Featured Events in New York in September, 2024 (July Updated)

Legendary Eddie Griffin brings his highly anticipated stand to up toNew York City Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Eddie was voted class clown three years in a row in high school. His first love was always dance and by the young age of 16, he opened his own dance studio and was choreographing the Kansas City Chiefs half-time shows. But all of that would soon change when one night his cousin dared him to go on stage at the local comedy club Sanford and Sons where he was told to do 3 minutes. He performed off-the-cuff for 45 minutes successfully. It was then Griffin purchased a one-way ticket to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming a stand up. He played The Pastor opposite Dave Chapelle, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in 2018s Academy Award Winning feature film A Star is Born. His Showtime Comedy Special Eddie Griffin: Undeniable debuted on Showtime in February 2018 to rave reviews. Information Source: Pegasus Entertainment & Events Inc. | eventbrite

The Old 97's will be performing at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City on September 13, 2024. The venue is located at 6 Delancey St., New York, NY, 10002. Fans of the band can look forward to an unforgettable evening of live music in the heart of the city. Get ready to experience the iconic sound of the Old 97's in one of New York's most renowned music venues. Make sure to mark your calendars for this not-to-be-missed event.

Experience a night of dark rock and metal music at the Lord of the Lost concert in New York City. The event will take place at Irving Plaza Powered By Verizon 5G on September 14, 2024. Located at 17 Irving Place, New York, NY, 10003, this iconic venue sets the stage for an unforgettable performance by the renowned band. Don't miss the opportunity to witness their powerful music live in one of the most vibrant cities in the world.

Experience the vibrant rhythms of Rumba, Mambo & Salsa at the upcoming event in Bronx. Hosted at the prestigious Lehman Center for the Performing Arts on September 14, 2024, this exciting showcase promises an evening filled with pulsating beats and electrifying dance moves. Don't miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in the rich cultural heritage of these popular Latin dance styles. Join us for a memorable night of music and dancing at 250 Bedford Park Blvd West, Bronx, NY, 10468.

Photography Portrait Sessions Ready to capture your best angles? Join me for Photography Portrait Sessions in the vibrant city of New York! Whether you're looking for professional headshots, or to update your Porfolio, I will make sure I capture the most compelleing photos of you! Don't miss this opportunity to get stunning photos in the iconic backdrop of New York. Book your session now! Information Source: Sustainable Photography | eventbrite

An instructor from the Art Students League leads a visual exploration of our beautiful park. Learn to draw or paint from observation. Bring your favorite drawing supplies; some basic materials provided. Information Source: Summer on the Hudson | eventbrite

Experience the unforgettable Badflower - No Place Like Home Tour 2024 in New York at the iconic Irving Plaza Powered By Verizon 5G. The event will take place on September 16, 2024, at 17 Irving Place, New York, NY, 10003. Don't miss the opportunity to witness this incredible performance live in one of the city's premier venues. Mark your calendars for a night filled with exceptional music and memorable moments.

Skift Global Forum is helped launch a series the most creative business gatherings in the global travel industry Skift Global Forum is helped launch a series the most creative business gatherings in the global travel industry. It the premier travel conference focused on the top marketers, strategists, and technologists in the industry the people creating and defining the future of travel. Information Source: SKIFT INC | expotobi

The Sexyy Red 4 President Tour is scheduled to take place on September 17, 2024, at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. This highly anticipated event will bring together supporters from all over the city to rally behind Sexyy Red's presidential campaign. The Barclays Center, located at 620 Atlantic Ave, will be the perfect venue to host this historic occasion. Mark your calendars and join fellow supporters for an unforgettable evening filled with passion and inspiration.

Claire Kilroy takes readers deep inside the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love with a seismic shift in identity, Kilroy conjures the raw, tumultuous emotions of a new mother, as her marriage strains and she struggles with questions of equality, autonomy, and creativity. Soldier Sailor is a tale of boundless love and relentless battle, a bedtime story to a son, Sailor, recounting their early years together. Spending her days in baby groups, playgrounds, and supermarkets, Soldier doesn’t know who she is anymore. She hardly sees her husband, who has taken to working late most nights. A chance encounter with a former colleague feels like a lifeline to the person she used to be but can hardly remember. Tender and harrowing, Kilroy’s modern masterpiece portrays parenthood in all its agony and ardent joy. Claire Kilroy is the author of five novels including Soldier Sailor, All Summer, Tenderwire, and The Devil I Know. She was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2004 and has been shortlisted for many other prizes, including the Irish Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. She studied at Trinity College and lives in Dublin. Conor Creaney, Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program, has written on novelistic form and on contemporary Irish poetry. He is Director of NYU’s Study Abroad program at Trinity College Dublin. Information Source: Glucksman Ireland House NYU | eventbrite

A splinter cell of indie comics creators have broken off of the established pathways towards making comics. Led by Chuck Kaslow and Kevin Alvir, this group meets up on the third Thursday of every month at Anyone Comics to work on their projects, compare notes on techniques and gigs, and uplift the community! Come by and hang out and work on your own projects. If you are a subscriber who picks up their books at Anyone Comics, no need to buy a ticket, just drop in! Information Source: Anyone Comics | eventbrite

The exhibition, presented at CARVALHO PARK, showcases the work of New York artist and designer Liam Lee and Montreal-based ceramic and textile artist Elisabeth Perrault. The exhibition presents Perrault’s work through two architectural-scale installations, one of ceramic flowers that show their decaying beauty in a hanging state, and another of floral skins that undulate and unfold on the gallery wall. Lee explores the boundaries between textiles and sculpture through his largest wool tapestry to date.

Rachel Mica Weiss’ first solo exhibition at Carvalho Park Gallery, Cyclicalities, showcases her in-depth exploration of boundaries, limits, and autonomy. Through two large concrete sculptures with kinetic elements, the exhibition highlights the symbol of “chains” and discusses the tension between social regulations and personal freedom. The hand-carved blue alabaster and marble chains give the works visual weight and symbolic meaning, suggesting the invisible constraints and cycles in human life. Weiss’s work carefully explores the interaction between space and time, stimulating the audience to consider the complex relationship between identity and society.

From September 20 to November 2, the presentation at the gallery’s 540 West 25th Street flagship in New York will focus on Takamatsu’s Shadow and Perspective concepts—throughout his entire oeuvre, Takamatsu used the term “concept” to denote certain ideas or phenomena. Bringing together a selection of his paintings, drawings, and sculptural objects dating from 1966 to 1997, this exhibition will showcase his inventive, deeply philosophical practice and his important role in the development of Conceptual Art. A prolific artist who produced thousands of works over the course of his 40-year career, Takamatsu worked across painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and performance, exploring questions about perception, space, existence, and absence. Early in his practice, during the 1960s, he staged performative interventions in public spaces around Tokyo as part of the artist collective Hi Red Center, liberating art from its traditional context and shaking the foundations of the Japanese art world at the time. Presenting politically minded actions in public spaces throughout postwar Tokyo, Hi Red Center sought to dissolve boundaries between art and life—producing what the group called a “descent into the everyday”—through experimental and unorthodox approaches to making. It was also during this decade, in 1968, that Takamatsu represented Japan at the 34th Venice Biennale, cementing his status as a key figure within the international avant-gard.

Nyc Hot Sauce Expo will feature areas like Grimaldi's Pizza Eating Contest, Spicy Taco Eating Contest, Screaming Mi Mi Awards Show along with Stoli Vodka Demo, Bloody Mary Mix Down NYC Championship and many more Nyc Hot Sauce Expo will feature areas like Grimaldi's Pizza Eating Contest, Spicy Taco Eating Contest, Screaming Mi Mi Awards Show along with Stoli Vodka Demo, Bloody Mary Mix Down NYC Championship and many more. Information Source:  High River Sauces | expotobi

NYC WeDoTransformations Mega Workout (June) Join us for an incredible outdoor workout experience at Randall's Island Park - Wards Meadow Fields - Soccer 72. Get ready to sweat, laugh, and have a blast with our energetic instructors and fellow fitness enthusiasts. This in-person event is your chance to push your limits, burn calories, and have fun while doing it. Whether you're a beginner or a fitness pro, this workout is designed for everyone. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to get fit and make new friends. Mark your calendars for the NYC Mega Workout in June! Information Source: WeDoTransformations NYC | eventbrite

Fitnesswalk finally comes to the U.S.AFitnesWalk was born in Italy in 2018 and has been immediately considered the walking revolution! FitnessWalk combines sports walking with fitness exercises and music. Through the use of wireless headphones, participants follow the instructions of a professional personal trainer who guides the sports walk and indicates the exercises to be done.What is FitnessWalk? It's #emotion and #positiveenergy, #walkingdynamic and #fun: a #workout path suitable for everyone! A special opportunity to add to your healthy life and enjoy the #city like never before: #workout, #fun, #music and #smiles are guaranteed! Book your headset now!! Cost includes headphone rental and training session. PROGRAM 8:30 at the entrance into the park from W 67th St, New York, NY 10023, United States, near the restaurant Tavern on the Green.This is the check in point and also where you pick up the headphones that will be returned at the end of the event (please be punctual).Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fqiVEXJvMN5Cm8VD9 Departure At 9:00 a.m. Return Scheduled for approximately 10:30 a.m. at the starting location,(headphones returned at check out will be sanitized and cleaned immediately). Type of workout:Aerobic, Cardio, Invigorating. Distance traveled Approximately 5km Kcalories Burned Approximately 500 MENTAL AND PHYSICAL BENEFITS Helps with socialization Develops thinking Fights depression Improves self-esteem Improves awareness Improves state of mind Reduces stress Reduces anxiety Helps control weight Improves blood pressure Improves muscle tone Improves balance Improves rest at night Reduces risk of heart attack and stroke Reduces the risk of diabetes Reduces bad cholesterol Reduces back pain Reduces the risk of injury. READ CAREFULLY BEFORE PURCHASING THIS EVENT Anyone can participate in the event as long as they are in good health and able to sustain an athletic walk for about an hour THE FOLLOWING ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EVENT -Pets; -Children in baby carriages or strollers; -Children under the age of 8 years. -PRE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED P.S. Purchasing this event stipulates your agreement in accepting the Terms and Conditions. Remember to read them carefully on site www.fitnesswalk.us Information Source: FitnessWalk® | eventbrite

Three transsexual friends/morons wring a night of comedy and games out of their “identities.” At the end, YOU the audience will be called upon to answer our desperate plea: is this anything? Tuck Woodstock is the host of the podcast Gender Reveal and the co-editor of 2 Trans 2 Furious. mattie lubchansky is a cartoonist and illustrator, and the author of Boys Weekend. Calvin Kasulke is the author of the novel Several People Are Typing. 4:30pm Doors / 5:00pm Show $10 advance / $15 Day of (this event will be mixed seated / standing) Ages 21+ Information Source: Union Hall | eventbrite

Lakeside Community Skate is Back:Enjoy a Sunday morning on the rink with friends and family at our first Community Skate event of the season! Come solo or join in with our skating community for a fun and energetic Sunday. Don't miss out! This event will include: Admissions included with your ticketSkate Rentals + $6EVENT TIME 10:00AM-11:30AM Doors open at 9:45AM and access to the rink starts starts promptly at 10:00AM SKATE RENTALS Skate Rentals are $6 Our skate rentals go up to a size 15. You are welcome to bring your own roller skates or roller blades to wear. The rink is a polished concrete surface. Indoor wheels are recommended. PROTECTIVE GEAR Helmets, knee pads, and wrist pads are available to rent. Helmets: $6 / Knee Pads: $3 / Wrist Pads: $3 Roller Skating is a sport. If you do not want to accept the risks involved in roller skating, we advise you to refrain from participating. All guests are required to sign an acknowledgement of risk release form before entry into our rink. LOCKERS Small: $3 / Large: $8 CAFE & BAR Lakeside offers a variety of food and beverage options from our Cafe and outdoor bar, including beer, wine and specialty cocktails! After you skate, stop by Grub & Games for delicious food and family friendly arcade games! PRO TIPS We strongly recommend arriving early as Skate Rentals are not guaranteed due to limited supply.DIRECTIONS Subway: B, Q, and S trains to Prospect Park station Vehicles are not allowed inside Prospect Park. Only street parking is available. FINE PRINT Advance tickets are only valid for the date indicated on the receipt. Tickets/Packages are non-refundable and non-transferable. All sales are final.Doors open at 9:45am. Access to the Rink starts promptly at 10:00am.Rain or Shine. Please check www.lakesidebrooklyn.com in case of extreme weather conditions for any cancellations.We strongly recommend arriving before 10:00am as Skate Rentals are not guaranteed due to limited supply. Socks must be worn with all skate rentals.No change or partial credit will be provided for any components of the package (including Food & Beverage Vouchers not redeemed during the event). This offer has no cash value.All guests are to comply with the 2024 Terms and Conditions of Lakeside Brooklyn, LLC. Information Source: Lakeside Prospect Park | eventbrite

The Harlem Roots and Rhythm Urban Dance Festival 2024: Experience Harlem's past, present and future of Dance! The Best of Harlem: Join us for 3 exciting Days of Dance, Jazz, Films, Panel, Music and Culture with this famous community from September 20th - 22nd at various locations. All of these events are FREE! Full schedule in the linkhttps://www.harlemswingdance.org/harlem-roots-rhythm-urban-dance-fes-1 _____________________________ Day 3 The Finale 4pm - A soulful Savoy Sunday starts with the premier film showing of Fat Boy: The Billy Stewart Story where afterwards you'll meet the filmmaker emmy award winner Beverly Lindsay - Johnson for some Q & A 5:30pm - Afterwards there'll be live Jazz with Eugene Ghee and the Savoy 3. 6:30pm - We Honor Harlemite Luther P. Gales for his culture preservation efforts in the community. 7pm - 9PM ---Afterwards we Dance it Up with DJ Tall Guy to classics of the 20th and 21st centuries! Information Source: The Harlem Swing Dance Society | eventbrite

Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Jasper Johns: Drawings 1982–2021, the next exhibition in his gallery at 523 West 24th Street. The exhibition includes twenty-one drawings in a wide variety of media, many of which have rarely or never been exhibited. Spanning the last forty years of Johns’s long career, the drawings in the exhibition feature many of the artist’s well-known motifs, which draw from an extensive personal lexicon of symbols and images. In 1964, Johns encapsulated his approach to art making: “Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.” These motifs include autobiographical references, the American flag, patterns like the flagstone or harlequin print, and images taken from other artists such as John Cage, Picasso, de Kooning, and Rodin. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring a new essay by Hilton Als.

Mark your calendars for the highly anticipated event, New York Yankees v Baltimore Orioles, set to take place on September 24, 2024, at the iconic Yankee Stadium in New York City. This clash between two baseball powerhouses is expected to draw fans from far and wide to witness the thrilling showdown on the diamond. With the New York Yankees looking to defend their home turf against the Baltimore Orioles, spectators can expect a fierce battle filled with home runs, strikeouts, and dazzling defensive plays. The venue, Yankee Stadium, located at 1 E 161st St, Bronx, NY 10451, USA, promises an electrifying atmosphere that will surely leave baseball enthusiasts on the edge of their seats. Don't miss out on this epic matchup between the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles – it's a game you won't want to miss!

How and why was outdated racial content—and specifically blackface minstrelsy—not only permitted, but in fact allowed to thrive during the 1930s and 1940s despite the rigid motion picture censorship laws which were enforced during this time? In her new book Behind the Screen, published by Oxford University Press, Brynn Shiovitz introduces a new theory of covert minstrelsy, and illuminates Hollywood's practice of capitalizing on the Africanist aesthetic at the expense of Black lived experience. For this month’s Dance Historian Is In, Shiovitz discusses the dance artists whose names Hollywood omitted from the credits, including the Three Chocolateers trio, showing rare footage of one of its members Albert Gip Gibson, along with video clips of the Peters Sisters and Jeni Le Gon. For more than 10 years, The Dance Historian Is In at the Library for the Performing Arts has highlighted a diverse range of dancers and choreographers across history. This series began when archivist and historian David Vaughan started volunteering at the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Vaughan began a monthly program showing his favorite dance films from the Division's extensive collection, through which he unearthed many treasures, and helped acquire even more. Vaughan continued the series until the end of his life. Today, we honor his memory and work by inviting dance historians from all over the world each month to carry on the tradition of highlighting dance history through the Dance Division's moving image collection. This event will take place online via Zoom as well as in person at The Library for the Performing Arts. *A streaming link will be emailed to everyone on the morning of the event for those wishing to attend virtually. SEATING POLICY | Programs are free and open to all, but registration is requested. Check-in line forms 45 minutes before the advertised start time. Registered guests are given priority check-in 15 to 30 minutes before start time. Five minutes before the advertised start time, all seats are released, regardless of registration, to our patrons in the stand-by line. If you arrive after the program starts, you will be seated at the discretion of our front-of-house staff. STANDBY LINE | If registration is sold out or has ended, do not fret! We welcome you to come to the Library regardless of registration status and wait in our standby line, which forms 45 minutes before the advertised start time. Five minutes before the program starts, all remaining seats are released. While this is not guaranteed, we will do our best to get you into any of our programs. ASSISTIVE LISTENING AND ASL | ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing accessibility@nypl.org. BRUNO WALTER POLICY | Please note that any unoccupied seat will be released five minutes before the show begins and holding seats for anyone beyond that is prohibited. There is no food or drink allowed inside the venue. AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING | Programs may be photographed and recorded by and at the discretion of the Library for the Performing Arts and will post signs indicating as such. If you would prefer your image not be captured, please let us know and we can seat you accordingly. Attending any program indicates your consent to being filmed/photographed and your consent to the use of your recorded image for any and all purposes of the New York Public Library. PRESS | Please send all press inquiries to Alex Teplitzky at alexteplitzky@nypl.org. Please note that all recording, including professional video recordings, are prohibited without expressed consent from the Library. Information Source: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts | eventbrite

The Moth StorySLAMs are story telling competitions where the stage is open to any and all with a story to tell on the evening's theme. THEME: EARTH Prepare a five-minute story about the planet we call home. Communing with nature, digging up dirt, or saving our blue marble. Cooling or warming, seismic shifts, traveling the globe and carbon footprints. Bring us stories of Mother Nature, Smokey the Bear and other salts of the earth. Bar Opens 5:30pm 7:15pm Doors / 8:00pm Show $15 GA Ages 21+ *This event is General Admission standing and seating. Seating is first come first served and not guaranteed. Arrive early for best seat selection **You must be 21 or older with a valid ID to enter The Bell House, no exceptions (A photo of a license is not admissible) Information Source: The Bell House | eventbrite

The Affordable Art Fair New York is an art event which presents the latest trends in contemporary art for all tastes and all budgets The Affordable Art Fair New York is an art event which presents the latest trends in contemporary art for all tastes and all budgets. It is dedicated to fostering an inspiring and enjoyable atmosphere where a diverse array of affordable, contemporary art by living artists is available. Information Source: Ramsay Fairs Ltd. | expotobi

Please join us on Wednesday, September 25th at 8PM as we celebrate the release of the new and expanded fifteenth-anniversary edition of Zong! As told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng by m. nourbeSe philip, published by Graywolf Press. m. nourbeSe philip will be joined in conversation by Tonya Foster. Book sales will be managed by Books Are Magic. Zong! is a haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry. In November 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship’s owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert—the only extant public document related to the massacre—Zong! tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told. Equal parts song, moan, shout, oath, ululation, curse, and chant, Zong! excavates the legal text. Memory, history, and law collide and metamorphose into the poetics of the fragment. Through the innovative use of fugal and counterpointed repetition, Zong! becomes an anti-narrative lament that stretches the boundaries of the poetic form, haunting the spaces of forgetting and mourning the forgotten. This fifteenth-anniversary edition features a new preface by the author and new essays by Saidiya Hartman and Katherine McKittrick. Widely regarded as one of the most influential and revered works of twenty-first-century literature, this new edition of Zong! will ensure this staggering work’s enduring legacy. Information Source: The Poetry Project | eventbrite

In 1933, newly elected President Roosevelt initiated what became known as the New Deal, a series of federal programs and agencies designed to spearhead economic recovery from the Great Depression through public services, regulation, and new jobs. Among the programs his administration created in 1935 was the Rural Electrification Administration (REA). Managed by the Department of Agriculture, the REA helped build energy infrastructure in areas where private companies refused to operate, extending electricity to remote areas with small populations. Lester Beall was hired to advertise the REA’s work, creating three series of posters over a five-year span. Knowing that Americans were generally distrustful of overly intellectual and visually obtuse European modernism, Beall deftly translated and advanced these artistic concepts to create a new kind of American art, one that distilled the heart of various avant-garde movements with the need for clear communication and the desire to sell. This exhibition highlights the groundbreaking work Beall produced for the REA, as well as the development of his contributions to American modernism up through World War II.

Over the last several decades, Gillian Wearing’s work has chronicled confessions, taboos, and voyeuristic inclinations. Her videos and photographs often confront separations between private and public realms. Shot in a southeast London shopping mall, Dancing in Peckham depicts the artist freely dancing alone, without headphones and unaccompanied by music. Wearing’s camera also positions passersby as unwitting participants in the performance.

For a handful of decades at the end of the last century, one of the most popular ways for a superstar professional athlete to cement their iconic status was to have their persona memorialized on a Nike poster. It became a right of passage, and the posters’ popularity peaked as the Nike brand ascended to the pinnacle of its industry. In an age where athletes’ images are much more accessible and down to earth, these posters may seem quaint—but they’re also larger-than-life and undeniably entertaining, just like the stars they depict.Chronicling the many professional sports promoted by Nike, from basketball and football to tennis and golf, as well as the myriad athletes who worked with the brand, this exhibition showcases how one company paved the way for modern sports advertising.

Schütte considers his subjects and selects his materials while contextualizing them in a time and place: Germany at the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st. Since his student days at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Schütte has approached art with a critical eye. Exploring, then rejecting, Minimal and Conceptual art, his work “brought the story in again.” These stories encompass the personal and the historical. Schütte’s work challenges established artistic norms by revitalizing genres rooted in past traditions and making them relevant in the present and for the future.