Dear Creatives,

Whatโ€™s better than cozying up with a good book while watching the world go by out the window on a cool, crisp day? Nothing, obviously! ๐ŸŒฌ๏ธ ๐Ÿ““ ๐Ÿ‚ This week weโ€™ve got a wonderful mish-mash of events for you, with quite a few being New Yorkโ€™s best bookish activities for the rest of the month. From magazine launches to vintage sales, we hope you find something youโ€™ll love in this list!

As always, we invite you to join our Instagram broadcast channel, the Art Happenings - NYC, to be the first to hear about any exciting events we have planned in the city (and to learn about extra events we couldnโ€™t fit in the newsletter)!

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FRIDAY + SATURDAY (10/17โ€”10/18)
๐ŸŽท BRIC JazzFest ($62) by BRIC House
6:00pm
647 Fulton Street, New York, NY

  • BRIC JazzFest 2025 invites you on a journey that begins at BRIC House in Downtown Brooklyn and radiates out into the world. This yearโ€™s genre-defying lineup embodies jazz as a global languageโ€”shaped by migration, innovation, and collaboration.

FRIDAYโ€”SUNDAY (10/17โ€”10/19)
๐Ÿ›๏ธ Open House New York (FREE)

  • Open House New York Weekendย is an annual festival that unlocks 300+ destinations across all five boroughs for behind-the-scenes tours and special activities.

  • Take a look at new buildings transforming the skyline, step inside infrastructure facilities keeping the city running, explore parks offering respite, discover state-of-the-art performance spaces, visit manufacturing workshops, browse private collections, and much more.

SATURDAY (10/18)
๐Ÿ The Met Fall Festival (FREE with museum admission) at The Met Museum
12:00pm-5:00pm
1000 5th Ave, New York, NY

  • Kick off the fall season at The Met! Create art, catch a performance, and check out our current exhibitions.

SUNDAY (10/19)
๐Ÿก Seasons in Sweets: Halloween Wagashi Workshop ($112) at 7s Art Labo
1:00pm-3:15pm
36 East Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY

  • Discover the edible poetry of traditional confections at 7s Artโ€™s Seasons in Sweets: Halloween Wagashi Workshop. This hands-on experience offers more than dessertโ€”itโ€™s a journey into the seasonal beauty, cultural symbolism, and refined artistry of wagashi.

  • Each sweet is a meditation on form, color, and emotionโ€”capturing fleeting beauty in edible form. No experience is needed. All tools and materials will be provided, and participants will take home their handmade creations in elegant packaging.

  • This is the perfect weekend activity to explore traditional East Asian aesthetics, meet creative people, and savor something meaningful and sweet.

TUESDAY (10/21)
๐Ÿ’ creative charmscape workshop: jewelry making ($18) at craftnook
6:30pm-9:00pm
119 N 1st Street, Brooklyn, NY

  • Join us in the CraftNook for a guided session, sifting through a variety of Picto-Charmsโ„ข available to purchase as your heart desires. There is no structure or specific end result to achieve - instead, it's about adding Picto-Charmsโ„ข to your life in a way that speaks to you, whether that be through wall art, something to wear, or any other creative avenue you choose.

WEDNESDAY (10/22)
๐Ÿ‘š Collage Wearable Art ($25) at Mojo Studio
6:30pm-8:30pm
117 Grattan Street, Brooklyn, NY

  • โ€‹Ready to turn your creativity into something you can wear and show off? Join us at Mojo Studio for a laid-back afternoon of collaging and creative with new friends. I will teach the process of heat transferring designs!

  • โ€‹Youโ€™ll get access to tons of fun prints to design your own custom wearable art. Beforehand, you may email ([email protected]) me up to three images to have available for you to add to your piece!

โšก๏ธ Selected Shorts: Best American Short Stories 2025 (FREE) at Symphony Space
7:00pm-8:45pm
2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY

  • Actorsย Ivan Hernandezย (And Just Like That...),ย Richard Masurย (Girls), andย Cynthia Nixonย (The Gilded Age) honor the 2025ย Best American Short Stories, curated and edited by bestselling author Celeste Ng. This evening of literature in performance will take you on a literary journey brought to you by the brilliant minds of new and established authors, with readings from one of the most esteemed anthologies of contemporary American fiction.

FRIDAY (10/24)
๐Ÿ“š Ceramic Book-end Workshop & Book Swap ($100) by Small Things
7:30pm-9:30pm
41 Varick Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

  • Design and build ceramic book ends that bring both function and style to your shelves. Wine and light bites are included for a full evening experience.

๐Ÿ“’ grouphug, issue twoโ€”launch (FREEโ€”$18.95) at telos.haus
7:00pm-10:30pm
303 Ten Eyck St, Brooklyn, NY

  • โ€‹join us friday october 24, 2025 at telos.haus for the launch of the second issue of the solution-oriented, new york minded, for you & your friends magazine โ€“ grouphug.

  • we're throwing together a night of workshops, crafts, talks & readings, installations, screenings, and of course, so you can grab your copy of grouphug. it, and our other work, will be there for you, as well as the works of some of our many talented contributors.

SATURDAY (10/25)
๐ŸŽƒ Lower East Side Halloween Book Crawl (FREE)
11:00am-late

  • Dress up, buy a book, and drink a spooky cocktail! Each store will have bingo cards - can you get a BINGO?ย 

  • Prizes! Costumes contests! Giveaways! Scary good discounts!

  • Hit all six stores:ย 

    • Book Club Barย 

    • Yu & Meย 

    • Pillow Cat Books

    • Sweet Pickle Booksย 

    • Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooksย 

    • Village Worksย 

๐Ÿ‘œ Electrix Vintage Fill-a-Bag Sale ($10) by Electrix Vintage
11:00am-7:00pm
109 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY

  • Fill a bag with vintage for JUST $10! + shop vintage-inspired items by @cookwhitebk ๐Ÿš€ The fill-a-bag section has over 2,000 POUNDS of vintage to rummage through!

WEDNESDAY (10/29)
๐Ÿชฟ The Silly Goose Club Presents: Goose on the Loose Spooky Sip & Paint ($30) at Fabrik NYC
6:00pm-8:00pm
12-16 Vestry Street, New York, NY

  • โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹Come let your inner silly goose loose at our Paint & Sip on October 29th. โ€‹

  • Each ticket comes with 2 drink tickets, a printed picture of you and your artwork, a keychain, and 4 tokens for the sticker machine. โ€‹Light bites and your choice of wine, beer, cocktails, or mocktails will be available to enjoy while you paint.

  • โ€‹The sticker machine will have colorable stickers, extra drink tickets, and a few scary good surprises.

โšก๏ธ Hidden Gem of the Week! โšก๏ธ

๐Ÿ“ Leroyโ€™s Place
Open everyday from 12pm-7pm
353 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Looking for a last-minute piece of Halloween decor? Or maybe an early Christmas gift for that friend that wants to be surrounded by creepy stuff all year? Look no further than Leroyโ€™s Place, a self-described โ€œuncommon gift shopโ€ with a storefront in Brooklyn. Full of puppets and playthings, as well as an exquisite amount of quirky, spooky, and just-a-little-odd gifts, youโ€™re sure to find something thatโ€™ll haunt your dreams!

Leroyโ€™s is also having an event today, October 17th, at the Gowanus Open Studios Closing Party! Meet DJ Fronda, a 7 foot tall puppet who spins the tracks. Check out their IG for more details.

Have a great weekend!
Talk soon!

Weโ€™re always on the lookout for local workshops, markets, and other creative events. Feel free to contact us if you have something to share!

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