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New York attracts world's best minds to its shores: they come here to interact with each other at conferences and seminars, and while they are here they are often invited to give a talk, a lecture, to be a part of a public discussion. We at Club Free Time give you an opportunity to be a part of it: to watch how those best minds in the world work! Don't miss the opportunities that only New York City (NYC) provides!
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46 free talks, lectures, discussions in New York City (NYC) Mon, 06/08/2026 - and on...
In New York City, you can talk with and listen to the best minds in the world without spending a dime! Just take a look at free talks, lectures, discussion, seminars, conferences listed on this page below!
Book Discussion | NY State Senator Shares His New Book, The Fourth Branch: How State Government Can Save Our Union (In Person AND Online!)
In conversation with a very special guest moderator, author Daniel Squadron discusses the power of state government and how to participate meaningfully in American democracy today. Reconsider where power really lies in American democracy--and how to use it. In his new book, The Fourth Branch, Daniel Squadron--co-founder of The States Project, an initiative that organizes support for state legislatures, and former New York State Senator--argues that the real site of change, and the greatest opportunity for impact, lies closer to home. The Fourth Branch explores the role that state legislatures play in shaping everyday life, and the roles that we can play in impacting our state legislatures. For nearly every major issue--from climate change and minimum wage to reproductive rights--there are crucial actions that citizens can take to make lasting, concrete change.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jun 8
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Talk | New Yorker & National Geographic Photographer Discusses Her Craft & Career
Enjoy a talk with Elizabeth Krist, a photography editor at National Geographic magazine for over 20 years, and now on the board of Women Photograph, and a contributing editor for Virginia Quarterly Review. She curated the National Geographic Society’s “Women of Vision” exhibition and book, the latest Women Photograph annual, and five Photoville installations. She helped program the National Geographic Photography Seminar for over ten years. Elizabeth is a member of the curators group Oracle and recently edited two 2026 books with Michael Yamashita. She has freelanced for The New Yorker and Magnum Photos. She teaches for ICP and is collaborating with CatchLight, the New York Portfolio Review, Joop Swart Masterclass, the Alexia Grants, Apple, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, and the Griffin Museum of Photography. NPPA recognized her with their 2025 Outstanding Leader Award.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jun 9
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Tue, Jun 9
8:00 pm
Regular: $50
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Book Discussion | Late Night with Seth Meyers & New Yorker Writers Diusucss Crafting Comedic Works
Enjoy a panel of comedy writers with Jenny Hagel (Advice No One Asked For: Essays) and Maeve Dunigan (Read This to Look Cool: Essays and Overthinkings). Hosted by Ilana Levine, actress and podcaster at Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine. Maeve Dunigan is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. Her work has also appeared in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Reductress, Mountain Gazette, Mic, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts podcast. Jenny Hagel is an Emmy-nominated TV writer and comedy performer in New York City. She is a writer/performer on Late Night with Seth Meyers, where she created the recurring segment "Jokes Seth Can't Tell." She was also head writer and executive producer of The Amber Ruffin Show. Other writing credits include The Golden Globe Awards, Impractical Jokers, and The Big Gay Sketch Show.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 10
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
Free
Gallery Talk | Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum
Join a museum educator for a brief gallery talk tracing how a Gilded Age mansion was transformed into a world-class art museum.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 10
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Read & Analyze Nobel Prize Winner's Poetry, Seventeen Poems by Tomas Tranströmer
Read and discuss Tomas Tranströmer's Seventeen Poems (translated by Robin Fulton, from The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems). Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015) was a Swedish lyrical poet noted for his spare but resonant language, particularly his unusual metaphors—more transformative than substitutive—which have been associated with a literary surrealism. His verse was at once revelatory and mysterious. Tranströmer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011. Tranströmer’s first collection of poetry, 17 dikter (1954; Seventeen Poems), showed the influence of Modernism in its spare language and startling imagery, and it met with critical acclaim.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 10
4:30 pm
Free
4:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Quiet Reading Meet Up
Bring a book or check one out of the library to read to yourself for one hour. After that, spend an hour socializing with those around you!
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 10
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Book Launch: The Jellyfish Problem by Tessa Yang
Author Tessa Yang shares her new novel, The Jellyfish Novel, in conversation with Yume Kitasei. A marine biologist makes the discovery of a lifetime when called to rescue the inhabitants of a small Maine island being menaced by a giant, glowing jellyfish in this richly imagined, wholly original debut.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jun 11
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Award Winning Authors Discuss Contemporary Art Book, Mothers of Invention
Enjoy a panel discussion with the authors of Mothers of Invention, followed by a reception celebrating the opening of the exhibition. In this landmark book, Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott offer a radical rethinking of contemporary art through a feminist lens. Tracing the lineages of performance, abstraction, craft, and ecofeminism, they reveal the profound influence of pioneering women artists on practices that define the field today. Together, the authors will reflect on the ideas at the heart of the book and exhibition, exploring how feminist artists challenged dominant narratives and helped shape a more expansive, inclusive, and socially engaged art world.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Jun 12
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Talk | Curator-Led Journey through the Diverse Treasures and Unique Heritage of Nubian Art
This lecture will present an overview of 6,000 years of objects from Nubia’s diverse cultures and empires. It will attempt to define the characteristics of Nubian art, emphasizing how it differs from Egyptian art to which it is often — but incorrectly — unfavorably compared. Dr. Rita Freed, curator emerita at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, explores Nubia’s artistic richness. Nubia, the land of the Nile Cataracts, produced art that speaks to the creativity of its artists, architects, crafts people, and thinkers. Yet until recently, its material culture has not received the attention it deserves. Presented in collaboration with the American Research Center in Egypt’s National and New York Chapter, Dr. Freed focuses upon the diverse treasures and unique heritage of this land encompassing southern Egypt and northern Sudan.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Jun 12
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Discussion | Death Cafe Discussion Group
An informal, group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. The purpose of Death Cafe is "to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives." This is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, Jun 13
3:30 pm
Free
3:30 pm
Free
Discussion | Vanity Fair Contributor Discusses Dracula on Film
Enjoy a conversation on Dracula films with Olivia Rutigliano, hosted by film connoisseur Scott Adlerberg. Olivia Rutigliano is an editor at the arts and culture publication Literary Hub as well as editor of its sister publication CrimeReads. Her essays have been published online in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, Public Books, The Baffler, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is the creator and host of the podcast Culture Schlock. Scott Adlerberg is the author of five novels, including Graveyard Love, Jack Waters, and The Screaming Child. He has written many short stories and contributes pieces regularly to sites such as CrimeReads and Mystery Tribune.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jun 15
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Architecture Experts Launch Their New Book, Out There: New Architecture Across America (+ Signing)
Enjoy a conversation with authors Cathleen McGuigan and Peter MacKeith to celebrate the launch of their new book, Out There: New Architecture Across America, a stunning, yet critical survey of 50 major architectural firms across America's regional cities and small towns. They will be in conversation with Ian Volner, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jun 15
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Former Hockey Pro Launches His New Novel, The Swan and the Sentinel
The Swan and the Sentinel by Bill Keenan is a story that reminds us that sometimes the best comebacks require learning an entirely new discipline, even if it’s performed in fifth position. What happens when the one thing that defines you is ripped away, and you’re forced to rebuild from the ground up? When NHL forward Liam LeClerc’s career-threatening injury refuses to heal, desperation drives him to an unlikely solution: ballet lessons from Petra Montgomery, a talented soloist overlooked due to her company’s politics. In secret, after-hours studio sessions, Petra teaches Liam that strength comes in unexpected forms while he reminds her why she fell in love with dance, before ambition complicated everything. But when their unconventional partnership threatens both their careers, they must decide if the connection they’ve found is worth risking everything they’ve worked for.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jun 15
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Youngest Ever Eisner Award-Winning Graphic Novelist Shares Her New Book, Charity & Sylvia (In Person AND Online!)
Author Tillie Walden sits down to discuss her book, Charity & Sylvia, a graphic novel depicting the true love story and lives of an openly lesbian couple surviving and thriving in 19th century Vermont, with writer and filmmaker Alexis Clements. Book synopsis: The true, exceptional story of these remarkable women is brought to life with humor and passion by the unparalleled and award-winning Tillie Walden (Spinning, On A Sunbeam). We see America grow alongside these women over a period that brings about the railroad, many novels, 14 Presidents, riots, rebellion, plagues, and poetry. Based on extensive archives of their writing, Charity and Sylvia is a groundbreaking biography that is also the story of 19th-century America.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jun 15
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Discussion | Group Discussion: Ken Burns' The American Revolution
In recognition of the 250th anniversary of 1776, the group will be exploring Ken Burns’ expansive, evenhanded documentary, The American Revolution. Watch on your own and come to discuss! Series available on pbs.org. At this session, the group will be discussing The American Revolution, Episodes 3 and 4.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jun 16
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Discuss LGBTQIA+ Poetry from All Over the World
Spend time with fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. This Pride month, celebrate ancestors with poems that honor the legacy of queer poetry around the world. Please note that contemporary poetry deals frankly with contemporary issues and all works discussed are artistic expressions selected for an adult audience.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jun 16
2:30 pm
Free
2:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Celebrate Marilyn Monroe's Life through Photographs (+ Signing)
Enjoy a conversation with Melissa Stevens to celebrate the book, Marilyn Monroe 100: The Official Centenary Book, the only authorized centenary book which brings together 17 photographers who worked most closely with Monroe herself. The conversation will be followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jun 16
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | New Yorker Contributor Shares His New Book, Town & Country (In Person AND Online!)
Author Brian Schaefer discusses his debut novel, Town & Country. Book synopsis: Spanning six months from Memorial Day to Election Day, Town & Country paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a community in flux. For readers of Fredrick Backman and Jen Beagin, this "powerful and extremely well-written book" (Colum McCann, National Book Award winner) asks the essential and timeless questions: What makes a home, and what do we owe our neighbors?
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jun 16
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Authors Discuss the Art of Suspense Writing
A panel for suspense lovers with authors Alison Gaylin (Robert B. Parker’s Booked), Ed Lin (The Dead Can’t Make a Living), and Kimberly McCreight (Someone Else’s Husband). Hosted by Ilana Levine, actress and podcaster at Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine. Alison Gaylin is an international and USA Today bestselling author who has won the Edgar and Shamus awards. She has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Macavity, Anthony, ITW Thriller, and Strand Book Award. Ed Lin is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. Kimberly McCreight is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including Reconstructing Amelia, which was called Entertainment Weekly’s Favorite Book of the Year and has been optioned for TV by HBO, Nicole Kidman’s Blossom Films, and David E. Kelley. A Good Marriage was named a Best Book of the Summer by The New York Times, People, and Publishers Weekly.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 17
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
Free
Gallery Talk | Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum
Join a museum educator for a brief gallery talk tracing how a Gilded Age mansion was transformed into a world-class art museum.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 17
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Photographer, Dancer, & Writer Discuss the Intersection of Ballet & Image-Making
Attend an intimate and thought-provoking discussion bringing together renowned dance photographer Gene Schiavone, dancer and actor Kylie Edwards, and acclaimed dance writer Gavin Larsen for a nuanced exploration of movement and imagery. The relationship between a dancer and a photographer is a symbiotic one; a melding of art and movement, rhythm and emotion. Through the lens of ballet and image-making, the conversation will examine how collaboration, trust and technique shape both the final body of work and the dancer's sense of identity. Drawing from Schiavone and Larsen's recent photography book, Infinite Steps: Thirty-Three Dancers and Their Lives in Ballet, the discussion offers a compelling look at how photography can influence a dancer's understanding of their own artistry.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 17
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | NYT Journalist Shares His New Book, Treasured Island: The Story of St. Barth (+ Signing)
Attend a conversation with Michael Gross to celebrate his new book, Treasured Island: The Story of St. Barth . . . and Its Barbarians, Billionaires, and Beauties, an entertaining chronicle of the social history behind the island St. Barthelemy. He will be in conversation with Nina Burleigh, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 17
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | LGBTQ+ Literary Evening with New Books (Free Books & Giveaways) (In Person AND Online!)
Hear the "buzz" directly from authors and publishing industry professionals about new and upcoming titles for Pride Month. Free and advance copies available while supplies last! Enjoy a delightful evening filled with literature, engaging discussions, and opportunities to meet authors and fellow passionate book lovers. Here's what to expect:
Attend panels featuring LGBTQ+ writers and LGBTQ+-focused titles
Learn about new and upcoming titles from Penguin Random House staff
Browse free and advanced reader copies of titles by a range of authors reflecting the theme
Giveaways while supplies last
Featured speakers: Davey Davis, Katie Siegel, Michael Bronski, Kate Bornstein
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 17
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Quiet Reading Meet Up
Bring a book or check one out of the library to read to yourself for one hour. After that, spend an hour socializing with those around you!
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 17
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Prize-Winning Irish Writer Shares His Latest Novel, Dooneen (+ Signing)
Enjoy a conversation with Keith Ridgway, to celebrate his new novel, Dooneen, a brilliant and inventive story about dreams and love, the political and the personal, and what occurs when one world ends and the next begins. The conversation will be followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jun 18
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Luddite Book Club: The Machine Stops
This offline book club is a space for in-person conversation about the role technology plays in the world, where the group will be discussing The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. Synopsis: First published in 1909, this dystopian sci-fi novella imagines a world where humans live underground and are dependent on an oppressive and omnipresent Machine for survival.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jun 18
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Lecture | Mycology Expert Explores NYC Wildlife
Guest speaker Wilton Rao (a naturalist and mycology expert with the New York Mycological Society), provides a new perspective on the surprisingly abundant living things all around you. New York City is wilder than you might think. Thousands of species of birds, mammals, insects, plants, fungi, and more are surviving, and thriving, in every part of our city.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Jun 19
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
Free
Talk | Juneteenth Discussion on Adocacy for Incarcerated People
Facilitated by Releasing Aging People in Prisons (RAPP) Associate Director TeAna Taylor, this intergenerational and participatory conversation aims to deepen our understanding of advocacy for system-impacted elders, and how incarceration reverberates across generations.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Jun 19
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Panel Discussion on Creativity & Empowering the Youth
This panel discussion highlights the work of Artistic Noise, a Harlem-based organization centering creative and therapeutic support for system-impacted youth. This panel is moderated by Access and Community Programs Manager at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Madison Smith. Madison Smith will be in conversation with Artistic Noise Alumna Samantha Cortez, Briana Evans, and Joseph Goodwin.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Jun 19
3:30 pm
Free
3:30 pm
Free
Discussion | Film Scholar Discusses Sunset Boulevard for Its 75th Birthday
Enjoy a discussion on the making of Sunset Boulevard with author David M. Lubin and host Scott Adlerberg, film connoisseur. By exploring the history of Sunset Boulevard in time for the movie’s 75th anniversary, from its inception to its making its present-day legacy, David M. Lubin's Ready for My Close-Up breathes life into a beloved masterpiece of American cinema, not only marking its influential place in film history, but also proving how prescient it really was in terms of the human costs of relentless technological change and our obsessive quest for fame, youth, and immortality. David M. Lubin has written seven books, including an in-depth study of the blockbuster film Titanic. His Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images won the Smithsonian Institution’s Charles C. Eldredge Prize for “distinguished scholarship in American art.” Scott Adlerberg is the author of five novels, including Graveyard Love, Jack Waters, and The Screaming Child. He has written many short stories and contributes pieces regularly to sites such as CrimeReads and Mystery Tribune.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jun 22
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Book Launch: Award-Winning Author Tiffany Tsao's But Won't I Miss Me
Author Tiffany Tsao shares her new book, But Won't I Miss Me, in conversation with author YZ Chin. Book synopsis: Set in an alternate reality where pregnancy endows women with exceptional powers, one new mother uncovers terrifying truths about herself and life in this philosophical and propulsive tale of a woman and mother in crisis.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jun 22
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Discuss Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Atend a book club to analyze and discuss Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jun 23
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
Free
Talk | El Museo del Barrio-Featured Artist Discusses Her Craft & Career
Enjoy a talk with Gaby Collins-Fernandez, an artist living and working in New York City. Her work has been shown in the US and internationally, including institutionally at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, and El Museo del Barrio, NY. Her work has been discussed in publications such as The Brooklyn Rail and artcritical, and on the video interview series, Gorky's Granddaughter. She is a recipient of residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Marble House Project (Dorset, VT), and a 2013 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Art Award. Collins-Fernandez is also a writer whose texts have appeared in Cultured Magazine, The Miami Rail, and The Brooklyn Rail. She is a founder and publisher of the annual magazine Precog, and a co-director of the artist-run art and music initiative BombPop!Up.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jun 23
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | NYT Bestelling Authors Explore Cultural Heritage & Community Ties through Queer Storytelling (In Person AND Online!)
This Pride month, enjoy an evening of conversation about queer storytelling, featuring authors Jade Song, Zee Carlstrom, and Julián Delgado Lopera in dialogue with Jacob Aplaca. Rather than treating queerness only as an identity category or secondary theme, these writers take queerness as a starting point for exploring cultural heritage and community ties. Centering novels like Song's Chlorine, Lopera's Fiebre Tropical, and Carlstrom's Make sure you die screaming, this conversation will consider how themes of political struggle, regional identity, and generational trauma take on new meaning when subject to the queer gaze of storytellers and readers alike. The panel will be followed by a live performance by Krystofer Maison, exploring queer stories in song!
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jun 23
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Talk | Photographer Discusses His Work on Family History & LGBTQIA+ Pride
Enjoy a talk with Tom P. Ashe, a photographer, educator, consultant, author, and the chair of MPS Digital Photography, where he has been teaching photography, color management, and digital printmaking for over 22 years. Tom has been working in photography and education for over 35 years, including positions with Polaroid and Eastman Kodak. His consulting clients have included X-Rite, The MAC Group, AdoramaPix/Printique, and the photographers Arnold Newman and Andrew Eccles. He has been a guest lecturer at MIT, Yale University, Northeastern University, and the Association of International Photographic Arts Dealers. He was elected to the board of the Society for Photographic Education in 2025. Tom has written articles for Photo District News, Popular Photography, and in 2014, Focal Press released his book Color Management & Quality Output. His personal photography and research explore family history and LGBTQIA+ pride.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jun 23
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Bestselling Authors Disucuss Their Craft & Careers
Get ready for beach reading at this author panel with Hilary Davidson (Every Lie I Told); Connor Martin (The Silver Fish); and Camille Perri (Social Animals). Hosted by Ilana Levine, actress and podcaster at Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine. Hilary Davidson's novels include the award-winning Lily Moore series, the bestselling Shadows of New York series, and the standalone novels Blood Always Tells and Her Last Breath. She is also the author of some fifty short stories. Camille Perri is the author of The Assistants and When Katie Met Cassidy. She has worked as a book editor for Cosmopolitan and Esquire.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 24
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
Free
Gallery Talk | Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum
Join a museum educator for a brief gallery talk tracing how a Gilded Age mansion was transformed into a world-class art museum.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 24
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Quiet Reading Meet Up
Bring a book or check one out of the library to read to yourself for one hour. After that, spend an hour socializing with those around you!
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 24
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Club | New York Times Writer Shares His New Book, Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America's Gay Restaurants (In Person AND Online!)
In this conversation about Dining Out: First Dates, Defiant Nights, and Last Call Disco Fries at America's Gay Restaurants, author Erik Piepenburg takes attendees on a culinary tour of spaces filled with joy, sex, sorrow, activism, and nostalgia, joined by colleagues from the food world: Telly Justice, Camille Lindsley, and Florent Morellet. Dining Out explores how gay people came of age, came out, and fought for their rights not just in gay bars or the streets, but in restaurants. From cruisy urban cafeterias of the 1920s to mom-and-pop diners that fed the Stonewall generation to the intersectional hotspots of the early 21st century. Using archival material, original reporting, interviews, and first-person accounts, Erik Piepenburg explores how LGBTQ restaurants shaped and continue to shape generations of gay Americans.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 24
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Gallery Talk | Inside the Declaration of Independence and the Transatlantic Circulation of News
Join museum experts, including curators, conservators, scientists, and scholars, for an in-depth look at selected exhibition objects in the galleries. Gain new insights and hear untold stories from insiders, and examine the artworks more closely. A Q&A will follow the talk.
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Thu, Jun 25
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Jonathan Ezra Goldman Shares His New Book, Jazz Age New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange
Enjoy a book talk with author Jonathan Ezra Goldman (Professor in Humanities Department at New York Institute of Technology) as he discusses his new book, Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange. Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City, unearthing stories of everyday life and marginalized communities. In sections that intertwine entertainment, politics, art, technology, crime, shopping, eating, and recreation, the book portrays sweeping events such as the Harlem Renaissance, Prohibition, and immigration reform through anecdotes of individual experiences that counter the era’s popular conceptions of ballooning wealth and uproarious celebration. This whirlwind tour of early 1920s New York City visits an all-female police platoon, a Black amusement park shut down before it opened, socialist Puerto Rican cigar factories, Chinatown funerals, overcrowded jails, toxic dumps, and Ku Klux Klan recruitment offices. Along the way you’ll meet Greenwich Village denizens such as Khalil Gibran, and his Arabic literary salon, and Eve Adams, and the lesbian cafe she ran in the neighborhood. This is the backdrop to the everyday challenges and triumphs of a city beset by crowds, automobile traffic, and rapidly changing technology and urban infrastructure, as well as erased stories of injustices like Jim Crow practices, immigration anxieties, and the violent treatment of political dissent.
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Thu, Jun 25
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Talk | Literary Scholar Explores Walt Whitman's Sexuality: Was He a Gay Icon? (In Person AND Online!)
In celebration of Pride Month, esteemed scholar Karen Karbiener hosts a presentation on Walt Whitman's status as a gay icon. Was our celebrated "Bard of Democracy" queer? Despite nearly two centuries of efforts by censors, scholars, and others to heterosexualize Walt Whitman— create progeny, convert female friends to lovers, manipulate his pronouns—the truth remains that America’s poet was also its first gay spokesperson and activist. Karbiener explores the many ways Whitman asserted that he was gay, and the many ways that others have denied it.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jun 25
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Curator Discussion on Photography, Transit, and Puerto Rican Cultural History (Online!)
Join Susanna Temkin, Interim Chief Curator, for a discussion on Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures, the first museum survey dedicated to pioneering Nuyorican photographer Sophie Rivera. The exhibition and accompanying monograph explore Rivera’s striking photographs of New York City’s transit system from the 1970s through the 1990s, capturing trains, commuters, transit workers, and everyday urban life. The talk will examine Rivera’s lasting impact on photography and Puerto Rican cultural history.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jun 30
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Sheila Pope DIscusses Received Knowledge, Opinions, & Taste
Enjoy a talk with Sheila Pepe, who is best known for crocheting her large-scale, ephemeral installations and sculptures made from domestic and industrial materials. For more than 30 years, she has accumulated a family resemblance (see Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations) of works in sculpture—installation—drawing, and other singular and hybrid forms. Some are drawings that are sculpture—or sculpture that is furniture, fiber works that appear as paintings, and table top objects that look like models for monuments, and stand as votives for a secular religion. The cultural sources and the meanings twisted together are from canonical arts of the 20th century, home crafts, lesbian, queer, and feminist aesthetics, 2nd Vatican Council American design, an array of Roman Catholic sources, as well as their ancient precedents. The constant conceptual pursuit of Pepe’s research, making, teaching, and writing has been to contest received knowledge, opinions, and taste.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jun 30
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
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Discussion | Panel of Curators & Art Historians Discuss the Significance of Tarot in Renaissance Italy
In this wide-ranging discussion about the exhibition Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions, curators Joshua O’Driscoll, Claire Gilman, and Frank Trujillo are joined by art historian Susan Aberth and artist Ali Banisadr to explore the origins of tarot in Renaissance Italy and its ongoing relevance as a source of inspiration for artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Doors will open 30 minutes before the program begins. While registration is required, seating is first come, first served.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jul 15
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
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