Eight Sunday picks: three big free outdoor events, two uptown exhibitions, a Washington Heights open mic, manga, and a horror-comedy screening.
Today: Free Festivals, Art & Markets
- Artmageddon 2026 — Today, noon–6pm across Brooklyn. The free, weather-delayed art walk includes artist stoops, neighborhood Art Villages, music, and performances.
- 51st Atlantic Antic — Today, noon–6pm on Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the waterfront. The free, rain-or-shine street fair includes live music, food, crafts, and children’s programming.
- 4th Annual Mystic Mega Market — Today, 1–6pm on the 31st Avenue Open Street between 33rd and 35th Streets in Astoria. Admission is free; workshops cover candle magic at 2pm, spiritual hygiene at 3pm, tea blending at 4pm, and tarot study at 5pm.
Uptown: Music, Poetry & Art
- Q&T Community Open Mic — Today at Recirculation, 876 Riverside Drive at 160th Street in Washington Heights. Sign-ups begin at 6:30pm and the open mic starts at 7pm, with queer music, poetry, storytelling, and mingling. RSVP is requested; price is not stated.
- Lines of Survival: Living, Adapting, Imagining Tomorrow — Through November 1 at The Africa Center, 1280 Fifth Avenue at 109th Street. The five-photographer climate exhibition is free and requires no registration.
- He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model — Through Monday, October 12 at the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street. NYC residents can pay what they wish to see the 50-by-27-foot handmade city model.
Museums, Film & Comedy
- Art of Manga — Newly open through January 31 in the Brooklyn Museum Great Hall. More than 600 original drawings span Inuyasha, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, ONE PIECE, Ōoku, and manga’s social history. Timed tickets are required; check today’s availability.
- Die Laughing at Hellraiser: Hellworld — Tonight at Flop House Comedy Club, 362 Grand Street in Williamsburg. Doors open at 7pm and the show begins at 7:30pm. The ticketed, 21+ screening pairs the horror film with live comedian commentary.
All gathered items - what was cut and why (11)
- Cashbar at Culture Lab LIC - EVENT_PAST: The Saturday concert has ended (r/LongIslandCity)
- Pottery in McGolrick Park - EVENT_PAST: The Saturday workshop has ended (r/Greenpoint)
- Free outdoor screening of Clue - EVENT_PAST: The Saturday-night screening has ended (r/Bushwick)
- Rooftop Treasure Hunt - EVENT_PAST: The 24-hour hunt ended Saturday (organizer page)
- Gather at Vernon Festival - EVENT_PAST: Its “today” referred to Saturday, October 3, noon–5pm (r/Astoria)
- Green-Wood Cemetery nostalgia train - EVENT_PAST: The train ride ran Saturday, October 3, from 2–7pm (r/nyc)
- Autumn’s Dawn Film Festival — Greenpoint cross-post - UNVERIFIABLE: The post omits the venue, schedule, and price, and the ticket page remains unusable (r/Greenpoint)
- Autumn’s Dawn Film Festival — Williamsburg cross-post - UNVERIFIABLE: The duplicate post omits the venue, schedule, and price, and the ticket page remains unusable (r/Williamsburg)
- Autumn’s Dawn Film Festival — Bushwick cross-post - UNVERIFIABLE: The duplicate post omits the venue, schedule, and price, and the ticket page remains unusable (r/Bushwick)
- Ridgewood cat and kitten adoption event - DEDUP: Valid today, but omitted in favor of the eight stronger cultural picks (r/Bushwick)
- Locktoberfest NYC - OFFTOPIC: NSFW sexual-event promotion is outside the digest’s scope (Bluesky @iangreene.bsky.social)
24 events were auto-dropped by the timing filter for past dates and logged in the Obsidian raw dump.