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Saturday May 10, 2025

2 – 4 pm

Celebrate and Dance: Tinikling

King Manor MuseumJamaica

2 – 3 pm

Saung Budaya Dance

Ages: 5 and up
Dance
Family
Free

Third Street Music School SettlementManhattan

2:30 – 6 pm

Make Mother’s Day Cards with Flower Petals

Ages: All
Craft & DIY
Family
Free

LaGuardia Corner Community GardenManhattan

3 – 4:15 pm

Mother’s Day Celebration

Ages: 3 – 8
Classes
Community
Family

Bi’an MandarinStaten Island

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3 – 4 pm

Author Talk – Pulling Back the Curtain on the Nazi “show camp”

Jefferson Market LibraryGreenwich Village

4 – 5 pm

Celebrate AAPI Month

Ages: 13 and up
Books & Readings
Family
Free

Books of WonderManhattan

6 – 9 pm

Star Trek Variety Show

Free

Industry BarHells Kitchen

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6 – 8 pm

albi: Live – Full Band

Free
Music

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Satellite Collective Event

7 – 10 pm

Satellite Collective’s Tribeca Show 2025

Manhattan

Sunday May 11

Unknown

All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade CenterManhattan

Painting by Amrit Khurana – Whispers In Bloom

All day

Perceptions of Sentience – Art Exhibition by artists with autism from around the globe

Art
Free

United Nations Visitors LobbyManhattan

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Various

Waterfront Walks

Ages: All
Family
Free
Tours

Brooklyn Bridge ParkBrooklyn

9 am – 2 pm

BPC Farmers Market: Opening Day

Ages: All
Family
Free
Markets

Irish Hunger MemorialBattery Park City

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Flowers for Mother’s Day

10 am – noon

Family Fun Day

Ages: All
Family
Free

Sunset Park Recreation CenterBrooklyn

Bash Bish Falls Remembered III

10:30 am – 4:30 pm

Nature’s Persistence: Recent Work by Shelley Haven

Art
Free

Derfner Judaica MuseumRiverdale

11 am – 9 pm

Macy’s Flower Show

Ages: All
Attractions
Family
Free

Macy’s Herald SquareManhattan

Brooklyn Art Haus-the human layter 1×1

11 am – 10 pm

“The Human Layer” gallery opening at Brooklyn Art Haus

Art
Free

Brooklyn Art HausBrooklyn

11 am – 2 pm

Lil’ Brunch Club

The RandolphBrooklyn

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11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Into the Shining Dark

Art
Free

Welancora GalleryBrooklyn

11 am – noon

Birding: All About Pigeons

Ages: All
Animals
Family
Free

Seaside Wildlife Nature ParkStaten Island

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11 am – 1 pm

Volunteer Garden Day @ 50 Cent Garden

Queens

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11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: Mother’s Day

Ages: All
Art
Family
Free

Empire StoresBrooklyn

11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Reimagining Kinship

Art
Free

410 Jefferson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221Brooklyn

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Noon – 6 pm

Greek Jewish Festival

Ages: 5 and up
Community
Dance
Family

Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and MuseumManhattan

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Noon – 6 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the WaterfrontBrooklyn

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1 – 2 pm

Public Garden Highlights Walk

Ages: 13 and up
Environment
Family
Free

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1 – 6 pm

Fresh Art Offers a Spring Burst of Inspiration at BWAC

Art
Free

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists CoalitionBrooklyn

The Space In Between

1 – 7 pm

The Space In Between

Art
Free

All Street GalleryEast village

Satellite Collective Event

7 – 10 pm

Satellite Collective’s Tribeca Show 2025

Manhattan

Monday May 12

Unknown

All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade CenterManhattan

Painting by Amrit Khurana – Whispers In Bloom

All day

Perceptions of Sentience – Art Exhibition by artists with autism from around the globe

Art
Free

United Nations Visitors LobbyManhattan

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