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Upcoming Events

• Jul 18: ICP Community Day - International Center of Photography (ICP)
• Jul 18: Barrio Television: The Untold Story of How Puerto Rican Activists Took Over Public TV - 125th Street Library
• Jul 18: ICP Family Art Hour: Communal Braiding - International Center of Photography (ICP)
• Jul 18: Summer Nights in the Park - Baruch Field Park, 132 Baruch Place
• Jul 18: Elsewhere, Together: Black Filmmakers on Memory, Migration, and Worldmaking - Lichen Queens
• Jul 19: SOLD OUT - Walk and Talk with Bushwick Historic Preservation and The Evergreens - The Evergreens Cemetery
• Jul 19: Yiddish Songs of the Bund and Beyond - City Lore Gallery
• Jul 19: Body Alchemy with Hugh Herr and Ana Rajčević - Pioneer Works
• Jul 20: Artist Talk with Maureen Gallace - The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery
• Jul 21: Summer of Horrors - Brooklyn Brewery
• Jul 21: Growing Up Travelling: Jamie Johnson on Photographing Irish Traveller Children - Leica Store and Gallery New York
• Jul 21: PhDs & Pints: Who Really Stops Violence? - Sugar Mouse NYC
• Jul 22: Memoir of a Hyena Book Release Party - P.I.T. - 411 S 5th St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
• Jul 22: The Midnight Special: Prison History of American Music Book Launch
• Jul 22: Movies in the Park: Little Miss Sunshine - Tompkins Square Park
• Jul 23: About Face: Disrupting Ballet (Screening) - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Jul 24: Meditation Marathon: Peace in the Park - Central Park
• Jul 24: The Ocean Etched in the Forest - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Jul 25: Discover the Lost World of Jewish Theater in Odessa, 1917–1949 - Brooklyn Public Library - Sheepshead Bay Branch
• Jul 25: A Collector of Me: Art, Play, and Archival Practice - The Free Black Women's Library Reading Room
• Jul 25: SOLD OUT - Please Presentations: Kink as a Transformation of Self - Please - An Educated Pleasure Shop
• Jul 25: Drunk Planet Earth - Caveat
• Jul 26: Natural Bee Workshop - Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
• Jul 26: East Coast Volossal Night Showcase: From Manuscript to Bookshelf - The Churchill Tavern
• Jul 26: Qi Yu: Guzheng Meets Jazz - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Jul 26: Life Is Watching with Rev Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir - 15th Street Quaker Meetinghouse
• Jul 26: THE D WORD (Drag!) - Henrietta Hudson 438 Hudson St, New York, NY 10014
• Jul 28: Adorama In-Person Photo Critique with Seth Miranda and Daniel Norton - Adorama Event Space
• Jul 28: Madison Square Park: The Gilded Age, Before, & Beyond - Madison Square Park
• Jul 29: Summer Scares Book Discussion: Just Like Home - Roosevelt Island Library - 504 Main St, New York, NY 10044
• Jul 30: NOT TG Event - Freedom in Relationships - Manhattan Meditation Center - Brahma Kumaris
• Aug 2: The Navigators: How the "Soviet Ark" Became a Buster Keaton Comedy - City Lore Gallery
• Aug 4: Curator Talk: Grand Central and the Tra(i)nsformation of Park Avenue (Virtual) - New York Transit Museum
• Aug 4: Film Screening: Citizen Kane (1941) - Brooklyn Public Library - Flatbush Branch
• Aug 4: I Don't Think About Being Great: Selected Writings by Robert Rauschenberg - The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery
• Aug 4: Book Launch: Meredith Small's How We Think: The Hidden Life of Everyday Ideas - Lofty Pigeon Books
• Aug 4: Conversations About AI: Power, Access, and Representation - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Aug 5: High Line Plinth: Lectures & Meditations – The Nature of Light - The High Line
• Aug 5: Movies in the Park: Super Troopers - Tompkins Square Park
• Aug 6: Climate/Environmental Justice: A Discussion of NYC's Plans/Outcomes Harlem Week 2025- Climate & Environmental Justice - Columbia University
• Aug 6: Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie Yee - Rizzoli Bookstore
• Aug 6: Paul Yoon Discusses Etna, His Unforgettable Novel of War, Loss, and the Long Road Home - Greenlight Bookstore
• Aug 7: Math in Bloom - Simons Foundation
• Aug 8: Black VegFest 2026: Free Vegan Food Festival - Lincoln Terrace | Arthur S. Somers Park
• Aug 14: Deco After Dark - Yacht Club - The Yacht Club - 212 12th Ave, New York, NY 10018
• Aug 15: Jazz at the Plaza - Abrons Arts Center
• Aug 18: Cookout Culture Trivia: Five Rounds of Music, Food, and Backyard Tradition - Sweet Catch BK
• Aug 19: Summer Scares Book Discussion: Horror Movie - Roosevelt Island Library - 504 Main St, New York, NY 10044
• Aug 19: Movies in the Park: Beasts of the Southern Wild - Tompkins Square Park
• Aug 20: Film Screening | August - El Museo del Barrio
• Aug 22: Battle of Brooklyn 250th Anniversary Reenactment - Prospect Park
• Aug 22: Carnival4Corazon - The Climate Imaginarium, Governors Island
• Aug 22: Roundtable: Molly Crabapple's Here Where We Live Is Our Country and the Legacy of the Jewish Bund - City Lore Gallery
• Aug 23: The Battle of Brooklyn 250: Meaning of Freedom - Green-Wood Cemetery
• Aug 25: When Children Were Watching: Sesame Street and the Impact of 9/11 - National September 11 Memorial & Museum
• Aug 25: Madison Square Park: The Gilded Age Before & Beyond - Submitted Location
• Aug 29: Community Day - Sol Lain Playgroud, 271 Henry Street
• Sep 10: Artist Talk: Three Fiber Artists Discuss Untethered Works - Textile Art Gallery NYC
• Sep 11: New York City Global Food & Culture Festival - Bryant Park
• Sep 14: Jewelry Creators: Dynamic Duos and Generational Gems by Beth Bernstein - Rizzoli Bookstore
• Sep 16: A Conversation with Jed Perl - The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery - 215 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019
• Sep 18: Reimagining the Archive: Black Memory as Design Praxis - The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture
• Sep 22: 2026 Mumford Lecture: Carlos Moreno on Proximity as a New Social Contract for Cities - Spitzer School of Architecture, Great Hall
• Sep 23: From CUNY to Climate Leadership: Latino Voices Shaping a Sustainable Future - 12 W 39th St
• Oct 10: The Light That Shines Through the Universe: Lectures and Meditations | Monuments to War - The High Line
• Oct 27: The Jews of Newport - Temple Emanu-El
• Oct 28: Exhibition Panel | Henry Wessel - Photographs and Books - Grolier Club
• Nov 10: Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric - Grolier Club
• Nov 16: James Hyde, The Trouble with Space in Painting - 133 W 21st St #101c
• Nov 19: The Professor Dan Miron Lecture in Hebrew Literature with Shai Ginsburg - Columbia University
• Mar 16: On This Spot: The Collective Lives of Great New York City Women Artists - 133 W 21st St #101c