42 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, March 15, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Stars: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell. A study of the lives and romantic entanglements ...
more >> of various interconnected women. 133 min.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Comedy workshop presented by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Improv, Sketch, Story Telling and ...
more >> more. Every Thursday in March.
11:30 am
free, no reservation required
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays ...
more >> through Fridays, from September 12, 2017 to May 23, 2018.
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ...
more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
This conference explores the production of literature and the visual arts by contemporary artists and ...
more >> writers in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and their diasporas. This event explores collaboration and intermingling within the current production of literature and the visual arts in both countries and in the diaspora. It will contribute to an essential, growing intellectual discourse about Hispañola and its diaspora in the United States.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Epidemics, like weather and climate, do not respect national borders. Since 2005 there has been increasing ...
more >> international cooperation on global health security. The Lancet Commission proposed access to climate services as a key indicator of adaptation and resilience to climate change for the health sector. As many health outcomes are climate sensitive there is increasing interest in integrating knowledge and information on climate variability and change into the operational activities for the control of infectious diseases, public health outcomes of disasters and nutrition. This satellite session will explore the intersection of climate variability and change and health priorities for vulnerable populations around the globe.
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international ...
more >> monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city ...
more >> 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.
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
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Sung by one of the world’s most celebrated vocal ensembles, this program was designed to complement ...
more >> the exhibit of Renaissance playing cards mounted at The Met Cloisters in early 2016. As an example of popular medieval and early Renaissance games, playing cards provide a window into an intellectual culture that delighted in games. All of the sets showed ingenious ways to illustrate numbers, suits, and face cards, reminding us that the late Middle Ages was a period fascinated by games and puzzles. This fascination extended to music. POMERIUM, founded by Alexander Blachly in New York in 1972 to perform music composed for the famed chapel choirs of the Renaissance, derives its name from the title of a treatise by the 14th-century music theorist Marchettus of Padua.The modern Pomerium is currently recording a series of compact discs of the masterpieces of Renaissance a cappella choral music, of which the sixteenth to be recorded, Musical Games, Puzzles, and Riddles of the Renaissance, will be released in the summer of 2017. Alexander Blachly, choir director
1:15 pm
free, no reservation required
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Monthly book discussions to explore titles you've been meaning to read, or reread, and discuss with other ...
more >> lovers of literature. Participants should read each title before the discussion. This month's title is The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
Walk straight through the heart of Central Park on this east-to-west tour led by guides. Enjoy a great ...
more >> variety of the scenic, sculptural, and ar chitectural elements the Park has to offer.Visit some of the Park's most famous landmarks, including Conservatory Water, Loeb Boathouse, Bethesda Terrace, Bow Bridge, Cherry Hill, The Lake, and Strawberry Fields.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Stars: Miles Teller, Beulah Koale, Joe Cole . A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to ...
more >> integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield. 109 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson. About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American ...
more >> Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases. 118 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine. A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of ...
more >> a captive princess. 116 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through ...
more >> the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest ...
more >> mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public. Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly.
2:00 pm
Free plus subway...
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ...
more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
3:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance. Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire ...
more >> and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. 106 min.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Guilherme Nardelli Monegatto, Cello 4:00PM Chance Jonas-O'Toole, Tenor 6:00PM Yifei Li, Cello 8:00PM
New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In the mid-twentieth-century U.S., psychiatrists were among the most powerful arbiters of judgment and ...
more >> authority over sexual and gender difference. This talk explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry and psychoanalysis and examines the role of psychiatric scrutiny and stigma in the making of modern sexuality. Focusing on the archive of St. Elizabeths Hospital, the federal hospital for the mentally ill in Washington, DC, Regina Kunzel of Princeton University reflects on its meaning and challenges to queer history.
4:30 pm
free, no reservation required
The Library is the proud home of the George Avakian and Anahid Ajemian papers. Music producer, artist ...
more >> manager, writer, and educator, Geroge Avakian (1919-2017) is remembered for his collaborations as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, John Cage, Alan Hovhaness, Keith Jarrett, Sonny Rollins, and many other musicians and composers. Violinist Anahid Ajemian (1924-2016) was an essential member of the New York Music scene, championing new music throughout her career as a soloist and with the acclaimed Composers String Quartet. This is a celebration of the lives, artistic accomplishments, and contributions of George Avakian and Anahid Ajemian, with live performances, tributes, and archival display.
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This exhibition presents new work from the Dharmapala Thangka Center in Nepal. It celebrates the significant ...
more >> and specific roles of female icons in the liberation and enlightenment of sentient beings. In Tibetan Buddhism, a female Buddha is considered to be the mother of all Buddhas and sentient beings. In Tantrism, female buddhas are important aspects of the enlightenment practice known as Atti yoga (maha yoga). In Tibetan art, these female icons and figures are depicted as buddhas, bodhisattvas, historical figures such as lineage founders, and also yidams and dharma protectors in peaceful, semi-wrathful or wrathful forms. Master artist Karsang Lama from the Dharmapala Center is a national treasure in Nepal and a world renowned painter of traditional tangkas. His work appears in monasteries and museums in Asia, Europe and the United States. The Dharmapala Thangka Center promotes the Himalayan Buddhist art and tradition, and is affiliated with a monastic tradition of the northern Buddhist artisans of Tibet and Nepal.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Allison Miller has a proclivity to set up painterly problems and turn them into wonderment. Wonderment ...
more >> beaming all the more brightly due to the wrenches she throws into her picture machine. She understands that problems in part define the kind of work a painter chooses to do, and are not to be avoided but embraced. Allison Miller is a painter who can make a riddle out of an answer. Problems for her are the sparkly ruby slippers… keys to another dimension.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
An exhibition of work by the BFA Photography and Video department’s students inspired by their working ...
more >> relationships with leading members of the New York arts community.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Ham Sup (b. 1942) has worked with hanji, traditional Korean paper made from the bark of mulberry trees, ...
more >> as his primary medium for over 30 years. Hanji is well known in Korea as a prized material for cultural and religious purposes, and has been an integral part of Korean daily life for centuries. While the traces of Korean history are immediately apparent in the medium and colors of his work, Ham’s unique artistic process reflects the visions of a true modern artist who effectively combines tradition and modern abstraction.
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The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and commerce ...
more >> of film. Restrictions apply. Call store for details.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Fill your heart with joy listening to classical music on a gloomy Thursday night. The Hungarian Cultural ...
more >> Center proudly presents Zoltán Kodály’s Missa Brevis by an exceptional up and coming talent, István Bán. On March 15, celebrate the 170th anniversary of the 1848 Hungarian revolution and freedom fight. When it comes to freedom and heroism, Americans and Hungarians speak the same language, especially if it is interpreted through music. This presentation of Kodály’s Missa Brevis, as an ode to freedom, commemorates the heroes of the revolution.
In most productions of Shakespeare’s Othello, only three female characters—Desdemona, Emilia, and ...
more >> Bianca—appear on stage. Additional female presences are verbally constructed through various narratives, particularly narratives about relationships and sexuality, told by other characters. When presented by male characters, the narratives often participate in masculinist rhetoric that denigrates either individual women or women in the aggregate. When presented by female characters, however, these narratives are efforts to forge female community or to help women, particularly Desdemona, make sense of their own isolated experiences. These narratives hold out the potential for Desdemona to develop a sense of herself as a member of a larger community of women; however, they also demonstrate the difficulty of creating stable interpretations once the discourse of sexual activity is released into the public space. Speaker Cristine Varholy, Associate Professor of English at Hampden-Sydney College, has been the recipient of the Maurice L. Mednick Memorial Fellowship from the Virginia Foundation of Independent Colleges.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon… scholar, stripper, victim, and media-whore: The late Kathy ...
more >> Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in mythologies, created mostly by Acker herself. Twenty years after her death, Acker's legend has faded, making her writing more legible.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Live jazz with Paula Hampton, swinging drummer, bandleader and from one of the great jazz families.
New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Paul Winter, a special investigator in Thuringia, is summoned, alongside his boss and closest associate ...
more >> Walter Ahler, to meet the leader of the State Office of Criminal Investigations. Three right wing extremists have disappeared, and it’s up to the investigation to find them. It soon becomes clear how active the domestic intelligence service is in the right-wing scene, and after years of unsuccessfully searching, the investigation is shelved. 92 min. In German with English subtitles.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz. A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally ...
more >> involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention. 111 min.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Celebrate Irish heritage at a time and place where everyone is Irish. Featuring: St. Patrick's Cathedral ...
more >> Choir Mick Moloney and Friends Daniel Brondel and Michael Hey, Organists
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Mic check! Are you a writer? Come share your work at the next edition of this open mic, Mouth to Mouth. ...
more >> Hosted by poets Sonia Guiñansaca and Kay Ulanday Barrett, this edition of Mouth to Mouth features Eddie Maisonet and Santiago J. Sanchez.
7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation...
Michael and Pat Dolan will share the story of their amazing aunt Eilish, who was wrongfully imprisoned ...
more >> at 15 years of age in order to save her fathers life. Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley will give an overview of the book including the famous and stories of unknown activists in the period. She will also bring together core life course threads in the book including issues of as well as suffrage, gender and how memory and violence have been reconciled through the generations.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Hailing from the quaint Japanese town of Tsu City, Masayuki Hirano—the visionary musician behind Bigyuki—creates ...
more >> colorful, spiritually driven electronic music that folds classical music, jazz, funk, hip-hop, club music, and gospel into a kaleidoscopic tapestry of sound. Colorful with power pop explosiveness, Bigyuki has added his stylings to the live and recorded music of Bilal Oliver and Talib Kweli, performed live with Grammy Award–winning pianist Robert Glasper at a special tribute to the legendary Stevie Wonder, and frequently writes songs with artists like Jean and Marcus Baylor.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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Lukas Lauermann presents his solo debut album How I Remember Now I Remember How with a New York premiere. ...
more >> He invites us to listen into “the great spaces all around” – spaces of memory, chambers of sensation, places of yearning. Lauermann understands the concept of reduction to imply, not the omission of, but the immersion in a particular thing. He sets the lines of a poem to music and works out new ways of playing a centuries-old musical instrument. Yet for all his joy in experimentation, his music oscillates between the intellectual earnestness of classical concert halls and the directness of pop music. Lukas Lauermann feels at home in both worlds. “If anyone asked me to define the music on this album,” he says, “my answer would be: barrier-free modern classical music.”
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM Joseph Tancredi, tenor 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Angela Candela, soprano 8:30 PM - 10:00 ...
more >> PM Roberto Lee, Piano 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Tianqu Zhang, piano
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
As a special friendship develops between longtime resident John Dodge and new arrival Mary Swanson, the ...
more >> lives of the other inhabitants of this small American town intersect in strange and poignant ways in a journey that takes them from the local library and hospital to the Milky Way. A student production of the play by Will Eno.
Bodega Cat is a weekly comedy show brought to you by Kevin Seefried (202 Comedy Festival), Andy Ostroff ...
more >> (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), and Dane Hanson (Producer of Laughs on FOX). Live Stand-Up Comedy in New York City.