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SUMMARY:“Children of Chabbanes” Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:In the spirit of Louis Malle’s Au Revoir les Enfants and Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List\, the Emmy® Award-winning documentary The Children of Chabannes has been called “a moving record of the unassuming\, uncompromising heroism of ordinary people” (New York Times) and “one of the most heartening Holocaust films ever made: splendid\, informative and emotionally involving.” (Los Angeles Times). The Children of Chabannes is the story of how the people in a tiny village in unoccupied France chose action over indifference\, and risked their lives and livelihoods to save the lives of 400 Jewish refugee children during World War II. Inspired by a reunion more than 50 years after the war\, Lisa Gossels (My So-Called Enemy)\, and co-director Dean Wetherell\, travel to Chabannes with Lisa’s father Peter and uncle Werner (two of the saved children). The film tells the story of how the teachers and townspeople – who believed in the French Revolutionary values of “liberty\, equality\, and fraternity” – worked with the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants)\, a Jewish child welfare organization\, to shelter\, nurture\, and educate the children. The Children of Chabannes is not just a story about the past; it is an exploration of moral courage and goodness in the face of evil – of what motivates individuals to take a stand against injustice\, bigotry\, and extremism. Following the screening\, there will be a discussion with Gossels and Wetherell.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/children-of-chabbanes-screening-and-discussion/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, Concert
DESCRIPTION:Concert featuring Darnell White.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-concert/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T130000
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SUMMARY:BPC Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join fellow readers for lively discussion and thoughtful socializing. Today’s discussion will be about Overstory by Richard Powers.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/bpc-book-club-18/
CATEGORIES:Community
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T190000
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SUMMARY:Stories Survive: “Irena’s Gift” Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:A 2025 National Jewish Book Award Finalist that judges described as “reads like a thriller” and winner of Zibby Awards for Best Family Drama & Best Story of Overcoming\, Irena’s Gift explores how reckoning with family betrayal\, moral complexity\, and hidden histories can reframe our identities—and why excavating these truths matters at a time when Jewish identity itself is under scrutiny. In 1942\, in German-occupied Poland\, a Jewish baby girl was smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto in a backpack. That baby\, Karen Kirsten’s mother\, Joasia\, knew nothing about this extraordinary event until she was thirty-two\, when a letter arrived from a stranger. She also learned that the parents who raised her were actually her aunt and uncle. Joasia kept the letter hidden from her own daughter\, Karen—until an innocent question revealed the truth. Determined to help heal her mother’s pain\, Karen set out to piece together a war-torn history. From the glittering concert halls of interbellum Warsaw to the vermin-infested prison where a Jewish woman negotiates with an SS officer to save her sister’s child\, to the author’s upbringing in a Christian home\, this is a story of resilience\, sacrifice\, intergenerational trauma\, and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves and those we love. Karen will be in conversation about her book with award winning author\, Professor Robin Judd.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/stories-survive-irenas-gift-book-talk/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T130000
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SUMMARY:Downtown Beats Chorus
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/downtown-beats-chorus-42/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn: Language City
DESCRIPTION:Ross Perlin\, author of Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York\, examines the past\, present\, and future of the world’s most linguistically diverse city\, New York. He will also discuss multilingualism\, language policy\, and the role technology plays in the evolution and documentation of languages. Today\, half of the world’s 7\,000-plus languages are growing increasingly endangered\, while contemporary cities – supported by migration – are more linguistically diverse than ever before. As speakers migrate across the globe\, linguists and language activists are racing against time to map and document lesser-known\, minority\, endangered\, and Indigenous languages.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/lunch-learn-language-city/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T190000
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SUMMARY:Scale Boy: An African Childhood
DESCRIPTION:Patrice Nganang\, the acclaimed author of Dog Days\, Mount Pleasant\, and\, most recently\, A Trail of Crab Tracks\, which was a 2022 New Yorker Book of the Year\, writes about his vibrant\, animated youth in Cameroon\, a period of upheaval and change in the country’s history and in his life. Scale Boy is a memoir that brings great brightness and joy to the tumultuous years of discovering oneself and one’s community; though there are moments of danger and confusion in his story\, Nganang aims to present a new vision of a young Black African man’s coming-of-age.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/scale-boy-an-african-childhood/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:“Plunder and Survival” Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:Writer\, art historian\, and Holocaust survivor Suzanne Loebl\, whose life paralleled much of the events revisited in Plunder and Survival\, takes a new look at the Nazis ruthless attack on modern art and at their unprecedented looting of private\, mostly Jewish art collections in Austria\, Holland\, and France. Eighty-five years after the end of the hostilities\, the book examines a sizable fraction of the art that miraculously survived\, especially in American art museums. In addition to art\, leading artists\, art professionals\, scholars and architects\, fled Hitler’s realm; their contributions to their new homeland helped to shift the center of art world from Europe to the United States. Suzanne Loebl will be in conversation about the book with Abigail Wilentz.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/plunder-and-survival-book-talk/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T150000
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SUMMARY:Fiber Art Crafts Studio
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/fiber-art-crafts-studio-31/
CATEGORIES:Community
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T180000
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UID:119069-1769104800-1769104800@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:Such Sheltered Lives
DESCRIPTION:Book reading and signing by Alyssa Sheinmel\, author of Such Sheltered Lives
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/such-sheltered-lives/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T210000
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UID:119071-1769108400-1769115600@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:30th Poets House Showcase Reading
DESCRIPTION:Evening dedicated to poetry that addresses and responds to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Ahmad Almallah\, Mandy Shunnarah\, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi\, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s work bears witness\, speaks truth\, and offers space for grief\, resistance\, and solidarity.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/30th-poets-house-showcase-reading-2/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T220000
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SUMMARY:Tribeca Jazz Institute Jazz Session
DESCRIPTION:Monthly session featuring performances by Tribeca Jazz Institute students and rotating special guest band leaders.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/tribeca-jazz-institute-jazz-session-2/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
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SUMMARY:Mah Jongg & More
DESCRIPTION:Join a dedicated group of adult American Mah Jongg enthusiasts for friendly and informal games\, or try your hand at other card and board games. Make friends and catch up with neighbors. Sets\, cards\, and games provided\, or bring your own.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/mah-jongg-more-115/
CATEGORIES:Community
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T190000
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SUMMARY:The Flower Bearers
DESCRIPTION:In The Flower Bearers\, Rachel Eliza Griffiths inscribes the trajectories of two transformational relationships with grace and honesty\, chronicling the beauty and pain that comes with opening oneself fully to love.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-flower-bearers/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T103000
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CREATED:20251231T161628Z
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SUMMARY:KoKo NYC
DESCRIPTION:Join KoKo NYC for a sustainable makers workshop and inventors lab! Led by teaching artists\, kids and their families will hone their skills and experiment with recycled materials\, found objects\, and textiles to bring their ideas to life. Recommended for ages 6+.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/koko-nyc/
CATEGORIES:Community
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T103000
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SUMMARY:New Year\, New Buildings!
DESCRIPTION:Happy New Year! Every year many new buildings in New York City are being planned\, constructed\, and finished! We will learn about how NYC’s iconic skyline will be changing in 2026\, as well as the process of approval for building something new in the city. After\, we will be finishing our own skyscrapers with the most important part–the top! Let’s create our own building spires out of paper\, cardboard\, and construction materials! All ages welcome.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/new-year-new-buildings-2/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260125T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260125T140000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
CREATED:20251231T161631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251231T161631Z
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SUMMARY:Films at the Museum: “Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire” Screening and Talkback
DESCRIPTION: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 and his legacy as one of the most public survivors of the trauma of the Holocaust. With unique access to personal archives\, original interviews and employing hand painted animation\, the film illuminates Wiesel’s biography as a survivor\, writer\, teacher\, and public figure.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/films-at-the-museum-elie-wiesel-soul-on-fire-screening-and-talkback/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260126T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
CREATED:20251231T161632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251231T161632Z
UID:119077-1769454000-1769454000@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:“Resisting Nazism” Book Talk
DESCRIPTION: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. Dr. Luke Berryman’s Resisting Nazism is the first book to connect such stories\, painting a vivid picture of resistance to far-right extremism across the generations.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/resisting-nazism-book-talk/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
CREATED:20251231T161724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251231T161724Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch & Learn: The Village Voice
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/lunch-learn-the-village-voice/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
CREATED:20251231T161727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251231T161727Z
UID:119080-1769522400-1769529600@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:Mah Jongg & More
DESCRIPTION:Join a dedicated group of adult American Mah Jongg enthusiasts for friendly and informal games\, or try your hand at other card and board games. Make friends and catch up with neighbors. Sets\, cards\, and games provided\, or bring your own.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/mah-jongg-more-116/
CATEGORIES:Community
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
CREATED:20251231T161731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251231T161731Z
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SUMMARY:All the Little Houses
DESCRIPTION:Book reading and signing by May Cobb\, author of All the Little Houses.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/all-the-little-houses/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
CREATED:20251231T161735Z
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SUMMARY:Emery Roth’s New York Apartment Buildings
DESCRIPTION: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 of Emery Roth’s New York Apartment Buildings\, architectural historian Andrew Alpern brings together his meticulously researched catalogue raisonné of Roth’s work\, illustrated with spectacular new color photography by Kenneth Grant\, with a facsimile reproduction of the classic\, long out-of-print monograph by Steven Ruttenbaum\, Mansions in the Clouds.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/emery-roths-new-york-apartment-buildings/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
CREATED:20251231T161739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251231T161739Z
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SUMMARY:Downtown Beats Chorus
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/downtown-beats-chorus-43/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260128T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
CREATED:20251231T161921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251231T161921Z
UID:119085-1769623200-1769623200@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:This House Will Feed
DESCRIPTION:Book reading and signing by Maria Turead\, author of This House Will Feed.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/this-house-will-feed/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T150000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
CREATED:20251231T161925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251231T161925Z
UID:119086-1769691600-1769698800@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:Fiber Art Crafts Studio
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/fiber-art-crafts-studio-32/
CATEGORIES:Community
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
CREATED:20251231T161928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251231T161928Z
UID:119087-1769713200-1769713200@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:Hal Fischer: Seminal Works
DESCRIPTION: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).
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/hal-fischer-seminal-works/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260129T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
CREATED:20251231T161930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251231T161930Z
UID:119088-1769713200-1769713200@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:“Defiant Requiem” Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION: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\, created\, taught\, lectured\, and composed not merely as entertainment\, but as necessity and nourishment\, as critical to staying alive as eating and drinking. Defiant Requiem highlights the most dramatic example of intellectual and artistic courage: the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter\, a brilliant young and passionate Czech opera-choral conductor who was sent to Terezín in 1941. He was determined to sustain courage and hope for his fellow prisoners by enriching their souls through great music. His most extraordinary act was to recruit 150 prisoners and teach them the Verdi Requiem in a dank cellar using a smuggled score over multiple rehearsals\, after grueling days of forced labor. The Requiem was performed on sixteen occasions for fellow prisoners. The last\, most infamous performance occurred on June 23\, 1944. With only sixty prisoner-singers remaining following massive deportations\, Schächter was ordered by the Nazi camp commander to perform the Requiem before high-ranking SS officers from Berlin and the International Red Cross to support the myth that the prisoners were well treated and flourishing. Following the screening of the film\, there will be a discussion with Murry Sidlin\, Founder\, President\, and Artistic Director of the Defiant Requiem Foundation.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/defiant-requiem-screening-and-discussion/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
CREATED:20251231T162018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251231T162018Z
UID:119090-1769792400-1769792400@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:Mai Khoi and Mark Micchelli
DESCRIPTION:Musical performance.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/mai-khoi-and-mark-micchelli-2/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T114718
CREATED:20251231T161931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251231T161931Z
UID:119089-1769792400-1769799600@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:Mah Jongg & More
DESCRIPTION:Join a dedicated group of adult American Mah Jongg enthusiasts for friendly and informal games\, or try your hand at other card and board games. Make friends and catch up with neighbors. Sets\, cards\, and games provided\, or bring your own.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/mah-jongg-more-117/
CATEGORIES:Community
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260131T103000
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SUMMARY:Rosie Revere\, Engineer
DESCRIPTION: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+.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/rosie-revere-engineer-2/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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