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29 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, February 2, 2018
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Conference | The Western Balkans After Brexit, Beyond Trump, and Towards Progress
The election of Donald J. Trump as President of the U.S. and the UK’s decision to exit the EU has thrown ... more >> the Atlantic world into crisis. The consequences of an Anglo-American retreat from constructive international engagement will be felt globally, but perhaps nowhere more so than the Western Balkans. Politically and historically wedged between the competing geopolitical, economic, and cultural influences of the U.S., Western Europe, Russia, and Turkey, the countries of the former Yugoslavia are particularly susceptible to international flux. These panels are convened at a time of urgency in international and regional affairs. But we do so with an eye not merely on the potential crises but also the too often under-reported success stories: Macedonia’s civil society-led government change, Montenegro’s accession to NATO, the contested but nevertheless important legacies of war crimes prosecution and transitional justice, the progress on LGBT and minority rights legislation, and the still ongoing process of Euro-Atlantic integration, newly energized within the context of the so-called Berlin Process.
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9:00 am
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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 ... more >> 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.
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9:30 am
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Workshop | Yoga and Breathwork
This hourlong class includes a gentle hatha/vinyasa flow with a focus on breathwork and meditation to ... more >> assist practitioners in going deeper into the body and mind. This inquiry will seek to create more flexibility and allow movement of energy to ultimately find more grounding and presence, in class and throughout the day.
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9:30 am
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City Walk | Manhattan Street Art Tour
Join a Manhattan Street Art Tour and experience the Lower East Side - SoHo, NoHo, Nolita and Little Italy. ... more >> The Lower East Side of Manhattan is a playground for street artists, Soho is known to be one of NYC first permit Joint Live-Work Quarters for artists and the area received landmark designation in 1973. Noho and Nolita’s street art is either hidden in courtyards or on the more prominent street art facades. Learn about the history of the art of many famous and unknown artist.
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9:45 am
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays ... more >> through Fridays, from September 12, 2017 to May 23, 2018.
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12:20 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Rudy Shepherd
Rudy Shepherd uses painting, drawing and sculpture to explore the nature of evil. This involves investigating ... more >> the lives of criminals and the victims of crime. He explores the complexity of the resulting stories - the grey areas between innocence and guilt - by making no visual distinctions between the criminals and the victims. He is also working on Black Rock Negative Energy Absorbers - a group of sculptures meant to remove negative energy from people; a series of ceramic sculptures called the Healing Devices; and a new series of paintings of Holy Mountains.
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour
Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery ... more >> in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate. This tour takes place every Friday.
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international ... more >> 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.
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1:00 pm
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Film | Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky (2017): NASCAR Heist
Stars: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig. Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR ... more >> race in North Carolina. 118 min.
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Bushwick Graffiti and Street Art Tour
New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists ... more >> from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick.
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour
Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, ... more >> however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
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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, ... more >> 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.
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Classical Music | Student Recitals
Onadek Winan, Soprano 4:00PM Bethany Hargreaves, Viola 6:00PM Niu Niu, Piano 8:00PM
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4:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Sussex Modernism: The House that Virginia Woolf Built (and Rebuilt)
In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf famously claimed that women needed a room to themselves to become ... more >> writers. Far less well known are Woolf’s many attempts to build and rebuild such a room for herself in the Sussex home she shared with Leonard Woolf. Virginia Woolf had a lifelong interest in architecture, both as a practice and as a source of inspiration for her writing. She never sought to create “modern architecture” in a programmatic sense; rather, Woolf’s aesthetic, mirrored in her writing, was a steady arc of modernization. This talk, illustrated by Woolf’s own plans and sketches, will explore the significance of her forays into architecture for understanding her novels and more broadly, for thinking about modernism as an interarts aesthetic. Speaker: Victoria Rosner, Columbia University
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | The Sovereignty of Vulnerability
Danilyn Rutherford, President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation gives this lecture hosted by the Ph.D. Program ... more >> in Anthropology.
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4:15 pm
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Author Reading | Claire Messud discusses her book The Burning Girl
Claire Messud is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from ... more >> the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the author of five previous works of fiction including The Emperor’s Children and The Woman Upstairs.
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Belle-Skinner: Nostaligic Indie-Folk
Belle-Skinner will present a program of original music on guitar and vocals, including folk- and jazz-inspired ... more >> tunes classified as “nostalgic indie-folk.” With a hauntingly beautiful, lilting soprano and innate sense of melody she crafts tales of songbirds, sirens and desert nomads – nuanced and layered stories which bridge the gap between past and present. Though her influences cover a broad range of genres – from French chansons and Russian folk to contemporary alt-pop and rock – her voice often draws comparisons to the likes of Joan Baez, Jeff Buckley, and Angel Olsen.
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | Refugees at the Intersection: Technology
The Refugee Action Council hosts a discussion of the various ways technology is being used to address ... more >> the refugee crisis and improve outcomes for refugees. Hear from several organizations about their organization’s approach, challenges, and what they see as the path forward. Food and drink will be served.
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Last Refuge: Paintings by Benjamin Degen
An exhibition of new works by the gallery artist.
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6:00 pm
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Classical Music | 'Rush Hour' Organ Recital
David Boeckh will present a "Rush Hour" organ recital on the acclaimed Anderson organ. Boeckh is a senior ... more >> organ performance major at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music where he studies with James David Christie. A native of Seattle, his previous organ teachers are Melvin Butler and Carole Terry. The 45 minute-long recital will consist of virtuosic works by 19th and 20th century French composers César Franck, Charles Tournemire, and Louis Vierne.
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6:15 pm
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Film | Fred Kuwornu's BlaxploItalian: 100 Years of Blackness in Italian Cinema (2016): Documentary
A diasporic, hybrid, critical, and cosmopolitan dimension documentary that uncovers the careers of a ... more >> population of entertainers seldom heard from before: Black actors in Italian cinema starting from 1915 when the first black actor appeared in an Italian film. BlaxploItalian cleverly discloses the personal struggles classic Afro-Italian; African-American; Afro-Caribbean and African diasporic actors faced, correlating it with the contemporary actors who work diligently to find respectable and significant roles. 52 min. Followed by a discussion with the director.
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6:30 pm
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Classical Music | An Evening of Haydn String Quartets
Violin faculty member Jessica Park in an evening of Joseph Haydn string quartets performed on period ... more >> instruments. Joining Park will be violinist Alana Youssefian, violist Stephen Goist and cellist Shirley Hunt. The selected works to be performed demonstrate the way in which Haydn experimented with new composition techniques that stretched the bounds of the string quartet genre.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Benn Steil discusses his book The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall ... more >> Plan—told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Chiu-Chen Liu, viola
LiveSOUNDS features free performances by faculty and their guests on Fridays throughout the school year. ... more >> It presents a cross section of a diverse and creative community of faculty members who are deeply committed to excellence and professionalism.
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Book Signing | Mark Epstein signs copies of his book Advice Not Given
Dr. Mark Epstein reveals how Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, two traditions that developed in entirely ... more >> different times and places and, until recently, had nothing to do with each other, both identify the ego as the limiting factor in our well-being, and both come to the same conclusion: When we give the ego free reign, we suffer; but when it learns to let go, we are free.
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Discussion | Theater as Tradition: The Passion Play in Oberammergau
What does tradition mean in an increasingly diverse world? Join us for a conversation between Christian ... more >> Stückl, director of the Oberammergau Passion Play and the Münchner Volkstheater, and Dr. Frank Hentschker of the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center as they discuss revitalizing traditional theater for our modern world.
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7:00 pm
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Musical | La Canción: A New Musical with Repertorio Español
One night, Rafa dreams of a song he has never heard before and when he awakens he inexplicably knows ... more >> the lyrics to the song. Captivated by the song and with the desire to adapt it to urban music, Rafa embarks on a quest to find its author, but in his search unexpectedly discovers the truth about his origins. In this new musical, Rafa tells his story through an amalgam of musical genres from Rap to tropical tunes like Salsa, Merengue and Bachata. Original Songs by VICO C. Written by Cándido Tirado. Directed by Edward Torres.
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7:30 pm
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Classical Music | Axiom Contemporary Enemble
Program: Hans Abrahamsen Schnee (2008) The “brilliant” (The New York Times) contemporary ensemble ... more >> is dedicated to performing the masterworks of the 20th- and 21st-century repertoire. Led by Ditson Conductor's Award-winning artist and the ensemble's founding director Jeffrey Milarsky, Axiom closes its season with Hans Abrahamsen’s tour-de-force.
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Concert | The Glenn & Oria Duo
Separately, they are both accomplished musicians. He is a respected and acclaimed guitarist who has traveled ... more >> the world with some of the biggest names in music; while she is a young singer-songwriter who released her first album at the tender age of 17 to worldwide rave reviews. But, together, they are simply magical! The Glenn & Oria Duo has a repertoire that touches all eras and genres of music — jazz standards, blues, rock, pop. Glenn’s virtuoso guitar skills, combine flawlessly with Oria’s passionate, soaring vocals for the ultimate music experience.
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