Over 125 years old, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine is the largest cathedral in the world. It is the “mother church” of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the seat of its Bishop. The church is chartered as a house of prayer for all people and as a unifying center of intellectual light and leadership.
While Cathedrals traditionally do not have their own congregations, St. John the Divine is home to the Congregation of Saint Saviour, which operates independently from the Cathedral. The congregation has approximately 400 members. Information about services and times can be found below. Furthermore, all those who would like to attend worship services and anyone seeking a place for prayer or meditation will be welcomed without charge. For sightseeing, visit the admissions page to learn more.
Like the great Medieval cathedrals and churches of the world, St. John the Divine is unfinished and will continue to be constructed over many centuries. Currently, funding is mostly directed towards maintaining the architectural integrity of the Cathedral and prioritizing serving the community through programming and social initiatives.
Some of St. John’s community initiatives include the soup kitchen (which serves roughly 25,000 meals annually), the distinguished Cathedral School (which prepares young students to be future leaders), Adults and Children in Trust (a renowned preschool, afterschool and summer program), and the outstanding Textile Conservation Lab (which preserves world treasures). The Cathedral also organizes several yearly concerts, exhibitions, performances and civic gatherings to allow for conversation, celebration, reflection and remembrance—such is the joyfully busy life of this beloved and venerated Cathedral.
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Cathedral News

This Sunday kicks off our Sunday Organ series for the Spring! Following 4 pm Eve…
This Sunday kicks off our Sunday Organ series for the Spring! Following 4 pm Evensong on select Sundays, the Cathedral hosts distinguished organists from around

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February is when the dappling is at it’s brightest in the Cathedral, climb a little closer to the light by taking one of our self-guided

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This is the last Tuesday in the Organ Series! Join us for a free organ recital by Artist in Residence David Briggs. We’ll see you
Cathedral Events
Mid-Winter Climate Institute 2025


Venue
- Teachers College, Columbia University
- 525 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
Dates: Feb 18 – Feb 20, 2025
Time: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM ET
Description: Join the Midwinter Climate Institute, a comprehensive program designed to equip K-12 educators with multidisciplinary instructional content and resources for integrating climate education across subjects. This institute fosters collaboration, connecting educators and schools to exchange best practices and providing tangible support for bringing climate topics into the classroom. Ideal for teachers seeking innovative tools and a supportive network to enhance climate education.
Legal Colloquium: The New Climate Fiduciaries

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Venue
- Columbia Law School
- 435 W. 116 St., New York, NY 10027
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
Explore the FULL AGENDA to learn more about the panel topics and speakers.
PLEASE NOTE: This is an in-person event but will also be livestreamed.
- To attend in person please register by clicking the blue ‘RESERVE YOUR SEAT‘ below. IDs will be checked against all registered names, to enter the building.
- To attend virtually, use this ZOOM LINK. You will be asked to register your name, email and affiliation after which the link will be sent to you from ‘Columbia Law Zoom D.’.
In response to the growing threat of climate change, corporate managers have faced increasing pressure from investors, customers, and regulators to reduce corporate contributions to climate change and adapt their business to consider climate-related risks. At the same time, civil society organizations and “activist investors” have increasingly sought legal tools to force private sector action on climate change, while the “anti-ESG” political movement has sought to prevent private organizations and asset managers from considering climate risks entirely. These discussions have frequently centered on one key element of corporate governance: fiduciary duties.
On February 21, 2025, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School in partnership with ECGI will host a four-panel colloquium at Columbia Law School in New York, NY centered on these issues. This colloquium will bring leading legal scholars, practitioners, asset managers and corporate fiduciaries together to address debates and recent developments in corporate climate law, and to discuss the role of fiduciary duties in helping, or hindering, corporate climate action.
The conference will feature opening remarks from Brad Lander, New York City Comptroller, and keynote speaker The Hon. Leo E. Strine, Jr. (Former Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court).
10th Annual Harlem Gymnastics Invitational

The Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation (WHGF) announces the return of its Harlem Gymnastics Invitational (HGI) for the 10th year, taking place from Friday, February 21 to Sunday, February 23, 2024 from 9 AM to 6 PM each day. The competition will feature all levels of gymnasts competing in Rhythmic Gymnastics, Trampoline & Tumbling and Girls’ Artistic Gymnastics at the 50,000 square foot Historic Harlem Armory.
The event is free to the community but spectators must fill the entry form provided here. For more information, please visit https://wendyhilliard.org/what-we-do/hgi/.
Chronic Disease Epidemiology Unit Seminar


Venue
- Columbia University - Hammer Health Science Building
- 701 West 168th Street
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
Social Determinants of Cardiometabolic Health Among Populations of the African Diaspora
Friday, February 21, 2025
12:00-1:00pm
Lunch will be served.
Tiffany Gary-Webb, PhD, MHS
Professor of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health
Faculty Fellow, Office of The Provost
ZOOM:
https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/j/96300272980
IN-PERSON LOCATION:
Hammer Health Sciences Building
Room: LL-209 A/B
701 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
Mid-winter Break Drop-In Activities: Jackie Robinson and Black Baseball

Let’s Play Ball! Celebrating the 80th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s signing with the legendary Kansas City Monarchs, join us at the Jackie Robinson Museum to explore the history, impact, and legacy of Black baseball—from the 19th century to the height of the Negro Leagues and in the game today — through intergenerational tours, games, and activities.
Join us anytime between 12:00 and 3:00 PM for ongoing activities including a museum scavenger hunt; educator stations highlighting the history of Black baseball; interactive games; photo stations; story time and more! Drop-in activities are designed for kids (ages 5 and up) and their grown-ups.
Engaged Buddhism as Ecodharma – Caring Deeply for Ourselves and Our World


Venue
- Union Theological Seminary
- 3041 Broadway at 121st Street, New York, NY 10027
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
Dates/Times: Friday, February 21 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Saturday, February 22 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: In-Person
Instructor: Kaira Jewel Lingo
Registration Deadline: Friday, February 7th
Learn about and practice key elements of engaged Buddhism with a particular emphasis on how we can meet this moment of climate collapse and polycrisis. We will experience how a spiritual discipline grounded in compassion and the wisdom of interbeing can support us to take meaningful action and avoid burnout as we respond to the cry of the Earth and all her children. We will look deeply into the ways we reinforce—and can also learn to challenge and shift—patterns of hierarchy in thought, word and deed, among humans of different genders, races, economic backgrounds, cultures, and other identities as well as between humans and the more than human world. This is the movement from othering to belonging, releasing the idea that others are our enemies. Even as we speak out against injustice and oppression we keep our hearts open to the humanity inherent in us all and our fundamental capacity to transform. The course will be experiential with a focus on embodied practices of relaxation, nurturing joy and resilience, calling in the ancestors, relational mindfulness, movement and song, inviting in the imaginal and unseen realms, and leaning into the group body. We will ground in ceremony, creating a sacred space that allows us to grieve, forgive, connect with our deepest intentions and grow fierce compassion to engage with the full scope of our hearts in our world.
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher with a lifelong interest in blending spirituality and meditation with social justice. Having grown up in an ecumenical Christian community where families practiced a new kind of monasticism and worked with the poor, at the age of twenty-five she entered a Buddhist monastery in the Plum Village tradition and spent fifteen years living as a nun under the guidance of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. She received Lamp Transmission from Thich Nhat Hanh and became a Zen teacher in 2007, and is also a teacher in the Vipassana Insight lineage through Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Today she sees her work as a continuation of the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh as well as the work of her parents, inspired by their stories and her dad’s work with Martin Luther King Jr. on desegregating the South. In addition to writing We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption, and co-author of Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy and Liberation. She is also the editor of Thich Nhat Hanh’s Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children. Now based in New York, she teaches and leads retreats internationally, provides spiritual mentoring to groups, and interweaves art, play, nature, racial and earth justice, and embodied mindfulness practice in her teaching. She especially feels called to share the Dharma with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, as well as activists, educators, youth, artists, and families. Visit kairajewel.com to learn more.
Kernochan Center Art Law Symposium: The New Deal in Art

The Kernochan Center invites you to the 2025 Art Law Symposium — The New Deal in Art: Structuring Agreements for a Billion-Dollar Industry. We will bring together artists, collectors, dealers, museum administrators and attorneys to discuss how contracts, once shied away from, are now not only more prevalent but evolving to adapt to a changing art market. Please join us at 1:00 PM on Friday, February 21st for an examination of what stakeholders are looking for in these documents, and how (and if) legal agreements are a solution in an industry adapting to the new ways art is created, bought, and sold.
Reception to follow.
Contact Information
Fridays in Harlem: Curated Harlem Art Stroll


Venue
- Refettorio Harlem @ Emanuel AME Church
- 37 W 119th Street New York, NY 10026
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Website
https://www.refettorioharlem.org/
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
FRIDAYS IN HARLEM: Curated Harlem Art Strolls is a guided walk to selected art galleries, spaces and sites in Harlem.
Join us begin on select Fridays for about an hour. Minimum Group of 6 people.
Everything We Need is Already Here


Everything We Need is Already Here
Eco-creative strategies for a climate changed future.
A discussion and exchange led by Tanja Beer and Lisa Woynarski
Friday, February 21, 2025 – 6-7:30 PM, Barnard Design Center
Sponsored by the Barnard College Department of Theatre and made possible by the Dasha Amsterdam Epstein fund for visiting scholars and artists. Co-sponsored by the Barnard Office of Sustainability and the Barnard Design Center.
This event will focus on how creativity can be mobilized as an agent of change to support social and ecological justice in a time of crisis. There will be an emphasis on how case studies from theatre and performance can have wider applications in climate justice work, for example how the principles of place-based, circular, and regenerative practice can be applied to theatre making as well as in non-theatrical climate contexts.
Tanja Beer (Australia) will discuss her work in bringing theatre and ecology together through The Living Stage — a global initiative that combines stage design, horticulture and community engagement to create recyclable, biodegradable, edible and biodiverse performance spaces. Part theatre, part garden and part food growing demonstration, The Living Stage engages people in developing a greater understanding and appreciation of the living world. The co-created community grown spaces become the setting for performing and celebrating ecological stories, before being circulated back into the communities that helped grow them: physical structures become garden beds and community spaces; plants become food; and waste becomes compost. A central focus of The Living Stage is to bring a regenerative focus to theatre making that creates opportunities for thrive-ability across more-than-human systems.
Lisa Woynarski (Canada/UK) will discuss case studies from her forthcoming book Performing Urban Ecologies (Cambridge). Pervasive future ecological visions of cities are often built on representations on apocalypse, natural disasters destroying urban environments. These representations of apocalypse can foreclose the possibilities of other imagined futures. In this presentation, Woynarski looks at performances that ask: what happens if we reject the apocalyptic future of the city in favour of different stories? How can we live together in more just and ecological ways? This presentation focuses on how performances can imagine the urban futures in hopeful and optimistic ways based on community action, climate justice and regeneration.
Bios:
Tanja Beer is an ecological designer and community artist who is passionate about co-creating social spaces that accentuate the interconnectedness of the more-than-human world. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Queensland College of Art and Design and the Co-Director of the Performance and Ecology Research Lab (P+ERL) at Griffith University, Australia. Tanja’s extensive career is based on over 20 years of theatre practice in Australia, Europe and the UK. Her concept of Ecoscenography has been featured in numerous programs, exhibitions, articles and platforms around the world. She is the author of Ecoscenography: An Introduction to Ecological Design for Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and the Lead Investigator on the Australian Research Council Linkage Project, Culture for Climate: Harnessing Eco-Creativity to Transition Australia’s Performing Arts to Environmental Sustainability (2023-2027).
Lisa Woynarski (she/her) was born on traditional Anishinabewaki territory in Ontario, Canada. She is of white European settler/immigrant ancestry. She is now an immigrant herself as well as Associate Professor in Theatre in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading, UK. As a performance-maker and scholar, her work connects performance and ecology, from an intersectional lens, foregrounding decolonisation. She is the author of Ecodramaturgies: Theatre, Performance and Climate Change (Palgrave, 2020) and the forthcoming Performing Urban Ecologies (Cambridge). She is the co-lead on the Arts Council England funded Work in Progress, working with artists on developing work on themes of decolonisation, ecology and landscape.
Note to attendees: Barnard College’s campus security policy requires pre-registration for all non-ID holders. Photo ID and registration confirmation must be presented to security guards for entrance.
NYC Parks Arts, Culture, and Fun Presents – In Concert: Mala Waldron Solo


Venue
- Jackie Robinson Park Recreation Center
- 85 Bradhurst Ave., New York, NY 10039
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
Mala Waldron is a vocalist/pianist/composer born in NYC and balances shows in the tri-state area with tours in Europe and Asia. As a band leader, Mala has performed at many esteemed NYC venues including the Jazz Standard, Dizzy’s, 55 Bar, BAM Cafe, and Minton’s Playhouse to name a few.
Upcoming Concert: Mala Waldron Solo will be held on Friday, February 21, 2025, 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. at the Jackie Robinson Recreation center, 85 Bradhurst Ave., NYC 10039. To RSVP, please email Richard.Martinez@parks.nyc.gov; this event is FREE and open to the public.
MSM Musical Theatre: The Threepenny Opera

Organizer
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Manhattan School of Music
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Phone
917-493-4428 -
Email
boxoffice@msmnyc.edu -
Website
http://www.msmnyc.edu

Venue
- The Riverside Theatre
- 91 Claremont Avenue, between 120th and 121st streets
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
FEB 21 | FRI
7:30 PM
FEB 22 | SAT
2 & 7:30 PM
FEB 23 | SUN
2 PM
MSM MUSICAL THEATRE
The Threepenny Opera
Music by Kurt Weill
Book and Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht
Banji Aborisade, Director and Choreographer
Andrew Gerle, Music Director
Talk back immediately following the Sunday performance
Tickets Required – More information coming soon!
$15 adults, $10 non-MSM students and seniors
The Riverside Theatre
91 Claremont Avenue
New York, New York 10027
Blues Jam


Venue
- Jazz at Lincoln Center
- 10 Columbus Cir, New York, NY 10023
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
An unforgettable evening celebrating the soulful and electrifying power of the blues. Featuring blues aficionado and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra saxophonist Sherman Irby alongside an all-star lineup including Chester “CT” Thompson (Santana) and Deshawn Alexander on B-3 organ; Christone “Kingfish” Ingram on guitar and vocals; vocalist Ledisi 2025 Grammy-nominated guitarist Ruthie Foster drummer Adam Deitch (Lettuce); pedal steel guitarist Roosevelt Collier (Jelly Roll); and guitarist Chris Bergson.