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Saturday Jan. 17, 2026

10 am – 6 pm

Blazing A Trail: Dorothy Waugh’s National Parks Posters

Poster HouseManhattan

10 am – 6 pm

The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy

Poster HouseManhattan

10 am – 10 pm

Ice Skating at Roebling Rink

Roebling RinkBrooklyn

Strausfeld – Poster House

10 am – 6 pm

Art for Art House: The Posters of Peter Strausfeld

Poster HouseManhattan

10 am – 5 pm

MLK’s Peace Parade

Children’s Museum of ManhattanManhattan

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Freedom Quilters of Gee’s Bend

Ages: All
Art
Family

Wave Hill HouseThe Bronx

Face Value

10:30 am – 5:30 pm

Face Value: Celebrity Press Photography

Ages: All
Art
Family

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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10:30 am – 5:30 pm

Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection

Art

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

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11 am – noon

Children’s Access Workshops

Ages: 5 – 12
Dance
Family
Special Needs

New York City Ballet Rehearsal Studios Samuel B. & David Rose BuildingUpper West Side

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11 am – noon

Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are In A Play!”

Ages: 3 – 8
Books & Readings
Family
Music

Atlantic Stage 2Chelsea

11 am

Weekly Storytime

Ages: 3 – 8
Family
Free

Barnes & Noble Staten IslandStaten Island

11 am – 6 pm

Poetics of the Photographic: Language of Resistance

Art
Free

Clive Davis GalleryBrooklyn

11 am – noon

Birding: Owls and Owl Pellet Discovery

Free

Blue Heron Nature CenterStaten Island

11 am – 1 pm

Animal Care Trainee

Ages: 5 – 12
Animals
Family

Alley Pond Environmental CenterDouglaston

11 am – noon

Sensory Saturday Storytime!

Ages: All
Family
Free

Stapleton LibraryStaten Island

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11:30 am – 6 pm

An Ecology of Quilts: The Natural History of American Textiles

Art
Free

American Folk Art MuseumLincoln Square

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11:30 am – 1:30 pm

The Grandest Princess Ball Ever

Ages: 8 and under
Family

Carmine’s – Time SquareTimes Square

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11:30 am – 1 pm

Hablemos: New York, New York

Ages: 3 – 12
Art
Craft & DIY
Family

The New York HistoricalUpper West Side

Family Concert: My City, My Song

Noon – 1 pm

Musical Explorers Family Concert

Ages: 5 – 8
Family
Music

Carnegie HallMidtown Manhattan

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12:30 – 1:30 pm

In Motion Workshops: For children ages 8-12

Ages: 9 – 12
Dance
Family

New York City Ballet Rehearsal Studios Samuel B. & David Rose BuildingUpper West Side

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12:30 pm

The Tortoise & the Hare

Ages: All
Family
Theater

Puppetworks IncBrooklyn

Broadway Magic Hour with Jim Vines and Carl Mercurio

2 – 3 pm

Broadway Magic Hour

Ages: 5 and up
Comedy
Family
Theater

Broadway Comedy Clubnew york

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2:30 pm

The Tortoise & the Hare

Ages: All
Family
Theater

Puppetworks IncBrooklyn

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3 – 4 pm

EVC Intergenerational Choir

Ages: 5 and up
Classes
Community
Family

Union Theological SeminaryHarlem

Family Concert: My City, My Song

3 – 4 pm

Musical Explorers Family Concert

Ages: 5 – 8
Family
Music

Carnegie HallMidtown Manhattan

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4 – 5 pm

Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are In A Play!”

Ages: 3 – 8
Books & Readings
Family
Music

Atlantic Stage 2Chelsea

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5 – 9 pm

Date Night at the Met

The Met Fifth AvenueUpper East Side

5:30 pm – 2 am

40th Annual Zlatne Uste Golden Festival

Ages: All
Dance
Family
Festivals

The Marquee AstoriaQueens

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7 – 9 pm

Shelter In Place

Theater

The Players TheatreNew York City

Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage

7 – 9:30 pm

The Georgian National Ballet Sukhishvili

Dance
LGBTQ+

Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium/Perelman StageMidtown Manhattan

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