Magpie Fest 2026: A series of concerts celebrating the many shades of our past programming!
Join Magpie Duo over the course of two concerts a week apart for an engaging, multifaceted selection of our favorite repertoire over our past year+ of programming.
For John Cage (June 27, 8 pm) brings us back to Morton Feldman’s massive, whispery work of the same name, which we performed for the first time at Columbia University in October. We’re so excited to share the piece again, this time in the resonant, light-filled OSA Church sanctuary.
Free and open to the public with a $20 suggested donation—RSVP required
Magpie Fest 2026: A series of concerts celebrating the many shades of our past programming!
Join Magpie Duo over the course of two concerts a week apart for an engaging, multifaceted selection of our favorite repertoire over our past year+ of programming.
Sunrise/Sunset (June 20, 8 pm) takes our Sunset Concert concept—beginning with a familiar piece and moving to more experimental realms—and reverses the format, with shorter works building up to George Enescu’s lush, thrilling Impressions d’enfance.
For John Cage (June 27, 8 pm) brings us back to Morton Feldman’s massive, whispery work of the same name, which we performed for the first time at Columbia University in October. We’re so excited to share the piece again, this time in the resonant, light-filled OSA Church sanctuary.
Free and open to the public with a $20 suggested donation—RSVP required
Word Up welcomes Dixa Ashariel Ramírez to celebrate her debut novel “Mist”, about two overachieving professors who join forces to investigate why generations of Black women have been disappearing into a terrifying realm of eternal ice. In conversation with Ramírez will be Alejandro Heredia, author of “Loca”.
ABOUT THE BOOK: It is 2019 and Josefina Pujols, an overachieving professor going up for tenure at Tanner University (“The Ninth Ivy”), watches in dismay as social media popularity threatens to take over the academic standards she had been rigorously trained to uphold. Online shopping, group chat, and an alcohol problem palliate her encounters with an inbox full of increasingly ludicrous requests from her colleagues. When Doralis Montero, who had mysteriously quit her prestigious professorship two years earlier, reaches out and explains the sinister reasons behind her disappearance, Jo leaps into a research rabbit hole teeming with South American Nazi villages, racial impostors, and ancient AI. Despite the life-threatening risks inherent to this research project, Jo glows with newfound purpose.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dixa Ashariel Ramirez was born in Santo Domingo and raised in the Bronx. She teaches literature at Brown University and has published many works of scholarship. She now also writes about spiritual transformation, consciousness, and the nature of reality. Some of her work is available on her website, open_in_newdixaramirez.com.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER Alejandro Heredia is a writer from the Bronx. He has received fellowships from LAMBDA Literary, Dominican Studies Institute, UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute, and elsewhere. He received an MFA in fiction from Hunter College.
This event is a $5 suggested donation ticket with 50 max attendees. All attendees must register in advance.
Open Studio at The Met Cloisters—Creatures of Myth and Imagination
Explore materials and process through artist-led demonstrations, drop-in art-making activities, and conversations with Met experts. For visitors of all ages. All materials are provided.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas
Free with Museum admission;
How Did They Do That?—Pottery in Europe and the Americas
Peek at technique and learn—through handling tools and materials—how works of art were created. Stop by for hands-on demonstrations and conversations with educators, conservators, artists, and more! Demonstrations repeat every 30 minutes. For visitors of all ages.
Free with Museum admission
