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Sunday · Nov 1, 2026

18 events shown on this page
  1. Homeroom: Artists Against the Bomb

    MoMA PS1
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  2. In Their Honor: 25 Years of Service

    National September 11 Memorial & Museum
    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. Masterpieces: An Experience of the Museo del Prado

    Ticketed
    The Loft (3rd Fl) at Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  6. Intro to Printmaking

    Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  7. Hopi Kachina Dolls: Blessings for a Balanced World

    Brooklyn Museum
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  8. Saturday Artist Wheel Throwing Class

    Bronx River Art Center, The Bronx
  9. Digital Collage with Adobe CC and its Free Alternatives

    Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  10. Stained Glass Art for Beginners

    Ticketed
    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
  11. Welding and Metal Fabrication 101: Make a Steel Planter Box

    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  12. Walk-In Workshop: Fall Foodscapes

    Staten Island Children's Museum
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  13. Water Marbling Workshop

    The Arts Building, Manhattan
  14. Intro to Woodworking: Make a Custom Longboard

    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  15. Hands in Clay: A Pottery Workshop for Beginners

    Art Barrio, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  16. Make Your Own Copper Lamp - Art Class by Classpop!TM

    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  17. Comedians Interview Experts: Astronomy and mythology with Ben Lillie and Moiya McTier

    By CaveatTicketed
    Caveat, Manhattan
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  1. Union Square Holiday Market

    Union Square
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Open Sunday, 2026-11-01

Monday · Nov 2, 2026

22 events shown on this page
  1. Midnight Release Party with Holly Black and Cassandra Clare

    Barnes & Noble, Manhattan
  2. Welding 101: Make a Rose out of Steel

    Craftsman Ave, Brooklyn
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  3. Explore a Major NYC Park

    Free
    Bryant Park Shop by the Fountain, Manhattan
    Free
  4. Point-and-Shoot Photography for Beginners (Part 1)

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free
  5. Zine-Making with Collage Techniques

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free
  6. Fort Hamilton Writers Circle

    Fort Hamilton, Meeting Room
  7. Portrait Photography Demonstration for Focusing on the Individual

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  8. Mending Session: Socks & Knitwear

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  9. Print Making

    With Danielle Mascolo
    New Utrecht, Auditorium
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  10. Knit 2 Gether

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  11. Creative Writing Workshop

    Central Library, Art Studio
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  12. How do simple rotations affect the implicit bias of Adam?

    With Rebecca Willett
    Warren Weaver Hall 1302
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed
  13. Critical Classicality: Book Talk and Poetry Reading

    With Dr. Kelly Nguyen
    Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  14. Is America a failed experiment?

    Rhodes + Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  15. La Moskitia: Honduras’ Last Marine Frontier

    By The Explorers ClubTicketed
    Explorers Club Headquarters
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  16. Cold Process Soap Making for Beginners

    By Brooklyn Brainery
    Brooklyn Brainery, Brooklyn
  17. Pneuhaus: Building with Air

    With August Lehrecke
    Harvard University Graduate School of Design
  18. We Chose to Go to the Moon

    Free
    The New York Historical, Robert H. Smith Auditorium
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  19. Special Viewing: We Chose to Go to the Moon

    Free
    The New York Historical, Robert H. Smith Auditorium
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  20. Thalia Book Club: Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey

    By Symphony SpaceTicketed
    Symphony Space
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  1. Public Craft Night Mondays and Thursdays

    NYC Resistor, Brooklyn
  2. Hop-On Hop-Off Bus: Brooklyn Bridge, Financial District, Memorial

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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. Creative Aging: The Joy of Creating

    Fort Hamilton, Meeting Room
    CancelledUnconfirmed
    CancelledUnconfirmed
  8. Theater Workshop

    Central Library, Info Commons Lab
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  9. Meet the Author: Sarah Feingold reading T is for Traffic Cone

    With Sarah Feingold
    Clinton Hill, Meeting Room
  10. Kitchen Table Histories

    By The Bronx County Historical Society
    Mott Haven Library, The Bronx
    Hidden gem
  11. Far from Home: Diaspora Networks, Religion, and Identity Abroad on the Ancient Indian Ocean

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  12. Intro to Linocut

    With MICHELE GODWINTicketed
    EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Manhattan
  13. Kill Your Stage Fright

    With Patryk Szwichtenberg
    Library for Arts & Culture
  14. Streetscape Photographers Discuss Their Book Blending New York History, Culinary Culture, & Interior Design

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeHidden gem
  15. Origami Group Meet-Up

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  16. Saratoga Writers' Workshop

    With Marae HartFree
    Saratoga, Meeting Room
    Free
  17. Lectures on Tap - "Planets Beyond the Sun: A Galactic Tour"

    By Lectures on TapTicketed
    SoHo, Manhattan
  18. 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
  19. Astrology, Magic, and Technology in City Life, 1400-1550

    With Anthony Grafton
    2nd Floor Flex Space
    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed
  20. Astronomy on Tap Montreal – Aliens & Black Holes: Mysteries of the Universe

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
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  1. Nail Polish Party

    Free
    Gerritsen Beach Public Library, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Open Tuesday, 2026-11-03

Wednesday · Nov 4, 2026

30 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. Green-Wood on Wheels: Stroller-Friendly Tour

    By The Green-Wood CemeteryFree
    The Green-House at Green-Wood
    Free
  7. Free-Form Watercolor Paint & Sip

    Free
    58th Street Library, Manhattan
    Free
  8. Camille Donoho: Connectomics-derived functional predictions in the Drosophila visual system

    With Camille Donoho
    Bryan Research 103
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  9. Creative Aging: Transforming Paper into Art

    Dyker Library, Auditorium
  10. Midwood Creative Writing Group @ Clarendon w/ Dave Johnson

    With Dave Johnson
    Clarendon, Meeting Room
  11. Laser Cut Pins

    Cambria Heights, Queens
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  12. Immigration Imagination Lab: Practice English Through Theater

    Flatbush Library
  13. Photo Walk with Hudson River Views & Historic Architecture

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  14. Math in Bloom: Fibonacci Stepping Stone Creation

    Queens Botanical Garden
  15. Thousands of Years, Thousands of Stories: Five Years of Excavations at Gird-I Matrab

    Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus
    Hidden gem
  16. Methods of Measurement: Health, Safety, Welfare in Architecture and Happy Hour

    By AIA New York / Center for Architecture
    Center for Architecture
  17. After-Hours Conservation Lab Tour

    Ticketed
    New-York Historical Society, Manhattan
  18. Deafula: B-Horror Movies & ASL

    Central Library, Info Commons Lab
  19. Oil Paint Stick Monotype

    With ALESSANDRO LEVATOTicketed
    EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Manhattan
  20. Knit, Hook & Stitch

    With Andrea HerradaFree
    Recess Grove, Brooklyn
    FreeUnconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  21. Gut Feelings: How Our Nervous and Immune Systems Communicate

    With Daniel MucidaFree
    Simons Foundation, Manhattan
    Free
  22. Members-Only Tour: Center for Book Arts

    Poster House
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  23. 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
  24. Author Talk: The Black Madonna with Dr. Christena Cleveland

    By cafeconlibrosbk.com · with Dr. Christena ClevelandTicketed
    Cafe con Libros, Brooklyn
  25. Emerging Photographers Share Their Work of Self-Discovery

    Free
    New York City ( NYC )
    Free
  26. Ethical-izing Holiday Celebrations Workshop Series

    By New York Society for Ethical Culture
    Online
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  27. November AIA Archaeology Hour with Joe Bagley: An Archaeology of the Battle of Bunker Hill

    UnconfirmedHidden gem
    Unconfirmed
  28. Tourism in Southeast Asia: Social and Environmental Challenges

    With Ayu Larassanti, Dr. Pham Hong Long and 2 more
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  1. Gingerbread NYC Daytime Member Hours

    By Museum of the City of New York
    Museum of the City of New York
    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
  2. Housing & Block Association Committee

    Unconfirmed
    Unconfirmed
Open Wednesday, 2026-11-04
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