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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 10, 2015?

61 free events take place on Thursday, September 10 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 September 10 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 September . 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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61 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, September 10, 2015

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Editor's Picks

free events nyc Too Big To Evolve? How Customer-Centric Innovation Will Change Financial Services
free events nyc Mike Kelley's Kandors: Visually Opulent Sculptures
free events nyc Paintings: James Gortner's Transformer
free events nyc Ronald K. Fierstein discusses his book A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
free events nyc The Panama Jazz Connection
free events nyc French Film: Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux's The Rabbi's Cat (2011)
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Concert | Justin Bieber, Pop Idol


The Canadian singer, who was discovered through his YouTube videos, has had few hits the past couple of years until "Where Are U Now," a collaboration Skrillex and Diplo, hit the Top Ten this summer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Workshop | Park Tai Chi


Classes for all ages and experience levels. Park Tai Chi is provided by the Tai Chi Chuan Center and led by teachers and students who train at CK Chu Tai Chi under the direction of Jeremy Hubbell. Classes are rain or shine. Takes place on Tuesdays and Thursdays through September 24.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
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Discussion | Too Big To Evolve? How Customer-Centric Innovation Will Change Financial Services


While the financial industry has spent the past decade dealing with mergers, the financial crisis, and meeting regulatory requirements, other industries have embraced the digital revolution by evolving to the shifting consumer landscape and optimizing their processes to better serve them. As trust and confidence in banks and financial advisors continue to erode, many financial institutions are faced with re-evaluating the way they market, promote and offer products and services to a new generation of digitally native consumers. As new financial startups (LendingClub, FutureAdvisor) and the big internet companies (Apple, Google, Facebook) enter the financial services space, too big to fail is turning into too big to evolve. In panels, they will examine this cultural and technological shift, the innovation required for an evolution in banking, and what smart financial institutions are doing to catch up and ultimately win back the customers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 am
Free

Conference | Women Mobilizing Memory: Collaboration and Co-Resistance


Examining the politics of cultural memory from the perspective of social difference, this international conference will analyze strategies by which artists, scholars and activists have succeeded in mobilizing the memory of political and social violence to promote redress, social justice, and a democratic future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


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


Castle Williams, the centerpiece of the system of fortifications designed to guard New York City just prior to the War of 1812, has long been off-limits to the public. After an extensive rehabilitation project in 2011, the National Park Service opened the Castle's to the general public for the first time in the fort's 200-year history. Tours of the Castle take visitors through all three levels and the roof. Tours are approximately 30 minutes in length. Visitors are advised that tours require climbing three flights of stairs. The Castle's upper floors are not handicap-accessible. Start times: 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Kuni Mikami, Pianist for Lionel Hampton’s Big Band


Born in Tokyo, Japan, Kuni Mikami came to the United States in 1975, studied with Barry Harris and Norman Simmons. He continues to play for many of the top big-bands around including: the Lionel Hampton Orchestra; Duke Ellington; Cab Calloway; Illinois Jacquet; and George Gee Orchestra.
   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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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: Folk Art and American Modernism


Tour will be led by the museum’s gallery guides.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Retro Board Gaming for Adults


Share your passion for checkers, chess, mahjong, Monopoly, or Scrabble. All levels of play welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Frank Tuttle's' This Gun for Hire (1942): Killer Betrayed


Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston. When hired killer Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he's paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies. 81 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Researching with E-Resources: Periodicals and Newspapers


Explore current and historical newspapers and periodicals available online through NYPL.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Workshop | Human Chess


Play as your favorite game piece and navigate the chess board from inside at our Human Chess games, where chess becomes an embodied team sport. All levels welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Beginners' Chess Social


Join us at our weekly Game Socials to meet up with like-minded players interested in the same games as you. On Thursdays, beginners are invited to play chess.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Morningside Heights Book Discussion Group


They will be reading The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Playwriting Workshop


Whether you’re writing an essay, a business letter, a research report, copy for an ad agency or a short story, writers go through a process to get to an excellent finished product. This workshop will teach you how to go through that process – and the three stages of the writing process: 1) pre-writing (asking the right questions about audience, purpose, and tone, clarifying your objective, brainstorming possible ideas, and pre-thinking your main point, plus organizing your ideas) 2) drafting (your first draft) and 3) revision/editing/proofreading, which is the final part of the writing process. This workshop will teach you how to get a professional product – whether it be an essay, letter, personal statement, feature article, or short story. It will also teach you strategies to overcome writer’s block and come up with creative ideas. We will also learn group techniques for generating ideas and for composition. Presented by Deedle Tomlinson
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Frank Stella: Shape as Form, a Career-Spanning Exhibition


Beginning with the “Protractor Series” of the 1960s through the “Bali Series” of the early 2000s, the exhibition articulates Stella’s groundbreaking fusion between painting and sculpture as illustrated by one major work from eight of the artist’s most important series.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Heavy Paintings, an Exhibition by Thrush Holmes


Using diverse materials, which range from oil paint to neon to driveway sealer, to depict a variety of subject matter, Holmes brazenly undermines exclusionary high art motifs, presenting instead a fresh, honest reduction of form and process that unsparingly unveils the slapdash hand of the 35-year-old Canadian artist. The result is a psychedelic exhibition with a varying tempo - one that oscillates between brutish splatters of paint, poetic smears of color, and sophisticated glimmers of neon.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Kazuko Inoue: Thirty Years of Painting


The exhibition surveys paintings and works on paper by the artist from 1979 to 2010 that demonstrate her devoted exploration of color. From the early pulsating works of varied hues to the later monochromatic grid paintings, Inoue’s development of paint application is evident in these kaleidoscopic yet interconnected series of works.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Mind, Body and Soul, an Exhibition of Recent Work by William Villalongo


William Villalongo invites the viewer to return to his magical Otherworld of Nymphs and Sirens, offering us edgy, multifaceted vignettes framed and softened by floral and velvet flocked borders.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Will Ryman: Two Rooms, Sculptural Installations


Two new sculptural installations, The Situation Room (2012–2014) and Classroom (2015), will be on view. Ryman’s recent works explore global and historical complexities; a subject the artist first began to investigate with America (2013), a conceptual sculpture of Abraham Lincoln’s childhood cabin shown in February of 2013.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Dan Flavin's Corners, Barriers and Corridors


An exhibition of significant “corner,” “barrier” and “corridor” works from the late 1960s and early 1970s by Dan Flavin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Denis Darzacq and Anna Luneman's Double Mix


Double Mix is a collaboration between two French artists, photographer Denis Darzacq and mixed media artist Anna Iris Lüneman. In this body of work Darzacq’s allusive photography of banal subjects is disrupted by Lüneman’s visceral ceramic abstractions which are literally imbedded in the framed photographs. By grafting these disparate modes together a disorienting play between image and object occurs. These adventurous hybrid works carves out a unique territory between photography and sculpture. The show will showcase this collaboration as well as recent solo work by each artist in media ranging from photography, ceramics, and painting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Hunter Reynolds' Survival AIDS Medication Reminder


For over twenty-five years Reynolds has been using photography, performance and installation to express his experience as an HIV positive gay man living in the age of AIDS. He was an early member of ACT UP, and in 1989 co-founded Art Positive, an affinity group of ACT UP to fight homophobia and censorship in the arts. His work addresses issues of gender, identity, socio-politics, sexual histories, mourning, loss, survival, hope and healing. The exhibition will feature large-scale photo weavings, a new video work and a mummification skin that together reflect Reynolds’ vision of himself, his community, and his role as a long-term AIDS survivor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Josh Smith's Scultpure


Smith’s practice is defined by a spirit of restless and relentless experimentation. He thrives on risk, and his mercurial practice resists being easily categorized or defined by a signature style. Smith is fundamentally a painter of abstraction, but he also creates figurative paintings, collages, sculptures, drawings, prints, books, and ceramics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Naomi Reis' Paradise Constructed


Through mixed-media paintings and installations, Reis continues her investigation of idealized spaces—which has spanned the utopian architecture of modernism, vertical gardens, and geodesics—to focus on the manmade environments found in botanical conservatories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: Absence Of: Works in Black and White


Absence Of spotlights nearly 50 works by 13 artists. Among the mediums represented are pen and ink, acrylic, oil, mixed media, collage, and digital photography. The show’s featured artists are: Leonard Aschenbrand, Lyn Barlotta, Azure Bourne, Martin Cohen, Jonathan Glass, Ariella Kadosh, Julio Mendoza, Keith Pavia, George Penon, Annette Phuvan, Jasmine Soto, Maura Terese, and Alyson Vega.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Group Show: "Where Sculpture and Dance Meet: Minimalism from 1961 to 1979


Through the pairing of videos of historic performances and sculptures, the exhibition explores the dialog surrounding concurrent ideas associated with minimalism in art and dance. Focusing on a small group of closely-knit colleagues, the exhibition charts an ongoing circuit of ideas across disciplines.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Mike Kelley's Kandors: Visually Opulent Sculptures


This is the gallery's first U.S. exhibition devoted to one of the most ambitious and influential artists of our time. Organized in collaboration with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the exhibition is the first in New York to focus exclusively on one of the most significant of Kelley’s later series Kandors. These visually opulent, technically ambitious sculptures combine with videos and a sprawling installation never before exhibited in the United States, as the late Los Angeles artist reworks the imagery and mythology of the popular American comics book hero Superman into an extraordinary opus of nurture and loss, destruction, mourning and – possibly - redemption.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Billy Childish's flowers, nudes and birch trees


Over the last 35 years, Childish has gained a cult status world-wide; In addition to writing and publishing over 40 volumes of confessional poetry and 5 novels, Childish has recorded over 100 LPs, and painted many hundreds of paintings. Billy Childish has had solo and group exhibitions internationally with recent solo exhibitions in New York, London, and Berlin. In 2000, Childish was included in British Art Show 5, which toured throughout four cities – Edinburgh, Southampton, Cardiff, and Birmingham – and featured artists Tracey Emin, Liam Gillick, and David Hockney, among others. In 2010, Childish was the subject of major concurrent retrospectives at the ICA in London and White Columns in New York, curated by Matthew Higgs and Richard Birkett.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Paintings: James Gortner's Transformer


Transformer continues Gortner's exploration of artistic production through works that incorporate both original and found elements. However, unlike his last exhibition whereby he assembled and painted upon found paintings in their entirety, in "Transformer" Gortner cuts and collages pieces from an even wider range of found paintings and discarded objects, incorporating them into a new composition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Workshop | Park Yoga


Perfect your downward dog under the trees and on the lush lawn at the 12th season of outdoor yoga classes, presented by Athleta with instructors curated by Yoga Journal and media support from Flavorpill. Mats are provided by Athleta - no need to bring your own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Peter Berlin's Wanted: An Exhibition of Self-Portraits from the 1970s and Early 1980s


More than forty years ago, Peter Berlin created some of the most recognizable gay male erotic imagery of the time, which quickly established him as an international sensation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Photography: Kazuo Kitai: Students, Workers, Villagers 1964-1978


With a quietly eloquent personal style, Kazuo Kitai (b. 1944) has chronicled a half-century of Japan's shifting social landscapes. His work defined a new standard for documentary photography. This exhibition features Kitai's own selection of 28 images from six different series created between 1964 and 1978 (Resistance, Kobe Dockers, Barricade, Sanrizuka, Somehow Familiar Places, and To the Villages). Recently printed on "aging process" photo paper, these prints exude a nostalgic warmth while maintaining superior archival quality. In addition, the exhibition also features ten rare vintage prints, some of which will be included in a forthcoming book published by Nazraeli Press.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Photography: Ji Zhou's Civilized Landscape


Ji Zhou’s new photographic works subvert the object as a vehicle for visual representation and interpretation; maps and books become landscapes of possibility. The process tells as much of a story as the final image does: Ji Zhou collects maps, hand-sculpting them into peaks and troughs to mimic mountaintops. He includes books that are assembled into cantilevered towers resembling city skyscrapers. These ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ illusions are then photographed, further augmenting reality. As always, Ji Zhou chooses to question rather than offer his own conclusions: What is civilization – a constructed illusion created by man or an inevitable product of evolution? What is the truly ‘civilized landscape’– tautology or oxymoron? 525 West 22nd Street New York, NY 10011 (212) 255-4388
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Sculpture: Rita McBride's Access


A solo exhibition of new work by sculptress Rita McBride. The exhibition will include patinated water jet cut brass keys, knockers, locks, keyholes and rings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Street Photography by Ruben Natal-San Miguel


Opening the new season, the gallery will present New York-based photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel's rich street life images. Also featured is the work of five gallery artists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Worka on Paper: Matthew Brannon’s Skirting the Issue


Following a recent three-year “textploration,” which included the composition of novels and text-based films and paintings, Brannon introduces an anomalous, primarily image-centered installation. Featuring twelve large-scale works on paper, this exhibition focuses on the pictorial and graphic systems that have been ever-present within the artist’s practice. In pursuit of a visual language tendered in a similarly suggestive manner to that of the written word through themes informed by paradigms of 21st century cultural and social establishments, Brannon undertakes traditional methods of printmaking, including letterpress prints, silkscreens, and lush hand painting on paper.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tour | Central Park Sunset Photography Tour


Sunsets are a special time and what better place in New York City to experience and photograph the setting sun than the Middle Section of Central Park. A licensed guide, renowned photographer, and a downtown Manhattan resident of 40 years will guide you through some of the most iconic Central Park settings during what photographers call “the golden hour“ – Summit Rock, Winterdale Arc, the Great Lawn, Belvedere Castle, the Ramble, the Lake and Bow Bridge. You will be directed in how to get your shots no matter what’s the evening sky. Learn a bit about the Middle Section of Central Park as you hone your photographic skills.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Jeff Smith reads from his book Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America's Prison Crisis


Urban policy professor Jeff Smith will read from his new book. Following a brief reading from the book, author Touré will moderate a discussion about criminal justice reform with Smith, Soffiyah Elijah (Executive Director of Correctional Association of New York), Dr. Carla Shedd (Columbia University sociologist), and Melissa Mark Viverito (invited - New York City Council Speaker).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Slide Lecture | Ronald K. Fierstein discusses his book A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War


This illustrated lecture tells the fascinating story of the reclusive genius who, as a teen, invented the plastic polarizer, which is still used almost a century later in countless popular applications including our ubiquitous sunglasses and LCD screens.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Sara Nović reads from her book Girl at War


Zagreb, 1991. Ana Jurić is a carefree ten-year-old, living with her family in a small apartment in Croatia's capital. But that year, civil war breaks out across Yugoslavia, splintering Ana's idyllic childhood. Moving back and forth through time, Girl at War is an honest, generous, brilliantly written debut novel that illuminates how history shapes the individual.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Author Talk: Joyce Carol Oates


Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. Her books include the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter. Her most recent title is The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age (Ecco, 2015). Oates is the Distinguished Fiction Writer-in-Residence in the Creative Writing Program. This event is hosted by Creative Writing Program faculty member and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Darin Strauss.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Les Belles Danses and The New Water Theater Grove of Versailles


French artist Jean-Michel Othoniel and American art critic and artist Robert Storr will discuss Othoniel’s three foun­tain sculptures which graced the garden of the Palace of Versailles, on the occasion of the publication of Storr’s new book on Othoniel’s work, Les Belles Danses. Conversation in English.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Nikola Hansalik's I Am Not a Man I Am Dynamite: Wearable Sculptures


Hansalik presents a series of eight wearable sculptures which also function as masks made of fabric specially treated by the artist. These sculptures turn potentially into different characters of a play or a performance yet to be written. Nikola Hansalik lives and works in Vienna, Austria. The work in this show was made during her Austrian Federal Ministry of Art and Culture residency in New York City. Hansalik's solo exhibitions include NY Fortune of Things I Will Do, at HQ, NYC (2008), Open Source Gallery, NYC (2008), I Want Them to Buy My Art, Do I... Austria Cultural Forum, London (2007) Principle of Irretrievable Breakdown, Arothek Gallery, Vienna (2006). Hansalik has also been part of numerous group shows and has won several awards.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | Padgett Powell reads from his book Cries for Help, Various


Roy Blount Jr., Rivka Galchen, Rick Moody, Elissa Schappell, and Justin Taylor share favorite passages from Powell’s oeuvre, and Powell reads from his new story collection, which is the first book published by Catapult, a new venture from the founders of Electric Literature and Black Balloon Publishing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Peter Nichols' A Day in the Death of Joe Egg


Bri and Sheila are doing their best to save their disintegrating marriage while being consumed with the daily struggles of raising a young daughter stricken from birth with cerebral palsy. Josephine, the "Joe Egg" of the play's title, struggles to communicate with her parents, while her parents struggle to relate to each other. Harsh realities and brutal comedy follow as Joe's parents encounter life's toughest questions in a hilarious and searing look at what happens when we're pushed to the brink.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Randy Weston, Jazz Innovator


The School for Jazz and Contemporary Music is proud to announce Randy Weston as their first ever artist-in-residence for the academic year '15-'16. Pianist, composer, and bandleader, Randy Weston is one of the world’s most influential jazz musicians, a remarkable innovator and visionary whose career has spanned five continents and more than six decades. To kick off Weston's residency, this program will introduce his long career through a conversation with Robin D.G. Kelley, with piano demonstrations by Randy Weston, and audio and video samples.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Rita Gabis reads from her book A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet: My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth


Author Rita Gabis, who comes from a family of Eastern European Jews and Lithuanian Catholics, was close to her Catholic grandfather - the man she thought she knew until she discovered that he had been chief of security police under the Gestapo.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Stephen Kiernan discusses his book The Hummingbird


Stephen Kiernan's novel tells of a hospice nurse struggling to help her husband through the after-effects of his tour in Iraq. What she learns from a WWII historian, about his research on a Japanese pilot who bombed Oregon, seems to help.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | The Habit of Happiness: An Evening on Mindfulness with the Blue Cliff Monastic Community


If you haven’t lived the best day of your life yet, says Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, chances are that you never will. We wait for happiness to come to us from external events, things, and people. The good news is that if we can truly awaken to each moment of our daily life we can experience happiness right here and now, no matter our situation. With mindfulness, we can transform the necessary “mud” of our lives into lotus flowers of happiness, at any moment. The Blue Cliff monastic community, in partnership with Global Spiritual Life’s MindfulNYU, will offer an interactive evening of practice and teaching through sitting and walking meditations, a talk and a Q+A.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | French Film: Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux's The Rabbi's Cat (2011)


Algiers, 1920s. Rabbi Sfar has more than one problem. His beautiful daughter Zlabya is transforming into a teenager, and even worse, his parrot-killing cat has just started talking. The rabbi’s life grows all the more complicated when a box arrives from Russia with a painter inside. Ultimately Rabbi Sfar ends up on a quest for a hidden tribe and its mythical city of origin in Africa. 89 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Jazz | The Panama Jazz Connection


Three of Panama’s most prodigious jazz musicians — saxophonists Luis Carlos Pérez and Carlos Agrazal and percussionist Oscar Cruz — join Aleida Duartes of the Panama Jazz Festival to explore the Latin American melting pot of Panamanian jazz today. Panamanian and American visual artists will be on hand as part of PJF’s Live Arts Program, drawing alongside the performances in an improvisational fusion of art and music. They will be performing with the Berklee Global Jazz Institute Ambassadors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Master Class | Master Class with 'Phenomenal' Pianist Eteri Andjaparidze


Pianist Eteri Andjaparidze has gained international acclaim as one of the most versatile artists and insightful pedagogues. She has performed on concert stages around the globe in recitals and as guest soloist with major orchestras including London Symphony, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Quebec Symphony, Beijing and Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestras, Russian State Symphony, Moscow State Philharmonic, Moscow Radio Symphony, Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Georgian State and Tbilisi Symphony Orchestras, under the baton of Franz-Paul Decker, James DePreist, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Valery Gergiev, Djansug Kakhidze, Michel Plasson, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Temirkanov, and Pascal Verrot, and has collaborated with various artists such as Jennifer Tipton, Boris Berman, James Dick, Vladimir Feltsman, Sergei Leiferkus, Susanne Mentzer, Brian Lewis, Stephen Balderston and Alex Klein, to name a few. Piano master classes take place every Thursday from Sept. 10 to Dec. 10.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:45 pm
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Film | Rob Marshall's Oscar Nominee Into the Woods (2014): Magical Musical


Stars: Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine. A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree. 125 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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