Past events

We are celebrating the Year of the Pig by creating a “wishing tree” on Madison Avenue between East 53rd and East 54th Streets.

Joe looks back at the town of his childhood. Bright, vibrant, and idyllic, the world resembles a haven of comfort. But as Joe journeys on, walls and lives are peeled back and the story of a community’s fall unfolds around him. Feral is an innovative piece of visual theater that combines puppetry, film, and live sound to create and destroy a world in front of its audience’s eyes. Puppeteers manipulate and bring to life a tiny world, whilst simultaneously creating a live animation, as they follow its every breath via digital camera.

Posting Letters To The Moon is a romantic, funny, and touching portrait of life during the early 1940s featuring readings of wartime letters between Oscar- nominated actress Celia Johnson (Brief Encounter) and her explorer and writer husband Peter Fleming (brother of James Bond creator Ian Fleming). Their daughter, Lucy Fleming, alongside her own husband, Simon Williams, reads these touching and amusing letters that tell of Celia’s experiences during the war: coping with a large isolated house full of evacuated children, learning to drive a tractor, dealing with rationing, holidays in Cornwall where she took to surfing, and all the while accepting offers, when she could get away, to act — for David Lean, Noël Coward, wartime propaganda films, and ultimately starring in the classic film Brief Encounter.

In conjunction with the new exhibit, “Portraiture, Then and Now,” featured artist Mildor Chevalier discusses his approach to his work and the trajectory of his career-from his native Haiti to New York. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council

Come to the MVHM garden (weather permitting) to listen to stories about planting in a garden and then see their bushes, trees and flowers and herbs. Make a paper flower to take home!

Jaimeo Brown (pronounced jah-mayo) began his drum career at age 16. Over the last 20 years, he has worked with a range of musicians including Stevie Wonder, Carlos Santana, Q-Tip, Carl Craig, Bobby Hutcherson, Greg Osby, Joe Locke, David Murray, and several other New York based musicians.

César Award Winner for Best First Feature Film, Most Promising Actress, and Most Promising Actor. Fresh out of juvenile detention and with nowhere to go, seventeen-year-old Zachary is back on his own, roaming the hard streets of Marseille again. Then he meets teen prostitute Shéhérazade and they fall madly, dangerously in love. With this astonishing feature debut based on true events and starring a cast of irresistible non-professionals, Jean-Bernard Marlin creates a searing portrait of urban decay and a lost generation, capturing a neon-lit nocturnal city crawling with gang members and drug dealers, a world as disturbing as it is romantic, and as violent as it is disarmingly tender.

Midday Jazz Midtown is an ongoing jazz program for the midtown community. Concerts take place in the Sanctuary of Saint Peter's Church and are presented by Midtown Arts Common in cooperation with Saint Peter's Church. Ronny Whyte is the producer.

Jaimeo Brown (pronounced jah-mayo) began his drum career at age 16. In the last 20 years, he has worked with a range of musicians including Stevie Wonder, Carlos Santana, Q-Tip, Carl Craig, Bobby Hutcherson, Greg Osby, Joe Locke, David Murray, and several other New York based musicians

Having lost her husband and job, Irma jumps into a river in Avignon, only to be rescued by Dolores, a free-spirited Spaniard roaming the south of France. Irma and Dolores strike up a friendship and serve as our fictional guides into a little-seen France of factory workers, hunters, and fishermen.