Lower East Side Arts & Events Weekly Roundup

Arts | Community Organizations | Events

By Traven Rice

Here are some suggestions for upcoming events that are on our radar:

• Objects of Permanence, a special installation curated by Mellány Sánchez at Abrons Arts Center, in collaboration with the Tenement Museum and presented during New York Fashion Week, spotlights the rich histories of the Puerto Rican and other migrant community labor forces in New York City’s garment industry, from 12:45-6:15pm through Sept. 14th.

• The life and impact of the renowned artisanal cheesemaker and pioneering advocate of the American farmstead movement, Anne Saxelby, will be celebrated at the second annual benefit for the Anne Saxelby Legacy Fund (ASLF) at Chelsea Market on Wednesday, September 13, from 6 – 10 pm. 

• In honor of the 136th anniversary of the first high holiday service at the Eldridge Street Synagogue, the Museum at Eldridge Street is offering a special anniversary building tour on Monday, September 18th at 1pm.

• The Seward Park Library is reopening on Monday, Sept. 11 and is gearing up to host a series of eighteen online lectures on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit (1806), to assist both the reader and the merely curious alike in understanding the work in context, gradually working through the text little by little. The series begins Thursday, November 2nd.