Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York upcoming events

Tour of the South Street Seaport Museum Exhibitions, Archives, and Special Collections (Wednesday, September 16, 2026)

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Image courtesy of South Street Seaport Museum staff.

Title: Tour of the South Street Seaport Museum Exhibitions, Archives, and Special Collections

Date & Time: Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at 3:00-5:00 PM (tour begins promptly at 3:00 PM)

Capacity: 12

Duration: 2 hours

Admission: Free! Open to A.R.T. Members & Non-Members

Location: South Street Seaport Museum, 213 Water Street, New York, NY 10038

Event attendees are invited to visit the South Street Seaport Museum’s landmark exhibition, The Promise of Liberty: Words That Shaped a Nation, as well as the long-term exhibition, Maritime City. Following the exhibitions, attendees will have the opportunity to explore the Museum’s Archives and Special Collections storage rooms and learn about the Seaport Museum’s archival collections and institutional archive projects. Museum staff and interns will provide an overview and show the projects they are working on including ephemera, documents, photographs, and institutional records.

This is an in-person event limited to 12 A.R.T. Members & Non-Members. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event. In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.

ABOUT

Located in the heart of the historic Seaport District, the South Street Seaport Museum preserves and interprets the history of New York as a great port city. Since 1967, the Museum has connected visitors with the city's rich maritime heritage through exhibitions, collections, historic buildings, a working nineteenth-century letterpress print shop, a maritime reference library, and one of the nation's most significant fleets of historic ships. Known as "Where New York Begins," the Museum brings together history, art, culture, and the waterfront to tell the story of the city through the lens of its enduring relationship with the sea.

Meeting Location:

Please meet at the A.A. Thomson & Co. building at 213 Water Street. Staff will meet the attendees at the entrance. This location is fully accessible.

Accessibility Note: The archives we will tour afterwards are located on the 4th floor of another historic building which requires climbing stairs.

Directions to South Street Seaport Museum:

By subway: Take the A, C, 2, 3, J, Z, 4, or 5 train to Fulton Street.

By bus: Take the M-15 SBS or M-15 to Fulton Street.

By water: The NYC Ferry, and New York Waterway provide service to Pier 11. The Staten Island Ferry provides services to Whitehall Terminal.

Parking: Parking lots can be found at Front and John Streets, as well as 294 Pearl Street.

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A Living Library: Art, Archives, and Artist Collaboration at the Philosophical Research Society (Saturday, September 19, 2026)

Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Library Interior images with artworks by artist Lezley Saar as part of her library residency period.

Title: A Living Library: Art, Archives, and Artist Collaboration at the Philosophical Research Society

Date & Time: Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 1:00pm EDT

Duration: 1 hour

Capacity: 100

Admission: Free! (open to A.R.T. Members & Non-Members)

Format: Webinar via Zoom

A conversation with librarian and co-curator dama on the history of the PRS library, and what it means to keep a collection of 90-year-old esoteric wisdom in living dialogue with artists today.

Founded in 1934 by scholar Manly P. Hall, the Philosophical Research Society library in Los Feliz houses over 40,000 rare volumes, manuscripts, and art objects devoted to global wisdom traditions, esoteric thought, and the history of human inquiry. But from its founding, Hall envisioned a collection that could not be built from books alone; he believed art belonged in the library as its own form of wisdom.

PRS Librarian and Co-Curator dama will trace that founding vision across nearly a century of the library's history -- from Hall's original conception of a collection that held artists in mind, through PRS's ongoing artist-in-residence program, to the collaborations, exhibitions, and curatorial practices shaping the collection today.

The talk will be followed by an audience Q&A.

This is a free, virtual webinar hosted via Zoom. Advance registration is required. Upon registering for the webinar, you will receive a confirmation via email with a link to join the webinar. This webinar will be video recorded. Please note that registration caps at 100 attendees.

About

dama (Amanda Maciel Antunes) is a Brazilian, self-taught occult artist based in Los Angeles. She is a librarian and co-curator at the Philosophical Research Society, where she cares for a non-circulating research collection of over 40,000 rare volumes alongside an active program of artist collaborations and residencies. At PRS, dama founded and hosts the Surrealist Study Group, a monthly gathering devoted to women artists and writers who looked beyond the visible world for inspiration. Her own transdisciplinary practice spanning painting, writing, sound, and durational performance is rooted in memory, ritual, mythology, and the spiritual undercurrents connecting generations of women artists and mystics.

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Meet the A.R.T. Board Ice Cream Social (Tuesday, September 22, 2026)

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:30:00 GMT

Image courtesy of Brooklyn Farmacy

Title: Meet the A.R.T. Board Ice Cream Social

Date & Time: Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026 at 6:30PM

Duration: 2 hours

Capacity: 35

Admission: Free! (but Buy Your Own Ice Cream)

Location: Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain, 513 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231

September 22nd may be the first day of Fall, but we’re keeping the summertime vibes going! Meet the Archivists Round Table Board of Directors at the Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain on Tuesday, September 22nd. Learn from each Director about their committees and how to get more involved with A.R.T., and meet fellow archivists and A.R.T. members.

The Board will be at the Farmacy from 6:30-8:30PM, so stop by anytime you’d like in that window.

Be sure to check out the gathering and publication launch that METRO is hosting down the street at the Center for Brooklyn History on this same evening!

This is an in-person event limited to 35 attendees. Registration is non-transferable. Please note that you MUST reserve a ticket in advance online in order to attend this event.

In the occasion that the event is sold out, we highly recommend joining the waitlist. An ART staff member will reach out to you if a spot becomes available. Unless you've been given permission, please do not show up at the event without registering.

How to find Brooklyn Farmacy

The Brooklyn Farmacy is located between the Carroll Street and Bergen Street F/G subway stations. The B61 and B57 buses run down nearby Columbia Street and Court Street, respectively.

Meeting Location

We’ll plan to be set up towards the back seating area inside of Brooklyn Farmacy, but if the weather is nice, we’ll go outside, too!

About

Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda Fountain was established in 2010 in a restored pharmacy from the 1920s. They have an extensive seasonal menu of sundaes, scoops, floats, shakes, egg creams, and more!

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