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Downtown TripPicks: Mar. 12 – Mar. 19

Trip by Skyscanner is an innovative planning tool that tailors recommendations for places to stay, eat and play to your specific tastes. It also allows you to share your great experiences with people who have the same interests as you; people in your “tribes.” Trip by Skyscanner’s TripPicks This Week feature empowers you to discover and take advantage of great events, openings and exhibits throughout the city each week.

Here are some exciting events and sites to check out this week in Downtown New York, courtesy of Trip by Skyscanner. Visit the Trip by Skyscanner site or download the app for more upcoming events.

Kinky Film Festival


The Kinky Film Festival asks viewers to explore the “wide diversity of sexuality” and desire. On the roster are documentaries, dramas, comedies and art house films that cut across orientations and range from mild to very spicy! Tickets start at $11.

Check site for complete list of location
Thursday, Mar. 14-Sunday, Mar. 18 (check site for showtimes)

Sober St. Patrick’s Day


Sober St. Patrick’s Day reclaims “the true spirit of the day” by celebrating Irish culture with music, dance, storytelling and live performances from a wide range of Irish masters. Tickets $12.61-$28.45.

St. Patrick’s Youth Center (Nolita)
Saturday, Mar. 17 from 4-7pm

Irish New York


Big Onion’s Irish New York tour that will take visitors to the “Little Ireland” district of Lower East Side to explores the sites and people that have contributed to the rich history of Irish immigrants in New York. $15-$25.

In front of St. Paul’s Chapel (Financial District)
Sunday, Mar. 18 at 12pm

The Narrowbacks


If you are looking a bit of craic (that’s Irish for fun) after the St. Patrick’s parade, you will find it with the electric Irish-American rock band The Narrowbacks. Tickets $25-$30.
Bowery Ballroom (Lower East Side)
Saturday, Mar. 17 at 7pm

Luck of the Irish St. Patrick’s Day Pub


May the luck of this Irish be with you on this Saint Paddy’s pub crawl.. It will be rowdy and crazy, and you’ll probably be covered in green magic dust, shamrock sparkles and colored beads, but it will no doubt be a heck of a night! Tickets $7.77-$20.

Check site for participating venues
Friday, Mar. 16-Sunday, Mar. 18 (check site for times)

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Downtown TripPicks: Feb. 19 – Feb. 26

Trip by Skyscanner is an innovative planning tool that tailors recommendations for places to stay, eat and play to your specific tastes. It also allows you to share your great experiences with people who have the same interests as you; people in your “tribes.” Trip by Skyscanner’s TripPicks This Week feature empowers you to discover and take advantage of great events, openings and exhibits throughout the city each week.

Here are some exciting events and sites to check out this week in Downtown New York, courtesy of Trip by Skyscanner. Visit the Trip by Skyscanner site or download the app for more upcoming events.

Winter Sports Screening Series


The indoor screening series, Pictures under the Palms at Brookfield Place, features super comfy seats, popcorn and a pre-show DJ set at 5:30pm. In the spirit of the Winter Olympics, you can check out “Battle of the Sexes” (2/20) and “Cool Runnings” (2/27). FREE

Brookfield Place (Battery Park)
Tuesday, Feb. 20 at 7pm

 

Living Memoir


Over 40 years of journal writing inform John Kelly’s powerful performance, “Time No Line.” Using text, movement, video, music, and live drawing, this “live memoir” details the artist’s personal experience of New York’s art scene in the 1980s. Tickets start at $20.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (East Village)
Thursday, Feb. 22-Sunday, Mar. 11 (check site for performance times)

 

A Seafood Feast with Gin


Lovers of gin and seafood will enjoy unlimited Bombay Sapphire cocktails and a 4-course meal that includes oyster shoots with Bombay Sapphire, Bombay Sapphire, dill and juniper cured wild salmon, Taylor Bay scallop crudo and other delicious seafood and gin combinations. The meal concludes with Bombay Sapphire infused Tipsy Scoop ice cream and Milène Jardine chocolates. $80.

Farmer and the Fish (Gramercy)
Tuesday, Feb. 20 from 7-10pm

 

The Future at the Rubin


This opening celebration will explore and challenge our ideas of time, as well as allow visitors a first-hand look at the museum’s 2018 exhibitions. FREE with museum admission (tickets start at $10).

Rubin Museum of Art (Chelsea)
Friday, Feb. 23 from 6-10pm

 

Kala’s Kimchi Class


Give your gut some of the good bacteria with a healthy dose of kimchi! Chef Kala will be teaching participants the basics and inspiring them to create their own unique version of this fermented, spicy goodness. $40

Check site for location (LES)
Tuesday, Feb. 20 from 7:30-9pm

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36th Annual Battery Dance Festival Begins This Weekend

Battery Dance presents the 36th Annual Battery Dance Festival, in association with Battery Park City Authority, with free performances beginning August 13th, 2017 through August 19th, 2017 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. These performances will take place against the breathtaking backdrop of New York Harbor at Robert F. Wagner Park in Battery Park City.

Battery Dance created its outdoor festival in 1982 as part of its engagement with its home community of Lower Manhattan where it has been based since its founding in 1976. Battery Dance connects the world through dance and is one of America’s leading cultural ambassadors.

They are committed to enhancing the cultural vibrancy of its home community in New York City, as well as extending programming throughout the U.S., and building bridges worldwide through international cultural exchange programs in 70 countries to date.

Today, the Battery Dance Festival is New York City’s longest-running free public dance festival. Each year, the festival seems to attract a combined audience of over 12,000 people. It provides a unique opportunity for both established and emerging dance companies to present original works of high artistic merit in a free public forum.

The festival celebrates the array of dance that our city offers, with a strong emphasis on the inclusion of diverse dance styles and an international roster of performers. American choreographers have presented their works as well as pre-eminent companies from Asia, Europe, South America, Africa, and the Caribbean.

Click here to find the featured artists and schedule and for more information on the Festival, click here.

To conclude the festival, there will be a closing event and reception on August 19th, 2017, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at The Schimmel Center at Pace University. Reception tickets are now available here.