Community Organizations

This week's episode features Roshi Pat Enkyo O’Hara, PhD, the Abbot and co-founder of The Village Zendo, a contemporary Zen center based in downtown Manhattan. A Soto Zen priest and modern day American Zen Teacher, O'Hara integrates traditional meditation...

Here are some suggestions for upcoming events that are on our radar: Toast a new show by Concrete Temple Theater as it kicks off Ernie's Secret Life, an "episodic odyssey, fusing ever-changing puppetry stagecraft with humor, music, and a raw...

This week on The Lo-Down Culture Cast we spoke to Orchard Street Runners (OSR) Founder, Joe DiNoto.  DiNoto created a weekly running group in 2011 that has blossomed into an organization that is known globally for its creative, high intensity, late night...

Shalom Stavsky sent this photo along from the Dedication of the Triangle Fire Memorial last week. The memorial features horizontal stainless-steel plates on two sides of the building, at the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, bearing the...

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We spoke with the folks from Nonhuman Teachers, a nonprofit that takes a new approach to ecological storytelling, for this week’s episode of The Lo-Down Culture Cast. https://youtu.be/IH1cqDcArwA Executive Director Christian Cummings, Events Coordinator Joey Valley and Board Director Sandeep Rangi...

Here are some suggestions for upcoming events that are on our radar: Check out Fire Through Dry Grass, (photo above) a NY Premiere or the Best Feature Documentary Jury Award winner at BlackStar Film Festival 2023 screening at DCTV. The...

Yin Kong, photo by Katie Salisbury We were delighted to speak with Yin Kong, Director and Co-founder of Think!Chinatown for this week's episode of The Lo-Down Culture Cast. Yin is a community-based designer and curator living and working in Manhattan's Chinatown. Think!Chinatown is...

Here are some suggestions for upcoming events that are on our radar: Essex Market brings back its “Talk & Taste” series with an evening with Vanessa Mota and Annette Tomei on Wednesday, September 20th at 6:30pm. The night includes a...

Photo: From Objects of Permanence, Center for Puerto Rican Studies Library & Archives, Hunter College, CUNY Here are some suggestions for upcoming events that are on our radar: Objects of Permanence, a special installation curated by Mellány Sánchez at Abrons Arts...