Here are a few suggestions for local happenings that are on our radar:
- Slated as a preview event leading up to the new Knitting Factory’s grand opening in its new space on Avenue A, New York music historian Jesse Rifkin will celebrate the release of his book, This Must Be the Place: Music, Community and Vanished Spaces in New York City at Knitting Factory New York at Baker Falls (101 Ave. A) on Thursday, July 13 at 8:30pm. Longtime Pyramid DJ (and Mudd Club, Area, Club 57, etc) @danyjohnsonnyc will be spinning.
- Writer Tracey Lindeman hosts a book reading event, An Evening of Books on Sex, Gender & Power, with four authors focused on “truth-telling and disrupting power in the face of misogyny,” at KGB Bar on Thursday, July 13 from 7-9pm.
- Pack a picnic for Films on the Green, NYC’s free French outdoor film festival, returning to Seward Park on Friday, July 14 at 8:30pm with a screening of French Cancan, directed by Jean Renoir.
- In commemoration of New York State’s Abolition Day, the Chatham Square Library is hosting “Black Resistance & Slavery in New York,” a free discussion tracing the history of slavery form the Dutch period of New Amsterdam to the present period, on Saturday, July 15, from 1-3pm. @theAncestorsSpeaKs will contextualize this history, relating it to the struggles with the LES along with a film screening of The Sun Rises in the East.
- Rapper and poet Omar Offendum and virtuoso Ronnie Malley and music producer Thanks Joey bring a genre-blending story to Joe’s Pub about the lower Manhattan neighborhood once known as “Little Syria” on Saturday, July 15 and Sunday, July 16. OMAR OFFENDUM: LITTLE SYRIA utilizes Hip-Hop, Arabic instrumentation, and ḥakawātī oral storytelling traditions of the Levant to reimagine early 20th-century life in the heart of Arab-America.
- ROAR a summer festival hosted by University Settlement takes place every Saturday, July 8th – August 12th at Sara D. Roosevelt Park, in the Stanton Street Playground with activities, programs, and classes for the whole family. Pop in for an art workshop or an exercise class, or watch live performances in front of the Stanton House.
Find more local events on our calendar and submit your own HERE.
