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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 3, 2013?
73 free events take place on Thursday, October 3 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 October 3 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 October . 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.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 3, 2013?
73 free events take place on Thursday, October 3 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 October 3 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 October . 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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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
73 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, October 3, 2013
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Birdwatching | Fall Birding Tour
Discover the birds that call the Park home, as well as those that may stop by during migration. A surprising diversity of avian visitors drop in, even in the heart of midtown. Sightings could include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, even an American Woodcock.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
Free
Free
Conference | Nanotechnology and Sustainability: New Research in Italy and the United States
Nanotechnology has made incredible progress over the past decade opening up totally new realms of science, especially at the intersection between disciplines. Featuring invited lectures by leading scientists in the field from both Italy and the United States, the conference will present recent research in Nanotechnology, Materials, and Energy that has characterized scientific research in both countries, with special emphasis on collaborative and joint research efforts.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:45 am
Free
Free
Forum | (New) Public Goods: Design, Aesthetics, and Politics
This Fall's Stephan Weiss Lecture considers the import of design practices concerned with the production and distribution of public goods, including public services and utilities, public policy, government institutions, and other organizations working within the public realm or subjected to broad public scrutiny. Increasingly, the focus of design is shifting from questions of form to questions of transformation. The Weiss Lecture will explore the challenges these design practices pose to the relationship between institutional infrastructure and regulative norms, as well as to emerging forms of commons and community.
Configured as a Design Strategies Dialogue, this event brings together five leading figures from the world of design and the social sciences:
- PELLE EHN: Professor at Malmö University's School of Arts and Communication
- MARIA HELLSTRÖM REIMER: Professor at Malmö University School of Arts and Communication and Director of Studies for the Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education
- CARL DISALVO: Associate Professor in the Digital Media program in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology
- JOAN GREENBAUM: Professor Emerita at City University of New York and the New Media Lab at the CUNY Graduate Center
- KEITH MURPHY: Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California Irvine.
New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
Free
Free
Workshop | Catch & Release Fishing
Grab a pole and relax on the Harlem Meer while you wait for a bite from one of the many species of fish that live in its diverse aquatic ecosystem! Poles available to borrow; must release fish after catching them. Free for families and individuals; groups larger than 5 must reserve at least 2 weeks in advance. Adult with photo I.D. must accompany all children.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
Free
Workshop | Catch and Release Fishing
Grab a pole and relax on the Harlem Meer while you wait for a bite from one of the many species of fish that live in its diverse aquatic ecosystem! Poles available to borrow; must release fish after catching them. Free for families and individuals; groups larger than 5 must reserve at least 2 weeks in advance. Adult with photo I.D. must accompany all children.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
Free
Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour
Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
Free
Other | Attend a Taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, with Cedric “The Entertainer”
Attend a live taping of Who Wants to be a Millionaire with new host Cedric "The Entertainer." You are guaranteed to laugh yourself silly. Studio audience members will also have the opportunity to audition to be on the show.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free
Free
Performance | Ernesto Pujol’s Time After Us, a 24-Hour Walking Performance for 24 Performers
For his first public piece in New York, site-specific performer and social choreographer Pujol asks: “What if we could go back in time to revisit, repair, restore?” The work is performed in silence by Pujol and twenty-three artists, who enter the space at thirty-minute intervals during its first 12 hours. Lasting a full twenty-four hours, the piece creates a solitary yet bonded community, inviting people from all walks of life to observe and reflect on the nature of the paths they take.
Time After Us will open at 10:30am and will conclude, 24 hours later, on Friday, October 4 at 10:30am.
Pujol has recruited individuals of all ages from New York’s dance, theater and visual arts communities; artists who are seeking a different kind of practice. The group will walk a circle counterclockwise and backwards, slowly turning the center of the chapel into a well, a vortex where the body will walk nowhere and everywhere at once. Audiences are invited to sit with the performers, free to come and go, experiencing it at different times of the day and night.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free
Free
Tour | Cathedral Tour
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6...
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Workshop | Park Pétanque
Learn to play pétanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC’s championship-winning club.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free
Free
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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional"
Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
Free
Free
Author Reading | Diana Howansky Reilly discusses her book Scattered: The Forced Relocation of Poland's Ukrainians after World War II
Following World War II, the communist government of Poland forcibly relocated the country's Ukrainian minority by means of a Soviet-Polish population exchange and then a secretly planned action code-named Operation Vistula. Diana Howansky Reilly recounts these events through the experiences of three siblings caught up in the conflict, during a turbulent period when compulsory resettlement was a common political tactic used against national minorities to create homogenous states.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
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
Free
Free
Master Class | Master Class: Pianist Ursula Oppens
Featuring pianist Ursula Oppens, this master class provides music lovers with a rare opportunity to witness the interaction between gifted students and a great artist as they examine and explore the craft of performance at the highest level.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Park Walk | Northern Forts Tour
History buffs will love this tour of the Harlem Meer and its environs, which were key lands in the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Route involves many hills and stairs. 60 minutes.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
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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12:20 pm
Free
Free
Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour
A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Gallery Talk | Artist Luke Haynes leads a tour of alt_quilts
Haynes' work is included in the exhibition alt_quilts: Sabrina Gschwandtner, Luke Haynes, Stephen Sollins.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Concert | Britten at 100, Also Songs by Berg and Dvorak
Program:
Benjamin Britten: On This Island; The Poet’s Echo
Alban Berg: Seven Early Songs
Antonin Dvorak: Four Songs on Serbian Folk Poems, Op. 6
With: Jessica Muirhead, soprano; Julian Wachner, piano
The versatile and prolific composer Benjamin Britten will be honored on his 100th birthday.
Celebrated favorites and rarely-performed works of Britten’s repertory will be presented, led by Director of Music and the Arts, Julian Wachner, The Choir of the church and NOVUS NY. Other featured artists include tenor Nicholas Phan, cellist Matt Haimovitz, and The Youth Chorus.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Tour | Cathedral Tour
Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6...
$6...
Workshop | Retro Gaming for Adults
Share your passion for Checkers, Chess, Monopoly, Scrabble, Boggle, or your favorite board game. There will be a demonstration of Boggle. Please feel free to bring your own game set, and join us for some lively board time. All levels of play welcome.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
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
Free
Free
Film | Robert Florey's Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932): Classic Poe Story
Stars Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox, Leon Ames.
In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship. He constantly meets failure as the abducted women die. Medical student Pierre Dupin discovers what Mirakle is doing too late to prevent the abduction of his girlfriend Camille. Now he desperately tries to enlist the help of the police to get her back.
80 mins.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Tour | SoHo, Little Italy & 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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2:00 pm
Free
Free
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
Free
Free
Other | Attend a Taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, with Cedric “The Entertainer”
Attend a live taping of Who Wants to be a Millionaire with new host Cedric "The Entertainer." You are guaranteed to laugh yourself silly. Studio audience members will also have the opportunity to audition to be on the show.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Meet Emmy Nominee Kerry Washington, Star of Scandal
Join Kerry Washington and cast Scott Foley, Guillermo Diaz, Darby Stanchfield, and Josh Malina as they discuss their hit ABC series. In this political thriller series created by Shonda Rimes, Washington stars as Olivia Pope, former communications director to the President of the United States, and the head of her prominent crisis management firm.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Other | “Summertime in NYC” Photo Contest Event
Commemorate the summer with the best shots of the city; contest winners to be announced at this special Pro Day event. The competition will feature two categories: cityscapes and portraits highlighting New York City in the summer.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Tour | Brooklyn Heights at Sunset Tour
Known as America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights is truly a gem. Travel and Leisure named it one of America's top 10 most beautiful neighborhoods, and its beauty is rivaled only by its place in American history. These quaint, tree-lined streets have been the sites of Revolutionary War battles, abolitionist activism and have inspired numerous novelists. Visit a stop on the Underground Railroad, or the home of Truman Capote, where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany's and where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Women's Writing and Discussion Group
Hannelore Hahn, who directed the International Women's Writing Guild for 37 years, hosts a monthly informal women’s writing & discussion group. Non-writers are also welcome to join the discussion.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
Free
Free
Talk | Artist Talk: Eve Sussman
Eve Sussman is a British-born American artist. She was educated at Robert College of Istanbul, University of Canterbury and Bennington College. She resides in Brooklyn, where her company, the Rufus Corporation is based; however, she continuously visits cultural centers around the world, where her exhibitions take place.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Got Clutter? Join the Clutter Support Group
Do you feel overwhelmed by the possessions, papers and piles that have taken over your life and space? Don't know how or where to start to make changes? You're not alone.
Join the Clutter Support Group, an educational support group for individuals who are struggling with clutter and disorganization. Open to people of all ages with any degree of disorganization.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free
Free
Screening | 2 Screenings: The Out List / About Face
The Out List features 16 intimate portraits of prominent members of the LGBTQ community, including Ellen DeGeneres, Suze Orman, and Neil Patrick Harris.
About Face: Supermodels Then and Now views the fashion world through the eyes of 20 legendary supermodels, from Christie Brinkley to Carmen Dell'Orefice.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | 3 Art Shows: Darla Bjork / Ann Young / David Reinfeld
Darla Bjork's oil stick and encaustic Windows vibrate between ethereal landscape abstractions and architectonic, vividly spatial images - a romantic dialogue connecting the outside with what comes from within.
Ann Young's In A Dangerous Time features large figurative works on canvas as well as small works from the Resurrection series; abstractions of leaves in oil on canvas. In Young's new work she examines the discord apparent in today's' social and political economies and the potential for coming generations to right the course of humanity.
David Reinfeld's OAXACA/Winter 2013 includes a selection of street photographs as well as abstract and composite photos from Reinfeld's recent visit to the capital city of Oaxaca, Mexico. This series explores the beauty found in the cyclical decay of our environment and its insistent recurring nature.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | And Every Day Was Overcast: how how creepy artist's brain can get when his photographs get sexual
Photographs from the Illustrated Novel by Paul Kwiatkowski.
The show will have many photographs from the book, as well as other work that will give a good idea of how dark the artist's brain is, and how creepy it can get when his photographs get sexual.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Parks & Recreation actor Adam Scott discuss his film A.C.O.D.
Join director Stuart Zicherman and actor Adam Scott ("Parks and Recreation") as they discuss their new comedy. The film follows a seemingly well-adjusted Adult Child of Divorce who’s forced to revisit the chaos of his parents bitter divorce after his younger brother decides to get married.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | The Masters Series: illustrations, which have appeared on 14 covers of The New Yorker, among other places...
The 25th annual Masters Series exhibition honors artist R. O. Blechman with the first major retrospective representing all genres of his work: illustrations, editorial cartoons, animations and graphic novels. Blechman is widely known for his classic advertising work, such as the “talking stomach” Alka-Seltzer commercial; for his illustrations, which have appeared on 14 covers of The New Yorker, among other places; and for his books, which include The Juggler of Our Lady.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Adult Yoga
Open-level yoga with a certified instructor. Please wear comfortable clothes and bring your yoga mat (or use one of theirs). All participants must sign a waiver form before they join in. For adults 18+.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Concert | Country duo Love and Theft perform
Straight off of their summer tour headlining for Tim McGraw, this singer-songwriter duo is sure to make you swoon. See Love and Theft performing their hit songs "Angel Eyes" and "If You Ever Get Lonely".
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | Every Thought Flies: Launching the Zambonini Archive
Celebrate the fascinating life and career of architect and
educator Giuseppe Zambonini on the occasion of the arrival of documentation of his work at the archives. In 1978, Zambonini founded an unaccredited architecture and design school called the Open Atelier of Design and Architecture which embraced hands-on learning, material/process design methods and new models of design education.
Professor Robert Kirkbride will give a lecture on Zambonini’s legacy.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Filmmaker Nick Brennan discusses his experience in Cuba
Nick Brennan will talk about his experience in Cuba and show clips from his documentary feature Hard Rock Havana that began in Havana.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Colloquium | Geographies of Incarceration: A 21st-Century Teach-In
This 21st century-style teach-in challenges the epidemic of mass incarceration and intends to catalyze ideas for change, public engagement, and new ways to address this Civil Rights issue of today. The evening will focus on the important role of artists and the arts in the quest for social transformation. Activities include film screenings, theatrical readings, and discussions among leading thinkers, university scholars, and the audience.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Author Reading | Joel Sachs discusses his book Henry Cowell: A Man Made of Music
No composer's life was more exciting and surprising than that of Henry Cowell, who arguably did more to establish new American music than any other individual. Author Joel Sachs discusses the decades spent researching Cowell's life, and unraveling the mysteries that made writing his book a real adventure.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Gallery Talk | Kate Stiassni discusses her exhibition Spaces in Between: Contemporary Textiles
Kate Stiassni's unique vision produces spectacular results. Fabric is her paint, and her mastery of the medium with the use of hand dyed fabric gives her work a richness and depth of color that makes her strong and distinctive graphic compositions sing.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Performance | Storytelling: Transgender Seeking with Sunny Drake
A tender and hilarious confession of a queer romance-a-holic. Jimmy is trying to quit romance so he’ll never get hurt again. “I’m a romance-a-holic. I am quitting though - cold turkey. That’s why I’ve come to this meeting, for support”. An exposing, funny and tender look at queer relationships including run-ins with the polyamory police, online dating mishaps, and how relationship scripts and bigger political systems like policing and prisons affect interpersonal relationships in queer communities (and beyond).
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Lecture | The Love Story of Food and Opera in Italy
Join food scholar and opera expert Fred Plotkin in a delectable journey through the Marche region of Italy, discovering the rare romance of food and music in Rossini and other noteworthy celebrated artists from Marche.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Tony Award winner Christopher Durang reads from his play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Durang discusses and reads from his Tony Award-winning play, with a Q&A and signing to follow.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Archiving Performance Art for the Future: A Discussion with Lorraine O’Grady
Should activist and/or situation-specific performance art be re-performed? Can images, video, and critical reviews adequately convey the experiences of those who witness performance works? What is the role of the archive? These questions and others will be considered in the context of the Lorraine O’Grady archive at Wellesley College.
Joining Radical Presence artist Lorraine O’Grady are moderator Glenn Wharton, Art Conservator, Museum Studies; Lisa Darms, Senior Archivist; and Thomas J. Lax, Assistant Curator, Studio Museum in Harlem.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Matt Forrest demonstrates his printmaking technique
Matt Forrest collides printmaking with digital technology, sculpture, and sound. In his demo, Forrest will print a photo litho plate with aluminum-infused ink, and use the resulting print to construct a surveillance camera.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | David Kilcullen discusses his book Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
Asymmetrical warfare expert David Kilcullen offers a practical and timely perspective on the war in Afghanistan. His book, a combination of scholarly research and firsthand experience, reflects on the challenges and opportunities that four powerful megatrends are creating across the planet.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
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Slide Lecture | Discovering Vintage New York: A Guide to the City's Timeless Shops, Bars, Delis & More
Mitch Broder discusses his book Discovering Vintage New York: A Guide to the City's Timeless Shops, Bars, Delis & More
This illustrated talk based on the new book takes the audience to the city’s treasured classics. The book is the first and only guide to all of Manhattan’s vintage spots — from the Café Carlyle to Papaya King, from The Four Seasons to Serendipity 3, from Gallagher’s Steak House to the House of Oldies, from the Old Town Bar to The Donut Pub. All of the places featured are at least half a century old — and all of them evoke a bygone metropolis.
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Hispanic Music: Present and Future, with Grammy Winner Bobby Sanabria
A collection of musical luminaries who are deeply involved and committed to Latin music to discuss its current state and what kind of promises and challenges the future holds for a variety of genres within it.
This one-of-a-kind discussion will have Grammy-winning jazz artist Bobby Sanabria; Sandra Velasquez from the indie rock band Pistolera; bandleader/historian Aurora Flores; Claudia Norman, manager and Festival Founder + Director of Celebrate Mexico Now; and publicist Yuzzy Acosta from Eclectic Media. Composer/theorist Chris Stover will serve as moderator for the panel.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Photographer Mitch Dobrowner signs copies of his book Storms
Join Mitch Dobrowner for the launch party and signing of his new book featuring his extraordinary images of monsoons, tornadoes, and massive thunderstorms.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
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Discussion | The Soapboxes of Union Square
For decades, New York City radicals — union leaders, anarchists, socialists — headed to Union Square to rally, listen, learn, and vigorously debate. For this event the Museum will create its own public square, calling upon authors and professors Morris Dickstein, Tony Michels and Lara Vapnek to discuss the history and culture of Union Square. Investigative journalist Tom Robbins joins the panel with a discussion of present-day organizing in the city. Tenement Actors will perform the speeches of notable early 20th century figures including anarchist leader Alexander Berkman and labor leader and founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
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6:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Web Project: Daniel Lefcourt's Modeler
At the launch event, a conversation with Daniel Lefcourt and Dia assistant curator Kelly Kivland will begin at 7 pm.
Daniel Lefcourt's web project focuses on systems of signs and interferences. The starting point is a grid composed of grayscale stock images of industrial objects and spaces, a seemingly infinite dataset suggestive of what Lefcourt deems "The pleasure of sameness and repetition." Extending from his current body of work, which emphasizes observation and detail, Modeler invites the visitor to investigate the complex nature of virtual perception.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Look Only at the Movement, a Digital Video by smudge studio
This digital video by smudge studio examines the entangled infrastructures of nuclear waste transportation and the United States’ highway system. Generated from original documentation of nuclear waste storage facilities in Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and New York, this meditation-in-motion punctuates the streaming highway system with its travelers’ encounters with nuclear waste transport, disposal cells, and sites of remediation.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Ann Lauterbach reads from her book Under the Sign
A new collection from the author of Or To Begin Again, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Poetry.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Artists Talk: The Bruce High Quality Foundation
The Bruce High Quality Foundation discusses the installations, videos, paintings, sculptures, performances and institutions that reveal their collective creative agency within the seemingly monolithic forces of art and social history. The group is the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Concert to Honor the Memory of Cellist Janos Starker
Janos Starker, one of the most influential masters and teachers of the cello in the 20th century, Grammy winner for his 1992 recording of Bach's solo cello suites, passed away in Bloomington, Indiana on 28 April of this year. This special concert will honor the memory of Starker, who, with his pianist colleage at IU, György Sebők represented the contributions immigrant Hungarians have been making to American music at its finest.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Joanne Hershfield's Mama C.: Urban Warrior in the African Bush (2012): Documentary on One Woman's African and American Identities
The film explores Mama C's decades-long project of coming to terms with who she is-an African American raised in Kansas City, KS, the "jazz-capital of the world," who has lived most of her life in Africa, the place from where her ancestors were forced to make the "middle passage."
60 min.
Post-screening Q&A with director Joanne Hershfield.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested admission
$10 suggested admission
Author Reading | Louisa Shafia reads from her book The New Persian Kitchen
Acclaimed chef Louisa Shafia explores her Iranian heritage by re-imagining classic Persian recipes from a fresh, vegetable-focused perspective. A luscious, contemporary take on a time-honored cuisine, The New Persian Kitchen makes the exotic and beautiful tradition of seasonal Persian cooking both accessible and inspiring. Other guests TBA.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation
$5 suggested donation
Author Reading | Melanie Young reads from her book Getting Things Off My Chest
This helpful guide by breast cancer survivor Melanie Young provides tips and insights for women on how to manage their diagnosis. Getting Things Off My Chest will help readers stay focused, positive and in charge of their health.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri reads from her book The Lowland
The Lowland is an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Rigoberto Gonzalez reads from his books Red-Inked Retablos and Autobiography of My Hungers
The latest in a series of events with the New York Foundation for the Arts.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Setting as Character, with Writer Nino Ricci
Internationally acclaimed author Nino Ricci will present a talk on “Setting as Character." From verdant jungles to frozen mountaintops to isolated prairies, settings in fiction can be more than just evocative, they can become characters in their own right. Nino Ricci will draw on his own use of the Galapagos in his award winning novel The Origin of Species, and illuminate how his real life trip to Darwin’s islands inspired him.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | “Selected Shorts”: Writers on Writing, with Guest Actor Parker Posey
The acclaimed public radio series and podcast presents short stories about the craft of writing by Joan Didion, Molly Giles, and Etgar Keret, performed by acclaimed actors Alex Karpovsky (pictured), Parker Posey, and Kaneza Schaal.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Reiko Fueting, Composition
Composer and theorist Reiko Fueting has received numerous prizes, awards, scholarships, and grants in both Europe and the United States for his compositions, arrangements, and analytical articles. An avid performer as well as composer, he has appeared at venues and festivals in Belgium, Croatia, Germany, France, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, Austria, Latvia, Russia, Czech Republic, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, China, South Korea, Colombia, and the United States.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Performance | Taylor Mac's 24-Decade Concert Series of the History of Popular Music: The 1850s
The Bard of Democracy (Walt Whitman) takes over in the guise of bedazzled creature Taylor Mac. Expect selections from Leaves of Grass performed to original compositions and popular music from the 1850s. Wear your best Walt Whitman drag.
Taylor Mac is a theater artist, which means he’s a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, cabaret performer, performance artist, and sometime director and producer. TimeOut New York has called him, “One of the most exciting theater artists of our time” (naming him the best cabaret performer in New York, in 2012, and a future theater legend).
Music by Stephen Foster, Lance Horne, Oran Eldor and more.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Tour | Manhattan Night Tour
New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | NYU Philharmonia performs works by Debussy, Respighi, Ives, and Copland
Program:
Debussy: Petite Suite
Ives: Three Places in New England
Respighi: Gli Uccelli (The Birds)
Copland: Appalachian Spring
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Author Reading | Stefan Andriopoulos discusses his book Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media
Devin Fore (Princeton University and author of Realism After Modernism: The Rehumanization of Art and Literature (MIT/October Books, 2012) will discuss with Stefan Andriopoulos his new book.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | The Fifth Dentist
What do you do when your father owns a strip club, and your mother works there? BECOME A DENTIST! Mike King's One-Man-Show "The Fifth Dentist" is a hilarious true story by America's funniest dentist, cutting-edge comedy from one of New York's brightest comics...has been seen on Comedy Central and has opened for Ray Romano!
See this work-in-progress before it's off-Broadway production.
"Exceptional story!" - Eric Hansen, Producer of the Montel Williams and Whoopi Goldberg show.
New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Classical Music | Choral Work by Haydn and More at a Landmark Venue
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