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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 11, 2016?

37 free events take place on Friday, November 11 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 11 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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37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, November 11, 2016

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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | Canstruction: The 24th Annual NYC Competition


An extraordinary annual design competition and the most unique food charity in the world, Canstruction challenges teams of architects, engineers, and contractors to build sculptures made entirely out of unopened cans of food. The large scale structures are placed on display and later donated to City Harvest for distribution to those in need.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Downtown Manhattan 3-Hour Tour


The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats. Takes place daily.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | New York One-Day Tour


Don't have enough time to take all of the tours? Prefer to experience Manhattan with a smaller group, but a private booking is out of reach? Then consider our All-in-One New York 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, the World Trade Center, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown, Little Italy, Chelsea Market and the Highline Park. Tour takes place Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
   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. Takes place daily.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | 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. The event is offered daily, except Sundays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Mary Pan, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 13, 2016 to May 25, 2017.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 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 | Bushwick 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. Tour takes place Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Electronic Instrument Workshop and Performance


2-5 PM Electronic Instrument Workshop Members of ICE will be joined by members of the community as ICE sound engineer, percussionist and composer Levy Lorenzo begins his OpenICE commission with a workshop on new instruments and a discussion of possibilities for a new, modular piece. 6 PM Lorenzo Workshop Performance Preview the work, scheduled to be premiered in its entirety in the spring of 2017, and engage in a Q+A with the artists.
   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. Tours are Mondays and Fridays at 2pm, and Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | Greenwich Village, High Line and Chelsea Tour


Join a three-hour journey through some of New York City's most historic areas. They'll begin in Greenwich Village, one of the cultural centers of America. Once a pastoral green oasis, and later a home for Irish and Italian immigrants, Greenwich Village has been at the forefront of some of the most important political, social, and artistic movements of the 20th Century. Filled with 19th century townhouses, and now one of the most desirable and high priced neighborhoods in America, the Village tells a multi-generational New York story. From secluded wealthy enclave to emerging Bohemian and Beat communities, from Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan to the Stonewall Inn. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm and Sundays at 10am.
   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, Thursdays, and Fridays at 2pm, and Saturdays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | Memorial Walk Tour


Walk through the park and see how generations of New Yorkers have used the park as a place to remember their veterans. Route involves a few stairs. 120 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Other | Nature Sanctuary Open Hours


During these limited hours, visitors can explore the normally closed sanctuary at their own pace along the rustic trail. See how the conservancy has restored this native woodland garden for birds and other wildlife. The wood-chipped trail is uneven; please wear appropriate shoes. This ecosystem is a protected area and home to many flora and fauna. No groups, dogs, bikes, or strollers. Free and self-guided. Space is limited.
   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. Takes place daily.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Adultery and the Everyday: Flaubert and Joyce


A lecture with Vicki Mahaffey, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In nineteenth-century European literature, adultery (when committed by a woman) was depicted as a deadly enemy of the domestic and the everyday. Such a view is vividly apparent in Paul de Kock's Le Cocu (1832), a copy of which Joyce owned. The conflict between adultery and the everyday is personified in the tragic relation between Emma and Charles in Flaubert's Madame Bovary. Flaubert, however, suggests that Emma's adultery paradoxically stems from her purity, a purity stoked by the romanticism of religion and novels. In Ulysses, Joyce reconciles adultery with the everyday by connecting the process of adulteration with adulthood. Ultimately, he transfers the site of adulteration from individual adult people to the word. Language reconciles the tension between adulteration and the everyday. Deployed as an "everyday poetics," language inspires a different model of time, one that can accommodate anachronism. The splitting of the word coincides with a fissuring of the moment, interrupting and scrambling the relentless sequencing of past, present, and future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jeff Zinn discusses his book The Existential Actor: Life and Death Onstage and Off


Jeff Zinn has been acting, directing, teaching, and writing about theater for more than 30 years. He is best known as the artistic director of Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater where he produced and/or directed more than 150 productions. As an actor he made his Equity debut as Danny in the original off-Broadway production of David Mamet's "Sexual Perversity in Chicago," and appeared on Broadway with Derek Jacobi in "The Suicide." He lives on Cape Cod.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Author Reading | Readings from Philip Levine’s My Lost Poets and The Last Shift


With: Michael Collier, Edward Hirsch, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sharon Olds, and Tom Sleigh A reading from two new posthumous titles by Philip Levine, the former U.S. Poet Laureate whose many awards in his lifetime included a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, a Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Hosted by Edward Hirsch.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Concert | 3 Folk Music Acts


5:30 pm Benjamin Cartel Pop-laced singer/songwriter 6:05 pm Jeanne Marie Boes Soulful singer/songwriter 6:40 pm Kate Vargas and The Reckless Daughters Southwestern outlaw Americana
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Hanging Loose Press 50th Anniversary


A celebration of 50 years of publishing poetry by Hanging Loose Press with readings by Sherman Alexie, Joan Larkin, Charles North, Sharon Mesmer, David Lehman, and Bill Zavatsky. Hanging Loose was founded by alumni Emmett Jarrett and Rob Schreiber, with Bob Hershon and Dick Lourie who continue to work with the press to this day.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Performance | I Can't Breathe: A Workshop and Performance


I Can't Breathe is a public-participatory workshop and performance that will take the form of a self-defense class. Over the course of a half hour, participants will learn a range of self-defense technique – from purely pacifist, self-protective maneuvers (including how one may relieve the pressure of a chokehold) to more overt, defensive strategies. (Participants will not learn offensive strikes or moves.) Participants will then be placed and paired off in a staggered arrangement. With certain cues given by the artist, each pair will enact the self-defense technique just learned, alternating in the role of the aggressor. As the artist recites a script inspired by Nina Simone, each pair will elect which action to take solely based on how he or she internalizes the words' meaning. The overall, impromptu composition of defensive actions will, thus, create a reflection and meditation on our community's legacy of self-preservation, and continued desire/need/fight to protect and survive. The piece will be conducted in memory of Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Jamar Clark, Laquan McDonald, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, Ramarley Graham, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin… and countless others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Reiner Stach reads from his book Is That Kafka? 99 Finds


In the course of compiling his highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Kafka, while foraying to libraries and archives from Prague to Israel, Reiner Stach made one astounding discovery after another: unexpected photographs, inconsistencies in handwritten texts, excerpts from letters, and testimonies from Kafka’s contemporaries that shed surprising light on his personality and his writing. Is That Kafka? presents the crystal granules of the real Kafka: he couldn’t lie, but he tried to cheat on his high-school exams; bitten by the fitness fad, he avidly followed the regime of a Danish exercise guru; he drew beautifully; he loved beer; he read biographies voraciously; he made the most beautiful presents, especially for children; odd things made him cry or made him furious; he adored slapstick. Every discovery by Stach turns on its head the stereotypical version of the tortured neurotic—and as each one chips away at the monolithic dark Kafka, the keynote, of all things, becomes laughter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Forbidden Fruit: Paintings by Ronnie Robertson


This exhibition is a reintroduction into vocabulary long forgotten by many people of the African Diaspora. Robertson, a studious autodidact of Afro-Caribbean spirituality, employs; symbols, glyphs, allegory, deities, popular cultural references, and ritual into his works, merging them with newfangled themes and ideas concerning racial identity and values in a post-Black Lives Matter America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Bloomingdale School of Music's 52nd Birthday Concert


The first half of the concert will feature BSM voice faculty member Jocelyn Medina and her group in works from her latest recording, Common Ground, music from Africa and Brazil. Listeners will be taken through a cross-cultural musical journey where the boundaries of vocal jazz are extended to include the rhythms, improvisations and instrumentation of diverse world music traditions. The second half will feature BSM Assistant Director and trumpeter Brandon Vazquez with a faculty jazz ensemble in a performance titled Happiness Now. They will showcase various musical genres such as Dixieland, Bebop, Fusion, Bossa Nova, and Funk. BSM Birthday Concert Featured Artists -Common Ground: Music by the Jocelyn Medina Group, featuring: Jocelyn Medina, voice, Art Hiraharam, piano, Evan Gregor, bass. Mark Ferber, drums, and Steve Gorn, bansuri flutes. Happiness is Now: Brandon Vazquez, trumpet, Nick Finzer, trombone, Michael Cochrane, piano, Kevin Farrell, bass, and Jeremy Noller, drums
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | New Visions Directing Festival presents Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill


In a village in 17th century England, two women are threatened with death for the practice of witchcraft. What is a witch? And is it you? This haunting, subversive play-with-music examines gender, sexuality, and power through a feminist Brechtian lens. Vinegar Tom is a rock concert about hanging witches – with no witches.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Sam Esmail discusses his book MR. ROBOT: Red Wheelbarrow: (eps1.91_redwheelbarr0w.txt)


The only tie-in book for USA’s award-winning series MR. ROBOT, Elliot’s journal—Red Wheelbarrow—is written by show creator Sam Esmail and show writer Courtney Looney.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Lecture | The Great War and Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising


Paul V. Walsh of the New York Military Affairs Symposium delivers this lecture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | A Conversation with Composer Judith Shatin


The program shines a well-deserved light on the career of Judith Shatin, a composer and sound artist whose music, according to The Washington Post, is “highly inventive…on every level; hugely enjoyable and deeply involving with a constant sense of surprise.” Drawing from the rich cornucopia of sounds that surround us, Shatin creates arresting compositions from everything from the roar of machines to the shuttle of a wooden loom. Shatin’s music has been commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been celebrated throughout the world, from Brooklyn to Brahmshaus. Always in demand as a master teacher, she has served as BMI composer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University, master artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and senior composer at the Wellesley Composers Conference.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Jazz | MSM Jazz Orchestra


Miles Ahead Arrangements by Gil Evans A new opportunity to hear Evans’s magnificent arrangements come alive, performed by NEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman, whose approach is to “concentrate on tone and color and, above all, be lyrical.” Evans’s scores for Miles Davis on Miles Ahead, and their successive collaborations on Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain, are among the most treasured jazz works of all time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Chin Kim, violin


A stellar musical event. A concert showcasing the artistry of internationally acclaimed performers and distinguished faculty members at a leading New York conservatory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Mirrors of Nature: Piano Works of Ravel and Liszt


Program: Ravel: Miroirs I: Noctuelles Liszt: Harmonies du soir Ravel: Miroirs II: Oiseaux tristes Liszt: Légende No. 1 Ravel: Miroirs III: Une barque sur l’océan Liszt: Au bord d’une source Ravel: Miroirs IV: Alborada del gracioso Liszt: Rhapsodie espagnole Ravel: Miroirs V: Vallée des cloches Liszt: La campanella Since 1999, Mannes has presented a yearlong music festival every year. Each festival includes more than 20 events performed by the school's gifted young student artists, distinguished faculty members, and renowned guests, at prestigious New York City concert venues and cultural institutions. The festivals are an outstanding component of the total Mannes program. This concert is curated by J. Y. Song.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Classical Music | NYU Symphony performs Haydn, Bach


Program: Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major Adès: Three Studies from Couperin Rameau: La Poule Haydn: Symphony No. 83 in G minor “La Poule” Guillaume Pirard, Conductor
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works for Violin and Piano by Mozart, Schubert, and Others


Program: Mozart Sonata A Major K. 305 Schubert Fantasie D 934 in C Major for Violin and Piano E. Ysaye (1858-1931) Sonata for Violin Solo Op. 27 No. 1 M. de Falla (1876-1946) Suite Populaire Espagnole for Violin and Piano H. Wieniawski (1835-1880) Scherzo Tarantella Op. 16 for Violin and Piano A Faculty Recital by Chin Kim, violin with Simon Jung, piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Rale Micic's Guitar x 2 Series


“Micic is bringing an intriguing new perspective to the jazz guitar” LA TIMES "Micic is the cool cat, and Serbia is mellow, tight and tasteful. Micic is subtle, intelligent player who echoes the likes of Jim Hall" DOWNBEAT "The New York jazz scene, and by extension jazzʼs modern mainstream, has Rale Micic to thank for a portion of its continued growth" ALL ABOUT JAZZ
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Concert | Grammy-Nominated Pianist Katreese Barnes and ChamberFusic


Two-time Emmy-winning, Grammy-nominated pianist, producer, and composer Katreese Barnes plays from her new EP, Something To Consider. Along with ChamberFusic, the house band from her new livestreamed internet show Welcome 2 My House, Barnes begins a new chapter in a career that’s included writing songs for Chaka Khan and Roberta Flack, singing backup for Sting, playing saxophone for D’Angelo, and working as the pianist and music director for Saturday Night Live, where she composed songs including the beloved “Dick In a Box” (featuring Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | New Visions Directing Festival presents Vigils by Noah Haidle


Two years after a fireman died trying to save a baby from a burning home, his widow is clinging to the past – literally. When a handsome wooer arrives on the scene, the widow must decide between the past she knows and the future she can only imagine. A surprisingly funny and wildly imaginative story of love, grief, and the difficulty of letting go.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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