Swamp in the City: A Cajun & Creole Music Festival
May 14, 2022 @ 11:00 am– 5:00 pm
Governors Island
Governors Island
New York NY
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Suggested Ages: All
Hear world-class Cajun & Creole bands in outdoor jam sessions on NYC’s picturesque island.
Online advance reservations required for the 8-minute ferry ride from Battery Maritime Building (10 South Street) & Red Hook. $3 for ages 13 & up; free for seniors & kids and everyone on Saturdays and Sundays before noon.
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Destination Cosmos: The Immersive Space Experience
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Optik & Roseaux
The Downtown Alliance’s Art Is All Around campaign returns with two newly installed interactive art pieces — “Optik” and “Roseaux.”
“Optik,” on display at Cortlandt Way, was created by the Urban Conga in collaboration with Serge Maheu. Rotate 10 movable gyroscope-like rings, each producing its own sounds and a spectrum of reflective colors, to create…
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Global Architecture III: Mosques
Learn about the features of Islamic architecture and designs that migrated from the mosque, even into skyscrapers. Look at interiors with beautiful domes and intricate patterned designs inspired by repeating geometric shapes, then design original patterned tiles.
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Jazz Age Lawn Party
Time travel to the twenties with dance lessons and performances, picnicking, vintage motorcar exhibitions, and carnival games all set to live jazz age music. A fun event for grown-ups and junior gents and flapperettes. Tickets sell out, so buy in advance.
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imagiNATIONS Activity Center
Solve puzzles, perform experiments, play state-of-the-art computer simulations and find out how corn is like a dog in this interactive, family-friendly space. Explore scientific principles behind Native innovations and technologies that are so ingenious, many remain a part of our daily lives.
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Battery Playscape
Explore a new playground with five ecology zones—Bluff, Marsh, Dune, Meadow, and Riverbed– in resilient design, post-Superstorm Sandy when the park survived the full force of the 15-foot storm surge and became a focal point of sea level rise. Lyrical patterns of water illuminate the portal, fence, and custom seating. Daylight filters through the punctuated…
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play:groundNYC’s The Yard
Get creative at a 50,000 square-foot adventure playground stocked with loose parts, tools and space for kids to play, imagine and dream big.
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