•   'NYC Summer of Games' — the citywide celebration of New York City's booming digital games community featuring marquee events, expos, tournaments, exhibits, workshops, and programs across all five boroughs, is happening now! Upcoming events include:
   ○   Game Devs of Color Expo – September 27-30; Dedicated to amplifying the creative power held by people of color in games while creating a games industry that is intersectional and equitable
•   For more information about NYC Summer of Games, including the Games for Change Festival, please visit MOME’s Digital Games page here. 

•   In partnership with MOME, the GRAMMY Museum presents two more intimate performances and conversations this September:

   ○    Celebrating Doc Watson's Centennial - Thursday, September 14 at the Rubin Museum of Art
   ○    Allison Russell - Tuesday, September 26 at The Greene Space at WNYC and WQXR

•    Playbill, The Broadway League, and the Times Square Alliance will host the third annual Festival—a three-day outdoor experience in Times Square presented by Prudential Financial with additional support from MOME for the Broadway Block Party.
•    The Festival will once again bring Broadway to the streets in the heart of New York City, and will include interactive events and performances that are all live, free, and open to the public.
•    For more information on the full schedule of events throughout the weekend, please visit Playbill here. 

•    The New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF), presented by Warner Bros. Discovery, kicks off Latino Heritage Month with an impressive roster of films, panel discussions, and outdoor events.
•    Held at Regal Union Square (850 Broadway, NYC), Festival highlights include the NYC premiere of Amazon Prime’s film Cassandro (2023, 99 min. USA), the true story of a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rose to international stardom, and the closing night free outdoor event in Washington Heights’ Quisqueya Plaza featuring live music, and food.
•    For more information and tickets for NYLFF 2023, please visit their website here.

•    To help celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, NYC Media’s flagship TV channel NYC Life will premiere a new season of “92NY on NYC Life” with comedian/author Julio Torres in conversation with SNL’s Bowen Yang on Saturday, Sept 16th at 8pm.
•    Additional guests featured in Season 14 of "92NY on NYC Life" will include RZA, founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, actors Andrew Garfield, Michelle Williams and Hugh Jackman, Gayle King and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, screenwriter Tony Kushner, the cast of Star Trek: Picard, along with many others.
•    For more information, please visit the “92NY on NYC Life” page on the NYC Media website here. 

•   The literary world takes over Downtown Brooklyn with NYC’s largest free book festival and the Literary Marketplace, the largest book market in the region, featuring thousands of books by publishers across the country. The Festival presents author discussions and readings across 7 stages with Hilton Als, Alexandra Bracken, Barbara Brandon-Croft, Joyce Carol Oates, Mark Oshiro and Pulitzer Prize-winners Toluse Olorunnipa, Robert Samuels, and Colson Whitehead, plus hundreds of others. Additional events include:
   ○     Virtual Festival Day - September 24th
   ○     Children’s Day in Brooklyn Commons at MetroTech - September 30th
   ○     Bookends week - Throughout
•   For more information, please visit their website here.  

•    Since 1963, the NYFF has brought new and important cinematic works from around the world to Lincoln Center.
•    This year’s festival will show films in every borough. Highlights include Hayao Miyazaki’s long-awaited The Boy and the Heron; the world premiere of Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s series The Curse; Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro; Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things starring Emma Stone; an extended conversation with Pedro Almodóvar following his 30-minute film Strange Way of Life; Trân Anh Hùng’s sumptuous Cannes Best Director winner The Taste of Things; Frederick Wiseman’s sumptuous Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros; and so much more!

•    For tickets, please visit the NYFF website here. 

•    NewFest is celebrating the 35th anniversary of its annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival, with in-person screenings throughout NYC and films streaming across the US!
•    NewFest will be returning once again to in-person screenings and Q&A’s at SVA Theatre and The LGBT Community Center in Manhattan, as well as two locations in Brooklyn - Nitehawk Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in Brooklyn.

•    For more information, please visit the NewFest website here. 

•   The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) proudly announced that applications are open for the fifth round of grants for the NYC Women's Fund for Media, Music and Theatre. Qualified applicants can apply for finishing grants through November 1, 2023 at www.nyfa.org/nycwomensfund.

•  MOME’s Executive Director of Theatre and Live Performance Partnerships, Carla Hoke-Miller, was on hand to kick-off the third annual celebration of puppetry in NYC.
•   The festival, organized by Teatro SEA, Grupo Morán (The Morán Group) and The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Education Center, is the only international festival dedicated to puppetry. The opening night featured a Halloween in August Theatrical Procession Honoring the late Ralph Lee, New York City’s most renowned puppet master. 

•   MOME’s Associate Commissioner, Workforce Development and Educational Initiatives, Alia Jones-Harvey spoke at this year’s event about the ‘Made in NY’ digital games marketing credit.
•    The highly anticipated New York gaming convention returned for its 8th edition, and brought together creators and fans from the local area and beyond. 

•   MOME Commissioner Pat Swinney Kaufman joined NYC Tourism’s Fred Dixon, and Council Members Keith Powers and Eric Bottcher at the Nasdaq Exchange to ring the closing bell and announce the launch of 2023 Broadway Week, offering 2-1 tickets to the biggest shows and musicals in NYC, September 4-17. 

•    Deadline 8/23 - NYC Has A New Film Commissioner As Patricia Kaufman Tapped To Lead Mayor’s Office Of Media & Entertainment
•    Broadway World 8/22 - Application Period Now Open for NYC Women’s Fund
•    Nylon 8/30 - On The List (With Melissa Rich): How To Party Like The Pros

Follow the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment on social media for the latest on our upcoming events, initiatives, and programs: Twitter: @MadeinNY, Facebook: @MadeinNY, and Instagram: @Madein_NY. 

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