Looking for a fun new cultural activity but not sure what to check out next? We’ve rounded up some of the highlights that you can experience for free this month with Culture Pass, from new exhibition openings to limited-run live performances. Check back each month for a new set of recommendations!
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November 2026
All offers listed below are subject to availability.
EVENT: Skate at Gottesman Rink this Fall and Winter
Date: Starting 11/1
Swing by the Gottesman Rink at the Davis Center, as the north end of Central Park officially opens for winter fun! Skaters of all ages and levels can enjoy open ice time while taking in the Park's winter scenery and making the most of the season with friends and family.
EXHIBITION: Re-envision Barakei at Leslie Lohman Museum of Art
Date: Opening night 11/5, open to the public 11/6
Visit Leslie Lohman Museum of Art for PROPS from Barakei: Eikoh Hosoe and Jason Wee. Jason Wee's new sculptural installation and performance, commissioned by the Museum, responds to photographer Eikoh Hosoe's landmark 1960s series Barakei (Ordeal by Roses), staged with novelist Yukio Mishima. Wee's work recreates the props from Hosoe's photographs in metal and fabric, suspended within a spiral of rope encoded with an audible lecture script. RSVP before November 5th to enjoy the exhibition on opening night at 6pm.
PERFORMANCE: Jam to Malika Zarra at LeFrak Concert Hall
Date: 11/6
Enjoy award-winning Moroccan-born singer, composer, and percussionist, Malika Zarra and her return to New York on November 6th at 8pm. With her quintet, bringing chaâbi, Amazigh, and Gnawa traditions into conversation with jazz, relax into the music featuring special guest harmonica player Grégoire Maret at the LeFrak Concert Hall in the Kupferberg Center for the Arts.
EVENT: Celebrate Diwali at Brooklyn Children's Museum
Date: 11/12
Join The Culture Tree at Brooklyn Children's Museum from 2pm to 5pm on November 12th to Celebrate Diwali. Discover the story of the festival of lights through puppet storytelling, make mithai (Indian sweets), and create your own diya lamps in the museum's ColorLab art studio.
EXHIBITION: Anchoring Home at Staten Island Museum
Date: Opening 11/14
Staten Island Museum's Anchoring Home comes from transdisciplinary artist and educator Stephanie Dinkins, which features interactive experiences reframing the contract between community, technology, and the living world. This solo exhibition includes an AI-generated narrative built from collected stories that evolves in real time. The participatory, sensory show invites visitors to question who shapes the future of AI and how to co-create systems rooted in equity, care, and collective agency.
EXHIBITION: The First Founding Mother Revealed at Fraunces Tavern Museum
Date: Opening 11/16
Head to Fraunces Tavern Museum November 16th for the opening of Path to Liberty: Martha, The First Founding Mother Revealed. The exhibition centers Martha Washington as a leader, role model, and trusted partner to George Washington, tracing her emergence as a national figure who helped shape early American ideas about leadership and public service. The 6:30pm opening reception features Colonial Williamsburg's Martha Washington interpreter Katherine Pittman, with remarks and a Q&A to follow.
EVENT: Walking Tour through Fort Greene
Date: 11/21
MoCADA, known for celebrating the cultural breadth of the African diaspora by connecting the intersectional experiences of African people worldwide through the lens of art, education, and advocacy, is leading a Black History and Culture Tour of Fort Greene at Fort Greene Park on November 21st from 11am to 2:30pm. Led by historian Suzanne Spellen in partnership with the Fort Greene Park Conservancy, the walking tour retells the neighborhood's deep roots in Black history and culture with a personal, on-the-ground look at its historical context. Meet at the corner of DeKalb Avenue and Washington Park.