Free and Public Events

Lois Rakoff, Community Director of the Poe Room, New York University, and the community come together to present “Poe in New York City,” the Fall 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Room Event. This event will feature a presentation on Poe’s former residences in New York City, where he wrote some of his most famous stories and poems. The event will be led by Andrea Janes, author of Boroughs of the Dead: New York City Ghost Stories. This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited and an RSVP is required.

Come join four Viequense community organizations for an afternoon gathering that celebrates the history of Vieques and the work being done to strengthen rhizomatic connections necessary to flourish futures in the broad Puerto Rican archipelago. Hosted by The Latinx Project, The event will feature presentations, booths, art, music, and food.

It has been said that WEVD was the soundtrack of Jewish New York for much of the 20th century. Founded in 1927, the city’s most popular Yiddish radio station billed itself as “the station that speaks your language.” This event will feature live musical performances and a panel conversation celebrating the New York Public Library’s acquisition of original sheet music from the legendary New York radio station WEVD.

The United States border is not just a geographic location. The border is everywhere. It lies within every undocumented immigrant family with the threat that at any moment they can be captured, incarcerated, deported; their lives destroyed. In BORDERLAND | The Line Within, director Pamela Yates and producer Paco de Onís explore the human impact of restrictive U.S. immigration policies and border militarization.

Chef and Indigenous culinary anthropologist Dr. Claudia Serrato will discuss reclaiming ancestral cultural connections with food with Liberal Studies professor Dr. Cammie Kim Lin. Together they will delve into global and local perspectives on the historical, structural, and ecological implications of what and how we eat.

Curated by Marie Foulston and hosted by the NYU Game Center, No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from leading artists working across games are debuted. Its stellar 2024 line up includes: Izzy Kestrel, Holy Wow Studio, Rob Dubbin and Bahiyya Khan.

Join an educator at The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) for a public gallery tour of MOCA’s core exhibition, “With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America,” which provides an overview of the Chinese in America from the 19th century through the present day. Items in the Museum’s collection are used to highlight the major themes of the exhibit.

Swiss Institute presents “Energies,” an international group exhibition that unfolds throughout the entire building at 38 St Marks Pl and expands into numerous partner locations in the surrounding East Village community. The exhibition includes influential historic artworks alongside contemporary positions and new commissions that address ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political arrangements attached to energy past and present.

The exhibition features more than 350 artworks chosen by KAWS from his vast personal collection of over 3,000 works on paper by some 500 artists. “The Way I See It” continues The Drawing Center’s tradition of exhibiting drawings from outstanding public and private collections, and offers an unprecedented glimpse into the artistic inspirations and interests of one of today’s most popular contemporary artists.