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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on December 1, 2016?

65 free events take place on Thursday, December 1 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 December 1 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 December . 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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65 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, December 1, 2016

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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for 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
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10:00 am
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Tour | Downtown Manhattan 3-Hour Tour


The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats. Takes place daily.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Lecture | Lectures on Nietzsche


Alain Badiou (pictured) of École Normale Supérieure and Bruno Bosteels present these lectures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central 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. Takes place daily.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Williamsburg Street Art Tour


Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. The term gained popularity during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent incarnations. Stencil graffiti, wheat pasted poster art or sticker art, and street installation or sculpture are common forms of modern street art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Park Walk | Mid-Park Welcome Tour


Explore the Park’s central features including the Lake and Ramble woodland, then marvel at the views from Belvedere Castle. Route involves many hills, stairs, and uneven paths. 45 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. The event is offered daily, except Sundays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Author Reading | Richard Feinberg discusses hisbook Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy


Since 2011, the Cuban government has made significant economic reforms and has begun to normalize relations with the United States. Join Richard Feinberg as he presents his book which analyzes the evolution of Cuba’s economic model. The book highlights the emerging opportunities for business and investment in Cuba, the economic development challenges faced by the island, as well as the path to developing an innovative entrepreneurial class in Cuba. Registration and Buffet Lunch: 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. Presentation and Discussion: 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Book Signing: 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Mary Pan, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 13, 2016 to May 25, 2017.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: Securing the Shadow


A tour of Securing the Shadow: Posthumous Portraiture in America led by museum gallery guides.
   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

Workshop | Retro Board Gaming


Share your passion for gaming the old fashion way. If words excite or inspire you, and crossword puzzles keep you going, then Scrabble is your game! Are you a chess or checkers champion? Whether you're a master or just starting out, show off your best moves. If you like wheeling and dealing, Monopoly's the game for you. Join them for some lively board time. All levels of play welcome. Please feel free to bring your own game set, and friends.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Claude Jutra's Mon oncle Antoine (1971): Canadian Drama


Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, the film follows the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business. 104 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | Greenwich Village, High Line and Chelsea Tour


Join a three-hour journey through some of New York City's most historic areas. They'll begin in Greenwich Village, one of the cultural centers of America. Once a pastoral green oasis, and later a home for Irish and Italian immigrants, Greenwich Village has been at the forefront of some of the most important political, social, and artistic movements of the 20th Century. Filled with 19th century townhouses, and now one of the most desirable and high priced neighborhoods in America, the Village tells a multi-generational New York story. From secluded wealthy enclave to emerging Bohemian and Beat communities, from Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan to the Stonewall Inn. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm and Sundays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, 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. This tour takes place Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 2pm, and Saturdays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays (1995): Grin and Bear It


Stars: Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey Jr. After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her family. 105 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Michael Curtiz's Oscar Nominee White Christmas (1954): Holiday Favorite


Stars: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney. A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general. 120 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central 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. Takes place daily.
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Subway Art Tour


Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public. Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly. Tour takes place every Thursday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Author Reading | Richard Feinberg discusses his book Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy


Since 2011, the Cuban government has made significant economic reforms and has begun to normalize relations with the United States. Join Richard Feinberg as he presents his book which analyzes the evolution of Cuba’s economic model. The book highlights the emerging opportunities for business and investment in Cuba, the economic development challenges faced by the island, as well as the path to developing an innovative entrepreneurial class in Cuba.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Play | Partners: Marriage-and-Money Comedy by Dorothy Fortenberry


Clare has big plans with her best friend Ezra—starting a food truck, making him marry his boyfriend—until an unexpected windfall forces them to face how they truly feel about money and commitment. A witty, incisive look at two young couples struggling with personal finance, the meaning of marriage, and the deeply human capacity for self-sabotage—as they decipher the ongoing mystery of how to be an adult.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Other | New York Stock Exchange's 93rd Annual Christmas Tree Lighting


The New York Stock Exchange will celebrate the 93rd annual Christmas tree lighting with musical performances and a visit from Santa Claus.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Politics of Plaint: Nagas, Namibians, and the United Nations System


Lydia Walker (Agnese N. Haury Dissertation Fellow) will deliver this lecture. A reception with wine and cheese will follow the Q+A session.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Reviving Economic History and Reframing the Economic Problems of Our Day


In a time of great economic anxiety and a rethinking of the project of economic globalization, what lessons can we learn from the past? Five economic historians, featuring Visiting Professor Robert Brenner, will present their research in economic history and discuss the value of economic history for understanding contemporary capitalism. Professor Brenner will serve as the moderator of a far-reaching discussion that will highlight the renewed importance of economic history in the intellectual life of the college.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recitals


4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Cynthia Hoffmann, Vocal Performance 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Jazz Arts Combo Festival 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Chamber Music Festival Concert I 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM David Ji, accompanying 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Camille Dietrich, cello
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Talk | Multilingualism and Language Change in New York City: Insights from the Corpus of New York City English


Linguists have long known that multilingualism can shape language change, but the conditions under which multilingualism determines change in a population, and, importantly, the way that social factors condition contact-induced change remain poorly understood. New York City is an especially useful setting for examining these issues given its immense linguistic diversity, and indeed it is frequently claimed that multilingualism has played an important role in the evolution of the accent of New York City English. Nevertheless, to date, no large-scale study using high-quality speech corpora--the best data available for such a task--has focused on these issues. Speaker Bill Haddican is Associate Professor of Linguistics at CUNY Queens College.
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4:30 pm
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Talk | U.S. Immigration Policy: In the Aftermath of the Elections


A talk by Muzaffar Chishti of the Migration Policy Institute.
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4:30 pm
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Festival | Light Up Luminaries: First Wish Holiday Celebration


Light Up Luminaries is a free community holiday event to kick off Luminaries, the spectacular light installation and new holiday tradition at Brookfield Place. There will be fun performances, free ice skating on the waterfront, hot chocolate, sweet treats and more. Santa is the star of the show, arriving red carpet-style at 5:30PM to cast the first holiday wish, then leading a parade to his newly designed winter chalet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Magnetic Sound Baths: An Immersive Listening Experience


Magnetic Sound Baths is an immersive listening experience, where participants are invited to lay back amidst a wash of meditative sounds. A sound bath creates a temporary break from the sensory stimuli of an active life, allowing people space with their thoughts, and time to inspect their own internal mental narrative. The installation is comprised of several sound-generating sculptures, electroacoustic works of art that use magnetic fields to induce vibration and soundwaves in metal and wood. Space is limited to 20 visitors per session. Walk-ins welcome, space permitting. Participants are encouraged to bring mats, blankets, pillows; anything for comfort while listening. Tuesdays and Thursdays from November 3 - December 15 (except Nov. 24)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Lecture | Thinking in Images, Living With Violence: Reflections on Work with Colombian Refugees in Ecuador


Speaker: Lisa Stevenson, Anthropology Professor at McGill University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Discussion Group: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk


Discuss the book by Ben Fountain.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Festival | 20th Annual Central Park Holiday Lighting


Celebrate the season at the 20th Annual Holiday Lighting in Central Park. Meet Santa and friends, watch a live ice-carving demonstration, sing carols on the Plaza, and warm up with hot cocoa and cookies. The event concludes with lighting a flotilla of trees on the Harlem Meer. Event is rain, snow, or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:30 pm
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Author Reading | Jennifer Ashley Tepper discusses her book The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 3


Tepper will read excerpts from the book in addition to guests readers Liz Larsen (Hairspray, Beautiful), Jared Bradshaw (Jersey Boys, Forbidden Broadway) and Chris Boneau (Broadway publicist), with a signing to follow. The book was hailed as “unique and rewarding” by The Huffington Post and “smart and inspiring” by On Stage Blog. According to Edge Media Network, “whether reading to gain insight into the careers of stars or to learn more about the theaters, The Untold Stories of Broadway has something for everyone.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Flor Garduño: Photographs


Garduño is in the permanent collections of major museums including The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), and the Museum Ludwig (Cologne). Garduño resides in Mexico City.
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6:00 pm
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Performance | Stories of Many Stories: A Performance Based on Stories by Children's Author Gianni Rodari


The theater company in residence KIT - Kairos Italy Theater - presents this evening. Colombina, Balanzone and Arlecchino will guide you through The Town of Fears, The Words Market, and The Little Box Game. In between scenes, each character will tell one of the short stories written by Gianni Rodari. Rodari was the recipient of the Hans Christian Anderson Medal and is considered by many to be Italy’s most important twentieth-century author for children. The show will end with a parade where everyone will get to sing along. This production is created for both adults and children.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Chris Kraus discusses her book The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: A 20th Century Fable


Can a biography propose alternate forms of historiography using techniques most often found in fiction? Working on a a critical biography of her older contemporary, the American writer Kathy Acker (1947-1997), Chris Kraus explores the tension between author and subject, present and past.
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Honoring the Legacy of Black Women Radicals Gloria Richardson and Mae Mallory


Black women who were at the forefront of the Black Revolt in the 1960s have been omitted from history books. Now the time is ripe to recover their stories. Ashley Farmer is recovering the story of New York’s Mae Mallory, including her courageous fight for freedom from the Harlem Nine to the Monroe self-defense movement. Joseph Fitzgerald is recovering the story of New York’s Gloria Richardson from the militant Cambridge Movement in Maryland to her alliance with Malcolm X, Dick Gregory and Jesse Gray in ACT. If Mae Mallory was a two-fisted fighter when the police attacked the Patrice Lumumba protest at the United Nations, then Malcolm X identified Gloria Richardson as the paradigm for the Grassroots in the Black Revolution.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Exposure 1


With: Zu Orzu Jacqueline Barnett Lucky Checkley Joel Rudin Priscilla Schott Tony Seker Rachel Klein Elaine Mendez Jocelyn Russell Steve Zolin
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Obama, Race, and Politics


During Barack Obama’s presidency, the Black Lives Matter movement emerged while, at the same time, the intensification of resentment toward "the other" echoed in the speeches of Donald Trump and others. The months immediately following the end of Obama’s administration is an important time to explore what his presidency has meant for the politics of race in this country. This Public Voices, a discussion among panelists Michael Eric Dyson (author, The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America), Dr. Julianne Malveaux, (author, Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy), and Deva Woodly (The New School) moderated by Frederick C. Harris (Columbia University), addresses the Obama presidency, race, and politics in this country in light of how charged the atmosphere has become with recent egregious events.
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Screening | The Film Work of Barbara Hammer


“It is a political act to work and speak as a lesbian artist in the dominant art world and to speak as an avant-garde artist to a lesbian and gay audience. My presence and voice address both issues of homophobia and the need for an emerging community to explore a new imagination.” —Barbara Hammer Pioneer of queer cinema and legendary visual artist and filmmaker Barbara Hammer will join us for the screening of her earliest short experimental films. Barbara is well known for creating the most extensive body of avant-garde films on lesbian life and sexuality. During her career, Barbara has made more then 80 moving image works exploring identity, gay and lesbian sexuality, and history. During the second part of the evening Barbara will screen a short film of her choice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Thomas Heatherwick, British Designer


Thomas Heatherwick is a British designer whose prolific and varied work over two decades is characterised by its ingenuity, inventiveness and originality. Defying the conventional classification of design disciplines, Thomas founded Heatherwick Studio in 1994 to bring the practices of design, architecture, sculpture and urban planning together in a single workspace. In this intimate, one-on-one conversation, Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize winning architectural critic and Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture, will engage Heatherwick on his life and work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Weeks, Months, and Years in Greek and Roman Calendars


A lecture by Daryn Lehoux, Queen’s University. Reception to follow. View Larger Map Date: Thu, Dec 1, 2016 Time: 6:00pm EST
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Author Reading | Writers Read: Scott Alexander Hess / Stephanie Rogers / Lauren Hilger


Scott Alexander Hess's novel The Butcher's Sons was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2015. Hess co-wrote the award winning short film Tom in America. He will be reading from his fourth novel Skyscraper (Lethe Press, 2016). Stephanie Rogers' poems have been selected for inclusion in the emerging writers anthology Best New Poets. Her poetry has also appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Ploughshares, Cincinnati Review, Southern Review, Pleiades, and New Ohio Review, among others. She will be reading form her debut collection Plucking the Stinger (Saturnalia Books, 2016). Lauren Hilger is the author of Lady Be Good (CCM, 2016). Awarded the Nadya Aisenberg Fellowship from the MacDowell Colony, where she was a fellow in 2012 and 2014, her work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, Prelude, and elsewhere. She serves as a poetry editor for No Tokens Journal.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Brexit Before and Beyond


On June 23, 2016, a slim majority of the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union by national referendum. The reasons that led to this historic vote, ending forty-three years of UK membership in the EU, are still being widely debated, as are the potential ramifications. This two-day event brings together journalists and scholars from European and American universities to uncover both the underlying issues that precipitated the UK's decision to separate from the EU as well as the ongoing fallout from the "Brexit" vote, especially for those of us working in global universities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Author Reading | Hisham Matar discusses his book The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between


Reviewing it in The New York Times, Robyn Creswell wrote: “It seems unfair to call Hisham Matar’s extraordinary new book a memoir, since it is so many other things besides: a reflection on exile and the consolations of art, an analysis of authoritarianism, a family history, a portrait of a country in the throes of revolution, and an impassioned work of mourning.” A Q+A and book signing will follow the conversation.
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Perspectives on Creative Leadership: Experience Design


Join Local Projects’ Creative Director Elvira Barriga (pictured), as she speaks with an all-female panel of designers and architects about their careers, lessons they've learned in their daily practice, and their aspirations for the future. The panel includes: - Roanne Adams, founder of the multi-disciplinary creative studio RoAndCo (clients include Loeffler Randall, Hudson’s Rivertown Lodge, and Google Play Music) - Min Lew, Creative Director and Managing Director of the branding studio Base Design's New York office. (clients include JFK Terminal 4, Pantone, and Le Pain Quotidien) - Jing Liu, Partner at SO-IL architects (clients include Derek Lam, MoMA, and Frieze Art Fair) + faculty member at Columbia University.
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Slide Lecture | W.C. Fields in Vaudeville


This illustrated talk explores the great comedian's early years (1900-1930) as a juggler in vaudeville and a revue comedian, and the many ways those experiences influenced his later motion pictures. With Trav S.D., writer, performer, and author of "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube."
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Screening | Too Loud a Solitude: Screening of Film Excerpt and Q+A


Filmmmaker Genevieve Anderson will show a preview of her in-progress animated narrative feature film. With puppets, animation and Paul Giamatti's voice, Anderson creates a visually stunning dramatic film adapted from the beloved Czech novella. This award winning artist and short film director of Boxed, Sunlight, and Ola’s Box of Clovers will bring to life Czech author Bohumil Hrabal’s beloved novella Too Loud A Solitude (Příliš hlučná samota ,1976), marking her feature film debut and the first of Hrabal’s works to be adapted by an American director. Do not miss the Q+A with director after the screening.
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7:00 pm
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Play | Truest: Black Comedy by Megan Cohen


Sam Shepard meets Thelma and Louise when we find two sisters in a kitchen. Smoking guns in hand, they’ve just slain the iconic brothers of fraternal drama True West. As these women chase their own uniquely twisted American Dream in a landscape of canonical corpses, they dance an intricate psychological duet that leads us through a surreal terrain of wonder, danger, laughter, and yearning. In this delightfully upsetting comic grapple by an emerging feminist playwright, we follow a pair of sisters on their brutal hunt in search of tenderness.
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Poetry Reading | Cave Canem Poetry Prize Reading


With: Donika Kelly (Winner), Katy Richey (Runner-Up) and Linda Susan Jackson. Donika Kelly (pictured) is the author of the forthcoming collection "Bestiary" from Graywolf Press. Katy Richey’s manuscript "Into the Bluest Part" received an honorable mention for the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Linda Susan Jackson, author of "What Yellow Sounds Like" and 2015 competition reader will kick off the event with an introductory reading.
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7:00 pm
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Master Class | Cello Master Class with Frans Helmerson


The Swedish cellist Frans Helmerson began his musical training with Guido Vecchi in Göteborg before moving on to study with Giuseppe Selmi in Rome and William Pleeth in London. Sergiu Celibidache and Mstislav Rostropovich also played a very influential role in his artistic development. In 1971 he won one of the most famous music prizes for cellists, the Cassado Competition in Florence - the first of many other distinctions. Tours have taken him to other countries in Europe as well as to Japan, Russia, South America, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
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Talk | Don Schlitz, Grammy Award-Winning Country Songwriter


Songwriter/singer Don Schlitz (Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee; multiple Grammy winner; writer of 24 #1 country singles, including “The Gambler,” in conversation with Phil Galdston, Faculty Songwriter-In-Residence.
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7:00 pm
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Book Signing | Emmy-winning actress Jane Alexander signs copies of her book Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth


Author, activist, former chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts and Emmy-winning actress Jane Alexander provides a moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists and environmentalists.
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Tour | Holiday Lights Tour


It’s time to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and the New Year as Midtown Manhattan lights up like no other place in the world. Mechanical window displays, synchronized light and sound shows, not to mention Santa Claus and toy soldiers surely await you in this winter wonderland. Check them all out on the New York Holiday Lights Tour. Experience the holidays in the city as only New York can offer. Take advantage of the subway to beat the street traffic, keep warm and catch some underground holiday music. Learn about the artists and backgrounds to these wonderful displays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Reading | Irish American Writers and Artists Salon


Welcome Irish-American writers, actors, filmmakers, musicians and artists of every (and no) religion. As well as celebrating the achievements of Irish-American writers and artists, past and present, IAW+A's purpose is to highlight, energize and encourage Irish Americans working in the arts. IAW+A is committed both to bringing together the Irish American creative community in new self-awareness and to being a force for inter-ethnic and interracial solidarity, understanding and active cooperation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Lincoln Mitchell reads from his book Will Big League Baseball Survive?


In his shrewd analysis, Lincoln Mitchell asks whether the sport will continue in its current form as a huge, lucrative global business that offers a monopoly in North America and whether those structures are sustainable.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Student Piano Recital


Ramon Castellblanch, Pianist
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | The Modern Family


In recognition of the manifold forms of the modern family, Min Jin Lee (Free Food For Millionnaires, Pachinko (2017)), Tanwi Nandini Islam (Bright Lines), Alden Jones (Unaccompanied Minors), and Sonya Chung (The Loved Ones, Long for This World) will discuss the ongoing importance of representing a broad spectrum of families in fiction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Anna Han, Prize-Winning Pianist


Described by the Washington Post as “prodigiously gifted… a display of imagination, taste and pianistic firepower far beyond her years,” Anna Han has won a number of prestigious international competitions, including the first prizes of the 2012 New York International Piano Competition, the 2011 New Orleans International Piano Competition for Young Artists and both the 2011 and 2008 IIYM (International Institute for Young Musicians) International Piano Competitions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | David Murray, Grammy-Winning Saxophonist


The enchanting Caribbean, Mexican, and South American melodies from Nat King Cole’s two Spanish-language albums from 1958 and 1962 are reimagined by Grammy-winning tenor saxophonist David Murray and his Cuban Ensemble. A sensitive improviser who blends reverence for the past greats with a deeply personal vision, Murray will entice you to the dance floor with his soulful interpretations of “El Bodeguero,” “Quizas, Quizas, Quizas,” “Tres Palabras,” and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Classical Music | Tactus: Contemporary Chamber Music


Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Jazz | The Columbia University Jazz House & Big Band


A joint showcase of the talented Big Band as well as Columbia's very own Jazz House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Student Piano Recital


Yilan Zhao, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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