BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//github.com/ical-org/ical.net//NONSGML ical.net 5.1.4//EN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:RCNY International Breakfast October 22     Guest presen ter at our RCNY Breakfast at the UN on October 22\, 2026 Molly Garfinkel\ , Co-Director City Lore City Lore\, a 40-year-old cultural organization t hat "documents\, presents\, and advocates for New York City’s grassroots cultures to ensure their living legacy in stories and histories\, places and traditions."         Molly Garfinkel will present the work of City Lore\, a forty-year-old cultural conservation and education not-for-p rofit. Based in the Lower East Side\, and active throughout the five borou ghs and across the United States\, City Lore’s mission is to foster livi ng cultural heritage through education and public programs in service of c ultural equity and social inclusion. City Lore documents\, presents\, and advocates for New York City’s grassroots cultures to ensure their living legacy in stories and histories\, places and traditions. The organization works in four cultural domains:  urban folklore and history\; historic p reservation and neighborhood advocacy\; arts education\; and grassroots po etry traditions. In each of these realms\, City Lore aims to further cultu ral equity and model a better world with projects as dynamic and diverse a s the city and nation themselves.     As Co-Director of City Lore and t he Director of City Lore’s Place Matters program\, Garfinkel leads initi atives related to cultural resource management\, public history\, exhibiti on curation\, public education\, historic preservation\, and traditional a rts presentation. Her research explores Western and non-Western building t raditions\, theories of cultural landscapes\, cultural policy\, and histor ies of urbanism and city planning.        Molly has published articles in the University of Oregon’s CultureWork broadside\, Voices\, The Jour nal of New York Folklore\, University of Pennsylvania’s LA+ Design Journ al\, the Journal of American Folklore\, Panorama: Journal of the Associati on of Historians of American Art\, and with the San Francisco Museum of Mo dern Art in association with Princeton University Press and National Endow ment for the Arts’ Office of Research & Analysis.       Garfinkel is a member of the NY State Board for Historic Preservation and a co-recipie nt of the 2024 NY State Historic Preservation Award for successfully nomin ating New York City’s Puerto Rican casitas to the NY State and National Registers of Historic Places. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Wesleya n University and an M.A. in Architectural History from the University of V irginia.   DTEND:20261022T140000Z DTSTAMP:20261017T202628Z DTSTART:20261022T123000Z LOCATION:UN Church Center SEQUENCE:1 SUMMARY:RCNY International Breakfast at the UN - October UID:63bb087a-d413-464f-b03f-777e0b476be8 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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RCNY International Breakfast October 22

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Guest presenter at our RCNY Breakfast at the UN on October 22\, 2026

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< font style="box-sizing: border-box\; color: initial\; text-decoration-colo r: initial\;">Molly Garfinkel\, Co-Director City Lore

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Ci ty Lore\, a 40-year-old cultural organization that "\;documents\, presents\, and advocates for New York City&rsquo\;s grassroots cultures t o ensure their living legacy in stories and histories\, places and traditi ons."\; \; \; \; \;

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Molly Garfinkel will present the work of City L ore\, a forty-year-old cultural conservation and education not-for-pr ofit. Based in the Lower East Side\, and active throughout the five boroug hs and across the United States\, City Lore&rsquo\;s mission is to foster living cultural heritage through education and public programs in service of cultural equity and social inclusion. City Lore documents\, presents\, and advocates for New York City&rsquo\;s grassroots cultures to ensure the ir living legacy in stories and histories\, places and traditions. The org anization works in four cultural domains: \; urban folklore and histor y\; historic preservation and neighborhood advocacy\; arts education\; and grassroots poetry traditions. In each of these realms\, City Lore aims to further cultural equity and model a better world with projects as dynamic and diverse as the city and nation themselves.
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As Co-Director of City Lore and the Directo r of City Lore&rsquo\;s Place Matters program\, Garfinkel leads initiative s related to cultural resource management\, public history\, exhibition cu ration\, public education\, historic preservation\, and traditional arts p resentation. Her research explores Western and non-Western building tradit ions\, theories of cultural landscapes\, cultural policy\, and histories o f urbanism and city planning. \;
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 \;  \; Mol ly has published articles in the University of Oregon&rsquo\;s CultureWork broadside\, Voices\, The Journal of New York Folklore\, University of Pennsyl vania&rsquo\;s LA+ Design Journal\, the Jou rnal of American Folklore\, Panorama: Journal of the Ass ociation of Historians of American Art\, and with the San Francisco M useum of Modern Art in association with Princeton University Press and Nat ional Endowment for the Arts&rsquo\; Office of Research &\; Analysis.&n bsp\;
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 \;  \;  \;Garfinkel is a member of the NY State Board for Historic P reservation and a co-recipient of the 2024 NY State Historic Preservation Award for successfully nominating New York City&rsquo\;s Puerto Rican casi tas to the NY State and National Registers of Historic Places. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Wesleyan University and an M.A. in Architectural History from the University of Virginia.
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