Lecture Classes in NYC, New York

The funniest HTML-based show in New York City is BACK!  "Wickedly Funny Web Goon" Mark Vigeant (Clusterfest Up Next Showcase, FunnyOrDie, Live From Here) invites audiences into the world wide web for a night of HTML-arious laughs. Each show features fake lectures by some of NYC's best comedians, as well as a big fancy headliner who will leave...

Profiled seeks to dispel the myth that talking about race has to be uncomfortable by featuring comics who humorously discuss their experiences with racial profiling while your host Marcela Onyango also entertainingly share statistics about difficult topics like mass incarceration and the war on drugs. Featuring: Keisha Zollar  Zubi...

In this long-running monthly show, two short, entrancing science lectures inspire sets of hilarious, never-to-be-seen-again improv comedy. Featuring veteran improv team Thank You, Robot, whose members’ credits include Veep, This American Life, The Onion, SNL Weekend Update and more. Plus a different special guest team every month, and lectures curated...

Encyclopedia Commedia is a fast-paced and hilarious exploration of all the knowledge in the world (more or less [markedly less]). Come witness a ragtag assortment of bitter tastemakers, impure thought leaders, genuinely accomplished comedians and the occasional marching band as they pummel your cranium with information until you’re weeping with...

My Body, My Jokes is a bimonthly stand up comedy show all about living inside these weird, gross, human-shaped bodies, and what they go through. As an antidote for Valentine’s Day, February’s theme is BREAK-UPS! Join host Maria Heinegg and a group of hilarious comics as they tell jokes about the break-ups...

Join us for The Future of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an inspiring conversation on how individuals and organizations are using the SDGs as a framework for building a better world by 2030. Our panel will discuss how the SDGs are providing a holistic approach to achieving sustainable development for all as well as ways you can get involved...

Join music fanatic Larry Owens (one of Time Out NY‘s “Comedians You Should Know”) as he takes you on an unforgettable tour inside of the music you know and love. Joined by intrepid accompanist Henry Koperski and a line-up of unbelievable singers, comedians, experts and “experts”,  This is a fun and informative night unlike any other....

Since the dawn of mankind, humans have tried to get high in one way or another. Why? Altered states of consciousness can be profoundly dangerous or dangerously profound. Knowledge makes the difference. Each show explores a different topic (LSD, Adderall, Ambien, etc) and features clips of our V.I.P. (Very Inebriated Person) trying the show's topic....

The Happier Hour is a monthly event series bringing philosophy out of the ivory tower of academia and into our modern day agora: the bar. It’s like the self-help section– only way funnier, smarter, and with booze. And now it’s a podcast too! 

The event of art, Jacques Rancière writes, plays out in “form, a burst of colour, an acceleration of rhythm, a pause between words, a movement, or a glimmering surface.” Art, in other words, transforms the “sensible fabric” of life “at the cost of constantly merging its own reasons with those belonging to other spheres of experience.”...

Full Course Name brunchwork w/ Andrew Yang (2020 U.S. Presidential Candidate) You're invited to an unforgettable brunch with 2020 US Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang. Enjoy an intimate conversation with Andrew, curated connections, a business challenge and pitch off... over a seasonal, farm-to-table meal.

This course will explore jewelry design techniques, fashion trends, and style influencers from 1880 until now. Kendra Pariseault will walk students through the couture jewelry of the past and today, discussing the social and political climates which influenced each period’s trends in materials, design motifs, and usage of stones.  We’ll start...

In the spirit of exploring “intelligent nightlife,” we’re hosting an open mic like no other. Researchers, teachers, and comedians will share the stage to hone their sets in a room that GETS IT.   Are you a researcher or science writer who wants to work jokes into your upcoming piece? Are you a stand up comedian who wants to use history,...

Discuss the first seven of Ben Franklin’s virtues — Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity — and answer two questions: How can we improve ourselves and how can we improve our world? In regular small group discussions, Circle members use Franklin’s classic 13 civic virtues to spark discussion about members’...

Students of economics are often puzzled to learn that markets are normally treated as self-standing, self-contained systems. But as people experience the increasing effects of global climate change, this form of thinking moves from dubious to deadly. All those unaccounted “inputs” and “externalities” turn out to have a frighteningly high cost....