Thursday, August 1
8am-3pm
Bowling Green Greenmarket
Foot of Broadway
1pm-3pm
Craft Studio
200 Rector Place
Craft sessions for seniors. Free.
6pm
Fresh Prints
South Street Seaport Museum, Bowne & Co., 209 Water Street
This open house will feature printing equipment that participants can use. Established in 1775, the original Bowne & Co., Inc. was one of New York’s oldest printing firms. Today’s Bowne & Co. continues the age-old tradition of job (or small batch) printing. Advanced registration is encouraged but walkups will be accommodated as possible. Ages 12 and up. Free.
6:30pm
River & Blues: Abraham Alexander
Rockefeller Park
World-class blues-inspired music. Free.
6:30pm
Liars
McNally Jackson, 4 Fulton Street
Book reading. Sarah Manguso presents Liars, in conversation with Lyz Lenz. When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live a successful, creative life, and to be happy. But Jane finds herself subsumed by John’s ambitions, whims, and ego, and as her career flourishes, their marriage starts to falter. Liars is a tour de force of wit and rage.
7pm
Film Screening: The House On Wannsee Street
Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place
When award-winning Argentinean filmmaker Poli Martínez Kaplun decided to dig into her family history, she found long-forgotten images of her great grandfather, who she learned was a German-Jewish philosopher persecuted by the Nazis. To save his family from the concentration camps, he was forced to flee Berlin and moved to Egypt, then Switzerland, and finally Argentina, where his family hid their Jewish identity. Poignant questions of identity, resilience, compassion, and the plight of displaced persons are brought to life. $10 suggested donation.
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