Interesting. Unusual. Uniquely NYC. Highlights of this week’s top virtual events include Joyce’s Bring Dance Home, New Museum’s Bedtime Stories, TNC Festival of the Arts and more. Get the NYC-ARTS Top Five in your inbox every Friday and follow @NYC_ARTS on Instagram or @NYCARTS on Twitter to stay abreast of events as they happen.

Bedtime Stories
New Museum
Manhattan
Thu, May 14, 2020 - Tue, Jun 30, 2020
As part of its series of new digital initiatives, the New Museum presents “Bedtime Stories," a project initiated by the artist Maurizio Cattelan. Inviting friends and other artists and performers he admires to keep us company, Cattelan imagined “Bedtime Stories” as a way of staying together during these days of isolation. Each participant has been asked to read a selection from their favorite book–a sentence, passage, chapter, or more–to be shared with online audiences. Some chose to read ...

Bring Dance Home
The Joyce Theater
Manhattan
Wed, Apr 01, 2020 - Fri, Jul 31, 2020
The Joyce Theater Foundation continues to bring audiences closer to dance through its website, www.Joyce.org, showcasing a selection of international and homegrown performances, artist talkbacks, online dance classes, and more. With artists and audiences alike migrating to online platforms out of necessity during the global COVID-19 crisis, The Joyce remains committed to bringing the power of dance to audiences everywhere through "Bring Dance Home," its new digital initiative. For more information, please visit www.Joyce.org/BringDanceHome For nearly four ...

TNC Festival of the Arts
Theater for the New City
Manhattan
Fri, May 22, 2020 - Sun, May 24, 2020
For the 25th year, a handful of stars and over 100 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and filmmakers join forces May 22 to 24 in the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, available virtually on the website (www.theaterforthenewcity.net) of its presenting organization, Theater for the New City (TNC). The event started in 1996 as a three-day, indoor and outdoor multi-arts festival intended to demonstrate the creative explosion of the Lower East Side and ...

DanceAfrica 2020
BAM Harvey Theater
Brooklyn
Mon, May 18, 2020 - Sun, Jun 14, 2020
BAM celebrates DanceAfrica—the nation’s largest African dance festival—through digital public programming. The series of digital offerings pays special tribute to the people who have shaped the popular festival over the past 42 years. Offerings include conversations with DanceAfrica creatives and members of the Council of Elders, online dance classes, streams of past performances, the annual FilmAfrica series, and other programs that bring the joy of DanceAfrica into audiences’ homes. And for the first time in its ...

Virtual Selected Shorts
Symphony Space
Manhattan
Wed, May 27, 2020, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
What if, with a little willpower, an uncertain world could give way to something bold, thrilling, and new? Join host BD Wong (Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens), alongside performers D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place), Paul Giamatti (Billions), and Marin Ireland (Sneaky Pete) as they dare to question the nature of reality—and then attempt to remake it, with short fiction about soothsayers, alien invasions, and an uncanny force known only as Greg Stalfa. Virtual Selected Shorts will premiere on May 27 @7:30PM on the Symphony Space ...
Bedtime Stories
235 Bowery
new york N.Y. 10002
2122191222
As part of its series of new digital initiatives, the New Museum presents “Bedtime Stories," a project initiated by the artist Maurizio Cattelan. Inviting friends and other artists and performers he admires to keep us company, Cattelan imagined “Bedtime Stories” as a way of staying together during these days of isolation. Each participant ...
Bring Dance Home
175 Eighth Avenue
new york N.Y. 10011
2122420800
The Joyce Theater Foundation continues to bring audiences closer to dance through its website, www.Joyce.org, showcasing a selection of international and homegrown performances, artist talkbacks, online dance classes, and more. With artists and audiences alike migrating to online platforms out of necessity during the global COVID-19 crisis, The Joyce remains committed ...
TNC Festival of the Arts
155 First Avenue
New York N.Y. 10003
2122541109
For the 25th year, a handful of stars and over 100 performing arts organizations, independent artists, poets, puppeteers and filmmakers join forces May 22 to 24 in the Lower East Side Festival of the Arts, available virtually on the website (www.theaterforthenewcity.net) of its presenting organization, Theater for the New City ...
DanceAfrica 2020
651 Fulton Street
Brooklyn N.Y. 11217
BAM celebrates DanceAfrica—the nation’s largest African dance festival—through digital public programming. The series of digital offerings pays special tribute to the people who have shaped the popular festival over the past 42 years. Offerings include conversations with DanceAfrica creatives and members of the Council of Elders, online dance classes, streams of ...
Virtual Selected Shorts
2537 Broadway
new york N.Y. 10025
2128645400
What if, with a little willpower, an uncertain world could give way to something bold, thrilling, and new? Join host BD Wong (Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens), alongside performers D’Arcy Carden (The Good Place), Paul Giamatti (Billions), and Marin Ireland (Sneaky Pete) as they dare to question the nature of reality—and then attempt to remake it, with short ...