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Mon, January 24, 2022. New York is full of wonderful things to do beyond the Empire State Building, Metropolitan Museum, Ellis Island, Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick's Cathedral, etc. Go off the beaten path and find hidden treasures which cost you nothing, but are extremelly enjoyable and much less crowded then famous tourist spots.
Experience New York with no lines and no hassle. Our site tells yiou all about free tours, free concerts, free movies, free theater performances, free dsicussions, etc. you can take advantage of whether you live in the city or spend just a couple of days here.
DOWNTOWN
First, go Downtown and see where New York began: visit City Hall, view the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan skyline, walk by the fortification that was intended to prevent a British invasion in 1812, bike (or just walk) along Hudson River passing all those beautiful Battery Park City Parks with their impressive open space design and public sculptures, sit down for a pleasant meal at one of small Financial Center eateries, go inside the Palm Atrium and take a look at the 9/11 memorial from there.
Then tour New York's beautiful City Hall free of charge. New York City Hall is one of the oldest continuously used City Halls in the nation that still houses its original governmental functions. New York's City Hall is considered one of the finest architectural achievements of its period. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, the building was an early expression of the City's cosmopolitanism. City Hall is a designated New York City landmark, and its rotunda is a designated interior landmark as well. The tours that do not require reservations, but do require a signup, are run on Wednesdays at noon. The registration takes place on the day of the tour between 9:00 AM and 11:30 AM. You will need an advanced reservation for Thursday tours. They take place at 10 am for groups and at 10:30 am for individuals.
Your next adventure is to see the Statue of Liberty, but we do not reccomend to take the Statue of Liberty Ferry.
The best way to see the Statue of Liberty is to take a 25-minute water trip from Lower Manhattan to Staten Island by free-of-charge Staten Island Ferry. On a way there the Statue of Liberty will attract your undivided attention. On the way back (another 25 min) you will not be able to take your eyes off the stunning vistas of New York Harbor and the Manhattan skyline. The ferry runs every 30 min most part of the day. It runs more often during rush hours: 7 am - 8:45 am and between 5 pm and 6:45 pm; but the ferries are packed during rush hour trips; this is not a good time to take a leisurely ride.
Go West young woman (or man) once you are back on Manhattan Island: pass Battery Park (you may want to stop at the Castle Clinton - no connection with the President's family).
UPTOWN
Your Uptown trip should include a walk around Columbia University Campus, visit to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and mostly overlooked gem that the Riverside Church is.
Walk around Columbia University Campus
The University founded as King’s College in 1754. It's historic main campus consists of 71 buildings on 36 acres and was originally designed by the famous architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White. Low Memorial Library is our favorite building there. If you are not sure you want to go all the way uptown to see it, you may take a virtual tour at http://www.columbia.edu/acis/tour/start.html
And if you decide that Uptown does worth your time, then there are two other sites you do have to pay a visit to: Riverside Church and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Mon, January 24, 2022. New York is full of wonderful things to do beyond the Empire State Building, Metropolitan Museum, Ellis Island, Rockefeller Center, St. Patrick's Cathedral, etc. Go off the beaten path and find hidden treasures which cost you nothing, but are extremelly enjoyable and much less crowded then famous tourist spots.
Experience New York with no lines and no hassle. Our site tells yiou all about free tours, free concerts, free movies, free theater performances, free dsicussions, etc. you can take advantage of whether you live in the city or spend just a couple of days here.
DOWNTOWN
First, go Downtown and see where New York began: visit City Hall, view the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan skyline, walk by the fortification that was intended to prevent a British invasion in 1812, bike (or just walk) along Hudson River passing all those beautiful Battery Park City Parks with their impressive open space design and public sculptures, sit down for a pleasant meal at one of small Financial Center eateries, go inside the Palm Atrium and take a look at the 9/11 memorial from there.
Then tour New York's beautiful City Hall free of charge. New York City Hall is one of the oldest continuously used City Halls in the nation that still houses its original governmental functions. New York's City Hall is considered one of the finest architectural achievements of its period. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, the building was an early expression of the City's cosmopolitanism. City Hall is a designated New York City landmark, and its rotunda is a designated interior landmark as well. The tours that do not require reservations, but do require a signup, are run on Wednesdays at noon. The registration takes place on the day of the tour between 9:00 AM and 11:30 AM. You will need an advanced reservation for Thursday tours. They take place at 10 am for groups and at 10:30 am for individuals.
Your next adventure is to see the Statue of Liberty, but we do not reccomend to take the Statue of Liberty Ferry.
The best way to see the Statue of Liberty is to take a 25-minute water trip from Lower Manhattan to Staten Island by free-of-charge Staten Island Ferry. On a way there the Statue of Liberty will attract your undivided attention. On the way back (another 25 min) you will not be able to take your eyes off the stunning vistas of New York Harbor and the Manhattan skyline. The ferry runs every 30 min most part of the day. It runs more often during rush hours: 7 am - 8:45 am and between 5 pm and 6:45 pm; but the ferries are packed during rush hour trips; this is not a good time to take a leisurely ride.
Go West young woman (or man) once you are back on Manhattan Island: pass Battery Park (you may want to stop at the Castle Clinton - no connection with the President's family).
UPTOWN
Your Uptown trip should include a walk around Columbia University Campus, visit to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and mostly overlooked gem that the Riverside Church is.
Walk around Columbia University Campus
The University founded as King’s College in 1754. It's historic main campus consists of 71 buildings on 36 acres and was originally designed by the famous architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White. Low Memorial Library is our favorite building there. If you are not sure you want to go all the way uptown to see it, you may take a virtual tour at http://www.columbia.edu/acis/tour/start.html
And if you decide that Uptown does worth your time, then there are two other sites you do have to pay a visit to: Riverside Church and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
Best Free Events, Best Free Things to Do in New York City, NYC
We all know that best things in life are free, but nowhere it's true more than in New York (NYC). Take a look at those free events that our editors think are the best things to do to in New York City at this point -- January 24, 2022 and on...
Please keep in mind that all those best things to do are free unless otherwise noted.
ONLINE EVENTS ARE MARKED AS SUCH.
Monday, January 24, 2022
Tour | Los Angeles: Santa Monica Pier (online, livestream)
Vist the famous Santa Monica Pier. You'll be strolling past vendors, breathtaking views of the Malibu mountains, the ocean, fishermen, the very end of Route 66, and, of course, the world-famous ferris wheel.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jan 24
12:00 pm
Free
Lecture | Post-Soviet Conflicts: Doing Better Than We Thought? (online)
A talk on post-Soviet conflicts by Nina Lutterjohann, Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute. The Eastern Partnership has been the flagship project of the EU since 2009. Often, and especially since 2013, this has led to disagreement and even hostility between the Kremlin and the EU. The EU's outreach, while intended as only beneficial, created seemingly exclusive choices for these countries between the EU and Moscow's Eurasian Union. Ukraine's Yanukovych government's rejection of the association agreement and the ensuring Maidan protests of 2013-14 led to regime change, Russian annexation of Crimea, and continuing conflict in Eastern Ukraine. The focus of Lutterjohann's research offers a comparative perspective to better understand the origins, dynamics, and scenarios of these conflicts.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Jan 24
12:00 pm
Free
Talk | Grammy Winning Violinist Hailed By The New York Times (Online)
At Home conversation with Irish-American Grammy Award winner Eileen Ivers. Ivers was a touring musician with Mick Moloney's Green Fields of America, a founding member of Cherish the Ladies, and former star of Riverdance, whom The New York Times calls "the Jimi Hendrix of the violin". She will chat with Traditional Arts columnist for the Irish Voice Paul Keating, followed by a Q&A with attendees.
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Mon, Jan 24
6:00 pm
Free
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Tour | Garment District: Factories, Gangsters, Labor Unions and More
Hear an unusual perspective from somebody who spent the greater portion of his life working in the GARMENT industry. You will learn how the apparel industry developed in NYC through the years, and how it came to be located in its current District. Watch the development of the industry from sweatshops in the old tenement buildings on the Lower East Side, to giant factories in China and Bangladesh. See how immigrants were the backbone of the industry and in NYC, still are. Five minute flow chart "From Fibers To Garment". Learn about Calvin, Ralph and Oscar, as well as Labor Unions and Gangsters. A Factory Visit When Available. See "The Garment Worker'' by Judith Weller, The Fashion Walk of Fame. The Giant Button and Needle artwork on Seventh Ave. And much more.
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Tue, Jan 25
11:00 am
Free
Tour | A Concrete History of Brooklyn (online)
Concrete is the world's most ubiquitous building material, and many important milestones of its development took place in Brooklyn. In this virtual program, you will examine concrete's history, production, and chemistry, then discuss some of the landmark structures that drove the development of steel-reinforced concrete in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From Gowanus to DUMBO, Prospect Park to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, you will look at monumental buildings and small details designed by some renowned architects, including Cass Gilbert, Albert Kahn, and Calvert Vaux.
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Tue, Jan 25
12:30 pm
$5
Talk | Photographer Talk: Documenting the Personal (online)
Rania Matar was born and raised in Lebanon and moved to the U.S. in 1984. As a Lebanese-born American woman and mother, her cross-cultural experience and personal narrative inform her photography. Matar's work has been widely exhibited in museums worldwide, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Carnegie Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Rollins Museum of Art and more. Her work is included in the permanent collections of several museums, institutions and private collections.
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Tue, Jan 25
7:00 pm
Free
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Lecture | Science and Fascism, or Fascist Science? (online)
While historians of Germany have made Nazi science an essential aspect of Hitler's regime, Italian historians have always written about science and Fascism as two separate entities. This perspective confirms the assumption that good science, as a pure intellectual enterprise, can exist and function properly only in liberal-democratic regimes. Did science work differently under Fascism? In short, was there a "Fascist science"? Speaker: Angelo Caglioti, Assistant Professor of History at Barnard College
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Wed, Jan 26
6:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Managing Cyber Risk: The Clear and Present Danger (online)
Ensuring the cyber security resilience of the United States is truly a whole-of-society effort. The importance of cyber security for our nation's national security, economic security, and competitiveness is fortunately well understood and documented at this juncture. However, in response to the dramatic changes in the threat landscape, a welcomed and necessary shift has been the increased emphasis on cyber security as a strategic, enterprise-wide risk by senior leaders in organizations, going beyond the realm of I.T. functions. This panel will discuss cyber security as an enterprise-wide risk issue requiring more than just an I.T. perspective. The panel will outline the impact of cyber risk on an organization, mitigate the risk, and review the critical components of a cyber risk program.
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Wed, Jan 26
8:00 pm
Free
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Reading | Echoes in Ink: A Liberation Day Reading of Short Stories From the Holocaust (online)
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many Jewish writers turned to pen and paper to reckon with the enormity of their loss. The stories they wrote--both fiction and nonfiction--bring to life the darkest moments of human history at the same time as they remind us of the human capacity for renewal and regeneration. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, this is a reading of three such short stories: "The Road of No Return" by Rachel Korn, "The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick, and "A Wedding in Brownsville" by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Thu, Jan 27
10:00 am
to 10:00 pm
Free
Museums | European Fine Art: Vermeer, Rembrandt and More
This museum of fine art was open to the public in 1935. Its permanent collection features masterpieces by major European artists from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. Exhibitions also include sculptures, furniture, porcelain items, textiles and more. Covid protocol applies. Children under 10 are not admitted.
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Thu, Jan 27
4:00 pm
to 6:00 pm
Pay-what-you-wish, advanced reservation...
Author Reading | The New York Subway Map Debate: The Untold Story of a Legendary Moment in Design History (online)
Form or function? This age-old design question comes to a head in a new book that brings to life an iconic debate between Italian designer Massimo Vignelli and cartographer John Tauranac over the future of the NYC Subway Map in 1978. On that pivotal evening inside Cooper Union's Great Hall, Vignelli argued with Tauranac--then the chairman of the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority's map committee--in a heated debate about abstraction versus realism, simplicity versus complexity, and form versus function in the design of the NYC subway map. Once lost to history, the discovery of a lost audio recording by documentary filmmaker Gary Hustwit sheds light on this watermark moment in design history, where Vignelli attempted to defend his abstract map of the subway system against a more accurate and detailed one favored by Tauranac.
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Thu, Jan 27
5:30 pm
$5
Book Discussion | Marvel by Design: The Influence of Comic Book Culture (online)
Liz Stinson, the editor of Marvel by Design, as she moderates a discussion that will connect the dots between comic book culture and its undeniable influence in every creative field including the evolution of graphic design, editorial design, movies, and visual culture at large. Panelists include some of Marvel's most renowned artists and graphic designers including School of Art Dean Mike Essl, Chris Eliopoulos, and Paul Sahre.
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Thu, Jan 27
6:30 pm
Free
Concert | Renowned Italian Organist (online)
Renowned internationally for his impressive, enthralling and vibrant musical language, the Italian organist Eugenio Maria Fagiani performs regularly on the most important instruments in Europe, Russia, Middle East and Northern America such as Notre Dame de Paris (F), Berlin's Dom (D), St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York (US), Tchaikovsky's Great Hall in Moscow (RU), the Royal Albert Hall in London (UK), Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in Firenze (I). the Hofkirche St. Leodegar in Luzern (CH), the St. James Anglican Cathedral in Toronto (CDN), the Skt. Florian Stiftsbasilika (A), the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth (IL), the National Center for the Arts Weiwuying di Kaohsiung (TWN).
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Thu, Jan 27
7:00 pm
to 8:30 pm
Free
Friday, January 28, 2022
Discussion | Mexican Muralism and its American Impact (online)
War dominated the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe. New political ideologies also added tensions. Art responded by turning its focus onto the common man and woman in natural and urban environments. The Americas were impacted as well with cries for change. In Mexico, a ten-year revolution offered an opportunity for Mexico to acknowledge its pre-Hispanic past with a new blended population. Art became the medium to spark emotions and share with pride epic tales of how this blended world was to take shape. The Mexican Muralism Movement embraced European traditions of drawing and frescoes with social realism and new aesthetics that swept into North America. Our panel will discuss these impacts and the artists whose mark still moves us today. This is a panel discussion led by Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the West Harlem Art Fund. Panelists include: -- Esther Adler, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA -- Leon Tovar, Principal, Leon Tovar Gallery, NYC -- Dr. Orlando Hernandez-Ying, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Curatorial Research Fellow for the Hubert & Mireille Goldschmidt Works on Paper Fellowship, Hispanic Society Museum & Library -- With remarks from: Dr. Marcus B. Burke, Senior Curator, Paintings, Drawings, and Metalworks, Hispanic Society Museum & Library
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Fri, Jan 28
10:00 am
Free
Museums | Egyptian and Medieval Art, Renaissance Paintings, Rare Manuscripts and More
Founded in 1906, the museum and library was built in an Italian Renaissance-style and reflects America's Age of Elegance. In its collection, there is Egyptian art, Renaissance paintings, Chinese porcelains, ancient seals and tablets, medieval art objects as well as literary and historical manuscripts, early printed books, old master drawings, photographs. Covid protocol applies.
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Fri, Jan 28
5:00 pm
to 7:00 pm
Free
Film | Free Country (2019): German Crime Drama (online; streaming through Jan. 30)
Two cops investigate the disappearance of two teen sisters in a remote town, where it seems like everyone has something to hide - including the bodies. Director: Christian Alvart Stars: Trystan Putter, Nurit Hirschfeld, Felix Kramer 129 min. In German with English subtitles
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Fri, Jan 28
6:00 pm
Free
Film | The Phantom of the Opera (1925): Silent Classic with a New Score (online)
Composer Craig Safan will talk at a live event which will also include a viewing of the 1925 version of The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney and featuring a new score by Safan.
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Fri, Jan 28
7:00 pm
Free
Saturday, January 29, 2022
Festival | Chinese New Year Family Festival (online)
Experience an interactive cartooning workshop, a read-aloud storytime, and a fun New Year art exercise to welcome and celebrate The Year of the Tiger. No previous Chinese language skills required.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sat, Jan 29
10:00 am
to 12:00 pm
Free
City Walk | Historic Greenwich Village Tour: Beats, Bohemians, and Icons of the '60s
Enjoy a relaxed, informative walking tour of New York City's Historic Greenwich Village! Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, Dave Attell, Patti 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.
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Sat, Jan 29
2:30 pm
Free
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Tour | Gangs of New York: Five Points, Little Italy, Chinatown, and Old NY Crime
This walking tour will take you through the streets of Lower Manhattan, weaving together the complex history of various immigrant communities as New York City and the United States continued to evolve through the 19th and 20th centuries. You'll walk through the sights that have received renewed attention and interest through movies such as Martin Scorcese's Gangs of New York; as well as various sites related to the development of La Cosa Nostra and the New York City Tong Wars.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Jan 30
11:00 am
to 12:30 pm
Free
Concert | Organ Recital
Winner of both the First and Audience Prizes at the 2017 Albert Schweitzer Organ Competition in Hartford, CT, Grant has appeared at the 2017 OHS Convention, and as a semifinalist in the 2019 Longwood International Organ Competition. He serves as the Organist and Choirmaster for the Episcopal Church at Yale.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Jan 30
3:15 pm
to 3:45 pm
Free
Monday, January 31, 2022
Talk | A Master Class in Blockchain and Crypto (Online)
A master class in blockchain and crypto. A new technology on the brink of massive change and prosperity. "Who this Masterclass is for:
Beginners, Non-Geeks, Baby Boomers. and those who want to understand and be empowered from the bigger picture of the new emerging technology and changing financial landscape that is in front of us.
People who want to understand the macro view of world financial trends and how they will impact their lives and the lives of their children.
People who want to understand what Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Cryptocurrencies are, how they work, and how can they profit from them.
Who this is not for:
People who are looking for a get-rich scheme and how to make instant profits from trading crypto.
People who are looking for specific trading strategies."
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Mon, Jan 31
8:00 pm
to 9:00 pm
Free
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Author Reading | The Books of Jacob: Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk's Masterpiece (online)
Originally published in Poland in 2014, The Books of Jacob is Tokarczuk’s masterwork that first earned 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.
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Tue, Feb 1
11:30 am
Free
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Discussion | A Celebration of the Life and Work of Stephen Sondheim (online)
This will be a multi-lensed look into the depth, complexity and nuanced work of Stephen Sondheim. What makes this conversation unique is its perspective on Sondheim's vast contributions from both sides of the footlights: hear from theatrical luminaries Joanna Gleason and Donna Murphy, as well as from two leading intellectuals of our time, Dr. Cornel West and American linguist John McWhorter. Moderated by author Jamie Bernstein.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 2
5:00 pm
Free
Thursday, February 3, 2022
Screening | Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1970)
A short documentary portrait of James Baldwin, one of the towering figures of 20th-century American literature, Black culture and political thought, filmed in Paris. The iconic writer is captured in several symbolic locations in the city, where he was living at the time, including the Place de la Bastille. This event will be introduced by Prof. Ann Laura Stoler. The film will be followed by a discussion among three of the leading authors and commentators on Baldwin’s work and life: Rich Blint (The New School), Michael Gillespie (CUNY), and Cora Kaplan (University of Southampton). Open Q and A from the audience will follow.
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Thu, Feb 3
3:00 pm
Free
Friday, February 4, 2022
Lecture | The Five Joyces: How James Joyce Was Read in Russia (online)
While James Joyce's place in the modernist pantheon has long been firmly entrenched, its resonances continue to be uncovered. In the Russian context, the Irish writer has occupied many roles since his work was first translated in the mid-1920s. This talk will trace the development not of a monolithic Joyce, but rather of five separate Russian Joyces -- the versions of the author imagined by his Russian readers. This is a tour of the Joycean strains in the work of Yury Olesha, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrei Bitov, Sasha Sokolov, and Mikhail Shishkin, who each drew from their predecessor's texts, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, to address the volatile questions of lineages in their respective Soviet, emigre, and post-Soviet contexts. As a coda, selections from interviews with contemporary writers will show how the debates regarding Joyce's legacy are no less settled a century after Ulysses. Speaker Jose Vergara is Assistant Professor of Russian at Bryn Mawr College. He specializes in prose of the long twentieth century, with an emphasis on experimental works. His first book, All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature, explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and creatively responded to Joyce's fiction.
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Fri, Feb 4
3:00 pm
Free
Monday, February 7, 2022
Book Club | International Literature Book Club: The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (online)
Tolstoy’s most famous novella is an intense and moving examination of death and the possibilities of redemption, here in a powerful translation by the award-winning Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Ivan Ilyich is a middle-aged man who has spent his life focused on his career as a bureaucrat and emotionally detached from his wife and children. After an accident he finds himself on the brink of an untimely death, which he sees as a terrible injustice. Face to face with his mortality, Ivan begins to question everything he has believed about the meaning of life. The Death of Ivan Ilyich is a masterpiece of psychological realism and philosophical profundity that has inspired generations of readers. Hosted by Yvonne Brooks.
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Mon, Feb 7
7:00 pm
Free
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Discussion | On Protesting Monuments (online)
A conversation with Erin Thompson, professor of art crime at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of Smashing Statues. An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? And who gets to decide which ones should stay up and which should come down?
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 9
6:00 pm
Free
Friday, February 11, 2022
Concert | Orchestral Works by Haydn and More
New York Classical Players; Dongmin Kim, conductor; Jasemine Choi, flute. Program Cashel Day-Lewis Concerto for Flute 'On the Sea of Moyle' Samuel Adler In the Spirit of Bach for String Orchestra Ian Clarke Orange Dawn Haydn Symphony No. 45 'Farewell' Proof of complete COVID-19 vaccination is required to attend this concert. Masks are required at all times for all guests and visitors.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Feb 11
7:30 pm
to 9:00 pm
Free
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Discussion | Remembering New Yorker Writer Janet Malcolm (online)
Janet Malcolm was famous for her incisive writing in The New Yorker and for her seminal books, The Journalist and the Murderer and The Silent Woman, about the battle over the posthumous reputation of Sylvia Plath. Her views about the tricky, sometimes immoral, relationship between writers and their subjects, and her skepticism about the biographer’s craft continue to provoke debate in the literary world. Michael Greenberg, memoirist, journalist, and friend of Malcolm’s, will lead a panel of distinguished writers in a discussion of Malcolm’s most controversial ideas.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Feb 16
6:00 pm
Free
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Book Discussion | Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People, with New York Times Columnist Rozane Gay
Author Debbie Millman will be in conversation with Roxane Gay to celebrate the launch of her new book Over the course of her popular podcast's fifteen-year reign, Debbie Millman has interviewed more than 400 creative minds. In those conversations, she has not only explored what it means to design a creative life, but has, as Millman's wife, Roxane Gay, assesses in her foreword, "created a gloriously interesting and ongoing conversation about what it means to live well, overcome trauma, face rejection, learn to love and be loved, and thrive both personally and professional." In this illustrated, curated anthology, Millman includes approximately 80 of her best interviews with visionaries from across diverse fields. These eye-opening, entertaining, and enlightening conversations offer insights into new ways of being and living.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Feb 22
6:00 pm
Free
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