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Tibetan Buddhist temple offers donation-based activities every weekend in September
Minoa, N.Y. - Thekchen Choling Syracuse, a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Minoa, New York, is hosting a Medicine Buddha Vaidurya Healing Festival every weekend in September. All events are open to the public and are presented on a donation basis.
September 8–28 at The Chain Theatre in midtown NYC
The bi-annual festival will feature over 60 eclectic new shows, including dance, plays, storytelling, sketch comedy, solo performances, and musicals.
New York, N.Y. - Award-winning Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT) returns with their bi-annual Spark Theatre Festival NYC this fall with a bold new lineup of innovative and original works. Running from September 8–28 at The Chain Theatre, the three-week festival will showcase over 60 new pieces, including musicals, plays, solo performances, storytelling, dance, and sketch comedy.
New York Film Festival selections and Greek Film Expo 2025 round out slate of screenings for September and October; plus special guests added for previously announced Terence Davies retrospective
Astoria, New York, August 21, 2025 — Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) announces its slate of fall film screenings for September and October. In addition to the previously announced series Terence Davies: Time Present and Time Past, MoMI will present Nightmare Comedies, featuring wickedly funny movies that create worlds their characters wish they could wake up from, including 40th anniversary screenings of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours; the spooky-season series Dark Magic: Hexes and Haunts for Halloween, which will coincide with the release of a new anthology of Reverse Shot writing on scary movies; and a slew of special events…
Aug 22, 2025
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Aug 22, 2025
101st Airborne Reenactors Create Realistic Paratrooper Experience for C-47 Passengers September 6th
Farmingdale, NY (August 22, 2025) - American Airpower Museum continues its popular C-47 D-Day Living History Flight Experience on Saturday, September 6, 2025, commemorating the End of World War II 80th Anniversary. Passengers will fly in an original WWII Douglas C-47 Skytrain Troop Transport, and are joined by AAM’s living historians for a breathtakingly realistic and unforgettable recreation of what U.S. Paratroopers experienced in their quest to liberate Europe from Nazi fascism.
Aug 22, 2025
Bronx, NY — The Bronx Night Market — the cultural powerhouse that launched the Bronx foodie revolution — will shut down this fall after eight unforgettable years. The market, which created a stage for dozens of POC-owned micro businesses in the Bronx and across New York City, will host its final three events at Fordham Plaza on August 30, September 27, and October 25.
Saratoga Springs, N.Y. – Pitney Meadows Community Farm is excited to welcome a new year of Nurtured in Nature, an immersive after-school program that invites K–5 students to explore the rhythm of nature through hands-on science and mindfulness activities right here in the living classroom of our community farm.
Aug 22, 2025
New exhibition explores questions of becoming and belonging
August 23–July 19, 2026
Saratoga Springs, NY (August 22, 2025) — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College presents All These Growing Things, a year-long exhibition of contemporary and historical paintings, prints, textiles, photography, and sculpture from the Tang Museum collection that explores questions of becoming and belonging.
The countdown is on, and we’re getting ready to turn up the volume!
Staten Island, N.Y. - At the 45th Annual Richmond County Fair, we will be rocking all weekend long with performances by some of Staten Island’s favorite local acts and crowd-pleasing entertainers. Expect high-energy performances, local bands, and entertainment the whole family can enjoy, all set against the backdrop of NYC’s most unique living history village.
Seneca Falls and Auburn, N.Y. - Women’s Rights National Historical Park and Harriet Tubman National Historical Park will host “Equality Week,” the parks’ first joint public event, from August 26 to August 31, 2025. Coinciding with Women’s Equality Day on August 26, Equality Week will feature guest speakers, living history programs, family-friendly activities, and special exhibits – all centered around the theme of equality and the ongoing fight for equal rights. Special programs will be offered during regular park operating hours at both locations.
