Sunday, April 28th: Hipster Dog Costume Competition to Benefit Cancer Relief
Hipster Dog Costume Competition McGolrick Park, Brooklyn 9am-noon $5 Dog Competitions Schedule 10AM – Most Fashionable 10:30 – Celebrity Look Alike 11:00 – Best Haircut 11:30 – Best Trick 12:00 – “Hippest” Click here for more cheap New York City events & things to do.
Sunday, April 28th: Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale for Food Not Bombs
Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale for Food Not Bombs MooShoes (78 Orchard St., Manhattan) 12:30-5:30pm Free admission Head to MooShoes on Sunday, April 28 to support Food Not Bombs NYC and enjoy some delicious vegan treats. In addition to glorious baked goods, FNB volunteers will be on hand to answer any questions you may have and [...]
Saturday, April 27th: Day of Suggested Donation Brooklyn Skillshare Classes
Brooklyn Skillshare Gowanus Ballroom (55 9th Street in Brooklyn) 10am-7pm $10 suggested donation • Japanese Bookbinding • Make Your Own Ricotta • Indian cooking – Classic curries • Knitting 101: fingerless gloves in the round • Japanese Shibori dying techniques • How to order wine in a restaurant • Double Dutch • Xerox Print Transfer [...]
Saturday, April 27th: Free Rooftop Films Screening of ‘Stand Clear of the Closing Doors’
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors Rockaway Beach, between Beach 94th St. and Beach 95th St. at Shore Front Parkway, Queens 7pm doors, 8pm start Free When autistic teen Ricky is scolded for skipping class, he escapes into the subway for a days-long odyssey among the subway’s disparate denizens. Meanwhile, his mother wages an escalating [...]
Saturday, April 27th: DIY Days NYC 2013
DIY Days NYC 2013 Tishman Auditorium at The New School (66 W. 12th St., Manhattan) 9:15am-8pm Free, register here A roving gathering for those who create. FREE to participants and organized by volunteers – diy days is about the accessibility of ideas, resources and networking that can enable creators to fund, create, distribute and sustain. [...]
Saturday, April 27th: Design on a Dime 2013 Interior Design Sale
Design on a Dime 2013 Interior Design Sale Metropolitan Pavilion (125 W. 18th St., Manhattan) 10am-6pm Free admission Buy furniture, art, home accessories, and gifts curated by over 60 of the world’s top interior designers for 50–70 % off retail pricing. Click here for more free New York City events & things to do.
Friday, April 26th: Technology, Art & Disaster
Technology, Art & Disaster Institute for Public Knowledge (20 Cooper Square, 7th Fl., Manhattan) 6-8pm Free, RSVP here This Public Forum will address Technology, Art and Disaster. Today, communities respond to crises in a variety of ways. Beyond traditional methods of banding together, resource collection, and story sharing, other creative and constructive projects have emerged [...]
Thursday, April 25th: Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age
Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age Institute for Public Knowledge (20 Cooper Square, 5th Fl., Manhattan) 7-8:30pm Free with RSVP Join the Department of Media Culture and Communication at NYU Steinhardt and the Institute for Public Knowledge in celebrating the publication of C.W. Anderson’s new book Rebuilding the News: Metropolitan Journalism in [...]
Tuesday, April 23rd: World Book Night 2013
World Book Night is an annual celebration dedicated to spreading the love of reading, person to person. Each year on April 23, tens of thousands of people go out into their communities and give half a million free World Book Night paperbacks to light and non-readers. World Book Night is about giving books and encouraging [...]
Tuesday, April 23rd: SAYSO 2013: Sexual Assault Yearly Speak Out
SAYSO 2013: Sexual Assault Yearly Speak Out Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza, Brooklyn 2:30-5:30pm Free Information Fair, Survivor Tribute, Self Defense Demo, Raffles and much more. Click here for more free New York City events & things to do.
Monday, April 22nd: ‘It’s Time We Talked’
It’s Time We Talked Bluestockings (172 Allen St., Manhattan) 7pm $5 suggested “It’s Time We Talked” is a wry and intense road trip across direct democracy’s history and potential in America. It probes archival materials, the stories of ballot activists of all stripes, our political assumptions, and everyday people’s ideas for laws to make a [...]
Monday, April 22nd: Celebrating Freedom: A Lecture by Sherrill D. Wilson
Celebrating Freedom: A Lecture by Sherrill D. Wilson Washington Square Institute (41-51 East 11th Street, 4th Fl., Manhattan) 7-8:30pm Free, RSVP: rsvp@gvshp.org July 4, 1827 was the legal and official beginning of the emancipation of African enslaved people in New York City, although some did not gain full freedom until nearly 20 years later. Africans [...]
Sunday, April 21st: ‘Do the Math’ Screening with Bill McKibben
Do the Math Tishman Auditorium at The New School (66 W. 12th St., Manhattan) 7-9pm Free, registration required JOIN US FOR THE PREMIERE OF DO THE MATH on EARTH NIGHT! Do The Math chronicles Bill McKibben and the rising global movement to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis and fight the fossil fuel [...]
Saturday, April 20th: Earth Fest @ The Battery
Earth Fest @ The Battery State St. & Pearl St., Manhattan 11am-3pm Free Join Battery Urban Farmers and friends for this free, family-friendly event. EARTH FEST will offer arts and crafts, workshops, site tours, educational games, a “Roof to Table” photography exhibit, a “Meet the Farmers” table, and a community Clothing & Kitchen Swap — [...]
Saturday, April 20th & Sunday, April 21st: Green Festival NYC 2013
Green Festival NYC 2013 Jacob K. Javitz Center, Manhattan Saturday: 10am-6pm Sunday: 11am-5pm $10 in advance On Earth Day Weekend, April 19-21, New York City Green Festival returns to Javits Center North celebrate community with the largest, most diverse and most trusted place for learning, shopping, networking and having fun. The Festival will feature favorites, [...]
Through Monday, April 22nd: Earth Day 2013 at Grand Central
Earth Day 2013 Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan 10am-6pm daily Free Earth Day 2013 is almost here and Earth Day New York is back in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall for three days of activities from Saturday, April 20 to Monday, April 22! From 10:00 am to 6:00 pm daily, there will be live performances, [...]
Saturday, April 20th: Balkan Shout Out 2013
Balkan Shout Out The Ukrainian National Home (140 2nd Ave., Manhattan) 7:30pm $15 in advance The “Balkan Shout Out” is a fundraising event to benefit the EEFC (East European Folklife Center). The EEFC has been a home to Balkan music, dance and culture in the United States for over 25 years. The Balkan Shout Out, [...]
Saturday, April 20th: A Kiss for Sex Worker Rights
A Kiss for Sex Worker Rights UnionDocs (322 Union Ave., Brooklyn) 2 sessions: 7:30pm & 9pm $9 each or $15 for both What happens when sex workers seize the day by running for political office and storm the halls of government? Not only do we demand rights for our communities, we defend the rights of [...]
Saturday, April 20th & Sunday, April 21st: Irish Famine Tribunal
Irish Famine Tribunal Fordham University Law School (142 W. 62nd St., Manhattan) Saturday: 10am-4:30pm Sunday: 11am-4:30pm Free, register here The Irish Famine of 1845-1852 (also known as the Great Hunger or An Gorta Mór) is one of the most catastrophic famines in modern history. It is estimated that over one million people died, two and [...]
Monday, April 15th: ‘The Island President’
The Island President DCTV (87 Lafayette, Manhattan) 7:30pm, no admission after 8pm Free with RSVP IDA’s Pare Lorentz Award recipient The Island President, directed by Jon Shenk, is the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced-the literal survival of his [...]
Monday, April 15th: ‘We Are Not Machines! The Struggles of Slave Workers in China’
“We Are Not Machines! The Struggles of Slave Workers in China” Bluestockings (172 Allen St., Manhattan) 7pm $5 suggested with Members of the Gongchao Collective The Chinese-Taiwanese company Foxconn employs more than one million people in China alone. As the world’s biggest contract manufacturer in electronics, it works for Apple and many other large brands [...]
Tuesday, April 16th: One Day Without Shoes: A Barefoot March With a Mission
Click here for 50% off tickets to One Day Without Shoes: A Barefoot March With a Mission. Are you willing to hit the streets of New York shoeless if it’s for a good cause? One Day Without Shoes, started by the socially conscious shoe company TOMS, has become an annual tradition. People everywhere put aside [...]
