Events Calendar

We could all use a little music to soothe our souls. So, for the next several weeks, we'll be unlocking our vaults and rolling out full concert videos from past seasons.

Head over to YouTube right now to watch: • The Music of Miles Davis by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis • South African Songbook by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis • Family Concert: Who Is Chick Corea? by the Jazz for Young People All-Stars Check back for another concert next week.

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While the Museum is closed, The Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMOM) educators are working to fill your child’s day with engaging interactive activity. CMOM can still be a part of  your day through videos, sing-a-longs, games and so much more for you to do together with your family at home!

Yanvalou: A Traditional Haitian Dance

All ages

Join the Children’s Museum of Manhattan’s partner Kanu Dance Theater in a lesson from our Lets Dance! exhibition to learn a dance move from a traditional dance from Haiti called Yanvalou that uses movements inspired by snakes. Then work together to create your own dance moves inspired by animals. Watch the video here. 
http://cmom.org/learn/cmom-at-home/
https://cmom.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Our-World-Wednesday-1-Yanvalou-with-KaNu-Dance-Theater-1.pdf

John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life President Nixon’s 1972 visit to communist China. Peter Sellars’s Met production, based on his 1987 world-premiere staging, features choreography by Mark Morris and stars James Maddalena as Nixon, Robert Brubaker as Chairman Mao, Janis Kelly as First Lady Pat Nixon, Russell Braun as Chinese Premier Chou En-lai, and Kathleen Kim as Chiang Ch’ing, Mao’s wife. From the pomp of the public displays to the intimacy of the protagonists most private moments, Adams, Sellars, and librettist Alice Goodman reveal the real characters behind the headlines in this landmark American opera.

The way sunshine works as an antiseptic, freeing your stories from where they are held in the body and nervous system and holding them up to the light can help you tame and understand them. Read aloud and received by loving hearts will decrease any sense of separateness you might be feeling at this time. Please join me for this two-part online workshop where--through such tools as metaphor, sensory exploration, scene setting, and personification--you can access the stories most important to you right now. All levels welcome. No previous writing experience necessary.

Judith Hannan is the author of The Write Prescription: Telling Your Story to Live with and Beyond Illness and the memoir Motherhood Exaggerated. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, AARP:  Narratively,  among other publications. She leads workshops for those affected by physical and/or mental illness, the homeless, and those within the criminal justice system. She is a writing mentor and interventionist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and received a 2015 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism-in-Medicine award. She serves on the Board of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan where she is also Writer-in-Residence.

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Meditation and stretching have shown to reduce anxiety and stress. This weekly class will guide you through simple stretches and meditation sessions to help relieve any stress you may be experiencing. Join this class from anywhere using Zoom! Learn how to use Zoom Video Conferencing here. Click or tap: https://seniorplanet.zoom.us/j/535803138 Meeting ID: 535 803 138 OR Call in: 1-646-558-8656 or 1-312-626-6799, Meeting ID: 535 803 138

Pedrito will be debuting the music for his upcoming album with a five-piece horn section and a segment of Yoruba ritual music. He will deliver an electrifying, danceable set of percussion-and horn driven Afro-Cuban jazz. A great chance to lift your spirits and dance at home: https://www.92y.org/archives/pedrito-martinez

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.

While the Museum is closed, The Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMOM) educators are working to fill your child’s day with engaging interactive activity. CMOM can still be a part of  your day through videos, sing-a-longs, games and so much more for you to do together with your family at home!

Weaving Wonders

Ages 4+

Use cardboard or an embroidery hoop, a produce bag, a twist tie and string to create a woven masterpiece! Watch the video here.
http://cmom.org/learn/cmom-at-home/
https://cmom.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Artsy-Thursday-1-Weaving-Wonders.pdf

Lift your creative spirit in our Online Learning Lab: Watch, Read and Look. While our home is temporarily closed, we welcome you to explore the Museum's Online Learning Lab. With new content added each week, you will find inspiration of all kinds from MAD makers, artists and designers. You can also explore over 95% of MAD's permanent collection which is accessible online with high resolution images.

Director Nicholas Hytner, who made his Met debut with this production, brings out all the passionate intensity that is at the heart of Verdi’s monumental drama. Don Carlo (Roberto Alagna), the Spanish crown prince, and Elizabeth of Valois (Marina Poplavskaya), daughter of the King of France, fall in love, only to be torn apart by international politics when Carlo’s father, King Philip II (Ferruccio Furlanetto), decides to marry Elizabeth himself. Carlo’s friend, Rodrigo (Simon Keenlyside), plays a dangerous game, balancing his political aims with the trust of his monarch. And when the beautiful Princess Eboli (Anna Smirnova) discovers her love for Don Carlo is not returned, her revenge terribly backfires. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met orchestra and chorus.

This reading-intensive, writing-focused workshop will look at matters of the spirit, soul, or inner life—however we may define the human (humane?) mechanism at work when facing huge joy or huge dread in this world and in imagined worlds. How do we, as writers, face the kind of work that is at once essential and complex in an intimate and personal way? What does it mean for the length of that particular work? We will look at both long-ish poems and short poems to see how breadth or a compressed sensibility necessitates a deliberate and measured way of taking in the world. Readings will include Louise Glück, Jack Gilbert, Lucille Clifton, Gerald Stern, Nazim Hikmet, Franz Wright, Jean Valentine, and others.

Michael Klein is a five-time finalist and two-time recipient of a Lambda Literary Award and received a poetry fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including When I Was a Twin (2015) and The Talking Day (2013), and several books of prose. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and, for 20 years, in the MFA program at Goddard College in Vermont. He currently teaches at Hunter College in New York City.

Photo credit: Freerange Stock

While the Museum is closed, The Children's Museum of Manhattan (CMOM) educators are working to fill your child’s day with engaging interactive activity. CMOM can still be a part of  your day through videos, sing-a-longs, games and so much more for you to do together with your family at home!

Indoor Sidewalk Games

Ages 3+

Use tape on the floor to create fun and challenging obstacles! 
http://cmom.org/learn/cmom-at-home/
https://cmom.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Feel-Good-Friday-1-Indoor-Sidewalk-Games.pdf