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ARTS & CULTURAL PROGRAMS

The Center is your cultural home base, and has been at the heart of New York City’s LGBT community since our earliest days. From our long-running Second Tuesday lecture series to premieres, panels and performances, we attract notable public figures from the arts, politics and academia to create, connect and celebrate with you.

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Center arts and cultural programs are made possible by a grant from The Kors Le Pere Foundation.

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Upcoming Events

LIVES IN TRANSITION: LGBTQ SERBIA
BY SLOBODAN RANDJELOVIĆ
ON EXHIBIT THROUGH FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The Center is proud to partner on the powerful exhibit “Lives in Transition: LGBTQ Serbia” by Slobodan Randjelović. Part of the ongoing series of photobooks published by The New Press with the Arcus Foundation and Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios on queer communities around the world, “Lives in Transition: LGBTQ Serbia” is a stunning portrait of a community battling discrimination in Serbia.

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KIDDING AROUND WINTER CARNIVAL
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2019, 11 A.M.

Come one, come all, to our fabulous winter carnival! There will be no limit to the fantastically fun activities at this big top extravaganza. Kids can take their chances at ring toss, disc toss and can-drop games to try and win big. And it wouldn’t be a carnival without face painting. Guests will transform into little lions, tigers and bears (and more!). Finally, round out the day by capturing the memories with a caricature artist portrait.

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CENTER READS “BERTRAM COPE’S YEAR” BY HENRY BLAKE FULLER
TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2019, 8 P.M.

In 1918, when Henry Blake Fuller was 62 years old, he completed the manuscript of a novel, “Bertram Cope’s Year.” Though Fuller was well known as an accomplished realist and had published 12 previous novels, this work was his first published fiction to address the topic of homosexuality.

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METANOIA: TRANSFORMATION THROUGH AIDS ARCHIVES AND ACTIVISM
OPENING RECEPTION ON MARCH 11, 2019, 5 P.M.
EXHIBIT RUNS MARCH 11-APRIL 29, 2019

“Metanoia” is an archival examination of community-based responses to the ongoing AIDS crisis in the USA. The exhibition’s title is of Greek origin and expresses the possibility of change through transformation.

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BROADWAY BACKWARDS
MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2019, 8 P.M.
THE NEW AMSTERDAM THEATRE

Beloved show tunes will get a fresh perspective when Broadway Backwards returns with gender-reversed and star-studded twists on classic and modern favorites.

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NEWFEST AT THE CENTER PRESENTS “THE MOST DANGEROUS YEAR”
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2019, 7 P.M.

In this urgent and galvanizing documentary, director Vlada Knowlton focuses on the response from a group of families with transgender kids in Washington State who joined the fight against the wave of discriminatory anti-transgender legislation.

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NYFOS NEXT: LAURA KAMINSKY & FRIENDS ON STONEWALL
TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019, 7:30 P.M.

5 Boroughs Music Festival (5BMF), New York Festival of Song and The Center present this unique salon of contemporary songs by LGBT identified composers and librettists, curated by composer Laura Kaminsky.

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MANNING THE CANON: SONGS OF GAY LIFE
TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 2019, 7:30 P.M.

This beloved program returns after its 2009 premiere in 5BMF’s third season and subsequent revival on the NYFOS mainstage. NYFOS Artistic Director Steven Blier, pianist, leads a stellar quartet of vocalists in this celebrated musical portrait of life, love and loss in the world of gay men.

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