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48 free events take place on Saturday, August 11 in New York City.
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48 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, August 11, 2018

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free events nyc The 28th Annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival
free events nyc The NYC Diner Tour: The Rise, Fall, and Resiliency of the Everything Restaurant
free events nyc Shame or the Doomsday Machine: An Operetta for the Street -- Outdoors
free events nyc Mavis Staples: Grammy Award-Winning American Music Icon
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Workshop | Morning Fitness


One hour of walking, stretching, and strengthening exercises. For a breath of fresh air, take your workouts ... more >> outdoors. Parks are becoming a logical alternative environment for those who want to add variety to their workouts, or who just don't like the gym. And, it's an affordable way to increase physical activity opportunities, because there's nothing special to build. Exercise with a view, in natural sunlight, with green scenery all around bestows health benefits that can’t be found indoors. Scientific studies have shown that the pleasure of being outdoors for example gives your brain, psyche, and immune system an extra boost. Led by trained professionals, and suitable for all levels. Wear comfortable clothing and bring water. Every Saturday.
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8:30 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 ... 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
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Drawing in the Park


Paint in watercolor, or use pastels, chalk, and charcoal to capture the magical vistas of the Hudson ... more >> River and the unique landscape. An artist/educator will help participants of all levels with instruction and critique. Art materials provided. Please note that this program is for adult participants (age 18 and up).
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Garden Yoga


Outdoor yoga classes are a great way for the entire family to stay fit! Mats will be provided for temporary ... more >> use. Saturdays, June 16-September 1, 2018.
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10:00 am
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Dance Lesson | Moves with Limón Dance


Experience the joy of movement and dance. Led by dancers from the world-renowned Limón Dance Company, ... more >> this modern dance class is now in its seventh year. Open to all levels and ages. Saturdays, June 23-September 8, 2018.
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10:00 am
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Park Walk | Park Tour: From Freight to Flowers


Hear the story behind New York City's park in the sky. Guided 75-minute walking tours led by knowledgeable ... more >> volunteer guides will offer you an insider's perspective on the park's history, design, and landscape. Tuesdays and Saturdays, June 23 -September 29, 2018.
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10:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
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10:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
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10:00 am
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Festival | The 28th Annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival


On the big stage, a multicultural program with professional musicians, dancers and singers will be entertaining ... more >> all.
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10:00 am
free, no reservation required

City Walk | Upper West Side Statues & Monuments Walk


Moderate walking, some hills, about four to five hours. Walk up Broadway to Lincoln Center then up to ... more >> the Riverside Drive statues, Grant’s Tomb and end in Columbia University. Bring lunch, water, binoculars or a camera with optical zoom lens. Rain or shine.
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10:00 am
$3

Workshop | Yoga Flow Workshop


Want to flow through your chaturanga with views of NYC's future mega-neighborhood? From May through September, ... more >> this yoga session will happen every Saturday morning. Mats and blocks for the first 20 participants.
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Butt and Gut Workshop


Veteran Donald Calliste leads you to tone and define your core, lower back, and glutes with cardio exercises ... more >> that keep your heart rate up and fat burning. Please bring a mat.
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10:30 am
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City Walk | The NYC Diner Tour: The Rise, Fall, and Resiliency of the Everything Restaurant


From solitary eggs and toast to memorable late night hangs to infinite movie cameos, New York City Diners ... more >> are an essential, albeit fading, component of NYC culture and attitude. This tour charts the rise of the "everything restaurant," celebrates its heyday in the second part of the 20th century, and examines the current state of the diner amidst the ever-changing economic conditions and everyday priorities of the city and its residents.
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Crocheting and Knitting Meet Up


Please bring your own supplies—Yarn, Crochet hooks and Knitting Needles.
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Shape Up NYC Zumba


It's Shape Up NYC's fun Zumba class! Colorful outfits are encouraged! Zumba is a fusion of Latin, International, ... more >> and popular music dance themes creating a dynamic, exciting, and effective fitness system! The routines feature aerobic, fitness interval training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body with easy-to-follow dance steps.
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Summer Workout


Complimentary outdoor Pilates mat classes with BK Pilates. - Wear comfortable clothing that allows for ... more >> movement - Bring your own mat Wednesdays and Saturdays through August 29, 2018.
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Ultimate Frisbee


The “Spirit of the Game” lives on! Enjoy drop-in, organized games of Ultimate Frisbee and learn why ... more >> this is becoming a fast-growing sport all around the world. All levels welcome. Discs provided.
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11:00 am
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City Walk | Greenwich Village Walking Tour


Steeped in artistic, political and progressively social history, Greenwich Village today remains a cultural ... more >> melting pot. The ‘Village’ has been, and remains a bohemian capitol, a center of the modern LGBT movement and one of the birthplaces of the ‘Beat’ and 60’s counter culture movements. Alongside historic landmarks the tours visit the Villages’ modern day institutions, observing where the places todays Villagers’ work, live and play, and where they maintain the sense of the unique, bizarre and beautiful bohemia we call Greenwich Village. This event takes place every Saturday from June 2 to September 29.
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11:30 am
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Tour | East Village Gardens Walk


The East Village was the center of the community garden activist movement during the late 1970s. Tour ... more >> the neighborhood with Urban Park Rangers, and discover some of these "hidden" gardens that unite local residents.
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12:00 pm
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Play | Equity Library Theater Mini-Plays Part II


Come see 10 great mini-plays: Lizzie Guest – My Life Josiah Mullins – My Mother Is What? Wayne Paul ... more >> Mattingly - Worlds Apart Kyle Smith – Don Ian Cohen - Old Wounds Nathan Smith – Monologue Gary Beck - Clown Show Paige Esterly - Eve and Adam Gordon Rizzo – How to Get Ahead in Business Margo Krasne – Monologue.
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12:00 pm
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Jazz | 10th Annual Stan Michels Memorial Jazz Concert


Honor the late Council Member Stan Michels at the tenth annual Memorial Jazz Concert. Enjoy live jazz ... more >> by local impresario Marjorie Eliot and her ensemble underneath the majestic elms on the promenade, alongside the beautiful garden and overlooking the Hudson River. Stan Michels represented Northern Manhattan in the City Council for 24 years from 1978 through 2001. He was chair of the Committee on Environmental Protection, and his legislative record was notable for his work fighting on behalf of tenants for the expansion of the city’s recycling program, for the protection of our water supply and cleaner air, and against childhood lead poisoning, smoking in public places, and unreasonable noise. He was also a steadfast advocate for parks, allocating over $50 million for park improvements in Washington Heights, Inwood, and Harlem, including virtually every playground in his district.
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Maren Hassinger: Monuments: Site-Specific Sculptures


Maren Hassinger: Monuments will consist of eight site-specific sculptures installed for approximately ... more >> one year. Hassinger, who has been associated with the Studio Museum since 1984, is a Harlem-based multidisciplinary artist whose work, spanning performance, installation, sculpture, and video, are often meditations on nature and community. Hassinger will use branches to create forms that respond to aspects of the park’s landscape—an outcropping of rock, a triangle near flower beds, an oval near the pool.
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1:00 pm
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Film | Noises Off (1992): Theater Company Comedy


A travelling theater group find so much action going on behind-the-scenes, they almost ruin the performances. ... more >> Directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Stars: Michael Caine, Carol Burnett, Denholm Elliott. 104 min.
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: Charting the Divine Plan: The Art of Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863)


The exhibition explores the confluence of art, love, science, and religion in the extraordinary art of ... more >> Orra White Hitchcock, one of America’s first female scientific illustrators. White exhibited a prodigious scientific mind and abundant artistic talent at an early age. The exhibition traces her development from schoolgirl projects to highly accomplished renderings of the natural scenery of the Connecticut River Valley used in her husband’s many geology publications. Less well known are colorful paintings on cotton—some more than twelve feet long—that were used to illustrate her husband’s many college lectures on geology, botany, zoology, and anatomy. A tour of led by museum gallery guides.
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Warm from Within Breathing Workshop


Come to enjoy deep breathing with Wim Hof/Tsa Lung- inspired techniques! This program is easy to join ... more >> as the breathing is (as always) a continuous flow. -- Learn how to warm from within -- Experience the "energy body" within minutes with e.g tingling sensations -- Improve health, avoid sickness -- Gain mood boosts -- Learn about the science on breath, the latest studies on improving immune system, from depression/anxiety to happier states Saturdays, July 14 and 21, August 4-25, 2018.
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Writer's Circle


Join a group of individuals with an interest in writing who are willing to share ideas and techniques. ... more >> All genres and styles encouraged. Everyone is welcome in this friendly and supportive atmosphere. This workshop takes place every second and fourth Saturday of each month.
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1:00 pm
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Film | A Wrinkle in Time (2018) with Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling


After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her ... more >> friend to space in order to find him. Director: Ava DuVernay. 109 min.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Black Panther (2018): superhero blockbuster, one of the highest-grossing films of all time


T'Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African ... more >> nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T'Challa's father's mistake. Director: Ryan Coogler. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o. 134 min.
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2:00 pm
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Musical | Shame or the Doomsday Machine: An Operetta for the Street -- Outdoors


Book, lyrics and direction by Crystal Field. Music composed and arranged by Joseph Vernon Banks.
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Pawnbroker (1964): A Holocaust survivor runs a pawn shop in East Harlem


A Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes ... more >> too late the tragedy of his actions. Director: Sidney Lumet. Starring Rod Steiger. 114 min.
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Spinning Man (2018): a thriller with Pierce Brosnan


Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university, where his charm and ... more >> reputation have made his philosophy class very popular. When a female student named Joyce goes missing, Evan's previous off-campus dalliances make his wife questions his alibi. Gruff police Detective Malloy has even more reason to be suspicious when crucial evidence makes Evan the prime suspect in her disappearance. Directed by Simon Kaijser. 100 min.
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Creative Writing Class


Attendees will discover the value of their own stories. Registration is required. Participants are ... more >> requested to commit to attending all sessions if possible. Upcoming dates: 08/18, 08/25, 09/08, 09/15.
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | East Village Sights and Sounds Tour


Downtown Manhattan's East Village is one of NYC's most beloved neighborhood's for good reason--it's home ... more >> to one of the world's most renown centers of architectural study, a 163 year old bar, was the center of the punk rock scene and Nuyorican literary movement, and even holds a cemetery where a President was once buried. This walking tour showcases the the rich history of a neighborhood that means so much to so many.
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | Heart of the Park Tour


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.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Orson Welles' Oscar Nominee The Stranger (1946): Nazi Under Cover


This thriller follows Franz Kindler, a Nazi fugitive hiding out as a professor in a small Connecticut ... more >> town. When his new wife begins to suspect his past, a detective sets out to uncover his identity. With Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young. 94 Minutes
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2:00 pm
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Film | Chaplin's Oscar-winning Masterpiece The Circus (1928) followed by The Bond (1918)


The Circus The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus. The film will pe presented with ... more >> Chaplin's own musical score, which he composed and recorded with an orchestra in 1968 to accompany the film. 72 min. 100th Anniversary Screening: The Bond Charlie and friends illustrate various bonds in life and the most important, Liberty Bonds for the war...The Bond will have live piano accompaniment by Ben Model. 10 min.
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2:30 pm
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Classical Music | In the Name of the Earth: World Premiere Choral Work by John Luther Adams


Hundreds of neighbors, visitors, and singers gather for the world premiere of a large-scale choral work ... more >> by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams. Led by the incomparable Simon Halsey, hundreds of experienced and amateur singers transform the names of North American rivers, lakes, mountains, and deserts into a communal meditation on Adams's holy trinity: the Earth, the Water, and the Holy Wind.
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3:00 pm
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Classical Music | Concert at the coolest classical music concerts location in NYC


Classical music on a boat with an intimate and romantic setting and beautiful view of New York City. ... more >> Program and musicians TBA. Doors open at 3:45 pm.
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Indie Rock: Heavy Grooves and Heady Moods


Porches, the winsome solo project of Aaron Maine, is a DIY mainstay of New York. His newest album The ... more >> House, is a minimalist synthpop wonder. Fellow New York DIY band Sunflower Bean will bring their young dream-pop musings. Porches and Sunflower Bean are joined by psychedelic rock experimentalists Crumb in an evening of heavy grooves and heady moods.
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5:00 pm
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Movie in a Park | Black Panther (2018): Blockbuster of the Year


T'Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African ... more >> nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T'Challa's father's mistake. Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o Director: Ryan Coogler 134 min. Music begins at 6pm; film at 8pm or sundown.
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Sounds from Korea: Rap and Beatmaking


Jennifer Lee, better known by her alias TOKiMONSTA, is a producer and label owner who’s been an instrumental ... more >> part of building the West Coast’s reputation as a beat-making cultural destination. She’s joined by Korean-Californian rapper and producer DJ Kero One.
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6:00 pm
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Play | Hamlet: Shakespeare Outdoors


Shakespeare's troubled prince in an outdoor production. Directed by George K. Wells Thursdays-Sundays; ... more >> August 2-26, 2018.
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6:30 pm
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Performance | Rebel Verses: Youth Arts Festival


Rebel Verses is a two-week festival celebrating new voices in the arts, featuring pieces created and ... more >> performed by youth companies in NYC and beyond. With a mission to journey into the unapologetic and unrestrained creativity of the next generation, Rebel Verses values diverse stories ranging across age, sex, race, and time. Featuring Emmy winning actor and musician Kevin Mambo (Broadway's Fela!; Guiding Light).
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7:00 pm
$5-15

Film | Elf (2003) with Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart -- Outdoors


After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an ... more >> elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity. 97 min. Director: Jon Favreau
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Mavis Staples: Grammy Award-Winning American Music Icon


For the past six decades, American music icon Mavis Staples has been a beacon of spiritual fortitude ... more >> for artists from Bob Dylan to Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, whose third collaboration with Staples If All I Was Was Black was released to critical acclaim in 2017. Tonight, she brings the power of her voice and a message of strength, perseverance and love that is as vital today as it was when she and her family sang alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Grammy-winning producer and singer-songwriter Joe Henry, who has worked with Allen Toussaint, Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello, and many others, adds his poetic storytelling to this inspiring evening of song.
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7:30 pm
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Concert | The Breeders: 90s Rockers Return


Anchored by the deadpan vocals and vicious guitars of Kim and Kelley Deal, The Breeders came storming ... more >> back this year with All Nerve and help close out this season at the venue. Speedy Ortiz opens.
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7:30 pm
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Musical | Twelfth Night: A Musical Re-Imagining of Shakespeare


Professional artists and two rotating ensembles of community members from all five boroughs will perform ... more >> together on the Delacorte stage in this enchanting comedy about Viola (Nikki M. James), a young heroine who washes up on the shores of Illyria, disguises herself as a man, is sent to court a countess, and falls in love with a Duke. Featuring music and lyrics by critically-acclaimed songwriter Shaina Taub, this very special Twelfth Night is a unique partnership between two Public Theater programs that exemplify The Public’s commitment to radical inclusion. Oskar Eustis, The Public’s Artistic Director, and Kwame Kwei-Armah, incoming Artistic Director of London’s Young Vic, helm this unforgettable musical about love in all its many disguises.
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Movie in a Park | Golden Globe winning Autumn Sonata (1978): Swedish drama with Ingrid Bergman (outdoors)


The story of a celebrated classical pianist who is confronted by her neglected daughter. Over the course ... more >> of a day and a long, painful night that the two spend together after an extended separation, they finally confront the bitter discord of their relationship. Autumn Sonata was the only collaboration between cinema’s two great Bergmans: Ingmar, the iconic director of The Seventh Seal, and Ingrid, the monumental star of Casablanca.
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8:30 pm
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