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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on June 23, 2022?

41 free events take place on Thursday, June 23 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 June 23 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 June . 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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41 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, June 23, 2022

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free events nyc Roots Reggae Band Blends Sounds of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean
free events nyc Saint Joan: George Bernard Shaw's Classic Drama Performed Outdoors
free events nyc World-Renowned Magician and Writer Joshua Jay: Magic Show and Interview
free events nyc Cruella (2021): Villianess's Origin with Emma Stone, Emma Thompson
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Discussion | Latin America's Anti-Corruption Efforts: A 2022 Overview (online)


How effectively are Latin American countries detecting, punishing, and preventing corruption in 2022? AS/COA and Control Risks are launching the fourth edition of the Capacity to Combat Corruption Index, assessing 15 Latin American countries' performance. In this briefing, experts will give a regional overview and focus in on results from Brazil, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. Panelists Geert Aalbers, Partner, Control Risks Mario Braga, Senior Analyst, Control Risks Alejandra Soto, Associate Director, Control Risks Alan Zamayoa, Analyst, Control Risks Brian Winter, Vice President for Policy, Americas Society/Council of the Americas
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Workshop | Juggling in the Park


Jugglers use the park throughout the year to provide free classes to the public. Stop by for a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Financial Lit 101


Managing your money doesn’t have to be a mystery. Financial Lit 101 offers free workshops in basic finance topics that should have been taught in school, but wasn’t. Let instructors give you the basic tools you need to begin your journey to financial freedom.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Piano in the Park


New York City's finest ragtime, stride, and jazz pianists perform.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Discussion | Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe: Exhibition Discussion


The curators discuss one of the twentieth century’s most innovative Native American painters. Howe (1915–1983) committed his artistic career to the preservation, relevance, and ongoing expression of his Yanktonai Dakota culture. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera (in-person and online)


Kristina Boerger ~ soprano; Niccolo Seligmann ~ vielle; Christopher Preston Thompson ~ tenor and medieval harp, artistic director Concordian Dawn, ensemble for medieval music, brings source material from centuries ago into conversation with the mindset of modern society. While writing her forthcoming monograph, Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera, renowned medieval studies scholar, Sarah Kay, teamed up with Concordian Dawn to produce a multimedia publication and recording project currently set for release in the late summer of 2022. The ensemble gives its audience a "sneak peek" into this exciting release.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Hike | Greenbelt Adult Hike: Richmond Country Golf Course Overlook


This trek takes you up and down the hills of High Rock, passing glacial ponds chirping with sounds of frogs, and lazy turtles sunning on logs. The destination will be the scenic view overlooking the golf course and the distant ocean. Participants must bring drinking water.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:30 pm
Free

Classical Music | International Piano Competition Winners Concert


The winners of this 2022 International Youth Piano Competition perform. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Mah Jongg Social


Stop in during weekly game nights and socials to learn a new game, hone your skills, and meet new people
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | Midtown Music


Find accomplished musicians playing live music in a series of pop-up performances. Linger and listen for a song or two, come across an unexpected soundtrack during lunch or on your commute home, and be surprised by the melodies of midtown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Nail Biter: A Darkly Beautiful Dreamscape


Beth Gill’s Nail Biter reimagines the theatrical tools of character and story through a psychodramatic lens, transforming contemporary dance performance into a vital space of ritual. Nail Biter reaches towards science fiction and ancient myth to reveal stories of connection and loss with a sense of magic and awe. Beth Gill is a choreographer based in New York City since 2005. Combining experimental and traditional approaches, she makes formal and exacting works centered around acts of obsession and transformation. Gill is the recipient of multiple awards: Herb Alpert, Doris Duke Impact, Foundation for Contemporary Art and two “Bessies”.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 5 Photography Shows


Ellen Konar & Steve Goldband, Fertile Ground Martin Rich, Light Thoughts Alec Rill, Happiness (resilience) Ania Moussawel, The Days Are Long Diana Cheren Nygren, The Persistence of Family
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | A Window Scrubbed for the Moon: Group Show


A group exhibition of mindscapes and microcosms that hew elements from the real world and radiate through an otherworldly prism. A window is gleaming and ready for the moon’s face and a flood of wavering silver light. Enter the magical territory of Kim Dorland, Alessandro Keegan, Susan Klein, Mark Laver, Kirsten Lepore, Lisa Sanditz, and Jakub Tomáš. We see the transformation of places known in the world, of places lost, and of places that don't yet exist. They resist summary documentation and truly yield to the extraordinary. Paintings, sculptures and moving images demonstrate the idea that through observation and invention, the “nothing” has the opportunity to become everything.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Askew: Group Show


A group exhibition featuring works by Lisha Bai, Tom Burckhardt, James Esber, Chie Fueki, Mary Frank, Sharon Horvath, Mark Innerst, Yvonne Jacquette, Suzanne Joelson, Duane Michals, Carrie Moyer, Katia Santibañez, Karen Schifano, Leah Tacha, Barbara Takenaga, and Alexi Worth. Over the past years, there has been a globally-shared unsettling of what we have understood as “normal” everyday life. As ideologies and supply chains become more fractured, and too many in power lead with misinformation, truth and fact seem to have taken on a strange flexibility, destabilizing our habits and assumptions in ways that can feel minor one day, overwhelming the next.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Central Sounds: Group Show


A group exhibition of ten artists. The show will include works by: Loriel Beltrán Jesús Casimiro José Delgado Zúniga Tomm El-Saieh Viktor El-Saieh Chemu Ng’ok Georgia Sagri Constanza Schaffner Diego Singh Frantz Zéphirin
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town


Susan Hartman's intimate portrait of newcomers revitalizing a fading industrial town illuminates the larger canvas of refugee life in 21st century America. Many Americans imagine refugees as threatening outsiders who will steal jobs or be a drain on the economy. But across the country, refugees are rebuilding and maintaining the American Dream. Hartman shows how an influx of refugees helped revive Utica, New York, an old upstate manufacturing town that was nearly destroyed by depopulation and arson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Sabine Hornig: This Is No Time


Sabine Hornig's sculptures, photographs and installations explore concepts of space, perspective, and memory. Her dynamic and often immersive compositions re-envision familiar architecture as well as ubiquitous urban forms. By blurring the boundaries between pictorial and real space, viewer and object, Hornig’s work both challenges and expands upon the ways in which her viewers perceive their surroundings at large. This Is No Time consists of new photographic and glass works that expand upon Hornig’s extensive research on the city of New York for her large-scale installation La Guardia Vistas, commissioned by LaGuardia Gateway Partners in cooperation with Public Art Fund and installed in Terminal B at the airport in 2020. The transparent photo-collage fills an expansive 42-foot-high, 268-foot-wide glass facade along the front of the new terminal, visible from the building’s interior and exterior.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Reading | The Clamor of Ornament: Readings


Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Clamor of Ornament, this event will include readings by von Reinhold from Reactions to Ornament—a series of thoughts, notes, and reactions commissioned on the occasion of the exhibition—as well as readings from her debut novel Lote, which won the James Tait Black Prize and Republic of Consciousness Prize in the UK in 2021. Joining von Reinhold will be author MacKenzie Wark, who will speak on the topic of ornament and crime. In her words,
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Todd Bienvenu: JOMO (Joy of Missing Out)


Raucously raunchy, hilariously disastrous, and blissfully chill, Todd Bienvenu’s pictorial imaginarium is a hotbed of flailing heroics, hot messes, and heated moments. By way of a thematically wide selection of paintings, collages, and sculptures, the artist exploits everything in his toolkit and playbook in an attempt to evoke some sense of how joy, as opposed to fear, might be elicited by the relatively minor social tragedy of ‘missing out. ’There’s no time for FOMO, as it were, since YOLO.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Untitled (hands): Group Show


With: Jennifer Bolande Jack Goldstein Brigid Kennedy Kogonada Vernacular Photographs from the Collection of A. & D. Winter
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Caribbean Dance Fitness


A fun and exciting workout that uses easy to follow dance steps to maintain cardiovascular health. This class is created for all levels and you do not need any prior dance experience to participate!  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Roots Reggae Band Blends Sounds of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean


Born in Senegal, West Africa, Meta Dia, lead singer of Meta and The Cornerstones, discovered his love for music and desire to be a musician at a very young age. When he was 14 years old he performed on the streets and stages of his hometown Dakar. In 2000, Meta's first band Yalla Suuren was nominated for Best Hip-Hop Group by the French Cultural Center. After relocating to the United States a year later, he finally formed his visionary band. Meta and The Cornerstones' sound is a melting pot rooted in diversity, strength and unity as they combine their creative differences from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Caribbean. Meta and The Cornerstones channel roots reggae while simultaneously breathing new life into the genre, thus creating what critics have called a "soul-pounding spiritual experience" during their live performances.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Dancing | Ultra Pride 90s Dance Party


Come do Pride Week at this celebration of timeless 90s club culture. Start the evening with a Burlesque House dance lesson from the outrageous glam choreographers Edie Nightcrawler and The Maine Attraction, scored by DJ Rissa Garcia. Put your new skills to the test with sets from Bright Light Bright Light, whose electro-pop songs are deeply rooted in LGBTQIA+ empowerment and representation, and the iconic singer-songwriter Ultra Naté. Ultra's venerated platinum classic" Free" turns 25 in 2022 and it still hits just as hard as a post-pandemic anthem as it did back in 1997. Dance floor opens at 6:00 pm Dance lesson at 6:30 pm Live music at 7:30 pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Play | Saint Joan: George Bernard Shaw's Classic Drama Performed Outdoors


This timely play is based on historical records of the 1431 trial of French military icon and religious martyr Joan of Arc. The fully realized production is directed by Geoffrey Horne. Shaw's play fictionalizes the historical life of Joan of Arc who became a military leader and changed the history of her nation. Young, French farm girl Joan (Billie Andersson) hears saintly voices telling her to raise an army to fight the English. The failing English, threatened by her popularity and influence, convince the Church to have Joan tried for heresy and she is found guilty. When this force of nature refuses life in prison, she is tragically burned at the stake, becoming a symbol of faith, feminism, and individualism. Tickets are available at 5:45 p.m. the day of the performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Bingo in the Park


Play Bingo in the park with comedian host Andy Ross and music by DJ Flip Bundlez. Park prizes for every win. This is a popular park event, so arrive early to claim a bingo board.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Dancing | Everybody Tango!


Enjoy introductory Argentine Tango lessons, music, and dancing in the open air with Strictly Tango NYC. Lessons are held at 6:45 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. with social dance time between lessons.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Reflecting on the Social and Literary Legacy of AIDS with NBC Book Critic and Various Writers (in-person and online)


NBC book critic Bill Goldstein and a multi-generational panel of writers, some who grew up during the crisis and others who have never known a world without AIDS, reflect on the social and literary legacy of AIDS. Featuring: - Garth Greenwell (A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters); - Robert Jones, Jr. (Author of the NY Times bestseller, The Prophets, which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction, and was named one of the top 10 best books of 2021 by Time magazine); - Torrey Peters (Author of Detransition, Baby, which won the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards and for British Book of the Year. An adaptation is in development at Amazon with the producers of Gray's Anatomy); - Pamela Sneed (Author of Sweet Dreams, Kong, and Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery. She was a Visiting Critic at Yale, a Visiting Professor at Columbia University's School of the Arts)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Dancing | Tango on the Water


Enjoy introductory Argentine Tango lessons, music, and dancing in the open air.   Lessons are held at 6:45 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. with social dance time between lessons. Thursdays, June 2-July 28, 2022
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Yoga on the River


From guided meditation and refreshing yoga to high-intensity workouts and weekly run clubs, there’s something for all skill levels to enjoy this summer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Staged Reading | One with the Current: Fishing During the Pandemic


Written by Daniel Damiano, this extremely timely play is about a North Carolina husband and father accompanies his childhood friend on a fishing trip during the pandemic, but the events that ensue will change his life forever. Performed by Damiano and Judy Alvarez. Directed by Leslie Kincaid Burby. Following the performance, Leslie Kincaid Burby will lead a discussion about the ethical issues raised by the play, including the choices that people make, and the power of those things that influence us for good or evil.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Nobodies: The Closeness of Female Connection (online)


Exploring themes of friendship and enmeshment, Alanna Schubach probes at the darker underbelly of the deep and abiding closeness of female connection. The Nobodies is a 21st century, A24-ified “Freaky Friday.” In the book, best friends Jess and Nina have a massive secret. Whenever they touch their foreheads together, they can switch bodies, finding solace from their own problems in each other’s worlds. After a long separation, the friends are reunited around the death of Jess’s father, and their worlds begin to mesh once more, losing themselves in the process.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Tour | Garment District: Factories, Gangsters, Labor Unions and More (online)


Hear an unusual perspective from somebody who spent the greater portion of his life working in the GARMENT industry. You will learn how the apparel industry developed in NYC through the years, and how it came to be located in its current District. Watch the development of the industry from sweatshops in the old tenement buildings on the Lower East Side, to giant factories in China and Bangladesh. See how immigrants were the backbone of the industry and in NYC, still are. Five minute flow chart "From Fibers To Garment". Learn about Calvin, Ralph and Oscar, as well as Labor Unions and Gangsters. A Factory Visit When Available. See "The Garment Worker'' by Judith Weller, The Fashion Walk of Fame. The Giant Button and Needle artwork on Seventh Ave. And much more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | Shakespeare's Cymbeline: Classic Drama in the Park


Enjoy the intrigue and drama of William Shakespeare’s 1611 romantic adventure, performed by seven energetic actors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | The Life, Writing, and Legacy of Janet Malcolm


The legendary journalist Janet Malcolm opened her most famous work The Journalist and the Murderer with the line: "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible." Ever since its publication in 1980, she only increased her reputation as a devastatingly sharp writer, whose eye for observation is matched only by her formal inventiveness and philosophical interrogations of the relationship between journalist and subject. Predictably, as an interview subject herself, she was an intimidating mark. In this collection, interviewers tangle with their own projections and identifications, while she often, gamely, plays along. Full of insights about her writing process, the craft of journalism, and her own analysis of her most famous works, this collection proves that Janet Malcolm is just as elusive and enlightening in conversation as she was on paper. Using the newly published collection of interviews from Melville House as a starting point, ther panel, comprised of writers and editors who knew Malcolm, interviewed her, and were influenced by her, will discuss her life, work, and legacy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Opera | The Met Opera Recital: Beloved Opera Arias and Duets


Metropolitan Opera rising stars perform a program of favorite opera arias and duets. Artists: Aamani-Cole Felder, Soprano (Porgy and Bess) Cierra Byrd, Mezzo-soprano (Fire Shut Up in My Bones) Vladyslav Buialskyi, Bass-baritone (Don Carlos) Dimitri Dover, Pianist
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Discussion | The Poetry of Cultural Re-Creation: Jewish and Gender Identity


For a generation, the poetry of Irena Klepfisz has staked new ground in understanding and catalyzing Jewish and gender identity. As we mark Pride Month in 2022 and face a global rise in fascism and hatred, Irena’s poetry continues to be a wellspring for resistance, imagination, and justice. This is a conversation with Klepfisz, feminist, lesbian, socialist, Yiddishist, poet, professor, and activist about her journey and the shifts in gender and Jewish identity over the last half-century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | World-Renowned Magician and Writer Joshua Jay: Magic Show and Interview


An evening of magic and history starring world-renowned magician and writer Joshua Jay. Jay will perform a magic show featuring dazzling sleight-of-hand and mind-reading. Then Herb Scher of the Society of American Magicians will interview Joshua Jay about his new book, How Magicians Think. They will cover magic's hidden psychology, the creative pumps magicians use to design illusions, expert-but-little-known female magicians, as well as the rich history of magic. A Q&A will close out the event.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Performance | Transgressive Pop-Art Cabaret-Noire


Mexico City-based artist Tareke Ortiz's transgressive pop-art cabaret-noire springs from a unique life lived fully. Ortiz's stage dress of curling bull horns sprouting from his temples, "ritual protective makeup," and gothically rococo clothing provides a darkly camp edge to his soulful, haunting Spanish ballads. His new original work, Lujuria, features songs that draw from Latin musical traditions of bolero, tango, danzón and ranchero and burns with the passionate heat of lost loves past. Ortiz's political performances invite the audience to join him cruising in graveyards and nighttime markets. He speaks to the forbidden experience of queerness within authoritarian regimes and transitive immigrant worlds where such desires render the lustful invisible, even among the already invisible.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Play | Richard III: Shakespeare Drama Outdoors


Tony Award nominee Robert O’Hara (Slave Play, The Public’s Barbecue) brings his sharp wit and storytelling genius with a bold new production of Richard III. One of Shakespeare’s most indelible villains, Richard is determined to be King. Following his lust for power and the throne, he manipulates, kidnaps, and kills all who stand between him and his throne, using brilliant words and dark charm to conceal his dismantling of government and justice. This masterful dive into the muddy middle between political genius and violent power grab arrives with piercing relevancy and electrifying drama.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Comedy Club | Bomb Shelter Comedy Show


Bomb Shelter is a free weekly comedy show in New York City where you’ll find some of the best comedians performing. Expect free pizza.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Movie in a Park | Cruella (2021): Villianess's Origin with Emma Stone, Emma Thompson


A live-action prequel feature film following a young Cruella de Vil. Director: Craig Gillespie Stars: Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry 134 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 pm
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