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Saturday May 17, 2025

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10 am – 1 pm

Mad Fun Farm Garden Volunteer Session

Ages: All
Environment
Family
Free

Mad Fun FarmEast Harlem

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Painting to Migratory Birdsongs

Wave HillRiverdale

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10 – 11:30 am

Young Herbalist Workshop

Ages: 5 – 12
Classes
Craft & DIY
Family

Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum

10:30 am – noon

Tour of Building A at the MADE Bush Terminal Campus

Ages: All
Family
Free
Tours

MADE BUSH TERMINAL

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11 am – 10 pm

“The Human Layer” gallery opening at Brooklyn Art Haus

Art
Free

Brooklyn Art HausWilliamsburg

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11 am – 3 pm

SUBMERGE Marine Science Festival

Pier 84 Hudson River Park

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11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Into the Shining Dark

Art
Free

Welancora GalleryBedford-Stuyvesant

Kite Festival

11 am – 3 pm

Kite Festival

Ages: All
Family
Festivals
Free

Pier 5 – Brooklyn Bridge Park

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11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: NYCxDESIGN

Ages: All
Art
Family
Free

St. PaulCobble Hill

dance parade

Noon – 7 pm

Dance Parade

Ages: All
Family
Free

Dance Parade New York

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Noon – 5 pm

Queens International Children’s Festival 2025

Ages: 5 – 8
Family
Free

Jamaica Performing Arts Center

Noon – 6 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk

Ages: 5 and up
Art
Classes
Family

Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the Waterfront

Beyond the Black Box Presents Juneteenth @ House of Yes by Kenny

1 – 7:30 pm

Beyond the Black Box presents The BBB Block Party!

Triskelion Arts Block

Beyond the Black Box Presents Juneteenth @ House of Yes by Kenny

1 – 7:30 pm

Beyond the Black Box presents The BBB Block Party

Triskelion Arts’ Block

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1 – 6 pm

Fresh Art Offers a Spring Burst of Inspiration at BWAC

Art
Free

Brooklyn Waterfront Artists CoalitionRed Hook

1:30 pm

17th of May Parade

Ages: All
Family
Festivals
Free

17th of May Parade

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2 – 4 pm

West African Dance Workshop with Live Drumming

Baobab: Tree of life by Beam Center

Spring has Sprung, Jefferson Market Garden

3 – 6 pm

Around the Parks: Manhattan!

Art
Free

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Satellite Collective Event

7 – 10 pm

Satellite Collective’s Tribeca Show 2025

Sunday May 18

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All day

Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade Center

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 Lobby

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Various

Waterfront Walks

Ages: All
Family
Free
Tours

Brooklyn Bridge Park

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10 am – 4 pm

The Big Nest

Wave HillRiverdale

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10 am – 1 pm

Family Art Project: Painting to Migratory Birdsongs

Wave HillRiverdale

Bash Bish Falls Remembered III

10:30 am – 4:30 pm

Nature’s Persistence: Recent Work by Shelley Haven

Art
Free

Derfner Judaica MuseumRiverdale

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11 am – 3 pm

Guggenheim Museum Free Sunday Funday

Ages: 3 and up
Art
Community
Family

GuggenheimUpper East Side

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 HausWilliamsburg

11 am – 2 pm

Lil’ Brunch Club

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11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Into the Shining Dark

Art
Free

Welancora GalleryBedford-Stuyvesant

Ad for volenteer day

11 am – 1 pm

Volunteer Garden Day @ 50 Cent Garden

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11 am – 6 pm

FAD Market: NYCxDESIGN

Ages: All
Art
Family
Free

St. PaulCobble Hill

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11:30 am – 1 pm

Tree Wonder Washington Square Park

Free

Washington Square Park English Elm (northwest corner)Greenwich Village

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