Atlantic Festival PACNYC again hosts the magazine’s three-day event, Sept. 17 to 19, featuring conversations about politics, culture, technology, business, and more with participants such as Pete Buttigieg, author Andrew McCarthy, journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, former Chicago mayor and Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, composer Nicholas Britell, and many others. Go here to register.

Original historic documents from the nation’s founding are on view at the South Street Seaport Museum’s 1868 A.A. Thomson & Co. building, 213 Water St. The U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, a pre-edited copy of George Washington’s inaugural address and more are part of the museum’s exhibition “The Promise of Liberty: Words That Shaped a Nation.” So here for more information.

“Terra Incognita,” paintings by Adrian Coleman, are on view until Sept. 4 at Steven Amedee Gallery, 41 North Moore St. The artist, with roots both in the U.K. and U.S., uses the motifs of shuttered storefronts, desolate streets and masked people during COVID as a meditation on home, “both the home where one resides but also the home that one recalls.”

Downtown pop-up stores Seven small businesses will get a boost next month when they open temporary storefronts, free of charge, in Lower Manhattan as part of the Downtown Alliance RE:Store program. The pop-up stores range from Plus BKLYN at 2 Broadway, a boutique specializing in second-hand fashions for sizes 12+ to The Numero Group NYC Pop Up at 186 Front St., a record label that sells reissued  and “forgotten” music on vinyl LPs, CDs, 45s and more. The stores (a full list is here), were chosen from among more than 360 applications.

With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America is an ongoing exhibition at the Museum of Chinese in America that interweaves the historical and political context of Chinese immigration to the U.S. with the personal stories and cultural traces of multiple generations. More information here.