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Jazz at Lincoln Center is offering a special student discount for tickets to see trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and bassist Endea Owens perform their new works. featuring dancing with choreography by Sekou McMiller+Friends.

Performance dates: February 20-21
Student tickets are available with code: STU25

Thank you to our partners at Jazz at Lincoln Center!

ONCE AGAIN WIN YOUR WAY TO THE WINTER SHOW 2026 EDITION! ✨
 
Want a chance to attend The Winter Show on January 28?

We’re raffling off FREE tickets for students to experience one of NYC’s most iconic art & design fairs. 

Swipe ➡️ to see highlights from last year’s VIP tour with the Winter Show Executive Director, Helen Allen, CUNY interns, and students from different majors and campuses.
 
• How to enter the raffle —> Click the link in our bio
• Enter the raffle. Type in the comment “IG raffle”
• Cross your fingers 🤞
• Open to students. 
⏰ Winners announced on Monday, 1.26-27.26

✨ Students, don’t miss this! ✨

The Winter Show returns for its 70th+ anniversary, taking over the iconic Park Avenue Armory from January 23–February 1.
 
This world-class art fair is an unforgettable experience regarless of your major!
 
🎟️ Student perk: With a valid college ID, students can purchase up to two discounted tickets for $25 — available in person only at the door.
 
PLAN YOUR VISIT! Come explore extraordinary art, design, and craftsmanship in one of NYC’s most stunning venues.
 
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue, NYC
 

Before Yule Log videos on Netflix, YouTube, HBO, etc… there was the original🔥.
 
First aired on 12/24/1966 from Gracie Mansion, this historic broadcast started a tradition that continues to be warmly remembered.

Long before streaming, this simple fireplace brought comfort, calm, and holiday spirit to viewers everywhere, specially to homes across the tri-state area.
 
December may be over, but winter is still here, stay warm with the original masterpiece that sparked it all ❄️🪵 🔥.
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LINK IN BIO TO ORIGINAL VIDEO 

CUNY community: enjoy reduced-price tix to see Parsons Dance at the Queens Theatre with promo code QTPARSONS
Saturday, 12/6 at 2pm and 8pm
Sunday, 12/7 at 3pm
Get 25% off your tickets with code QTPARSONS

Parsons Dance at Queens Theatre
An electrifying dance company that has wowed audiences on five continents now brings its signature joy and athleticism to Queens. Parsons Dance tours worldwide, but its mission stays local — creating performances and outreach that lift hearts, spark creativity, and remind us that dance can connect us all.

More information at www.QueensTheatre.org

Use code CUNY2526 to access $45 tickets!
Enter the code into the Promo Box near the calendar, click apply, wait for the page to reload, then click into your preferred performance and choose your seats.
https://publictheater.org/
The Public Theater

OH HAPPY DAY!
Now through November 9 only!
A saucy retelling of Noah's Ark, NYT Critic's Pick!

An impending flood is the least of the Johnson family’s troubles in this outrageous reimagining of Noah’s Ark from Tony Award-nominated writer and director duo Jordan E. Cooper and Stevie Walker-Webb. OH HAPPY DAY! begins in Laurel, MS, at a birthday BBQ for Lewis, the patriarch of the family. Shortly after his estranged son Keyshawn (played by Cooper) makes a surprise appearance, absurdity ensues on a day that will change their world forever. Grammy Award-winning gospel artist Donald Lawrence writes original songs for this biting new play about confronting the divine.

INITIATIVE
An epic (as in, 5 hours long) story of high school proportions. Think Degrassi meets Angels in America.

Playwright Else Went, alumnus of The Public’s acclaimed Emerging Writers Group, brings her transformative new play INITIATIVE to The Public this fall. A bittersweet reflection on adolescence at the dawn of the new millennium, INITIATIVE charts the intertwined lives of seven teens from 2000-2004, as they become friends and more than friends, wrestle with their potential, face incalculable loss, and struggle to find their way in (and get out of) “Coastal Podunk, California.” Emma Rosa Went directs this epic world premiere guaranteed to make you remember the most difficult and beautiful things about growing up.

THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS
In performances now through November 30!
The world hasn't ended...yet! Starring Micaela Diamond, Ruthie Ann Miles, and more.

Obie Award-winning playwright and songwriter Ethan Lipton and two-time Tony nominee director Leigh Silverman bring their irreverently funny new musical THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS to The Public this fall. A rollicking adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Skin of Our Teeth, this new musical about age-old problems tells the twisting, often absurd story of the Antrobus family, who have been alive for 5,000 years but live in the same existential dread as the rest of us. Mired in the hot mess of their everyday worries, the Antrobuses survive all manner of catastrophes in an endless quest to begin again, and again, and again. Choreographed by Sunny Min-Sook Hitt, this bracingly original spectacle is a musical reminder that surviving is what we do best.

CUNY students, don't miss College Night at the Morgan Library!

Current undergraduate and graduate students are invited to a free after-hours event featuring gallery activities, behind-the-scenes experiences, sketching, live music, and more!

Thursday, November 6, 2025
5:30–8 PM
Online reservation require https://www.themorgan.org/programs/college-night-11-6-2025

CUNY students receive 20% off the ticket price for this special Jazz at Lincoln Center performance with code NMCA20
Link: https://bit.ly/4ohQiaX

Explore the soul of South African jazz on October 24–25 as virtuosic pianist Nduduzo Makhathini joins Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on the Rose Theater stage to showcase Makhathini’s brilliance and honor visionary composer Bheki Mseleku.

FREE October Events at The Morgan Library & Museum
https://ow.ly/8YJw50X8yBS

Throughout October CUNY students enjoy free access to the stunning Morgan Library & Museum for art performances, Spanish language gallery talks, and art lectures:

Performance | Bingyi’s “Heaven and Earth: The Garden of Cosmos"
Friday, October 10, 2025, 2–2:20 PM and 3–3:20 PM

Gallery Talk (Spanish language): great for native speakers as well as students!
Saturday, October 11, 2025, 2–3 PM

Lecture | Colin B. Bailey: Renoir's Creative Process: free lecture by Morgan Library Museum director and curator, Colin B. Bailey
Friday, October 17, 2025, 6–7 PM (opening day of Renoir Drawings)

CUNY STUDENTS-FREE STORYTELLING WORKSHOP!
APPLY BY OCTOBER 5TH
https://ow.ly/aReM50X2rC8

The Moth StoryLab is a six-week workshop to:
-Build your communication skills
-Get comfortable with public speaking
-Connect with fellow students
-Build skills for first dates ;)