‘SESAME STREET’: THE PREMIERE at the Museum of the Moving Image (Nov. 10, 2 p.m.). Here’s your chance to meet those friendly neighbors of “Sesame Street” exactly as viewers did on Nov. 10, 1969: This Queens museum is showing the first episode of the groundbreaking children’s television show on its 50th birthday. This inaugural installment doesn’t include a Muppet that is autistic or has a parent battling addiction — two of the most recent innovations — but it does showcase the pioneering series’s multiracial cast, urban setting and freewheeling mix of animation, live action and puppetry. (Watch for the cameo of a juggling Jim Henson.) As well as seeing the debut of characters like Big Bird, Bert and Ernie and Oscar the Grouch (who here is mustard yellow) on the ever-evolving show, visitors can hear a panel discussion featuring three guests who were instrumental to the premiere’s success: the actor Bob McGrath; Frank Biondo, a camera operator; and Dick Maitland, who handled sound effects.

718-777-6888, movingimage.us

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TEENS TAKE THE MET! at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Nov. 8, 5-8 p.m.). Adolescents have proved that they can be movers and shakers on a variety of issues, including gun control and climate change. At this free event, they can move and shake, period, as well as explore their concerns through art. Open to all teenagers with a middle school or high school ID, these twice-yearly celebrations feature partnerships with community organizations to offer young people a range of experiences. The highlights on Friday include a silent dance party; a power pose workshop with Teens@Graham, an outreach program of the Martha Graham School; a social-justice-themed collage project with Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE); a self-defense demonstration from the Center for Anti-Violence Education; a station devoted to the career of the artist Keith Haring, sponsored by the organization the Door; as well as opportunities to make films, books and theater.

212-535-7710, metmuseum.org

THEATRESPORTS: ‘BEAT THE CLOCK’ at the Gallery Players (Nov. 10, noon). This isn’t a revival of the 1950s TV game show, but it does involve, in more than one sense, a good time. Presented by Freestyle Repertory Theater, the event pits two teams of actors against each other — hence the athletic-sounding title of this monthly series — in an improvisatory contest. (Reservations can be made by phone, but tickets must be bought at the door.) November’s Theatresports theme is time, and children at “Beat the Clock” will provide the competing players with subjects that could be historical periods, future fantasies, time-limited scenes or anything else related to the passage of minutes and hours. Young audience members will vote on the outcome, and because these shows are interactive, kids may be asked to demonstrate comic timing of their own.

718-595-0547, ext. 6; galleryplayers.com

WINGS OVER WAVE HILL WEEKEND at Wave Hill (Nov. 9-11). This public garden in the Riverdale section of the Bronx is more than a haven for plants; it’s also a kind of highway refueling station for migratory birds, which frequently pass through on their journeys south. This annual weekend celebrates those species with a variety of activities for different ages, including, on Saturday and Sunday, a family art project in which children can use natural materials and pastels to create a collaborative picture of a bird-filled sky, all while listening to recorded migratory calls. On Saturday, young people 10 and older are invited to a workshop to make birdseed ornaments that winged visitors can eat, and on Sunday, those 8 and older can take part in a drop-in workshop to dissect owl pellets: the taut balls of undigested feathers, fur and bones that these master predators regurgitate after eating. Each day will feature guided birding or nature walks, and Monday will offer the star attraction: a 1 p.m. outdoor presentation by the educational organization Skyhunters in Flight, in which Brian Bradley, a master falconer, will show live hawks, falcons and owls and demonstrate their extraordinary skills. (A full schedule is on the website.)

718-549-3200, wavehill.org