The Hunter campus is host to arts events every day, and almost all of them are free with Hunter ID.
You can use this calendar to explore concerts, dance and theater performances, art and photography exhibits, readings, film screenings, visiting artist lectures, Q&A’s, and much more.
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Chamber Singers
Chamber Singers – Michael Sheetz, conductor
This event is free for Hunter students. No RSVP is necessary.
Piano Teachers Congress of NY Masterclass
Teaching Beethoven Vs. Schubert with Melvin Chen
This event is free for Hunter students. No RSVP necessary.
Faculty Recital with Friends
David Fulmer, violin
This event is free for Hunter students. No RSVP necessary.
Hunter Students in Concert
Hunter student instrumental & vocal performances.
This event it free and no RSVP is necessary.
Twelfth Night Hunter Theatre Production
Washed up on an unknown shore, a woman embarks on a secret new life but discovers she's not the only one hiding something...
Join us for the Hunter Theatre Department’s main stage production of Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. Directed by Benjamin Moore.
Tickets are free for Hunter students. Just stop by the Kaye Playhouse Box Office with your students ID.
The Kaye Playhouse Box Office
East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues
Telephone: (212) 772-4448
E-mail: kayetickets@hunter.cuny.edu
Box Office Hours:
Wednesday-Friday 12 pm – 6 pm
If a performance takes place outside of normal box office hours, the box office will open two hours before the start time of the show.
For senior or general admission tickets, click here.
Autumn in New York: Age of Innocence
The Film Society of Hunter College in collaboration with the Office of the Arts will be holding a screening of Age of Innocence as a part of our screening series on Autumn in New York.
The event is available to all members of the Hunter community and does not require RSVP.
Twelfth Night Hunter Theatre Production
Washed up on an unknown shore, a woman embarks on a secret new life but discovers she's not the only one hiding something...
Join us for the Hunter Theatre Department’s main stage production of Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. Directed by Benjamin Moore.
Tickets are free for Hunter students. Just stop by the Kaye Playhouse Box Office with your students ID.
The Kaye Playhouse Box Office
East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues
Telephone: (212) 772-4448
E-mail: kayetickets@hunter.cuny.edu
Box Office Hours:
Wednesday-Friday 12 pm – 6 pm
If a performance takes place outside of normal box office hours, the box office will open two hours before the start time of the show.
For senior or general admission tickets, click here.
LayeRhythm Playhouse Performance
Join us for this performance featuring Hunter dance students and the LayeRhythm live band.
This event is free for Hunter students. No RSVP necessary.
Twelfth Night Hunter Theatre Production
Washed up on an unknown shore, a woman embarks on a secret new life but discovers she's not the only one hiding something...
Join us for the Hunter Theatre Department’s main stage production of Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. Directed by Benjamin Moore.
Tickets are free for Hunter students. Just stop by the Kaye Playhouse Box Office with your students ID.
The Kaye Playhouse Box Office
East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues
Telephone: (212) 772-4448
E-mail: kayetickets@hunter.cuny.edu
Box Office Hours:
Wednesday-Friday 12 pm – 6 pm
If a performance takes place outside of normal box office hours, the box office will open two hours before the start time of the show.
For senior or general admission tickets, click here.
Twelfth Night Hunter Theatre Production
Washed up on an unknown shore, a woman embarks on a secret new life but discovers she's not the only one hiding something...
Join us for the Hunter Theatre Department’s main stage production of Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. Directed by Benjamin Moore.
Tickets are free for Hunter students. Just stop by the Kaye Playhouse Box Office with your students ID.
The Kaye Playhouse Box Office
East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues
Telephone: (212) 772-4448
E-mail: kayetickets@hunter.cuny.edu
Box Office Hours:
Wednesday-Friday 12 pm – 6 pm
If a performance takes place outside of normal box office hours, the box office will open two hours before the start time of the show.
For senior or general admission tickets, click here.
Twelfth Night Hunter Theatre Production
Washed up on an unknown shore, a woman embarks on a secret new life but discovers she's not the only one hiding something...
Join us for the Hunter Theatre Department’s main stage production of Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. Directed by Benjamin Moore.
Tickets are free for Hunter students. Just stop by the Kaye Playhouse Box Office with your students ID.
The Kaye Playhouse Box Office
East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues
Telephone: (212) 772-4448
E-mail: kayetickets@hunter.cuny.edu
Box Office Hours:
Wednesday-Friday 12 pm – 6 pm
If a performance takes place outside of normal box office hours, the box office will open two hours before the start time of the show.
For senior or general admission tickets, click here.
Guest Artist Recital
Nora Spielman & Ming-Jui Liu
This event is free for students. No RSVP necessary.
Autumn in New York: Taxi Driver
The Film Society of Hunter College in collaboration with the Office of the Arts will be holding a screening of Taxi Driver as a part of our screening series on Autumn in New York.
The event is available to all members of the Hunter community and does not require RSVP.
Distinguished Writers Series - Chloé Cooper Jones
Chloé Cooper Jones is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. In 2020, Chloé was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Writing for "Fearing for His Life," a profile of Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed the killing of Eric Garner. She was the recipient of the 2020 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and the 2021 Howard Foundation Grant from Brown University. Both grants were in support of her book Easy Beauty, a memoir which finds the author-after unexpectedly becoming a mother-embarking on a journey across the globe to reclaim the spaces, both physical and emotional, that she'd been denied and denied herself. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
This event is free for students and faculty. No RSVP necessary.
Blues Concert
Did you know that artists like Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Cream, Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and more played on the Assembly Hall stage here at Hunter? Join us in celebrating Hunter College's legacy of blues music with a live performance by Hunter musicians in the very same Assembly Hall on Monday, December 9th.
Free for Hunter Students (and Non-Hunter guests)! Non-Hunter guests RSVP using the link here.
Doors at 6, show begins at 6:30 PM. Assembly Hall entrance on 1st floor of the North Building.
Twelfth Night Hunter Theatre Production
Washed up on an unknown shore, a woman embarks on a secret new life but discovers she's not the only one hiding something...
Join us for the Hunter Theatre Department’s main stage production of Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. Directed by Benjamin Moore.
Tickets are free for Hunter students. Just stop by the Kaye Playhouse Box Office with your students ID.
The Kaye Playhouse Box Office
East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues
Telephone: (212) 772-4448
E-mail: kayetickets@hunter.cuny.edu
Box Office Hours:
Wednesday-Friday 12 pm – 6 pm
If a performance takes place outside of normal box office hours, the box office will open two hours before the start time of the show.
For senior or general admission tickets, click here.
Fall Repertory Concert
Join for the Fall Repertory featuring works by Tiffany Merritt-Brown and Roderick George.
This event is free for Hunter students. No RSVP required.
Twelfth Night Hunter Theatre Production
Washed up on an unknown shore, a woman embarks on a secret new life but discovers she's not the only one hiding something...
Join us for the Hunter Theatre Department’s main stage production of Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. Directed by Benjamin Moore.
Tickets are free for Hunter students. Just stop by the Kaye Playhouse Box Office with your students ID.
The Kaye Playhouse Box Office
East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues
Telephone: (212) 772-4448
E-mail: kayetickets@hunter.cuny.edu
Box Office Hours:
Wednesday-Friday 12 pm – 6 pm
If a performance takes place outside of normal box office hours, the box office will open two hours before the start time of the show.
For senior or general admission tickets, click here.
Fall Repertory Concert
Join for the Fall Repertory, featuring works by Tiffany Merritt-Brown and Roderick George.
This event is free for Hunter students. No RSVP required.
Twelfth Night Hunter Theatre Production
Washed up on an unknown shore, a woman embarks on a secret new life but discovers she's not the only one hiding something...
Join us for the Hunter Theatre Department’s main stage production of Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. Directed by Benjamin Moore.
Tickets are free for Hunter students. Just stop by the Kaye Playhouse Box Office with your students ID.
The Kaye Playhouse Box Office
East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues
Telephone: (212) 772-4448
E-mail: kayetickets@hunter.cuny.edu
Box Office Hours:
Wednesday-Friday 12 pm – 6 pm
If a performance takes place outside of normal box office hours, the box office will open two hours before the start time of the show.
For senior or general admission tickets, click here.
AMLC Speaker Series Present Amy Hobby
Amy Hobby is an Oscar-nominated, Emmy, and Peabody Award-winning producer with credits on 30+ films in distribution. She is known for producing exceptional films about artists and the creative process. Her films on Nina Simone (What Happened, Miss Simone?), Sam Shepard (Shepard & Dark), Spalding Grey (And Everything is Going Fine), Nam June Paik (Moon is the Oldest TV) and Marilyn Monroe (Love, Marilyn) are known for their excellence in both storytelling and archival work. Hobby’s films have garnered industry accolades and wide-audience appeal, premiering at top festivals including Cannes, Berlin, Sundance, and Tribeca and have been distributed by American Masters / PBS, Netflix, HBO, IFC, Sony Pictures Classics and the Criterion Collection, to name a few. Hobby is the former Executive Director of the Tribeca Film Institute and current co-founder of Distribution Advocates. With Distribution Advocates, she oversees the newly launched FilmADE Fund promoting innovation in marketing and audience building for independent cinema.
This event is free for Hunter students. No RSVP necessary.
Hunter Symphony
HunterSymphony – David Fulmer, conductor
This event is free for Hunter student. No RSVP necessary.
Twelfth Night Hunter Theatre Production
Washed up on an unknown shore, a woman embarks on a secret new life but discovers she's not the only one hiding something...
Join us for the Hunter Theatre Department’s main stage production of Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. Directed by Benjamin Moore.
Tickets are free for Hunter students. Just stop by the Kaye Playhouse Box Office with your students ID.
The Kaye Playhouse Box Office
East 68th Street between Park & Lexington Avenues
Telephone: (212) 772-4448
E-mail: kayetickets@hunter.cuny.edu
Box Office Hours:
Wednesday-Friday 12 pm – 6 pm
If a performance takes place outside of normal box office hours, the box office will open twohours before the start time of the show.
For senior or general admission tickets, click here.
Guitar Marathon
GuitarMarathon directed by João Luiz Rezende Lopes
This event is free for Hunter students. No RSVP necessary.
Distinguished Writers Series - Lauren Markham
Lauren Markham is the author of the award-winning The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life. A US American of Greek heritage, she has been working with migrants for two decades, and writing about migration and other social issues in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. Her most recent book is A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging.
This event is free for students and faculty. No RSVP necessary.
Jazz and Popular Music Combos
Directed by Ike Sturm, Dave Demotta and Priscilla Owens.
This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.
Opening Reception for Acts of Art in Greenwich Village
Acts of Art Gallery was founded in downtown Manhattan in 1969 by artists Nigel Jackson and Patricia Gray to showcase the work of Black artists “outside of the ghetto areas.” This exhibition—the first comprehensive exploration of the gallery’s six-year history—will feature works from the late 1960s and 1970s by artists close to the gallery including: Benny Andrews, James Denmark, Lois Mailou Jones, Dindga McCannon, Ademola Olugebefola, Ann Tanksley, Lloyd Toone, Frank Wimberley, and Hale Woodruff. A catalog with the gallery’s complete exhibition history and essays on key group exhibitions, including the first show of the Black women artists collective “Where We At,” will be published with Hirmer Publishers in 2025.
Acts of Art in Greenwich Village will be on view from November 7, 2024 through March 22, 2025. Curated by Howard Singerman and students in the Advanced Curatorial Certificate Seminar with Katie Hood Morgan, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Hunter College Art Galleries. Graduate curatorial fellows: Eve Arballo and Nicolas Poblete.
This event is free and open to the public.
Hunter Students in Concert
Student instrumental & vocal performances.
This event is free for Hunter students. No RSVP necessary.
AMLC Speaker Series Presents Sarah Marcus
Sarah Marcus is the Senior Director of Education and Community Engagement at the New York City Ballet. From 2009 to 2024, she served as the Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Mark Morris Dance Group, where she oversaw the development and expansion of programs that engaged nearly 25,000 participants annually. Throughout her tenure, she played a crucial role in strategic planning and cross-departmental collaboration, ensuring the organization’s mission of providing inclusive and equitable access to arts and culture. Sarah remains dedicated to teaching and continues to contribute to the broader dance community through her involvement with various arts organizations.
This event is free for Hunter students. No RSVP necessary.
Nebrija Summer Art Institute Info Session!
Interested in studying art and art history in Madrid, Spain this summer? Join us for an info session exploring the summer program at Nebrija University's Arts and Humanities Institute! We will be joined by faculty and staff from Nebrija.
This event will take place on Zoom.
Free for anyone with a Hunter ID (Including Faculty and Staff). Click here to RSVP.
AMLC Speaker Series Presents Dara Meyers-Kingsley
Dara Meyers-Kingsley has over 20 years of experience as a contemporary art curator with an interdisciplinary curatorial practice. Her exhibitions, often including visual art, media, installation, and performance have been presented at LA MOCA, MCA Chicago, The New Museum, The Andy Warhol Museum, Miami MOCA, the Brooklyn Museum and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. Previously, she was Director of the Film and Video Collections for the Andy Warhol Foundation and curator of Film and Video at the Brooklyn Museum. She serves as the Director of Hunter’s Office of the Arts and the Muse Scholar Program.
This event is free and open to Hunter students.
No RSVP necessary.
Distinguished Writers Series - Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown is author of the The Tradition, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Award. Brown's first book, Please, won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection, The Tradition won the Paterson Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in The Bennington Review, Buzzfeed, Fence, jubilat, The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, TIME magazine, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. He is the director of the Creative Writing Program and a professor at Emory University.
This event is free for Hunter students and faculty. No RSVP necessary.
Arts Student Meet-Up
Join us for refreshments & snacks
Meet fellow artists from other arts departments
Discover the new Arts Student Lounge, now open for meetings, workshops & more
This event is free for Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Crossover Jazz
Hunter College Jazz Ensemble and Vocal Jazz
Directed by Ike Sturm and Priscilla Owens
This event is free for Hunter students faculty and staff. No RSVP necessary.
Career Prep: Learn and Network
Meet Theatre Alumni with successful careers in theatre and adjacent areas.
This event is hybrid, so you can attend in-person or join online.
Free and open to Hunter students. Click here to RSVP.
Hunter Underground - Student Arts Showcase
Hunter Underground is a brand new arts showcase that will feature original work by Hunter Students. These works range from poems, music, plays, visual art, dance, and films. This three night event is an opportunity to join and get to know Hunter’s growing multidisciplinary community of artists.
SCHEDULE
Artist Mixer and Hang: 5pm – 5:45pm
Showcase Performances: 6pm – 7:15pm
Post-show Party: 7:15pm – 8:15pm
This event is free for the Hunter community (students, staff and faculty). Click here to RSVP.
Hunter Underground - Student Arts Showcase
Hunter Underground is a brand new arts showcase that will feature original work by Hunter Students. These works range from poems, music, plays, visual art, dance, and films. This three night event is an opportunity to join and get to know Hunter’s growing multidisciplinary community of artists.
SCHEDULE
Artist Mixer and Hang: 5pm – 5:45pm
Showcase Performances: 6pm – 7:15pm
Post-show Party: 7:15pm – 8:15pm
This event is free for the Hunter community (students, staff and faculty). Click here to RSVP.
AMLC Speaker Series Presents - Allison Hellegers
Allison Hellegers is a Foreign Rights Director and Literary Agent for Stimola Literary Studio. After literary scouting, she was the Director of Foreign Rights for Alloy Entertainment and Rights People, and she continues to oversee all foreign, subsidiary and film rights for Stimola Literary Studio while growing her client list. Her adult co-agent clients include New York Times bestselling author Lucy Adlington (The Dressmakers of Auschwitz) and Reese Book Club pick Holly Smale (Cassandra in Reverse). Her young adult clients include award winning authors Colby Cedar Smith (Call Me Athena) and Rebecca Caprara (Spin) and as well as graphic novel clients Teo Duvall (Brooms) and Mari Costa (Belle of the Ball). Her middle-grade clients include ALA Notable Elaine Dimopolous (The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow) and beloved Australian author Nova Weetman (It All Begins With Jellybeans), who also has her first adult memoir coming out this year (Love, Death & Other Scenes). She represents a select few picture book clients, including Horn Book award winner Dinah Johnson (H is for Harlem) and Ezra Jack Keats honor winner and beloved Slovenian artist Marta Bartolj (Every Little Kindness). Allison attends the book fairs in Frankfurt and Bologna each year and has been an industry speaker and on staff at numerous conferences and events; this year she’s honored to have been chosen to participate in the Creative Australian VIP Publisher Program.
This event is free for Hunter students. No RSVP necessary.
Hunter Underground - Student Arts Showcase
Hunter Underground is a brand new arts showcase that will feature original work by Hunter Students. These works range from poems, music, plays, visual art, dance, and films. This three night event is an opportunity to join and get to know Hunter’s growing multidisciplinary community of artists.
SCHEDULE
Artist Mixer and Hang: 5pm – 5:45pm
Showcase Performances: 6pm – 7:15pm
Post-show Party: 7:15pm – 8:15pm
This event is free for the Hunter community (students, staff and faculty). Click here to RSVP.
Guest Artist Concert – Gabriel Akhmad Marin Trio
Join us for a concert with Gabriel Akhmad Marin Trio.
Multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Marin “boasts insane chops, impeccable time, mastery of diverse traditional scales, rare fretless guitar fluency, and a gift for manipulating effects,” (Premier Guitar Magazine). Called “the guiding light for his generation of six-stringers” by The Buffalo Times, He is "A fretless guitar virtuoso whose microtonal adventures rival those of many eastern musicians, and a talent for rhythm and nuttiness" (Bass Musician Magazine). "Master of the Dutar" (NPR, New Sounds).
Gabriel has studied and performed music from North and South India, Iran, the Balkans, Turkey and Central Asia, as well as western classical music and avant-garde jazz. As one of the few players to explore the fretless guitar and MIDI guitar, he has found a truly unique and expressive voice. In addition to this his exploration and layering of a vast array of effects contributes to his distinct sound. He is a founding member of internationally renowned fusion band Consider the Source. In addition to Guitar, Gabriel is versed in Dutar, Dombra, Tanbour, Balta Saz, and Kamancha.
This event is free for the Hunter community. No RSVP necessary.
Guest Artist Masterclass with Gabriel Marin
Join us for a Masterclass on Eastern Guitar and String Instruments with Gabriel Marin.
Multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Marin “boasts insane chops, impeccable time, mastery of diverse traditional scales, rare fretless guitar fluency, and a gift for manipulating effects,” (Premier Guitar Magazine). Called “the guiding light for his generation of six-stringers” by The Buffalo Times, He is "A fretless guitar virtuoso whose microtonal adventures rival those of many eastern musicians, and a talent for rhythm and nuttiness" (Bass Musician Magazine). "Master of the Dutar" (NPR, New Sounds).
Gabriel has studied and performed music from North and South India, Iran, the Balkans, Turkey and Central Asia, as well as western classical music and avant-garde jazz. As one of the few players to explore the fretless guitar and MIDI guitar, he has found a truly unique and expressive voice. In addition to this his exploration and layering of a vast array of effects contributes to his distinct sound. He is a founding member of internationally renowned fusion band Consider the Source. In addition to Guitar, Gabriel is versed in Dutar, Dombra, Tanbour, Balta Saz, and Kamancha.
This event is free for the Hunter community. No RSVP necessary.
Hunter Students in Concert
Student instrumental & vocal performances.
This event is free for the Hunter community. No RSVP necessary.
Distinguished Writers Series - Elizabeth Strout - Fiction
An evening with Elizabeth Strout in conversation with Adam Haslett.
Elizabeth Strout is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lucy by the Sea; Oh William!, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible, winner of the Story Prize; My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Abide with Me; and Amy and Isabelle, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. She has also been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine.
This event is free and open to the public. Click here to RSVP.
Career Insights: The Music Industry
Looking to break into the music industry? Come hear from a distinguished group of professionals working throughout this diverse and exciting industry.
PANELISTS:
Paul “Baby Paul” Hendricks - Grammy Nominated Hip Hop Producer, A&R Consultant and Media Content Curator
Sheana Stokes - CEO, Shhhh World Inc., AMLC Alum
Michele Hug - Vice President, Nasty Little Man PR
Natalie Ward - Administrative Assistant, Brick Wall Management, AMLC Alum
Alec Ifshin - Director of Finance and Business Affairs, Elsewhere
This event is free for Hunter students! No RSVP necessary.
What's Next? with Trevor Nunn
A look into the future of Shakespeare productions—and the theatre in general—from the groundbreaking director.
Meet one of the most influential figures in contemporary theater—a director and artistic leader who has shaped the way we experience Shakespeare, musicals, and modern drama. Sir Trevor Nunn’s career spans record-breaking Broadway musicals (including Cats and Les Misérables) and collaborations with some of the most celebrated (and most famous) actors and playwrights of the past 60 years. Now he’s coming to Hunter College for a series of intimate talks with students.
“From Cats to King Lear, Nunn can do it all.”
—The Guardian