Visit the exhibition Woody Guthrie: What This Guitar Might Do with two very special hosts: Nora Guthrie, Woody’s daughter, and Anna Canoni, Woody’s granddaughter – and get a glimpse of Woody through the eyes of his own family. Stop by the gallery any time between 11:00 am and 2:00 pm. Nora and Anna will be telling stories, exploring the […]
Join FourOneOne and Sound+Science in celebration of producer, bassist, and author Melvin Gibbs’ new book How Black Music Took Over The World, which will be published by Basic Books on April 14th. Gibbs will be in conversation with Stephon Alexander, theoretical cosmologist, jazz musician, and author of The Jazz of Physics and Fear of a Black Universe. This event […]
Woody Wednesdays (and one Woody Thursday) bring together NYU students, alumni, and guest artists for acoustic sets inside the exhibition Woody Guthrie: What This Guitar Might Do. Each night features artists reinterpreting Guthrie’s work alongside original songs. Feel free to drop by, no registration is needed. Wednesday April 15, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Performing artists: Hannah […]
Join a panel of writers, organizers, and elected leaders for a powerful and urgent conversation about how movements are built quietly, locally, and out of public view, before erupting into collective action. Moderated by Saul Austerlitz, author of How to Assemble an Activist, this program explores the sparks that turn private alarm into public action. Drawing on […]
Join The Center for Fiction for an evening with Olga Ravn, the acclaimed author of Booker Prize finalist The Employees and My Work, as she introduces her haunting new novel, The Wax Child, translated by Martin Aitken. Set amid the witchcraft trials of seventeenth-century Denmark, The Wax Child follows Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman accused of sorcery, and the […]
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This concert celebrates the release of Notebook (New World Records), the new CD by Lukas Ligeti’s eponymous NYC-based ensemble. The group to explores combinations of composition and improvisation that are too detail-oriented for a conventional band, yet too abstractly framed and rehearsal-intensive for classical ensembles. Notebook employs unusual approaches to interplay — inhabiting a space between new composed music, […]
Join Haiti Cultural Exchange on Thursdays for the Mizik Ayiti! Residency Series. The Spring residency will be held by Twoubadou Lakay. Twoubadou Lakay is a collective of master musicians rooted in the rich traditions of Haitian music. The ensemble blends the storytelling spirit and dancing guitars of Haitian Twoubadou with deep Haitian rhythms, jazz sensibilities, […]
French-Dominican artist Lena Dardelet infuses Caribbean and Dominican music with her multicultural influences and modernity. A trilingual singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Dardelet has performed on local and international stages with artists such as Vicente García, iLe, Monsieur Periné, Techy Fatule, Simón Grossman, and Alex Ferreira. Her diverse discography includes Mírala Bailar (2021), a tribute to her Dominican folk roots; Bachaté (2020), […]
Support local families by donating baby supplies and gently used children’s clothing to Little Essentials, a local organization that offers at-risk families living in poverty urgently needed children’s supplies. A simple way to give back and help neighbors in need.