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37 free events take place on Friday, February 16 in New York City.
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37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, February 16, 2018

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Conference | Criminal Governance in Comparative Perspective


Does the presence of criminal organizations always lead to insecurity, violence, and disorder? The premise ... more >> of this conference is that criminal organizations engage in surprisingly diverse forms of institution building that produce equally different forms of governance. Criminal governance challenges many of our core assumptions about the underpinnings of democracy, the nature of the State, and the conditions that produce order and development. During the conference a diverse group of scholars will present cutting-edge research on the ways that criminal groups govern territories, economies, communities, and political processes. Panels will focus on the origins, dynamics, and consequences of governance by mafias, gangs, drug trafficking organizations and other criminal groups in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America.
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8:45 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Workshop | Yoga and Breathwork


This hourlong class includes a gentle hatha/vinyasa flow with a focus on breathwork and meditation to ... more >> assist practitioners in going deeper into the body and mind. This inquiry will seek to create more flexibility and allow movement of energy to ultimately find more grounding and presence, in class and throughout the day.
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9:30 am
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City Walk | Manhattan Street Art Tour


Join a Manhattan Street Art Tour and experience the Lower East Side - SoHo, NoHo, Nolita and Little Italy. ... more >> The Lower East Side of Manhattan is a playground for street artists, Soho is known to be one of NYC first permit Joint Live-Work Quarters for artists and the area received landmark designation in 1973. Noho and Nolita’s street art is either hidden in courtyards or on the more prominent street art facades. Learn about the history of the art of many famous and unknown artist.
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9:45 am
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Festival | Lunar New Year: 19th New Year Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival


Celebrate the first day of the Lunar New Year at the Firecracker Ceremony and Cultural Festival! There ... more >> will be performances and vendors.
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11:00 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 | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery ... more >> in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate. This tour takes place every Friday.
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12:30 pm
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Film | Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964): Scathing Black Comedy


Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden. An insane general triggers a path to nuclear ... more >> holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. 95 min.
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12:30 pm
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Film | Edgar Wright's Baby Driver (2017): Getaway Expert


Stars: Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm. After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young ... more >> getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail. 112 min.
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1:00 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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Film | Matt Ruskin's Crown Heights (2017): Wrongfully Imprisoned


Stars: Lakeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha, Natalie Paul. When Colin Warner is wrongfully convicted of ... more >> murder, his best friend Carl King devotes his life to proving Colin's innocence. 94 min.
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Violin Works by Boulez, Saariaho


Program: Boulez: Anthèmes II Saariaho: Frises, Mvmnts I-IV Lara Lewison is a sophomore. She studies ... more >> violin with Maja Cerar through the Music Performance program. She was a violin fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center this past summer and will be returning this summer. In the city, she has performed at Weill Hall at Carnegie, the Lincoln Center Rose Studio, Symphony Space, and on the campus. Taylor Brook is a Canadian composer living in New York, writing and producing music for concert, film, theater and dance. Brook studied composition with Brian Cherney, Luc Brewaeys, George Lewis, Fred Lerdahl, and Georg Friedrich Haas. Described as “gripping” and “engrossing” by the New York Times, his compositions have won numerous awards and prizes.
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1:00 pm
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Film | Ava DuVernay's Oscar Winner Selma (2014): MLK in Alabama


Stars: David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth. A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to ... more >> secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
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2:00 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 ... more >> 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.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Dax Shepard's CHIPS (2017): Motorcycle Cop Comedy


Stars: Michael Peña, Dax Shepard, Vincent D'Onofrio. A rookie officer is teamed with a hardened pro ... more >> at the California Highway Patrol, though the newbie soon learns his partner is really an undercover Fed investigating a heist that may involve some crooked cops. 100 min.
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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, ... more >> 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.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Mervyn LeRoy's A Majority of One (1961): Oldsters Find Love Again


Stars: Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton. A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman ... more >> and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness. 156 min.
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones: Protecting the Past for the Future


Speaker James Cuno draws fire when arguing against the repatriation of some museum artifacts. This event ... more >> examines his view that cultural property should be recognized as the legacy of humankind, and it engages the urgent and controversial debate around antiquities.
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2:30 pm
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Master Class | Marc Damoulakis, Percussionist


Marc Damoulakis joined The Cleveland Orchestra in August 2006 and was appointed to the principal percussion ... more >> chair in 2013. He is currently a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music and DePaul University in Chicago. Damoulakis also holds the title of principal percussionist of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony and will be featured as a soloist during their 2017 season. He regularly performs as an artist with ChamberFest Cleveland.
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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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Lecture | Trust, Anger, Resentment: On Blame and the Economy of Disesteem


Blame is naturally understood in terms of reactive attitudes such as resentment. These attitudes, in ... more >> turn, are responsive to reasons, i.e. considerations that make them fitting or appropriate. It seems to follow that the conditions of blame are in place whenever a person has been wronged by another—just as it is appropriate to withdraw trust whenever someone has betrayed the confidence we had invested in them. But this analogy between resentment and the withdrawal of trust neglects the affective dimension of blame, its connection to anger. With: Jay Wallace (UC Berkeley)
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3:30 pm
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Concert | Choral Concert: Works by Tallis, U2, and More


Program: arr. Darmon Meader The Star-Spangled Banner arr. Darmon Meader America the Beautiful U2 MLK ... more >> Eleanor Daley In Remembrance Robert Ray He Never Failed Me Yet arr. Moses Hogan Elijah Rock Frank Ticheli Earth Song Thomas Tallis Tallis' Canon Michael Engelhardt I Will Sing Keith Hampton True Light Chester L. Alwes Irish Blessing With: Champaign Centennial High School Choir (Champaign, IL)
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4:00 pm
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Classical Music | Student Recitals


Kevin Quill, Trumpet 4:00PM Tristan Teo, Piano 4:00PM Sergio Muñoz Leiva, Viola 6:00PM Jin Wen Sheu, ... more >> Violin 6:00PM Jake Darnell, Percussion 8:00PM Yilan Zhao, Piano 8:00PM Lauren Siess, Viola 8:00PM
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4:00 pm
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Concert | 3 Folk Music Acts


5:30 pm Jason Howell (pictured) - Acoustic folk Americana 6:05 pm Sean Lee - Acoustic power pop 6:40 ... more >> pm Heather Eatman - Indie singer/songwriter
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5:30 pm
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Film | Allan Sekula and Noël Burch's The Forgotten Space (2010): Our Devastated Oceans


The main subject of The Forgotten Space is the ocean, not as a traditional site of romantic or surrealist ... more >> adventure, but in its contemporary and invisible role as a buttress of global capitalism. Focusing on the harbors of Los Angeles, Rotterdam, Bilbao, and Hong Kong, the film shows how cargo containers have transformed maritime shipping into an instrument of labor exploitation and environmental devastation. 112 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Lecture | Santiago Ramon y Cajal and the Enchanted Loom


Rodolfo Llinás will examine the historical development of imaging of the nervous system, and the interpretation ... more >> of the images observed, from Cajal’s time to the present day.
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6:30 pm
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Conference | Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence


This year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference will bring together a broad community of thinkers and organizers ... more >> to grapple with the ever-deepening penetration of surveillance practices into everyday life, and ways to engage in self-defense against the militarized, racist police state's demands for constant access in the name of "security" and public order. Sessions will focus on technologies of surveillance and self-defense; the normalization of the in/security state; and medical-legal surveillance. Keynote speaker Simone Brown, author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness, will open the conference by grounding us in the prescient and deeply entrenched legacies of anti-black racism and white supremacy in state, social, and capitalist systems.
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6:30 pm
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Play | 6: Pondering Extinction


Six undergraduates spend a summer in an isolated wilderness, studying the surrounding ecosystem under ... more >> the tutelage of two graduate teaching assistants. As they learn of the five global mass extinctions that life on Earth has suffered in its history, and the sixth that may be upon us, they get to know each other and themselves. Is one of the students an imposter, a so-called eco-terrorist? Is he a hero or a con man? Written by Tim Mason Directed by Jonathan Bolt
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Capturing War: Veterans and Fiction


A lecture by Maj. Ben Griffin U.S. Military Academy at West Point
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Hugh Sam, piano


LiveSOUNDS features free performances by faculty and their guests on Fridays throughout the school year. ... more >> It presents a cross section of a diverse and creative community of faculty members who are deeply committed to excellence and professionalism.
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | French Music for Winds and Piano: Debussy, Poulenc, and More


This concert that shines a light on the school’s gifted faculty. Bassoon faculty member Gili Sharett ... more >> performs a concert of French music for winds and piano featuring Erin Gustafson on obe, and clarinetist Anthea Jackson her colleagues from the Ariel Winds Quartet. They will be joined by piano faculty member Tania Tachkova in a program of music composed by Jean Philippe Rameau – Vier Stuke, Jacques Ibert, Georges Auric, Claude Debussy, Gabriel Pierné, and Francis Poulenc.
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7:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Friday Night Tour: Exhibition Highlights


Much of the art at the museum is centuries old, but provides fresh perspectives on our world today. Take ... more >> part in a guided tour experience to learn more about the exquisite objects found throughout the galleries. Open your mind to new ideas, and access art through dialogue and close observation with a trained educator. Tours last approximately forty-five minutes.
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7:00 pm
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Comedy Club | No Name Comedy/Variety Show


With Fish Out of Agua author / storyteller Michele Carlo (Radio Free Brooklyn), Leighann Lord (co-host ... more >> of National Geographic Channel's Star Talk with Neil deGrasse Tyson), Dave Lester (SIRIUS XM) and Charles McBee (MTV & NY Comedy Festival).
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recitals


7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Lab Chorus Recital 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM MSM Composers Orchestra
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Tito Puente Jr.: Continuing a Mambo Legacy


An incomparable mambo legacy lives on with Tito Puente Jr. and his band, who will keep the dance floor ... more >> jumping all night long. Determined to nurture the musical legacy left by his father, Tito Puente Jr. has become an audience favorite across the world, performing more than 300 shows over the past five years. On his critically acclaimed new album, Got Mambo?, Tito Jr. uses the music of the past to inspire a new creative direction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Jazz | Debbie Kane Raymar, Jazz Vocalist


Raymar and special musical guests.
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