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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 13, 2015?

41 free events take place on Friday, November 13 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 November 13 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 November . 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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41 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, November 13, 2015

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free events nyc Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour
free events nyc Dance: FIYAH! by Jessica Phoenix
free events nyc Workshop Theater: The Life of the Mind / That Awkward Issue
free events nyc MSM Jazz Orchestra celebrates Sinatra’s centennial
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Conference | 20th Anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords: Bosnia’s Uncharted Future and Balkan Lessons for Global Application


This conference aims to bring together scholars and practitioners who will assess the current political, economic and social development in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Western Balkans and review events that have taken place during the past twenty years. Additionally, participants will discuss lessons learned from the 1995 peace agreement than can be applied to other war-stricken states around the world. The conference takes place on Thursday November 12 and Friday November 13.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Conference | Little Magazines and the Conversation of Culture in America


This two-day conference ignites the conversation between contemporary journalisms and politics for a celebration of NSSR's newly launched M.A. in Creative Publishing & Critical Journalism, concurrent with the 50th anniversary of the legendary Salmagundi Magazine. This conference occurs on Thursday November 12 and Friday November 13.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest! This tour takes place Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing. This tour takes place every day at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway. This tour takes place Mondays and Fridays at 10am.
   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. This tour takes place every day at 10am, and Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 2pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Lecture | 'Who Did What to Whom?' and Other Writing Hazards


Nathan Connolly will discuss the difficulties of using recorded testimony and police investigations in the creation of urban history narratives.
   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. This workshop occurs every day through December 31.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate. This tour takes place every Friday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Symposium | Caribbean Subjects: Media, Culture, and Representation


This event will explore the uniqueness and particularities of cultural production and the ubiquitousness in the transnational cultural industries of Caribbean subjects. Bringing together scholars of popular culture and race and gender dynamics in the region, the presentations will explore the genealogies of Latino culture, migration and cultural borrowing, cultural networks, and the tensions between national identities and cosmopolitanism, high culture and popular culture. Speakers include keynote Frances Negrón Muntaner (Columbia University), Luis Rosario Albert (Universidad del Turabo), Odette Casamayor (University of Connecticut), Arlene Dávila (NYU), Jill Meredith Lane (NYU), Wilfredo Burgos Matos (CUNY), Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU), Zaira Rivera (Universidad de Puerto Rico), Yeidy Rivero (University of Michigan), Yesenia Fernández Selier (NYU), Alex Trillo (Saint Peter’s University).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all. This tour takes place Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10am and Mondays and Fridays at 2pm.
   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. This tour takes place Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 2pm, Wednesdays at 4pm, and Saturdays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | New York Graffiti and Street Art Tour


New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick. This tour takes place Thursdays through Sundays at 2pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Robert Ellis Miller's Sweet November (1968): Her Healing Love


Stars: Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel. A woman lures emotionally crippled men into affairs, then helps them repair their lives. 114 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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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. This tour takes place every day at 10am, and Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 2pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Southern Park Welcome Tour


Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Master Class | Glenn Dicterow, Violin Master Class


New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow has established himself worldwide as one of the most prominent American concert artists of his generation. His extraordinary musical gifts became apparent when, at age 11, he made his solo debut in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (where his father, Harold Dicterow, served as principal of the second violin section for 52 years). In the following years, Mr. Dicterow became one of the most sought-after young artists, appearing as soloist from coast to coast.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance: FIYAH! by Jessica Phoenix


This performance is an energetic vibrant cultural dance experience specific to the African Caribbean Diaspora. FIYAH! will bring dynamic song and dance to Times Square. Part staged and part organically formed as many African and Caribbean dance forms are community dances. The performance will include live drum, call and response, freestyle soloists and more, such as a Bob Marley/Reggae Dancehall tribute; hoping to get the crowd moving, singing, smiling and full of joy. This performance occurs November 11-13.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | Kundiman Poetry Prize Reading


With: Lo Kwa Mei-en (winner) and special guests Tarfia Faizullah, Porochista Khakpour, and Jennifer Tseng. Lo Kwa Mei-en’s first book "Yearling" is the 2013 winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize and out now from Alice James Books. Tarfia Faizullah’s (pictured) first book is "Seam" (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014). Porochista Khakpour is the author of two novels, most recently "The Last Illusion" (Bloomsbury, 2015). Poet and fiction writer Jennifer Tseng’s most recent work is the novel "Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness" (Europa Editions, 2015). This event is co-sponsored with Kundiman, an organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American literature.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Author Reading | Seth Barrish discusses his book An Actor's Companion with puppeteer Frank Oz


Actor, director, and co-founder of The Barrow Group Seth Barrish visits to discuss his exstensive career and the latest version of his book An Actor's Companion. He will be joined by director, filmmaker, and puppeteer Frank Oz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recitals


5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Xiao Wang, violin 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Ashley Alden, soprano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Tour | Chelsea and the High Line Tour


The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to city markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the city to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park. This tour takes place Monday and Fridays at 6pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Documentary: Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence (2014)


A family that survives the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers. 103 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Open Book Night


They are having a book social! They hope you’ll come and share a book you loved reading! What to expect at Open Book Night: 1. Introduce your book with its title, author, publication date and genre (mystery, memoir, play, etc.). One book per person. 2. Tell what it’s about and why you loved it in 2 minutes or less. 3. They want to have fun, so no negative criticism please. 4. Learn about titles of books that you may enjoy and share with your friends. This month's theme is NEW YORK. Is there a book that captures the spirit of our vast city for you? Or a book that taught you something new about New York? A book that made you move here? Or one that helps you stay? Is there a book that gave you real insight into New Yorkers? Maybe there's a quintessential New York character — real or fictional — you'd like to discuss? They'd love to hear about it!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: Marinella Senatore and Nástio Mosquito


This event will include site-specific performances by Marinella Senatore and Nástio Mosquito. Performances are free and open to the public. Marinella Senatore will team up with a diverse selection of New York-based participants to create a new version of her ongoing project The School of Narrative Dance. The work uses dance as a common language through which to celebrate the amateur and professionally trained movements of the performers. Following Senatore, Nástio Mosquito will perform S.E.F.A. Se Eu Fosse Angolano (If I Were Angolan) with visuals by his long-term collaborator Vic Pereiro. The performance will explore media’s visual and discursive complexity, question the usefulness of identity today and will include music and spoken word.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Apocalypse, an Exhibition of Photographs by Hans Weiss


The first time Hans Weiss moved to New York, in the 1990s, the skyscrapers in the cityscape fascinated him. As symbols of power and money they force you to look upwards and to feel small. But during rainy days they appear to fall down into the puddles forming on the streets. Back then, Weiss took a few pictures of these reflections, in black and white. When he moved to New York the second time, in 2014, Weiss revisited this theme, photographing the reflections in color, which added an apocalyptic dimension. A closer look at these images yielded a glimpse into another world, with eerie colors, shapes and distortions, caused by the debris, mud, leaves, undercoating, dirt, and wind. Even the reflected people seem to stem from some other place, and some other time. In these images New York is set on fire, with buildings and trees in flames, distorted, falling apart or being flooded.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Signing | Bill Nye signs copies of his book Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World


Bill Nye crystallizes and expands the message for which he is best known and beloved. That message is that with a combination of optimism and scientific curiosity, all obstacles become opportunities, and the possibilities of our world become limitless.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Joshua Cohen reads from his book Book of Numbers


The Emerging Writers Reading Series showcases the student talent of NYU’s graduate Creative Writing Program and features established writers as special guests. Joshua Cohen’s most recent book is out now from Random House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Making Films That Matter: Media Studies 40th Anniversary Alumni Film Screening


The School of Media Studies celebrates its 40th Anniversary this year with exciting feature-length, short films and videos made by its alumni. They will showcase award-winning shorts made by graduates from Bosnia, Canada, Hong Kong/PRC, Israel, Korea, Lebanon, and the United States. Five of the filmmakers will be present to speak about their work and the role of the School of Media Studies in helping to forge their careers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | No Name Comedy/Variety Show


The multicultural mix of music, comedy and fun will feature No Name house band The Summer Replacements, including Carl (BabyFreak) Fortunato) and Fernando (Dr. Sandman) Morales Gonzalez. The No Name Comedy/Variety Show takes place November 13th and 20th.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Performance Art: Emergency Simulator Pre-Enactment


Live performance by: Kevin Alvir, Zenzele Cooper, John Peery, Candace Thompson. This emergency pre-enactment will be conducted to examine several alternative scenarios made possible by the commissioned artifacts in Alternative Unknowns. Actors interpret the intentions and applications of emergency preparedness objects such as a mobile Citi Bike hack, local hero detector, and at-home disease testing kits.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Performance | Workshop Theater: The Life of the Mind / That Awkward Issue


The Life of the Mind and its sequel That Awkward Issue will be presented with an Equity cast of actors for a limited two-week engagement. The evening includes two interrelated one act plays with a tale spanning three generations. In the first play, The Life of the Mind, a mother and daughter attempt to reconcile after nearly a decade of separation while the daughter’s ex-husband interferes. In the second play, That Awkward Issue, the daughter’s own fifteen year old daughter confronts the man who divorced her mother before she was born and who she believes is her biological father. Refreshments will be provided. This production occurs November 5-7 and November 12-14.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Jazz | MSM Jazz Orchestra celebrates Sinatra’s centennial


The great jazz vocalist and alumna Jane Monheit sings the original arrangements from Sinatra’s recordings of How About You, I Won’t Dance, The Best Is Yet to Come, Night and Day, They Can’t Take That Away from Me, and many others. Preconcert Talk - 6:30 PM Sinatra biographer James Kaplan discusses Sinatra’s collaboration with his favorite arranger, Nelson Riddle. Kaplan’s eagerly awaited new book, Frank Sinatra: The Chairman, volume two of his definitive biography, will be available for signing. No ticket is required for the Preconcert talk.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | A Piano Tribute to Tchiakovsky


From the Program in Piano Performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Composers' Collective presents Kontrapunkt


From the Program in Music Composition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Industry Night Comedy Show


Jeff Cerulli (Hungry, MTV) invites some of his favorites comedians to perform in an intimate venue on a show that has industrial strength. This month features Taylor Ketchum (Axs Gotham Comedy Live), Brendan Fitzgibbons (aol 2 point lead) Becky Yamamoto (NBC) and more. Come for the comedy stay for the DJ afterparty with dancing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Jazz by Shakespeare: scenes from Othello, Julius Caesar, Henry V, Macbeth, and many more


Jazz by Shakespeare is a theater performance that incorporates two suites for jazz ensemble written by Duke Ellington. The music will be performed by a jazz group from Jazz at Lincoln Center. Such Sweet Thunder is one of the most masterful of the suites composed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. It is inspired by scenes from Othello, Julius Caesar, Henry V, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. Timon of Athens is a suite of incidental music which Ellington composed for a production of Timon of Athens at Stratford in 1963. The music blends Afro-American jazz stylistics and social consciousness with the themes of Shakespeare’s play: greed, generosity, betrayal, revolution, reconciliation, and resurrection.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Suggested donation 10

Reading | Lamprophonic Emerging Writers Series


The mission of Lamprophonic is to present and promote new voices in the New York writing community. They prepare a diverse and entertaining reading each month that demonstrates the quality and variety of emerging New York writers. In a typical reading, you'll hear poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and are open to anything that thoughtfully engages listeners. This event recurs Fridays Oct. 16, Nov. 13, and Dec. 11, 2015.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Screening | Viewing Party: Act One


A screening of the broadcast premiere of James Lapine’s play Act One on the media wall as part of the PBS Arts Fall Festival. Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin star in this beautiful staging of Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Moss Hart’s memoir, tracing his path from poverty in the Bronx to becoming a legend of the Great White Way.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Jazz | God’s Unruly Friends, Adventurous Sitar-Based Ensemble


Master multi-instrumentalist Dawoud (formerly of Renegade Sufi) leads this adventurous sitar-based ensemble, which expands upon classical raga with otherworldly electronics, hypnotic pedal loops, and free jazz improvisation. Dawoud—who has performed and recorded with artists like Lauryn Hill, James Blood Ulmer, and Nona Hendryx—moves between sitar, dilruba, guitar, bass, laptop, and more to create deep, trancelike grooves and subtly psychedelic soundscapes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 pm
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