Things to do in New York City on Friday 20 November

Talk on gut health and chronic disease.

The Flowers of Forest Hills: play of emigrants in New York.

Boy Santos: a play on a 1962 Spanish Harlem childhood.

Sharpen your poems with poet Kazim Ali.

WSCAH’s 86th Street Market: free monthly groceries.

Holy Mass with Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet, all welcome.

Weekly Torah Study with rotating clergy, ahead of Shabbat.

The Circle: a weekly online hour of meditation and prayer.

Craft workshop: kids create fall foods art.

Phone-Free Friday: see the museum without your phone.

Folding Fridays: MoMath's weekly online origami series.

Winter Enclosure: hot jazz and swing on a rooftop.

Sabbath-welcoming evening prayer, online and in song.

Kabbalat Shabbat: Friday evening service with Kiddush.

Fantasma: three generations of women cook a family recipe.

True Confessions of a Go Go Girl: sexy comedy drama.

Sinatra Under The Stars: Jesse Posa sings Sinatra classics.

Somewhere Funny, Nowhere Serious: rooftop stand-up showcase.

Reggaeton Fridays with DJ Edward Askew and DJ Mae Rose.

Top of the Mornin': backstage comedy at a radio station.

New comedy: The Dog Show.

Reggaeton Fridays: Bad Bunny to Daddy Yankee all night.

Friday Nights: a three-floor party at The DL, a DJ on each.

All-night reggaeton party in the Lower Level.

KARAOKE TREMENDOUS, Jay Miller's karaoke turned up to 11.

Taco Series at Oyamel: monthly guest-chef tacos.

To My Best Friend: contemporary art on friendship.

LeeTal, Swamp Rose Mallow: large-scale outdoor sculpture.

Junction: Omari Douglin's public mural at BAM.

Kerstin Brätsch: sit-on mosaic benches with plants.

Shelter from the Storm: works from the Academy's collection.

Kang Seung Lee in Self: video artworks on selfhood.

Speak Out!: posters by fifth graders.

Terra Incognita: sculptures by Emil Alzamora.

From Folk to Form: wire sculptures of Hungarian folk motifs.

Carrie Moyer: abstract paintings by four women painters.

Bethany Collins in the group show We Are This Land.

Jim Hodges' monumental bronze of an uprooted tree stump.

Fall Ango 2026: three-month Zen training intensive.

BAX 35th Anniversary Season: a year of arts for Brooklyn.