Events Calendar

Meditation Breaks, a Denver-based enterprise offers free (or pay what you will) online live guided meditations for all comers. 

Immerse yourself in the benefits of meditation and mindfulness. This live online meditation class hosted by Meditation Breaks provides a wide array of easy to learn mindfulness teachings and techniques aimed at transforming your life -- including stress relief, increasing happiness, living in the moment, and much more. Great for people looking to learn how meditation can help them in daily life and for those interested in maintaining a regular meditation practice.

Relive highlights from three of Joyce DiDonato’s Carnegie Hall master classes. A favorite of audiences at the Hall and the Metropolitan Opera, the mezzo-soprano mentors young singers at the beginning of their careers, exploring many of the intricacies of operatic singing with a particular focus on arias by Handel and Puccini. Mezzo-soprano Kayleigh Decker—who participated in DiDonato’s first master class at Carnegie Hall in 2015—is now enjoying a thrilling career at Lyric Opera of Chicago and opera houses around the globe. Be there when DiDonato catches up with her in an online chat. Performers Joyce DiDonato, Host Participants Amalia Avilán Castillo, Soprano Kayleigh Decker, Mezzo-Soprano Keymon Murrah, Countertenor Shannon McGinnis, Piano Adam Nielsen, Piano Renate Rohlfing, Piano

This Archtober, MAS is celebrating design excellence in New York City with our MASterworks Awards! Our virtual program series will feature 2020 honorees paired in conversation, moderated by past winners. In this discussion, we will examine what great design means to parks and the public amenities they provide, especially in this moment, and will include: Fire Watchtower at Marcus Garvey Park (2020 Best Restoration), El Barrio Bait Station (2020 Best New Infrastructure), and Gowanus Canal Sponge Park (2018 Best Urban Landscape). Each event is eligible for 1 CM credit for AICP members (Event #9205315). For instructions on logging CM credits, please click here. RSVP Featured Speakers: Moderator: Susannah Drake, FASLA, AIA, Founding Principal, DLANDstudio Sari Chang, Principal, JACOBSCHANG Architecture Robert J. Kornfeld, Jr., AIA, Principal, Thornton Tomasetti 

Please visit MAS’s YouTube channel to view recordings of all of our free virtual events.

Every four years, journalists try to make sense of the nation’s biggest story: the race for the presidency. With one of the country’s most consequential elections on the horizon, Selected Shorts considers the twists and turns of campaigns past—the in-fighting and back-biting, the leads blown and punches thrown—to help make sense of the present. Collecting excerpts and stories from writers such as Hunter S. Thompson, Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper hosts an evening of readings about a world he knows from the inside out. With performances by Samantha Bee (Full Frontal), Crystal Dickinson (The Chi), Aasif Mandvi (Evil), Alexandra Petri (columnist, The Washington Post), and Roy Wood, Jr. (The Daily Show with Trevor Noah). This is a virtual event. Ticket holders will receive e-tickets with information on how to access the event. You can tune in at the premiere or view at your leisure for two weeks afterwards. This event will premiere on October 21 and is available until November 3.

This class is offered as part of our Team Senior Planet program.

Click or tap to join this class by Zoom:

https://seniorplanet.zoom.us/j/170361931

Meeting ID: 170 361 931

Need help joining by Zoom? English instructions / Spanish instructions

Greenmarket's gateway to the Upper West Side, the Richard Tucker Park Greenmarket, offers locally grown produce just across the street from Lincoln Center. Seasonal vegetables range from fresh staples like corn and greens to delicacies like squash blossoms and fairtytale eggplant. Orchards boast sweet berries, stone fruit, and over 80 varieties of apples. Knowledgeable growers are at market to explain just how to care for their plants, flowers, and herb pots indoors and out. Impeccable farmstead cheeses, fresh seafood, grass fed beef, duck and duck charcuterie, eggs, artisanal baked goods. Open Thursdays, year-round. This location is also open on Saturdays. Schedule Changes: Market rescheduled to Wednesday 11/25 (Closed 11/26). GrowNYC's Food Scrap Composting: 8:00am - 3:30pm. Community activities, cooking demonstrations and recipe exchanges will add to the diverse nature of this market.

Hope Wanted takes place outdoors in New-York Historical’s rear courtyard (entrance by 5 West 76th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue), providing an open-air environment for visitors to view the exhibition and contemplate the impact of COVID-19 on New York City. Admission is free; access is limited and face coverings are required for entry, with social distancing enforced through timed-entry tickets and on-site safety measures. Curated by poet and journalist Kevin Powell and photographer Kay Hickman, Hope Wanted: New York City Under Quarantine features more than 50 photographs taken by Hickman along with 14 audio interviews with the photographs’ subjects conducted by Powell during the team’s intensive two-day odyssey across the city on April 8–9, 2020; the audio will be accessible to visitors through their cell phones. Hickman’s empathetic photographs of people and their neighborhoods in all five boroughs and Powell’s searching interviews of New Yorkers impacted by the crisis capture both tragedy and remarkable resilience at a moment in time during the pandemic. The exhibition text and audio will be offered in both English and Spanish. The exhibition also includes a quiet seating area, surrounded by plantings and conducive to reflection, where visitors can record their own experiences of the pandemic in an open-sided story booth. These oral histories will be archived by New-York Historical. Check out recent coverage of the exhibition in the New York Times and on NY1.

Book timed-entry ticket online

VISITING HOURS

Monday – Wednesday CLOSED
Thursday (age 65+ and immunocompromised only) 11 am – 5 pm
Friday 11 am – 8 pm
Saturday – Sunday 11 am – 5 pm

An immersive exhibition of more than 100 works of stained glass, compositions in lead, and related drawings will showcase British artist Brian Clarke as one of the most important artists working in stained glass, at once a leader in new technology and a brilliant aesthetic innovator. Since the early 1970s, Clarke has collaborated with some of the world’s most prominent architects to create stained-glass designs and installations for hundreds of projects worldwide. The centerpiece of the exhibition will be more than twenty free-standing, glass screens. Animated by changing light and stained with exuberant, saturated colors, these dramatic works will transport audiences to the very frontier of what is possible in stained glass today.

MAD’s updated hours are:
Thursday – Sunday, 11:00am–7:00pm
11:00am–noon on Thursday and Friday are special hours for Members and seniors 65 and up

The Front Row Artist Series concerts focus on the work of individual CMS artists in a variety of ensembles, complemented by a short documentary film on the artist’s life and work. Free admission.

Schumann: Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales) for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, Op. 132 (1853)

Dale: “Romance” from Suite for Viola and Piano (1906)

Turina: Escena andaluza for Viola, String Quartet, and Piano, Op. 7 (1912)

Kreisler: Liebesleid for Three Violins, Viola, and Cello

Shostakovich: Impromptu for Viola and Piano (1931)

Boulanger: American Vision for Viola and Piano Trio

It’s FREE – all you have to do is RSVP! Online event featuring Desmond Child and 2020-21 Kaufman Music Center Artists-in-Residence Conrad Tao and Seth Parker Woods.

This FREE online event features performances by Grammy winner and Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductee Desmond Child and KMC Artists-in-Residence Conrad Tao and Seth Parker Woods as well as our students. We’re excited to celebrate with our community and say thank you to our generous donors after a very challenging period.