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.
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF
SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE
1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street
New York, NY 10025
(212) 316-7540
info@stjohndivine.org
stjohndivine.org
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Cathedral Events
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/
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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.
Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) Training


Venue
- Allan Rosenfield Building
- 722 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032
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July 18-20 & July 25-27, 2025
Join us for two long weekends for the required 40 hours of training to become a Radiation Safety Officer (RSO)! This course meets the coursework training requirement for a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) type C license, providing the skills needed to successfully implement a radiation protection program in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, university, hospital, or medical laboratory setting.
The NRC requires any organization that uses radioactive material to have a licensed, designated Radiation Safety Officer (RSO). This course is designed to help such organizations apply for or renew their license for use of radioactive materials. The course is not intended to meet the licensing requirements for medical use of radionuclides or fluoroscopic imaging.
Course instructors, with faculty appointments at Columbia University and the Columbia University Medical Center, are experts in their fields. They include faculty from the Center for Radiological Research, the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, the Department of Medicine and the Department of Environmental Health & Safety. Learn more about the course instructors here.
Course Topics
- Radiation and radioisotopes
- The human health effects of ionizing radiation exposure
- Radiation dosimetry and instrumentation
- Radiation protection
- Safe handling and disposal of radioisotopes
- Inventory control
- Record keeping and regulatory requirements
- Transportation of radioactive materials
- Hazard and risk assessment, reduction, and communication
- Employee bioassay program
- Emergency management, personnel contamination, and response
Course Learning Objectives
- Develop RSO skill sets specific to University, Hospital, Medical, Health Department, Governmental or Biopharmaceutical lab environments
- Gain expertise in maintaining compliance with radionuclide permit and licensing requirements at local, state and national levels
- Create and maintain a safe laboratory working environment
- Assess potential radiation risks and relevant human health effects
- Develop work plan for employees to effectively reduce or eliminate risk
- Limit potential for radiological terrorism using laboratory materials
- Understand and apply Health Physics practice in a laboratory setting
- Learn management of radiological solid and liquid waste
- Understand regulatory requirements and expectations
- Gain hands-on experience with instrumentation
- Apply “tools of the trade” upon returning to your organization, with a comprehensive resource guide
Additional Information
- Subscribe for updates on new RSO Training details and regsitration deadlines.
- Contact Dr. Norman Kleiman, the director of the RSO Training Course.
Capacity is limited. Paid registration is required to attend.
July Summer Series: Fissures of Hope

July Summer Series at The Riverside Church
Fissures of Hope
Sundays | July 13, 20, 27 | 9:30 AM
In Room 20T & Online via Livestream
Join us for a powerful three-part summer series exploring how hope persists and emerges in the cracks of despair, injustice, and political uncertainty. Fissures of Hope brings together theological reflection and literary insight to help us imagine new possibilities in troubled times.
Session 1 – July 13
Valley of the Dry Bones: The Possibility of Hope in Impossible Times
With Dr. Andrea C. White & Ayana Mathis
Session 2 – July 20
Hope Against Hope: Resurrection Hope and Divine Promise
With Dr. Andrea C. White
Session 3 – July 27
The World’s Fast Burn: Hope in the Face of Political Upheaval
With Ayana Mathis
About the Presenters
Dr. Andrea C. White is Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at Union Theological Seminary, an ordained American Baptist minister, and the Theologian-in-Residence at The Riverside Church. Her teaching and research fashion a nexus between womanist theology, Black critical theory, and phenomenology. A sought-after preacher, scholar, and speaker, Dr. White has lectured across the U.S. and internationally on issues of race, gender, and faith. She has published extensively, including contributions to AAR’s Reflections, Theology Today, and edited volumes on womanist and global theologies. Dr. White has taught and preached many times at Riverside, and she and her husband, The Rev. Richard Landers, are members at Riverside, as are their children, Mara and Chloe Landers, who have shared their gifts as violinists and liturgists in worship.
Ayana Mathis is the author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and most recently, The Unsettled (available in our Riverside Bookstore), which was the inaugural winner of McSweeney’s Gabe Hudson Prize and a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s Legacy Award. The book was named a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of 2023 and included in year-end best lists from The New Yorker, Publisher’s Weekly, Oprah Daily, and Kirkus Reviews. Mathis received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and went on to become the first African-American woman to serve as an Assistant Professor in that program. She currently teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College. Deeply invested in the intersections of theology and literature, Mathis is a candidate for the Master of Arts in Religion with a concentration in Theology at Union Theological Seminary. Her current work reflects a growing focus on theology of the literary imagination, exploring how spiritual narratives are shaped—and reshaped—through storytelling and lived experience.
Over, Under, Through

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Summer on the Hudson
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Website
https://riversideparknyc.org/organizer/summer-on-the-hudson/

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Join The Movement Creative for a 6-week series to learn the basics of parkour. Build your strength, agility, coordination, and mobility with fun drills, partner exercises, and games to learn jumping, vaulting, swinging, and how to put it all together. Have a blast while getting strong!
Photography Exhibition: Into the Streets! New York City’s Pride March 1975 – 1976


Venue
- Hispanic Society Museum & Library
- Hispanic Society of America,3741 Broadway, New York, NY 10032
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“Out of the Closets! Into the Streets!: New York City’s Pride March, 1975-1976” opens to the public on May 8. Featuring 20 photographs by internationally-recognized multi-media artist @franciscoalvaradojuarez, this exhibition provides a window into the world of New York City’s early Pride marches, known at the time as the “Christopher Street Liberation Day March.” The marches served as a vital call for increased queer visibility at a time when New York still enforced so-called “sodomy laws” that targeted the LGBTQ+ community. Alvarado Juárez’s photos of the 1975 and 1976 marches showcase the racial and ethnic diversity of the early Pride parades and reveal the nuanced bonds of kinship formed among marchers from disparate backgrounds. Continuing the Hispanic Society’s commitment to exhibiting work by artists active in the local community, “Out of the Closets! Into the Streets!” constitutes the second installment of the annual series “Arte en el Alto Manhattan” which highlights artists residing in Upper Manhattan. Stay tuned for updates on special events and programming related to this exhibition.
May 8, 2025 – August 31, 2025
The Harlem Meer Performance Festival: Wula Drum


Venue
- Central Park Charles A. Dana Discovery Center
- East Side at 110th Central Park N, New York, NY 10029
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In West Africa, the djembe drum is used to bring people together for many purposes: to communicate, celebrate, and motivate. The djembe, a cultural lineage that goes back hundreds of years, is for all humanity to experience. Through the djembe, expression, mindfulness, and joy are cultivated.
Reproductive Freedom Summer 2025

Come together to learn and take action!
Join us at monthly online panel discussions that will highlight key questions in the movements to defend bodily autonomy and reproductive rights. Speakers from different organizations and regions will discuss issues of concern and how to take action.
June 15 – Bodily Autonomy! Trans and Reproductive Rights United
July 20 – Intersections of Reproductive and Disability Justice
August 17 – Voices from Embattled States
3pm PDT/4pm MDT/5pm CDT/6pm EDT on Zoom
Register at tinyurl.com/ReproSummer
Hosted by the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice www.ReproJusticeNow.org • info@ReproJusticeNow.org
Sunday Evening Jazz


Venue
- Patrick's on the Hill
- 1635 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10031
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Website
https://www.patricksonthehill.com/
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Pre-Show to The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Memnon

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The Classical Theatre of Harlem
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https://www.cthnyc.org/

Venue
- Marcus Garvey Park
- Madison Ave, E. 120 St. to E. 124 St.
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Members of The Harlem Chamber Players will perform a pre-show concert from 7-7:50 PM featuring classical, tango, jazz, and pop music. Hang out and check out the pop-up markets in Marcus Garvey Park, and stay and enjoy the 8:30 PM show, Will Power’s MEMNON, the East-Coast Premiere, presented by the Classical Theatre of Harlem.
For more information about The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s production of MEMNON click here.
TICKETS
This event is FREE and open to the public. Click here or on the button below to RSVP.
Amplified Sundays featuring Slavic Soul Party!

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Summer on the Hudson
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212-870-3089 -
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Summeronthehudson@gmail.com -
Website
https://riversideparknyc.org/organizer/summer-on-the-hudson/

Venue
- Riverside Park - Pier I
- 500 W 70th St On the Hudson River
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Vibrant live music accompanied by spectacular sunsets over the Hudson River.
- July 6 Loboko / guitar-driven Congolese soukous
- July 13 Spanglish Fly / irresistible boogaloo grooves
- July 20 Slavic Soul Party! / fiery Balkan brass
- July 27 Grupo Rebolú / unique reinterpretations of Afro-Columbian rhythms
Fiery Balkan brass, irresistible beats, Roma accordion wizardry, and virtuoso jazz chops make Slavic Soul Party! NYC’s official #1 brass band for BalkanSoul GypsyFunk. These nine musicians pump the sounds of New York life through a Balkan brass filter, making new music out of immigration, integration, and ingenuity. The band’s legendary Tuesday night residency in Brooklyn has become a destination for music fans from around the world, and is famous for “delivering a great time.” (New York Times) Their seventh album “Extended Play” (Diskonife) was released in November 2025.
Summer on the Hudson events are free and open to the public. Seating is limited, unreserved, and available on a first-come, first-served basis. If there is heavy rain at the time of the event, the event will be canceled. For weather updates, check nyc.gov/parks/soh 2 hours before the event.
MEMNON | Uptown Shakespeare in the Park

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The Classical Theatre of Harlem
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Website
https://www.cthnyc.org/

Venue
- Marcus Garvey Park
- Madison Ave, E. 120 St. to E. 124 St.
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The Classical Theatre of Harlem presents Will Power’s MEMNON, the East-Coast Premiere
An exhilarating new epic resurrects the story of Memnon, the Ethiopian king and demigod who rides to Troy’s defense, through Will Power’s rhythmic verse, pulse-quickening choreography and music. Fresh from a celebrated debut at the Getty Villa, MEMNON re-imagines a lost chapter of the Trojan War.
MEMNON
Written by Will Power
Conceived by Will Power & Carl Cofield
Directed by Carl Cofield
Choreographed by Tiffany Rea-Fisher
Performance Schedule
July 5 – 27, 2025
Tuesday – Sunday · 8 : 30 PM
Richard Rodgers Amphitheater, Marcus Garvey Park (enter at Mt Morris Park W & 122 St), Harlem, NYC
- Price: Free
- Reservations: Strongly encouraged—walk-ups admitted as space allows.
- PLEASE NOTE: Seats are not guaranteed.
Preshow dates:
Preshow performances start at 7 PM on July 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27. See the preshow schedule.
Pay-What-You-Can Summer Creative Writing Workshops


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- Uptown Stories
- 178 Bennett Ave NY NY 10040
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Website
https://www.uptownstories.org/
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Uptown Stories’ summer is here, and we’ve got weeks of excitement, thrills, and storytelling adventures.
The Nature of Poetry will have you exploring everything the parks of upper Manhattan have to offer. The Elements of Fiction and Creating Otherworlds are back and ready to guide you to new places of your own creation. If you’ve mastered the basics, you can keep upping your writing game in Advanced Fiction. If you prefer to draw your story, Anime: IKŌ! is the way to GO! And we’re so excited for our new digital journalism class, Scoop, There It Is!
Get ready for your best summer yet. All you need to do is decide: how many stories will your summer hold?
As always, all workshops are Pay-What-You-Can for every family — no exceptions, no proof of income needed.