchestra, the young musicians perform Bach’s arrangement of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s famous Stabat Mater for soprano and alto voices, with text from Psalm 51. Trinity’s version is adapted to include the Trinity Youth Chorus tenor and bass voices.

Creativing Writing
2025-03-31 14:00 | Battery Park City Library
Walk and writing session led by author and poet Jon Curley.

Plant Swap/Seed Share
2025-03-31 16:00
Bring your plants, cuttings and seeds to exchange. You can still participate without bringing a plant to swap.

Seaport Museum Book Club
2025-03-31 18:30
Maritime-themed book club.

Adult Zumba
2025-04-01 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-04-04 10:30 - 11:30
Join in on the fun featuring easy-to-follow Latin dance choreography while working on your balance, coordination and range of motion. Come prepared for enthusiastic instruction, a little strength training and a lot of fun. Participants are encouraged to bring their own equipment: weights, water bottle, hand towel etc. Proof of vaccination required.

Visual Narrative
2025-04-02 10:00 - 12:00
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 required, please email: registration@bpca.ny.gov

Mālama I Ke Kai
2025-04-02 17:00
Music and discussion on Mālama I Ke Kai, the Hawaiian proverb meaning “care for the ocean.” The New York Climate Exchange, The Climate Museum, and musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, in partnership with PAC NYC, are proud to present a musical performance and expert discussion that explores our relationship with the ocean across cultures and how that relationship can be repaired. The event is a call to action, to inspire humanity to protect oceans and marine life from environmental threats, and will feature performances of Raise Hawaiki (2017) and E Mālama I Ke Kai (2019) by Hawai’i-born composer Michael Thomas Foumai.

Not Dead Yet
2025-04-02 18:00
Book reading and signing by Jeffrey Siger, author of Not Dead Yet.

Heartwood
2025-04-02 18:30
Reading. Amity Gaige presents Heartwood, in conversation with Jennifer Egan.

Spring Blood Drive
2025-04-03 12:00 - 18:00
Help replenish dwindling supplies in the tri-state area. The whole process takes less than an hour, and one donation can save multiple lives!

Fiber Art Crafts Studio
2025-04-03 13:00 - 15:00
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.

Aeden Alvarez
2025-04-03 18:00
Aeden Alvarez is a Filipino R&B artist who grew up in Hong Kong. Moving to New York has allowed Aeden to juggle all his talents, from singing and being a content creator to reading tarot cards at Washington Square Park.

Fresh Prints
2025-04-03 18:00
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 showcase some of the more eccentric parts from the Seaport Museum’s printing and graphic arts collection. Established in 1775, the original Bowne & Co., Inc. was one of New York’s oldest printing firms. The Bowne & Co. that you can experience today at the Seaport Museum is an offshoot of the original and continues the age-old tradition of job (or small batch) printing.
