Today’s Calendar
Thursday June 20, 2019
8AM
Sunrise Yoga
Rise and shine to begin your morning with an outdoor yoga class that will help align your chakras and invigorate your day. Instructors focus on movements meant to enhance posture alignment and increase flexibility and balance. All levels welcome. Bringing your own mat is encouraged, as provided accessories are first come, first served. Wagner Park. http://bpcparks.org/events/2019-06/
1PM
Fraunces Tavern Museum Guided Tour
Fraunces Tavern Museum
Sixty minute guided tour of Fraunces Tavern Museum. 54 Pearl Street. Free with admission $4, $7 http://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/group-tours
1PM
Tour the Battery
The Battery Conservancy
Learn about Battery Park’s rich history, many important landmarks and monuments, the Seaglass Carousel, 195,000 square feet of beautiful perennial gardens designed by renowned Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf, and much more. Meet at 12:50 p.m. at the Netherland Memorial Flagpole located at the entrance to the park near the intersection of Broadway, Battery Place, and State street. It is across State Street from Bowling Green.
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One Wall Street
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3:30PM
Creative Writing Circle
New York Public Library
If you like to write and like to meet people who like writing, bring your creativity and personality to this creative writing workshop. All writers of all styles are welcome to participate in writing and editing exercises. Battery Park City branch of the New York Public Library. North End Avenue.
5PM
Native Sounds Downtown Featuring Inkarayku
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
Celebrate Inti Raymi by joining us for a Native Sounds Downtown concert featuring Inkarayku. Led by founder Andres Jimenez, Inkarayku links the past, present, and future through music blended by the organic power of Quechua songs with the energy of New York City. The band’s diverse line-up brings a musical and artistic experience resulting in Andean folk music that transcends cultural boundaries and seamlessly shares the stage with other folk traditions of the Americas. One Bowling Green. FREE
6:30PM
Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom: Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys and the American Revolution
Lecture by Christopher Wren, who uses archival research and dozens of primary sources to paint a vibrant portrait of Ethan Allen, a man whose reputation has been transformed by nostalgia and a mythic heroism that never truly existed in Allen’s lifetime. A reexamination of an often-misunderstood part of the American Revolution, Wren argues that Allen and his boisterous Green Mountain Boys were not the revolutionary heroes of lore, and left a legacy of disrespect of authority that continues to manifest itself in America today. 54 Pearl Street. $10
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7PM
pushit!!
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
A site-responsive performance, pushit!! is a meditation on emotional labor and the impossibility of the “stage” as a place of freedom for the Black performer. The work is choreographed and/or sculpted around the social/political landscapes of the city/space/presenting body and the unique architecture of the building/private space. This work is the first in a series of the exercises in getting well soon, a project/meditation based on the loose and often used phrase indicating a hope of recovery. Check website for location.
7PM
BPC Running Club
Jog the 2.4 miles down and back along the Battery Parks City Esplanade. Guided with warm-up and cool-down and a favorable pace for all participants. Meet inside the Community Center at Stuyvesant High School at 345 Chambers Street.
8PM
Highlights in Jazz: Remembering Erroll and Randy
The Erroll Garner Project: Christian Sands, Luques Curtis, Ulysses Owens Jr. A Tribute to Randy Weston, featuring T.K. Blue and the Alumni Band: Steve Turre, Neil Clarke, Alex Blake. 199 Chambers Street. $50
8PM
“Shaking Morning, by Wild She Dances”
Gibney
This work is an abstract exploration centered on themes of displacement, questioning what makes a home, and examining how loss, leaving, and new hopes can redefine the idea of home. “”Shaking Morning”” is a journey of chaos, familial bonds, survival, and is rooted in moments of tenderness, athleticism, and most of all, human connection. Wild She Dances is partnering with the International Rescue Committee, which advocates for the rights of refugees and immigrants, provides legal help for asylum seekers, and helps to place refugees in jobs, schools, and society. 280 Broadway $15-$20
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