Things to do on a Sunday in New York

Bed-Stuy is getting seven straight days of dance, drumming, wellness and live performance when the Art Is Alive Festival returns for its 10th anniversary.

Presented by the Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation—which is marking its own 25th anniversary—the free festival will run from Sunday, September 13, through Saturday, September 19, at Asase Yaa School of the Arts, located on MacDonough Street between Malcolm X Boulevard and Patchen Avenue. This year’s theme, “Rooted 10 Years Deep,” pays tribute to the residents, families, artists and cultural leaders who have helped sustain the event over the past decade.

Programming includes free 90-minute classes spanning West African and Caribbean dance, percussion and wellness. The entire week builds toward the festival’s second annual block party, which will take over the neighborhood from noon to 7pm on Saturday, September 19.

Textiles are a lot more than couture or the fabric you're sitting on right now—assuming you're on the couch. Untethered Works, a new exhibit at the Textile Art Gallery (529 W 20th St, 6th Fl.), brings together contemporary artists exploring what happens when fiber escapes its traditional boundaries. Artists Peggy Black, Julia Graziano and Sarah Pavlik showcase works that push fabric, thread and other materials into sculptural, tactile and often unexpectedly expressive territory. Forget what you think you know about embroidery—these artists treat textiles as a serious medium for abstraction and experimentation.

There are also two special events on September 10 in celebration of New York Textile Month XI: a talk with the artists midday, and the opening reception in the early evening. All events are free, just register online.

New York Liberty fans, your game day center is here.  

Time Out Market New York, Union Square, is screening all of the women's basketball games—and you know who we'll be rooting for. Catch the games on all eight of our TVs across our Market, including the massive dropdown screen. Cheer on your favorite team while enjoying killer cocktails and pitchers of beers alongside incredible game-day bites from each of our kitchens. 

Here's the current list of matchups:

August 8: New York Liberty vs. Las Vegas Aces | 12:30 PM

August 13: New York Liberty vs. Los Angeles Sparks | 8:00 PM

August 15: New York Liberty vs. Connecticut Sun | 1:00 PM

August 22: New York Liberty vs. Indiana Fever | 7:00 PM

August 28: New York Liberty vs. Golden State Valkyries | 8:00 PM

The songs of Québécois nightingale Celine Dion are the stately vessel—or are they the iceberg?—in this campy spoof of James Cameron's 1997 romantic disaster film, written by Marla Mindelle (Sister Act) and Constantine Rousouli (Cruel Intentions) with director Tye Blue. After more than 1,000 performances Off Broadway, the ship sails onto the Main Stem this spring; original stars Mindelle, Rousouli and Frankie Grande are newly flanked by Jim Parsons (!) as meddling mother Ruth Dewitt Bukater and Deborah Cox as the ever-unsinkable Molly Brown. Time Out readers can enjoy a discount of up to 50% on select tickets thru 9/6 by using this link with code TONY26.

Every Saturday at Xanadu, combine two of the best (and most fun) things to come out of the '70s: disco and roller skating. Starting at noon, the Bushwick roller rink becomes your daytime playground for a glittery afternoon of skating, disco and general good times on wheels. The all-ages skate sesh runs until 6pm, with a soundtrack of disco, house and pop keeping the rink moving. Bring your own skates or rent a pair on-site to boogie down on Xanadu’s 7,000-square-foot maple floor. Olivia Newton-John not included.

Trying to make it a group hang? If you've got seven or more people tagging along, you can reserve a booth.

Before the sun starts to set at 4pm and we all plunge into seasonal woes, take advantage of every hot summer night by heading to Sunset Beats at Ink 48 Hotel's Hudson VU Rooftop Lounge (653 11th Ave.). The party runs on Saturdays and will be happening well into September this year. Dinner and drinks kick off at 6pm as the resident DJ gradually turns the tempo up while the sun goes down. It’s a low-key way to start the night—or a perfectly acceptable way to spend a Saturday not on your couch. Come for the sunset, stay for the music and let the city provide the scenery while the DJ handles the soundtrack.

Sometimes karaoke just doesn't cut it. For those who want the joy and release that singing provides, but maybe need to feel a little more confident doing it, there's The Sing Easy. An 80-minute guided group voice session led by NYC voice educator and artist Jess McAvoy, the evening uses breathwork, vocal play and easy-to-learn original songs to help participants explore their voices. No singing experience or music reading abilities required—just show up and make a joyful noise. Sessions take place at Sprout Society (26 Scott Ave.) in Brooklyn and on 150 West 28th Street, suite 303, in Manhattan through December. Tickets are tiered from $15 to $35. Upcoming dates include September 1, 10 and 24; October 8, 13 and 22; November 5, 10 and 19; December 3, 8 and 17.

If circular logic alone is enough to irritate you, It Ends definitely isn’t your movie.

It's a movie in which four friends literally drive around in circles—forever. Soon after Tyler (Mitchell Cole) picks up fellow Gen Zers James (Phinehas Yoon), Day (Akira Jackson) and Fisher (Noah Toth) for a night out, they realise they’ve misread the GPS and missed their turn. Then they discover that there is no turn. And finally, it dawns on them that there is no exit at all. They’re just stuck on an unfamiliar two-lane country road, surrounded by forest on both sides, indefinitely. It gets worse when they stretch their legs and are almost immediately beset upon by zombies. Or are they zombies? Maybe they’re just other people who eventually went crazy driving down the same road forever. Either way, things are not looking great.

In US theaters Friday August 21.

Weird things happen up the Magic Faraway Tree. Think, zany characters residing in its branches, a big slide and a long ladder leading to a revolving carousel of magical kingdoms. A sugary confection for a wartime generation deprived of goodies (and their parents) during the early 1940s, it’s Enid Blyton at her most escapist.

Transplanting all the hippy-dippy goodness from a three-book series into a movie, it’s a smart update of the Blyton stories for the smartphone era.

The Magic Faraway Tree is in US theaters Friday, August 21.

Olivia Wilde is single-handedly bringing erotic comedy back to the box office this year. First there was the four-way dinner party delight of The Invite, and now she dons a lot of (or very little) PVC for the long-awaited return of Gregg Araki with the deliciously silly I Want Your Sex. The film is in theaters now.