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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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free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
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45 free talks, lectures, discussions in New York City (NYC) Sun, 06/21/2026 - 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!
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 | Art Historians Discuss New Book about Postwar Artist, Marcia Marcus: I Paint What I Like (+ Signing)
This event celebrates Marcia Marcus — known as one of the boldest, most uncompromising, and yet overlooked painters of postwar American art — and the publication of a stunning new retrospective monograph of her career, Marcia Marcus: I Paint What I Like. Author Debra Lennard will be in conversation with art historians Brandon Fortune, Melissa Rachleff, and Daniel Belasco, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jun 22
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 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
Mon, Jun 22
7:30 pm
Regular: $35
Member: $0
7:30 pm
Regular: $35
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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
Book Discussion | The Atlantic Writer Shares Her New Book, The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination... (+ Signing)
A conversation with Kaitlyn Tiffany to celebrate her new book, The Housewives Underground: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the JFK Assassination Our Most Enduring Mystery, which discusses the women who debunked the Warren Report. She will be in conversation with Alex Shephard, followed by a signing.
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 | Architecture Expert Shares His New Book, Alan Dunn: The Cartoonist as Architectural Critic (+ Signing)
A conversation with Gabriele Neri to celebrate his book, Alan Dunn: The Cartoonist as Architectural Critic, an in-depth account of American artist Alan Dunn, whose complex cartoons expanded the field of architectural criticism. He will be in conversation with Leopoldo Villardi and Nicole Rudick, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jun 24
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Wed, Jun 24
6:00 pm
Regular: $35
Member: $0
6:00 pm
Regular: $35
Member: $0
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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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jun 25
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Book Launch Exploring NYC in the 20s: Hidden Hsitories of Jazz Age New York, From the Suppressed to the Strange
Enjoy a book talk with author Jonathan Ezra Goldman (Professor in the 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jun 25
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Choreographer/Artist Discusses Her New Essay Collection, Shape and Momentum: An Insomniac's Guide for a World in Constant Motion (+ Signing)
A conversation with Liz Lerman to celebrate her new book, Shape and Momentum: An Insomniac's Guide for a World in Constant Motion, a blend of essays, anecdotes, and wisdom drawn from her long-celebrated choreographic project, Wicked Bodies. She will be in conversation with Wendy Perron, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jun 25
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
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
Free
Discussion | Pulitzer Prize- & Tony Award-Winning Writer Discusses His Broadway Play, Proof
Enjoy a special conversation with mathematician Alex Kontorovich and David Auburn, the award-winning playwright of Proof. Together, they will explore the intersections of mathematics, creativity, genius, discovery, and the enduring power of Auburn's celebrated play. This discussion offers a rare opportunity to hear from one of America's most acclaimed playwrights in conversation with one of today's most dynamic mathematical thinkers.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Jun 26
5:30 pm
Free
5:30 pm
Free
Lecture | Art Historian Discusses How Contemporary Artists Impact Understanding of the Past at a Landmark Museum
Kathryn Calley Galitz gives a lecture exploring the evolution of history painting. It delves into how contemporary artists from Gerhard Richter to Kent Monkman and Kerry James Marshall have reclaimed the past, reshaping our understanding of history and responding to our world today.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Jun 28
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | How To Produce the Best Photography Prints
This lecture, given by fine art photographer Douglas Dubler, will cover all of the basic color management steps necessary to get from a properly exposed capture to a custom fine art digital print. Most importantly, he will be displaying fine art digital prints produced according to his proprietary printing workflow. Some of the topics covered will be proper setup of your camera, calibrating your monitor, and custom printing profiles. As critical or maybe more so, is the quality of 'light', which will be covered in detail. All of this is inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's mantra, "To See Things Unseen".
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jun 29
3:30 pm
Free
3:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Award-Winning TV Showrunner Shares Her First-Ever Novel, The Revelation of Dionne Daphne
This event is a conversation about The Revelation of Dionne Daphne, the debut novel by Mara Brock Akil, the acclaimed, award-winning showrunner, writer, producer, and creator of iconic shows such as Girlfriends, Being Mary Jane, The Game, and Forever. "The Revelation of Dionne Daphne is a feat--a novel that is not only a pulse-thrumming page-turner, but a moving meditation on the long reach of family traumas, the ballast of deep friendships, and complicated forgiveness. The book is every bit of a love letter to Black women, to anyone burdened by the weight of a troubled past."--Mitchell S. Jackson, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Residue Years
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jun 29
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Headshot & Portrait Photographer Discusses His New Photobook & the Art of Photography
NYC based photographer Charles Chessler presents his lifelong personal project, Agreeable Strangers. Charles will show images from the project - some from the book and some that didn't make it. He will discuss:
Knowing your "why".
Hanging out in "good light".
How to ask/connect.
Having a business card.
Offering to send a good file.
Working with the book's publisher, Snap Collective.
A copy of the book will be available for attendees to check out and order if they wish.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jun 30
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
Free
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
Free
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
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, Jul 1
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Lecture | Rutgers, Delancey, and Revolution: 250 Years of History (Online!)
Celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary with Scott Brevda as he leads a special tour on the Lower East Side’s revolutionary past. This tour will delve into the history of the American Revolution in the area, highlight the few remaining traces of the war today, and tell the story of the Rutgers and Delancey families. Attendees will learn how the war and the differing revolutionary views of two prominent New York families changed the neighborhood’s streets and influenced its development over the next 250 years.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jul 1
6:00 pm
Pay-what-you-wish, registration required
6:00 pm
Pay-what-you-wish, registration required
Talk | NYT & National Geographic-Featured Photographer Shares Her Experiences in an Artistic Career
Internationally renowned photographer Nancy Borowick presents an inspiring talk on building a resilient creative career. Nancy will share her journey from the fast-paced world of news photojournalism and long-form documentary work to her current life in the Caribbean. She'll discuss how she adapted her business to fit her life as a mother, finding new joy in capturing proposals and families. Through a showcase of her diverse work, you'll learn how to navigate life's big changes while staying true to your artistic voice. Discover how to use transition as a tool for growth and how to find meaningful work that aligns with whatever season of life you are in.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Jul 8
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, Jul 8
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Behavioral Neuroscientist & DJ Discuss What Music Taste Says about You
Susan Rogers, PhD--a behavioral neuroscientist and former record producer and engineer best known for her work with Prince--and filmmaker and DJ octomedusa lead a "record pull" to discuss what the music you love reveals about your sense of self. Listening to music excites the dopamine reward system and can trigger visuals and memories. What do you see in your mind's eye, and what memories does music conjure? Your "listener profile" is a Goldilocks zone--where features of the music you love best are just right: this is the music of you! Music lovers have sweet spots in their listener profile--Goldilocks zones where music's features feel just right. In a record pull organizers play and talk about songs you love, sharing your musical self with others. There are two ways to access this event: 1. General Admission, first-come first-served. Just show up! 2. Fast Track opening the Monday before the event at noon for all.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, Jul 11
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
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, Jul 11
3:30 pm
Free
3:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | The New Yorker Comic Artist Shares His New Book, Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated
An in-person author talk from cartoonist R. Sikoryak, discussing his new book, Declaration/Emancipation Illustrated. This unique title features the unabridged text of the Declaration of Independence, alongside the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address in a double-sided book, rendered in the bright, bold, and iconic styles of over 100 different American comics, cartoons, and graphic novels from over a century. In a profusely illustrated talk, R. Sikoryak will show the development of his graphic novel: how it grew out of his previous book, Constitution Illustrated, how he researched American history, and how he reinterpreted 100 years of American comics. He'll also do live drawings, demonstrating the variety of cartoon styles and characters he incorporated into the book. The talk will be followed by an interview and an audience Q and A.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, Jul 11
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Panel Exploring Creativity & Art As Activism (with Guerilla Girls)
This conversation gathers the legendary Guerrilla Girls, whose groundbreaking interventions have reshaped discourse in the visual arts, with award-winning artist and writer Coco Fusco, whose interdisciplinary work interrogates identities imposed upon the body along racial, gendered, and colonial lines. This panel invites audiences to consider how creativity functions as activism, how collectivity amplifies impact, and how new cultural paradigms are forged by those willing to disrupt the norm. In a cultural landscape that continues to marginalize women and underrepresented voices, what does it mean to make noise — and be heard? There are two ways to access this event: 1. General Admission, first-come first-served. Just show up! 2. Fast Track opening the Monday before the event at noon for all.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Jul 12
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Artist/Photographer Celebrates Her New Photo Book, Sistermoon
A conversation with Siri Kaur to celebrate her new book, Sistermoon, a photographic chronicle of Kaur and her relationship with her family, her sister, and the act of observing transformation. She will be in conversation with Jennifer Sakai, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jul 13
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 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 5 and 6.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jul 14
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Art Critic Shares Her New Book, Museum in Transit: 10 Contemporary Artists in the NYC Subway (+ Signing)
A conversation with author Xhingyu Chen to celebrate the launch of her new book, Museum in Transit: 10 Contemporary Artists in the NYC Subway, a critical retrospective of the artists and stories behind the public art installations in our MTA system. She will be in conversation with Lester Burg, followed by a signing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Jul 14
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
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
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, Jul 15
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Luddite Book Club -- More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner
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 More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI by John Warner. Synopsis: What is writing when large language models can generate text that provides an instant facsimile of thought? Calls for us to view this moment as an opportunity to reckon with how we work with words, and rethink our relationship with writing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Jul 16
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Discussion | Arts, Wellness, & Policy Experts Discuss How Artistic Engagement Contributes to Wellbeing (+ Live String Quartet Music)
Against the backdrop of the world's celebration of soccer, this conversation explores how creativity can be understood as a health-creating behavior alongside physical activity, supporting not only individual wellbeing, but the health of our cities. While sport and exercise are widely recognized for protecting physical and mental health, growing evidence shows that engagement in music, dance, storytelling, and the visual arts also strengthens stress regulation, emotional wellbeing, social connection, and community resilience. Bringing together voices from the arts, sports, public health, and policy, this event examines how creative participation can advance World Health Organization (WHO) global health targets while aligning with New York City's priorities around prevention, equity, and neighborhood-level wellbeing. The conversation highlights how arts engagement can support mental health, reduce health disparities, and foster the social cohesion that underpins healthy, thriving communities. This event will begin with members of the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center playing a selection from Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's String Quartet in E-flat major.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Jul 17
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Book Club | Sapphic Book Club -- Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza
At this event, attendees come ready to discuss, rant, and rave with other sapphic book lovers! This discussion will center around Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in Archives by Amelia Possanza. Synopsis: When the author moved to Brooklyn to build a life of her own, she found herself surrounded by queer stories: she read them on landmark placards, overheard them on the pool deck when she joined the world's largest LGBTQ swim team, and even watched them on TV in her cockroach-infested apartment. These stories inspired her to seek out lesbians throughout history who could become her role models, in romance and in life. Centered around seven love stories for the ages, this is the writer's journey into the archives to recover the personal histories of lesbians in the twentieth century: who they were, how they loved, why their stories were destroyed, and where their memories echo and live on. *The term “Sapphic” comes from Sappho, the ancient Greek poet from the island of Lesbos (where we get the word “lesbian!”). Organizers use it here as an umbrella term to refer to women/nonbinary/genderqueer folks who experience attraction to others in that umbrella. All are welcome!
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, Jul 18
2:30 pm
Free
2:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Poetry Discussion: USA at 250
Poetry enthusiasts unpack the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. Discuss poems related to civic ideals and democracy as the group honors America at 250. 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, Jul 21
2:30 pm
Free
2:30 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, Jul 22
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
Join the Club!
Wed, Jul 29
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
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