Free events in New York City this weekend

List of shows

• Visual arts

  until Apr 30

  Homecoming: Chakaia Booker

  Chakaia Booker

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Apr 9

  Artists Choose Artists: The Socrates Annual Fellowship Anniversary

  Cynthia Alberto · Francheska Alcántara · Josué Guarionex · Xayvier Haughton · Vaishu Ilankamban · Manami…

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Nov 1

  Public Art Along Flushing Avenue: BUILD THE FUTURE by Peter Miller

  Peter Miller

  Brooklyn Navy Yard · Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Nov 1

  Homecoming: John Morse

  John Morse

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Jun 27

  Homecoming: Sanford Biggers

  Sanford Biggers

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Feb 8

  Homeroom: Artists Against the Bomb

  MoMA PS1 · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Music

  until Nov 8

  Josiah McElheny: Instrument Object

  Josiah McElheny

  The Kitchen · West Village, Manhattan

  • Music
  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Nov 1

  Lines of Survival: Living, Adapting, Imagining Tomorrow

  2026 Africa Soft Power Climate Change Storytelling Fellowship · Photo Essay Prize exhibition · presented ·…

  The Africa Center · East Harlem, Manhattan

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Nov 15

  Ecologies of Care

  Lizania Cruz

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Dec 6

  How We Work: Smack Mellon at 30

  Smack Mellon · DUMBO, Brooklyn

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Feb 8

  Teresa Margolles: En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene)

  Teresa Margolles

  MoMA PS1 · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Dance

  until Nov 7

  Martha Graham: The Mother of Psychological Dance

  New York Public Library for the Performing Arts · Lincoln Square, Manhattan

  • Dance
  • Visual arts

  Free

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• Visual arts

  until May 8

  Unleashed: Pets of the Performing Arts

  New York Public Library for the Performing Arts · Lincoln Square, Manhattan

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Music

  9 AM

  Sunday Greenmarket at Bartel-Pritchard Square

  Organization

  Prospect Park (Prospect Park Alliance) · Park Slope, Brooklyn

  • Music

  Free Tickets ↗

• Other

  9:30 AM

  Special Day

  New York Transit Museum · Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn

  Free Tickets ↗

• Music

  10 AM

  October Weekend Nature Exploration

  Organization

  Prospect Park (Prospect Park Alliance) · Park Slope, Brooklyn

  • Music

  Free Tickets ↗

• Visual arts

  11 AM

  Archtober Family Day

  Flushing Town Hall · Flushing, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free Tickets ↗

• Music

  11 AM

  Smorgasburg

  Organization

  Prospect Park (Prospect Park Alliance) · Park Slope, Brooklyn

  • Music

  Free Tickets ↗

• Music

  12 PM

  Exhibit: The Shirley Chisholm Way: Brooklyn’s Blueprint for Change

  Organization

  Prospect Park (Prospect Park Alliance) · Park Slope, Brooklyn

  • Music

  Free Tickets ↗

• Music

  12 PM

  Pop-Up Audubon I

  Organization

  Prospect Park (Prospect Park Alliance) · Park Slope, Brooklyn

  • Music

  Free Tickets ↗

• Music

  12 PM

  Pop-Up Audubon II

  Organization

  Prospect Park (Prospect Park Alliance) · Park Slope, Brooklyn

  • Music

  Free Tickets ↗

• Comedy

  3 PM

  Creep Mic

  Pete's Candy Store · Williamsburg, Brooklyn

  • Comedy

  Free

• Music

  3 PM

  The Riverside Strings and Bridgemusik Concert

  The Riverside Church · Morningside Heights, Manhattan

  • Music

  Free

• Music

  4 PM

  Join the Webb

  Alphaville · Bushwick, Brooklyn

  • Music
  • Poetry

  Free Tickets ↗

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• Other

  5 PM

  Adult Improv Class

  Q.E.D. Astoria · Astoria, Queens

  Free Tickets ↗

• Comedy

  5 PM

  Open Mic

  Pete's Candy Store · Williamsburg, Brooklyn

  • Comedy

  Free

• Music

  5:15 PM

  Organ Recital: Giovanni Solinas

  Giovanni Solinas

  Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue · Midtown, Manhattan

  • Music
  • Recital

  Free

• Comedy

  5:30 PM

  Comedy Mob Open Mic

  New York Comedy Club (Midtown) · Kips Bay, Manhattan

  • Comedy

  Free Tickets ↗

• Music

  6 PM

  Jack O Lantern Carving Contest

  Alphaville · Bushwick, Brooklyn

  • Music

  Free Tickets ↗

• Music

  7 PM

  Stereo Mandrax (FREE w/ RSVP) Paul Wallfisch • Secret Music Society • Anna Johnson

  Secret Music Society · Anna Johnson · Paul Wallfisch

  Pianos · Lower East Side, Manhattan

  • Music

  Free Tickets ↗

• Comedy

  8:30 PM

  Ladies' Mic

  Q.E.D. Astoria · Astoria, Queens

  • Comedy

  Free Tickets ↗

• Comedy

  10 PM

  Free Karaoke

  The Tiny Cupboard · Bushwick, Brooklyn

  • Comedy

  Free Tickets ↗

• Cabaret

  10 PM

  The Invasion: Lola Michele-Kiki Invades

  Lola Michele-Kiki · Octavia Anyae · Myster E Mel Kiki · TBOY

  The Stonewall Inn · West Village, Manhattan

  • Cabaret

  Free

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