Events Calendar

Swing University offers engaging virtual classes for jazz fans, enthusiasts, and students of all backgrounds and levels. In Jazz 101, we will guide you through the history and development of various jazz styles. Students will develop their ears to hear the many details and intricacies that make this music so endlessly fascinating. Instructor and Swing University curator Seton Hawkins will provide your introduction to jazz; no musical knowledge is required.

Are you aging without a family member nearby or close friend to take on the role of caregiver or healthcare decision maker? Would you like to build and nourish your social network? Do you seek guidance on housing options and other types of life planning as you age? This 6-session program is designed for anyone seeking tools, strategies and support to age successfully and plan for the future. Each session will offer a topic-specific presentation, coaching, and guidance on critical decision-making and planning for the future, along with conversation, personalized check-ins and assignments.

Meeting Dates:

Monday, October 24th

Monday, October 31st

Monday, November 7th

Monday, November 14th

Monday, November 28th

Monday, December 5th

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HARRY CONNICK, JR. invites you to celebrate the holidays with him and his band as 2022 draws to a close. One of the most beloved artists performing holiday music, Harry has been thrilling audiences around the world for decades with his definitive take on Christmas classics, as well as his own originals and fan favorites like “(It Must've Been Ol') Santa Claus” and “When My Heart Finds Christmas.”

Ring in the holidays with this special, free concert by Broadway's Future Songbook. The evening performance features an array of new holiday songs written by some of today’s most talented composers and lyricists and performed by New York’s best.

Professional Children's School is hosting its Winter Concert - a free community concert for Lincoln Square neighbors.  The one hour concert will include works of classical and popular music performed by some of the school's most accomplished young artists.

Professional Children's School has been providing a college preparatory education to young people pursuing careers in the arts since 1914.  Just a few of PCS's celebrated alumni include Emanuel Ax, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Scarlett Johansson, Midori, Leslie Uggams and Christopher Walken.  PCS has been located in the neighborhood since 1926.

Refreshments will be available and everyone is welcome! 

An initiative of the Louis Armstrong House Museum, Armstrong Now brings together world-class artists to create new works inspired by museum archives. Two modern masters of improvisation, pianist and multi-instrumentalist Matthew Whitaker and internationally lauded dancer Alain “Hurrikane” Lauture, share an evening of music and movement, contextualizing Louis Armstrong's life and legacy through a contemporary lens. The evening’s performance features tap dancing, piano, vocals, drums, and bass.

During the past decade, Chris Schanck has emerged as a leading figure in the design world for his otherworldly fusion of sculpture and furniture. Skirting the line between refinement and camp, the strange, unfamiliar forms of Schanck’s chairs, sofas, lighting, mirrors, and more suggest coral reefs, extraterrestrial worlds, and artifacts from ancient civilizations, to name just a few of the designer’s inspirations. Each piece is meticulously handcrafted in Schanck’s Detroit-based studio, where his community of artists, students, and Bangladeshi craftspeople plays a key role in the designer’s egalitarian studio practice. Deftly melding innovative material experiments with an expressive yet rigorous refinement of form, Schanck’s elaborately carved, colorfully hued, and lustrous objects are contemporary talismans of stories from the past, present, and future.

Queer Maximalism x Machine Dazzle is the first solo exhibition dedicated to the genre-defying artist Matthew Flower (US, b. 1972), better known as Machine Dazzle. A provocateur commanding an expanding repertoire of stagecraft, design, performance, and music, Machine Dazzle is a virtuoso practitioner of queer maximalism’s aesthetic language of gay liberation.

The exhibition brings together more than 80 of the artist’s creations for stage, spectacles, and street theater, alongside a variety of environments, ephemera, material samples, photography, and video. Together they chronicle the metamorphosis of Flower, a closeted suburban kid from Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, into “Machine Dazzle,” the queer experimental theater genius.

On view will be both Machine Dazzle’s famous collaborations with drag and performance luminaries such as the Dazzle Dancers and Mx Justin Vivian Bond, among others, as well as the artist’s recent emergence from behind the scenes to center stage of his own artistic life. Installed on two floors of the Museum, the multimedia exhibition also includes the first public installation of the more than two dozen tour-de-force costumes created by the artist for himself and his long-time collaborator, Taylor Mac, to wear in the queer performance art concert production, Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (2016), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.

Excessive in scale, color, surface, texture, and movement, Machine Dazzle’s living sculptures constantly transform as the designer combines the familiar embellishments of drag and burlesque, such as sequins, glitter, and feathers, beads, with found fantastical and found objects, such as ping pong balls, hoop skirts, slinkies, soup cans, and more, to build and deepen the work’s narrative intent. The result is an explosive “queer maximalism” aesthetic that joyfully counters the prejudices of high culture regarding extravagance and the overly decorated and embraces these associations as queer for affirming hybridity over purity, rejecting cultural hierarchies, and valuing different kinds of bodies.

Image: Machine Dazzle photographed by Gregory Kramer, 2019.

Swing University offers engaging virtual classes for jazz fans, enthusiasts, and students of all backgrounds and levels. A profoundly influential vocalist, beloved composer, Civil Rights icon, and respected actress, Abbey Lincoln made indelible contributions to this artform throughout her extraordinary life and extensive career. Vocalist and educator Melanie Scholtz will take you through the life and music of this vocal legend.

Internationally known as one of the most elegant and beautiful places for holiday shopping, visitors can expect to peruse through glittering aisles of art, jewelry, home goods and delicious eats from local artisans and designers. 

Photo Credit: Jacob Williamson

GRAMMY Award-winning pianist and composer Manuel Valera bonds elements of jazz, R&B, funk, fusion, Cuban, and other distinct yet connected traditions. His New Cuban Express project draws inspiration from such trail-blazing artists and ensembles as Irakere, Emiliano Salvador, and AfroCuba. Over the years, Valera has collaborated with iconic voices, including Bill Stewart, Arturo Sandoval, Seamus Blake, Paquito D’Rivera, Brian Lynch, Jeff “Tain” Watts, John Benitez, Ben Street, and Yosvany Terry. His big band features a range of repertoire and vibrant new music.

During the past decade, Chris Schanck has emerged as a leading figure in the design world for his otherworldly fusion of sculpture and furniture. Skirting the line between refinement and camp, the strange, unfamiliar forms of Schanck’s chairs, sofas, lighting, mirrors, and more suggest coral reefs, extraterrestrial worlds, and artifacts from ancient civilizations, to name just a few of the designer’s inspirations. Each piece is meticulously handcrafted in Schanck’s Detroit-based studio, where his community of artists, students, and Bangladeshi craftspeople plays a key role in the designer’s egalitarian studio practice. Deftly melding innovative material experiments with an expressive yet rigorous refinement of form, Schanck’s elaborately carved, colorfully hued, and lustrous objects are contemporary talismans of stories from the past, present, and future.