Verbal Description Tour: Geometries
A guided tour of the Geometries exhibition built around verbal description, so blind and low-vision visitors can take in the work through spoken detail. Part of the museum's access programs.
Talks
Talks — change
The Downtown Festival: Let Them Be Seen + Q&A
A screening of Let Them Be Seen, part of The Downtown Festival, with a Q&A attached, so there's a chance to stay and talk about the film in the room.
Raise Your Voice: Curator-led Tour
Curator Sarah Seidman leads a one-hour walk through the show, focused on Latinx food workers and activism, with professor Alexandra Délano Alonso and artist Marco Saavedra of La Morada.
The Downtown Festival: Tycoon + Q&A
Tycoon plays as part of The Downtown Festival, with a Q&A after the film, so the conversation carries on past the credits at an independent art house theater.
CBH Talk | Reimagining Filipino Brooklyn
A talk on how to tell the stories of communities erased from a city's physical landscape, and the part historians, artists, and community members play in recovering and reimagining Filipino Brooklyn.
Book talk for Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
A book launch for Multiple Offerings, a new volume devoted to the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, hosted by Artists Space, an independent art institution. A focused evening around one artist's work.
The Downtown Festival: Chronicles of Shpongle + Q&A
Chronicles of Shpongle on a proper cinema screen, paired with a Q&A, as part of the Downtown Festival. A screening with a conversation attached, not just a movie.
Book Launch: LUST by Erika Lust
Erika Lust draws on decades of adult filmmaking to make a feminist case for more ethical porn, and for how it could reshape sexual politics. A launch for her book Lust: Pleasure, Performance, Power.
The Downtown Festival: Signals in the Distance + Q&A
A Downtown Festival screening of Signals in the Distance, with a Q&A to follow, so the film comes with a conversation. Seen in an art house cinema.
Open House New York (OHNY) at The Frick Collection | 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
A morning in a Gilded Age mansion full of Vermeer, Rembrandt, Fragonard and Turner, with the gallery talk A Home for Art on how the house became a museum.
“And in this heart, which has neither had a cause nor the lack of one”: On Translation, Craft, and Necessity
A reading that turns to translation itself, asking what the craft demands and what makes it necessary. The title's line about a heart with neither cause nor the lack of one sets the tone.
The Downtown Festival: Little Miss Sun Sign + Q&A
Little Miss Sun Sign plays as part of The Downtown Festival at Roxy Cinema New York, with a Q&A attached, so there's a chance to hear about the film in the room after seeing it on a cinema screen.
Word Art Workshop and Artist Talk with Roemello Agjmurati
A send-off to the triennial: hear how artist Roemello Agjmurati works, then make your own graphic design, with all materials provided.
The Downtown Festival: Fellas + Q&A
A screening of Fellas on the big screen at the Roxy, paired with a Q&A, as part of the Downtown Festival. Worth staying after the film for the conversation.
The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs
Palaeontologist Dean Lomax reads the fossil evidence for how prehistoric animals really behaved, from fighting dinosaurs to a two-headed reptile. A Q&A and book signing follow.
Polio Vaccines: Wanted Dead or Alive
A conversation with David Oshinsky, Frances Bernstein, Perri Klass, and Trace Jordan on the two kinds of polio vaccine developed in the 1950s, one made with killed virus.
The Downtown Festival: Dites-lui que je l’aime + Q&A
A late screening of Tell Her That I Love Her (Dites-lui que je l'aime), part of The Downtown Festival, with a Q&A after the film so the conversation continues past the credits.
Book Launch: Butter Road by Jaclyn Gilbert in conversation with Adrian Shirk
Jaclyn Gilbert's novel follows an Amish village years after a schoolhouse shooting, tracing the aftermath through imagined lives. She launches it in conversation with Adrian Shirk.
The Downtown Festival: The Water is Always Warm + Q&A
A screening of The Water is Always Warm, part of The Downtown Festival lineup at the Roxy Cinema New York, paired with a Q&A so you can stay for the conversation.
The George Lucas Talk Show with Special Guests!
Connor Ratliff plays a retired George Lucas hosting a mock talk show, with Griffin Newman as sidekick Watto and producer Patrick Cotnoir. Works for Star Wars fans and non-fans alike.
