Fiber art exhibition with multiple artists.
Events
Calendar of Events
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2 events,
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6 events,
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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.
Free
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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
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Take part in a full-body stretch routine designed to improve range of motion, maintain flexibility, promote better posture, reduce joint pain, and decrease the risk of injury.
Free
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5 events,
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This BPC park offers a unique setting to observe and sketch the human figure. Each week a model will strike short and long poses for participants to draw. An artist/ educator will offer constructive suggestions and critique. Drawing materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their own favorite media.
Free
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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.
Free
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Join our community of artists of all skill levels as we are inspired by our surroundings to create with drawing materials, pastels and watercolors. Embolden your artwork amidst the flower-filled and seasonally evolving palette of BPC’s verdant gardens. An artist/ educator will provide ideas and instruction. Materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their […]
Free
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6 events,
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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.
Free
Join Complete Body for a low-impact joint-friendly exercise and targeted muscle toning achieved through small, controlled movements that focus on isometric holds and pulses, suitable for various fitness levels.
Free
Learn all about queer maritime and polar history in this evening of free talks in this mini-symposium presented by the South Street Seaport Museum and the polar social club, Terror and Erebus Society. Allegra Rosenberg, the founder and director of the Terror Camp virtual polar conference, will kick off the evening with a look into […]
Free
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3 events,
The North Neighborhood tour of the Museum’s three thematic walking tours of Battery Park City, on Thursday, July 17 at 4pm, will cover the north residential neighborhood, which was developed in several phases, beginning with Stuyvesant High School at the northeast edge and the esplanade and Rockefeller Park along the Hudson. A diagonal avenue lined […]
Free
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Take part in a full-body stretch routine designed to improve range of motion, maintain flexibility, promote better posture, reduce joint pain, and decrease the risk of injury.
Free
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11 events,
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Many blocks of car-free fun, fitness, and live entertainment as the city’s streets transform into playgrounds for all to enjoy. In Lower Manhattan, Lafayette Street and Centre Street will be closed, and Foley Square will be an entertainment hub with a DJ, marching band performance at noon, volleyball and other activities, including free bike rentals. Race around Governors Island. Race entry includes a ferry ride, your race-entry, a tech tank, and post-race eats.
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Pick up trash and tend to pollinator-friendly gardens. No experience is necessary; all ages and abilities are welcome!
Free
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4 events,
Race around Governors Island. Race entry includes a ferry ride, your race-entry, a tech tank, and post-race eats.
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The Glass Clouds Ensemble presents a 45-minute concert of classical & contemporary music that reflects on our delicate relationship with nature through light and darkness – paired with artwork by Queens-based painter Clara Curbera. The program will feature music for voice and string instruments, spanning from the 1600s to the present, from intimate works for […]
Free
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.
Free
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2 events,
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10 events,
Select a free book of your choice and discover new reads! Books are available first come, first to receive, while supplies last.
Free
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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.
Free
-
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
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9 events,
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This BPC park offers a unique setting to observe and sketch the human figure. Each week a model will strike short and long poses for participants to draw. An artist/ educator will offer constructive suggestions and critique. Drawing materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their own favorite media.
Free
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Help replenish dwindling supplies in the tri-state area. The whole process takes less than an hour and one donation can save multiple lives!
Free
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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.
Free
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9 events,
Tour of the urban vegetable farm and perennial forest farm, led by park staff.
Free
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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.
Free
The South Neighborhood tour on Thursday, August 7 at 4pm explores Battery Park City’s southern district, which is home to the Skyscraper Museum and includes some of BPC’s earliest landscapes and infrastructure, as well as the residential enclaves built in the 1990s that followed the 1979 Cooper Eckstut Master Plan. Starting in the Museum’s gallery […]
Free
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4 events,
This workshop will offer frameworks and resources to help you select native plants for your garden site, both at a small scale and if planning a larger forest garden. We'll explore the concepts of niches, functional diversity, plant guilds, and succession, and we'll highlight particular northeast native plants that can provide multiple benefits for wildlife […]
Free
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Take part in a full-body stretch routine designed to improve range of motion, maintain flexibility, promote better posture, reduce joint pain, and decrease the risk of injury.
Free
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Grand finale of Summer Nights with m.s. RedCherries, Danez Smith, and Speedy Ortiz, where poetry meets music outdoors in Battery Park City. Under the sun in Wagner Park, dance along to musical performances intertwining Speedy’s indie rock riffs with readings from acclaimed poet Danez Smith and National Book Award finalist m.s. RedCherries—the ultimate catharsis in […]
Free
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14 events,
Break out your best flapper dresses, linen jackets, straw hats and spats, and 100-year-old Gatsby-inspired attire! The Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island features live music, retro cocktails, and ’20s Prohibition era entertainment. Explore the Island and join dance lessons, take a vintage portrait, check out the antique 1920s cars, play croquet, enjoy a […] Battery Dance Company performs in this celebratory night of dance alongside Marie Poncé, The Limón Dance Company, and tap dancer John Manzari & Band. Rain date 8/10.
Free
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Many blocks of car-free fun, fitness, and live entertainment as the city’s streets transform into playgrounds for all to enjoy. In Lower Manhattan, Lafayette Street and Centre Street will be closed, and Foley Square will be an entertainment hub with a DJ, marching band performance at noon, volleyball and other activities, including free bike rentals.
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Pick up trash and tend to pollinator-friendly gardens. No experience is necessary; all ages and abilities are welcome!
Free
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4 events,
Voyage through history and on the historic schooner Pioneer with Stefan Dreisbach-Williams, a distinguished historian renowned for his expertise on New York Harbor, its estuary, and its maritime network. This tour will have a specific focus on canals and sail freight. As Pioneer sails past icons of New York Harbor, we will be treated to […]
$10 – $50
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4 events,
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Spies, espionage, and intelligence operations during the American Revolution have long captured the public's imagination, thanks in part to popular books and television series. While these dramatizations highlight a captivating aspect of the Revolutionary War, they often blur the line between fact and fiction. Join historian Charles Dewey to uncover the real stories of the […]
$10
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11 events,
New York City’s longest-running free public dance festival returns to Rockefeller Park this summer. The Battery Dance Festival brings together spectacular international and local dance companies, each evening ending with “Everybody Dance Now!” Please check batterydance.org for the performance schedule.
Free
Tour of the urban vegetable farm and perennial forest farm, led by park staff. Repeated at 5:30pm.
Free
-
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.
Free
-
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
|
10 events,
-
This BPC park offers a unique setting to observe and sketch the human figure. Each week a model will strike short and long poses for participants to draw. An artist/ educator will offer constructive suggestions and critique. Drawing materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their own favorite media.
Free
-
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.
Free
-
This engaging program features captivating tales and illustrations that will transport little ones back to colonial America, giving them a glimpse into the daily lives of children from that era.
$10
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9 events,
-
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.
Free
-
Join Complete Body for a low-impact joint-friendly exercise and targeted muscle toning achieved through small, controlled movements that focus on isometric holds and pulses, suitable for various fitness levels.
Free
|
6 events,
The South Neighborhood tour on Thursday, August 7 at 4pm explores Battery Park City’s southern district, which is home to the Skyscraper Museum and includes some of BPC’s earliest landscapes and infrastructure, as well as the residential enclaves built in the 1990s that followed the 1979 Cooper Eckstut Master Plan. Starting in the Museum’s gallery […]
Free
-
Take part in a full-body stretch routine designed to improve range of motion, maintain flexibility, promote better posture, reduce joint pain, and decrease the risk of injury.
Free
|
9 events,
-
Many blocks of car-free fun, fitness, and live entertainment as the city’s streets transform into playgrounds for all to enjoy. In Lower Manhattan, Lafayette Street and Centre Street will be closed, and Foley Square will be an entertainment hub with a DJ, marching band performance at noon, volleyball and other activities, including free bike rentals.
-
Pick up trash and tend to pollinator-friendly gardens. No experience is necessary; all ages and abilities are welcome!
Free
-
Paint in watercolor or use pastels and other drawing materials to capture the magical vistas of the Hudson River and the unique landscape of South Cove. An artist/educator will help participants of all levels with instruction and critique. Materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their own favorite media.
Free
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5 events,
75 unique, vintage Volkswagens from across the years, including iconic models like the Beetle, Bus, Karmann Ghia, and Thing, will be parked at Picnic Point all day for visitors to enjoy.
Free
Anyone ages 12 and up is invited to start your Sunday with a mindful and invigorating 60-minute practice that is both accessible and challenging for all skill levels. Each session is peppered with information about the vessel itself and playlists are thoughtfully developed to reflect the serenity of the water and lively seasonal themes.
Free
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Fusion of QiGong and sound healing on Governors Island’s tranquil DuYe House. Gentle movement meets immersive sonic therapy, designed to dissolve stress, soften stored tension, and guide you into deep stillness.
Free
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3 events,
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland by Michelle Young is a riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II that uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the world’s most treasured masterpieces.
$10
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2 events,
The Waterfront Plaza will be transformed into a center court for tennis for a smashing time with friends and colleagues. Free to play. Reservations are recommended.
Free
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