39 free events take place in New York City on Thursday, February 11, 2016.
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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, February 11, 2016
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.
This tour takes place every day at 10am.
Learn the basics of using Apple's entry-level video editing program iMovie by working through a simple project. Class is conducted on Macintosh computers.
Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
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. Lessons are weather permitting.
This workshop occurs Mondays through Fridays.
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.
In her recent book, award-winning columnist and journalist Gillian Tett from the Financial Times examines how our tendency to create functional departments hinders our work. During this lunch seminar, Tett will discuss the silos’ effects on profitability and innovation in Japan and elsewhere.
Dagmar Riedel, associate research scholar, Columbia University, in conversation with Guy Burak, subject librarian for Middle Eastern Studies, will discuss the large collection of Persian lithographs of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all.
Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
The lyrical characteristics of the bassoon, as well as its virtuosic capabilities, are on full display in these works by Telemann, Fasch, Corette, and Schaffrath.
Performers:
Stephanie Corwin, bassoon
Gabriel Shuford, harpsichord
David Walker, theorbo
Artist Jorge Luis Rodríguez will meet with residents of El Barrio, the neighborhood where one of his monumental sculptures, "Growth," has been on display at Harlem Art Park since 1985. He will talk about the significance of public art and the scope of his art works, projects and documentation spanning over 40 years.
Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw.
In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.
129 min.
Stars: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised.
105 minutes
An exhibition of new work by Liam Gillick. This exhibition consists of two bodies of work in which Gillick demonstrates the disparities and harmonies between the abstract and conceptual investigations at the core of his practice.
Art historian Krista Thompson examines the work of Tom Lloyd, a black artist among the first wave working with light and electronic technologies in the 1960s. Lloyd’s early role in the mainstream art world of 1960s New York is belied by the bare archival and material traces that remain of his work.
Celebrate alumni and past and present faculty featured in the recently published Thirty Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance, which will be on sale at the event. Following an introduction by Anne Rieselbach, the event will feature a Pecha Kucha with faculty and alumni included among the previous thirty years of Emerging Voices, and a panel conversation on emerging disciplinary and hybrid models of practice with recent graduates and current students, moderated by Alan Brake, US Editor of Dezeen.
An exhibition of new work by Suzanne Treister will feature artworks created by the fictional character Hillel Fischer Traumberg, a banker turned 'outsider artist'.
The earth is teaming with microcosms of millions upon millions of crawling and flying insects, each building their own worlds while inhabiting ours. The artists reveal to us a bit of the lives of these miniature neighbors of ours who exist and flourish. Their daily routines are explored through intense examination, detailed focus and, alas, the effect of humanity’s intrusions upon them.
Through archival research, this monographic publication focuses on Ukeles' work ballets - a series of seven grand-scale collaborative performances involving workers, trucks, barges, and hundreds of tons of recyclables and steel - which took place between 1983 and 2012 in Givors, New York, Pittsburgh, Rotterdam, and Tokamachi, Japan.
With: Martha Eddy, PhD.
This dance/exercise program created by Martha Eddy, a recognized leader in fitness, dance and somatic education, is a holistic and gentle approach to fitness.
Following the recent construction of a monument dedicated to Fascist general Rodolfo Graziani, the film addresses the unpunished war crimes he and others committed in the name of Mussolini's imperial ambitions.
72 min.
Followed by a Q+A with director Valerio Ciriaci and producer Isaak Liptzin.
A discussion with Celia Ipiotis, creator and producer of the television series “Eye on Dance”; Julie Malnig, professor and dance historian; and Michael Dinwiddie, professor, playwright, and cultural historian of African American life. Performance by Chafin Seymour, dancer/choreographer.
Shahpour Pouyan, artist in in the exhibition Global/Local, will discuss his work with Murtaza Vali, a Brooklyn-based art historian, curator, and critic whose writing has appeared in Artforum, ArtReview, Art India, Bidoun, and ArtAsiaPacific.
Sunsets are a special time and what better place in New York City to experience and photograph the setting sun than the Middle Section of Central Park.
This tour takes place Thursdays at 6:30pm.
This illustrated lecture explores anagrams, palindromes, the highest-scoring Scrabble plays of all time, the birth of the World Scrabble Championship, as well as many of the more colorful figures that inhabit this subculture.
An interactive cooking and nutrition workshop dedicated to the creation of chocolate-based healthy snacks led by Denisa Musilová. Nutritional advice: Julie Fishkin.
Rumi Neely. Susie Bubble. BryanBoy. East Asian personal superbloggers dominate the Internet. Minh-Ha T. Pham examines the phenomenal rise of elite Asian diasporic bloggers who have made a career of posting photographs of themselves wearing clothes on the Internet.
Samantha Hunt is the author of The Invention of Everything Else, winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, and Mr. Splitfoot, published in January. Christopher Sorrentino’s novel Trance was a National Book Award Finalist. His new novel is The Fugitives.
A stellar musical event. A concert showcasing the artistry of internationally acclaimed performers and distinguished faculty members at a leading New York conservatory.
Learn the more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac, a word processing program you can use to create documents. Topics include creating tables, using text boxes, headers and footers, as well as footnotes and endnotes.