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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 21, 2019?
62 free events take place on Thursday, February 21 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 February 21 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 February . 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.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 21, 2019?
62 free events take place on Thursday, February 21 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 February 21 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 February . 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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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!
62 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, February 21, 2019
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Workshop | Sun Salutations and Intentions Morning Yoga
Starts your day with a morning yoga practice. You will experience luxurious stretching warm-ups, empowering standing poses, and energizing breath work as we align the movements with the inhales and exhales. You will feel more awake, strong, balanced, and positive as a result of this time spent on the mat. Sun Salutations and warrior poses stimulate the seratonin in your brain (the “happy hormone) and improve self-esteem! You will be ready for anything that meets you as your day unfolds. Bring a yoga mat if you have one. You may bring your own coffee or tea.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:45 am
$5 requested donation...
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Tour | 13 tours, all City neighborhoods, any time of the day, choose one tour or many
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
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Tour | City Hall Tour for Individuals
The tour of City Hall includes a discussion of the building's history, art, architecture, and civic function. The building is the oldest city hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions, such as the office of the Mayor of New York. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, New York City Hall is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
Free
Conference | New Fascism Mass Psychology and Financialization
What do the worlds of global finance and nationalist populism have in common? How can we understand the rise of today’s 'new fascisms' through the prism of financialization? This one-day event brings together scholars from across disciplines to debate these key questions for our understanding of contemporary capitalism. The workshop is part of Public Seminar's Imaginal Politics initiative and is organised jointly with the Department of Social Science, University College London. The workshop will include three panel discussions and wiil close with a talk by Judith Butler on anti-gender ideology and the new fascism.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
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Performance | The Art of Storytelling
Storyteller Darren Thompson shares the traditions and culture of his Ojibwe community. The Ojibwe (said to mean "Puckered Moccasin People"), also known as the Chippewa, are a group of Algonquian-speaking bands who amalgamated as a tribe in the 1600's. They were primarily hunters and fishermen, as the climate of Michigan's Upper Peninsula was too cool for farming. Darren Thompson is an award-winning Native American flute player and educator from the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe Reservation in Northern Wisconsin. His talent and hard work have brought him to perform at such venues as the National Indian Education Association, the National Congress of American Indians and the North American Indigenous Games, America’s largest American Indian cultural festival. Start times: 10am, 11am, 1pm.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Film | Bright Road (1953): Idealistic Teacher Struggles For A Student
A sensitive story of a first-year schoolteacher who finds promise in a student labeled a backwards child. 68 min. Director: Gerald Mayer. Starring Dorothy Dandridge, Philip Hepburn, Harry Belafonte. Bright Road was adapted from the Christopher Award-winning short story See How They Run by Mary Elizabeth Vroman. The movie is notable as the first feature film appearance by Harry Belafonte, who co-stars as the principal of the school.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free
Free
Workshop | How To Download E-Books From Library
Get started with borrowing ebooks on your tablet, smartphone, or e-reader. Learn how to take advantage of free access to new media from the comfort of your own home. Participants must bring device and necessary account.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free
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Workshop | How To Do Clay Coasters
A chance to try your hand at do-it-yourself crafts. This month the clay medium will be explored. All levels are welcome. At this session clay coasters will be done. A coaster is an item used to rest drinks upon.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Bach at Noon
The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 11, 2018 to May 22, 2019.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
Free
Free
Gallery Talk | 2 Folk Art Shows: Exhibition Walkthroughs
A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Author Reading | Ashes to Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie, 1976-2016
Chris O'Leary's Ashes to Ashes covers every single Bowie song, whether it was sung, written, or produced by him, from 1976, when he first recorded with Iggy Pop on "The Idiot," to his last masterpiece "Blackstar," released just days before his death in 2016. Each song is annotated in depth and explored in essays that touch upon the song's creation, production, influences and impact. It hits everything from "Heroes" to the Labyrinth soundtrack, from his 1985 camp duet with Mick Jagger on "Dancing In the Street" to "Where Are We Now," his comeback single in 2013. Along the way we encounter a vast cast of characters, weaving in and out of Bowie's life and his music: Brian Eno, John Cale, Nile Rodgers, Lou Reed, Freddie Mercury, Scott Walker, Marc Bolan, Arcade Fire, John Lennon, Mickey Rourke, Gary Oldman, Iman, Hanif Kureishi, Julien Temple, Giorgio Moroder, Neil Young and many others. And we range across the globe from Bowie's years in divided Berlin to his "exile" years in Switzerland through his final years as a New Yorker, recording within walking distance of his home. Chris O’Leary is a writer based in Massachusetts. He has written for Pitchfork, Slate, New York, Mojo, and Billboard. He is the author Rebel Rebel: All the Songs of David Bowie From '64 to '76 (2015) and creator of the acclaimed Bowie blog ‘Pushing Ahead of the Dame’, listed as one of Time's "Best Blogs of 2011".
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Discovering Malcolm-X With Never Before Seen Documents
Librarians and archivists will display selected items from collections related to the civil rights leader, including never before seen handwritten letters and postcards, photographs, and the recently-acquired manuscripts of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour
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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Reading | Literature Workshop: Postcolonial Literature
Do you want to find time for literature in your busy life? Join to celebrate literature in bite-size servings! Read aloud, enact, and discuss passages of classic and contemporary literature from across the globe. This month's theme is Race and Colonialism. In this session the class will examine how poetry from former European colonies explores the personal, social, and political aspects of imperialism. All literary enthusiasts are welcome.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Free
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
$10 suggested donation
Concert | Baroque ensemble performs works by Telemann (1681 – 1767)
Tableau Vivant performs works by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 – 1767) About the Program Telemann is one of the most prolific composers in history and was considered by his contemporaries to be one of the leading German composers of the time—he was compared favorably both to his friend Johann Sebastian Bach, who made Telemann the godfather and namesake of his son Carl Philipp Emanuel, and to George Frideric Handel, whom Telemann also knew personally. Telemann's music incorporates several national styles (French, Italian, German) and is even at times influenced by Polish popular music. He remained at the forefront of all new musical tendencies and his music is an important link between the late Baroque and early Classical styles. About the ensemble Tableau Vivant (English: living picture) is an ensemble devoted to 17th & 18th century repertoire for violin, viola da gamba and basso continuo in various formations. Its core members, violinist Karen Marie Marmer and keyboardist Dongsok Shin are principals of the internationally acclaimed ensemble, Rebel. Tableau Vivant has performed at Midtown Concerts and Downtown Music at Grace series in White Plains. Performers: David Ross, traverso Karen Marie Marmer, violin Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba Dongsok Shin, harpsichord.
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1:15 pm
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Film | A Simple Favor (2018): Comedy drama based on a novel
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate. 117 min. Director: Paul Feig. Starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding. The movie is based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Darcey Bell. As of January 6, 2019, A Simple Favor has grossed $53.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $43.5 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $97.1 million, against a production budget of $20 million.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Anchors Aweigh (1945): Oscar winning musical comedy
Two sailors, one naive, the other experienced in the ways of the world, on liberty in Los Angeles, is the setting for this movie musical. Director: George Sidney. Starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly. Anchors Aweigh won the Academy Award for Original Music Score. It has four other Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Cinematography, Color, Best Music, Original Song.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Riffraff (1936): Crime drama starring Oscar winning Spencer Tracy
Two dock workers fight over a sexy woman on the California coast. 94 min. Director: J. Walter Ruben. Starring Jean Harlow, Una Merkel. According to MGM records, the film earned $717,000 in the US, and $330,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $63,000. Contemporary reviews from critics were generally positive, both for the film and Harlow's new "natural" look, as she darkened her hair to what the press dubbed "brownette" before the film went into production. Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times praised the moments of "robust comedy", but lamented the instances when it turned serious and a "boisterous jest skids down the slopes of melodramatic routine". Variety ran a positive review, praising the "excellent cast" and dialogue that was "vigorous and well-written". Film Daily was also positive, calling it a "lusty picture, full of action and comedy", with "fine performances" from Harlow and Tracy.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018): Sixth of the series starring Tom Cruise
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong. 147 min. Director: Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames. It is the sixth instalment in the Mission: Impossible film series, and the second film to be directed by McQuarrie following the 2015 film Rogue Nation. Mission: Impossible - Fallout was a box office success, grossing $791 million worldwide, making it the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2018, Cruise's highest-grossing film to date, and the highest-grossing film in the franchise, surpassing Ghost Protocol.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Screening | The Lost Tapes: Malcolm X: Up-close Look At The Civil Rights Movement
This is a 43 min. screening of the Smithsonian Channel’s The Lost Tapes: Malcolm X which offers an up-close look at the Civil Rights Movement through the eyes of one of its most charismatic and controversial leaders. February 21 marks annual commemoration of Malcolm X on the anniversary of his assassination. Malcolm X (1925 - 1965) was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist. He has been called one of the most influential African Americans in history.
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3:00 pm
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Film | The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018): Secret of an ex-boyfriend
Audrey and Morgan are best friends who unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one of the women discovers the boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy. 117 min. Director: Susanna Fogel. Starring Justin Theroux, Blanka Györfi-Tóth, Vilma Szécsi. The Spy Who Dumped Me grossed $33.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $41.7 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $75.3 million, against a production budget of $40 million.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | How To Make Origami
Learn how to make origami lucky stars out of slips of paper. Amaze your family friends. Origami is the art of paper folding, which is often associated with Japanese culture. In modern usage, the word "origami" is used as an inclusive term for all folding practices, regardless of their culture of origin.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Play | 2 New Plays: Hal / The Tall Ones
The first pair of plays in the New Voices Festival will be Hal, written by Collin McConnell and directed by Joey Rizzolo; and The Tall Ones, written by Miles Orduna and directed by Rebecca Etzine. Presented by the College of Performing Arts.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Free
Workshop | Adult Coloring Club
Discover the fun and calming benefits of coloring. Color, relax and enjoy. Coloring supplies will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring their own materials too.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lesson | Advanced American Sign Language
This workshop helps students to become a fluent communicator with other ASL users. American Sign Language is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Movie in a Park | Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964): Scathing Black Comedy with Peter Sellers, George C. Scott
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. 95 min. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress included Dr. Strangelove in the first group of films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. It was listed as number three on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list. Production took place in the United Kingdom. Story is loosely based on Peter George's thriller novel Red Alert (1958). The film recieved four Oscar nominations at the 37th Academy Awards.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | What Is Islamophobia? Disentangling Citizens’ Feelings Toward Ethnicity, Religion and Religiosity
What citizens think about Muslim immigrants is of great importance for some of the most pressing challenges facing Western democracies. Advancing our understanding of what “Islamophobia” really is – i.e. whether it is a dislike based on immigrants` ethnic background, their religious identity or their specific religious behaviour – this talk suggests that in general Muslims are not viewed more negatively than Christian immigrants. Instead, citizens’ uneasiness with Muslim immigration is first and foremost the result of a rejection of fundamentalist forms of religiosity. This suggests that common explanations, which are based on simple dichotomies between liberal supporters and conservative critics of immigration, need to be re-evaluated. While the politically left and culturally liberal have more positive attitudes towards immigrants than the right-leaning and conservative, they are also far more critical towards religious groups. The talk concludes that a large part of the current political controversy over Muslim immigration has to do with this double opposition. Importantly, the current political conflict over Muslim immigration is not so much about immigrants versus natives or even Muslim versus Christians as it is about political liberalism versus religious fundamentalism. Speaker Marc Helbling is full professor in political sociology[uni-bamberg.de] at the Department of Political Science at the University of Bamberg and a Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He was a visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and a visiting scholar at the Centres for European Studies at Harvard University and New York University.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Lesson | Writing Lab
The intention is to provide artists in the community the opportunity to develop works-in-progress of writing pieces, theater texts, performance pieces and related projects. In addition to writers and performers, musicians, singers, dancers, etc., are welcome to participate.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Design by Time: 22 International Designers Depict Time
The show features twenty-two international designers depicting time and its dynamic effects in fashion, furniture, textiles, vessels, and more. Their creativity results in objects that serve as concrete embodiments of life itself. This exhibition of fashion, furniture, textiles, vessels and more includes designers who depict time and its dynamic effects in their work to serve as concrete embodiments of life itself. Representing an international field, these designers go beyond the conventional intention of design––to give functional objects a visually arresting reality. Their analytic formal processes are partnered with natural phenomena, chemical and physical forces; while time-based acts such as performance and drawing are magnified to serve as collaborators in the design.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Drawing for Print: Mind Fucks, Kultur Klashes, Pulp Fiction & Pulp Fact
An exhibition that examines the mind and career of R. Crumb, an American cartoonist and musician. His work displays a nostalgia for American folk culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and satire of contemporary American culture. The exhibition will feature a wide array of printed matter culled from the artist’s archive: tear sheets of drawings and comics, taken directly from the publications where the works first appeared, as well as related ephemera. These often fragile works on paper will be installed across the walls of the gallery. Further illuminating Crumb’s practice, the show will also feature a selection of rare sketchbooks and original drawings by the artist.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Edward Dugmore: Topography of Body and Land / Paintings and Drawings from 1969
The exhibition catalogue includes an essay written by David Anfam, curator at the Clyfford Still Museum and the foremost scholar of Abstract Expressionism. In describing the paintings' relationship to nature, Anfam writes: "They bulk massy as a mountain range, sounding a poetic and strangely reassuring note – as telluric forms sprung from time immemorial should be."
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Music Stands: Sound Art
In Marina Rosenfeld's latest work, three metal armatures, derived from the spatial notations of an earlier work, Free Exercise (2016), support a constellation of microphones and speakers. Interspersed are a set of reflective photographic panels that depict an array of deformed shapes that baffle and modulate sounds as they are released into the gallery. The combination of visual and aural cues makes possible the perception of actual shapes and vectors in space: blobs, spirals, planes and other wrinkled or folded geometric forms that fleetingly occupy the gallery. Rosenfeld’s sounds are tenuous, suggestive, and generative. Like the sound fragments she employs as a turntablist, these samples are recorded traces, ephemera. Prominent among these are samples of Rosenfeld’s own voice, recordings that register both the presence of the artist’s body and its absence or replacement by an electronic, dysphoric surrogate. As in all her work, Rosenfeld foregrounds the unstable, inert materiality of electronic sound.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Names will never hurt me: Three-Dimensional Works on Paper
An exhibition of new three-dimensional works on paper by Hilary Berseth. This intimate presentation of sculptural objects is the artist’s fourth exhibition with the gallery and underscores his formal interests in nature, materiality, structure, and perception. Berseth meticulously arranges pencil drawings in three dimensions to create hybrid sculptural works that play with the two-dimensional limitations of the paper. The suite includes constructions with precise rendering and shading to create planar trompe l’oeil objects, such as "Cleaved Slates Stacked" (2017-2018), in which graphite-shaded paper could be mistaken for weathered stones, stacked and balanced around an impossible center of gravity. Hilary Berseth (b. 1979) lives and works in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His work has been included exhibitions such as Beyond Human at the Peabody Essex Museum, MA; and Wax: Sensation in Contemporary Sculpture at Kunsforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen. Reviews and articles on his work have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, and The Village Voice, among others.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Stained Glass Cliff: Women's Power in Times of Crisis and Risk
A new series of paintings by Jackie Gendel. Casting a sense of peril and irony upon Gendel’s occasional play with planar and divisionist models of painting, the exhibition's title refers to “glass cliff.” The term, coined in 2005 by British professors Michelle K. Ryan and Alexander Haslam, describes a common practice in which women are only promoted to positions of power in times of crisis and risk. Gendel’s usage charges the expression, suggesting an invisible precipice that mirrors the angularity, transparency, and fragmentary quality found in many of her paintings. Jackie Gendel (b. 1973, Houston, TX) was first seen at this gallery in the group exhibition Painting Forward (2016). Since 2000, she has participated in numerous group shows. Gendel’s solo exhibitions include shows with Jeff Bailey, New York (2013, 2012, 2010, 2006); Loyal Gallery, Malmö (2012); Moti Hasson, New York (2008); and Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston (2004, 2002).
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Table Tales: The Global Nomad Cuisine of Abu Dhabi
An evening discussion with Hanan Sayed Worrell, author of Table Tales: The Global Nomad Cuisine of Abu Dhabi, who will share insights on the multicultural communities and cuisines of Abu Dhabi featured in her book. Joining the conversation will be Her Excellency Lana Nusseibeh, UAE Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and Dr. Mariet Westermann, executive vice president for programs and research at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | The African Burial Ground In New York City
In 1991, archaeologists in lower Manhattan unearthed a stunning discovery. Buried for more than 200 years was a communal cemetery containing the remains of up to 20,000 people. At roughly 6.6 acres, the African Burial Ground is the largest and earliest known burial space of African descendants in North America. In the years that followed its discovery, citizens and activists fought tirelessly to demand respectful treatment of eighteenth-century funerary remains and sacred ancestors. Associate Professor of African Art History at Ohio University Andrea E. Frohne discusses this political battle as well as her book on the African American burial ground within the context of the history of enslaved Africans in New York.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | The Young and Evil: Significant Works from the First Half of 20th Century
A group exhibition featuring significant works from the first half of the twentieth century by Paul Cadmus, Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein, Charles Henri Ford, Jared French, Margaret Hoening French, George Platt Lynes, Bernard Perlin, Pavel Tchelitchew, George Tooker, Jensen Yow, and their circle. This group of artists and writers looked away from abstraction toward older sources and models—classical and archaic forms of figuration and Renaissance techniques. What might be seen as a reactionary aesthetic maneuver was made in the service of radical content—endeavoring to depict their own lives. Drawn from important public and private collections, key works include a painting from Paul Cadmus’s infamous sailor trilogy, Shore Leave (1933), on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art; a major canvas by Pavel Tchelitchew featuring vignettes of George Platt Lynes at work; rare paintings by Margaret French and works on paper by Fidelma Cadmus Kirstein; and never-before-seen erotic drawings and photographs from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Wisdom Fertilizer: Self-Actualization Amid Social Upheaval
Video artist Alicia Mersy presents her most recent series. Through satirical engagement with new age YouTube self-help coaching videos, popular news media, clip art, and commercial graphic aesthetics, Mersy reflects on the terrors of late capitalism and militarized border control. The fou- part series considers the possibilities for self actualization within the context of socio-political upheaval. Alicia Mersy is a new media artist and filmmaker. She was born and raised in Montreal, originally French and Lebanese. She has been exhibited internationally in spaces like The Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, UK), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (TLV, Israel), The Migros Museum of Contemporary Art (Zurich, Switzerland). She creates space for conversations, through video, digital images and photography within the themes of self representation, social politics, class guilt politics, race, focusing on the resistance of repressive structures.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Native Sounds Downtown
Cultural advocate and Garifuna historian James Lovell celebrates his Afro-Indigenous heritage in concert. Joined by dynamic percussionists and dancers, Lovell offers his knowledge and talent through music and conversation in honor of Black History Month. The Garifuna language is an offshoot of the Island Carib language, and it is spoken in Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and Nicaragua by the Garifuna people. It is a language with French, English, and Spanish influences, reflecting their long interaction with various colonial peoples. James Lovell is a cultural ambassador who preserves traditional Garifuna music, dance and language, sharing it with audiences around the world. He is a passionate educator, activist, a storyteller and a multi-instrumentalist — including percussion, guitars, voice, clarinet, sax and euphonium.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Rhythm Is the Cure: Hands-On Tambourine & Frame Drum Performance
The final performance by the participants in a workshop taught by internationally renowned singer and percussionist Alessandra Belloni. The purpose of this workshop was to introduce general audiences to a very rich tambourine and folk dance culture with an active current performance practice in Southern Italy.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Tax Tips For Freelancers
This workshop is designed to inform startups and established freelancers, entrepreneurs and independent contractors, about their tax requirements and recordkeeping responsibilities. Attendees will learn about Schedule C, Profit or Loss from Business (Sole Proprietorship), deductible business expenses, self-employment tax and other tax topics. It will be held by private practitioner and enrolled agent John Sheeley. Sheeley has been engaged as a tax practitioner since 1987. After thirteen seasons as a multi-unit franchisee of a national tax chain, John went to work for a large regional accounting firm in 2003, where he divided his time between representing clients in sales & use tax controversies and examinations, and tax compliance work for non-resident aliens.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Unimagining Communities: Suspicion and the Writing of History in Post-Colonial Societies
The lecture will be presented by Prof. Dilip Menon, the Mellon Chair of Indian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Indian Studies at the University of Witwatersrand in Africa. Menon's research for the past decade has engaged with issues of caste, socialism, and equality in modern India. Currently, he is working on issues of cultural and intellectual history and is engaged in a project on the writing of history in India between 1850 and 1960. The work inaugurated at the Centre is interdisciplinary and transnational in approach and looks afresh at issues of colonialism, modernity, and migration in the Global South.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Lesson | Why Feminist Economics?
This course will present economic concepts from a feminist perspective and critically discuss some assumptions and conclusions of the economic discipline. The overall objective of this course is to allow the students to critically assess some economic statements and understand the gender bias that they carry. The course will start by discussing the social construction of gender and its correlation to class, followed by an overall critique of the discipline of economics. Students will then gain exposure to feminist economic theory and the counterpart concepts necessary to build an economic system that is not gender biased. The topic of the second session will be Why Feminist Economics? The Professor: Luiza Nassif Pires is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the New School for Social Research. She holds a Bachelor's and Masters' degree in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, her home city. Her specializations are Development Economics, Feminist Economics, Industrial Economics and Macroeconomic Modeling.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Love Hunter (2014): Rock 'n' Roll, Serbian Style
Love Hunter tells the story of Milan Mumin, the lead singer of a the hugely influential Serbian rock band Love Hunters, who in the 1990s electrified and gave voice to a generation of Serbians fighting an oppressive regime. Ten years later, we find Milan in New York City, driving a taxi (long shifts and loopy fares) and cobbling together funds for a recording session of his dream album to be recorded and released in America. When his bass guitar player suddenly quits, he finds a talented but prickly replacement and a romantic spark in a free-spirited guitarist named Kim. Followed by a discussion with director Branislav Bala.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | A Strange New Beauty (2017): The Luxurious Homes of Silicon Valley
A disturbing intrusion into the luxurious homes of Silicon Valley. Using an aggressive soundtrack and a full frame often fractured into small rectangles covered by text, the film reveals a deafening violence behind the glittering beauty and deceptive calm of this suburban landscape. There is no human presence, but the homes seem to contain a memory of disturbing events, to bear the traces of a savagery just offscreen” Director: Shelly Silver 50 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | In Putin's Footsteps
In 2000, after Vladimir Putin was handed the Russian presidency by Boris Yeltsin and then won it himself in a landslide election, he set out on a massive PR campaign with the intent to restore his country's lost status as a great power. He hopped around the world to nearly two dozen countries and almost a quarter of Russia's own 89 regions. Inspired by his nation's enormity, its "limitless land," Putin aimed to follow it up by traveling to every one of Russia's eleven time zones on New Year’s Eve to deliver a speech in all of them at the stroke of midnight. Nearly twenty years later, in the summer of 2017, Nina Khrushcheva and journalist Jeffrey Tayler set out to travel in what would have been Putin’s footsteps. Focusing on a town in each time zone, and examining how factors from politics to natural resources define each, the two create a portrait of the country. Khrushcheva, who has made New York her home, speaks about the trans Siberian journey and whether Putin’s promise to restore pride in Russia’s greatness has ultimately been fulfilled.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, and Social Action in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
The publication examines Estridentismo, one of Mexico’s first modern art and literary movements. The program includes a discussion between the author Lynda Klich, Luis Carranza (Roger Williams University) and Mary Coffey (Dartmouth College), moderated by Edward J. Sullivan (deputy director and professor, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University).
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Discussion | Birthright Citizenship in an Evolving Political Landscape
Birthright citizenship, seen for more than a century as a bedrock American right, has become a hot-button immigration issue. This panel discussion brings together historians, scholars and journalists to discuss how and why birthright citizenship has evolved, from Reconstruction to immigration policy today. They'll explore its impact on the lives of American families over time.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Globalization: Promises, Discontents and New Futures
Globalization can also be observed from within. That is from the point in time and in the space in which we are physically placed. This look, which is also that of our everyday life, leads us to see the "global" through the experience of the "local". A local that, precisely because of globalization, and the connectivity that is the main responsible, has profoundly changed compared to that of the past, becoming a hyper-local: a hybrid environment given by the integration of the physical space of proximity (in which we find ourselves and in which we interact with the people and things that are close to us) and the space of global connectivity (the limits of which are determined by the tools we use to see and act in the networks we are part of). By adopting this point of view what we see today is the clash between two trends: a dominant one towards the diffusion of forms of connected and incompetent solitude (tragically unsustainable, both socially and environmentally). And a symmetrical one, which proposes and puts into practice networks of competent collaboration. The lecture by Ezio Manzini discusses how these two trends define our field of action. And, with it, how they affect our life projects and the politics of the everyday that we put in place by confirming or transforming the socio-technical systems we are part of.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Is Higher Education for Everyone?
If college is a pathway to greater equality in our society, what are the obstacles preventing participation by all? What issues do low-income students face in enrolling and succeeding in higher education, particularly graduate school? What role do class, race, economic factors, and pedagogy play, and what are the solutions? Featuring Stephen Brier, professor of urban education and founder of The Interactive Technology and Pedagogy program, co-author of Austerity Blues; Cathy Davidson, distinguished professor and director of the Futures Initiative, author of The New Education; Sakina Laksimi-Morrow, fellow at the Teaching and Learning Center; Richard V. Reeves, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, author of Dream Hoarders; Carla Shedd, associate professor of sociology and urban education, author of Unequal City.
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Opening Reception | Aperture Photographs: Evolution of a Foundation
Aperture Photographs follows the evolution of Aperture Foundation through a showcase of photographs from its print and fundraising programs, made over a period of fifty years. The limited-edition print program began in 1967 under Michael Hoffman, Minor White’s successor as director and publisher of Aperture. Working in collaboration with Paul Strand and Edward Steichen, Hoffman launched the program with a new edition of Strand’s Mexican Portfolio and a series of hand-pulled photogravure prints made under the supervision of the artists. The works on view chart the progression of photography itself, presenting prints from the founding photographers of Aperture—Minor White, Edward Weston, Barbara Morgan, and Dorothea Lange—to contemporary innovators in the medium, such as Tyler Mitchell, the first Black photographer hired to shoot a cover story for American Vogue. In between are some of the most significant photographers of each decade, representing seminal books in Aperture’s publication history.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Violence: Humans in Dark Times
Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out the best of us," writes Evans, "we have to confront the worst of what humans are capable of doing to one another. In short, there is a need to confront the intolerable realities of violence in this world." These lively, in-depth exchanges among historians, theorists, and artists offer a timely and bracing look at how the increasing expression and acceptance of violence--in all strata of society--has become a defining feature of our times.
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Author Reading | Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday life and challenged traditional Victorian beliefs about courtship, love, and marriage. Hartman narrates the story of this radical social transformation against the grain of the prevailing century-old argument about the crisis of the black family. In wrestling with the question of what a free life is, many young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship that were indifferent to the dictates of respectability and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives recreates the experience of young urban black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them--domestic service, second-class citizenship, and respectable poverty--and whose intimate revolution was apprehended as crime and pathology. For the first time, young black women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives recovers their radical aspirations and insurgent desires. Saidiya Hartman is a Guggenheim Fellow and author of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route and Scenes of Subjection. She has been a Cullman Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. She is a professor at Columbia University, and lives in New York.
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Talk | An Evening with Bestselling Author Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by Voice Literary Supplement) and The Fun Parts and the novels The Ask, The Subject Steve, and Home Land, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. His latest book is the novel Hark. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, he lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
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Jazz | Jazz Quartet: Sax, Piano, Drums and Bass
Karel Růžička Quartet presents Grace and Gratitude. Saxophonist and composer Karel Růžička will be performing with acclaimed musicians Jon Cowherd (piano), James Genus (bass) and E.J. Strickland (drums). Grace & Gratitude comprises exclusively Růžička's own compositions. During his career Růžička has performed as a sideman with many other legendary musicians on the global scene George Benson, Dean Brown, Hiram Bullock, Mike Stern, Joe Locke, Bob Mintzer, Ravi Coltrane, among others.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | The Rise of the Sea and the Novel
Does the contemporary French novel have anything to say about climate change? This talk is part of a larger project that considers literature as an ambiguous witness of humans' fragile earthly predicament. Speaker Thangam Ravindranathan is Associate Professor of French Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Behold an Animal. Four Exorbitant Readings (forthcoming, Northwestern University Press, 2019), Là où je ne suis pas. Récits de dévoyage (Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2012), and co-author (with Antoine Traisnel) of Donner le change: L'impensé animal (Editions Hermann, 2016). In English.
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Jazz | Jazz Singer-Songwriter from South Africa
Singer and songwriter Vuyo Sotashe is becoming an integral part of New York City’s jazz scene. After moving here in 2013, the young South African artist has quickly made his mark, earning a Fulbright Scholarship and finalist positions in several international competitions, while also collaborating with artists such as Dee Dee Bridgewater, Michael Mwenso, Brianna Thomas, Elio Villafranca, Duchess, and the cabaret persona Jomama Jones, to name a few.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | 2 New Plays: Hal / The Tall Ones
The first pair of plays in the New Voices Festival will be Hal, written by Collin McConnell and directed by Joey Rizzolo; and The Tall Ones, written by Miles Orduna and directed by Rebecca Etzine. Presented by the College of Performing Arts.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and its University in Exile
Judith Friedlander's riveting new book is from Columbia University Press. Friedlander is Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Hunter College, and former Walter E. Eberstadt Professor of Anthropology and Dean of the New School for Social Research. Reception to follow.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt (1963): French Cinema Classic with Brigitte Bardot
Godard’s lushly photographed epic that charts the breakdown of a marriage while taking numerous satirical stabs at the heart of Hollywood commercialization. This French-Italian New Wave drama film stars Brigitte Bardot and received universal acclaim from critics. 101 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Works By Schubert, Brahms and more
Michalis Boliakis, collaborative piano. Program Franz Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock), D. 965 Carl Lowe Erlkonig (The Elf King), excerpt from the 3 Balladen, op. 1 Johannes Brahms Sonata No.1 for Viola and Piano in F minor, op. 120 Maurice Ravel Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Olivier Messiaen Harawi: Chants d'amour et de mort (excerpts) Andre Jolivet Chant de Linos As soloist, pianist Michalis Boliakis has given numerous critically acclaimed performances in France and abroad, in collaboration with Festival d’Aix, Festival Piano en Saintonge, Festival de Nohant, Festival Chopin in Paris, Opéra National de Bordeaux, association Jeunes Talents, National Orchestra of Athens among others.
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