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Saturday Sep. 6, 2025

Clashing Steel

All day

Clashing Steel: The Art of Stage Combat at Culture Lab LIC

Art
Free

Culture Lab LICLong Island City, New York

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All day

LIVE in THE LOT at Culture Lab LIC – August-September, 2025

Free
Music

Culture Lab LICLong Island City, New York

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2 am – 3 pm

Public Gallery Tour

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8 am – 3 pm

Maria Hernandez Farmers Market

Maria Hernandez ParkBrooklyn

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8 am – 5 pm

Gagosian presents Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ first solo exhibition in the United States: Peace Core

Free

GagosianPark Avenue

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9:30 am – noon

ASL-interpreted Shabbat Morning Service

Ages: All
Community
Family
Free

Town & Village SynagogueEast Village

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10 am – 8 pm

Celebrate 10 Years of Miraculous® – Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir

Ages: All
Family
Free

FAO SchwarzMidtown

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10 – 11 am

Coquí Club: Hanging with Your Friends

Ages: 3 – 8
Art
Books & Readings
Family

El Museo del BarrioEast Harlem

Julia Chiang

10 am – 1 pm

Julia Chiang Art Sundae Children’s Workshop presented by Art Production Fund

Ages: 5 and up
Art
Family
Free

10 Rockefeller PlazaMidtown Manhattan

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11 am – noon

Family First Saturdays: Storytime at the Morgan

Ages: 3 – 8
Art
Books & Readings
Family

The Morgan Library & MuseumMurray Hill

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11 am – 6 pm

Bowery Gallery’s 34th Annual Juried Exhibition

Art
Free

Bowery GalleryChelsea

FAD Market Empire Stores

11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Fall Pop-up [Dumbo]

FAD Market Empire Stores

11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Fall Pop-up [Dumbo]

Empire StoresBrooklyn

My Friend Isabelle

11 am – 3 pm

“My Friend Isabelle” Book Signing at NDSS Buddy Walk

Naumburg BandshellCentral Park, Upper West Side, 72nd St

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11 am – 6 pm

Rachel Siporin: Bathers

Art
Free

Bowery GalleryChelsea

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11 am – 2 pm

Free Books from the Brooklyn Book Bodega

Brooklyn Book BodegaBrooklyn

Bronx Community Paddle at Starlight Park

11 am – 3 pm

Community Paddle at Starlight Park

Ages: All
Environment
Family
Free

Starlight ParkBronx

M Palma Mir Photographer for El Museo del Barrio June 2025 Coqui Club022 (1)

11:15 am – 12:15 pm

Coquí Club: Hanging with Your Friends

Ages: 3 – 8
Art
Books & Readings
Family

El Museo del BarrioEast Harlem

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Noon – 6 pm

Homage: Queer lineages on video

Art
Free

Wallach Art GalleryManhattanville

Noon – 9 pm

Brooklyn Army Terminal Summer Series Hispanic Heritage Celebration

Ages: All
Family
Festivals
Free

Brooklyn Army TerminalNYC

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Noon – 6 pm

Six Foot Platform: EIKO NISHIDA | BARK TAROT

Art
Free

Intersection of Washington and Water StreetsBrooklyn

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Noon – 3 pm

Live & Local Art Pop-Up

Art
Free

Randall’s Island Urban FarmRandall’s Island

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Noon – 6 pm

Heather Stivison – Ebb & Flow: The Many Faces of Water

Art
Free

Pleiades GalleryChelsea

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Noon – 6 pm

Henry Street Settlement Community Day

Ages: All
Community
Family
Free

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Noon – 7 pm

Duet at WSA

Art
Free

WSA

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1 – 3 pm

Femme Fishing

Randall’s Island ParkRandall’s Island

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1:30 – 4:30 pm

Open Stage / Open Mic Events @ Morningside Heights Library

Art
Dance

Morningside Heights Library

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2 pm

Free Jazz Concert

Free

Sunnyside Community ServicesSunnyside

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3 – 5 pm

“New York Proud: Stories From the City of Immigrants”

Art
Free

Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC)

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6 – 8 pm

Intersections: Reproductive & Environmental Justice Through Storytelling

The Puffin Foundation BrooklynBrooklyn

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8 – 11 pm

Composers Concordance Art of the Art Song featuring Ljiljana Winkler

Free
Music

Westbeth Gallery

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