Thursday, May 23rd: ABSOLUT Stars & Stripes Dance Party + Free Food
Thursday, May 23rd: ABSOLUT Stars & Stripes Dance Party RSVP for location pm Free, RSVP required DJ Questlove is back at the decks ahead of the Memorial Day weekend for another ABSOLUT® Lunch Break! Join us on Thursday, May 23rd for another one-hour afternoon dance party, complete with a to-go sack lunch. Last month, the [...]
Wednesday, May 22nd: ‘The New Public’
The New Public LaunchPad (721 Franklin Ave., Brooklyn) 4:30-7pm $5 suggested The Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School, Launch Expeditionary Learning School, and Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School, are collaboratively sponsoring a film screening in Crown Heights, Brooklyn of Jyllian Gunter’s documentary, The New Public. This is a joint effort to bring together our diverse school communities [...]
Wednesday, May 22nd: The Wall Street Journal Tech Café with Free Coffee, Pastries & Panels
The Wall Street Journal Tech Café Think Coffee (73 8th Ave., Manhattan) 8am-8pm Free, RSVP here The Wall Street Journal Tech Café is a hub for the entrepreneur and tech communities to share ideas and debate how technology and business coexist. Refuel. Coffee, tea and pastries on us! Recharge. Charging stations will keep your devices [...]
Through Monday, May 27th: Internet Week New York 2013
We believe that New York City is where technology and business and culture meet. This year will begin to explore how technology has disrupted and revolutionized every section of business from food to fashion to healthcare to education. IWNY, taking place this year from May 20-27 2013, was launched in 2008 in cooperation with the [...]
Saturday, May 18th: It’s My Park Day 2013
Join thousands of New Yorkers who come together each It’s My Park Day season to volunteer and celebrate their neighborhood parks and public spaces throughout the five boroughs! It’s My Park Day activities are coordinated by local community groups, City Parks Foundation, and many divisions of the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, including Urban [...]
Saturday, May 18th: Hey Queen’s SRLP Small Works for Big Change After Party Benefit
Hey Queen’s SRLP Small Works for Big Change After Party Benefit Public Assembly (70 N. 6th St., Brooklyn) 10pm-4am $5+ in advance 100% of Proceeds to benefit Sylvia Rivera Law Project! ADVANCED TICKETS ONLY: Sliding Scale $5-$50 The party starts promptly at 10pm following SRLP’s Small Works for Big Change. Performance by GEO WYETH With [...]
Saturday, May 18th: Lupus: Learning and Living
Lupus: Learning and Living The Westin New York Grand Central (212 E. 42nd St., Manhattan) 1-4pm Free Come out on May 18 and celebrate Lupus Awareness Month with us! The Lupus Foundation of America is coming to New York City to share the latest information and raise funds and support to fight one of the [...]
Friday, May 17th: From Sustaining Democracy to the State of the Civic: 20 Years of the Vera List Center for Art & Politics
From Sustaining Democracy to the State of the Civic: 20 Years of the Vera List Center for Art & Politics Tishman Auditorium at The New School (66 W. 12th St., Manhattan) 10am-6:30pm Free On its twentieth anniversary, the Vera List Center assesses the unique role art plays at the intersection of politics and civic life. [...]
Thursday, May 16th: Bronx Bureau Launch Event & Conversation
Bronx Bureau Launch Event & Conversation Bronx Museum of the Arts (1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx) 6-9pm Free with RSVP City Limits, New York City’s leading civic organization, will launch the Bronx Bureau (formerly the Bronx News Network) with our third Tackling Poverty conversation featuring leading civic leaders and a networking reception including community stakeholders, nonprofit [...]
Sunday, May 12th & Sunday, May 19th: ‘A Fierce Green Fire’ Screening
Click here for 50% off tickets to A Fierce Green Fire. Symphony Space hosts a screening of A Fierce Green Fire, narrated by Robert Redford. This documentary chronicles and examines grassroots and global environmental movements spanning more than five decades. Exploring how we’ve ended up where we are today, this dynamic film presents an illuminating [...]
Saturday, May 4th: IDEAS CITY 2013 StreetFest
IDEAS City 2013 StreetFest Around the Bowery & in Sara D. Roosevelt Park, Manhattan 11am-6pm Free IDEAS CITY explores the future of cities around the globe with the belief that arts and culture are essential to the vitality of urban centers, making them better places to live, work, and play. Founded by the New Museum [...]
Saturday, May 4th: Cinco de Derby at Pine Box Rock Shop + Drink Specials & Live Music
Cinco de Derby Pine Box Rock Shop (12 Grattan St., Brooklyn) 2-8pm Free This year, the 138th Annual Kentucky Derby happens to fall on Cinco de Mayo, so come celebrate the Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports with some Mexicano flair. Join members of the Kentuckians of New York and have a bueno ol’ time [...]
Saturday, May 4th: Brooklyn Flea Bake Sale
Brooklyn Flea Bake Sale Brooklyn Flea – Fort Greene (176 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn) 10am Free admission Each Spring, a team of NYC food bloggers and bakers get together to bake a difference for No Kid Hungry. Help end childhood hunger by joining our team at the Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene! Proceeds will benefit No [...]
Saturday, May 4th: How to Teach a Class at Trade School
How to Teach a Class at Trade School STOREFRONT FOR LEARNING (221 E. Broadway, Manhattan) 7-9pm Barter, register here Interested in teaching a class at Trade School? Join us for a brief talk about barter and mutual aid, followed by games and activities where participants identify what they can teach and want to learn. We’ll [...]
Friday, May 3rd: Nonprofits or Public Works to Rebuild Post-Sandy New York? Lessons From Post-Katrina New Orleans
Nonprofits or Public Works to Rebuild Post-Sandy New York? Lessons From Post-Katrina New Orleans Bluestockings (172 Allen St., Manhattan) 7pm Free New Orleans, seven years after Hurricane Katrina, is a capitalist paradise – and workers’ nightmare – of privatized public services where 100,000 people, disproportionally black and poor, have not been able to return to [...]
Thursday, May 2nd: Sandy Witness
Sandy Witness DCTV (87 Lafayette, Manhattan) 7pm doors, 7:30pm start, no admittance after 8pm $10 in advance DCTV and the NYFVC are proud to host an evening of documentaries coming straight out of last fall’s Hurricane Sandy. Featuring live footage taken on the ground from those within the storm, this curation of cell-phone cinema as [...]
Wednesday, May 1st: #sameskyny
Wednesday, May 1 at 7:30PM we invite all of New York to make a picture with some sky in it for a crowd-sourced quasi-cubist portrait of light throughout the city at a particular moment. Interpret as straight or as creatively as you desire. You can submit with or without a smartphone. Click here for more [...]
Tuesday, April 30th: The Urban Agenda and the Second Obama Administration
The Urban Agenda and the Second Obama Administration Arnhold Hall at The New School (55 W. 13th St., 2nd Fl., Manhattan) 6:30-8:30pm Free, RSVP required The Center for New York City Affairs at The New School presents the annual Nathan Levin Lecture on Public Policy. How do cities fit into the current debate in Washington, [...]
Tuesday, April 30th: Next Steps in Your Non-Profit Career
Next Steps in Your Non-Profit Career Wix Lounge (10 West 18th St., 2nd Fl., Manhattan) 6-9pm $15 in advance Join DoGoodBuyUs and Young Non-Profit Professional Network (YNPN) as we help you make your next steps in your career. Meet with Non-Profits looking to hire, get the help you need in fixing up your resume, take [...]
Tuesday, April 30th: What We Learned at the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference
What We Learned at the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference Idealist.org HQ (302 5th Ave., Manhattan) 5:30-7:30pm Free, register here Join us for a recap of NTEN’s 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) with a 501TechNYC and Tech4Good twist. Many of the great speakers came from the NYC area and they’ll share quick recaps of their sessions [...]
Through Sunday, May 5th: PEN World Voices Festival 2013
Writers from across the globe convene in New York to explore bravery in art, politics and personal life. This year’s Festival will examine writers’ impact on political transformations in recent global hot spots such as Burma, Palestine, South Africa, Haiti, and Guantanamo Bay—as well as honor those small acts of bravery displayed in everyday life. [...]
Monday, April 29th: Happy Hour with the Awesome Foundation
Awesome Hours Revival Bar (129 E. 15th St., Manhattan) 7-9pm Free Every month we receive such fun/inspiring/hilarious/surprising/moving grant applications; experiencing them just as words on a screen don’t do them justice. So we’re going to take Awesome into the real world. Please join Awesome Foundation trustees, past grantees, applicants, and other Awesome community members for [...]
