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tell me your night, I'll build it from the listingsMay 2026
← agendaFresh Picks: A Market to Transform How You Source Your Food
Fri May 22 · 6pm · Fabrik · $50-60 includes a bag of food, or use code NOTOTE for 50 percent off and no tote bag of food
Fresh Picks is a curated marketplace and panel bringing together the local food makers and distributors who are building a more sustainable, accessible, and delightful food system in New York.
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East River Park Memorial Zine: Public Release Party
Fri May 22 · 7pm · City Reliquary · free
Across 32 photographs, stories, graphics, lyrics, and artworks -- contributed by members of the community -- East River Park Memorial captures visions of the lost East River Park, published in a limited edition of 58 copies. Please join for a celebratory evening releasing the zine into the world.
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Clown-aissance
Fri May 22 · 7pm · Rubulad · $15 presale, $25 door
A Clowny Renaissance fair-themed night for jesters, bards, and untamed whimsy. Hosted by @mx_concrete and @hautiewheels. With jesters, bards, drag things, wenches, games, vendors, etc. Jester Show at 8p with over 10 performances, and the Bards (bands) High Piss Velocity and Bomb Valley after the Jesters.
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NY Neo-Futurists' the Infinite Wrench
Fri May 22 · 9pm · The Improv · $25 general admission, $15 student, $5 off with code TIW26
The Infinite Wrench is a barrage of 30 original short plays that they attempt to perform within an hour. Through their unconventional storytelling, they deliver quick, powerful slices of life -- crafted from the ensemble's own experiences.
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Boba Gays
Fri May 22 · 9:30pm · Caveat · $25, code BOBAFRIENDS to bring the ticket price down to $18.76
Boba Gays is a comedy variety show hosted by NYC comedians Alex Kim and Kenny Park Yi. Join us for a night of stand up and improv. Featuring Juno Men, Arjun Banerjee. Improv by Chelsea Wang and Seyoung Kim.
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Magicians and Mediums Trolley Tour
Sat May 23 · 10am · Green-Wood Cemetery · $30
On this lively trolley tour, uncover the curious legacies of Spiritualism and stage magic. Along the way, you'll visit the graves of strange and spellbinding figures who dabbled in séances, illusions, and the supernatural.
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Introduction to Herbal Medicine 101
Sat May 23 · 10am · Remedies Herb Shop · $40
Learn the basics of Traditional Herbal Medicine, according to the Wise Woman Tradition. Begin to get to know your green allies, and how to prepare your own herbal medicine, including tinctures, infusions, oils and salves.
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AAPI Month Crafting and Maker's Market at Essex Market
Sat May 23 · 12pm · Essex Market · free
A family-friendly event, make your own pipe cleaner flower, decorate Heart of Dinner grocery bags for AAPI elders, shop small to win prizes. Celebate AAPI month with Essex Market.
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Tiny Art Club: Collage-Making at the Tiny Cupboard
Sat May 23 · 2pm · The Tiny Cupboard · pay-what-you-can
Craft your own collages using an eclectic mix of materials. Make a zine, greeting card, or masterpiece to hang on the fridge -- or in a gallery. Open-ended time to create and artist-hosted so you receive guidance, prompts, and encouragement along the way.
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Supper in Fort Lauderdale: A Birthday Party for Our Ancestors
Sat May 23 · 5pm · Freddy's Bar and Backroom · $10
Want to honor someone in your life who's transitioned into the spirit realm? Join Edith (a leopard-print wearing Jewish nonagenarian, Amanda Miller) this Memorial Day Weekend for a birthday party for our ancestors. With drag, clown burlesque, clown punk, a clown guy, storytelling, and dance.
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Bad Movie Night Brooklyn: Chopping Mall
Sat May 23 · 6:30pm · Pine Box Rock Shop · free
Come hang out at a bar movie night next week and watch killer robots rampage through a local shopping center in the extremely 80s techno-horror Chopping Mall. We'll also have a drinking game to go with the movie and a themed cocktail menu, with an alcohol-free option.
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The Power Joker: A Robert Moses Comedy Show
Sat May 23 · 7pm · Caveat · $17 with code PJNONSENSE
Come see RM himself joined by Griffin Newman and David Sims, from the popular podcast Blank Check, and band Sadlands, for a civically-minded comedy show unlike any other.
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Pataphysics 019
Sat May 23 · 8pm · Delight Factory · $20
An audiovisual concert and multi-sensory experience at the intersection of the psychedelic and the avant-garde. Live ambient and downtempo music is paired with evolving cinematic image compositions created in real-time.
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What the Float: The New York Floatharmonic
Sat May 23 · 8pm · Sofrito · $30 advance with code NONSENSE
What the Float is a private dance party in public spaces, and the best way to explore New York City. We'll equip you with silent disco headphones and make you glow, before leading you on a unique adventure through the parks, plazas, and hidden corners of the city.
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Sip and Paint Minis: All Levels Welcome
Sun May 24 · 1pm · Counterspell Games · $20
Join Counterspell Games for an afternoon off your screen. Co-founders Marnie and Nick will guide you through a mini-game to build a custom character with the roll of the dice, then help you select and paint a miniature.
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Mosaics
Sun May 24 · 1pm · Yume Brooklyn · $35
Join us for an evening of mosaics, where you will get a chance to create your own designs out of tiles. Feel free to bring in something small from your home you'd like to mosaic or contribute to a mosaic piece all together for the space!
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Sandbath
Sun May 24 · 2pm · Judson Memorial Church · free
Sandbath, a meditation on the sounds and symbols of sand, by Nathan Davis. A unique performance that uses sand as its only sound source -- pouring, sifting, and brushing -- heard through speakers encircling the audience.
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Peculiar Puppets Vol. XII
Sun May 24 · 3pm · Roxy Cinema · $19
A 12th retrospective screening featuring various peculiar examples of puppet films from the 1930s through the 1970s. Warning: You may find some of the offerings to be rather unsettling, and possibly even creepy.
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Porous Ecologies: Immersive Sound from the Amazon
Sun May 24 · 6pm · Reforesters Laboratory · $10
Anthropologist and sound artist Alessandra Indino presents a trans-sensory spatial sound performance created during her 2026 LabVerde residency in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Video Art Portraiture Nite
Tue May 26 · 7pm · Wavefield · $11.91-33.02 pay what you can
Come see yourselves through a myriad of kaleidoscopic video effects. We will provide various video art stations, camera capture, and anything else folks might need to make a photo booth like experience that is a bit more experimental and arty.
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Science Tonight Presents the Boney Awards
Wed May 27 · 7pm · Caveat · $20 advance, $25 door, $5 off with BESTFOSSIL
Move over Oscars, Grammys, and Tonys. A new award show has been unearthed. The Boney Awards is the award show for celebrating the incredible fossil records of life on Earth.
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Metrosexuals
Wed May 27 · 8pm · All Night Skate · $10-20 suggested
Metrosexuals is a monthly drag show where class meets camp and all are welcome. For May, we're joined by the cinematic, freaky, conceptual sapphic drag queens Kerosene and True Romance all the way from Chicago.
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Science After Dark: Ask a Scientist
Thu May 28 · 6:30pm · Secret Science Club / Hudson River Park's River Project Wetlab · $10
Secret Science Club is teaming up with Hudson River Park to explore astonishing whale species and megafauna that inhabit the waters off NYC's shores.
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The Gates of Tompkins Exhibition
Thu May 28 · 6:30pm · The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MORUS) · free
The exhibition will explore the dense history of Tompkins Square Park, its contested contemporary conditions, and its hopeful futures. In collaboration with architects, professors, and students from Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, Cooper Union, and Columbia University GSAPP.
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Ushan, Snark, and Guests
Thu May 28 · 8pm · Delight Factory · $20
An immersive experience with live music, visuals, and improvisation. Ushan is the audiovisual project of Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist Lorena Hollander, blending voice, synthesizers, guitar, koto, beats and experimental elements into immersive live performances.
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Spring Party
Fri May 29 · 6pm · The KoKo Lot · free
The Spring Party is the time of year when we throw a party to thank all of you who make our work possible. Join us to celebrate our valued supporters, learn about what we do, and hit the dance floor, with live music by Swunky Z, a bombastic locally based brass band.
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A Cell Phone Movie
Fri May 29 · 7pm · Brooklyn Art Haus · $17.95
Struggling, out of work actor Will Sterling made a feature film entirely on his cell phone about a fictional version of himself. The screening includes a live introduction by Sterling and a post film talk.
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Rubulad Presents Return to 2001 or Back to the Naughties
Fri May 29 · 8:30pm · Rubulad · $20
To honor a silver anniversary of two legendary humans meeting at Rubulad 25 years ago, we've gathered the O.G. Rubulad Avengers for a night of nostalgic chaos with live music from Les Sans Culottes, Fly Ashtray, and Vic Thrill and the Saturn Missile.
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Slopocalypse Now
Fri May 29 · 10:30pm · Under St. Marks · $10-15
The East Village's weirdest late-night variety show takes on AI slop, authoritarian spectacle, dead internet theory, religious extremism, and the collapse of taste itself with live, local, human-made chaos.
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Bushwick Roof Party
Fri Jun 5 · 6pm · Merlin's Place · $10 online, $12 door
Party on a roof in Bushwick to celebrate the start of summer with performances from three rock bands and a DJ. Hot food, cocktails, beer, wine, dancing, summer games with silly prizes.
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Shattered: A Drama in Two Acts
Fri Jun 5 · 6:30pm · Lightning Society Lofts · $25
Interactive reading of a play set in Revolutionary War-era Philadelphia following a family navigating social upheaval, romance across enemy lines, shotgun weddings, and deaths by tuberculosis. Come attired in Revolutionary Realness and ready to reflect on this thing called America.
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Immigrant Jam
Fri Jun 5 · 7pm · Caveat · $19
NYC's most diverse, longest running immigrant comedy show featuring the funniest immigrant and first generation comedians in town, hosted by Lucie Pohl. Lineup: KC Shornima, Glorelys Mora, Peter Lieu, and Aakash Kesavarapu. Part of proceeds go to support New Women New Yorkers.
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Rave for Lebanon
Fri Jun 5 · 8pm · 314 Scholes · $30-42
Fundraiser for Lebanon with 12 musical artists performing 12 hours of music on the rooftop and in the warehouse. Vendors, educational resources, and food/drinks. Proceeds donated to displaced families in Lebanon through Slow Factory's Lebanon Super Fund.
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Dial M for Macguffin
Fri Jun 5 · 8pm · The Producers Club · $20 advance, $25 door
Fully improvised thriller inspired by the cinematic style of Alfred Hitchcock by IRTE (Improvisational Repertory Theatre Ensemble). A night of suspense and absurdity where danger lurks around every corner.
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Sweat No. 08: A Sauna and Sound Pop Up
Sat Jun 6 · 10am · La Plaza Cultural Community Garden · $25
Open-air bathhouse with guided or DIY sauna sessions, free cold plunges, immersive sounds from two DJs, herbal tonics from Sacred Software, iced matcha from Casa Sui, ginger shots from Juicy Lucy, and hydration from local vendors. All outdoors in a community garden.
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Birding, Grief, and Interdependence
Sat Jun 6 · 10am · Field Meridians · $15 suggested donation
Bird outing with the intention of working through difficult feelings. Note how you feel before and after the outing. In challenging times some people turn to nature and birding to keep them grounded, be present, and observe lifecycles in the natural world. Think of how you process grief and if nature plays a role.
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Bike Ride Scavenger Hunt
Sat Jun 6 · 11:30am · Field of Rosemary · $10-25
Visit a variety of Ridgewood local businesses and points of interest. The more spots you visit, the more points you'll receive. Top three scorers take home prizes. All proceeds benefit Ridgewood Commons.
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Going In
Sat Jun 6 · 12pm · Pioneer Works · $40 community access
12-hour immersive listening program exploring long-form compositions for expanded states and attentive presence. Program unfolds slowly across the day with durational sets designed to support sustained listening, collective atmosphere, and deep presence. Guests encouraged to bring a mat, cushion, or blanket. Re-entry permitted throughout the day.
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Draw-a-Clown: Buffoon Art Bazaar
Sat Jun 6 · 12pm · Herbert Von King Park, Bed-Stuy · $10 suggested donation
Art fair where you can sit down and let the muses inspire you as you draw. Walk about the fair and support talented clown artists in New York City. Model: Jesterbug (@sarcasticsnail). Host: Sir Cuss (@sir._.cuss). Rain date: June 7.
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Film Screening: Echoes in Tompkins
Sat Jun 6 · 5pm · Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS)
Documentary by Elizabeth Frickey on the music scenes of Tompkins Square Park. Combining archival and contemporary footage with interviews with musicians, organizers, and park-goers, it captures the social and political significance of Tompkins Square Park through the rich lens of its music scene(s). Held alongside The Gates of Tompkins Exhibitions.
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Poetry Brothel: Sappho's Island
Sat Jun 6 · 7pm · 29 Locust Street · $45, $20 off with code PRIDE20
Immersive Pride cabaret featuring the city's finest poets reading original erotic, romantic, philosophical, and provocative work. Choose which poet to invite into the privacy of the boudoir for an intimate one-on-one poetry reading. After-party with DJ, dancing, and more.
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UCBLK: A Black Variety Show
Sat Jun 6 · 7pm · Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre · $15
New York City's premier variety show featuring a rotating, all-black cast. Expect a night of improv, sketch, stand-up, and music. Hosted by Justin Catchens, Dominique Kaplowitz, and Shem Pennant.
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Ego Free Jam
Sat Jun 6 · 7:30pm · Delight Factory · $25 suggested donation
Acoustic edition. Night of improvisational sound and music for musicians and non-musicians alike in a beautiful and cozy space. Bring your own instruments or use theirs. Play, move your body, or tune into others during two journeys, each lasting about two hours. No spectators, shoes off, get cozy.
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Strange Animations
Sat Jun 6 · 8pm · Cloud City · $17-23
Screening series in which animators submit their short films and a collective of musicians create original scores. The musicians then perform the scores live alongside the screening. With work by Mira Seeba, Ryan Castrillo, Vincent Vinas, Brian W. Smith, Alexander Greenblatt, and assorted PD animation.
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Cult Classics: Drag and Burlesque
Sat Jun 6 · 9pm · Coney Island USA · $25
Drag and burlesque performances featuring cult-classic characters from TV and film come alive on stage. From rebels and villains to unforgettable icons, expect tease, camp, and cinematic fantasy. Performers: Uncle Freak, Betty Brash, Tina Twirler, King Cameron, and Brief Sweat.
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