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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 29, 2019?

36 free events take place on Tuesday, January 29 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 January 29 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 January . 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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36 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, January 29, 2019

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Editor's Picks

free events nyc How prepared are you for your job search?
free events nyc Energy Kingdoms: Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf
free events nyc Pellea[s] (2019): Notions of Gender
free events nyc The Falconer: Dana Czapnik discusses her book with literary giant Salman Rushdie
free events nyc Jazz singer, a South African music royalty, performs
free events nyc Works by Brahms and more
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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
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Workshop | Tax assistance and preparation


Be prepared to stay until your taxes are completed. Bring the following: Government Issued Photo ID Social Security Cards for you and all dependents All Income related items All Deduction related items Form 1095-A This assistance will be available every Tues. & Thurs. Jan. 29th through April 11th.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | How prepared are you for your job search?


Learn how to explore your job search promise. The discussion includes the different stages of job search, what you want, how to get it , and proven techniques to accelerate your search. The classes can be taken as individual sessions or as a consecutive series. In this initial group session Renee Lee Rosenberg introduces her road map for a focused job search, beginning with an interactive assessment to identify skills, values and viable targets. Learn about the steps needed to conduct a realistic and rewarding job search. Get tips on how to stay motivated, resilient ,and productive. Renee Lee Rosenberg, known as the Positivity Pro, the Age Rebrander and the “Be Your Promise” motivator has been a certified Clinical Career Counselor for over 25 years helping individuals on all levels to achieve a successful job search and a satisfying career transition and change. She is a NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and the author of Achieving the Good Life After 50: Tools and Resources for Making it Happen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 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 | Adult Coloring Club


Enjoy the sublime pleasure of coloring. Coloring sheets, Crayons, coloring pencils, and reading materials will be provided to participants by the Library.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Resume Help


Applying for a job? Update your resume, or even start from sratch. Learn how to craft a resume that will help you land that interview.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Film | Crazy Rich Asians (2018): Romantic comedy based on a bestseller


This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family. 120 min. Director: Jon M. Chu. Starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh. The film was announced in August 2013 after the rights to the book were purchased. Much of the cast signed on in the spring of 2017, and filming took place from April to June of that year in parts of Malaysia and Singapore. The film grossed $238 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing romantic comedy in a decade.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and David Hofstra, Bass. Doors open at 11:45 am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
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Workshop | Newspapers in Genealogy Research


Discover the abundant uses of historical newspapers for genealogical and local history information in the numerous microfilm and digital collections available at the library. Genealogy also known as family history, is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral interviews, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members. The results are often displayed in charts or written as narratives.
   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. 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
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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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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
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Workshop | Adult Colormania Club


If you're an adult looking for a fresh, new activity that will help bring stress relief to your busy life, try the new coloring club. Sitting down to color a picture can be effective as meditation in reducing stress. Materials will be provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Tour


A tour of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, home of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York. Tour highlights include a discussion of the history of the site, architect Cass Gilbert, and sculptor Daniel Chester French; viewing the Collectors Office with Tiffany woodwork; Reginald Marsh murals; and the 140-ton Rotunda dome by Rafael Gustavino.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Ballet class for adults


Here’s your chance to experience the ballerina in each of us. Learn basic ballet steps and experience the joy of dancing in a class that combines ballet and exercise specifically for older adults. You’ll have fun as you dance and see for yourself the benefits of ballet for good balance, agility and grace. Wear comfortable clothes and be ready to have fun. Instructor Jennifer Grambs, trained in both ballet and exercise for older adults, will show you how ballet helps us feel fit, not only in class, but everyday as we travel the sidewalks of New York City. Come for the whole month or just drop in. No experience necessary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Six time Oscar winning musical Oliver! (1968): based on Dickens' Oliver Twist


An innocent orphan in 19th-century London falls in with a gang of young pickpockets and thieves led by the evil elder, Fagin. Director: Carol Reed. Starring Oliver Reed & Ron Moody. At the 41st Academy Awards for 1968, Oliver! was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won six, including Best Picture, Best Director for Reed, and an Honorary Award for choreographer Onna White. At the 26th Golden Globe Awards, the film won two Golden Globes: for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, and Best Actor - Musical or Comedy for Ron Moody. The British Film Institute ranked Oliver! the 77th greatest British film of the 20th century. In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine ranked it the 69th best British film ever. 140 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | The Best Picture-winning musical Oliver! (1968): based on Dickens' Oliver Twist


An innocent orphan in 19th-century London falls in with a gang of young pickpockets and thieves led by the evil elder, Fagin. Director: Carol Reed. Starring Oliver Reed & Ron Moody. At the 41st Academy Awards for 1968, Oliver! was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won six, including Best Picture, Best Director for Reed, and an Honorary Award for choreographer Onna White. At the 26th Golden Globe Awards, the film won two Golden Globes: for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, and Best Actor - Musical or Comedy for Ron Moody. The British Film Institute ranked Oliver! the 77th greatest British film of the 20th century. In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine ranked it the 69th best British film ever. 140 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Preparing for retirement


Make saving for your retirement a priority. Linda Choung-Firestone and Tracey Eve Johnson discuss the strategies and different types of retirement vehicles that you can use to plan for a successful retirement. Linda Choung-Firestone hold an Economics degree from Columbia University and an Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning from NYU. She is currently working as a freelance financial writer and is passionate about financial literacy. Ms. Eve Johnson received her MBA in finance from the Wharton School and has worked in the financial services industry for over 20 years. She is the founder of Blue Flag Planning LLC, a registered investment advisor firm which specializes in giving clients clear, objective and supportive answers to their financial questions, and which follows the fiduciary standard. Tracey is also a volunteer financial counsellor with the Financial Planning Association of Metro New York, and serves in financial roles on several not-for-profit boards.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Finding Photographic Gems in the Streets


There are gems in the streets visible only to you. There are gems in your archives waiting to be revealed to the world. At this presentation, Meryl Meisler will share the work of photographers who inspired her along with images and insights from digging through her 40-plus year archive of street-style photographs. Her second book, Purgatory & Paradise SASSY ‘70s Suburbia & The City (Bizarre Publishing), contrasts intimate images of home life on Long Island alongside NYC street and night life and will be available for signing. A book signing will follow the presentation. Meryl Meisler is a photographic based artist who has received fellowships/grants from New York Foundation from the Arts, Time Warner, Artists Space, CETA, China Institute and the Japan Society. She has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, New Museum, Dia Center NYC, MASS MoCA, and The Whitney and in public spaces such as Grand Central Terminal and throughout the NYC subway system. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Historical Society, Library of Congress, Islip Art Museum, American Jewish Congress, and in artist book collection of the Whitney, MOMA, Metronome, Carnegie Mellon, Chrysler Museum and the Pompidou.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Drawing Codes: A Gallery Roundtable


Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. This exhibition, the second volume in a series organized by the CCA Digital Craft Lab, features experimental drawings by architects who explore the impact of new technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways we document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment. With: Dean Nader Tehrani Andrew Kudless Adam Marcus Sean Anderson Michael Young
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Energy Kingdoms: Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf


Author Jim Krane, Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, traces the history of the Gulf states’ energy use and policies, looking in particular at how energy subsidies have distorted demand. Krane expertly lays out the hard choices that Gulf leaders face to keep petro-states viable in a world increasingly focused on combating climate change. Following Dr. Krane’s presentation, he will join Amy Jaffe, David M. Rubenstein senior fellow for energy and the environment and director of the Energy Security and Climate Change program at the Council on Foreign Relations, on a panel for further discussion. A book signing and reception will follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Workshop | Artists gathering to support each other


Are you powerless over art? Has your life become unmanageable? Artist support group Artists Anonymous waits for you! Founded by Karen Finley, Artists Anonymous are open meetings for artists who feel that their lives have been affected by art making, the art world, and the troubles of maintaining a creative life and career. The meetings offer the group a space to consider and reflect on challenges that artists encounter. Re-imagining the form of a 12-step program, each meeting will begin with a brief topic or prompt, or a creative exercise for consideration. Guest artist speakers will join each meeting and offer testimonials of transformation. Artists will be able to share, address the prompt, offer gratitude, or vocalize an issue that they are going through. The topic of this week will be The Power Of Art Is Greater Than Ourselves. Meetings are open to all self-identified artists and anyone who wants to do something with their art problem.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Marketing and technology for your success


Want 2019 to start off right? Want to know the marketing best practices and tools you need to succeed? Want to know the best technology to invest in and use to grow your business? Four-time entrepreneur, best selling author, Ramon Ray shares how he's succeeded and what you can do as well. This two-part series will be fun and informative. Ramon will discuss how to get the most from social media and ways to get publicity in your business. He'll touch on the tools, tech, and solutions you must use to get more customers and keep the ones you have. Don't miss this exciting session. This is the second part of a 2-part series.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Works by contemporary composers


Deemed “a trustworthy purveyor of fresh sounds,” Either/Or present works by their own director/pianist/composer Richard Carrick. Experience up close the connection between ensemble and composer with a program of his recent works, including two premieres, alongside two selections by the prolific composer, multi-instrumentalist, and educator Anthony Braxton. Program Richard Carrick lanterne for solo bass flute (2018) Richard Carrick Sarang Ga for bass clarinet with piano (2018) Anthony Braxton Composition No. 101 (1981) Anthony Braxton Composition No. 168 (1992) Richard Carrick Autour for ensemble (2019) Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Come early to guarantee your seats.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Writing Club: Epistles The Art of Letter Writing


An evening of free-form creative writing! No formal writing experience is required, just enthusiasm and curiosity to see where writing takes you. January session will be on exploring the craft of letter writing using epistolary novels (novels written in letter form). Write an open letter, a letter to a specific person, or a letter that tells a story. This is a relaxed forum to experiment with and strengthen your writing. We offer the option, but not the requirement, to share your work in each session. Come write freely and meet other people who love writing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Better Angels (2018): Are the U.S. and China Destined for War?


China’s rise has become one of if not the most consequential developments for the world — an economic and geopolitical phenomenon that has not gone unnoticed by the U.S. This screening of Better Angels, a documentary that argues for the U.S. and China to overcome economic rivalries, ideological challenges and cultural differences to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes not only both countries but also for the world. For these events to occur, the "better angels of our nature," in both the East and the West, will need to disavow the grave pronouncements of naysayers and skeptics on both sides who staunchly maintain that conflict between these two great nations is all but inevitable. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Malcolm Clarke and producer Yi Han.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Pellea[s] (2019): Notions of Gender


In her new film, Josephine Meckseper adapts Maurice Maeterlinck’s ((1862 – 1949) otherworldly play Pelléas et Mélisande (1893) for our current sociopolitical landscape, weaving together fictional scenarios and dramatic footage captured from the last Presidential inauguration, as well as from the landmark women’s march that followed. Conflating contemporary political realities with a timeless love story, the city of Washington D.C. and its architecture become a context and site of departure, giving voice to debates around notions of gender found in the original play. By underscoring the film with Arnold Schoenberg’s (1874 – 1951) modernist version of Pelléas et Mélisande (1903), Meckseper draws a direct correlation to the way early Modernism and the avant-garde developed into a form of political and aesthetic resistance to neo-classism and capitalism. A conversation with Meckseper follows the screening. Josephine Meckseper (b. 1965) is a German-born contemporary commercial artist based in New York City. Her large-scale installations and films have been shown at various international biennials and museums. Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 – 1949) was a Belgian playwright. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works, which are distinguished by a wealth of imagination and by a poetic fancy, which reveals, sometimes in the guise of a fairy tale, a deep inspiration, while in a mysterious way they appeal to the readers' own feelings and stimulate their imaginations". The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (1874 – 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He was associated with the Expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. With the rise of the Nazi Party, Schoenberg's works were labeled degenerate music, because they were modernist and atonal. He immigrated to the United States in 1934. Schoenberg was also an influential teacher of composition; his students included Alban Berg, Anton Webern, and John Cage among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Film | Short films by an experimental filmmaker


Scott Bartlett (1943-1990) was an experimental filmmaker known for his daring use of new video and imagery technologies being developed in the late sixties and early seventies. These four films are a survey of Barlett’s abstract approaches and techniques which would influence luminaries such as Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Moon 1969 (1969) 15 min. Electronically generated images (electrovideographics) are employed to explore man's inner universe as a metaphor for the spiritual progress of mankind. Heavy Metal (1978) 13 min. Bartlett manipulates narrative "found-footage" of violence in Chicago with video to create formal stylistic relationships. They are given narrative cohesion through the "story" told in the vocal jazz accompaniment of Earl Hines and Tiny Parham. Offon (1969) 9 min. Videographic techniques are used to create a series of abstract images. Hypnotic, pulsating rhythms and vivid colors make this film a clear example of the artist's relationship to the psychedelic experience. Serpent (1971) 15 min. Abstract and concrete images and a composite sound track are used to suggest the conflict between good and evil. Tranquil scenes of trees, grass, sunlight, and a nude woman walking along a beach are disrupted by television footage of marching soldiers, violence, death and destruction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Falconer: Dana Czapnik discusses her book with literary giant Salman Rushdie


New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public courts. At turns quixotic and cynical, insecure and self-possessed, Lucy is in unrequited love with her best friend and pick-up teammate Percy, scion to a prominent New York family who insists he wishes to resist upper crust fate. As she navigates this complex relationship with all its youthful heartache, Lucy is seduced by a different kind of life—one less consumed by conventional success and the approval of men. A pair of provocative female artists living in what remains of New York’s bohemia invite her into their world, but soon even their paradise begins to show cracks. Told in vibrant, quicksilver prose, The Falconer is a “wholly original coming-of-age story” (Chloe Benjamin, bestselling author), providing a snapshot of the city and America through the eyes of the children of the baby boomers grappling with privilege and the fading of radical hopes. Salman Rushdie is the author of twelve novels—Grimus, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and The Sea of Stories, The Moor’s Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence, Luka and the Fire of Life, and Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights—and one collection of short stories: East, West.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Talk | A veteran magazine illustrator discusses his work


Robert Andrew Parker on his career and work. Parker will show and discuss his illustration work over the years at Fortune, Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker and countless other magazines. Parker is a legendary American artist, illustrator and printmaker. He has produced set designs for operas and films, illustrations for over 40 children’s books and many magazine illustrations and covers during the course of his career. “Robert Andrew Parker is one of the most accurate and at the same time most unliteral of painters,” the poet Marianne Moore wrote of him. “He combines the mystical and the actual, working both in an abstract and a realistic way.” Born in Norfolk, VA in 1927, he went on to study at the Art Institue of Chicago during the late 1950s. After finishing school, he was recruited to play the role of Vincent van Gogh’s hands in the 1956 MGM film Lust for Life, though his hands never ended up in the finished film, he was able to live lavishly in the South of France during the production. In 1970, the artist began one of his best-known series of works. Based on the World War II-era poems of Keith Douglas, the suite of watercolors portray both the wistful days of a British solider on holiday and the bleak reality of his time fighting in the battlefields of Egypt. His works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Jazz singer, a South African music royalty, performs


Lorraine Klaasen is South African music royalty. The daughter of renowned jazz singer Thandi Klaasen, Lorraine honors the vibrant musical traditions that were born in the townships: the poor, racially segregated urban areas of South Africa’s apartheid era. Influenced by such South African legends as Miriam Makeba—the inspiration for her 2013 JUNO Award–winning tribute album— Lorraine Klaasen makes the music her own with her impassioned singing and dynamic stage presence.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Comedy Club | No Name Comedy/Variety Show


Features a mix of some of NYCs best comics, storytellers, and more. Eric Vetter is the MC.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Photography Talk: Indigenous Stories


A member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, photographer Jeremy Dennis explores the nexus of indigenous identity, assimilation, and tradition. He will present an overview of recent projects including Stories—Indigenous Oral Stories, Dreams and Myths in which he digitally stages supernatural images to transform Native American myths and legends into depictions of virtual experiences. He is currently living and working in Southampton, New York, on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | The Real Story Behind the Hit Musical Come From Away


This evening presents storytelling by author Kevin Tuerff and music from the church choir, singing songs from Come From Away. Tuerff, author of Channel of Peace -- his story of being standed in Gander, Newfoundland on 9/11 -- discusses his book, his present work for refugees, and Come From Away, the Tony-winning musical inspired by his story.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Performance | The New Joys of Gellies: Gelatin as an Object of Desire


In conjunction with the exhibition Extremely absorbent and increasingly hollow, Alison Kuo performs The New Joys of Gellies, engaging notions of sacrifice, sensuality, and aspiration contained in the material properties and social history of gelatin in the United States in a series of fleshy, squishy gelatin action-vignettes. Food historian and writer Nadia Berenstein will introduce the performance with a short talk titled unpacking the technoscientific history of sliminess in the US industrial food system. In the twentieth century, the golden age of food processing, scientists created methods and machines for measuring and controlling the subjective, sensory qualities of food — flavor, color, and texture — perfecting the mass-production and mass-distribution of certain kinds of pleasurable gustatory experiences: freshness, crunchiness, smoothness, umami, to name a few. Following Berenstein’s presentation, Kuo will perform The New Joys of Gellies, derived from her research on gelatin in the United States, from its early use in wartime rationing, to its emergence as a colorful object of desire, and arriving at its present-day inedible counterpart, slime: a goopy, stretchy mixture of glue and household chemicals like borax, baking soda, and contact solution that is often colored with dyes and glitter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Works by Brahms and more


Wonchan Will Doh, clarinet. Program Jorg Widmann Clarinet Fantasie Johannes Brahms Sonata No. 2 in Eb-Major op. 120 Johannes Brahms Clarinet Trio in A minor op. 114
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8:00 pm
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