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.
A multi-act night of live music at Union Pool, with The Courettes, The Dracu-Las and Todd-O-Phonic Todd sharing one bill. Come early enough to catch every act.
Anna Abondolo plays solo double bass, just the instrument and one player, opening her four-night residency in a small, artist-curated room for experimental music.
TJ tapes his tour with new jokes on love, death, grief, and immigration, told from a Haitian perspective. Caustic, incisive wit from a comic fresh off filming an FX pilot.
A knitting and crochet circle that meets in a cemetery chapel, with experimental vocalist Gelsey Bell performing work on the many faces of loss. Bring a project or learn from scratch.
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.
A night of live bands at Saint Vitus, with Missing Link, Age of Apocalypse, Gemstar and Scorched Earth Policy sharing one bill. Good for catching several acts in one go.
Four multisensory installations from the Heidi Nitze Art × Environment Fellows, each using a different environmental or material phenomenon to explore animist ways of seeing the living world.
American history told through food plants: historic botanical illustrations, planting ledgers and cookbooks inside, then outdoor beds tracing Indigenous foodscapes through the Great Migration.
NYU Journalism alumna Stacey Patton reads from Strung Up, out from Beacon Press, then joins a live Q&A with Karen Hunter of Sirius FM. Refreshments are served at the signing.
Marching with the Kasama plays beside two related films, in a project that folds exchanges with audiences and militants into how the material is interpreted and distributed.
Stoops and streetscapes from the Greenest Block in Brooklyn winners, rebuilt on the garden's grounds and co-created with the gardeners who grew them. Plenty of ideas for your own stoop.
Vintage postcards from the newly acquired William McMillen Collection set early 20th-century views beside today's, tracing the area's past as an industrial hub and summer destination.
Historical interpreters lead you through old houses by candlelight, telling folklore and the true stories of local lives and deaths, including the infamous accused who stood trial.
Dorothée Munyaneza uses her own body to summon Tituba, Maryse Condé's heroine, in a one-hour piece drawn from Elsa Dorlin's essay about people erased from history.
Shown on 35mm film with Larry Clark attached, a chance to see Another Day in Paradise projected the old-fashioned way, on a real print.
Yayoi Shionoiri draws the winning ticket in Rirkrit Tiravanija's lottery, where the prize is the keys to his apartment. Part of the Regift show on generosity, exchange, and value.
A seven-piece Seoul band turns pansori, the Korean storytelling song tradition, into bass-heavy psychedelic funk. Two bassists, four vocalists, no guitars. Local post-punk duo Femcel opens.
A screening of Allison Janae Hamilton's films on the American landscape, followed by a conversation between the artist and Imani Perry. It's a focused pairing of an artist and a thinker.
The Green Room Ensemble plays all three of Eleanor Alberga's string quartets, each different in style and tone, plus the world premiere of her Second Piano Quintet with her at the piano.
