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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on December 4, 2014?

68 free events take place on Thursday, December 4 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out December 4 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of December . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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68 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, December 4, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Holiday Harmony: An Afternoon of Chamber Music for Two Celli and One Guitar
free events nyc Spirit Be Joyful: Seasonal Songs by Brahms, Hindemith, Strauss, Humperdinck
free events nyc Big Open Data
free events nyc Permanent Garbage: Victor Papanek and Beautiful Visions of Failed Systems
free events nyc Playwright Laura Eason discusses her play Sex with Strangers
        

Master Class | Flute Master Class: Stefán Höskuldsson


Stefán Höskuldsson, a native of Iceland, is Principal Flutist with the MET Orchestra since 2008. He also regularly gives master classes, recitals and concerto performances in the USA, Europe, Japan and South America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Windows 8 Basics Workshop


Learn the basics of navigating a PC with Windows 8.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Mac Computers for Beginners


Learn the basics of using a Mac computer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Discussion | Is a Russian-Style 'Gay Propaganda' Law Coming to Central Asia?


A discussion with Syinat Sultanalieva and Nika Yuryeva, members of the Kyrgyz LGBT organization Labrys. The event will be moderated by Tanya Domi, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | Mid-Park Welcome Tour


Explore the Park’s central features including the Lake and Ramble woodland, then marvel at the views from Belvedere Castle. Route involves many hills, stairs, and uneven paths. 45 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Holiday Harmony: An Afternoon of Chamber Music for Two Celli and One Guitar


Performers from the Juilliard School of music: Cello and guitar trio Khari Joyner, Cello; Hut Wonwechtwiwat, Cello; Tengyue Zhang, Guitar. Celebrate the season with The Juilliard School as they return to turn up the holiday cheer. Get into the spirit, step out of the cold, and enjoy an afternoon of lively classical music sure to energize and inspire. Heralded by the Atlanta Journal Constitution as “one of the most promising cellists in the country”, Khari Joyner has made numerous achievements nationally and abroad as a versatile soloist, chamber musician, and ambassador for the arts. He has collaborated with artists such as Magnus Lindberg and Hubert Laws, and has had numerous solo engagements with the Atlanta, Buffalo, New World, New Jersey, and Sphinx Symphonies. Other accomplishments include being awarded the William Schuman Prize for outstanding achievement and leadership in music at Juilliard’s 109th Commencement ceremony, winning first prizes in the Juilliard Concerto Competition and Sphinx Competition, and giving a private performance in the Oval Office for President Obama. This particular program will feature a variety of works, and of different stylistic periods, for both Cello and guitar, as well as two cellos. Some of the pieces, such as the de Falla Suite Populaire are more Spanish influenced, while others are more from a general Classical tradition, but feature a variety of virtuosity and brilliance. The program also includes a nice selection that guitarist TY Zhang composed himself, for cello and guitar. To finish off the program, there are some nice holiday selections that will be popular among many, and very recognizable.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Concert | College Chamber Music Informal


This informal lunch-time recital features ensembles from the College Division chamber music program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Music with a Vue


Musicians from the NYU Program in Piano Performance play.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Spirit Be Joyful: Seasonal Songs by Brahms, Hindemith, Strauss, Humperdinck


A presentation of Advent and Christmas songs reflecting a spiritual evolution of some well-known and lesser-known art song composers. Described as a “universally brilliant singer,” soprano Jane Marsh will perform seasonal songs including those of Johannes Brahms, Paul Hindemith, Hugo Wolf, Miguel Sandoval, Peter Cornelius, Max Reger, Richard Strauss, Joseph Marx, and Engelbert Humperdinck. Pianist Norman Carey will join her.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Yoga at the Mansion


Awesome Asana is moving inside for the Fall Season! Join Chelsea for sessions appropriate for all levels of fitness. Awesome Asana is a budding yoga project in Washington Heights developed by teacher Chelsea Best. The concept behind Awesome is collaborative, bringing yoga and artists together locally to build a stronger community in our neighborhood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$5 suggested donation

Concert | Gotham Early Music Concert: Trio Lafayette


This season’s performers were chosen competitively by jury and are among the finest early music artists and ensembles from the New York area and beyond. Today: Trio Lafayette bring their bows to bear on Dmitry Sitkovetsy’s arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for string trio. Performers: Clare Jolivet, violin; Jessica Troy, viola; Loretta O’Sullivan, cello.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
$10 suggested donation

Lecture | The Lenox Library: The Library as Museum


One of The New York Public Library’s founding donors was the little known James Lenox (1800-1880). His exceptional assemblage of rare books, prints, maps, and incunabula, which today form the heart of NYPL’s research holdings, were displayed, along with his paintings, sculptures and objects d’art, in the purpose-built Lenox Library (1877). A combined library and art gallery, the library was a gift from Lenox to the citizens of New York designed by one of the nation’s leading architects, Richard Morris Hunt. The Lenox Library graced upper Fifth Avenue until 1911 when it was demolished to make room for Henry C. Frick’s mansion, later the Frick Collection. Through the use of archival photographs, sketches, reproductions of paintings, and prints, this lecture will illuminate Hunt’s design and the display of books and art at the Lenox Library. By bringing to light this extraordinary multi-purpose building, one of the first in the city and in the nation to be both a research library and art gallery, it is hoped that James Lenox’s contribution can be better regarded and more fully valued. Lecturer Sally Webster is Professor Emerita of American Art at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Discussion | Big Open Data


How are large amounts of data managed, made sense of, and made accessible? What are the challenges of working with large open datasets, and how are different academic disciplines making use of them? In this panel discussion, researchers will explore big open data from three perspectives: the humanities, journalism, and the social web. Our panelists: - David Wrisley, Associate Professor in the Department of English and the Civilization Sequence Program at the American University of Beirut; Medieval Fellow at Fordham University's Center for Medieval Studies - Jonathan Stray, Fellow at Columbia Universitys Tow School for Digital Journalism; lead on the development of the Associated Press and the Knight Foundation Overview Project, an open-source document archive analysis system for investigative journalists - Alice Marwick, Assistant Professor at Fordham Universitys Communications and Media Studies Department; academic affiliate at the Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP) at Fordham Law School - David Park, Dean of Strategic Initiatives; senior advisor to the Executive Vice President and Dean of Faculty of the Arts and Sciences
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Park Walk | Central Park Tour - Middle Section


It is easy to forget that you are in a crowded city while walking through this spectacular park. This tour focuses on the middle of Central Park, seeing everything from a castle to the wild-looking Ramble. See an Ancient Egyptian obelisk and the place where Stuart Little raced his sailboat in the E.B. White children’s classic. Don’t forget to bring along your camera.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Don Hartman's Holiday Affair (1949): Seasonal Love Story


Stars: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey. The Christmas-season romance of a young widow and a sales clerk who (thanks to her) is unemployed. 87 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Oscar-Nominated French Film: Christian Carion's Joyeaux Noel (2005)


On Christmas Eve during World War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish fraternize and get to know the men who live on the opposite side of a brutal war, in what became a true lesson of humanity. 116 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Subway Art Tour


Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public. Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Digital Story Telling Using iMovie


Did you learn how to use iMovie? Come put your skills to use in our Digital Story Telling class. Create a movie that explores a topic using pictures, video clips and sound.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Uncovering Your Family History: Researching Immigration Records


Discover genealogical resources at the New York Public Library. This class offers an introductory exploration of passenger lists and naturalization records, their history, and the history Castle Garden, Ellis Island, and the Port of New York as a site of immigration to the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Master Class | Voice Master Class: Cynthia Hoffmann


Cynthia Hoffmann is a member of the voice faculties of Manhattan School of Music, where she also teaches a class in Vocal Performance, and of the Juilliard School, where she served as Chair from 1995 to 2006. She has been an adjunct voice faculty member of the Curtis Institute of Music and from 1984 to 1992 directed the Judith Raskin Opera Class at the 92nd Street Y School of Music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Kerstin Brätsch


Kerstin Brätsch's gregarious practice moves fluidly between mediums and between individual and collective practice. Brätsch creates strange hybrids of painting, design, and performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Symposium | Permanent Garbage: Victor Papanek and Beautiful Visions of Failed Systems


Building upon the exhibition How Things Don't Work: The Dreamspace of Victor Papanek, this symposium will explore design, future-making and speculation at the intersection of broken systems and social change. Guests: - Stuart Candy, Futurist - Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design, MoMA - Gerald Bast, Rector, University of the Applied Arts Vienna - Alison Clarke, Director, Victor Papanek Archive - Fiona Raby, Professor Industrial Design, University of the Applied Arts Vienna - Jamer Hunt, Director, Graduate Program in Transdisciplinary Design
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Other | 18th Annual Holiday Lighting


Celebrate the season at this 18th Annual Holiday Lighting. Meet Santa and friends, watch a live ice-carving demonstration, sing carols on the Plaza, and warm up with hot cocoa and cookies. The event concludes with lighting the center and a flotilla of trees on the Harlem Meer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Alyssa Matthews / Sylvia Sherr


We are the clay; the work of your hand features recent ceramic work by Sylvia Sherr. The exhibition title draws from the words of Isaiah 64.8 in the Old Testament. In her exhibition of recent paintings, Alyssa Matthews mines our notions of intimacy, guile, and truth. This body of work is a focused reference to nostalgic media coverage of Lady Diana and other public women, and the inevitable desire their tragedy evokes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | A Celebration of Bertolt Brecht’s Love Poems


In a stunning 1956 New Yorker piece, Hannah Arendt declared that Brecht “staked his life and art as few poets have ever done.” For this evening, writer and director Tony Kushner, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Angels in America and a National Medal of the Arts Award by President Obama, gathers actors for a riveting performance of the Brecht's love poems, representing work between 1918 and 1955 that often scandalized the German reading public with the force of Eros. Like Goethe, Brecht was always in love with various women, and as his daughter, Barbara Brecht-Schall, who will be present, writes in her preface to the collection this evening celebrates, “he was faithful to each of them.” Presented by the Poetry Society of America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | A Convergence: Photographs and Poems for Will Brown's 'A Tender Light'


Thomas Devaney and Vincent Katz will read their own poems, followed by Yvonne Jacquette and Jacob Burckhardt reading the poems of Edwin Denby. The extended working relationship between Edwin Denby and Rudy Burckhardt was the inspiration for Will Brown and Thomas Devaney's book The Picture that Remains (The Print Center, 2014). Burckhardt was Brown's mentor and they collaborated on a number of projects. The evening is a joint celebration of Brown and Devaney's book, and an homage to Denby's poems written for his books with Burckhardt.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Bastienne Schmidt's Topography of Quiet: Painting, Drawing, Photography


Internationally acclaimed mixed media artist Bastienne Schmidt explores through her painting, drawing and photography the subtle interaction between nature and imagination, and the sensation and memory of travel, both physically and metaphorically.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Book Buzz


The library is hosting a Random House Rep who will buzz about forthcoming books and give readers the inside scoop on summer and fall titles. Advanced Readers Copies, book catalogs, and Keep Calm and Read On tote bags will be available for attendees.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Confronting Climate Change: Insights from the Nuclear Disarmament Movement


The Center for Public Scholarship presents a conversation that will focus on how to generate the political and social change necessary to confront climate change. Robert Jay Lifton, author of many books, including, most recently, Witness to an Extreme Century (a memoir) and currently working on a book comparing nuclear and climate threats. Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science, Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University; author of many books, most recently The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future with Eric Conway. Moderator: Tom Engelhardt, editor, writer, and author; creator of TomDispatch.com, a project of the Nation Institute, at which he is a fellow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tour | Exhibition Tour: Pier 54


An exhibition conceived as a tribute to and a reaction against Pier 18, a project organized by Willoughby Sharp in 1971. Sharp invited 27 artists to create an event or an action to take place on the abandoned Pier 18 in Manhattan’s Financial District. All the events were staged for the camera and were documented by artist duo Shunk-Kender, and exhibited in photographic form at the Museum of Modern Art in 1971. Featuring: Leonor Antunes, Rosa Barba, Francisca Benitez, Carol Bove, N. Dash, Liz Glynn, Sharon Hayes, Iman Issa, Margaret Lee, Maria Loboda, Marie Lorenz, Shana Lutker, Liz Magic Laser, Jill Magid, MPA, Virginia Overton, Leah Raintree, Emily Roysdon, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Aki Sasamoto, Xaviera Simmons, Mika Tajima, Andra Ursuta, Sara VanDerBeek, Allyson Vieira, Marianne Vitale, Anicka Yi
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Small Works


Small artworks can have a big impact. These original art pieces can be purchased “right off the wall” for under $100 and will fit in a tote bag or briefcase. Art mediums represented in the collection include digital art, digital photography, collage, mixed media, oil on wood, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Joel Hoffman reads from his book The Bible's Cutting Room Floor


Acclaimed author and translator Dr. Joel M. Hoffman deftly brings ancient scriptural texts to life, exploring how they offer new answers to some of the most fundamental and universal questions people ask about their lives. A blend of history, linguistics, and religious scholarship, The Bible's Cutting Room Floor reveals what's missing from your Bible, who left it out, and why it is so important.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photos: Mio Akashi's Hagakure – Behind the Leaves


Mio Akashi’s photographs evoke a deep respect of nature, serenity, order and grace. Her images of landscapes and flowers and trees profoundly resonate with her Japanese background, her commitment to the study of tea ceremony, and knowledge of Shinto religion. The artist delineates nature in a painterly fashion, a gesture that seems inextricably linked together along the lineage of Japanese Art of screen and scroll.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Playwright Laura Eason discusses her play Sex with Strangers


Laura Eason will talk about her theatre career, her transition from playwriting to TV writing and her play recently produced at Second Stage in New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Political Subjects in the Era of Climate Change


Philosophy Professor Johanna Oksala (University of Helsinki) will give this talk.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Sonatenabend Recital


Pianists from the Collaborative Piano Department perform sonata repertoire in partnership with student instrumentalists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | The History of the Ptolemaic Collection at the Brooklyn Museum


A lecture by Edward Bleiberg of the Brooklyn Museum.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Slide Lecture | Cathryn J. Prince discusses her book Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff


The worst maritime disaster in modern history occurred during World War II, when more than 9,000 German civilians drowned. This illustrated lecture reconstructs this forgotten moment in history and weaves personal narratives into a broader story, finally giving this World War II tragedy its rightful remembrance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | From Chios to 125th Street: Toward a Black Odysseus


By painting a black Odyssey, Romare Bearden connected the desire of African American people to return home with Homers epic. In Bearden's art, the Odyssey is linked to the Freedom Riders, the Underground Railroad, Marcus Garvey's steamship line, and Rosa Parks on a Mobile bus. To ground a black Odyssey within larger cinematic traditions, you'll watch scenes from Godard's Le mpris (Contempt) (1963), in which a director seeks to make a film of the Odyssey, Joseph Stricks Ulysses (1967), based on James Joyces novel, and of course, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Program Participant: Krin Gabbard is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Symposium | Innovative and Immersive Literature Symposium


As technology has become more engaging and interactive, many new tools have opened up to writers and poets to engage their readers. This is a two-day symposium on the future of technology and literature. Julie Buntin, Illya Szilak, Andy Hunter and Flavia Rocha will discuss innovative ways poets and writers are pushing how readers interact and experience literature through technology.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Mythopoesis and the Importance of the Beautiful in Charles Olson’s Maximus Poems


A lecture by Miriam Nichols, associate professor of English at the University of the Fraser Valley. , on mythopoesis and the importance of the beautiful in Charles Olson’s Maximus Poems.
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Workshop | Photoshop CS6 for Beginners


Learn how to enhance photos using the #1 photo editing software in the world; Adobe Photoshop. In this class you will get acquainted with the features of Photoshop and learn about layers and use them to minpulate images to your desire.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Political Condition and Identity: Debating the Status of American Territories Within the 16th- and 17th-Century Iberian World


A lecture by by Pedro Cardim, Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Reception to follow.
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Conference | The New Wave of Russian-Jewish Cultural Production


This conference celebrates the rich and innovative cultural production by Russian-Jewish artists. The conference will open with Readings and Conversation at 6:30 PM on Thursday, December 4. Authors Anya Ulinich and Lara Vapnyar will read from their new novels Lena Finkle's Magic Barrel and The Smell of Pine, in conversation with Anna Katsnelson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Barry Day reads from the book The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words


Culled from Raymond Chandler's work and numerous interviews, editor Barry Day's biography reveals the man behind the hard-boiled detective fiction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Cave Canem Poetry Prize Reading


F. Douglas Brown was recently awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for his forthcoming collection “Zero to Three,” published by University of Georgia Press in fall 2014. Leon Baham is the author of the chapbook “Ponyboy, Sigh,” available through Birds of Lace. Donika Ross, a Cave Canem fellow, is currently a lecturer at Vanderbilt University. Tracy K. Smith is the author of three books of poetry. Her most recent collection, “Life on Mars” (Graywolf, 2011), won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | College Informal Recitals


This informal recital serves as an open forum for solo and ensemble performances by students.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Festival | Paralektronica: A Festival of Radio


A two-day festival of radio which includes a lecture/presentation by German sound artist Felix Kubin; a conversation between Kubin and Albert Glinsky (author of Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage) with a response from art historian Branden Joseph; a sound walk; and a “screening” of selected radio plays by Kubin, Anna Friz and Gregory Whitehead.
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Ripples by Liz Amberly


When a prank goes horribly wrong, two brothers try to cover up what they've done. As the truth begins to emerge in this small-town noir, the boys discover that loyalty and deception both have far-reaching consequences. There will be a talkback with the playwright following the Thursday performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | Writers Read: Saskia Hamilton / Hisham Matar / Timea Szell


Saskia Hamilton is the Director of Women Poets and is currently teaching Advanced Poetry Writing I, as well as academic courses. Hisham Matar is the Weiss International Fellow in Literature and the Arts and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the English Department. He is currently teaching Fiction Writing, as well as an academic course. Timea Szell is Director of the Creative Writing and is currently teaching Fiction and Personal Narrative, as well as academic courses. A reception will follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Yorkville: Stoops to Nuts Storytelling Show


Author and Yorkville native Thomas R. Pryor brings his popular storytelling show home to his beloved Upper East Side for a special free holiday event. Pryor brings the writing/performing talents of Michele Carlo (Fish Out Of Agua), comedian Abbi Crutchfield (PEOPLE Now, Living Room Show), actor Walter Michael DeForest (The Moth), singer-songwriter Colin Dempsey (Supersmall) and a few surprise guests.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Animated Film: Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie's Aya of Yop City (2010)


Based on Marguerite Abouet's popular graphic novel series, this animated film follows 19-year old Aya, who would like to become a doctor one day, and her two friends, who prefer to party, through life in their Ivory Coast, working class neighborhood in the 1970s. 84 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Mixed-Up Chamber Music 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Sophomore Vocal Recital 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM The Jazz Room Series
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Film | Documentary: Jesse Moss' The Overnighters (2014)


Broken, desperate men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local pastor risks everything to help them. 102 min. There will be a skype Q&A with director Jesse Moss following the screening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Singer-Songwriter Wesley Stace with Strings


Formerly known by his stage name John Wesley Harding, under which he performed and recorded for the past 25 years, Wesley Stace chose to step out from behind his well-established pseudonym for the album Self-Titled in honor of the increasingly personal nature of his new material. Since his critically acclaimed 1988 debut It Happened One Night, he has recorded 19 records for both major (Sire, Hollywood) and independent (Mammoth, Rhino, Appleseed, Yep Roc) labels alike.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | The NYU African Gyil and Percussion Ensemble


Valerie Naranjo, Director, Program in Percussion Performance
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Master Class | Piano Master Class: James Giles


Coordinator of the piano program at Northwestern University, James Giles regularly performs in important musical centers in America, Europe, and Asia. Recent tours have taken him to the Nancy Music Festival in France, the Accademia Cristofori in Florence, and the Beijing International Music Festival. The current season features a recording with the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic in Russia; recitals in Florida, California, North Carolina, and France; and master classes in Hong Kong and at the Shanghai Conservatory. Last summer, Giles taught at Pianofest in the Hamptons, Interlochen, the Colburn Academy Festival, the Amalfi Coast Music Festival, and the Gijon Piano Festival.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:45 pm
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Concert | College Brass Choir Recital


John Rojak, Director, Program in Brass Studies
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | College Recitals


Ye Jin Choi, Cello, and Katherine Lim, Violin 8 p.m. Winds, Harps, and Guitars 8 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | College Woodwind Chamber Music Recital


Esther Lamneck and Matt Sullivan, Directors, Program in Woodwind Studies
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Opera Conversations


Featuring Artistic Director Joseph Colaneri and students of the Young Artists Program, this event is a lecture with live musical examples.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Patrick Stump, lead singer of Fall Out Boy, talks about his music


Join Patrick Stump, lead vocalist and guitarist of Fall Out Boy, as he talks about music creation and technology. Learn about Patrick’s workflow as he demonstrates songwriting techniques with GarageBand and shares the stories behind some of Fall Out Boy’s biggest hits.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performance | Second Avenue Dance Company December Concert


Each winter, the company produces its December concert that presents works by two guest choreographers and eight students, demonstrating a wide array of styles and investigating various aesthetics. December Guest Choreographers: Shannon Gillen, Cora-Bos Kroese. December Student Choreographers: Rohan Bhargava, Naomi Davis, Lorena Delgado, Vinson Fraley, Joseph Giordano, Nico Gonzalez, Nick Grubbs, Stephanie Troyak.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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