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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 22, 2019?

37 free events take place on Monday, April 22 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 April 22 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 April . 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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37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, April 22, 2019

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Workshop | Park Birding Tour


Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season with guided tours. Located in the heart of midtown, the park is a hot spot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will’s-widow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Workshop | Morning Meditation


Balance mind, body, and spirit in this Primordial Sound Meditation led by an instructor. Work with a personal mantra, a specific sound or vibration. Take part in a regular meditation practice that lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, and strengthens the immune system.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:45 am
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Tour | 13 tours, all City neighborhoods, any time of the day, choose one tour or many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations 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
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors


In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend in the East River, five miles north of the then-New York City limits. Little did he know that, more than 200 years later, his home would be serving as the official residence of the First Family of New York City - a place where history is made, not merely recorded. As a historic house museum run by the Parks Department, sitting on 11 acres of grounds now known as Carl Schurz Park, Gracie Mansion has served as the home of 10 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Today, Gracie Mansion is occupied by the de Blasio family, which has opened its doors in the spirit of the administration's motto: one city, rising together. In keeping with that theme, Mayor de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray have introduced a new art installation, titled “Windows on the City: Looking Out at Gracie’s New York.” This tour repeats every Monday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Film | Aquaman (2018): Underwater Kingdom Heir Coming To Land


Arthur Curry, the human-born heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, goes on a quest to prevent a war between the worlds of ocean and land. 143 min. Director: James Wan. Starring Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe.  Aquaman grossed over $1.1 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film based on a DC Comics character, surpassing The Dark Knight Rises; it was also the fifth highest-grossing film of 2018 and 20th highest of all-time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Build a World: Film Screening & Collage Workshop


Inspired by the collages featured in filmmaker Augusta Palmer’s A is for Aye-Aye: An Abecedarian Adventure, workshop participants will create their own collages on paper using elements collected from the Picture Collection. Will your collage create a sense of play between line, color, and form? Will it create an imaginary space that could host a series of mysterious events? Or an expected character who inhabits your new world? There will be screening of the 14-minute film, A is for Aye-Aye: An Abecedarian Adventure before the workshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Master Class | Voice Master Class With Broadway Artist


Initially known for her work within musical theater including Broadway shows, soprano Harolyn Blackwell moved into the field of opera and by 1987 had established herself as an artist within the soubrette repertoire in many major opera houses both in the United States and in Europe. She is now an interpreter of such roles as Lucia in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Olympia in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffman. She has also periodically returned to musical theater performances throughout her career in staged productions, concert work, and recitals. Blackwell is known for her interpretations and recordings of the works of Leonard Bernstein.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Lecture | Explaining Nationalism: Self-Descriptive Uses of 'Nationalist' in Contemporary Russian Media Texts


"I am the biggest nationalist in Russia", declared President Putin in October 2014, adding, however, that in his view nationalism should "benefit the people." Putin's remark illustrates the long conceptual battle over nationalism in Russia that still continues today. Veera Laine will focus on nationalism(s) in contemporary Russia by analysing the concept of nationalist in self-descriptive contexts during the years 2008-2018.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Monday through Friday
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works


A talk by Rucker Johnson, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School, University of California, Berkeley.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Film | Red-Headed Woman (1932): Pre-Code Romantic Comedy


Lillian relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man. 79 min. Director: Jack Conway. Starring Jean Harlow, Chester Morris, Lewis Stone. Red-Headed Woman is based on a novel of the same name by Katharine Brush. Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in pictures in 1929 and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines, popularly known as the "Hays Code", in mid-1934.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Chinese Calligraphy Class


Chinese calligraphy is a form of aesthetically pleasing writing (calligraphy), or, the artistic expression of human language in a tangible form. This type of expression has been widely practiced in China and has been generally held in high esteem across East Asia. Please bring your own calligraphy pen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Film | Interrupted Melody (1955): Three Time Oscar Winning Biographical Musical 


This movie chronicles Australian-born opera star Marjorie Lawrence's success, her battle with polio, and her eventual career comeback. 106 min. Director: Curtis Bernhardt. Starring Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore.  Interrupted Melody won the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Costume Design.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Resume Help


Need help with resume writing? Not sure how to edit it? Get one-on-one assistance with writing your resume. Please bring a hard copy of your resume or a USB flash drive to save and edit it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors


In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend in the East River, five miles north of the then-New York City limits. Little did he know that, more than 200 years later, his home would be serving as the official residence of the First Family of New York City - a place where history is made, not merely recorded. As a historic house museum run by the Parks Department, sitting on 11 acres of grounds now known as Carl Schurz Park, Gracie Mansion has served as the home of 10 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Today, Gracie Mansion is occupied by the de Blasio family, which has opened its doors in the spirit of the administration's motto: one city, rising together. In keeping with that theme, Mayor de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray have introduced a new art installation, titled “Windows on the City: Looking Out at Gracie’s New York.” This tour repeats every Monday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Dance and sculpt


Move your body to the beat! Have fun while you exercise! Bring a towel or an exercise mat. Come in comfortable clothing. This workshop takes place every Monday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Express Yourself Series: Villanelle Poetry Workshop


Celebrate National Poetry Month by expressing yourself. Tap into your inner poet for this 5-session workshops series. Each session will start with a brief overview of the form, various readings, and time to write and share. Other session in this series include: April 29, 11:30 PM: Prose No registration or commitment to the series is required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Author Reading | The Postwar Moment: Progressive Forces in Britain, France, and the United States After World War II


After the end of World War II, Britain, France, and the U.S. were faced with two very different choices: return to the civic order of pre-war normalcy or embark instead on a path of progressive transformation. In this ambitious and original new book, Isser Woloch assesses the progressive agendas that crystalized in each of the three allied democracies, tracing their roots in the interwar decades, their development during wartime, the struggles to establish them after the war’s end, and the mixed outcome in each country. Author Isser Woloch is the Moore Collegiate Professor Emeritus of History.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Songs By Broadway Composers Sung By Broadway Vocalists


A concert of new music by Broadway composers and lyricists sung by Broadway vocalists. Produced and directed by John Znidarsic. Madeline Myers is a New York-based composer and lyricist. Her musicals include The Devil's Apprentice, Masterpiece, The Starry Messenger, The Rumoured Lyfe And Certain Death Of Deli Bacon, and a new untitled musical about the scientist Rosalind Franklin. She is a 2019 York Theater NEO writer, a 2017, 2018, and 2019 Jonathan Larson Grant finalist, a 2018 Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award semifinalist, a 2017 and 2018 ASCAP Plus Award recipient, and a 2016-17 Dramatists Guild Fellow. Madeline's musicals have been developed at Goodspeed Musicals, the New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, the Fingerlakes Musical Theater Festival, Musical Theater Factory, the NMI Disney Imagineering New Voices Project, the New York Theatre Barn, and the Johnny Mercer Songwriting Project. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Staging Greek Tragedy in the 21st Century: The Case of Euripides’ Alcestis


Speaker Katerina Evangelatou is an award-winning theater director. Evangelatou has directed acclaimed productions for the National Theater of Greece, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Greek National Opera, the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens, the Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Russia and the Staatstheater Augsburg in Germany. These include Euripides’ Alcestis and Rhesus, Brecht’s Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | The Civil War and Critical History


From the first shots of the war itself to recent debates about Neonazis and Confederate monuments, the history of the Civil War in the United States has played a major role in thinking about racism and democracy. The anti-racist side of Civil War memory has, however, too often attached itself to US state-building projects, projects of nation, empire, and of liberal citizenship. In his lecture, Andrew Zimmermann will discuss his current book project on the American Civil War as transnational working-class revolution, emphasizing questions of race, class, violence, and social transformation. Zimmerman is the author of Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (Chicago, 2001) and Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (Princeton, 2010).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Youth Aspirations in Exile: Participatory Action Research in the Kakuma Refugee Camp


This talk examines schooling as a lens into daily experiences of (non)citizenship in Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp. Researchers who study how youth navigate precarious openings to education, work, and migration tend to not challenge the systemic inequalities that hold youth back, but instead reinforce Western notions of meritocracy in which only the best students deserve access. Even when these researchers implore the global community for more equitable access to educational opportunities, they rationalize ranking systems that benefit the few to the exclusion of the many. Michelle Bellino of the University of Michigan illustrates how narratives that favor individualized competition are embedded in models of schooling imported from the Western world, and how they impede Kakuma youth from forging a collective identity.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Indigenous Resistance and the Crisis of Mother Earth: Paths to Climate Justice


This first panel opens a space for indigenous leaders and organizations from across the Americas to share their struggles and achievements in the face of a changing climate.   Around the world, indigenous communities and movements are revitalizing indigenous knowledge and ways of organizing to defend lands, restore communal self-determination, and protect Mother Earth as they confront (neo)colonial, patriarchal, capitalist and state projects that undermine indigenous territories and drive Anthropocene crises like climate change and biodiversity loss.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Author Reading | Sabrina & Cobrina: Short Stories Of Feminine Power


Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the heart of the American West are the central characters in Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s debut story collection. The themes at play include meditations on friendship, the relationships between mothers and daughters, and the deep roots that grow at home.  Writer Kali Fajardo-Anstine's fiction has appeared in The American Scholar, Boston Review, Bellevue Literary Review, The Idaho Review, Southwestern American Literature, and she has received fellowships from MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and Hub City Press.  Ivelisse Rodriguez, author of the PEN/Faulkner award nominated Love War Stories, joins her for a conversation on how the book came to be.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | The Old Drift: The Epic Story of a Small African Nation


Three families. Four Generations. Fates collide as a nation is born and drifts toward ruin. Or is it a revolution? On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called the Old Drift. Here begins the epic story of a small African nation, told by a mysterious swarm-like chorus that calls itself man’s greatest nemesis. With author Namwali Serpell.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Vice, Crime, and Poverty: Myths of the Lower Depths


Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, they are our counterparts, repelling us yet offering the tantalizing promise of escape. The sordid lower depths reflects our fears and anxieties—as well as our desires. In Vice, Crime, and Poverty, Dominique Kalifa examines how the myth of the lower depths, from the Parisian demimonde to Victorian squalor, from the slums of New York to the sewers of Buenos Aires, came into being in nineteenth-century Europe, in a world turned upside-down by industrialization, democratization, and mass culture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Discussion | Climate Change and the Green New Deal


In late 2018, a UN climate science body report stated that humanity has just 12 years to make massive, unprecedented changes to global energy infrastructure to limit global warming to moderate levels. Policies that would reduce climate pollution are not new, but do not currently add up to a comprehensive solution. So what about the Green New Deal—a massive program of investments in clean-energy jobs and infrastructure, meant to transform not only the energy sector but the whole economy? Operating on three core principles—decarbonization, jobs, and justice—the GND intends to both decarbonize the economy and improve the growing inequality and top-heavy power of late Capitalism. Outlining the realities of the impending climate crisis and then examining the potential of the GND as a plan of response, this event will tackle topics such as: the political and social impacts of global warming; the adaptations must we begin to make, technically, politically, and socially; the political and policy engineering required to achieve the GND; achieving bi-partisan support; and what a GND platform that diverse constituencies can rally around and endorse would look like. With: -- Kate Aronoff, climate writer and reporter for The Intercept -- Robert C. Hockett, GND Advisor to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- Matthew Miles Goodrich, NY Director of the Sunrise Movement -- David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming -- Arielle Duhaime-Ross, environment and climate correspondent for VICE News Tonight  
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
$5

Author Reading | Towards the Glass Box: Postwar Skyscrapers in Portland, New York and Chicago


The ubiquitous "Glass Box" skyscrapers of the postwar era have a surprisingly opaque history. In this talk, architect and professor Thomas Leslie asks "where did the glass skin come from?" and shows how lighting, air conditioning, and glass technologies developed in the decades before Lever House and Seagram. Leslie reveals how solid-wall systems rapidly evolved through experiments with reliable cladding and servicing systems to produce the triumph of transparency.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Reading | Guernica Magazine's "Climate Fiction" Issue


Readings by Helen Phillips, Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Nathan Kensinger, Ken Chen, Karen Holmberg, Eugenia Kisin, Jerome Whitington, and Amy Brady “These stories exemplify the genre of ‘climate fiction,’ or ‘cli-fi,’ by exploring what the world might become if climate change continues unabated. Its roots are in science fiction, but here, it’s tinged, beautifully so, with realism and the supernatural. At its best, cli-fi conjures, spell-like, meditative spaces in which we ponder our deepest fears before emerging transfigured.” —Amy Brady, from the introduction to Guernica
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image


How the far North offered a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination. European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as author Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally "abstract," the far North--a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination--offered more than new stuff to be mapped, plundered, or even seen. Neither a continent, an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced visitors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, to grapple with what we would now call a "non-site," spurring dozens of previously unknown works, objects, and texts--and this all in an intellectual and political milieu crackling with Reformation debates over art's very legitimacy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Signing | Julian Lennon signs copies of his children's book Love the Earth


The pop singer and son of John Lennon invites kids to jump aboard the White Feather Flier, a magical plane that can go wherever you want. Lennon’s interactive book immerses children in a fun and unique journey where they can. Restrictions may apply. Call store for details.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Photography in Describing Our Relationship to the Natural World


How do aesthetics shape our understanding of ecological concerns? Celebrating the “Earth” issue of Aperture magazine, this conversation will consider the role of photography in describing our relationship to the natural world, in a moment of grave concern for the environment. This panel will include Carolyn Drake, who was commissioned by Aperture to photograph the aftermath of the recent wildfires in Northern California; David Benjamin Sherry, whose recent highly saturated color images portray national parks that have been significantly reduced in size by the Trump administration; and Mary Mattingly, whose work explores the ways in which raw materials are mined in the name of geoengineering.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | The ISIS Files


Over the last few years, New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi led an effort that gathered over 15,000 pages of documents left behind by ISIS in Iraq. These documents, which became known as the “The ISIS Files,” reveal the group’s sophisticated and organized governance structure and provide detailed evidence of their activities and atrocities. With Lorenzo Vidino, Director of the George Washington University Program on Extremism, Callimachi will discuss how these documents have shaped our understanding of ISIS.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Works By Enescu, Glazunov, Poulenc And More


Josu de Solaun, piano. Pianist Josu de Solaun has made notable appearances in Washington DC (Kennedy Center), New York (Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera), Princeton (Taplin Hall), London (Southbank Centre), Venice (Teatro La Fenice), Saint Petersburg (Mariinsky Theatre), Paris (Salle Cortot), Leipzig (Schumann Haus), Bucharest (Romanian Athenaeum), Taipei (Novel Hall), Mexico City (Sala Silvestre Revueltas), Prague (Nostitz Palace), Rome (Academia de España), and all major cities of Spain. He is the only pianist from Spain to win the Enescu and Iturbi competitions in their respective histories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance


A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join each season in performing at the historic church. Featuring: Oluwadamilare Ayorinde Janeill Cooper K.Go Ye'ela Wilschanski
   New York City, NY; NYC
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