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54 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, April 11, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Workshop | Boot Camp
The Rise NYC, a community-driven pop-up fitness group, hosts a Boot Camp. Rotations through exercises ... more >> like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back, and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high fives encouraged. Rain or shine.
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6:30 am
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Discussion | Women, Business and the Law 2018
A breakfast discussion with Nayda Almóvar-Reteguis, legal analyst at the World Bank. She will be introducing ... more >> the report Women, Business and the Law 2018. It's the fifth in a series of biennial reports measuring gender discrimination in legal treatment and examining its economic consequences. Find out in how many countries women are barred from certain jobs simply because they are women, where there are no laws on sexual harassment in employment, and where husbands can get their wives fired from work.
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8:30 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 ... more >> 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.
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Park Walk | Central Park Tour - Lower Section
Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded ... more >> urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today among the world's most famous and beloved public parks. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
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9:45 am
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour
Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, ... more >> 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.
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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 ... more >> 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.
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Workshop | Mindfulness for Job Seekers
Learn mindfulness techniques that bring relaxation and effortless focus to challenging situations and ... more >> relationships. Mindfulness is the practice of bringing full, non-judgmental awareness to the present moment. The struggle of searching for a job can be overwhelming at times. See if the practice of mindfulness meditation and some easy to use on-the-spot techniques can help you during these challenging times. Instructor Laura Jackson has been practising Zen meditation for 12 years and is a UCLA-trained mindfulness facilitator.
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10:30 am
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Park Walk | Park Tour
Walking tour of the park led by members of the executive staff.
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11:00 am
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Film | Jean Negulesco's Three Strangers (1946): Sweepstakes Winners
According to an ancient Chinese legend, if three strangers come together before the Chinese idol, Kwan ... more >> Yin at midnight of the Chinese New Year, she will grant their wish. The three strangers buy shares in a lottery ticket which changes their lives. Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre. 1hr 32min.
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11:15 am
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays ... more >> through Fridays, from September 12, 2017 to May 23, 2018.
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12:20 pm
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Tour | You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the 60s: Guided Tour of the Exhibition
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ... more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
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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 ... more >> 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.
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Guided Historical Tour of the Columbia University Campus
Join this tour to learn more about the history, architecture, and sculpture of Columbia and the Morningside ... more >> Heights campus. Whether you're an amateur New York City historian or visiting campus for the first time, you will leave the tour knowing more about our storied past. Given that the tour route is outdoors, please be aware that tours are occasionally suspended due to inclement weather.
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Juilliard Lab Orchestra
Juilliard students share their talent with the community in this free, hour-long, lunchtime concert.
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city ... more >> life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
$10 suggested donation
Classical Music | Mid-Day Music: Violin Works by Franck and Brahms
Program: Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 César Franck: Sonata for Violin and ... more >> Piano in A Major Student Recital: Sein An, violin Cynthia Liu, piano
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | French Class for Beginners
Whether you want to learn key words and phrases for travel or build up fluency for school and work, these ... more >> beginner-classes resources will make learning French practical, easy, and fun.
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2:00 pm
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Tour | High Line Tour
The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, ... more >> French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park.
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Film | Milos Forman's Hair (1979): Hippie Musical
Stars: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo. Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma ... more >> for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but still a rebel inside. 121 min.
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | Stroll to Strawberry Fields
Explore the southwest of Central Park with Central Park Conservancy tour guides, and see it like never ... more >> before. From a planned military parade ground to the site commemorating a famous activist for peace, one of the most-visited areas of the Park has some secrets to share with even the most seasoned Park-goer. Highlights of this tour include: Maine Monument, the Children’s District, Sheep Meadow, Tavern on the Green, and Strawberry Fields.
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2:00 pm
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Jazz | The Bill Wurtzel Trio
Bill Wurtzel is a renowned guitarist with the experience to play jazz that fits any event or venue. He ... more >> has performed worldwide with many great jazz artists. Wurtzel's groups have played for countless private affairs featuring mainstream jazz and the Great American Songbook. He is a member of local 802 and is a director of the Jazz Foundation of America.
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | The Encore Career Roadmap: What’s Next?
Are you retired? About to retire? Thinking about retiring? Are you thinking about your “Third Act”? ... more >> Come see speaker, trainer, and certified professional coach, Barbara Phillips, to learn about a roadmap for approaching this phase of life.
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3:00 pm
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Tour | You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the 60s: Guided Tour of the Exhibition
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ... more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
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3:30 pm
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Forum | Feminist and Queer Interventions in Urban Sexual Economies
Co-presenters: Alison M. Gingeras, curator and writer Amy Herzog, Associate Professor of Media Studies ... more >> at Queens College and Coordinator of the Film Studies Program at the CUNY Graduate Center
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4:00 pm
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Film | Fernando Birri's A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1988): Adaptation of Garcia Marquez's Story
An ignorant couple who find the title character washed ashore like driftwood on their crab-infested beach. ... more >> 90 min.
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Origami Club
Paper folding fun for ages 7 and older.
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4:00 pm
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Film | Darren Aronofsky's Mother! (2017): Holy Horror
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris. A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited ... more >> guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence. 121 min..
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5:00 pm
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Discussion | Nothing Sells Like Whiteness: Race, Ontology, and American Advertising
The American advertising industry keeps getting it wrong when it comes to race. Or does it? This talk ... more >> investigates conflicting racial ontologies that underpin representations of diversity in advertising. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in niche and general market ad agencies, it analyzes how the category of race becomes an object of ontological contention, in ways that foundationally affect its representation and circulation. Speaker Shalini Shankar is Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University.
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5:00 pm
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Classical Music | Piano Works by Scriabin and Chopin
Program: Scriabin Preludes Op. 11 Chopin Concerto No. 2 Student recital - Zi Yi Yang, piano
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5:00 pm
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Author Reading | Authors Read: Gayle Brandeis / Andrea Jarrell
Gayle Brandeis and Andrea Jarrell discuss and sign copies of their respective memoirs, The Art of Misdiagnosis ... more >> and I'm the One Who Got Away.
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5:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: Hillbilly Elegy
Diascuss the book by J. D. Vance.
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5:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Eduardo Navarro discusses his exhibition Into Ourselves
Navarro will be in conversation with Tom Banks, theoretical physicist.
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6:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals
Hiu Sing Fan, Violin 6:00PM Thomas Steigerwald, Piano 8:00PM Emily Beare, Oboe 8:00PM
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6:00 pm
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Symposium | Defining a Collaborative Experience
An interactive symposium will explore experience in the epoch of The Third Industrial Revolution, post-consumerism ... more >> and post-digital.
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Talk | Documenting Capital: My Great-Grandfather's Archive
A talk by Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara.
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jean-Louis Fabiani discusses his book Pierre Bourdieu: A Heroic Structuralism
Jean-Louis Fabiani’s recent book offers a remarkable intellectual portrait of the great French sociologist, ... more >> and has been very well received in France as a major contribution to understanding Bourdieu’s work. Fabiani traces the genealogy of Bourdieu’s major concepts—le champ, la distinction, le capital—and the genesis of his method within the space of the social sciences in the second half of the twentieth century. He portrays Bourdieu as a kind of tragic hero who never gave up on the idea, following Emile Durkheim, that sociology should be able to establish a general theory of society.
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Lecture | Keeping the Watch: Babylonian Astronomical Diaries and More
Clay tablets from ancient Iraq continue to reveal surprising new insights about Babylonian astronomical ... more >> and astrological practices during the first millennium BCE. Ever since the first astronomical tablets from Iraq reached the British Museum and other collections at the end of the nineteenth century, Babylonian astral science has attracted the attention of modern specialists. By now, research on this topic has reached a stage where the technical aspects of Babylonian astronomy are relatively well understood, but even here surprises are still possible. The focus of much other research has shifted to various contextual aspects of the Babylonian astral sciences. Speaker Mathieu Ossendrijver is Professor for the History of Ancient Science in the Department of Philosophy at the Humboldt University Berlin.
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Author Reading | Photographer Aldo Sessa discusses his book Gauchos: Icons of Argentina
The gaucho is an iconic symbol of the romantic ideal of the love of freedom and of the unspoiled landscape. ... more >> With his camera, renowned Argentine artist Aldo Sessa spent months on end traveling around Argentina to its farthest reaches, sparing no effort or sacrifice, to follow and record the traces of these expert nomadic horsemen who preserve the Argentine tradition. Silently, without distracting them, Sessa captured the gauchos at all instances of their rustic daily life, around 50,000 images in total, each shot in fulfillment of a promise to Juan José Güiraldes, the legendary Argentine writer, aviator, and founding president of the Argentine Gaucho Confederation to eternalize the gaucho spirit. This spectacular volume captivates readers with sweeping vistas, fascinating details of traditional gaucho clothing and equipment, and compelling portraits of men young and old and their staunch equine workmates.
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Discussion | South Asian American Masculinities and Popular Culture in the Age of Trump
The last several years have seen a marked growth of visibility of South Asian American men in U.S. popular ... more >> culture (comedians Aziz Ansari, Kumail Nanjiani, Hari Kondabolu, and Hasan Minhaj come to mind). In a moment when our public discourse is defined by explicit racism and misogyny, South Asian American men find themselves at the crossroads of marginality and visibility, vulnerability and privilege. How have artists, writers, activists, and academics responded to this moment of upheaval surrounding brown masculinity? With: D’Lo, actor, writer, comedian Rajiv Menon, Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Mallika Rao, essayist, critic, reporter Imran Siddiquee, filmmaker, speaker, writer, activist
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recitals
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Opera Moments 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM An Evening of Duos 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Yonghyun ... more >> Kim, voice
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Hip-Hop Education: Propelling and Preserving the Movement
As Hip-Hop music approaches its 45th anniversary, three scholars explore the role of Hip-Hop education ... more >> and its pedagogical and preservation value. Together they will explore how Hip-Hop education happens and how it is evolving, including the creation of more than thirty institutions focused on the legacy of Hip-Hop.
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Symposium | Latinx Art is American Art
How can we create a more complete history of American art? This panel explores the significance of contemporary ... more >> artists living and working in the United States of Latin American heritage, and their contributions to current understandings of the American experience. Curators and art historians from institutions of various sizes and missions discuss the broadening of the history of art and the role of the artist. PARTICIPATING PANELISTS Carmen Ramos, Smithsonian American Art Museum Adriana Zavala, Tufts University and US Latinx Art Forum Marcela Guerrero, The Whitney Museum of American Art Miguel Luciano, Artist Shelleyne Rodríguez, Artist
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Author Reading | Mara Einstein discusses her book Advertising: What Everyone Needs to Know
With the advent of "Big Data" advertising is infiltrating our lives in more ways than we realize. In ... more >> our digital world, advertising is pervasive. The average American encounters three thousand marketing messages each day—from TV commercials, magazine and newspaper print ads, radio commercials, pop-ups, pre-rolls, and native advertising. The better we get at avoiding ads, the more novel advertisers' approaches to putting them in front of our eyes have become. In her book, Mara Einstein, professor of Media Studies and Director of the MA program in Media and Social Justice at Queens College, shows how our consumer, social and political impulses are formed by brands and the mythologies they represent.
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Film | Sandra Luckow's That Way Madness Lies... (2017): In the Grip of Schizophrenia
An important documentary about one man’s paranoid schizophrenia, told in part with a collection of ... more >> iPhone video clips he made before being committed to the Oregon State Hospital in Portland, Oregon. It has been described by journalist Pete Earley as the “most honest portrayal of how severe mental illness ravages families and lives that I’ve seen.” 101 min. Followed by a Q&A with the director.
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Discussion | The Bowery: Past, Present & Future on NYC’s Oldest Street
A presentation in word and song celebrating five years of the Bowery’s listing on the National Register ... more >> of Historic Places. Native American footpath, Dutch farm road and site of NYC’s first free Black settlement, the Bowery stretches 1.25 miles from Chatham Square to Cooper Square. It was an early hub for the working class, gangs, gays, and immigrants. It has seminal links to dance, theater, baseball, streetcars, tattooing, Irving Berlin, Abe Lincoln, and Harry Houdini. In the 20th century, it helped launch Beat literature, Abstract Expressionism, and punk rock. It is one of NYC’s most architecturally diverse streets, and now one of America’s most endangered. Presentations include a talk by David Mulkins, vintage songs sung by Poor Baby Bree, and a conversation between architectural conservator Michael Devonshire and architectural historian Kerri Culhane.
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Discussion | Timbuktu and Beyond: The Past, Present and Future of West African Manuscript Collections
A fundamental source for the history of West Africa lies in rich archival collections, most famously ... more >> the manuscript libraries of Timbuktu. Documents from the Mali and Songhai Empires and the centuries before European colonial rule offer a vital window into the region’s complex ties to the wider Muslim world, and to cultures and polities in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Roundtable Speakers: - Ousmane Kane, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School; - Michael Gomez, Professor of History - Alexandra Huddleston, Photographer and Photojournalist
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | What is a Critical Essay?
Speaker Amitava Kumar's most recent novel is Immigrant, Montana. His criticism and essays have appeared ... more >> in Harper’s, The Guardian, New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The New York Times.
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Animal Liberation: In the Labs and in the Street
In this rare collaborative event, go inside animal experimentation labs and onto the front lines of ... more >> the fight to expose the injustice. Speaker Michael Slusher is a scientist who worked inside animal experimentation labs. He is touring with his book They All Had Eyes: Confessions of a Vivisectionist. Speaker Camille Marino is a controversial activist repeatedly arrested for her efforts to shut down labs. Her first book is Uncensored: Inside the Animal Liberation Movement. A fascinating look into the world of animal rights activism.
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Contemporary Cities: Urban and Architecture Practices About Latin America
This panel discussion will present contemporary readings and examples of current cities of Latin America. ... more >> Academics, researchers, and practitioners will join in a relevant discussion around public space, informality, planning, and spatial practices around design and policy in Latin American cities. Speakers: Marina Correia Principal, Marina Correia Architecture Studio Alejandro De Castro Mazarro, Columbia Adjunct Assistant Professor Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo, Principal, Pedro and Juana Alejandra Navarrete LLopis, Principal of Nami Studio (moderator) Marcelo López-Dinardi, Principal of Marcelo Lopez Dinardi Studio (moderator)
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Author Reading | Michelle Dean reads from her book Sharp
Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, ... more >> Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm―these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America in the twentieth century, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the sexist attitudes of the men who often undervalued their work as critics and essayists.
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Author Reading | Zing Tsjeng discusses her book Forgotten Women
Timely and pertinent, this book celebrates and uncovers the fascinating herstories of influential women ... more >> and pioneering early feminists whose remarkable achievements have been overlooked and forgotten.
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Screening | VICE Media Watch & Learn
Get a fresh perspective on today’s most pressing issues at a special screening and talk-back with some ... more >> of the great minds behind VICE.
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7:30 pm
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Workshop | Meditation and the Alexander Technique: An Intro Course
Mindfulness practices can free us from habitual patterns of tension, and bring a deeper alignment with ... more >> life. This class offers practical guidance and instruction on both sitting and walking meditation. With Hope Martin.
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Comedy Club | Wombat: A Comedy Show - Free Pizza Edition
Wombat is a monthly comedy show with some of New York's hottest rising comics. The yhave had comedians ... more >> who've been featured on MTV, Comedy Central, The New Yorker, and more. The pizza is free!
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