In Person | Talks, Seminars & Discussions

Upcoming Events

• Jul 9: PACxARTs Exhibition: Small Group Artist Talks and Guided Gallery Tour - Thomsen Gallery
• Jul 9: Opening Reception - Hank Blaustein: Drawings & Watercolors - Submitted Location
• Jul 9: CBH Talk | Building Access: The History and Future of Disability Rights - Center for Brooklyn History
• Jul 9: An Evening with Poet John Yau - Morgan Library & Museum
• Jul 9: The Wisdom Bar - "Melville and Moby-Dick" (Lecture-Based, Convo-Focused) - Tribeca
• Jul 9: MOCA Cinema - The Professor: Tai Chi's Journey West - Museum of Chinese in America
• Jul 9: Desire & Solitude: The Cinema of Isabel Sandoval - Asia Society and Museum
• Jul 9: Film Screening – Role Models - International Center of Photography (ICP)
• Jul 9: The Center for Fiction Presents De'Shawn Charles Winslow on The Fervent Whites with Samantha Hunt - The Center for Fiction
• Jul 9: The Ethics of Truth: A Jeffersonian Dinner - Flatiron
• Jul 9: Doug Aitken: Lightscape — William Basinski - The Shed
• Jul 10: NYC Water Tower Walking Tour - The High Line
• Jul 10: Conversations About AI: Vibe Coding - New York Public Library—Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
• Jul 10: Chuck Tingle Discusses New Horror-Comedy Fabulous Bodies - Barnes & Noble - Union Square
• Jul 10: A Black Feminist Climate Arts Salon - Gladys Books & Wine, 306 Malcolm X Boulevard, Brooklyn
• Jul 10: Isabel Sandoval: Aparisyon (Apparition) Screening & Talk - Asia Society and Museum
• Jul 10: Webb Crawford: Spiriting Acoustic Environments Live - ISSUE Project Room
• Jul 11: Alexander Hamilton's NYC Walking Tour - 1 Bowling Green New York, NY US 10004
• Jul 11: Battle of Kip's Bay: Revolutionary War Walking Tour - The tour group will meet at The East River Esplanade at 34th Street New York, NY US
• Jul 11: Tea, Dessert & Design: An Intimate Multisensory Art Experience - Thomsen Gallery
• Jul 11: QQRTT :Queer Quiet Reading Talk Trade - The Hugh - 157 E 53rd St, New York, NY 10022
• Jul 11: Queer Maker Day - Alice Austen House
• Jul 11: NYC Water Tower Walking Tour - The High Line
• Jul 11: Battle in the Margins: A Writing Workshop with Black Gotham - The Free Black Women's Library Reading Room
• Jul 11: Battlegrounds of Central Park Walking Tour: From the Revolution to War of 1812 - The tour group will meet at the entrance to Central Park on the southwest corner of 96th Street and Fifth Ave in Manhattan.
• Jul 11: The Light That Shines Through the Universe: Lectures and Meditations | Buddhism Along the Silk Road - The High Line
• Jul 11: In-Person Author Talk: R. Sikoryak (Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated) - 53rd Street Library
• Jul 11: Hot Takes & Nerdy Topics - Brooklyn Art Haus
• Jul 11: Summer Nights in the Park - Sol Lain Playgroud, 271 Henry Street
• Jul 11: Isabel Sandoval: Moonglow - Asia Society and Museum
• Jul 11: Clash Talk - Union Hall
• Jul 12: AIANY Industrial Waterway Tour: Freshkills Park in Staten Island - Cruises leave from Chelsea Piers (Pier 62)
• Jul 12: Spies of the American Revolution - Manhattan Municipal Building
• Jul 12: Poetry Today Book Club: "The Vitals" by Marie de Quatrebarbes - Book Club Bar
• Jul 12: Declare Independence: Tear Down the King - Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
• Jul 12: Second Sundays: July - Pioneer Works
• Jul 12: Food Lovers Crawl: The Cultures of Brighton Beach - Brighton Beach
• Jul 12: Book Talk with Dr. Catherine Meeks: Bridging the Rivers of Difference - St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
• Jul 12: L’Chaim America! - Museum of Jewish Heritage
• Jul 12: Ruidosa Fest 2026 - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Jul 12: We Met At Grossinger's: The Catskills Era Remembers - The 92nd Street Y, New York
• Jul 13: Sistermoon by Siri Kaur in conversation with Jennifer Sakai - Rizzoli Bookstore
• Jul 13: Improv Basics with James Quesada - Grove 34
• Jul 13: Written Women: Cassandra - Cordelia
• Jul 13: Climate Science and Energy Engineering Dinner - Skylight Diner
• Jul 13: Law of the Land: The Supreme Court Year in Review - The 92nd Street Y, New York
• Jul 13: Indie Movie Monday - And Through The Portal We Go - Q.E.D.
• Jul 14: Art + STEM with Zine Making! - Marymount School of New York
• Jul 14: Gestural Listening: Sound, Touch, and the Body - Pioneer Works
• Jul 14: Museum in Transit: 10 Contemporary Artists in the NYC Subway SOLD OUT - Rizzoli Bookstore
• Jul 14: Jennifer Lynn Barnes Closes the Inheritance Games Saga with The Gilded Blade - Barnes & Noble - Union Square
• Jul 14: In Short: Shirley Jackson’s "The Summer People” with Lesley Finn - The Center for Fiction
• Jul 14: Alyssa Shelasky: Sex Diaries w/ Molly Roden Winter - Books Are Magic (Brooklyn Heights)
• Jul 14: Taste: A Jeffersonian Dinner - Soho
• Jul 14: The Anatomy of Taste: A Jeffersonian Dinner - Union Square
• Jul 15: Panel | Tarot in Art History SOLD OUT - Morgan Library & Museum
• Jul 15: Our Flag Was Still There: Moving From the American Revolution to 9/11 - National September 11 Memorial & Museum
• Jul 15: J.R. Ward Discusses Crown of War and Shadow at BNUSQ - Barnes & Noble - Fifth Avenue
• Jul 15: Debut Novelist Panel, with Portia Elan, Juliet Izon, & Sara Maurer - P&T Knitwear
• Jul 15: The Wisdom Bar – “Everything You Know About Traditional Marriage Is Wrong” - Midtown East,  Manhattan, NY
• Jul 15: An Evening with Brian Tyler Cohen — The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World - The 92nd Street Y, New York
• Jul 15: Maris Kreizman + Special Guests: I Want to Burn This Place Down - The Strand
• Jul 15: Velvet Brooklyn Psychic Night - Submitted Location
• Jul 15: Emoji: The Hieroglyphs of Our Time... - Brooklyn Art Haus
• Jul 16: Rare Look Inside M&S Schmalberg: NYC's Last Custom Fabric Flower Factory - M & S Schmalberg (7th Floor)
• Jul 16: Moon Tree Launch Party
• Jul 16: Curator Talk: 50 Years of Stories - New York Transit Museum
• Jul 16: AIGA NY Presents: Arsh Raziuddin - Designing NYC’s World Cup Moment - Museum of Arts and Design
• Jul 16: Curator’s Tour—“Yves Saint Laurent and Photography” & “Photobooks USA 2000–25” - International Center of Photography (ICP)
• Jul 16: SOLD OUT - Arsh Raziuddin ~ Designing NYC's World Cup Moment - Museum of Arts and Design
• Jul 16: Jamie Johnson: Growing Up Travelling - Vernissage - Leica Store and Gallery New York
• Jul 16: CBH Talk | Country of Lords: Kim Phillips-Fein in Conversation with Steven Hahn - Center for Brooklyn History
• Jul 16: What Are Our Children Really Learning From Us? - Manhattan Meditation Center - Brahma Kumaris - 306 5th Ave 2nd floor, New York, NY 10001, United States
• Jul 16: A Night at Niblo's Garden - Green-Wood Cemetery
• Jul 16: The Talented Major Tallmadge: Presentation by Richard F. Welch - Bayside Historical Society
• Jul 16: Odyssey: Live! - Brooklyn Comedy Collective
• Jul 16: Dr Kara Kibara – The Love Guru - Brooklyn Art Haus
• Jul 17: ICP x Metrograph—Dressed by Yves Saint Laurent Film Series - Metrograph
• Jul 17: Tarot Readings with Yesbelt Fernandez - Morgan Library & Museum
• Jul 17: Jazz at the Plaza - Abrons Arts Center
• Jul 17: Om Shanti Om on 35mm - Asia Society and Museum
• Jul 18: ICP Community Day - International Center of Photography (ICP)
• Jul 18: Spies of the American Revolution - Manhattan Municipal Building
• Jul 18: Harlem Walking Tour with John T. Reddick - Poster House
• Jul 18: Woodlawn Art Deco Icons Trolley Tour - Woodlawn Cemetery - 4199 Webster Avenue, Bronx, NY 10470
• 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: My Evil Twin, A Cabaret Musical - Marjorie S Deane Little Theater, 10 W 64th ST, New York NY
• Jul 18: Matana Roberts + Ben Vida Live - ISSUE Project Room
• Jul 19: Carnegie Hill — Where Gilded Age Mansions Became Schools and Museums - The Municipal Art Society of New York, Carnegie Hill
• Jul 19: SOLD OUT - Walk and Talk with Bushwick Historic Preservation and The Evergreens - The Evergreens Cemetery
• Jul 19: Body Alchemy with Hugh Herr and Ana Rajčević - Pioneer Works
• 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 20: After5NewYork - Why Wine is Beautiful: The Story Hidden in Every Bottle - West Village (Location provided upon registration)
• Jul 20: Noel Coward's This Was A Man - Players Club
• Jul 20: Pamela Colloff: Catch the Devil with Sarah Weinman - Books Are Magic (Brooklyn Heights)
• Jul 20: And Scene - Caveat
• Jul 20: Forever Green Soundbath - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
• Jul 21: NYC Water Tower Walking Tour - The High Line
• Jul 21: Growing Up Travelling: Jamie Johnson on Photographing Irish Traveller Children - Leica Store and Gallery New York
• Jul 21: SOLD OUT - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Panel & Screening - The 92nd Street Y, New York
• Jul 21: Colson Whitehead - McNally Jackson Books at BKLYN STUDIOS
• Jul 21: Olio Read-in: A Close Reading of Kafka's Metamorphosis - The Lighthouse—Think Olio
• 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 - Submitted Location
• Jul 22: Lectures on Tap - The Untold History of Riot Control in the U.S. SOLD OUT - Midtown Manhattan - Location provided upon registration.Location provided upon registration
• Jul 22: Robert Moor: In Trees w/ Andrew Marantz - Books Are Magic (Cobble Hill)
• Jul 22: Locker Room Talk or: How to Survive in a "Straight" Man's World - Brooklyn Art Haus - 24 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
• Jul 22: Skip the Small Talk Night at Bibliotheque NYC - Bibliotheque - 54 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10013
• Jul 22: Awakening Lion: Yingge Dance - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Jul 22: In-Store | Jessica M. Goldstein: Retro w/ Casey Scieszka - Books Are Magic (Brooklyn Heights)
• Jul 22: Movies in the Park: Little Miss Sunshine - Tompkins Square Park
• Jul 23: Lectures on Tap - The Bone Wars: A Feud That Shaped American Paleontology SOLD OUT - Lower East Side (Location TBA)
• Jul 23: ICP x Asian American Arts Alliance — July Town Hall: Film & Media - International Center of Photography (ICP)
• Jul 23: Matt Cooper, Major Arcana Magician - Morgan Library & Museum
• Jul 23: Sarah Minor in Conversation with Jordan Kisner: Carousel - Books Are Magic (Brooklyn Heights)
• Jul 23: About Face: Disrupting Ballet (Screening) - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Jul 23: Midcentury Stereopanorama: See the 1950s in Astonishing 3-D - FatCat Fab Lab
• Jul 23: Do It Live w/ Chika - Caveat
• Jul 24: Behind the Scenes Archive Tour SOLD OUT - New York Transit Museum
• Jul 24: Inside the Society of Illustrators: Norman Rockwell Painting to Archives - Society of Illustrators
• Jul 24: The Ocean Etched in the Forest - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Jul 24: The Nighttime Routine Talk Show! - The Gutter
• Jul 25: NYC Water Tower Walking Tour - The High Line
• Jul 25: Natural Potions for Insect Repellent with Julianne Zaleta - Old Stone House of Brooklyn
• Jul 25: B&N Union Square's Festival of Authors - Barnes & Noble - Union Square
• Jul 25: A Collector of Me: Art, Play, and Archival Practice - The Free Black Women's Library Reading Room
• Jul 25: Tavern Night with Morris-Jumel Mansion - Morris-Jumel Mansion
• Jul 25: Black Chorus Girls: A Panel Conversation - Poster House
• Jul 25: Hanggai Live in Concert - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Jul 25: Drunk Planet Earth - Caveat
• Jul 26: Lighthouse Scenic Boat Tours: The East River and Long Island Sound - National Lighthouse Museum
• Jul 26: True Crime the Musical - Caveat
• Jul 26: Natural Bee Workshop - Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space
• Jul 26: On The Watchlist with Jay Servedio - Caveat
• Jul 26: Qi Yu: Guzheng Meets Jazz - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Jul 26: Comedians Interview Experts: The MTA vs. Japan with Adam Chase and Jake Berman - Caveat
• Jul 27: Lectures on Tap - Feminist Philosophies of The Handmaid’s Tale - Midtown Manhattan - Location provided upon registration.
• Jul 27: Lectures on Tap - "Unlocking the Secrets of Beethoven's Fifth" - Williamsburg (LOCATION TBA)
• Jul 27: Midnight Release Party: H.M. Wolfe Debuts Genre-Bending Fantasy Romance Daggermouth - Barnes & Noble - Union Square
• 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 28: The Center for Fiction Presents Valeria Luiselli on Beginning Middle End - The Center for Fiction
• Jul 28: False Harmonics #27: Dean Hurley, C. Lavender, Ash Fure - Pioneer Works
• Jul 28: Dean Hurley, C. Lavender, Ash Fure - Pioneer Works
• Jul 29: Sunset Boat Tour: Port Infrastructure - Pier 83 (Circle Line Cruises) - 12th Avenue and West 43rd Street New York, NY 10036
• Jul 29: The Wisdom Bar - “When Communication Matters (And When It Doesn’t)” - NYC (TBA)
• Jul 29: Annie Jacobsen with Elliot Ackerman: Nuclear War Scenarios - The 92nd Street Y, New York
• Jul 30: Samantha Paige Rosen: Living, Together w/ Alex Alberto, Sarah Thankam Mathews, & Mia Arias Tsang - Books Are Magic (Brooklyn Heights)
• Jul 30: Doug Aitken: Lightscape — Suzanne Ciani - The Shed
• Jul 31: EAVESDROPPING: The Erotics of Listening - The Lighthouse—Think Olio
• Aug 1: Spies of the American Revolution - Manhattan Municipal Building
• Aug 4: I Don't Think About Being Great: Selected Writings by Robert Rauschenberg - The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery
• 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: A Deco Stroll Through Midtown East - Midtown East
• Aug 6: Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie Yee - Rizzoli Bookstore
• Aug 8: Poetry Workshop with Taylor Mali - Morgan Library & Museum
• Aug 9: Lighthouse Scenic Boat Tours: Statue of Liberty Sunset Harbor Cruise - National Lighthouse Museum
• Aug 13: Days of Miracle and Wonder by Ashley Kahn - Rizzoli Bookstore
• Aug 13: In Short: Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock with Amanda Lehr - The Center for Fiction
• Aug 13: Doug Aitken: Lightscape — Sun Ra Arkestra - The Shed
• Aug 14: Deco After Dark - Yacht Club - The Yacht Club - 212 12th Ave, New York, NY 10018
• Aug 15: In Short: Black Femme Transformation in Eloghosa Osunde's "Grief Is the Gift That Breaks the Spirit Open" with Magenta Naaku - The Center for Fiction
• Aug 15: Fiction Writing 101 - 151 W 30th St 3rd floor
• Aug 15: Jazz at the Plaza - Abrons Arts Center
• Aug 16: Spies of the American Revolution - Manhattan Municipal Building
• Aug 19: Movies in the Park: Beasts of the Southern Wild - Tompkins Square Park
• Aug 20: Creative Spirits: Stained Glass, Restoration and the Art of Light (Oyster Bay) - Planting Fields
• Aug 20: Film Screening | August - El Museo del Barrio
• Aug 21: Tarot Readings with Meg Jones Wall - Morgan Library & Museum
• Aug 22: Carnival4Corazon - The Climate Imaginarium, Governors Island
• 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 29: Spies of the American Revolution - Manhattan Municipal Building
• Aug 29: Community Day - Sol Lain Playgroud, 271 Henry Street
• Aug 29: In Short: Black Femme Transformation in 'Pemi Aguda's "Manifest" with Magenta Naaku - The Center for Fiction
• Aug 29: Notes in Nature: Summer Symphonies (Oyster Bay) - Planting Fields
• Aug 31: Album Release Concert: Zarabanda Variations - National Sawdust
• Sep 6: Spies of the American Revolution - Manhattan Municipal Building
• Sep 8: Victoria Aveyard Discusses New Pirate Romance Tempest - Barnes & Noble - Union Square
• Sep 8: Between the Ditches and Ramparts [screening + discussion] - Bohemian National Hall
• Sep 12: R.F. Kuang: Taipei Story (Deluxe Limited Edition Launch) at Symphony Space - Symphony Space
• Sep 13: Writing That Is Not Writing: A Generative Workshop with Adrienne Raphel - The Center for Fiction
• 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 16: So Many Issues with Lukas - Brooklyn Art Haus
• Sep 19: Bring Your Speculative Fiction to Life with Jayson Greene - The Center for Fiction
• Sep 20: Lighthouse Scenic Boat Tours: Hudson River Cruise - National Lighthouse Museum
• Sep 28: The O'Shaughnessy Lecture: Secret Communications in the Revolutionary War - Fraunces Tavern Museum
• Oct 4: Music Before 1800: The Blood of the Rose - Corpus Christi Church, 529 W. 121st St.
• Oct 8: Surviving the 2:00 AM Automate Rejection: the "Unwanted Divorce" of Modern Work NYC - 555 Broadway
• Oct 10: Lahore Literary Festival in New York 2026 - Asia Society and Museum
• Oct 10: The Light That Shines Through the Universe: Lectures and Meditations | Monuments to War - The High Line
• Oct 15: Stile Antico: Polyphonic Postcards - Church of St. Mary the Virgin
• Oct 25: Cirque Kalabanté: WOW (World Of Words) - Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College
• Oct 27: The Jews of Newport - Temple Emanu-El
• Oct 30: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Spooktacular Tour - The Town Hall
• Nov 5: Inner Frame Film Festival - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Nov 8: Music Before 1800: Children of Orpheus - Corpus Christi Church - 529 W. 121 St., New York City, NY 10027
• Nov 12: The Gesualdo Six: Fading - Church of St. Mary the Virgin
• Nov 19: The Professor Dan Miron Lecture in Hebrew Literature with Shai Ginsburg - Columbia University
• Dec 3: The Tallis Scholars: Hail Mary - Church of St. Mary the Virgin
• Dec 13: Music Before 1800: De la Vida Deste Mundo - Corpus Christi Church, 529 W. 121st St.
• Jan 24: Music Before 1800: La Santísima Virgen Maria - Corpus Christi Church, 529 W. 121st St.
• Feb 11: Quince Ensemble | Cantus ad Fontem: The Sound of Water - Church of St. Mary the Virgin
• Feb 21: Music Before 1800: Baroque Song of Latin America - Corpus Christi Church, 529 W. 121st St.
• Mar 4: Cappella Pratensis and Piffaro: A Mass for Manila - Church of St. Mary the Virgin
• Mar 14: Music Before 1800 | CANTIGAS: Songs of Mystic Spain - Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 53 Central Park W.
• Apr 4: Music Before 1800: Invention of the Orchestra - Corpus Christi Church, 529 W. 121st St.