Sunday, July 15th: CHERYL: On The Waterfront
CHERYL: On The Waterfront Pier 16, The Seaport, Manhattan 5pm Free Art Party Impresarios CHERYL bring their signature high-concept hi-jinks – DJs and dancing, characters in costume, hands-on art-making activities for grown-ups and more – to Pier 16. Dockworkers, priests, blonde ladies and fishmongers populate the pier and The Ambrose for a waterfront dance party. [...]
Sunday, July 15th: MP3 Experiment Nine with Improv Everywhere
MP3 Experiment Nine Governors Island 3-3:46pm Free Wear: Clothing instructions are based on your birthday: – Birthdays January – June: A solid color shirt (any color but black or white) – Birthdays July – December: A solid black or white shirt Bring: A bag (purse, backpack, messenger bag, shopping bag, etc.) that has the following [...]
Sunday, July 15th: Artists Respond: Mark di Suvero
Artists Respond: Mark di Suvero Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island 3pm Free Using the monumental sculptures of Mark di Suvero as a jumping off point, artist Dana Sherwood will conduct a literary reading tour with the aim of reflecting on the dynamic relationship that the works have in the natural landscape of [...]
Sunday, July 15th: Creating Sailor’s Valentines
Get $5 tickets to the South Street Seaport Museum here. Creating Sailor’s Valentines South Street Seaport Museum (12 Fulton St., Manhattan) 10:30m Free, RSVP requested In the 1800s, sailor’s valentines were often made by sailors’ loved ones while they were away at sea. Using colorful shells and other materials, children and families will create their [...]
Sunday, July 15th: Alarm Will Sound Performs John Cage
Alarm Will Sound Performs John Cage Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University (3 Spruce St., Manhattan) 7:30pm Free Alarm Will Sound’s fans know that the group has been combining music and theater for some time now. What they might not know is that John Cage’s work was an early inspiration to take [...]
Saturday, July 14th: Come Out & Play Field Day
Come Out & Play Field Day Governors Island, Manhattan Noon Free Come Out & Play Field Day returns to Governors Island for another day of wild new field games. Field Day will feature a range of new games from open field dodgeball battles to small social games to new sports. Some games make use of [...]
Saturday, July 14th: Ecstatic™ Summer: A Far Cry Orchestra / Oneohtrix Point Never / David Lang
Ecstatic™ Summer: A Far Cry Orchestra / Oneohtrix Point Never / David Lang World Financial Center Winter Garden (200 Vesey St., Manhattan) 7pm Free Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (and co-founder of Bang on a Can) David Lang’s hour-long, slowly-evolving work for strings, Darker, is the starting point for a live re-imagination by Oneohtrix Point Never (Daniel [...]
Saturday, July 14th: Ink, Pull, Roll: Printmaking
Get $5 tickets to the South Street Seaport Museum here. Ink, Pull, Roll: Printmaking South Street Seaport Museum (12 Fulton St., Manhattan) 10am Free, RSVP here Learn about the art and technology of printing and then create your own print. Afterwards, visit our historic print shop, Bowne & Co Stationers just a block away from [...]
Saturday, July 14th: Tamimiami Pixilation Project
Tamimiami Pixilation Project Governors Island 11am Free Drawing inspiration from the sculpture Tamimiami by Mark di Suvero, located in Nolan Park, join CMA Teaching Artists to explore the art of pixilation, animate your own body, and create your own choreography to bring the sculpture to life. Click here for more free New York City events [...]
Friday, July 13th: Come Out & Play After Dark
Come Out & Play After Dark 210 Front St., Manhattan 9pm Free Come Out & Play After Dark turns @Seaport and the surrounding streets into a twilight playground. Dash through the streets in a massive player hunt. Play life-sized video games and dive into new technology enabled sports. Each year Come Out & Play brings [...]
Friday, July 13th: Eleanor Friedberger with Ex Cops
Eleanor Friedberger with Ex Cops Pier 17, Manhattan 7pm Free Eleanor Friedberger is an exceptional songwriter, a fearless performer, and one of the sweetest alto voices in music. A masterful wordsmith, Friedberger mashes up colorful, complicated lyrical lines into beautiful refrains, often describing whirlwind New York moments within her narratives. Her performances are delivered with [...]
Friday, July 13th: Tap It Out
Tap It Out World Financial Center Plaza (200 Vesey St., Manhattan) Noon Free Imagine a chorus of 300 tapping feet performing an a cappella choreography that weaves together several tap dance styles and vernacular movement. Tap City participants will join local professionals in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the American Tap Dance Foundation to [...]
Thursday, July 12th: George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic
George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic Rockefeller Park, Manhattan 7pm Free One of the most influential names in R&B and funk music, George Clinton is the leader of Parliament/Funkadelic (or P-Funk), a collective of wildly talented musicians who revolutionized soul music in the 70s by incorporating influences from Hendrix, Zappa, and Sly. George and P-Funk have been [...]
Thursday, July 12th: Occupy Wall Street: Camera and Subject
Get $5 tickets to the South Street Seaport Museum here. Occupy Wall Street: Camera and Subject South Street Seaport Museum (12 Fulton St., Manhattan) 6:30pm Free, RSVP requested The exhibition Occupy Wall Street: A Photographic Document features the work of New York City’s Occupy Wall Street protests, captured by a wide range of talented photographers [...]
Monday, July 9th: ‘Side By Side’
Side By Side Elevated Acre (55 Water St., Manhattan) 6pm doors, 8pm start Free Join Keanu Reeves on a tour of the past and the future of filmmaking in Side By Side. Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form [...]
Sunday, July 8th: The Art of Letterpress Workshop
Get $5 tickets to the South Street Seaport Museum here. The Art of Letterpress Workshop Bowne & Co. Stationers at the South Street Seaport Museum (211 Water St., Manhattan) 3pm Free, RSVP requested Operational since the 19th century, the Museum’s Letterpress Shop, Bowne & Co. Stationers, boasts an impressive collection that includes several letterpress machines [...]
Sunday, July 8th: Free Knot Tying Workshop
Free Knot Tying Workshop Pier 16, Manhattan 10:30am Free There are many different kinds of knots that sailors use when they work on ships. Try your hand at making a square knot, figure eight, and bowline, and learn why each one has its own unique purpose. The meeting point is on Pier 16. If it [...]
Saturday, July 7th: Free Basketweaving Class
Basketweaving Pier 16, Manhattan 10:30am Free, RSVP suggested Handmade baskets were an essential container for carrying and storing things. To pass the time, sailors often weaved baskets when they were off duty. Learn this art and practice the weaving methods used by sailors decades ago to begin your own basket. The meeting point is on [...]
Saturday, July 7th: ‘Graphic Design—Now In Production’
Graphic Design—Now In Production Building 110 on Governors Island 11am Free Enjoy free family programs inspired by the exhibition Graphic Design—Now In Production, featuring fun and simple activities that allow you to experiment with materials, try new techniques and think like a designer. Designer talks and tours of the exhibition are on offer as well. [...]
Friday, July 6th: Patrick Watson with Loney Dear
Patrick Watson with Loney Dear Pier 17 7pm Free A chance to hear from Patrick Watson’s newest album Adventures In Your Own Backyard. Adventures… was made at home after a grueling five-year run that saw Watson and his band – bassist Mishka Stein, guitarist Simon Angell, and drummer Robbie Kuster – tour the world in [...]
Friday, July 6th: South Street Seaport History and Archaeology Walking Tour
Get $5 tickets to the South Street Seaport Museum here. South Street Seaport History and Archaeology Walking Tour South Street Seaport Museum (12 Fulton St., 1pm Free The South Street Seaport is a neighborhood literally built on shipping. The buildings in this historic district were designed for sea – trade businesses, and the streets themselves [...]
Through Sunday, July 22nd: ‘Twelfth Night’ by New York Classical Theatre
Twelfth Night by New York Classical Theatre Castle Clinton, Battery Park, Manhattan 7pm Free July 5-8, July 10-15 & July 17-22 New York Classical Theatre, the company that brought you last season’s epic production of Henry V, presents William Shakespeare’s greatest comedy: Twelfth Night. A magical journey of mistaken identities, misguided lovers and joyous celebration [...]
Thursday, July 5th: Megan Burtt & The Cure for Love
Megan Burtt & The Cure for Love One New York Plaza (Water & Whitehall St., Manhattan) 12:30pm Free Megan Burtt travels the world relentlessly seeking the moments of grit and grace that make every day precious, capturing these emotional experiences in song. Burtt is joined by her band, The Cure For Love, featuring Louis Cato, [...]
Tuesday, July 3rd: Arieb Azhar
Arieb Azhar Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University (3 Spruce St., Manhattan) 7:30pm Free Sharp eloquence, humanist politics, and mystic poetries are given a global voice by this singer-songwriter and his acoustic band from Islamabad, Pakistan. Defying easy categorization, Arieb Azhar’s mesmerizing baritone “encompasses about all the emotions life has to offer.” [...]
