Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Come visit legendary historic sites where the community faced off with gentrification and corporate power. Peek inside vibrant community gardens and legendary tenement buildings, Tompkins...
Metropolitan Playhouse All New Solo Performances based on interviews with Metropolitan's neighbors. Drawn from interviews with the theater's neighbors, these verbatim monologues are "great theater....storytelling at its best" (Hi Drama)...
The Loisaida Center Since 1987, the Loisaida Festival has honored its history by providing a platform to celebrate arts & culture through music, dance, arts, cuisine, and other cultural manifestations...
6 & B Garden Tell your unique East Village story on a page of real paper typed on our vintage typewriters! Readings by local poets and writers start at 4pm....
Merchant's House Museum Join us for a journey back in time to the elite ‘Bond Street area,’ home to Astors, Vanderbilts, Delanos – and the Tredwells, who lived in the...
Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Come visit legendary historic sites where the community faced off with gentrification and corporate power. Peek inside vibrant community gardens and legendary tenement buildings, Tompkins...
Metropolitan Playhouse All New Solo Performances based on interviews with Metropolitan's neighbors. Drawn from interviews with the theater's neighbors, these verbatim monologues are "great theater....storytelling at its best" (Hi Drama)...
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY With the roster still building, Theater for the New City has currently scheduled over 200 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and film makers...
Cooper Square Committee A Studio One student performance about tenants and their relationships – or lack thereof – with their landlords in the Lower East Side. A theatrical interpretation of...
Lower East Side History Project The “Forgotten Lower East Side” walking tour goes off the beaten path, exploring districts and aspects of our neighborhood most excursions overlook. Sure, we’ll discuss the tenements and immigrant experience in detail, but we’ll go beyond the familiar narrative and cover a thousand years of important history; from Native Americans...
University Settlement & Cooper Square Committee University Settlement and the Cooper Square Committee invite Lower East Side neighbors to a screening of the film "Rabble Rousers," which tells the story of community activist Frances Goldin and her LES neighbors’ struggle against Robert Moses’ plans for the neighborhood across five decades, including the formation of the...
Cooper Square Committee A Studio One student performance about tenants and their relationships – or lack thereof – with their landlords in the Lower East Side. A theatrical interpretation of stories from residents and organizers from the Lower East Side, presented by STUDIO ONE in collaboration with Cooper Square Committee and BeBop Theatre Collective. The...