Rise above the city streets and start your day focused, centered, and connected with nature. Join the Integral Yoga Institute, the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center and special guests for weekly, guided meditations. Open to people of all ages and experience levels.
Get hooked on the East River this summer!
Treat yourself to a sweet snack featuring local honey from the High Line's acclaimed food vendors, including L'arte del Gelato, People's Pops, and Melt Bakery, located on the High Line at West 16th Street.
Energetic lawn games, and art projects, such as clay, collage, painting and group murals. Everything provided. For ages 5 and up. This event happens every…
Please join us for the Civic Art Lab 2016 opening event and an evening featuring talks by artists/sustainability professionals Grace Johnson and Chloe Holden.
The Drilling Company performs free outdoor Shakespeare in the Parking Lot. JULY 28 TO AUGUST 14 "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE" One of Shakespeare's most problematic…
'The Joy of the Gowanus' project takes it’s inspiration from Bob Ross’ PBS TV show ‘The Joy of Painting”. At the end of the tutorial participants will have created their own landscape painting of the Gowanus, and have developed an artistic appreciation for the colors, structures and environment with all it’s blemishes and beauty.
The 6th Annual New York City Poetry Festival will be held on Governors Island's Colonel's Row on July 30th and 31st, 2016. The Poetry Society…
The evening will feature performances that reflect on the intersection of sustainability, community, and the arts. Sliding scale donations for drinks and performances. All donations for this evening support the performers. Artists to be announced.
How can art-making facilitate environmental and social awareness? Mindfulness and creative exploration of our surroundings can help to ground us within our locational context as individuals, and help clarify the ways in which we affect our surroundings, and how our surroundings affect us.
Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) is a public access television network and media education center offering hyperlocal programming and low-cost media production courses to Manhattan residents…
In 2012, NY/NJ Baykeepeer established the EcoVolunteer program, designed to introduce adult volunteers to the NY-NJ Harbor Estuary through education, hands-on research and restoration experiences. Currently, our EcoVolunteers assist with monitoring oysters in the Bronx River at Soundview Park and also with salt marsh restoration and living shorelines in Freshkills Park on Staten Island.