17 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, February 1, 2022
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
A virtual conference presented in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and ...
more >> the NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Division of Medical Ethics.
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations ...
more >> for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
Exercise in disguise! Featuring easy-to-follow Latin dance choreography while working on your balance, ...
more >> coordination and range of motion. Come prepared for enthusiastic instruction, a little strength training, and a lot of fun. Participants are expected to bring their own equipment: weights, water bottle, hand towel etc.
Through Portuguese settlement in the fifteenth century, the Cape Verde islands became a launch base for ...
more >> trade between Europe and West Africa. By the sixteenth century, Cape Verde stood at the nexus of trade in enslaved Africans and goods between sub-Saharan Africa and the broader Atlantic world, including Portugal and Spain’s American colonies. In this talk, Abraham Liddell of Columbia University examines Cape Verde’s critical role in the development of an early Black Lusophone Atlantic through analyzing the social networks of the free and enslaved Africans that lived, worked, and were sold as captives there. Examining Black Atlantic history through a social network lens offers historians another way to consider how social connections affected the rational choices that free and enslaved Black people made about their lives.
Ice Theatre of New York (ITNY) presents pop-up lunch time concerts. While program for specific dates ...
more >> to be decided, potential repertory works to be performed include; Arctic Memory, by award-winning dancer/choreographer Jody Sperling which is an environmentally conscious creation. Arctic Memory had its genesis in a 43-day polar science mission north of the Arctic Circle in which Ms. Sperling was the first, and to date only choreographer-in-residence aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker. Imagine by Kate Mangiardi in which she is in a demonstration of fancy figures into graceful edge movements to the music of "Imagine" composed by John Lennon and Yoko Ono and recorded by Eva Cassidy. When Atoms Embrace is an acclaimed solo choreographed and costumed by original John Curry Theatre of Skating member, Lorna Brown. Ms. Brown is an artist with a deep interest and knowledge in science. The piece is set to Music by Arvo Part's "Spiegel im Spiegel" and was inspired by a poem Ms. Brown wrote herself. ITNY performers include Olympian Kaitlyn Weaver, ITNY Ensemble members Armen Agaian, Danil Berdnikov, Sarah France, Valerie Levine, Liz Schmidt, and young ice dance apprentices Oona and Gage Brown.
12:40 pm
free, no reservation required
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London. 1610. It's plague time again. When a wealthy gentleman flees to the country, his trusted servant ...
more >> opens his house to a pair of con artists and sets up a den of criminal capitalism. Claiming alchemical powers, the quick-witted trio fleece an onslaught of greedy sheep with their virtuosic ability to improvise amidst increasingly frantic comings and goings. This new version of Jonson's rowdy comedy classic ran Off-Broadway.
1:00 pm
free, donations welcome,...
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This installment will be a conversation with Danny Meyer, who is CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group ...
more >> and the restaurateur behind some of New York's most beloved and acclaimed culinary institutions, from Shake Shack to Gramercy Tavern, and many more. Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are particularly engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them. The result: surprising stories from great talkers and thinkers.
In Claude Lanzmann’s seminal nine-and-a-half-hour film Shoah, he chose not to use any images of the ...
more >> Holocaust, telling the story instead solely through the words of witnesses. By contrast, art historian Georges Didi-Huberman and contemporary artist Gerhard Richter have both emphasized the power of images to reflect and educate—the former in his book Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz, and the latter in a series of paintings titled Birkenau. This is a lecture exploring the tension between these different perspectives on images, words, and the Holocaust with German art historian and curator Eckhart Gillen. Gillen will ground the discussion in the example of Boris Lurie, who used art to access his buried memories before he was able to address them with words.
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Originally published in Poland in 2014, The Books of Jacob is Tokarczuk's masterwork that first earned ...
more >> her the attention of the Swedish Academy, which hailed her "narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." The novel examines the legacy of Jacob Frank, a mid-eighteenth century Jewish mystic whose eventful life will crisscross Europe and its empires, straddle religions, and become enshrouded in controversy and mystery. Monumental in scope, The Books of Jacob is an ecstatic odyssey through a changing world in search of transcendence.
4:30 pm
free, registration required
Giorgio Bassani’s novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis was first published in English in 1965 enticing ...
more >> a small number of high profile literary critics. However his lasting success began with the 1972 film version by Vittorio De Sica which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film. On the occasion of the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's opera The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, with a libretto by Michael Korie, presented by National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene and New York City Opera, this is a panel discussion featuring: Anthony Tamburri (Calandra Institute, CUNY) Alessandro Cassin (Centro Primo Levi) Michael Korie (Librettist, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis opera) Bianca Finzi-Contini Calabresi (Columbia University) Moderated by Stefano Albertini (NYU)
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Learn about the most fundamental part of photography: the camera. Esteban Toro will share examples, techniques ...
more >> and images from his own experience photographing more than 50 countries around the world, working in all manner of conditions, from landscapes to portraits.
A reading with author Dana Spiotta as she sits down with Helen Schulman to discuss her new work. ...
more >> Dana Spiotta is the author of five novels: Wayward (published in July 2021), Innocents and Others (2016), winner of the St. Francis College Literary Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Stone Arabia (2011), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Eat the Document (2006), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the American Academy’s Rosenthal Foundation Award; and Lightning Field (2001), a New York Times Notable Book.
In honor of the publication of the twentieth anniversary edition, join this distinguished panel for a ...
more >> discussion on Randall Kennedy’s fascinating and urgent book, which features a new introduction by the author. Kennedy, a legal scholar, unpacks “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets” and its storied history of use from the Jim Crow south to Netflix comedy specials. How should society engage with this word? Should books like Huckleberry Finn stay on the shelves? Vice President and Executive Editor at Penguin Random House and Chair of The Center for Fiction Board of Directors Erroll McDonald and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed join Kennedy for this riveting discussion on identity, history, and racial justice.
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Former Alvin Ailey dancer Hope Boykin created this work to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the ...
more >> movement he represented. This large ensemble work melds creative storytelling, new music by Ali Jackson (from Jazz at Lincoln Center), and historic and original writings recorded by Tony Award winner Leslie Odom, Jr. (from Hamilton).
Expect the spontaneity of a party when Janie Heath introduces her work and that of some of her fascinating ...
more >> friends, featuring weekly shows curated by one notable creator—with the voices, commentary, music, art, films, and writing of friends they work with and admire. Like an old-fashioned TV variety show, Heath will showcase writers, musicians, and others who express their own unique qualities through a diverse but contemporary range of work.