100 holiday books are being given away that the whole family can enjoy together. Plus, in anticipation of the upcoming Wicked: For Good movie, there will also be a few Wicked-themed stories to add extra enchantment.
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.
The Museum’s director, Carol Willis, will offer a gallery tour of The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, which examines the hidden history of concrete in tall buildings. This exhibition reveals why, today, almost all skyscrapers are built of concrete, not steel.
Join Nuyorican Poets Cafe for a day of poetry by Nuyorican poets, music by Johnny Mambo and Friends, and an open mic for guest poets in the audience.
Singers of all levels, as well as listeners, are welcome to join in the choruses throughout the free Chantey Sing, lead or request a song in the round-robin, or just listen.
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.
Join us for a compelling online book talk with historian Scott D. Seligman, author of The Great Christmas Boycott of 1906, as he unpacks a dramatic and little known chapter in American Jewish history. Set in New York at the dawn of the twentieth century, this meticulously researched account begins in the winter of 1905-1906 […]
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.
In 1943, the German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Forty-seven women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play to other inmates as they left each morning and as they returned at the end of the […]
Do you find poetry intimidating? Do you race past the poems in The New Yorker on your way to the fiction or the cartoons? Have you persuaded yourself that you’ll “just never get it?” Join the South Street Seaport Museum and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former Poetry Editor of The New Yorker Paul Muldoon for […]
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.