🎬 The Truman Show
8pm | Bryant Park | Free
🤖 Robert Wright in Conversation with Bruce Feiler: Humanity, AI, and The God Test
7:30pm | Warburg Lounge, 92NY: Lexington Ave at 92nd St, Manhattan | $25
“What does the rise of AI reveal about us — not just our technology, but our humanity? Could it give our species a new sense of purpose? Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Wright joins bestselling author Bruce Feiler for a provocative conversation about Wright’s new book, The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and our Coming Cosmic Reckoning — a sweeping study of AI as an evolutionary force posing deep political, moral, and even spiritual challenges.”
🕺 Intro to House: Steps and Beyond w/ Sama Bajonero Moreno
5:30–8:30pm | The People’s Forum: 320 West 37th St, Manhattan | $44.52
“This one-day dance workshop brings club culture to the studio with an immersion into the music, footwork, and history of house. The session starts with a warm-up before introducing foundational steps, building to a combination, and circle drills to play with levels, speed, and direction of movement.”
🚇 NYC in Transit: SPEEDY
6:45pm | Film Forum: 209 West Houston St, Manhattan | $18 ($12 members)
“Opening night of NYC in Transit, a repertory series celebrating the New York Transit Museum’s 50th anniversary — tonight, Harold Lloyd’s 1928 silent comedy Speedy, paired with the short In the Footsteps of Speedy.” Series continues weekly Tuesdays through Sept 29.
🗣️ The Origin of the Word (Free Public Talk)
6:30pm| National Academy of Design: 519 W 26th St (2nd floor), Manhattan | Free
“Presented by School for Poetic Computation and hosted by The National Academy of Design. A public talk by Melanie Hoff, teacher of Consensual Hacking, exploring language, connection, and intimacy across digital and social systems — reflecting her workshop’s focus on consent, boundaries, and relational technologies.”
🍵 Rare Tea From Unexpected Regions: Tasting With Anna Ye
6–7:30pm | In Pursuit of Tea Studio: 112 West 17th St, Manhattan | $49.87
“Tea is grown in more than 60 countries around the world, and there’s a lot to taste beyond the usual suspects made in China, India, and Japan. Join us for an intimate talk and tasting with Vietnamese tea specialist Anna Ye about teas from the regions less traveled — single origin brews from Vietnam, Thailand, and the Republic of Georgia, plus conversation on the challenges of working with farmers in developing tea regions.”
🦉 Wild Inside (World Premiere)
7:30pm lawn opens (film 8:30) | Central Park — Great Hill, Manhattan | Free
“Sandbox Films presents the world premiere of Penny Lane’s Wild Inside, the story of Flaco the Owl: a Eurasian Eagle-Owl who escapes the Central Park Zoo and sets off on a magical odyssey through Manhattan, overcoming his years of captivity to discover he was wild inside all along.”
🎬 2nd Screening: Strange Animations at Ornithology Rooftop
8:30pm | Ornithology Jazz Club: 6 Suydam St, Brooklyn | $22.47
“Live scored animations presented by Aesop's Sound Fables on the rooftop of Ornithology Jazz Club, featuring guitarists Mike Nowotarski and Cole Makuch, curated by Mostafa Ebrahim.”
🧵 Embroidery as Memory w/ Nicole Montgomery
5:30–8:30pm | The People’s Forum: 320 West 37th St, Manhattan | $44.52
“This embroidery workshop is for participants to build an understanding of basic stitches while exploring the role of hand-sewing in history. After a technical demonstration, the session will focus on stitchmaking as a form of storytelling.”
🎶 Sounds of Global Liberation: Launch w/ Khasso Arts
8pm–2am | Honey’s Brooklyn: 99 Scott Ave, Brooklyn | $10–50 sliding scale
“Launch of a new collaborative series devoted to sonic artists and archivists who keep us tethered to the sounds and histories of resistance that bonded and sustained people — recontextualizing sounds we often hear at the club, as a sample, or in other disembodied forms. Opens with Khasso Arts, a multi-instrumentalist with roots in Mali, Senegal, and Jamaica, facilitating a traditional West African dance class, a discussion with Cultural Solidarity Project on the anti-colonial history in the sound and dance, and live performances by FoReign DestinÉtion Arkestra.”
📚 Samantha Paige Rosen: Living, Together
7–8pm | Books Are Magic, Montague: 122 Montague St, Brooklyn | $10–30
“21 writers and organizers on chosen family, hacking adulthood, and other lessons communal living can teach us about the future of housing in America. Samantha Paige Rosen is joined in conversation by Alex Alberto, Sarah Thankam Mathews, and Mia Arias Tsang , three of the anthology’s contributors, on carving out spaces of communal connection in a “3-bed, 2-bath starter home culture.”"
🎬 AAIFF49 Opening Night: Levitating
5:30pm doors (film 6:30) | Asia Society and Museum: 725 Park Ave, Manhattan | $25
“The 49th Asian American International Film Festival (through Aug 9) opens with the New York City premiere of Levitating, directed by Wregas Bhanuteja: in a town where pleasure equals being possessed by spiritual beings, Bayu aspires to become the shaman of a trance party to fundraise enough money to prevent an impending eviction. Followed by a Q&A with the director.”
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