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144 events

Monday · Nov 2, 2026

22 events shown on this page

  1. School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

    By newyorktheatreguide.comTicketed
    Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

  2. Homeroom: Artists Against the Bomb

    MoMA PS1
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Taking Back Our Space: Photographic Perspectives

    Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Hyundai Translocal Series: Ho Tzu Nyen

    New Museum
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. La Bohème

    By newyorktheatreguide.comTicketed
    Metropolitan Opera House
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Masterpieces: An Experience of the Museo del Prado

    Ticketed
    The Loft (3rd Fl) at Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Intro to Printmaking

    Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Hopi Kachina Dolls: Blessings for a Balanced World

    Brooklyn Museum
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  9. Saturday Artist Wheel Throwing Class

    Bronx River Art Center, The Bronx

  10. Digital Collage with Adobe CC and its Free Alternatives

    Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  11. Stained Glass Art for Beginners

    Ticketed
    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn

  12. Tosca

    By newyorktheatreguide.comTicketed
    Metropolitan Opera House

  13. Walk-In Workshop: Fall Foodscapes

    Staten Island Children's Museum
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. Hillbilly Allegedly: A JD Vance Parody Show

  15. Welding 101: Make a Rose out of Steel

    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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  1. Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody

    By newyorktheatreguide.comTicketed
    The Club

  2. The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show

    By newyorktheatreguide.comTicketed
    DR2 Theatre
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Pre-Existing Condition

    By newyorktheatreguide.comTicketed
    Greenwich House Theater
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Secret Parlor Jazz: Home-Cooked Tunes & BBQ Dinner on the Upper East Side

    Parlor Jazz (Exact Meeting Location Revealed in Confirmation Email), Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. 2:22 - A Ghost Story

    By newyorktheatreguide.comTicketed
    Lucille Lortel Theatre

  6. Tristan & Yseult

    By newyorktheatreguide.comTicketed
    St. Ann's Warehouse

  7. Public Craft Night Mondays and Thursdays

    NYC Resistor, Brooklyn
Open Monday, 2026-11-02

Tuesday · Nov 3, 2026

21 events shown on this page

  1. Live @ Aloft Series, featuring art by Symplee Tufts

    Free
    W xyz Lounge @ Aloft Harlem Hotel
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Earth & Art: Hand-Built Pottery with Juniper Foster

    Art Barrio, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Absorption

    With Nivia Hernandez, Daniel Anthony Vasquez and 1 more
    TSA
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Election Day School Holiday in Prospect Park

    Free
    Prospect Park Audubon Center
    Free

  5. Fall Discovery Days

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Discovery Garden

  6. Urban Portrait Photography Walk with Professional Models

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free

  7. Piano Masterclass: Finghin Collins

    By Brooklyn College
    Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts

  8. Live Ice Choreography

    Free
    Winter Village Overlook, Bryant Park, Manhattan
    Free

  9. Creative Aging: The Joy of Creating

    Fort Hamilton, Meeting Room
    CancelledUnconfirmed
    CancelledUnconfirmed

  10. Intro to Linocut

    With MICHELE GODWINTicketed
    EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Manhattan

  11. Kill Your Stage Fright

    With Patryk Szwichtenberg
    Library for Arts & Culture

  12. Streetscape Photographers Discuss Their Book Blending New York History, Culinary Culture, & Interior Design

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeHidden gem

  13. Origami Group Meet-Up

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  14. Lectures on Tap - "Planets Beyond the Sun: A Galactic Tour"

    By Lectures on TapTicketed
    SoHo, Manhattan

  15. Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series with Pierpaolo Mittica and Adam Higginbotham

    With Pierpaolo Mittica, Adam Higginbotham and 1 more
    ICP's Library & Online, Manhattan
    Hidden gem

  16. Brooklyn Women’s Chorus Rehearsal

    By Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture
    Brooklyn

  17. Lincoln in the Bardo

    With Missy MazzoliTicketed
    The Metropolitan Opera House
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  18. Astronomy on Tap Montreal – Aliens & Black Holes: Mysteries of the Universe

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Show 3 more on Tuesday · rated lower

  1. Nail Polish Party

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Schapiro17 at Third Street Music School

    Third Street Music School Settlement, Manhattan

  3. Beauty School Dropout

    Sony Hall
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Open Tuesday, 2026-11-03

Wednesday · Nov 4, 2026

27 events shown on this page

  1. 2026 Innovation Conference and Record Awards

    With Billie Tsien, Tod Williams and 7 more
    Museum of Jewish Heritage
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed

  2. Lectures on Tap - “Math & Scandal: The Man Who ‘Stole’ Infinity”

    SoHo, Manhattan

  3. Hands On Teachers and Students Show

    Plymouth Center for the Arts
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Make and Race Your own Pinewood Car

    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. Ikebana Wednesdays: An Evening of Contemporary Ikebana

    36 E Broadway, Manhattan

  6. Free-Form Watercolor Paint & Sip

    Free
    58th Street Library, Manhattan
    Free

  7. Camille Donoho: Connectomics-derived functional predictions in the Drosophila visual system

    With Camille Donoho
    Bryan Research 103
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  8. Creative Aging: Transforming Paper into Art

    Dyker Library, Auditorium

  9. Laser Cut Pins

    Cambria Heights, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  10. Immigration Imagination Lab: Practice English Through Theater

    Flatbush Library

  11. Photo Walk with Hudson River Views & Historic Architecture

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  12. Math in Bloom: Fibonacci Stepping Stone Creation

    Queens Botanical Garden

  13. Masterclass: Mark Kroll, harpsichord

    By Brooklyn College
    Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts

  14. Methods of Measurement: Health, Safety, Welfare in Architecture and Happy Hour

    By AIA New York / Center for Architecture
    Center for Architecture

  15. After-Hours Conservation Lab Tour

    Ticketed
    New-York Historical Society, Manhattan

  16. Deafula: B-Horror Movies & ASL

    Central Library, Info Commons Lab

  17. Oil Paint Stick Monotype

    With ALESSANDRO LEVATOTicketed
    EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Manhattan

  18. Knit, Hook & Stitch

    With Andrea HerradaFree
    Recess Grove, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  19. Gut Feelings: How Our Nervous and Immune Systems Communicate

    With Daniel MucidaFree
    Simons Foundation, Manhattan
    Free

  20. Members-Only Tour: Center for Book Arts

    Poster House
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  21. The Boathouse Jam: Winter Edition

    Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse, Brooklyn

  22. It Started on Delancey Street: New York's Lower East Side in Jack Kirby's Comics

    By Center for Jewish History · with Roy Schwartz, Randolph Hoppe and 1 moreFree
    Center for Jewish History, Manhattan
    Free

  23. Emerging Photographers Share Their Work of Self-Discovery

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free
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  1. Traitorz: The Unauthorized Musical Parody

    By newyorktheatreguide.comTicketed
    St. Luke's Theatre

  2. Gingerbread NYC Daytime Member Hours

    By Museum of the City of New York
    Museum of the City of New York
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. English Country Dance

    Historic Richmond Town, Staten Island
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Alan Buko Request Show

    Haswell Green's, Hell's Kitchen
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Open Wednesday, 2026-11-04

Thursday · Nov 5, 2026

13 events shown on this page

  1. Sketching & Bookbinding Workshop

    Liz's Book Bar, Brooklyn

  2. Once More, With Feeling: Live! 25th Anniversary Show

    littlefield, Brooklyn

  3. School Group Visits: Discovery Trail

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Illuminating the Past: Synchrotron Applications in Cultural Heritage

    With Julia Thom-Levy, Victor González and 3 more
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  5. After School Science Hour: Neuroscience and Nature at BioBase Harlem

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  6. Art in the Garden

    By The Horticultural Society of New York
    The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  7. Art and AgriCulture

    By The Horticultural Society of New York
    The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, Manhattan

  8. Kotchakorn Voraakhom

    With Kotchakorn Voraakhom
    Higgins Hall, HHN-304
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Show 5 more on Thursday · rated lower

  1. STC: School of Rock

    Murray Kahn Theater, Manhattan

  2. Deerhoof, Mercy, My Trio

    Elsewhere - The Hall, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Tokyo Kanpai Boys Live Show

    High Line Comedy Club, Manhattan
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Fall Sweep

    By Brooklyn College
    Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts

  5. Painting Flowers with Watercolor

    By Brooklyn Brainery
    Brooklyn Brainery
Open Thursday, 2026-11-05

Friday · Nov 6, 2026

2 events shown on this page

  1. Gallery Kit

    By The Noguchi Museum
    The Noguchi Museum

  2. A Different Picture: A Bronx Collage Workshop

    By The Bronx County Historical Society · with Nicole America Cruz
    Tremont Library, The Bronx
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed
Open Friday, 2026-11-06

Saturday · Nov 7, 2026

8 events shown on this page

  1. Printing from the Garden: An Introduction to Bundle-Dyeing

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden

  2. Nature's Workshop: Fall Foliage Leaf Art

    Free
    Lincoln Terrace Park (in Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park)
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  3. Functional Single-Molecule Super-Resolution Microscopy With (Photo)-Switchable Fluorescent Molecules

    By Brooklyn College
    Online
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  4. Gallery Kit

    By The Noguchi Museum
    The Noguchi Museum

  5. Gallery Kit

    By The Noguchi Museum

  6. Mural painting at the Battery

    By New York Mycological Society
    The Battery
Show 2 more on Saturday · rated lower

  1. Introduction to Watercolor Painting

    By Brooklyn Botanic Garden

  2. Medieval Embroidered Bug Patches

    By Brooklyn Brainery
    Brooklyn Brainery
Open Saturday, 2026-11-07

Sunday · Nov 8, 2026

1 event shown on this page

  1. Homeward Bound: A Korean Adoptee Exploring the Longing for Belonging

    By Caveat
    Caveat, Manhattan
Open Sunday, 2026-11-08

Monday · Nov 9, 2026

3 events shown on this page

  1. Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds

    By The Explorers Club · with Scott SolomonTicketed
    Explorers Club Headquarters
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Show 2 more on Monday · rated lower

  1. Introduction to Gouache Painting

    By Brooklyn Brainery
    Brooklyn Brainery

  2. WRONG: A F*cked-Up Game Show

    By Caveat
    Caveat, Manhattan
Open Monday, 2026-11-09

Tuesday · Nov 10, 2026

3 events shown on this page

  1. Mongolian Calligraphy Workshop

    By Brooklyn College
    West Quad Center
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed

  2. Staff and Faculty Creative Lunch: Collagraph Printmaking

    By Baruch College
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Show 1 more on Tuesday · rated lower

  1. The Wisdom Bar: How to Not Quit Your Favorite Thing: A Comedian's Guide

    By The Wisdom BarTicketed
    Flop House Comedy Club, Brooklyn
Open Tuesday, 2026-11-10
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