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  • July Monthly Meeting

    SLC Conference Center 15 West 39th Street – 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Host: Ken Bronstein Program: The Search for the Higgs Boson Join us to watch the outstanding PBS video Particle Fever about the search for the Higgs Boson. As the Large...

    $10

  • September Book & Film Club

    National Opera Center America 330 Seventh Avenue , New York, NY, United States

    Host: Lisa Smith Film: The Darwin Awards We will view the film about the tongue-in-cheek Darwin Awards for stupidity and discuss afterwards. Loosely based on the book series of the same name, The Darwin Awards is a wry indie film that deals with the premise that some people will live long and prosperous lives, while the...

    $10

  • September Brunch & Speaker

    The Press Box 932 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    Speaker:  Jeremy Kasdin, Ph.D. Professor, Vice-Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Princeton University Topic: In there life beyond our own solar system? Professor Kasdin says that “The Universe is teeming with planets.” So far though, astronomers have only been able to detect potentially Earth-like planets through indirect observation. Kasdin and his NASA colleagues want to...

    $20

  • September Monthly Meeting

    SLC Conference Center 15 West 39th Street – 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Host: Ken Bronstein Speaker: Glennys Farrar, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, NYU Topic: Dark Matter and Dark Energy A $10 charge for this event is used to help cover the cost...

    $10

  • October Brunch & Speaker

    The Press Box 932 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    Speaker:  Nathan Lent Professor, Vice-Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Princeton University Topic: Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animal Nature. Dr. Lents will present selected topics from his book, Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animal Nature - We Are Not Unique in Many different Ways (see here). Animals fall in love,...

    $20

  • October Book & Film Club

    National Opera Center America 330 Seventh Avenue , New York, NY, United States

    Host: Lisa Smith Film: Religulous We will view Bill Maher's humorously provacative film and discuss afterwards. The event is held at the National Opera Center America, between 29th and 30th Streets, in the 7th Floor Board Room. The event cost is $10 to help cover the cost of the room rental.

    $10

  • October Discussion Night

    Stone Creek Bar and Lounge 140 East 27th St., New York, NY, United States

    Subject: Assisted Suicide: What other religiously inspired laws should we challenge? Host:  Lee Moore The event is free, but please purchase food or drink to compensate Stone Creek for the...

    Free

  • October Monthly Meeting

    SLC Conference Center 15 West 39th Street – 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Host: Ken Bronstein Speaker: Kelly McBride Folkers Topic: About the Zika virus and the ethical issues it creates A $10 charge for this event is used to help cover the...

    $10

  • November Brunch & Speaker

    The Press Box 932 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    Speaker:  Panel Discussion Topic: What should be the atheist agenda after the election? The cost of this event is $20 which includes a wonderful all-you-can-eat brunch followed by our guest speaker.

    $20

  • November Monthly Meeting

    SLC Conference Center 15 West 39th Street – 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Host: Ken Bronstein Speaker: Jon McGinn Topic: CRISPR: All about this world-changing genome editing technique. A $10 charge for this event is used to help cover the cost of the...

    $10

  • November Discussion Night

    Stone Creek Bar and Lounge 140 East 27th St., New York, NY, United States

    Subject: TBA Host:  Lee Moore The event is free, but please purchase food or drink to compensate Stone Creek for the use of their space.

    Free

  • December Brunch & Speaker

    The Press Box 932 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    Video:  Written, directed, and produced by Roderick Bradford Topic: The Truth Seeker: D.M. Bennett D.M. BENNETT (1818-1882) was pronounced guilty for violating the Comstock Law in New York on March 21, 1879. “The trial of Dr. Bennett for sending obscene matter through the mails is one of the most important of the day,” declared The New York Sun....

    $20

  • December Discussion Night

    Stone Creek Bar and Lounge 140 East 27th St., New York, NY, United States

    Subject: Atheism and the Holidays Should we atheists celebrate religious holidays? Should we change them? Should we start our own? Host:  Lee Moore The event is free, but please purchase...

    Free

  • January Brunch & Speaker

    The Press Box 932 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    Speaker:  Barbara Mancini Topic: The Legal Battles Over Assisted Suicide A Pennsylvania county judge has thrown out an assisted suicide case against a 58-year-old nurse named Barbara Mancini, who was accused of homicide last year for allegedly handing her 93-year-old father a bottle of morphine. This case was also featured story on CBS’ 60 minutes. Ms....

    $20

  • January Discussion Night

    Stone Creek Bar and Lounge 140 East 27th St., New York, NY, United States

    Topic: What can the Atheist community do to combat Sexism, Racism, and any other form of discrimination in our nation?  Should we take up these issues as passionately as we...

    Free

  • Anti-Trump Demonstration

    NYC Atheists whose primary mission is the separation of church and state, will be demonstrating against President Trump’s pledged policies that undermine those protections: §  Pledge to appoint conservative judges on the U.S. Supreme Court and other federal benches. (As The Washington Post reports, there are more than 100 vacancies on the federal bench, §...

  • January Monthly Meeting

    SLC Conference Center 15 West 39th Street – 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Host: Ken Bronstein Speaker: Julien Musolino Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Psycholinguistics at Rutgers University Topic: The Soul Fallacy: What Science Shows We Gain From Letting Go of Our Soul Beliefs A $10 charge for this event is used to help cover the cost of the venue.

    $10

  • February Brunch & Speaker

    The Press Box 932 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, United States

    SPEAKER: JOANNE SOUZA, Ph.D Director, Biology Online / Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology / STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY SUBJECT: DARWIN: One of Darwin’s unanswered questions: In what ways are humans unique among animals and how did we get that way within the process of evolution by natural selection? DESCRIPTION: Charles Darwin’s major contribution to science...

    $20

  • February Discussion Night

    Stone Creek Bar and Lounge 140 East 27th St., New York, NY, United States

    Topic: Should folks from Islamic nations be denied entry into the US or welcomed? Host:  Lee Moore The event is free, but please purchase food or drink to compensate Stone Creek for the use of their space.

    Free

  • February Monthly Meeting

    SLC Conference Center 15 West 39th Street – 3rd Floor, New York, NY, United States

    Host: Ken Bronstein SPEAKER: KAREN GARST, Ph.D She recently retired as executive director of the Oregon State Bar. She has a blog at http://www.faithlessfeminist.com and is on Facebook and YouTube...

    $10