53 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, April 13, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
This two-day Franco-American workshop seeks to compare the cultural, ethical, religious, historical and ...
more >> policy implications of how reproductive technologies have developed and now impact our two national contexts. In both countries, advanced reproductive technologies have long been in development and are now in widespread use. France and the United States share a certain number of similar conceptions relative to kinship and gender, and are both undergoing comparable evolutions in the creation of new family configurations. Yet in France, public discourse calling for “social solidarity” with people experiencing infertility is widespread and public payment and access is designed and tightly controlled through biomedical regulation. In the US, by contrast, “privacy” of family life and “consumer choice” dominate the public discussion, while few insurance schemes actually cover reproductive technology expenses and market access shapes both popular imaginaries and practical use.
New York City, NY; NYC
9:30 am
free, no reservation required
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
Picture book biography is among children’s book publishing’s most rapidly growing genres. This event ...
more >> will bring together children’s literature historians and content creators to discuss trends and challenges. The half-day symposium will be an exploration of picture book biography.
New York City, NY; NYC
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
Joan Jonas will be presenting her later work, beginning with The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things ...
more >> (2004-2007), and ending with her most recent piece, Stream or River Flight or Pattern (2016-2017), discussing connections between the works and the sources on which she drew in creating them. She will also touch on her relationship to projection-as-technology, literary sources, and the present-day state of the environment.
New York City, NY; NYC
Given the political challenges of the present, the necessity for radical solidarity appears more pressing ...
more >> than ever. Yet while an understanding of solidarity has been pivotal to social change since at least the Haitian Revolution, how it is articulated has never been less than problematic. Is it a process of political change? Is it its goal? How does solidarity define what it is against without excluding forms of political difference that might enhance it? What can be learned from solidarity in the past, especially when contingent solidarity in the present regards such a history with justifiable incredulity? There can be no doubt that notions of solidarity continue to impact creatively how one understands political opposition and change, how one interrogates constituency and allies, goals and timelines. The differences of solidarity and a respect for the specificity of particular struggles clearly invigorates how solidarity is now engaged, but solidarity can also be more than negotiated coalitions and fragmented alliances. This conference brings together activists, scholars, activist scholars, and radical thinkers all to consider the meanings of solidarity for political work. What makes solidarity insurgent? Is it its composition or the kind of change it struggles to affect? What are its scales and modes and what are their significance today?
New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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The Theater of War has performed Greek tragedies at hundreds of military bases, prisons and hospitals ...
more >> to spur conversations about trauma, violence and survival. Artistic Director Bryan Doerries will talk about how the plays of Sophocles and Euripides can help individuals and communities heal from trauma and loss.
New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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 historians Peter Laskowich and Madeleine Levi. This tour takes place every Friday.
New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
Stars: Emma Roberts, Dave Franco, Emily Meade. A high school senior finds herself immersed in an online ...
more >> game of truth or dare, where her every move starts to become manipulated by an anonymous community of "watchers." 96 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, Dave Attell, Patti ...
more >> Smith, Joan Baez, and Truman Capote are just a few of the thousands of accomplished artists, writers, radicals, and performers who made their way through Greenwich Village. This tour, primarily focusing on the 1950s onward, visits the hangouts that have defined legendary people and the spirit of this iconic neighborhood.
New York City, NY; NYC
Stars: Ben Stiller, Austin Abrams, Jenna Fischer. A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East ...
more >> Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices. 102 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A symposium bringing together leading international scholars to discuss emerging trends in Prokofiev ...
more >> scholarship. Special focus will be on research conducted at the college's Serge Prokofiev Archive. Presentations will include: Rita McAllister (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland): “Things in Themselves: The ‘Seeds of the Flowers’, and the 138 Questions You Wished You Could Have Asked Prokofiev” Christina Guillaumier (Royal College of Music, London): “Prokofiev’s Operas: Problems and Perspectives” Natalia Savkina (Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory): “A New Volume on Documents from the Serge Prokofiev Archive” Klara Moricz (Amherst College): “Soviet “méchanique” or the Bolshevik Sublime in Prokofiev’s Pas d’acier” Barbara Nissman (Professional Pianist): “The Two Fifths- Prokofiev’s Fifth Piano Sonata & Fifth Piano Concerto: A Performer’s View”
New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Weekly recitals showcasing the new organ, featuring New York City's leading organists. Today: Daniel ...
more >> Hyde of St. Thomas Church, NYC
New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Learn the basics with masters from Manhattan Fencing Center. Must be 16 or older to participate.
New York City, NY; NYC
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance. Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire ...
more >> and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. 106 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
Walk straight through the heart of Central Park on this east-to-west tour led by guides. Enjoy a great ...
more >> variety of the scenic, sculptural, and ar chitectural elements the Park has to offer. Visit some of the Park's most famous landmarks, including Conservatory Water, Loeb Boathouse, Bethesda Terrace, Bow Bridge, Cherry Hill, The Lake, and Strawberry Fields.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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For all its investment in futurity and progress, romantic-period discourse is preoccupied with loss, ...
more >> frequently for a specific “object”—innocence, childhood, revolutionary promise—which is the basis, on many accounts, for a characteristic disenchantment or solipsism. But there is a melancholic strain to romanticism as well, issuing paradoxically in versions of immediacy, where loss is both nonspecific and time-stamped and where the “now,” however shocking or fragile, is suddenly—in anticipation of our present moment—the thing that matters. Speaker: William Galperin, Rutgers University
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Discuss the book by Aristophanes. The Frogs tells the story of the god Dionysus, who, despairing of the ...
more >> state of Athens' tragedians, travels to Hades to bring the playwright Euripides back from the dead.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
Stars: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York. The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine ...
more >> in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon. 129 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
"I trace and explain how the ratcheting of corporate mergers and deregulation transformed the structure ...
more >> of elite relations in the United States from 1960 to the present. Prior to the 1970s there was a high degree of elite unity and consensus, enforced by Federal regulation and molded by the structure of the U.S. government, around a set of policies and practices: interventionism abroad, progressive tax rates, heavy state investment in infrastructure and education, and a rising level of social spending. I find that economic decline, the loss of geopolitical hegemony, and mobilization from the left and right are unable to account for the specific policies that both Democratic and Republican Administrations furthered since the 1970s or for the uneven decline in state capacity that were intended and unintended consequences of the post-1960s political realignment and policy changes. Instead, the realignment and restructuring of elites and classes that first transformed politics and degraded government in the 1970s in turn made possible further shifts in the capacities of American political actors in both the state and civil society. I explain how that process operated and how it produced specific policy outcomes and created new limits on mass political mobilization while creating opportunities for autarkic elites to appropriate state powers and resources for themselves." Speaker: Richard Lachmann, Professor of Sociology at SUNY Albany
New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
3:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Program: Flor Peeters Entrata Festiva Johann Sebastian Bach Alleluia (from Cantata 142) Johann Sebastian ...
more >> Bach Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Marshall Bartholomew Little Innocent Lamb Kurt Bestor Prayer of the Children Israel Kagaruki Jenga Imani Yako John Hughes Calan Lan Roger Whitakker and Odina E. Batnag I Am But a Small Voice arr. Jeffrey Ames Tshosholoza With: Fairfield Country Day School Touring Choir (Fairfield, CT)
New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Noah Senghui Koh, Cello 4:00PM Daniel Joseph Parker, Piano 4:00PM Cameron Baese MacIntosh, Jazz Drums ...
more >> 6:00PM Minji Kim, Viola 6:00PM Alice Ping, Viola 8:00PM Daniel James Ficarri, Organ 8:00PM
New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Wear your best neon fitness gear and take part in the neon glow exercise event. This event is open to ...
more >> adults aged 18 years and older. Schedule of Fitness Challenges 4:00 p.m. - Tabata Interval Training 5:00 p.m. - Jump Rope Madness 6:00 p.m. - Afro-Brazilian Zumba 7:00 p.m. - Hip-Hop Skip and Mit Fitness 8:00 p.m. - Power Cardio
New York City, NY; NYC
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This talk will explore the impact of immigrant youth on their major generational cohort. Presenting ethnographic ...
more >> research on spelling bees and the rise of “brain sports,” it will investigate how immigrants and their children may be may be driving fundamental changes in what childhood and youth mean for members of their generation. Speaker: Shalini Shankar, PhD New York University, Northwestern University and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University. She is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist whose ethnographic research focuses on youth, media, language use, race/ ethnicity, and Asian diasporas. She is the author of Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley and Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers. She is currently working on Spellebrity: Inside the Selfie Generation’s World of Competitive Spelling and other projects.
New York City, NY; NYC
4:15 pm
free, no reservation required
Chase Berggrun is the author of R E D, forthcoming from Birds, LLC in 2017, and the chapbook Discontent ...
more >> and Its Civilizations: Poems of Erasure, published by jubilat in 2012. DéLana R. A. Dameron’s debut collection How God Ends Us (2009) was selected by Elizabeth Alexander for the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize and her second collection of poems Weary Kingdom (2017) is part of the University of South Carolina Palmetto Poetry Series, edited by Nikky Finney. Jen Hyde is the author of Hua Shi Hua,华诗画 [Drawings & Poems from China], (Ahsahta, 2017) and she is currently at work on Murmur, a 2016 finalist for the Creative Capital Grant in Literature. Jen Levitt is the author of The Off-Season (Four Way Books), which was a finalist for the 2017 Golden Crown Literary Society Award in Poetry. Elsbeth Pancrazi’s debut poetry collection is Full Body Pleasure Suit (Tavern Books, 2017), which was selected through the 2016 Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series. Jenny Xie is the author of Eye Level (Graywolf Press, forthcoming April 2018), selected by Juan Felipe Herrera as the winner of the 2017 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, and Nowhere to Arrive (Northwestern University Press, 2017), recipient of the 2016 Drinking Gourd Priz
New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Program: Clara Schumann: Liebst du um Schönheit; Er ist gekommen; Lorelei Pauline Viardot (1821-1910): ...
more >> Fleur desséchée; Madrid; Havanaise Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979): J'ai frappé; Soir d'hiver; Élégie Mo Zhao: The Silver Moon is Set... John Harbison (b. 1938): Mirabai Songs Juliana Hall (b. 1958): from Letters from Edna Amy Beach (1867-1944): The Year's at the Spring Student recital - Alex Selawsky-Group, Mezzo-Soprano
New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Kelley Swindall (Southern gothic folk), Emerald Rae (fiddler and folksinger), and Our Wild America (heavy, ...
more >> cinematic Americana) perform.
New York City, NY; NYC
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Embodying focuses on Hassan Sharif’s engagement with experimental performance from 1982–84. With ...
more >> the corpus of these performances viewed only by small circles of relatives and friends in the United Arab Emirates or London, Embodying reveals them to an extended audience for the first time. The publication includes poems written by Dubai-based author and artist Cristiana de Marchi.
New York City, NY; NYC
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With: Andrea Obiso, violin Baron Fenwick, piano Born in 1994 and considered by the critics an “enfant ...
more >> prodige”, Andrea Obiso began studying the violin with his father at age six and he is one of the youngest violinists in the world that have received his first major degree, with honors and special mention at only 14 years old. She won the “66th ARD Munich International Violin Competition” and the “Ravel Prix 2017”, the 2nd Prize at the "XI A. Khachaturian International Violin Competition 2015", the "Special Prize for Virtuosic Performance" at the "6th Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians" and other eleven first prizes in national competitions.
New York City, NY; NYC
The show will feature The Summer Replacements band, including Carl ("Rocket Man") Fortunato and Fernando ...
more >> (Dr. Sandman) Morales Gonzalez.
New York City, NY; NYC
Jibade-Khalil Huffman is an artist working fluidly across poetry, video, photography, and installation. ...
more >> His works are experimentations relating archives and collage to nostalgia and memory, where the written and the visual meet in between. Sable Elyse Smith is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. Her practice considers memory and trauma while enacting an undoing of language. She works from the archive of her own body creating new syntax for knowing and not knowing, thereby marking the difference between witnessing and watching. To see is unbearable.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation
LiveSOUNDS, which features free performances by faculty and their guests on Fridays throughout the school ...
more >> year is a highlight of Third Street's concert programming. It presents a cross section of a diverse and creative community of Third Street faculty members who are deeply committed to excellence and professionalism.
New York City, NY; NYC
A monthly fireside gathering on the Lower East Side. Hosted by Emily Johnson/Catalyst, expect bonfires ...
more >> in the amphitheater. Sit by the fire and welcome the evening with neighbors, stories, food (bring some to share), star knowledge, and dancing. Gather and be welcome.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
Polyamorous people and communities can appear, at first glance, to be very open and welcoming. In many ...
more >> cases, they don’t take the time to get introspective about why they may come across as unfriendly or inaccessible to people of color. Love’s Not Color Blind is a book about what we can do to change that landscape. This book-signing event comes bundled with a personally-driven discussion/Q&A on how race can impact polyamory on both individual and community levels.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Spanning 500 years of Brazilian history, Her Mother’s Mother’s Mother and Her Daughters chronicles ...
more >> a family of women, beginning in 1500 with the birth of Inaiá, daughter of a Tupiniquim warrior, and ending in 2001 with Inaiá’s distant descendent, Maria Flor. As each new daughter takes the place of her mother, and the mothers before her, Maria José Silveira’s captivating, cinematic prose takes us through the formation of the country itself, as well as through the roles, customs, challenges, and intrigues of the women within it.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A renaissance is taking place on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Since the terrorist attacks of ...
more >> September 11th 2001, a concerted effort has been undertaken to redevelop this part of the city, with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the construction of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. And from twilight into the night is the right time to pay a visit to this part of New York City. From the Memorial to the Woolworth Building, City Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge, some of the your most memorable experiences in the city await you.
New York City, NY; NYC
The ghosts of Greenwich Village are too numerous and interesting to meet in just one evening! Due to ...
more >> popular demand, they are offering a new tour, “Ghosts of the East Village,” as a companion tour to one of their biggest crowd-pleasers, Ghosts of the West Village.
New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free plus subway...
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Appalachian and Native American song is at the root of American music. Today, their song and struggle ...
more >> is particularly relevant and Martha Redbone is a clear and beautiful voice that represents these deep musical traditions. Her music flows equally from her own unique, award-winning blend of Native American elements with funk and her deep roots in Appalachian folk and Piedmont blues favored by the matriarchy that raised her on a rich sojourn from Clinch Mountain, Virginia, to Harlan County, Kentucky, and beyond to Brooklyn’s Dodge City-esque mean streets. Tonight, her ensemble joins with Brooklyn Raga Massive's community of Indian music–inspired artists to highlight both the roots and contemporary interpretations of these traditions. Stick around for a post-concert social hour featuring DJ Shishi. With Martha Redbone, vocals; Aaron Whitby, keyboards and piano; Marvin Sewell, guitar; Charlie Burnham, violin; Tony Mason, drums; Fred Cash, bass; Sameer Gupta, tabla; Pawan Benjamin, bansuri; Neel Murgai, sitar. Special guests Soni Moreno, vocals; Michael Gam, sarod and percussion
New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Qingyun Jiang, piano 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM Senior Opera Theater: The Snow Maiden 7:30 ...
more >> PM - 9:00 PM Xutong Ji, piano 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Kenneth Chauby, trumpet 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Chase Lokke, jazz drumset 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Daniel Dickinson, Saxophone
New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Sarah Loos, oboe. Program: Thea Musgrave (b. 1928): Niobe Bach: Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten BWV ...
more >> 202 Ravel: Sonatine Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Joseph Stephenson (1723-1810): Concerto for cor anglais and string orchestra
New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Free Intro class. Learn more about the upcoming Esoteric Quest for the Lost World of the Incas in Peru ...
more >> and Bolivia, as they prepare to travel to Urubamba, Peru, this August. Quest director Ralph White journeyed as a young man to the High Andes of Peru and Bolivia and has remained fascinated by the Incas and other Pre-Colombian cultures of South America, with their mysterious wisdom traditions and deep knowledge of both earth and stars.
New York City, NY; NYC
A weekly standup comedy show. Featuring comics who have appeared on Comedy Central, College Humor, MTV, ...
more >> and more.
New York City, NY; NYC