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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 11, 2020?

37 free events take place on Tuesday, February 11 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 11 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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37 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, February 11, 2020

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free events nyc Conversation With Three Time Grammy Winning Jazz Drummer
free events nyc Casablanca (1942): Three Time Oscar Winning Drama With Humphrey Bogart And Ingrid Bergman,
free events nyc Works By Schubert, Beethoven, Shostakovich And Schumann For Piano And Cello
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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
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Zumba Jumpstart


A fitness dance party with upbeat Latin music of Salsa, Merengue, Hip Hop and more! Enthusiastic Instruction creates a fun community of dancers who learn new dance steps each week. Bring your friends!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Zumba Fit Workshop


A fitness dance party with upbeat Latin music of Salsa, Merengue, Hip Hop and more! Enthusiastic Instruction creates a fun community of dancers who learn new dance steps each week. Bring your friends!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:45 am
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Discussion | Conversation With Three Time Grammy Winning Jazz Drummer


Jazz drummer Lenny White will be in conversation with Dr. David Schroeder, Chair of Music and Performing Arts Professions. This discussion will focus on Lenny White's incredible career in jazz music and his associations with leading music icons over the past 50 years. As a professor at the Steinhardt Jazz Studies Program, he teaches a class called the Miles Davis Aesthetic focusing on the life and times of Miles Davis, culminating in Davis' groundbreaking recording Bitches Brew in 1969. Lenny White is a three-time Grammy Award-winning jazz drummer. During the late 1960s he began performing with saxophonist Jackie McLean, which led to playing on Miles Davis' landmark 1969 LP Bitches Brew and Freddie Hubbard's 1970 LP Red Clay. In 1972 he joined the famed jazz group Return to Forever along with bandmates pianist Chick Corea, guitarist Bill Connors, and bassist Stanley Clarke.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Jazz | Dixieland Jazz With The Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; David Hofstra on bass; and Ernie Lumer on clarinet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Forum | Political Change and Policy Change in Japan


Japanese politics is known for its stability. But in the past twenty years, there has been dramatic transformation both in the policy-making process and policy itself. What is the driving force of these changes? How has policies changed (or not changed) due to the changes in the policy making process? And most importantly, would these changes enable Japan to deal with the demographic and geopolitical challenges it faces in the years ahead? This workshop will provide an opportunity to hear from Professors Satoshi Machidori and Harukata Takenaka are the two leading experts of Japanese politics in Japan. Brief presentations by both scholars will be followed by a discussion, moderated by Takako Hikotani, then a Q&A session with the audience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. "The term 'baroque' has been widely used since the 19th century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750... Many famous composers from the first part of the baroque period came from Italy and have a link with Venice, including Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. Monteverdi was born in Cremona, but moved to Venice where he was 'maestro di capella' at the San Marco basilica. Vivaldi was born in Venice and was one of the greatest baroque composers. It is thanks to these strong musical traditions of Venice that we have today's music. Without Venetian church music and Monteverdi's advances with polyphony, the great traditions of choral music in England, France, and Germany would never have developed. Without the operas written by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi, not only would the later styles of opera never have been invented. There would be no basis for the American Musical or the German and Viennese Operetta, the Spanish Zarzuela, and even rock, pop, and contemporary music as we know it." The Venice Insider Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 10, 2019 to May 20, 2020.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Classical Music | Organ Recital With Daniele Dori


Titular Organist of the Cathedral of Florence Daniele Dori plays in the most important festivals in Italy, France, Bulgaria, Denmark and Germany. Since September 2012 he is director of the Choral San Niccolò in Radda in Chianti. In November 2015 Dori was the organist of the National Ecclesial Congress "Florence 2015" playing, during the visit of Pope Francis to the city of Florence is in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and during the Eucharistic celebration.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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
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Workshop | Video Skills: Recording Techniques with iPhone


Capture your best video right from your iPhone. Learn recording techniques and how to control exposure, set focus, and more. Get hands-on with the latest iPhone in this session or bring your own. Recommended for beginners.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Film | Casablanca (1942): Three Time Oscar Winning Drama With Humphrey Bogart And Ingrid Bergman,


A cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco. 102 min. Director: Michael Curtiz. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid. Casablanca went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director and the Best Adapted Screenplay, it had five other nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Lesson | An Introduction To African American Genealogy


From 1565 to 1790, Africans comprised over a third of the roughly one million newcomers to what would become the United States. A majority of these nearly 360,000 men and women crossed in bondage. Centuries of local and federal laws related to the livelihood of black Americans have created a complex paper trail of genealogical resources. This class aims to provide introductory historical context and recommend basic research methods in the pursuit of African-American family history.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Video Lab: Small Screen Magic


Create imaginative videos with the illusion of teleporting, disappearing, and other visual tricks. Using recording and editing techniques inspired by video-maker Zach King, Apple Creatives will show you how to create a "jump cut" scene that brings magic and storytelling to your video using the Clips app. Get hands-on with the latest iPhone in this session or bring your own.
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism: Talks in Response to the Exhibition


A program of conversations with curators and the artists in the exhibition Portable Landscapes: Memories and Imaginaries of Refugee Modernism, which will uncover the themes and key questions included in the show. How has the experience of migration and displacement contributed to the exhibition artists' practice? What are the conditions for art histories to be shared simultaneously across locations? How does this affect national identities? What constitutes refugee modernism? Could it be said that the impetus of art since WWII is refugee modernism? What is the role of artists and curators in shaping the past and present art historical narratives?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | The Emotional Topography of the Zainichi Memoryscape: Korean Ghettos in Postwar Japan Revisited


A Korean ghetto existed in every large Japanese city in the early postwar period, and up to the late 1960s. These ghettos provoke the same images and associations in Japanese people’s memory: isolated, dirty, impoverished, and dangerous. To many scholars the existence of ghettos confirms the transwar continuity of Japanese oppression of underclass ethnic minorities. But zainichi Koreans who grew up in ghettos, or tongne, often offer a number of spectacular heroic stories about living there. This presentation switches the focus from Japanese society to Koreans themselves, and discusses the important sociopolitical functions of the tongne, along with its continuing symbolic meanings. By viewing tongne as a post-liberation place of origin for zainichi, and by paying attention to the reproduction of its meanings, we can gain a better understanding of the uneven terrain of power relationships within zainichi society. In particular, examination of Korean ghettos in Japan helps to explain why the (pro-North Korean) Chongryun organization exercised great cultural power at least until the 1970s and still defines the emotional topography of the zainichi memoryscape. With: Sayaka Chatani, Assistant Professor of History, National University of Singapore
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | The Macroeconomics of World War II: Lessons for the Green New Deal


Speaker: Professor Josh W. Mason from John Jay College.
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4:00 pm
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Forum | Violence & Democracy in Latin America


This talk focuses on two regions: Urabá, a drug and human smuggling transit region in the north, and Putumayo, a coca producing area in the south, to understand the different forms of non-state governance that operate in the country. It outlines how both licit and illicit economic practices in each region produced and contributed to the varied hybrid governance structures that operate in these regions. The analysis provides a framework for considering both what drives different forms of governance in Colombia’s regions but also will enables scholars to disaggregate the dynamics the underlie disjunctive democracy, violence pluralism, and grey areas in Latin America more broadly. "Illicit Governance on Colombia’s Frontiers" Desmond Arias (PhD, The University of Wisconsin) is the Marxe Chair in Western Hemisphere Affairs and Professor at Baruch College, CUNY. His research focuses on security and politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is author of Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean (Cambridge University Press, 2017), and Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). "Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico’s Disappeared" Janice Gallagher (PhD, Cornell University) is assistant professor of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark. Gallagher is interested in how everyday citizens respond to violations of their rights, and examines how social movements, state institutions and other non-state actors affect judicial accountability and human rights compliance. "Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals and Police in Latin America" Eduardo Moncada (PhD, Brown University) is assistant professor of Political Science at Barnard College. Within his research agenda, Moncada is interested in understanding the political factors that shape the dynamics and consequences of urban violence and local democracy and development.
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Video Lab: Small Screen Magic


Create imaginative videos with the illusion of teleporting, disappearing, and other visual tricks. Using recording and editing techniques inspired by video-maker Zach King, Apple Creatives will show you how to create a "jump cut" scene that brings magic and storytelling to your video using the Clips app. Get hands-on with the latest iPhone in this session or bring your own.
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5:30 pm
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Talk | “Mommy, Wouldn’t I Have Been a Slave Back Then?”: Pastness as Position in Reconsidering History Education


In 2018, Lisa, an African American fourth grader at a New Jersey elementary school, was given the assignment of placing herself back in the early 1700s in order to write a first-person “Colonial Character Journal.” Should she imagine herself back in time as a black girl in bondage? Or should she reimagine herself as a white colonial child? Beth C. Rubin, professor of education at Rutgers, considers how historical memory is constructed in educational practice and addresses urgent questions about how we engage students in historical study, particularly in relation to slavery and colonialism, the legacies of which continue to shape the lives of contemporary people.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Chromaphilia/Chromophobia: New Artists


An exhibition of paintings and sculpture works by BFA Fine Arts students.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | The Boudoir Bible: The Uninhibited Sex Guide for Today


A comprehensive and instructional guide to the new sexual landscape, covering "new territories" such as bondage, role playing, and sex toys that would make your parents blush. Since the publication of The Joy of Sex in 1972, the sexual landscape's boundaries have been expanded to include a host of practices that are unthinkable in that classic tome. With author Betony Vernon.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | NY StartUP! 2020 Workshop 2: Developing Your Marketing Plan


Marketing plays a crucial role in the success of any business. Learn how to develop a marketing plan for your business. The key to a successful marketing plan is an understanding of the environment in which your business operates: your customers, your competition, and your industry. This event offers a wide range of industry and market research databases to help you identify these key areas. This is the 2nd training workshop for the New York StartUP! 2020 Business Plan Competition. This session will be offered three times in February.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | The New Climate Story


Facing rapid climate change, many in society have raced to embrace simplistic narratives of doom or denial. How can we - scientists, artists, educators, journalists - shape new stories and conversations that help forge creative, productive paths toward clean energy and a safer climate? A panel discussion featuring: - Mary Heglar, climate justice writer & co-host of the Real Hot Take podcast - Kate Marvel, climate scientist, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies - Kendra Pierre-Louis, climate reporter, The New York Times - Katharine Wilkinson, vice president of communication & engagement, Project Drawdown; senior writer for Drawdown
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Discussion | The Real Green Book: Using NYPL Collections to Bridge the Past


Explore the origins of the Green Book travel guide, an annual publication of the Jim Crow-era once used by African-American travelers. Learn about the work to digitize and continue the important discussion of this historical survival guide.
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6:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works By Schubert, Beethoven, Shostakovich And Schumann For Piano And Cello


Yiqiao Wang, piano and Roric Cunningham, cello. Program Franz Schubert Four Impromptus, D.899, Op.90 Ludwig Van Beethoven Sonata No.31 in A-flat Major, Op.110 Dmitri Shostakovich Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op.40 Robert Schumann Adagio and Allegro for Cello and Piano, Op.70
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Experimental Photography


Artist Duane Michals in conversation with program faculty member Elisabeth Biondi. Known for his iconic photographic work experimenting with text, sequencing and narrative, Michals’ presentation will consist of his lesser known films and expand on the dialogue of still and moving image-making.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk: The Porousness of Bodily Boundaries 


Artist Tiffany Jaeyeon Shin explores the porousness of bodily boundaries and the ceaseless movement of living processes, like fermentation, echoing the history of colonialism. Shin is interested in entangling the history of conquest and the literal digestion of material—smells, microbes, and food—into a new system of relations that emerge from a complicated history of entanglement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Critical Caribbean Feminisms


Discussants: Poet, actor, and performing artist Staceyann Chin is the author of the new poetry collection Crossfire: A Litany For Survival, the critically acclaimed memoir The Other Side of Paradise, co-writer and original performer in the Tony Award–winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, and author of the one-woman shows Hands Afire, Unspeakable Things, Border/Clash, and MotherStruck. The Anguilla Literary Festival called Alexis Pauline Gumbs “the pride of Anguilla.”  Gumbs is the author of Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, M Archive: After the End of the World, and Dub: Finding Ceremony and co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. Gumbs lives in Durham, North Carolina where she stewards the Mobile Homecoming Trust Living Library of Queer Black Brilliance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Lyons Den Power Yoga


Founded in November 2013, Lyons Den Power Yoga is an infrared-heated power yoga studio and the only Baptiste-style studio in Manhattan. Lyons Den Power Yoga is recognized as a hub for Baptiste Yoga worldwide. The practice at The Den is designed to empower individuals with focus, training and insight that supports individuals to achieve consistent results in the most important areas of their lives and has an incredibly inclusive community.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | 3 New Novels About the Mysteries of Love


A conversation with novelist Monique Truong (The Sweetest Fruits) and translators Allison Markin Powell (The Ten Loves of Nishino) and Tess Lewis (One Another) about three recent novels that plumb the mysteries of love in its many discordant and concordant manifestations and the ingenious ways fiction can flesh these mysteries out.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | A Layered Tress: A Dark, Engrossing Novel


Ellen Zaroff's dark and engrossing debut novel tells the story of Gretchen, Greta and Grace, and how their lives are connected as strength and perseverance take them on their journey to retribution.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Ghosts of the Missing: 12-Year-Old's Disappearance


Kathleen Donohoe (Ashes of Fiery Weather) launches her second novel, about the mysterious disappearance of a 12-year-old girl and the reverberations of this tragedy in her small hometown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Overlapping in the Photography Field


Frances Jakubek is a photographer, independent curator and all-around advocate for photography. She is the director of exhibitions and operations at Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York City and past associate curator of the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts. In this talk, she will present an overview of the different worlds she inhabits within the photography field and discuss the creative richness of their overlapping.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Pen Parentis Reading


Pen Parentis is a literary nonprofit that helps writers stay on creative track after starting a family. The series aims to shatter the negative stereotype of what parents can write by presenting the highest quality of diverse creative writing. With: Jose de Pierola Dawn Raffel Richard Peabody
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Master Class | Percussion Master Class With John Kilkenny


John Kilkenny (Orchestral Percussion Part II). Percussionist John Kilkenny has performed at The Kennedy Center Juke Box Series, 21st Century Consort, The Washington Bach Consort, National Gallery New Music Ensemble, and the Verge Ensemble. He has been privileged to share the stage with an eclectic array of renown artists, including Robert van Sice, She e Wu, John Tafoya, Chris Deviney, Jonathan Haas, clarinetist Chad burrow, cellist Joshua Roman, flutist Karen Johnson and pianists Garry Hammond, Carlos Rodriguez, Steven Beck, and Eric Huebner.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Photographer Talk: The EveryMAN Project


Tarik Carroll will show and discuss his work as a photographer and visual artist, and his ongoing work for The EveryMAN Project, which aims to shed light on the effect of toxic masculinity on body image, while engaging in conversations on gender identity, sexuality, and trans inclusion among men of color.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works By J.S. Bach, Brahms, Beethoven And Chopin For Piano And Viola


Shuhan Wang, viola and Vicky Lam, piano. Program Johann Sebastian Bach Suite for Cello Solo No.4 in E-Flat, BWV1010 Johannes Brahms Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op.120, No.2 Ludwig Van Beethoven Eroica Variations,Op.35 Frederic Chopin Piano Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor,Op.35
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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