Events Calendar

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 the 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, and New Yorks' only producer of both sorghum and maple syrup round out the offerings. Open Saturdays year-round. This location is also open on Thursdays. GrowNYC's Food Scrap Composting: 8:00am - 1:00pm.

Lincoln Center has redesigned its website as Lincoln Center at Home. Keep the performing arts front and center from the safety and comfort of your own home and use this portal to find content from Lincoln Center's classes, special concerts, and archival footage. You can easily add events from the page to your own calendar too so you never miss out! New videos are added weekly. Click here to view this week's events.

Join musician Bill Bonk every Saturday night when he performs concerts from his porch, where all the neighbors can hear some great vintage music while keeping a social distance. Bill has toured with artists around the world, including Grant Lee Buffalo, Aimee Mann, Susannah Hoffs, Lisa Loeb, Bonnie Raitt and his dear late friend, John Prine. After Bill Withers died, he performed his legendary song Lean on Me and, following Prine’s death, he paid tribute with Angel From Montgomery, a song he knew by heart after accompanying Prine and Raitt during hundreds of live shows. With audiences growing weekly through word of mouth and FaceBook, Bonk’s Saturday night shows have become a cherished highlight among his community. One of his favorite performances with his daughter Jas is California Dreamin’ captured at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiMQcztbtNI Follow Bill Bonk’s weekly Saturday shows at 9:00pm EDT (6:00pm PST) on livestream at https://www.facebook.com/laurelcanyonporchconcerts/

A video instructional series on film history for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 10 one-hour and 3 half-hour video programs.

Using clips from more than 300 of the greatest movies ever made, this series explores film history and American culture through the eyes of over 150 Hollywood insiders, including Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Michael Eisner. In-depth treatments present film as a powerful economic force, and potent twentieth-century art form. You don’t need to register – just click on the video and enjoy.  Sounds awesome.  Maybe some popcorn?

Produced by the New York Center for Visual History in association with KCET/Los Angeles and the BBC. 1995.

American Cinema connects subjects such as history, business, and English with other studies. In addition, it is a perfect vehicle for developing visual and media literacy skills and can be used as a springboard for creative-writing endeavors and media production.

These two established Jazz titans will come together to discuss the long lasting impact of Charlie Parker’s work around the celebration of his 100th birthday. A contemporary and friend of Charlie Parker’s, Sheila Jordan is known for her bebop and scat jazz singing style with only an upright bass as her accompaniment. Christian McBride, a six-time Grammy Award winning jazz bassist, composer and arranger, has performed and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall, Roy Haynes, Wynton Marsalis, Eddie Palmieri, as well as with pop, hip-hop, soul and classical musicians like Sting, Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, The Roots, Queen Latifah, and James Brown. Tune in to the SummerStage YouTube (NYCSummerStage) or Facebook page (SummerStageNYC) to watch!

Lincoln Center has redesigned its website as Lincoln Center at Home. Keep the performing arts front and center from the safety and comfort of your own home and use this portal to find content from Lincoln Center's classes, special concerts, and archival footage. You can easily add events from the page to your own calendar too so you never miss out! New videos are added weekly. Click here to view this week's events.

Structural racism is a powerful force spread across multiple systems and institutions and is extremely pernicious and resilient. White people are the source and the sustainers of structural racism and recreate it every day when they are silent about police “protection,” seek out “good” schools, allow monetized healthcare, “integrate” neighborhoods through the displacement of gentrification… After hundreds of years of damage are we at a tipping point that will lead to real and lasting change? Will ethical humanists join efforts to repair the damage of structural racism and help usher in a more equitable and compassionate society? Click here to join at the start time! To download Zoom ahead of time, please visit https://zoom.us/download. No computer or smartphone? No problem! Call in to any meeting using one of the following phone numbers and enter the Meeting ID 384-422-5692. Call-in phone numbers: (929) 205-6099 | (301) 715-8592 | (253) 215-8782 FREE and open to the public.

The Chamber Music Society is regularly releasing online playlists of concerts and events from it archives. Enjoy a Front Row seat, right in the comfort of your own home for Anne-Marie McDermott. This video will be available to watch on demand for one week following the performance. Program: Mozart Concerto in D minor for Piano and Strings, K. 466 (1785) Smetana Trio in G minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 15 (1855, rev. 1857)

Lincoln Center has redesigned its website as Lincoln Center at Home. Keep the performing arts front and center from the safety and comfort of your own home and use this portal to find content from Lincoln Center's classes, special concerts, and archival footage. You can easily add events from the page to your own calendar too so you never miss out! New videos are added weekly. Click here to view this week's events.

Summer Camp and Teen Workshops - Enriching creative immersions for ages eight through eighteen. Making with MAD summer camp and teen workshops are virtual immersions in art and design for young curious creatives who want to expand their skill sets, meet new friends, and discover new creative outlets. MAD’s experienced artist-educators will lead hands-on making activities and each week, an artist-in-residence from the Museum’s Artist Studios program will welcome participants for a virtual studio visit and lively talk about life as a working artist. Each session concludes with a virtual group art show and celebration with family and friends.

Summer camp sessions for kids 8­–10 take place Monday through Friday, 9am­–11am ET.

Summer camp sessions for kids 11–­14 take place Monday through Friday, 10am–12pm ET.

Teen workshops take place Monday through Friday, 2pm–4pm ET.

Customize Your Making At Mad Experience: Families may join together to create a private session for their children. To find out more, please email education@madmuseum.org. REGISTER CONTACT: education@madmuseum.org

Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, for, as the Committee cites: …”in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon (1977) brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 1988, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she gained worldwide recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. Toni Morrison delivered her Nobel Lecture on 7 December 1993. There is no video available of her talk about the compelling power of storytelling, but you can listen in here. Website: https://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/?id=1502

Monday Meditations will take over the SummerStage Instagram channel live every Monday at 12:00PM EST for a 30 minute workshop focused on keeping your mind and body happy, healthy and active with guest host Karine Plantadit, former Alvin Ailey and Broadway Tony Award nominated dancer (Come Fly Away, The Lion King), instructor, choreographer, certified yoga teacher and life coach. SummerStage Instagram