10 – 11:30 am Back to School, Back to Rhythm at Vivvi Tribeca Ages: 8 and underDance Family Music Vivvi TribecaTribeca
11 am – 1 pm Instrument Discovery Day – For All Ages! Community Free Bloomingdale School of MusicUpper West Side
Noon – 5 pm Community CareFest 2025 Ages: AllCommunity Family Festivals Hostos Community CollegeBronx
Noon – 3 pm Making Moves: Community Art Party Ages: 5 – 12Art Dance Family The High Line 14th Street PassageChelsea
1 – 5 pm Uptown Rumble: Heavy Music in The Bronx Exhibit History & Culture Music Museum of Bronx HistoryBronx
2 – 4 pm FREE OUTDOOR TRIBUTE CELEBRATING THE LEGACY OF DUKE ELLINGTON Dance Free Duke Ellington StatueHarlem
3 – 5 pm The Orchestra Now Performs Three Generations of Composers from China Caribbean Music Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose HallManhattan
3 – 7:30 pm WE ARE NATURE: Climate Week — WASTE YOUR TIME Dance Free Newtown Creek Nature WalkBrooklyn
7:30 – 10:30 pm The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Music The Metropolitan Opera HouseManhattan
6 – 7:30 pm Step Into Dance: Ballroom Workshop Series at the Sheepshead Bay Library Dance Free Brooklyn Public Library Sheepshead BayBrooklyn
10 – 11 am Rockness Music Parent and Me Music Class Ages: 5 – 8Family Music Under Minerva Art GalleryBrooklyn
4 pm Comic Connect Comedy Show | Free Comedy Show in NYC with After Party Food & Drink Music Connect AstoriaAstoria
7:30 – 10 pm The Glenn Crytzer Quartet at Festival Café (UES) Food & Drink Music Upper East Side (UES)
Oct. 9, 5 pm Nou Akoma Nou Sinèji Haitian Dominican Transnational Film Festival Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute
Oct. 10, 9:30 am Discover Treasures at Marble Church’s Second Chance Tag Sale Marble Collegiate Church
Brooklyn Paper ‘Protect the protectors’: Hundreds rally in support of new regulations to protect security guards