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Moonlight & Movies| In Search of Bengali Harlem
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Join us for a screening of "In Search of Bengali Harlem" (2022, 85 mins), a feature documentary directed by Vivek Bald and Alaudin Ullah. The film follows Ullah from the streets of New York City to the villages of Bangladesh to uncover the pasts of his father, Habib, and mother, Mohima. Alaudin first discovers that Habib was part of an extraordinary history of mid-20th century Harlem, in which Bengali Muslim men, dodging racist Asian Exclusion...
$20
Immigration Activism in NYC Today
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Join us for a timely discussion about the current state of the immigrant rights movement in NYC and how New York's immigrant communities are faring 20 years after the creation of ICE, or the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This panel will explore how immigrant rights activists continue to grapple with post-9/11 immigration policies, including the Trump-era “Muslim Ban,” as well as the recent arrival of asylum seekers from South America...
$20
Moonlight & Movies | Make Me Famous
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Join us for a special screening of the documentary Make Me Famous (Brian Vincent, 2021). The film tells the story of the Lower East Side art movement through an unknown artist, putting creativity itself centerstage. Set during what was arguably the last great art explosion in American history, Make Me Famous explores the life and work of painter Edward Brezinski in his quest for fame. The film provides an intimate and original look at NYC’s 1980s...
$20
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Urban Ecosystems| Living Among the Plants, Animals
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Urban Ecosystems| Living Among the Plants, Animals, and Fungi of NYC Did you know that Broadway bends at Tenth Street in order to preserve a prized cherry tree that once grew there? That some New Yorkers feast at wild edible banquets with foods foraged among the City’s parks and waterways? Or, that over 200 different species of bees call Manhattan home? Alongside New York City’s diverse population of humans, bustling communities of...
$25
Soul of the City: Live @ MCNY - The Parsonage
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Join us for a world premiere of a song cycle about a little-known locus of New York history: 64 East 7th Street performed by Theo Bleckmann (Vocals), Alicia Olatuja (Vocals), Dan Tepfer (Piano), and a chamber-jazz ensemble. The site was at the heart of eight dramatic moments in the life of the city, from the Slocum disaster through the Beat era to today. The music is by eight composers from the worlds of jazz, classical, and "post-classical" music:...
$35
Moonlight & Movies | Americanish
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, join us for a screening of Americanish (Iman Zawahry, 2021). The film, set in Jackson Heights, Queens follows two sisters and their newly-immigrated cousin as they navigate the consistent and sometimes conflicting demands of romance, culture, work, and family. Serving both as a lighthearted reimagination of and critical divergence from the classic romantic comedy, Americanish tackles and celebrates the complex intersectionalities...
$20
What's for Dinner in the Future?
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Regenerative agriculture, permaculture, genetically-edited and 3-D printed foods, cell-cultured meats, air protein, and insect flours. What do all these terms mean and what does it have to do with the way we eat? With a rapidly warming planet and a global population that continues to increase towards 10 billion people, there are looming, overwhelming questions about what the future of food looks like. While we don't yet have all the...
$45
An Evening with John Turturro
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
The 2023 Robert A. and Elizabeth R. Jeffe Distinguished Lecture in Urban History Join us for an evening with Brooklyn-born actor and director John Turturro, whose brilliant and original performances on stage and screen have delighted audiences for over four decades. From his roles in myriad Spike Lee's films starting with Do the Right Thing, to his work in Romance and Cigarettes and Fading Gigolo, which he also wrote and directed, Turturro...
$45
Documenting Intimacy: Self, Family, Community
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Join New York Now: Home exhibiting artists Cheryl Mukherji, Laila Stevens, Dean Majd, and Amarise Carreras for conversation about the ways in which photographers intimately document themselves, their family histories, and their chosen families and communities. Moderated by curator and writer Kristen Lubben, the panel will also explore immigration histories, queer intimacy and chosen family, self-portraiture, intergenerational dialogues, community-building...
$20
Moonlight & Movies: Manhandled
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
In Manhandled (Allan Dwan, 1924), silent film goddess Gloria Swanson plays a flapper-esque shop girl getting a little taste of the NYC nightlife thanks to a couple of grabby swells, while her inventor boyfriend neglects her. Part of a seven-picture partnership between director Allan Dwan and Swanson, who went undercover as a shop girl at a department store in Chicago to prepare for the role. Shot on location in New York City at the Astoria...
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Soul of the City: Juneteenth with Queen Esther
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Celebrate Juneteenth at MCNY with a live performance by Queen Esther and her band. Hailed as "a Black Lucinda Williams” and a “brutal, original, explosive singer…” (Vanity Fair, Spain), Queen Esther's music fuses the sounds of jazz, the blues, and rock 'n roll into what she describes as Black Americana. Queen Esther will perform works from her latest album Rona that features rangy alt-Americana songs written in Harlem during the early months...
$15
Movies for Minis: Night at the Museum (2006)
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Break out into the summer season with us for our June edition of Movies for Minis as we screen Night at the Museum (2006), starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Dick Van Dyke, Owen Wilson, and Rami Malek! Stiller plays an aspiring inventor who lands a new job as a nighttime security guard at the Museum of Natural History. On his first shift he discovers everything is not what it seems, because when the lights go out and everyone goes home, the artifacts...
$5
My Brother's Name is Kenny: The Greatest True Hip-Hop
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
My Brother's Name is Kenny: The Greatest True Hip-Hop Story Ever Told Courtesy, Kenny Parker To mark the 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop, join us for an intimate talk with renowned DJ and music producer Kenny Parker as he shares a behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of Rap music and reveals never-before-told stories from Hip-Hop's golden era. Kenny's 2022 book, My Brother's Name is Kenny: The Greatest True Hip-Hop Story Ever Told, provides a first-hand...
$15
New York on Film: Gold Diggers of 1933
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Join us for our first outdoor movie screening of the summer, featuring a pre-film cocktail hour with live jazz by vocalist Kate Martucci and her trio! In Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933), Busby Berkeley's production numbers highlight this backstage extravaganza about a millionaire-turned-songwriter who financially backs a Broadway production, much to the surprise of three unemployed chorus girls. Songs include "We're in the Money," "The...
$20
Photography as Activism with Latine Immigrants
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Photography as Activism: Collaborative Photography with Latine Immigrants and Communities Join New York Now: Home exhibiting artists Diana Guerra, Cinthya Santos-Briones, and Joana Toro in conversation as they reflect on their collaborative photo-based projects with Latine migrant communities in New York. Challenging the notion of “objectivity” in photojournalism, each of these artists works in close collaboration and mutual agreement with...
$15
New York on Film: The Clock
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
In The Clock, Vincente Minnelli's classic 1945 wartime romance, Robert Walker plays a small-town G.I. en route to Europe, who, during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City, falls in love with Judy Garland in her first dramatic, non-singing role as a secretary. Directed by Minnelli right before he married Garland, the film offers a glimpse into filmmaking in the first half of the 1940s, when the war hung over everything -- and blocked access...
$20
Soul of the City: Live @ MCNY with Falu
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Join us for an unforgettable evening of music with internationally recognized vocalist and New Yorker, Falu at our March edition of Soul of the City: Live @ MCNY. Falu will perform an intimate set with her live band, blending traditional Indian Classical music with a range of modern styles and genres, while incorporating the stories that have impacted her journey in music. Soul of the City: Live @ MCNY is a new series of intimate concerts...
$25
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Ambient Faith
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Join us for a thought-provoking conversation with writer and perfumer Tanaïs and poet Divya Victor moderated by journalist Anjali Kamat. Both artists are featured in our current exhibition, City of Faith: Religion, Activism, and Urban Space. Divya and Tanaïs’s writings both explore themes of religion and race. Divya’s CURB focuses on violence against and the religious profiling of South Asian Americans in public spaces, while Tanaïs’s...
$15
New York on Film: The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
In The World, the Flesh and the Devil (Ranald MacDougall, 1959), on-location film production in post-war New York meets mid-century apocalyptic science fiction. Shot on location throughout the city, and featuring empty streets that recall recent pandemic scenes, the film confronts racism in a direct way that is rare for a Cold War era sci-fi film at the time. The film was adapted from the 1901 speculative fiction novel "The Purple Cloud" by Caribbean-British...
$20
New York on Film: The Queen
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Take a step back in time to the iconic 1967 Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant, where drag queens compete in this groundbreaking documentary. Witness the behind-the-scenes drama, the fierce competition, and the birth of the Ballroom scene. Join us for a screening of this vibrant piece of queer history.
$20
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