Hi, native New Yorker here, born and raised in NYC
Very plugged in to the events scene here
Here’s a selection of cool stuff happening Sat
Have fun @ the con and w whatever else you do in NYC!!! đ„ł
THE LONG LIST: PART I B
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Red Hook Open Studios
Red Hook Open Studios is a free annual event that takes place in the richly historic and once-infamous Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. During one weekend in October, the talented artists and makers in the area open their work spaces to the public, offering a rare, up-close look at how they create. Visitors also have the chance to purchase art directly from the creators themselves. This year marks our 10th anniversary and to celebrate we have organized a sculpture garden in Erie Basin Park behind Ikea, Brooklyn. Many of us participating in this yearâs Open Studios were directly affected by the devastating warehouse fire on Beard Street two weeks ago. The fire destroyed or damaged countless artworks, supplies, and studios. While the loss was immense, our artist community has been working tirelessly to rebuild, restore, and keep creating. This Open Studios event is more than just an exhibition for us — itâs a symbol of resilience, hope, and community spirit. Twelve artists will be featured with sculptures and performance art. Red Hook Open Studios is organized by artist volunteers to promote their creative community and to show off one of the cityâs great locations. A list of 2025 participants, links to their work and information about event maps can be found on our website at redhookopenstudios.com
and through our social media accounts on Facebook and Instagram.
Check website for multiple locations, Red Hook, Brooklyn 1-6p; $free Continues SUNDAY [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
@redhookopenstudios redhookopenstudios.com
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DAYBREAKER
Come here, fam. We’ve got a place for you to land this weekend. This Saturday at Refuge, weâll flow, sweat, and dance with Illustrious Blacks on the decks, surrounded by community and world-class sound. This is a brand new club in East Bushwick and we’ll be among the first to test out what people are calling “the best sound system in NYC.” So we’re going no phones. Just us and that wild sound system, the music filling us.
Start your weekend grounded. Awake. Electric. Together. REFUGE 10:00AM â 11:00AM // YOGA 11:00AM â 1:00PM // DANCE w/ Illustrious Blacks Tickets are flying. Don’t snooze. â° https://ctrk.klclick.com/l/01K75A23NHHPV6J17TDEETSEQ1_1
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Delete Day
Curious about deleting social media Now’s your chance. Delete Day is the time for you to delete an unwanted account of your choosing in solidarity with others. This is a chance to try life without that social media app, streaming service, or messaging platform that you want to break up with. We’ll start with a motivational opening from guest speakers, enter into a group countdown, and practice our very first Delete Ritual. The second half of the event is an energizing phone-free party for participants to celebrate their newfound freedom. All are welcome — the delete-ready, the delete-curious, and anyone who wants to share in the collective joy of free attention out in the public square.
Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan 6p ceremony, 7p deletion; $free timetorefuse.com
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Calvinball Variations: Experiments in Athletics, Poetics, and Play
Saturdays at 1 in the Rose Garden of Prospect Park (those three empty concrete ovals near the library, just inside the park by Flatbush Avenue), come and run around, write, dance, sketch, hoot and holler, bounce, meditate, create. A little bit exquisite corpse, a little bit improv, a little bit field games. Every audience member is a participant, and every participant is a creator. Wear running around clothes, and bring water; optional to bring is chalk, a notebook, and balloons.
RoseGarden, Prospect Park, Brooklyn 1p; $donations
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Edna Comedy presents: In Hawk 2aeroplane Over the Sea
By popular demand, @ ednacomedy is bringing back the largest rock ensemble youâve ever seen (sic) to perform the cult classic album with new lyrics about a new hero. Come for music, dance, intrigue, a razor thin line between band and audience, and a general basking in all things Hawk 2Aeroplane.
Footlight Underground at the Windjammer 552 Grandview Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens 7p and 9p doors; $15 suggested donation 21 and over https://withfriends.events/event/clVtOUDv/edna-comedy-presents-in-hawk-2aeroplane-over-the-sea/
https://withfriends.events/event/Whf4bKEb/edna-comedy-presents-in-hawk-2aeroplane-over-the-sea/
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Nerd Nite NYC
This is your friendly reminder that sex, death, and rock n roll take over when we bring you three fun-yet-informative presentations about why humans have vilified music for millennia, death (well, in this case, catacombs), and the clitoris. Cover your ears and lock your chastity belts. With TĂĄhirih Motazedian, Moses Gates, and Sophia.
Caveat NYC 21A Clinton Street, Manhattan 6:30p doors, 7p; $21, $26 door https://www.caveat.nyc/events/nerd-nite-10-11-2025
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Uptown Synth Syndicate presents: USS 6: Back to Bassics
Time to get back to our roots. A bunch of synths. A smattering of nerds. A chill evening in a cool space. Bring a synth for show and tell. Or donât. Jam with the crowd, or just hang out. Everyone wins; no one loses.
OSA 178 Bennett Avenue, Manhattan 3-8; $free all ages https://partiful.com/e/SzNB7AdPs30xJwrL8FI3
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Cloud Baby in the Garden
It’s like Plantasia, but for clouds. Check out this solo clown show about the life cycle of a cloud. Performed by Michael Galligan, directed by Bailey Nassetta, with live music by Robert Fernandez. Donations help support garden operations and future arts programming. Check the event link day-of for weather updates.
El Garden 120 Jefferson Street, Bushwick, Brooklyn 3-4p; $10 suggested Also on SUNDAY https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cloud-baby-in-the-garden-tickets-1703671680859
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Asking for Trouble
A bizarre, boundary-pushing festival of short plays. Twenty writers have pulled play titles, actors, and directors from a hat. The artists have one week to write and one week to rehearse before hitting the stage. Expect lively, strange theatre that only pure randomness can produce.
Ensemble Studio Theatre 545 West 52nd Street, Manhattan 2p, 4p, 7p, 9p; $20 pay-what-you-wish starting Continues SUNDAY https://www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org/20252026/trouble25
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Yer a Wizard, Cats Eye Calling all Wizards!
We are pleased to inform you that youâve been offered a place at Hogwarts. So hop the L train from platform 9 3/4 to Halsey, and join us at the Deep End for an evening of HP inspired burlesque, aerial, trivia, and games! Bring additional cash for our raffle and win fun prizes. Hosted by Savannah Sinead. With Fey Tality, Bobby Fishnets, Holly Ween, and Dickie Smalls. SM: Francesca Bonnevie.
The Deep End 1080 Wyckoff, Brooklyn 7-7:30 house sorting, 7:30p show; $25 Or https://www.eventbrite.com/e/yer-a-wizard-cats-eye-tickets-1698511055289
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On the Spiritual Spectrum, A Salon: Healing Through Play
A salon to discuss the sacred, faith, and meaning in community. People of any belief or no belief are welcome. Our guest speaker is Ben Freeman, the Program Director at Lab/Shul, an experimental synagogue in NYC, he is also a musician, and loves running task parties. Ben will share how playful imagination can connect us to our deepest selves.
Private Home RSVP for address, Astoria, Queens 6:30p doors, 7p start; $20-30 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-the-spiritual-spectrum-a-salon-healing-with-play-tickets-1758176115089
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Berlin Beyond: Garbicz, Giegling, Kater, Mira, Rampue +
9PM – ?? Industry City Three crews from Berlin come to NYC for 1 night: Giegling, Kater, and Garbicz Festival. Join us for a proper rave – we’re going past sunrise. https://houseofyes.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cdb3bc9e37da4cb5ec3ca6825&id=462125da95&e=297571d0ad
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LIBRA RISING @ House of Yes
10PM Libras are out, hot, and looking for revenge. Tip the scales in your favor and dress to kill. https://houseofyes.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cdb3bc9e37da4cb5ec3ca6825&id=c6338273fb&e=297571d0ad
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HONK! NYC
1:00 – 6:00pm La Plaza Community Garden 9th Street and Avenue C. LES, NYC. The Honk! NYC celebrates the great variety of music and dance New York City has to offer. Featuring Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Trio DomTake, MaracatĂș Baque, Vado Diomande + Kotchegna Dance Company, and Kenny Wollesen & The Rose Thorne Memorial Marching Band. Travel with us from West Africa to Brazil, the American West to Palestine, from New Orleans to NYC and who knows where else? Build instruments and costumes at our Craftivation Station. Bask in the alchemy of gardeners’ delight as you listen to the gorgeous sounds of the Local-Global. https://www.honknyc.com/
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DESCENDANTS welcomes South African Afro-Tech pioneer, the legendary, Enoo Napa https://silobrooklyn.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d9dcc8b8380559a2218a1e426&id=c104551108&e=c76a11d88c
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SMASH BASH Vol. 18
Brooklyn, New York 9PM
Smash Bash turns 18!!! Another tantalizing night of battles and beats awaits, accompanied by visuals from animators Lije and coolguy.zackdresher.
Sets from:
@ alex_gandhi
@ dj.fat.frog
@ melodyretrograde
@ actuatordj
Tourney run by @ clembule
Sign-ups start at 9p, tourney starts at 10p
Free to attend, $2 to enter tourney
9p-Late
Flyer by @ s4tandoll
https://withfriends.events/event/uLbCRBrf/smash-bash-vol-18/?location=STATE%3A%3ANew%2520York
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Monthly 2Hr GameJam Club: Doom Builder 2
Brooklyn, New York 1PM
Welcome and hello doomers
In this edition of 2HR GAMEJAM OF THE MONTH CLUB participants will learn the fundamentals of modern doom mapping with Ultimate Doom Builder (UDB), SLADE3, and DSDA-DOOM (all resources will be provided)
Windows 10/11 strongly recommended unless youâre good at porting PC apps, we will be targeting the DSDA-DOOM sourceport with the MBF21 complevel (so no ZDOOM ACS/UDMF!)
Doomers will have 2 hours to make their maps, with expert consultation provided by community veteran wallh4x â the skyâs the limit (-removing source port)
1:00 PM Doors
1:30 PM Workshop
2:00 PM Game Jam Starts!
4:00 PM Jam Ends, Presentations Start!
5:00 PM The arcade opens for regular use
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The Rhythm Method “Seaglass” Album Release Show
169 Bowery, New York, NY
7:00 PM
Following her acclaimed debut 2023 solo album Seagrass, Gold Bolus Recordings presents Carrie Freyâs Seaglass. Frey has made a name for herself across the U.S. and Europe as one of the leading contemporary and experimental violists of our time. After the widespread success of her first solo album Seagrass (2023) and debut sonata album The Grey Light of Day (2016), Seaglass marks her debut portrait album as a composer, featuring four works of imaginative, alchemical beauty for her string quartet, The Rhythm Method.
Comprised of four quartets commissioned and performed by The Rhythm Method, of which Frey has been a member since 2020, Seaglass showcases Freyâs well-established prowess as a violist in each track. Through intimate knowledge of the possibilities of the string quartet, and using the strengths of the boundary-pushing The Rhythm Method in particular, she coaxes forth unexpected and unheard combinations for the ensemble in this fresh, ear-opening album. All four members of The Rhythm Method are composer-performers, championing a robust repertoire of pieces by the quartet, for the quartet and works by each member can be heard on their eponymous album, The Rhythm Method, including an early version of âGone/Back.â
Please join us at Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery NYC, for an album release show for Seaglass on October 11, 2025 at 7PM.
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11am-5pm: the annual new york queer zine fair: the lesbian, gay, bisexual + transgender community center (greenwich village). https://www.astoriaparkalliance.org/events/astoriaparkclassiccarshow2025-h7l5n-y57j9
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10am-6pm: fourth annual bed-stuy walls mural festival + block party: lexington ave between stuyvesant + lewis aves, brooklyn. free admission. https://www.instagram.com/p/DPY9waigIjl/?img_index=1
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10am-6pm: moma ps1 open house: moma ps1 (lic). free admission. https://www.momaps1.org/en/events/621-open-house
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sat thru the season (9am-midnight): the rink at rockefeller center: skating season returns to rockefeller centerâs world-famous rink, a new york tradition since 1936. $22+ (skate rental extra, or byo). https://www.rockefellercenter.com/attractions/the-rink-at-rockefeller-center/#ticket-offerings
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sat thru december (tues-sun 12-10pm; closed mon): autophoto analog photobooth gallery + museum: âthe worldâs first dedicated, female-founded museum + gallery space for vintage photobooths â opens in the lower east side. part archive, part gallery, part portrait-making palaceâfeaturing a rotating collection of six restored photobooths and exhibitions from artists who work within four frames. grand opening 10/11. free admission, photos range from $8-12. https://www.autophoto.org/museum
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sat 8pm (+ 11/22, 2/7, 3/28, 5/16): new york repertory orchestra 2025-26 season: the all-volunteer, community-based orchestra is back with a new season of concerts, beginning tonight with a program that includes works by ottorino respighi, ruth gipps, and amy beach featuring mezzo-soprano sarah nelson craft. the church of st. mary the virgin (theater district), free admission ($15 suggested donation). https://www.nyro.org/
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8:30pm: improvised slasher film: improv group help me iâm drowning performs an hour-long improvised improvised slasher film based on audience suggestions. brooklyn comedy collective pig pen (williamsburg), $10 adv, $15 day of. https://www.brooklyncc.com/show-schedule/hmid-improvised-slasher-10-11
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9:30pm: dungeons + drag queens: high-fantasy meets high-heels as three drag queens take the stage for a live, rousing game of d+d, complete with fierce spell numbers, audience participation, and more. hosted by dungeon master comedian paul curry. caveat (les), $16.70 with promo code âskint (reg. $25-30). https://caveat.nyc/events/dungeons-a-drag-queens-10-11-2025
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11pm: nearly average wrestling live auditions: comedy-meets-wrestling at this no-holds-barred showcase where anyone can step into the spotlight and try to earn a spot on the nearly average wrestling (naw) roster. featuring shane hartline, taran killam, danny tamberelli, kyle gordon, and more. littlefield (gowanus), $15. >> https://littlefieldnyc.com/event/?wfea_eb_id=1663919671529
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Pawsa is here! Two dates, exclusively at Brooklyn Storehouse.
SOLD OUT (Join Waiting List:) https://tcepresents.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ae7e4a076701a012b685736c9&id=915a3fb89b&e=6cfca81ac4
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sat + sun (1-8pm): faena artâs roller dancing rink: roll into the weekend at amaze, vogue, ascend, flourish, a roller rink pop-up installation by vivid astro focus (avaf). set at the plaza next to faena hotel in chelsea, which is right across from the former home of the legendary roxy roller disco, this all-ages experience features dj sets, live performances, culinary pop-ups, and complimentary skate rentals. https://www.faenaart.org/amaze-vogue-ascend-flourish
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sat + sun (various times): asking for trouble short play fest: see boundary-pushing short plays created by 20 writers in ensemble studio theatreâs youngblood program for early-career playwrights. each had just one week to write and one week to rehearse, with titles, actors, and directors pulled from a hat. all proceeds from the $20+ pay-what-you-want admission will go to support the program and estâs play development work. https://www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org/20252026/trouble25
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thru sun: 23rd annual new york burlesque festival: the annual new york burlesque festival celebrates 23 years with four nights of glitz and glamour in manhattan and brooklyn. $25+. https://www.thenewyorkburlesquefestival.com/
thru 10/24 (various dates): green-wood after hours: explore green-wood cemetery under the night sky, walking past gravestones and monuments while hearing stories of notable new yorkers along the way. the tour ends with a stop inside the catacombsâan underground space thatâs usually closed to the public. byo flashlight. $30. https://www.green-wood.com/series/green-wood-after-hours-19/
thru 10/19 (fri-sun): the pillowman: brooklynâs longest-running community theater presents a production of martin mcdonaghâs 2023 play the pillowman, directed by michelle maccarone. the play follows a writer in a totalitarian state whoâs interrogated when his dark short stories begin to resemble a series of child murders. the heights players (brooklyn heights), $20-25. https://www.heightsplayers.org/
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Recommendation for the upcoming Halloween Season (Oct 24, 25, 31, & Nov 1) https://www.reddit.com/r/sleepnomore/comments/1nxf3c6/last_call_for_early_release_tickets_for_tell_no/
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