Celebrating NYBG: 125 Years
Join us for a photographic tribute by Larry Lederman to the Garden’s history and a prologue to its exciting future.
Free – $25
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Holiday Train Show
For the 25th anniversary of NYC's favorite winter tradition, enchanting model trains zip through a display of 150 landmarks, each re-created with bark, leaves, and other natural materials under the twinkling glow of the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory.
Free – $25
Citizens Committee’s Neighborhood Grant
Through our Neighborhood Grants, Citizens Committee awards micro-grants of up to $3,000 to resident-led groups to work on community and school projects throughout the city. We prioritize groups based in low income neighborhoods and Title I public schools. Application due January 23.
Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter
Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY, United StatesFor over 60 million persons in the world today, shelter is defined through constant movement or escape. Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter explores the ways in…
Free – $25
2017 Master Composter Course Application is OPEN
The Spring 2017 NYC Master Composter Course Application is open! This intensive course covers soil and compost science, compost system designs, management of a community compost…
Free
Electronic Waste Recycling
Prospect Park West and 3rd 70 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesJoin the Prospect Alliance and Lower East Side Ecology Center, which is bringing its annual "After the Holidays" E-waste event to Prospect Park to help…
Free
From Mannahatta to Manhattan
Mid-Manhattan Library 455 fifth Ave., New York, NY, United StatesFrom Mannahatta to Manhattan: Four Centuries In the Life of An Island City, with moderator Sam Roberts and panelists Eric Sanderson, Gerard Koeppel, and Jason…
Free
Central Park, Manhattan Bandshell Area
Robin Williams Center 247 West 54th Street, New York, NY, United StatesJoin us for a lively discussion about the future of regional transit, why Madison Square Garden needs to be moved, how it can happen, and what a new, world-class Penn Station would mean for New York.
Free
ANTARCTICA: ICE AND SKY
Cinema Village 22 East 12th Street, New York, NY, United StatesFrom Oscar-winning director Luc Jacquet (March of the Penguins) comes a stirring portrait of French glaciologist, Claude Lorius, whose groundbreaking research in Antarctica gave us the first clear evidence of man-made global climate change. Film opens on 1/20 at Cinema Village.
$8 – $12
The New School, John L. Tishman Auditorium, University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, Room U100, New York, NY, United States
Building on the strengths of the “teach-in” model, " Not Going Back" is organized around four types of interventions: Historical & Cultural Context/Learning As We Build; Practical Knowledge and Skill-Building; Strategic Advocacy; and Self-care and healing spaces.
Free
Queens Memory: 50 Years of Integration
Queens Library at Flushing 4117 Main Street, Flushing, NY, United StatesQueens Library in partnership with Queens Borough President, Melinda Katz presents the 50 Years of Integration program series with generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Starr Foundation.
Join a panel of Flushing experts to share stories and memories about Flushing, and engage in discussion about our neighborhood’s past, present, and future.
Free
Volunteer with TAC and City Harvest
454 West 155th Street, New York, NY, United StatesOn January 28th, The Active Citizen is partnering with City Harvest to address hunger in New York City by volunteering at a mobile market. Please sign up to secure your spot and dress appropriately as we will be working outside.
Free