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 Events
Chorister Festival Evensong

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Cathedral Church of St John the Divine
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Phone
212-316-7540 -
Website
http://stjohndivine.org/

Following today’s Diocesan chorister festival, join us for a festive Evensong service at 4 pm featuring singing by all the festival participants. All are welcome to attend, and no reservations are needed.
For more info on the chorister festival, visit the Diocese’s website.
Directing Thesis: Illusions

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Columbia University - Lenfest Center for the Arts
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Website
https://lenfest.arts.columbia.edu/

By Ivan Viripaev
Translated by Cazimir Liske
Directed by Andrew Freeburg
Showtimes
Thursday, January 26 @ 8pm
Friday, January 27 @ 8pm
Saturday, January 28 @ 2pm
Saturday, January 28 @ 8pm
Sunday, January 29 @ 2pm
Columbia University School of the Arts presents Illusions, a directing thesis production by current student Andrew Freeburg.
Ivan Viripaev’s Illusions is an exercise in collective storytelling about people you’ve never met. Two men and two women untangle the lives of two couples they’ve never met based on the traces they’ve left behind: a pile of broken lamps, tattered chairs, and overturned refrigerators, all left to rot and rust on a sidewalk. Except…who left them? Who were these couples? What have they left behind? And who have they left it for?
Content Warning
This production includes discussions of suicide, suicidal thoughts and drug use. For more detailed information about show content, including spoilers, please visit bit.ly/illusions-content.
Run Time
80 minutes
Featuring
Ryan Nicholas Cooper – SECOND MAN
Regina Famatigan – FIRST WOMAN
Shelby Flannery – SECOND WOMAN
Jonathan Taikina Taylor – FIRST MAN
Production Team & Crew
Director Andrew Freeburg (current student)
Production Stage Manager Cal Langston (current student)
Assistant Stage Manager Lingyi Wang (current student)
Co-Producer Kyra Armstrong (current student)
Co-Producer Joel Edwards (current student)
Lighting Designer Christina Tang
Costume Designer Marianne CD Needell
Scenic and Props Designer Thomas Jenkeleit
Sound Designer Angela Baughman
Company Manager Gillian Fu
Run Crew (current students): Drew Mindell, TuQuyen Pham, Danica Selem, Yejia Su, and Zeina AlBarkouky.
About the Artist
Andrew Freeburg is a designer, director, and translator. Before joining the Columbia directing program, he worked as a resident media designer with the Dmitri Krymov Laboratory. At Columbia, he translated and directed Chekhov’s Ivanov, and directed an adaptation of Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart. Design: George Kaplan (New Ohio Theater); Everybody (Santa Fe Playhouse); The Trojan Women, The View, Once on Rumspringa (Columbia University); Darling Grenadine (Roundabout Theatre Company, Goodspeed Musicals). BA, Yale University.
TICKETING
Register for free tickets here.
There is a limit of one (1) reservation per person and each reservation must be held in the name of the guest attending the event. Unfortunately, we are not able to accommodate late seating.
Child Abuse Identification and Reporting Workshop
Online
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Teachers College
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Columbia University
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Phone
212-854-1754 -
Website
http://www.columbia.edu/

Teachers College is a NYSED-Approved provider of the Child Abuse Identification and Reporting workshop, which is required for many administrative, teaching, and pupil-personnel certification areas. This learning experience will prepare you to recognize signs of child abuse and train you on your legal responsibilities as a mandated reporter. We are providing these workshops through a Zoom format for the of the Spring 2023 semester.
Time: 10am-12pm
Open to TC students, TC Alumni, and the general public; please register at www.tc.edu/cps.
- Saturday, January 7, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Sunday, January 29, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Sunday, February 5, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Sunday, February 19, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Sunday, March 5, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Saturday, March 11, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Sunday, April 2, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Sunday, April 30, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Saturday, May 6, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
Movement Speaks Free Outdoor In-Person Class

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Dances for a Variable Population
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347-683-2691 -
Website
www.dvpnyc.org

Venue
- Grant's Tomb
- West 122nd Street & Riverside Dr, New York, NY 10027
EVENT LINK
Exhibition – Crafting Freedom: The Life and Legacy of Free Black Potter Thomas W. Commeraw

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New York Historical Society
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Website
https://www.nyhistory.org/web/index.html

Venue
- New York Historical Society
- 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
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Website
https://www.nyhistory.org/
EVENT LINK
School Violence Prevention and Intervention Workshop

Teachers College is a New York State approved provider of the School Violence Prevention and Intervention Workshop, which is a requirement for many administrative, teaching, and pupil-personnel certification areas. We are providing these workshops through a Zoom format for the Spring 2023 semester.
Time: 12:45-2:45
Open to TC students, TC Alumni, and the general public; registration is required; please register at www.tc.edu/cps.
- Saturday, January 7, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, January 29, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, February 5, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, February 19, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, March 5, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Saturday, March 11, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, April 2, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, April 30, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Saturday, May 6, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
Riverside Choir Benefit Cabaret

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The Riverside Church in the City of New York

Venue
- The Riverside Church
- 490 Riverside Dr
EVENT LINK
A Toast to New Beginnings
With the Riverside year of “New Beginnings” underway, The Riverside Choir unveils its new benefit cabaret format! Hear Choir members up close and personal, with songs spanning the worlds of operetta, opera, Broadway, and the American songbook. Our program will celebrate music for popping corks and starting new chapters, so join us in a musical kickoff of 2023!
Congressman Adriano Espaillat’s State of the District 2023

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Congressmember Adriano Espaillat (NY 13)
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Website
http://espaillat.house.gov/

Venue
- The Forum at Columbia University
- 601 W. 125th St., New York, NY 10027
EVENT LINK
You are cordially invited to attend Congressman Adriano Espaillat’s Annual State of the District
Sunday, January 29th at 2:00 p.m.
Representative Adriano Espaillat Will Highlight Legislative Victories and Present His Legislative Overview for the 118th Congress
During this year’s in-person event, Rep. Espaillat will highlight his legislative accomplishments for New York’s 13th congressional district and present an overview of his legislative priorities for the 2023 calendar year and start of the 118th Congress.
WHO: Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13)
Special Guests to be announced soon!
WHAT: 2023 State of the District Address
WHEN: Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (doors open at 1:00 p.m.)
WHERE: The Forum at Columbia University, 601 W 125th Street, New York, NY 10027
Sunday Afternoon Carillon Recital

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The Riverside Church in the City of New York

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- Sakura Park
- West 122nd Street, between Riverside Drive & Claremont Ave.
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Featuring Charles Semowich, Carillonneur
The Riverside Church carillon, built in 1930, was a gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in memory of his mother. The worlds’ largest carillon by weight, the Riverside carillon contains 74 cast bronze bells. The Bourdon bell, weighing 40,000 pounds (ringing on the hour) is the largest tuned bell in the world. The bells swing a peal each Sunday at 10:20 a.m. The Carillon prelude follows at 10:30 a.m., and can be heard and viewed online as part of the Sunday morning Service of Worship.
Sunday afternoon recitals take place most weeks at 3:00 p.m. and can be best heard outdoors listening from Sakura Park, immediately north of Riverside Church on 122nd Street.
2023 Yosef Yerushalmi Annual Memorial Lecture: Sarah Abrevaya Stein

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Columbia University
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Phone
212-854-1754 -
Website
http://www.columbia.edu/

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- Columbia University - Kent Hall
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Website
https://www.iijs.columbia.edu/
EVENT LINK
Join us for the 2023 Yosef Yerushalmi Annual Memorial Lecture with award-winning author and historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein. This event will take place in person at the IIJS, 617 Kent Hall.
The picnic blanket is lumpy, the ants bite, the food is sandy: but you see so much more when you’re eating on the ground. The picnic and the portable camera came of age together in late and post Ottoman society, and “vernacular” picnic photographs are a ubiquitous feature of the Sephardic photo album. This essay converses with the children, women, men, and objects that appear in these images, considering how Sephardic Jews relaxed and ate in nature at a time when so much was shifting around them. It also asks whether the scattered, globally diasporic, family-owned archive of the Sephardic photo album can be united to restore a lived, dusty, lusty image of late and post-Ottoman Jewish life.
Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, and the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. The recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two National Jewish Book Awards, Stein is the author and editor of ten books, many of them award-winning. Her most recent books include Wartime North Africa: a Documentary History, 1934-1950 (Stanford University Press, with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2022) and Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century (FSG/Macmillan, 2019), which was named a Best Book of 2019 by The Economist and an Editor’s Choice Book by the New York Times Book Review.
Please register for this event at 2023 Yosef Yerushalmi Annual Memorial Lecture with Sarah Abrevaya Stein Tickets, Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 4:00 PM | Eventbrite.
Supported by the generosity of the Knapp and Kaye families.
While all IIJS events are free and open to the public, we do encourage a suggested donation of $10.
Sunday Organ Recital: David Briggs

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Cathedral Church of St John the Divine
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Phone
212-316-7540 -
Website
http://stjohndivine.org/

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- Cathedral of St. John the Divine
- 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, at W. 112th Street
EVENT LINK
Following Choral Evensong on select Sundays in the fall and spring, the Cathedral hosts distinguished organists from around the world in performance. These 5 pm recitals are free to the public and 45 minutes in length.
Entry to this performance is included with admission to the Cathedral. Read more on COVID-19 guidelines for all those joining us for in-person programs and events.
Exhibit. Ukraine in Ruins: 1941-42, 2022

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Columbia University - Harriman Institute
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212-854-4623 -
Website
http://harriman.columbia.edu/

Venue
- Columbia University - Harriman Institute Atrium
- 420 W 118th St, 12th Floor New York, NY 10027
EVENT LINK
About the Exhibit
The exhibit consists of 18 black and white acrylic-and-pen paintings, 9”x12”, on canvas sheets. Seven depict central Kyiv in ruins in 1941-1942, as a result of explosions set off by the retreating Soviets; the paintings were completed in mid-2021. Eleven depict Ukraine in ruins in 2022, as a result of Russia’s genocidal war; these were completed during the war, in 2022.
An exhibit opening reception will take place on January 25th, 2023. Learn more >>
About the Artist
Alexander J. Motyl is a painter, writer, and professor. His artwork has been shown in solo and group shows in New York, Philadelphia, Westport, and Toronto and is part of the permanent collection of the Ukrainian Museum in New York and the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in Winnipeg. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2008 and 2013, he is the author of eleven novels and a collection of poetry. He has done performances of his fiction at the Cornelia Street Café and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. He teaches political science at Rutgers University-Newark and is the author of eight academic books and numerous articles. He is the 2019 Laureate of the Omelian and Tatiana Antonovych Foundation. According to Academic Influence, Motyl was ranked sixth among the “Top Ten Most Influential Political Scientists Today.” Motyl served as Associate Director of the Harriman Institute from 1992 to 1998.
Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
January 17th, 2023 through March 10th, 2023
Location
Harriman Institute Atrium
420 W 118th St, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10027
Visitor Information
No registration or tickets required.