Monday September 30, 2019
Manhattan
8pm $44: Debbie Harry: Face It (with Chris Stein and Rob Roth). Join Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry for an illuminating evening as she introduces her long-anticipated memoir, FACE IT. Featuring an in-depth conversation, photos, a visual presentation and more, with Blondie co-founder and renowned photographer, Chris Stein, and multidisciplinary artist and director, Rob Roth. Tickets include a signed copy of the book. More info. [BOOKS]
7pm $10: Masters of Social Gastronomy: The Science and History of Plant Milks. Join ‘historic gastronomist’ Sarah Lohman for a look at the surprisingly long history of almond and soy milk, sharing historical recipes and tracing their rise as the OG alternate milks in America. More info. [FOOD]
Tuesday October 1, 2019
Manhattan
1pm Free: A Conversation with the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins. The scholar, poet, and human rights advocate visits the NYPL to share reflections from his career in public service with The New York Times journalist and author Dan Barry. More info. [ECONOMICS]
6:30-8:30pm $15: German Idealism and its Aftermath: Philosophical and Poetic Reactions with Michael Pelias. Join the Institute for the Radical Imagination for an interpretation of the world historical spirit in the light of the enlightenment through a close reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology. Authors read will include Kant, Hegel, Mallarme, and Rimbaud among others. More info. [PHILOSOPHY]
7-8:30pm Free: Jessica Krug: Fugitive Modernities: Black Political Imagination and Radical Silence. Jessica A. Krug delivers a free, public lecture as part of Cooper Union’s Fall 2019 Intra-Disciplinary Seminar series. Krug is an associate professor of history and Africana Studies at George Washington University and the author of Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom, currently a finalist for both the Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass book prizes. More info. [CULTURE]
7-9pm $29: What to Look For When You Look at Art. Gene Wisniewski will help you learn the basic principles of how to approach, analyze, and appreciate great works of art the way an artist would. Included are discussions on viewing art as both a physical object and the expression of an idea, art in the context of its time, and the elements of composition. More info. [ART]
Wednesday October 2, 2019
Manhattan
4:15-6:15pm Free: Dark Matter Heats Up in Dwarf Galaxies. In this talk, astrophysicist Justin Read will show how repeated gas cooling and heating during star formation causes the gravitational potential at the centers of dwarf galaxies to continually fluctuate. This kinematically ‘heats’ the dark matter, slowly pushing it out from the centers of the dwarfs. More info. [SCIENCE]
6-8pm $12: Science Film Screening. If you love science and films you will not want to miss this event at Caveat. EA Creative will be a screening a series of film shorts, we will have demonstrations from some of our partners, along with trivia and science related prizes. More info. [FILM]
7pm Free: AMNH Presents | SciCafe: Research Library Collections Unleashed! The Museum was founded as a Museum and Library 150 years ago, and the Library’s collections have grown steadily ever since. Join the Library’s Harold Boeschenstein Director Tom Baione to learn about some of the amazing stories unearthed in its extensive archives and photography, film, art, and memorabilia collections through the years—and to find out what the future has in store for this vital scholarly and community resource. More info. [SCIENCE]
Brooklyn
7:30-9:30pm $45: Mark Bittman Presents: How to Cook Everything. Mark Bittman presents How to Cook Everything – Completely Revised Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Simple Recipes for Great Food, in conversation with Melissa Clark. VIP tickets cost $45 and include book and pre-event reception. More info. [FOOD]
Thursday October 3, 2019
Manhattan
6:30pm Free: AMNH Presents: Voices from Ecology, the Arts, and Faith-Led Approaches to Nature Conservation. Understanding life on Earth, how to sustain it, and how to live with nature in equitable ways are the fundamental challenges of our time—challenges that are scientific and social. Join AMNH for a lively panel discussion exploring faith-based, ecological, and cultural approaches to conservation as we consider how different human endeavors have contributed creative solutions to environmental challenges. More info. [NATURE]
6:30-8pm Free: Susan Rice on Things Worth Fighting For. Susan Rice was President Barack Obama’s national security advisor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. In her new memoir, Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, Rice reveals pivotal moments from her career on the front lines of U.S. diplomacy and foreign policy with unflinching candor. In a conversation with Andrea Mitchell about her book, Rice will share her personal story as well as examine the current state of foreign affairs and the challenges facing American leadership. More info. [BOOKS]
Friday October 4, 2019
Manhattan
5:30-6:30pm $15: Walking Tour: Hidden History of the South Street Seaport’s Architecture. Several buildings in the seaport district are considered to be some of the oldest standing structures in Manhattan. From rat pits to a warehouse built by one of the most famous American architects of the 19th century, the buildings of the seaport have a big story to tell. More info. [TOUR]
7pm $10: Peter Brook\NY with Paul Auster and Marie-Hélène Estienne. Author Paul Auster and Marie-Hélène Estienne will consider Peter Brook as one of the century’s greatest and most innovative storytellers. Peter Brook will then join them in a discussion on his approach and methods. More info. [ART]
7pm $32.61: Meet Ben Robinson at Barnes & Noble Union Square. Join Star Trek writer and head of all Star Trek development at Eaglemoss, Ben Robinson, as he introduces the latest Hero Collector Star Trek books. More info. [GEEK]
Saturday October 5, 2019
Staten Island
10am-1pm Free: Forest Bathing in High Rock Park, Staten Island. Join the Natural Areas Conservancy for forest bathing: a low-intensity activity, based on the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku. Our expert guides will be Nancy Kopans and Linda Lombardo. Nancy is the founder of Urban Edge Forest Therapy and an attorney for Ithaka, an education non-profit. Linda founded Long Island Forest Walks and is a certified life coach. More info. [NATURE]
Sunday October 6, 2019
Manhattan
10:30am-12pm $29: NYC’s Gilded Age Mansions, Stories of Opulent Lifestyles & Family Scandals. Join New York Adventure Club for a private walking tour through several blocks of history and architecture of New York’s Belle Époque, which saw the rise of Gilded Age mansions built by some of Manhattan’s wealthiest and most powerful titans. More info. [TOUR]
Weekend of Oct 5-6, 2019
Manhattan
10am $25: The New York Times Food Festival. Join food journalists and cooking experts for the first-ever New York Times Food Festival on Oct. 5–6. You’ll find tastings, live cooking demos and more in Bryant Park; panel discussions with food-world favorites at TheTimesCenter; and extraordinary meals at 10 New York City restaurants. Come celebrate what it means to eat, drink and cook in the heart of New York City. More info. [FOOD]
7pm Free: The Festival of New: A Night of Philosophy. Join The New School for A Night of Philosophy, a 12-hour, multimedia delve into philosophy, and experience philosophy as performance with 48 philosophers and 30 artists. More info. [PHILOSOPHY]