Today’s Calendar of Events in Lower Manhattan 11/5/19

Zumba Jumpstart

Join a fitness dance party with upbeat Latin music of salsa, merengue, hip-hop, and more! Enthusiastic instruction creates a fun community of dancers who learn new steps each week. Bring your friends and share in this fit and fun dancing community. 6 River Terrace. Battery Park City Authority

6:30PM

An Evening with Jung Chang and the Soong Sisters

Jung Chang, author of bestseller Wild Swans, launches her newest work, Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China, in a conversation about China’s past, present, and future. The book examines the lives of three of the most famous women in modern China: the Soong sisters, whose families and marriages changed the fate of an embattled China through civil war and revolution. $20, $30 40 Rector Street.

7PM

TimesTalks: Martha Stewart & Questlove

Conversation about food, music and creativity with co-founder of The Roots, D.J., producer, best-selling author and culinary entrepreneur Questlove, and Emmy Award-winning media authority Martha Stewart.The duo will discuss Questlove’s upcoming book, “Mixtape Potluck,” in which he imagines the ultimate potluck dinner party, inviting more than 50 chefs, entertainers and musicians to bring along their favorite recipes.  The result is not only an accessible, entertaining cookbook, but also a collection of Questlove’s diverting musical commentaries and the creative relationship between music and food. $55 199 Chambers Street.