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Lumen Video and Performance Art Festival

Atlantic Salt 561 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY, United States

LUMEN, organized by Staten Island Arts, is not a traditional film festival or gallery art experience. It is a one-day, 6-hour festival that features video and performance art by emerging artists and more established artists at the forefront of their media.

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Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum

Join Target First Saturdays and enjoy engaging and eclectic free art and entertainment programs every month, from 5 to 11 p.m. Michelin-starred Saul restaurant and bar is open all evening. The Counter café serves sandwiches, salads, and sweets, as well as wine and local beer.

Free

Rooftop Films: Bikes vs. Cars

Metrotech Commons 5 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, New York, United States

As evidence of the negative impact of the cars continues to mount, people are looking to the bicycle as the solution. But with poor city planning and road rage contributing to daily cycling casualties, and never-ending gridlocks and global warming at the forefront of the news, what will it take for change to occur? And will the economic powers-that-be allow it?

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Central Park Conservancy Film Festival

Central Park New York, NY, United States

The free Central Park Conservancy Film Festival screens classics just north of the Sheep Meadow (enter the park at West 72nd Street). Bring a blanket…

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Free Summer Movie on the Fight Deck

Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum Pier 86 W 46th St and 12th Ave, New York, NY, United States

Join the Intrepid Museum for its seventh annual Summer Movie Series. Enjoy FREE feature films on the flight deck, under the stars! Wall-E will be…

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Good Food Documentary: Sustainable Table

Park Slope Food Co-Op 782 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

What’s on your plate? Where does it come from? What effects does it have on the environment and your body? What can you do to help? This 52 minute documentary that takes an unadulterated look into the food you eat, and how you can make a difference to your health and the environment by the food choices you make.

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Good Food Documentary: Food Chains

Park Slope Food Co-Op 782 Union St,

Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets.

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“Stung by Climate” Earth Day Free Screening

NYU Cantor Film Center 102 36 East 8th Street, New York, NY, United States

A free film screening event featuring two short films about our changing climate and its influence on people across the America: “Stung by Climate” shows how climate change is affecting bees and beekeepers across the country; “The Disappearing Frontier” takes us to Alaska where people co-exist with climate change on a daily basis. Let's celebrate 2016 Earth Day together!

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GREEN MEETUP NIGHT: “Love Thy Nature”

Cinema Village 22 East 12th Street, New York, NY, United States

Join fellow environmental and sustainability professionals and enthusiasts for a screening of the new award-winning documentary "LOVE THY NATURE." Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker Sylvie Rokab (bio below) and networking reception at Reservoir Bar (Cash Bar).

$9.43 – $12

Afrofuturism Conference 2016: #BLACKISVIRAL

THE NEW SCHOOL

A student-led conference on Afrofuturism as a cultural and aesthetic movement for the radical emancipation of people of color. Join us for a weekend filled with art, performances, lectures, panels, workshops, theater pieces, film music, scholarly works, and community events !

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