Portia Munson: Earth Rites
This exhibition features works by artist Portia Munson which serve as a reminder of the profound impact we have on our environment and a call…
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Summer on the Hudson: Memorial Day Fitness Celebration
Summer on the Hudson: Memorial Day Fitness Celebration
#BBQearned after you participate in one or all four workout classes on Pier I. Start Memorial Day with a morning workout on Pier I in…
Free
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Manhattanhenge
Manhattanhenge
As the Sun sets on May 30, it will be perfectly aligned with Manhattan's east-west numbered streets, offering the opportunity to capture cinema-worthy photos of…
$15
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Gowanus: The Past and Future of Brooklyn’s Curious Canal
Gowanus: The Past and Future of Brooklyn’s Curious Canal
Lying at the epicenter of one of Brooklyn's most rapidly gentrifying (and expensive) neighborhoods is a toxic waste site and open sewer: That's right, it's…
$15
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Holoscenes
Presented with the World Science Festival as part of its 10th anniversary season and produced by MAPP International Productions. A visceral and visual performative collision of the human body and water, born of the concern that as global sea levels rise, flooding and drought will become the central issues of the 21st century.
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Horticulture Volunteer Days
Horticulture Volunteer Days
Help keep Queens Botanical Garden clean, green, and grow! Join our horticulture staff for an engaging, educational event where you will learn gardening basics while…
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Summer on the Hudson: Everybody Tango!
Summer on the Hudson: Everybody Tango!
Enjoy Argentine Tango with an introductory lesson, music, and dancing in the open air led by Strictly Tango NYC! Lessons take place at 6:45 and…
Free
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Capturing Carbon in Urban Soil: What’s Possible in Cities
Capturing Carbon in Urban Soil: What’s Possible in Cities
In this panel local soil scientists and practitioners will introduce key soil sequestration concepts; summarize emerging research findings; and provide an overview of urban restoration, compost incorporation and other methods that aim to increase urban soil carbon, while yielding additional pollution and waste reduction benefits.
$10 – $15
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Pier 1 Salt Marshes Coastal Cleanup
Pier 1 Salt Marshes Coastal Cleanup
Coastal Cleanup Volunteers give back to the community by helping us remove hundreds of pounds of trash from Pier 1 salt marshes and beaches.…
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Staten Island North Shore ‘Greenbelt’ Hike
Staten Island North Shore ‘Greenbelt’ Hike
Celebrate National Trails Day with a hike through the trails of Staten Island's North Shore "Greenbelt" parks: Jones Woods, Goodhue, and Allison Pond parks. The round trip hike…
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National Learn-to-Row Day: Free Basic Rowing Lesson
National Learn-to-Row Day: Free Basic Rowing Lesson
Join Row New York for National Learn to Row day on June 3, 2017, for a totally free event, and learn the basics of a sport that will stay with you for a lifetime. We’ll introduce you to basic rowing techniques and get you out on the water.
Bonus: explore our beautiful boathouses on tours being offered throughout the day. You can choose from two of our boathouse locations: the Meadow Lake Boathouse in Queens and the Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse in Manhattan. Our Queens boathouse invites any person with a disability to join us for adaptive rowing sessions.
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New York City Fish Count
New York City Fish Count
As part of the annual World Science Festival, we will wade into the Hudson River to collect and count what species of fish we find.…
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Bridge Golf Foundation Water Fair
Bridge Golf Foundation Water Fair
In partnership with The Eagle Academy, Columbia Water Center, and the physics department at The City College of New York, The Bridge Golf Foundation is…
Free
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World Ocean Festival
World Ocean Festival
A public event to #saveourocean! On June 4th, we’re inviting ocean lovers from across the world to join a collective voice standing up for the…
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15th Annual Drums Along the Hudson
15th Annual Drums Along the Hudson
Join NYC Parks and Lotus Music and Dance for this annual Multicultural Celebration and Native American Festival.
This is a free event featuring Native American, Japanese, Brazilian, Flamenco, and Korean dancers and drummers from around the world! The festival combines a celebration of Native American heritage, culture, and art with the diversity of New York City. Spanish, African, Brazilian, and Tibetan cultures will also be celebrated with food, music, and dancing. Activities include a Tree of Peace planting, international cuisine, Native American storytelling, a Pow Wow, crafts. and visits from Captain Planet.
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Summer on the Hudson: Let’s Dance!
Summer on the Hudson: Let’s Dance!
Learn to dance Salsa, Zouk, and Bachata with lessons and group social dances led by master teachers from the Piel Canela Dance and Music School…
Free
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Monday Evening Yoga
Monday Evening Yoga
Every Monday, loosen up with Sarah Schumann of Prospect Heights’ Shambhala Yoga and Dance Center. Shaped within a 60 minute, all levels asana (yoga postures)…
17.00$
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Saving Regional Farms: Why Every New Yorker Should Care
Saving Regional Farms: Why Every New Yorker Should Care
Food Policy For Breakfast Series Discussion + Networking + Healthy Breakfast Served (This is a FREE Event) Saving Regional Farms: Why Every New Yorker Should…
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Day of Planting and “Bronx Music Garden”
Day of Planting and “Bronx Music Garden”
DESCRIPTION 11:00 am to 2:00 pm - Kick Off Event and Tree Planting (Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, DeWitt Clinton High School Sustainability, vitafusionTM, actress Jennie…
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Rewilding Stuyvesant Cove Park
Rewilding Stuyvesant Cove Park
Rachel Frank will be presenting a performance based on rewilding, an environmental practice that seeks to reestablish the landscape’s former ecosystems and increase sustainability by…
free
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Ocean Atlas 2017: Understanding the Threats to Our Marine Ecosystems
Ocean Atlas 2017: Understanding the Threats to Our Marine Ecosystems
DESCRIPTION Oceans cover more than two-thirds of our planet. They are rich in resources and provide people with food, energy, and a stable climate. Nevertheless,…
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Frank Lloyd Wright 150th Birthday Celebration
Frank Lloyd Wright 150th Birthday Celebration
Celebrate the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth through a series of activities related to the architect’s masterwork: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
The celebration kicks off on Thursday, June 8—Wright’s 150th birthday—with a special reduced admission fee of $1.50. Visitors will be treated to free birthday cupcakes in the Guggenheim’s newly renovated Cafe 3, which will feature large-scale, rarely seen photographs of the museum during its construction. A first-person interpreter representing Frank Lloyd Wright will be on site between 10 am and 1 pm engaging with visitors.
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Happy Hour Fishing
Happy Hour Fishing
Tired of the old noisy after work happy hour? Head down to the Ecology Center to finish off the week with views of the East…
$15
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Urban Bay: Eyes Wide Open Under Rio de Janeiro’s Ocean
Urban Bay: Eyes Wide Open Under Rio de Janeiro’s Ocean
In alignment with the United Nations Ocean Conference in June in New York City, the Columbia Global Centers I Rio de Janeiro, the UNDP World…
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Urban Bay: Eyes Wide Open Under Rio de Janeiro’s Ocean
Urban Bay: Eyes Wide Open Under Rio de Janeiro’s Ocean
In alignment with the United Nations Ocean Conference in June in New York City, the Columbia Global Centers I Rio de Janeiro, the UNDP World…
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Alley Creek Salt Marsh Planting
Alley Creek Salt Marsh Planting
Help the NYC Parks Stewardship Team and the Natural Areas Conservancy restore a vital and dynamic urban resource—the salt marshes of Alley Creek! We need…
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Vegan Street Fair New York 2017
Vegan Street Fair New York 2017
Vegan Street Fair is an annual vegan food celebration where local vegan and vegan-friendly restaurants and vendors come together to serve you bite-size portions of…
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AmpLit: Amplifying Fresh Voices in the Literature
AmpLit: Amplifying Fresh Voices in the Literature
Summer on the Hudson and Lamprophonic amplify fresh voices in literature and bring authors center stage with readings, workshops, panels, and a community market to make one…
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Birds Plants of Cabrini Woods
Birds Plants of Cabrini Woods
Join naturalist and author Leslie Day to learn about the ecological relationship between birds and the plants they depend on in Fort Tryon Park's Cabrini…
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Riverdale RiverFest
Riverdale RiverFest
Riverdale RiverFest is an annual community festival to celebrate the Hudson River and support the Bronx Link of the Hudson Valley Greenway that is under development. It takes place each June on the banks of the Hudson River, on the scenic grounds of the College of Mount Saint Vincent.
The festival is a fun afternoon of outdoor entertainment and environmental education for the community. Participants will have opportunities to take boat rides on the Hudson River, listen to music by local musicians, enjoy an eclectic variety of food, and learn about the Hudson River Greenway and the history, biology and geology of the area.
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Basketball Clinics
Basketball Clinics
Join Big and Little Skills Academy for dynamic basketball clinics for ages 8-17. Improve basic basketball skills with the Big and Little Skills Academy (BALSA)…
Free
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Central Park Tour The Art of the Park
Central Park Tour The Art of the Park
Central Park has long been revered as a masterpiece of living art. Visitors on this tour will admire park vistas as if walking through a…
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HIGH LINE TOUR: FROM FREIGHT TO FLOWERS
HIGH LINE TOUR: FROM FREIGHT TO FLOWERS
Hear the story behind New York City's park in the sky. Weekly guided walking tours are free 75-minute-long tours led by High Line Docents, knowledgeable…
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Pedal Powered Pesto Workshop
Pedal Powered Pesto Workshop
Come pedal the Sweetcycle – a stationary bike capable of pedal powering a high-speed Blendtec blender! To begin this workshop, participants will harvest the herbs…
75.00$
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Farm and Compost Volunteer Days
Farm and Compost Volunteer Days
Join the NYC Compost Project and lend a hand at our sustainable farm or learn how composted food scraps nourish the soil. Learn how to…
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IRI Seminar: Monthly Climate Forecast Briefing
IRI Seminar: Monthly Climate Forecast Briefing
The Earth Institute's International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) presents its monthly climate forecast briefing. The briefing, delivered by the IRI's Chief Climate…
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Rise of the Supertalls: Planning, Preservation & Community Participation
Rise of the Supertalls: Planning, Preservation & Community Participation
Supertall towers and new construction are changing New York’s historic neighborhoods. Many are built as-of-right without any community input. The final panel in this series will look at issues around these new buildings and how City agencies, the City Council, and real estate professionals are managing the development and planning process.
$5 – $15
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Heart and Mind Festival
Heart and Mind Festival
2017 Summer Solstice Heart & Mind Festival: Voices of the Earth This 5-Hour FREE Event features: ~Indigenous Elders ~World Musicians ~Organic Vegitarian Food ~Concious Business…
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Summer on the Hudson: Harlem Dances
Summer on the Hudson: Harlem Dances
Join various local companies for dance performances and lessons of different movement styles. Harlem Dances events take place on the third Friday of each month…
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Stuyvesant Cove Park Community Volunteer Day
Stuyvesant Cove Park Community Volunteer Day
Stuyvesant Cove Park is an all-native plant, organically maintained public park located on the East River between 18th and 23rd Street. Regular volunteer events are…
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iLANDing: Researching Urban Ecologies with Movement Based Scores
iLANDing: Researching Urban Ecologies with Movement Based Scores
iLAND (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature, Dance) invites participants for an outdoor workshop for the creation of movement-based scores designed to explore local urban ecologies.…
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Summer on the Hudson: Revival
Summer on the Hudson: Revival
Dances For A Variable Population, legendary dancers, and neighborhood adults perform seminal dance techniques of the 20th century alongside the dancers who created them. Performance…
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Make Music New York
Make Music New York
American Music for Piano Duet highlights American four-hand music played by young students and professional adult headliners. Performances will take place at Pier I in…
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Urban Farm Volunteer Event: Harlem Grown
Urban Farm Volunteer Event: Harlem Grown
The Active Citizen is excited to volunteer with Harlem Grown on July 22nd! Harlem Grown is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire…
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Net – Zero Energy Districts: A Promising Piece of New York’s Energy Puzzle
Net – Zero Energy Districts: A Promising Piece of New York’s Energy Puzzle
In recent years, communities have shifted their focus from net - zero buildings to net - zero energy districts. Also in a New York context,…
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BkMSCC Walk for Sutainability
BkMSCC Walk for Sutainability
BkMSCC Walk for Sustainability A sustainable community is a community which involves collective performance to maintain a flow of individuality, yet combining the forces of…
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Summer on the Hudson: Feral Love
Summer on the Hudson: Feral Love
Join us for a special screening of Feral Love (Hancock Productions), a local tale of a musician, a feral cat colony, true love, and Riverside…
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Richard III
Richard III
In its eighth season of summer Shakespeare, Smith Street Stage sets up camp at Carroll Park with Shakespeare’s history play, in which a malicious hunchback…
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Hudson River Day
Hudson River Day is the Hudson River Maritime Museum's annual celebration of the river and our gift back to the public. This free, public event…
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Urban Park Rangers: RiverFish Celebration
Urban Park Rangers: RiverFish Celebration
Summer on the Hudson and the Urban Park Rangers connect you to the life living within the Hudson River with catch-and-release fishing, The Fuzzy Lemons,…
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River to River Festival
River to River Festival
projects at 31 unique sites across Lower Manhattan and Governors Island. The Festival also offers opportunities for audiences to interact with artists, socialize and experience multiple facets of…
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Grow Me A Garden: Seeding a Community Garden District in NYC
Grow Me A Garden: Seeding a Community Garden District in NYC
In the urban decay of the early 1970’s, between abandoned buildings and vacant lots, small green oases started to blossom in the East Village and…
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Summer on the Hudson: Rainbow Tango
Summer on the Hudson: Rainbow Tango
Enjoy an Argentine Tango Pride with dance lessons, performances, games, and social dance time led by Strictly Tango NYC.
Free
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Leadership and the Environment
Leadership and the Environment
Do you want to learn to lead beyond what you can learn in class? Do you care enough about the environment to act on it?…
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Beyond the Product: Diving Deep on Supply Chain
Beyond the Product: Diving Deep on Supply Chain
Join Dopper, Be Social Change, and B Lab on Tuesday, June 27th for our next B-Talks, a monthly gathering to be inspired with stories of how businesses can be used as a force for…
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NATIVE PLANT GARDEN TOUR
The Native Plant Garden houses a diverse collection of ferns, perennials, shrubs, and trees native to the northeastern United States. Join us for a guided…