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Featured Database: Ancestry Library Edition
The New York Public Library (Tech) @ 476 5th Ave, New York, NY
Access billions of names inside the more than 7,000 available databases of Ancestry® Library Edition, including Census and Vital Records, birth, marriage and death notices, the Social Security Death Index, Passenger lists and naturalizations, Military and Holocaust Records, City Directories, New York Emigrant Savings Bank Records, and African American and Native American Records. In this hands-on demonstration, learn how to trace...
Free
Virtual Lecture: The Black Death: 14th Century Pandemic
Christine Axen @ Virtual Learning via Zoom
A survey of the causes of, and cultural and artistic reactions to, the pandemic that struck the world in the 14th century: the Black Death. We'll provide context and comparison for our current experience of COVID-19. The course will showcase art and contemporary documents that help communicate the thoughts and practices of medieval people who endured a disease that they did not comprehend. About the Instructor: I am a professor with a PhD in...
$14
Virtual Lecture: History Happy Hour
Christine Axen @ Virtual Learning via Zoom
History Happy Hour! Raise your glass to the past, and come discover the odd and fascinating things people thought and did in the Middle Ages and beyond. Professor of History will offer a short presentation, and then open the floor to animated conversation over drinks! No previous knowledge required. Each week something different will be discussed. Current schedule is as follows, a single ticket purchase is for...
$10
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Virtual History of the World through Booze
Aaron Robin @ Virtual Learning via Zoom
With its earliest history seated in the ancient practice of Alchemy, the art of Distillation was created by those same early chemists trying to turn lead into gold. Though they did not succeed in creating that precious metal, they did succeed in transforming grain into spirit, and those after them turned that spirit into something magical. We will explore how the art of Fermentation (conversion of sugars to alcohol) led to the practice of...
$30
Corporate Social Responsibility Spotlight
Be Social Change @ 424 W 54th St, New York, NY
How are businesses answering the call of today’s social and environmental challenges? What are for-profit organizations doing to be corporate citizens in times of crisis like the Coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak and civil rights movement? How is the CSR rule book fundamentally changing as we face divisive political realities? What are for-profit organizations doing to be corporate citizens in times of crisis like the Coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak...
$20
Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth and Morality
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Friedrich Nietzsche is among the most notorious and controversial thinkers in the western intellectual tradition. He aimed to philosophize “with a hammer,” to demolish the philosophical tradition founded by Socrates and Plato and slaughter its most sacred cows. Central to that tradition is the value placed on truth, reason, objectivity, and a moral system based on altruism and self-sacrifice. In contrast to forming the bedrock of a stable political...
RAAAATSCRAPS: The Best Improv Show in the World
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
RaaaatScraps is the World's Best Improv Show from the people who produced Asssscat. Join a surprise guest monologist and NYC's best improvisers, many from The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, who have been seen on Broad City, High Maintenance, Succession, Severance, Somebody Somewhere, Difficult People, Search Party, Mrs. Maisel, The Chris Gethard Show, Kimmy Schmidt, MCU, 30 Rock & More.
$27.20
Basic Kimono & Obi
New York Kimono Academy @ 428 E 10th St, New York, NY
Learn the art of authentic kimono dressing at the prestigious New York Kimono Academy. Discover the skill and technique behind this traditional method, as you master the art of tying and accessorizing different types of kimono for any occasion. Immerse yourself in the elegance and beauty of kimono fashion with our comprehensive program.
All levels
16 and older
Science 101: Our Gayest Show Ever
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
Experience the most entertaining and unconventional science class at Caveat, where real scientists and hilarious hosts bring you games, debates, and art challenges to keep you engaged and entertained. Attendance is the key to success in this one-of-a-kind "class" that will leave you in awe and laughter.
$24.05
Economics, Narrative, and Pandemics
92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
Narratives that circulate among the general population are potentially contagious and can be epidemic, just as disease viruses are. The general public does not talk about pure economic theory much, but some rudimentary theories that guide their economic decisions are spread by their connection with viral human-interest narratives. With modern historical files of digitized text, such as of newspapers or books, we can get clues of the changes...
$20
Trans/Queer/Woman: Theory and Politics
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY
Transfeminine lives are often seen as having, in and of themselves, political consequences, theoretical limits, and some kind of relation to a ‘beyond’ of gender. While former sports celebrity Caitlyn Jenner has come to stand for the notion that ‘transgender’ is now a “respectable” identity, Olympic gold-star medalist Caster Semenya, despite not being transgender, is now caught up in a fraught and ugly fracas over the question of “what...
A Master Class on the History of American Diplomacy
92nd Street Y @ Online Classroom, New York, NY
Lessons in Leadership: A Master Class on the History of American Diplomacy America’s fate is inseparable from the rest of the world. As we approach the work of a new administration, Robert Zoellick, the former Deputy Secretary of State, US Trade Representative, and President of the World Bank, joins David Petraeus for a timely and illuminating master class on the history of American Diplomacy. From Benjamin Franklin’s foray to Paris as America’s...
$15
Theorizing Repression
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ Online, New York, NY
Theorizing Repression: From Psychoanalysis to Counterinsurgency Theory “The individual’s dangerous desire for aggression,” theorized Sigmund Freud in Civilization and Its Discontents, can only be “disarmed” by the establishment of “an agency within him to watch over it, like a garrison in a conquered city.” For some, Freud’s invocation of surveillance and military occupation were no mere metaphors: they entailed concrete approaches...
Satchmo in the Studio
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
On International Jazz Day 2018, The Louis Armstrong House Museum and the Museum of the City of New York are teaming up for the first public screening of the only known film of Louis Armstrong in the studio, recording his 1959 album, Satchmo Plays King Oliver. The acquisition of the film made headlines in 2015 but it has never been shown publicly until now. Armstrong scholar Ricky Riccardi will provide commentary on the film...
$20
Unexpected Pairings: Gin Fizz à La Mode
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
The original recipe for the gin fizz cocktail, first invented in New Orleans in 1888, was practically a milkshake. It called for powdered sugar, heavy cream, and an egg white to be shaken for an arm-busting 12 minutes together with gin, lime juice, and orange flower water to create a creamy cocktail with just a little fizz. Now, more than a century later, Harlem’s only family-owned ice cream parlor, Sugar Hill Creamery, is reinventing...
$20
New York in 27 Buildings
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Can the bricks, glass, wood, and mortar of our city's most emblematic buildings reveal how and why New York City has become the modern global metropolis we know today? To celebrate the launch of his latest book, A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis, former New York Times urban affairs correspondent Sam Roberts sits down for a conversation with Curbed architecture critic Alexandra Lange. They'll...
$17
New York at Its Core: The Archaeology
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Manhattan’s dramatic growth over the centuries is often pictured as a process of expansion, either northwards (up the island) or upwards (with ever taller skyscrapers). But since the 17th century, the island has also been expanding outwards into the East and Hudson Rivers through landfill. Garbage and rubble have long been used to create hundreds of acres of new, artificial land along Manhattan’s coastline. Once overlooked, this landfill...
$15
Feeding the Fight: The Culinary History of WWI
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Savor a bite of culinary history by exploring the food and drinks that defined the American experience during World War I. Inspired by our upcoming exhibition, Posters & Patriotism: Selling World War I in New York (opening April 5), food historian Libby O’Connell, author of The American Plate: A Culinary History in 100 Bites, will delve into American cuisine both at home and abroad during war years. French 75s, a cocktail popular during...
$20
The Candela Allure
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Rosario Candela played a major role in shaping the architectural legacy of 20th-century New York. Today, his buildings rank among the most prized in the city, almost a century after they were built. What gives Candela's designs such an enduring appeal? Museum curator Donald Albrecht leads a conversation on the history, design and marketability of these famed addresses with architecture critic Paul Goldberger; architect Peter...
$30
Voices of the Village with David Amram & Friends
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Composer, conductor, and musician David Amram leads an intimate evening of songs, stories, and readings that celebrate the creative and collaborative spirit of the Village in the late 1950s through the '70s. A fascinating and humorous raconteur who experienced the neighborhood firsthand during this time, Amram will bring to life the essence of this moment in the city’s history along with guest performers Tom Chapin, Paquito D’Rivera, and Josh...
$50
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