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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
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today!
67 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, March 22, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Film | Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995): Oscar-Winning Jane Austen Adaptation
Stars: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet. Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites. 136 min.
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Comedy Workshop
Comedy workshop presented by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Improv, Sketch, Story Telling and more. Every Thursday in March.
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11:30 am
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Lecture | Cold War Shevchenko, or How the Superpowers Built Statues to the Same Poet
In 1964, in honor of the 150th anniversary of his birth, monuments to the nineteenth century Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko appeared in Moscow and Washington, D.C. While the statues portrayed the same historical figure, the political and ideological meanings attached to them were diametrically opposed. Nevertheless, both statues reinforced the idea that culture and historical memory mattered during the Cold War. This talk looks at these two statues in the context of the Cold War competition, situating them within a transnational argument about the fate of Ukrainian culture under Soviet rule. Speaker Markian Dobczansky is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies.
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12:00 pm
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Author Reading | Erika Jayne discusses her book Pretty Mess
Without her alter-ego Erika Jayne, Erika Girardi says she’d just be “another rich bitch with a plane”—so get ready for the dishy, tell-all memoir from the cast memeber of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Restrictions may apply. Call store for details.
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Getting Started in Genealogy
This class will demonstrate the first steps and highlight the basic resources in genealogical research, and serve as an introduction to using genealogy and local history collections at NYPL.
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Toward Urban Health Equity: From Local to Global Sustainability Science
With: Dr. Jason Corburn, Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of California Berkeley
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 12, 2017 to May 23, 2018.
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12:20 pm
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Tour | You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the 60s: Guided Tour of the Exhibition
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
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12:30 pm
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Workshop | How to Start a Business
Are you interested in starting a business? This workshop is presented by Small Business Administration and provides an overview of the process of starting a business and resources to help you decide if owning a business is right for you.
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12:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Vestiges and Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic: Guided Tour
A Closer-Look Tour led by museum gallery guides.
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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.
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Film | Fred Zinnemann's The Nun's Story (1959): Nominated for 8 Oscars
Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans. After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II. 149 min.
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1:00 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.
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Piano Works by Mozart and Fauré
Program: Mozart Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor K. 478 Gabriel Fauré Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45 . With: Violist and DMA candidate William Frampton Catherine Cho, violin Marcy Rosen, cello Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano
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Classical Music | Fortuna Antiqua et Ultra: Concordian Dawn performs Medieval vocal works
This concert, called Fortuna Antiqua et Ultra (Latin for "Goddess of Furtune"), will focus primarily on music from the European ars antiqua, c. 1100-1300, featuring works of the troubadours and trouvères Adam de la Halle, Vitry, the Florence MS, MS du Roi, and the Roman de Fauvel. The concluding portion of the concert will look beyond the ars antiqua to music by Josquin, Machaut, and DuFay. Concordian Dawn specializes in Medieval vocal repertoire, focusing on socio-philosophical similarities between texts from centuries ago and the mindset of modern society, relating the human condition of the past to the familiar experiences of the present. Founded in 2012, the ensemble performs regularly on the east coast in both concert and lecture/workshop settings. With: Christopher Preston Thompson, artistic director, tenor, medieval harp Patrick Fennig, countertenor Sarah Hawkey, soprano Niccolo Seligmann, vielle
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1:15 pm
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Film | George Pollock's Murder at the Gallop (1963): Miss Marple Mystery
Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley. When a wealthy old man appears to have been "frightened to death" by a cat, Miss Marple suspects one of his four relatives, all heirs to his estate, of his murder. 81 min.
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | Heart of the Park Tour
Walk straight through the heart of Central Park on this east-to-west tour led by guides. Enjoy a great 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.
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Film | Martin Campbell's The Foreigner (2017): Revenge Drama
Stars: Katie Leung, Jackie Chan, Rufus Jones. A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities. 113 min.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Reginald Hudlin's Marshall (2017): The Future Supreme Court Justice
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson. About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases. 118 min.
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Subway Art Tour
Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest 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.
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Lecture | The Right to Have Rights: Partition, Statehood & Self-Determination
This talk re-examines the extent to which the struggle for a Palestinian state was a viable or futile effort for the Palestinian national movement and as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Do the notion of partition and the claim to a State constitute the only vehicles for any national group, be it Israelis or Palestinians, to have "the right to have rights," as Hannah Arendt argued? Can the quest for self-determination be protected otherwise, especially in view of present regional and International developments? Speaker Leila Farsakh is Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at UMass Boston.
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2:00 pm
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Tour | You Say You Want a Revolution: Remembering the 60s: Guided Tour of the Exhibition
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
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3:30 pm
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Film | David Leitch's Atomic Blonde (2017): Cold War Drama
Stars: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman. An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents. 115 min.
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Communism: Its Politics and Consequences
Speaker Samuel Farber is an emeritus professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of CUNY. He was born and raised in Cuba and has written numerous books and articles about the country. His is the author of Cuba Since The Revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment (Haymarket Books, 2011) and The Politics of Che Guevara: Theory and Practice (Haymarket Books, 2016).
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recitals
Connor Kim, Cello 4:00PM Daniel Giacobbe, Clarinet 6:00PM Edvard Haroutun Pogossian, Cello 8:00PM
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | ‘Men Whose Lives are Always Public’: Building a ‘Community of the Condemned’ at Chicago’s Cook County Jail
A lecture by Melanie Newport of the University of Connecticut.
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Climate Injustice: CO2 Emissions as Inequality Indicator
Analyses of differences between countries in terms of their historic and current contributions to CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere and, consequently, to climate change, have become a staple ingredient of our understanding of the climate crisis. This talk focuses attention on in-country disparities and, in particular, of the unbearably high carbon footprint of the super rich. Lecturer Dan Rabinowitz is a Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel-Aviv University.
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4:30 pm
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Lecture | Deregulating Collection: Must Privacy Give Way to Use Regulation
Projected benefits of data science and the paradigm of big data are incompatible with the regulation of information collection, according to the requirements of privacy. So goes a compelling and popular position that Dr. Helen Nissenbaum has labelled big data exceptionalism. This lecture will trace the debate between those who would forgo privacy in favor of use regulation and those who continue to assert the affirmative value of constraints on collection in the name of privacy. A wine and cheese reception will follow this event.
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4:30 pm
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Master Class | Peter Herresthal, Violinist
Peter Herresthal is with the Oslo Academy/Royal College of Music.
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4:55 pm
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Author Reading | Anya Schiffrin & George Lugalambi discuss their book African Muckraking
African Muckraking is the first collection of investigative and campaigning journalism written by Africans and about Africa. The editors delved into the history of modern Africa to find the most important and compelling pieces of journalism on the stories that matter. This collection of 41 pieces of African journalism includes passionate and committed writing on labor abuses, police brutality, women’s rights, the struggle for democracy and independence on the continent and other subjects.
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Workshop | Break Free from Limiting Beliefs: How to Live a Life You Truly Love
Speaker, trainer and certified professional coach Barbara Phillips will help participants get greater clarity about what is holding them back from what they want in their lives - and learn simple strategies to move beyond perceived limitations into a life they love living.
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Opening Reception | In Tribute to Jack Tilton: A Selection from 35 Years: An Exhibition
This exhibition celebrates the artists who have shaped the wide-ranging, multicultural and global viewpoint of the gallery since its founding and commemorates Tilton's love for art and adventurous eye. This exhibition looks at the gallery's history and focuses, with a few exceptions, on artists Tilton showed early in their careers and who continue to make work with the same vision and passion today. All have had at least one solo show with the gallery.
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5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | The New Agenda: The Search for Stability in U.S.–Russia Relations
A one-hour conversation with two leading thinkers in U.S. and Russian foreign affairs, Gideon Rose of Foreign Affairs and Fyodor Lukyanov of Russia in Global Affairs. In the current politically fraught environment, these editors of their respective nations’ leading foreign policy journals will explore what seems to make the U.S. and Russia predestined to clash, the current dynamics causing friction between them, and prospects for putting the relationship on a less dangerous trajectory. The conversation will be moderated by William Ury, founder of the Harvard Negotiations Project, and author of Getting Past Yes and other best-selling books on conflict mediation.
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Book Discussion | Book Group: Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Discuss the book by Arlie Russell Hochschild.
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5:45 pm
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Opening Reception | In NYC: Paintings by Ramiro Gomez
A painter with a deep interest in depicting the people whose labor often goes unrecognized and underappreciated by society, Gomez creates pristine domestic scenes and landscapes populated with subjects whose work is essential to creating and maintaining those very spaces. While Gomez is best known for his depiction of workers in his West Hollywood neighborhood, for this exhibition he turns his attention to New York City, with a series of paintings that captures the oftentimes invisible labor that goes into making the city a functioning and sustainable place.
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Opening Reception | Multiplicities: Mixed Media Works by Rey Parla
Rey Parla blurs the line between the image and the process, between intuition and surprise. The resulting works reflect the viewer's psyche and the artist’s subconscious. Parla’s work is reminiscent of Lucas Samaras’s scratched Polaroids or Stan Brakhage's hand-painted films, filled with dynamic fluid forms that continually invite and rebuff identification and interpretation.
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Opening Reception | Our Troubled Youth: Exhibition of Punk Ephemera from Artist Leah Devun
In an age of Facebook, Instagram, and other forms of online networking, and at a moment when definitions of “friendship” are undergoing rapid change, Our Troubled Youth traces a complicated history of friendship before social media – through the artist’s personal archive of 1980s and 90s punk ephemera, through items from the library collection, and through an installation of original photographs and video.
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Opening Reception | Sound and Vision: A Two-Artist Show
How do sounds become mental images? How does an object become a signifier? Artists Courtney Puckett + Jessica Slaven explore the relationship between sound, signifiers, image, and object. Throughout the show, bold colors and textures weave, wrap, overlap, cut, and combine to punctuate quiet contemplative meditation.
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Film | Anne Makepeace's Tribal Justice (2017): Documentary
Two Native American judges look to traditional concepts of justice in order to reduce incarceration rates, foster greater safety for their communities, and create a more positive future for youth. By addressing the root causes of crime, the judges are modeling restorative systems that work, and mainstream courts across the country are beginning to take notice. 87 min. A discussion with Kevin Gover (Pawnee) and the featured judges follows the screening.
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Poetry Reading | Annie Lanzillotto discusses her book Hard Candy/Pitch Roll Yaw
A flip book of two poetry collections facing each other. It reads like a bare knuckle punch from beyond the grave. Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning, and Stage Light offers poems and prose on the eternal relationship of the poet and her mother. Pitch Roll Yaw is fourteen stations each beginning with a See, Saw poem -- Lanzillotto's one liners balanced by a fulcrum: comma, caesura, spondee, dash, or backslash, with quick shifts in weight and changes in meaning. Each station is unified by theme or form.
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Discussion | Bernstein's Unanswered Questions
In 1973, over the course of six landmark lectures at Harvard University, Leonard Bernstein masterfully tackled the enigmatic meaning of music and defined for a generation a new way to listen. He titled his epic series The Unanswered Question. 50 years later, the library presents a contemporary reaction and re-evaluation of Bernstein’s lectures, which were a part of Harvard's prestigious Norton Lectures Series.. Lecture excerpts that capture Bernstein’s theories about musical “linguistics” and music in the future will be tested against contemporary perspectives by living composers and performers that work with ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble). Live performances or archival recordings of new music will either affirm, challenge, or revise Bernstein’s claims. Featuring: Jacob Greenburg, Pianist and educator, ICE Rebekah Heller, Artistic Director, ICE Ellen Highstein, Director, Tanglewood Music Center Tania Leon, Composers Now, Artistic Director Elena Moon Park, Found Sound Nation
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Discussion | Critical Caribbean Feminisms: A Dialogue
Erna Brodber and Nicole Dennis-Benn discuss a range of topics through the lens of Caribbean culture, including the diaspora, feminism, and gender. Jamaican writer, sociologist, and social activist, Erna Brodber is the author of Nothing’s Mat, The Rainmaker’s Mistake, and The Continent of Black Consciousness: On the History of the African Diaspora from Slavery to the Present. Nicole Dennis-Benn is the author of the acclaimed novel, Here Comes the Sun. Their conversation will be followed by a moderated discussion.
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Lecture | How to See 1 Billion Images? Using Computer Vision, Data Visualization and Artificial Intelligence to Explore Global Visual Media
Over the last ten years, the use of “big data” and computational methods for the study of cultures, media and society has become very popular. Hundreds of thousands of papers were published in a number of new fields (computational social science, digital humanities, culturomics, cultural analytics). But many fundamental challenges remain. For example, how can we explore patterns in content and aesthetics of user-generated visual media such as the billions of images and video shared on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, VK and other platforms? How do we analyze massive cultural data without reducing them to “typical,” “popular” or “outliers”? When we augment our normal vision with computer vision in order to “see” global visual culture at scale, what do we gain and what do we lose? Speaker Lev Manovich is a Professor of Computer Science at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and founder and Director of the Cultural Analytics Lab.
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Lecture | Journey into Space: Astronautics and the Russian Avant-Garde
A talk with Professor John E. Bowlt (Department of Slavic Languages, University of Southern California).
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Discussion | The Brilliance of American Theatre
Guests will include: - Jane Barnette, University of Kansas - Adapturgy: The Dramaturg's Art and Theatrical Adaptation - Christian DuComb, Colgate University - Haunted City: Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia - Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, University of Pittsburgh - Traveler, There Is No Road: Theatre, the Spanish Civil War, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Americas - Noe Montez, Tufts University - Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina
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Discussion | Korematsu v. United States: The History and Legacy of the WW2 Japanese American Incarceration Cases
In 1943 and 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the military orders that forced over 120,000 Japanese Americans into American prison camps. It took almost 40 years to overturn the convictions of Fred Korematsu and others who violated the orders with the "smoking gun" evidence of governmental misconduct. A panel discussion with: - Prof. Peter Irons of the University of California at San Diego, author of Justice at War and a leader of the 1983 legal team representing Fred Korematsu - Karen Korematsu, daughter of Fred Korematsu and Founder and Executive Director, Fred T. Korematsu Institute - Moderated by Michael Hindus, Lecturer in History and American Studies
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Reading | 2018 Whiting Award Winners Readings
Join the Whiting Foundation for readings in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and drama by the ten talented winners of the 2018 Whiting Awards, whose names will be announced on March 21. Since 1985, the Whiting Foundation has supported creative writing through the Whiting Awards, given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. The awards, of $50,000 each, are based on early accomplishment and the promise of great work to come.
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Film | Kamal Hachkar's Tinghir-Jerusalem (2013): Director Searches for Community
Director Kamal Hachkar goes in search of a community that has vanished. A Berber Muslim born in Tinghir, Morocco and raised in France, Hachkar would return to Tinghir every summer with his family, but it would be years before he discovered that the town once had a thriving Jewish community. What Hackhar discovers in conversations over old family photos and while listening to the stories of the Jews who left Tinghir - and the Muslims who remain - is a history of close co-operation between communities. 86 min. Followed by a talk with the director. Film in French, with English subtitles.
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Discussion | Lorraine Hansberry and Reimagining the Biography
As an activist and playwright, much has been gleaned from Lorraine Hansberry’s creative output, but less about the confluence of her political thoughts and principles that undergird her process. 2018 the world will learn more about Hansberry through new biographies in the form of print and film. Biographers Margaret Wilkerson, Imani Perry, Soyica Colbert, and Tracy Heather Strain will discuss the importance of Lorraine Hansberry and presenting a biography.
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Jazz | Vinnie Knight, Masterful Jazz and Blues Vocalist
Vinnie Knight is a jazz singer with a rich, velvety, classic jazz voice and a resume that is simply remarkable. Knight has performed with some of the greatest jazz musicians and is also known for singing the music of Duke Ellington and Gladys Shelly.
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Discussion | Weaponizing Flamenco: The Body as Agent for Social Change
Contemporary flamenco artists are questioning stereotypes that tie flamenco to the past and are seeking an interdisciplinary dialogue with artists and cultural workers of other genres. Politics have entered the expressive palette of many young flamenco artists, including influential guitarist Juan José Suarez "El Paquete" and stunning vocalist Naike Ponce, whose new album is a lyric elegy to women. These artists engage in a conversation with a panel of brilliant New York-based dance artists and scholars, including dancer-makers Margueritte Hemmings and Arielle Rosales and seminal tap historian Constance Valis Hill, about making work attentive to the roar of battle and the stories of love and community that shake and wake audiences to envision a future of different possibilities. This round table, curated and moderated by K. Meira Goldberg and the Foundation for Iberian Music, will explore some of the intricacies of these issues.
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Author Reading | Barbara Hannah Grufferman discusses her book Love Your Age: The Small-Step Solution to a Better, Longer, Happier Life
Life is just beginning at 50! Welcome author, journalist, and Huffington Post contributor Barbara Hannah Grufferman. She wants to motivate women of all ages to take much better care of themselves by exercising, eating for good health and making an effort to value self-care.
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Author Reading | Elizabeth Flock reads from her book The Heart is a Shifting Sea
The Heart Is a Shifting Sea introduces three couples whose relationships illuminate sweeping cultural shifts in dramatic ways: Veer and Maya, a forward-thinking professional couple whose union is tested by Maya’s desire for independence; Shahzad and Sabeena, whose desperation for a child becomes entwined with the changing face of Islam; and Ashok and Parvati, whose arranged marriage, made possible by an online matchmaker, blossoms into true love.
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Talk | Poet Kaveh Akbar discusses his work
Kaveh Akbar's debut full-length collection, Calling a Wolf a Wolf is just out with Alice James in the US and Penguin in the UK, and his chapbook, "Portrait of the Alcoholic," was published by Sibling Rivalry Press. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America,
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Lecture | Santiago Ramón y Cajal: The Artist as Scientist
Eric Himmel, Editor-in-Chief of Abrams Books, will trace Cajal’s path from a failed provincial artist through his midlife encounter with neuroscience—which inspired his revolutionary drawings based in new forms and new concepts.
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Comedy Club | Sidehow Goshko Storytelling Show
Award-winning storyteller Leslie Goshko (Huffington Post, Sirius XM radio) invites some of NY’s top writers and storytellers to share true, bizarre tales about their lives. There’s a challenging trivia game and a free wine giveaway where one lucky audience member will walk away with their very own bottle of Sideshow Sauce! Tonight’s stellar lineup includes stories from: David Dickerson (This American Life, Emmy-nominated game show writer) Nicole Ferraro (NY Story Exchange, NY Frigid Festival) Rory Scholl (Artprov, People's Improv Theater)
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Classical Music | The Sylvan Winds presents 'Memoria'
Program: Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) Sonatas I, II, IV (arr. by D. Lipatti) Manuel Oltra (1922-2015) Suite Primerenca Marin Marais (1656-1728) Les Folies d’Espagne Isabella Colbran (1785-1845) So che un sogno e la speranza Canzonetta: Parto vi lascio addio Joaquin Turina (1882-1949) Miniatures (arr.by R. Taylor) Juriaan Andriessen (1925-1996) Sciarada Spagnuola Sonia Megias Lopez (b. 1982) Pequeña Suite Peninsular (2004) The Sylvan Winds announce the second concert of the 2018 Spring Season celebrating music, art, and history. Performing in important cultural and historic New York City buildings, the ensemble creates imaginative and informative programs that reflect the environs of each space. The Sylvan Winds: Svjetlana Kabalin, flute; Kathy Halvorson, oboe; Nuno Antunes, clarinet; Gina Cuffari, bassoon; Zohar Schondorf, horn
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Performance | University of the Arts/Pig Iron Devised Performance Program
The students of Philadephia's University of the Arts/Pig Iron Devised Performance Program Class of 2018 present a mix of their work.
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Master Class | Eduardus Halim, Pianist
Eduardus Halim teaches at the university.
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Classical Music | Juilliard Vocal Arts Honors Recital 2018
Juilliard mezzo-soprano Natalia Kutateladze and soprano Felicia Moore are the winners of the Juilliard Vocal Arts Honors Recital for 2017-18 and will appear in a joint recital. Juilliard collaborative pianist Chris Reynolds will accompany both singers. Kutateladze, who is pursuing her master's degree as a student of Edith Wiens, appeared last season as the Minskwoman in Juilliard Opera's production of Jonathan Dove's Flight. Moore, an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies candidate, also studying with Wiens, sang the title role in Katya Kabanova with Juilliard Opera last spring. Natalia Kutateladze opens the program with songs by Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and de Falla. Felicia Moore will perform songs by Sibelius, Wagner, and Copland in the second half of the program.
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Classical Music | Piano Works by Dvorak, Schubert, Gershwin, Schumann
Program: Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D. 845 John Corigliano (b. 1938) Winging it J. S. Bach (1685-1750) / E. Petri (1881-1962) Sheep May Safely Graze R. Schumann (1810-56) / F. Liszt (1811-86) Widmung F. Behr (1837-98) / S. Rachmaninov (1873-1943) Polka de V. R. G. Gershwin (1898-1937) / E. Wild (1915-2010) Embraceable You A. Dvorak (1873-1904) / A. Tatum (1909-56) Humoresque H. Arlen (1905-86) / M. Griswold (b. 1989) Over the Rainbow Matthew Griswold, piano
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Concert | Student Recitals
7:30 PM - 9:45 PM MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra: Cartoon and TV Music Goes Latin Jazz!! 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Alexander Aldred, jazz trumpet 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Andres Valbuena, jazz percussion 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Mitchell Widmer, baritone
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Classical Music | Works by Haydn, Tchiakovsky
Program: Haydn: Quartet in C major, Op. 74, No. 1 Tchaikovsky: Quartet No. 1 Winner of the U.K.’s prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artists Award, the Heath Quartet hops across the pond for a return visit.
Manhattan, New York, NYC, NY
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Comedy Club | Bodega Cat Comedy Show
Bodega Cat is a weekly comedy show brought to you by Kevin Seefried (202 Comedy Festival), Andy Ostroff (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), and Dane Hanson (Producer of Laughs on FOX). Live Stand-Up Comedy in New York City.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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Film | Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Effi Briest (1974): German Drama
Fassbinder’s film does not merely take up the setting, characters, and plot of Theodor Fontane’s 1894 novel of the same name, it transposes the physical object of the novel itself into cinema. Black-and-white filmstock recalls the monochrome of the printed page. Page-length shots are interrupted at regular intervals by cuts that serve as page turns, scenes by whiteouts that demarcate chapters. Underscoring the film’s pronouncedly literary cinematography is Fassbinder's extensive usage of Fontane’s original prose for dialogue and narration. 135 min.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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