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PEN America Festival
The World Voices Festival is PEN America’s annual celebration of writers, international literature, and free expression. Taking place from April 29 through May 2, with more than 140 writers from 40 countries, this year’s festival is an insistence on the power of literature and cross-cultural dialogue. This gathering of writers from every part of the globe is a potent reminder—in fact, an antidote in an era of censorship, nativism, and renewed isolationism—that books drive culture and the stories we tell can shape and transform our lives.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
Streetworks x Housing Works: Kiki Ball
A Kiki Ball is a vibrant and affirming celebration rooted in ballroom culture—an expressive space where LGBTQ+ community members, primarily Black and Latinx youth, come together to showcase their creativity through fashion, dance (voguing), and performance. These gatherings offer newcomers a chance to practice their craft, build confidence, and be embraced by chosen families known as “houses.”
We’d be honored to have you join us for this meaningful evening. Your presence would mean a lot to the community, and we hope to see you there!
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
PNHP: Celebrating Single Payer Champions
We invite you to join us on Thursday, May 28, 2026 for Physicians for a National Health Program - New York Metro Chapter's Celebration Honoring our 2026 Single Payer Champions!
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
NYC Friends of Clearwater Monthly Gathering
NYC Friends of Clearwater is having our monthly gathering which is held on the third Friday of each month, starting at 6:30pm in the Assembly Hall. Join us for a night of live music, potluck dinner, and environmental discussion.
Bread & Puppet Presents: End of the World Never Minding Show
Tuesday, April 14 @ 7pm
Wednesday, April 15 @ 7pm
Thursday, April 16 @ 7pm
Join Bread & Puppet Theater for an urgently-needed new puppet show. We must take our cardboard provocations into the revolting streets of life, with help from our paper-maché divinities, to succeed and succeed.
On the Ground & At the Table: Harm Reduction LOVE FEAST EventS
For this month’s FIHR LOVE FEAST at JUDSON we are opening our fellowship meal to a deeply needed and welcomed collaboration – with mutual aid organizers on the ground in Jerusalem and Gaza, alongside local faith leaders and organizers working in collaboration with their efforts, at home and abroad. What can we learn from each other? What can we gain from sitting in communion with others doing faith-led resistance to reduce and combat the harm caused by empire’s carceral, extractive, stigmatizing systems of control and chaos? Our Harm Reduction Ministry Fellows and leadership team will be joined for this special joint meal by speakers, participants and guests from the afternoon’s “On the Ground” event at 2pm , co-hosted by Judson and the American Council on Judaism in partnership with Rabbis for Ceasefire, The Community Church of New York, Middle Church, and the 15th St Quaker Meeting.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
Town Hall
Join a citywide tenant town hall to learn about your rights, hear from legislators, and get involved in the fight for housing justice. Dinner provided!
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
NYC Friends of Clearwater Monthly Gathering
NYC Friends of Clearwater is having our monthly gathering which is held on the third Friday of each month, starting at 6:30pm in the Assembly Hall. Join us for a night of live music, potluck dinner, and environmental discussion.
Harm Reduction LOVE FEAST
A monthly opportunity to gather in sacred communion, share in a community meal, and grow in spirit and practice.
RSVP or questions via info@harmreduction.org!
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
Town Hall on Immigration Detention
Hear directly from Lawyers + Organizers fighting to end immigration detention in NYS and uphold Flores projections for kids + families being held in immigration detention.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
NYC Friends of Clearwater Monthly Gathering
NYC Friends of Clearwater is having our monthly gathering which is held on the third Friday of each month, starting at 6:30pm in the Assembly Hall. Join us for a night of live music, potluck dinner, and environmental discussion.
Glitter & Ash
Together with faith leaders, congregants, organizers, and allies across the city, please join us for a morning ritual followed by the imposition of glitter-infused-ashes, which we will then take with us to our workplaces and into our days, carrying an embodied invitation to engagement with the ancient and persistent story of empire's persecution of those who refuse to bow to it.
Marsha's Closet
Our namesake, the incomparable Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson, beyond being an activist, artist and sex worker, was a model and fashion juggernaut. From the belly of the beast, during New York’s most fashionable and anticipated event of the season, we seek to honor her life and legacy by pulling up for our neighbors with a special NYFW edition of Marsha's Closet.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
The Next New York: The rent is too damn high!
New York City’s housing challenges are among the most complex in the nation. This panel will unpack Zohran Mamdani’s ambitious housing platform, from freezing rent and building deeply affordable homes to cracking down on predatory landlords and ending deed theft. Experts in housing policy, tenant organizing, and real estate development will assess what it would take to turn these ideas into reality, and what structural changes are needed to make housing in New York truly stable and fair.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
Queer Urban Orchestra's QUOtets XX
The creativity and artistry of Queer Urban Orchestra's musicians is on full display in this evening of chamber music, selected and performed by groups of QUO musicians.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
Amplify the Dream: Resist Authoritarianism
On January 19, 2026 at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan, please join the Social Justice Committee of the Metro Association | New York Conference of the United Church of Christ to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We honor Dr. King by hearing his voice and those of Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others in the Black Freedom Movement, along with advocates for immigrant justice. We'll also learn more about how people of faith are mobilizing their communities to resist authoritarian repression in our own time.
Our program begins with a gathering at 9 AM for coffee and snacks, and will run until 1 PM. While an RSVP is not required, it would help us plan better if you let us know you're coming.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE: Martin Luther King Day Celebration
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
NYC Friends of Clearwater Monthly Gathering
NYC Friends of Clearwater is having our monthly gathering which is held on the third Friday of each month, starting at 6:30pm in the Assembly Hall. Join us for a night of live music, potluck dinner, and environmental discussion.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.
PEOPLES’ VOICE CAFE
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City, presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979. We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
For more info, including a performance schedule, please go here.