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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

METANOIA: TRANSFORMATION THROUGH AIDS ARCHIVES AND ACTIVISM
EXHIBIT RUNS THROUGH 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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METANOIA: EXHIBITION TOUR
MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2019, 7 P.M.

Join curators for a tour of The Center’s newest exhibition, “Metanoia: Transformation Through AIDS Archives and Activism.” Each member will dive deep and discuss how they came across archives at both the ONE Archives Foundation Inc. and at The Center’s Archives.

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CENTER READS “LESS” BY ANDREW SEAN GREER
TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2019, 8 P.M.

A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as “inspired, lyrical,” “elegiac” and “ingenious,” as well as “too sappy by half,” “Less” shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.

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SECOND TUESDAY PRESENTS
“STONEWALL: A BUILDING. AN UPRISING. A REVOLUTION”
TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2019, 7 P.M.

Rob Sanders and Jamey Christoph sit down with Lindsay Amer, the creative force behind Queer Kid Stuff, to read and discuss “Stonewall. A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution,” coming out on April 23, 2019.

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ART AND LGBTQ ACTIVISM: MUSIC WITH A SOCIAL CONSCIENCE
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2019, 7 P.M.

Composer John Corigliano, whose Symphony No. 1 was written in response to the AIDS crisis, will be joined by Philharmonic President and CEO Deborah Borda to discuss how the cultural landscape has evolved over recent decades. Moderated by The Center’s founding archivist Rich Wandel and preceded by a performance.

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SECOND TUESDAY PRESENTS “WE ARE EVERYWHERE”
TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2019, 7 P.M.

Leighton Brown and Matthew Riemer, the creators and curators of the massively popular Instagram account @lgbt_history, take us through a rich and sweeping photographic history of the Queer Liberation Movement just in time for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

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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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COME OUT! GAY LIBERATION FRONT AT STONEWALL 50
THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2019, 7 P.M.

Join this informative evening of stories and Q&A with 20 surviving members of the Gay Liberation Front gathered in NYC for their 50th Reunion, giving context to the movement that started it all.

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