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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 4, 2019?

35 free events take place on Monday, March 4 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 March 4 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 March . 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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35 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, March 4, 2019

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free events nyc Celebrating The Jerome Robbins Dance Division
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Discussion | The Future of Rikers and the Inner Sound


Explore how New York City could be transformed by eliminating the jails on Rikers Island and repurposing it for public uses. New York City is pursuing an ambitious plan to shut down the jails on Rikers Island by reducing the number of people incarcerated and shifting to borough-based facilites that are closer to the city’s courthouses. Supporters believe that a smaller system will be more fair and just, and that borough facilities will be safer and more accessible to the courts, visitors, service providers, and attorneys. Opponents express concerns about the scope of the plan and the impact of the proposed borough facilities on their surroundings. But the discussion over Rikers has not focused on the future of the island, which could be repurposed to provide lasting benefits to nearby communities and the entire region. Relocating facilities currently sited in the South Bronx and North Queens to Rikers would eliminate local sources of pollution, open up shorelines for park space, and create space for well-paid green industrial jobs. Panelists: -- Queens Council Member Costa Constantinides -- Bronx Council Member Rafael Salamanca Jr. -- Claire Weisz, WXY Studio
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Workshop | Morning Meditation


Balance mind, body, and spirit in this Primordial Sound Meditation led by an instructor. Work with a personal mantra, a specific sound or vibration. Take part in a regular meditation practice that lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, and strengthens the immune system.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:45 am
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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 | LinkedIn For Job Seekers


Learn strategies and tips on how to utilize your LinkedIn account in your job search, including customizing your LinkedIn profile, strategies for determining LinkedIn groups to join, performing basic and advanced job search using LinkedIn, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Film | Hidden Figures (2016): Women Power Of NASA 


The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program. 127 min. Director: Theodore Melfi. Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe. The movie is loosely based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. Hidden Figures has three Oscar nominations (Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Spencer), and two Golden Globes (Best Supporting Actress for Spencer and Best Original Score). 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House Tour


Highlights include a discussion of the history of the site, information about architect Cass Gilbert and viewings of the Collectors Office with its Tiffany woodwork, Reginald Marsh murals and the 140-ton rotunda dome, designed and built by Rafael Gustavino.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | They’re Snatching Our Islands Through Environmental Protection: Sovereignty and Biodiversity Conservation on the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands


After World War II, biologists, ecologists and amateur naturalists began to compile what became known as the Red Data Book - the world's first biodiversity database. The RDB was explicitly designed to guide international conservation priorities by identifying which species were most threatened by extinction. But from the outset, decisions over which taxa to include in the database were driven as much by political, institutional and sentimental factors as by scientific ones. Japanese ornithologists played a prominent role in producing this database, and in 1956 successfully lobbied for Steller's Albatross, at the time only known to nest on the abandoned Japanese island of Torishima, to be added to the incipient RDB. This international campaign dovetailed with a domestic campaign in which ornithologists argued that nature conservation would help to rehabilitate Japan's international reputation in the wake of World War II. The Japanese government duly canonized Steller's Albatross and its Torishima breeding ground as an officially recognised "natural monument". But in the 1970s the movement took a curious turn when albatrosses were discovered roosting on the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. The same ornithologists now blocked Chinese proposals to conserve Steller's Albatross through "international cooperation", arguing that the species' status as a "natural monument" showed that it was exclusively indigenous to the geobody of the Japanese nation. To this day the species remains a diplomatic flashpoint, with Japanese naturalists lobbying their government to protect the bird’s Senkaku/Diaoyu nesting site, whilst Chinese media denounce Japan’s “attempts to snatch our islands using the pretext of environmental protection”. Speaker: Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 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 | Lunchtime Meditation


Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Workshop | How To Research Efficiently For Your Business Plan


This workshop provides research guidance specifically tailored to your particular business plan.   
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Workshop | How To Use The Database Of The Library Efficiently


An introduction to NYPL databases and basic search techniques. Discover the Library’s most popular e-resources and learn how to identify and access the databases you need.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Film | The Killers (1946): Four Time Oscar Nominated Crime Based On Hemingway's Story


Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins. 103 min. Director: Robert Siodmak. Starring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien.  The Killers based in part on the 1927 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The movie has four Academy Award nominations for Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2008, The Killers was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Conference | Cosmopolitanism and Urban Diversity: Exploring Dynamics of Coexistence, Inclusion and Exclusion


Session One. 2pm - 2:45pm. Paris and the Migrant Crisis: Is the French Capital a Welcoming or a Neutral City ? Catherine Lejeune (Université Paris Diderot/USPC) & Camille Schmoll (IUF/Université Paris Diderot/USPC):   Session Two. 2:45pm - 3:30pm. Second-Generation Arab Youths in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: Urban Practices, Status and Belonging in a Diverse Society Laure Assaf (New York University in Abu Dhabi): Coffee Break 3 :30- 3 :45pm.   Session Three. 3 :45pm - 4 :30pm.  Cultural Entrepreneurship and Transnational Competences Amin Moghadam (Princeton University):   Session Four 4:30pm - 5:15pm. Mapping Logics of Segregation in Dubai Yasser Elsheshtawy (Columbia University) & Delphine Pagès-El Karoui (INALCO/USPC):   Reception 5 :15- 6 :00pm   Dinner for Participants, 7 :30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | American Sign Language For Beginners


Interested in learning American Sign Language? Find out how to become a fluent communicator or make a career from your ASL skills by attending our free workshop for all ages. American Sign Language is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Expanding European Football in the Americas


A conversation with FC Bayern and Bundesliga on the expansion of European football into the Americas. Panelists will discuss the strategies for building a profile in North and Latin America, addressing the opportunities and challenges for growth of European football, or fútbol, in the region. The conversation will be moderated by Colombian national team player and Olympian, Melissa Ortiz. Speakers: Melanie Fitzgerald, Head of Americas, Bundesliga Benno Ruwe, Head of Partnerships, FC Bayern Munich Melissa Ortiz, Colombian national team player and Olympian (Moderator)  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Author Reading | Fiction Writer Discusses His Writing 


Author Jimmy Cajoleas will be present for a discussion of his two latest books, geared toward middle grade readers and the YA crowd respectively: Goldeline and The Good Demon. In Goldeline, a young girl embarks on an unforgettable journey through a Southern-infused fairy-tale forest filled with dark and wondrous magic. In The Good Demon Cajoleas narrates the story of Clare who has been miserable since her exorcism. The preacher that rid her of evil didn’t understand that her demon—simply known as Her—was like a sister to Clare. Now, Clare will do almost anything to get Her back.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Author Reading | Jacques Schiffrin: A Publisher in Exile, from Pléiade to Pantheon


Jacques Schiffrin changed the face of publishing in the twentieth century. As the founder of Les Éditions de la Pléiade in Paris and cofounder of Pantheon Books in New York, he helped define a lasting canon of Western literature while also promoting new authors who shaped transatlantic intellectual life. In this first biography of Schiffrin, Amos Reichman tells the poignant story of a remarkable publisher and his dramatic travails across two continents.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Blockchain: The Post-Hype Future


While it may look like we’re in blockchain lull after the crypto boom of early 2018, there are those who argue that we’re now in the very earliest stages of blockchain development, its use cases, and capabilities of the technology — that we’re seeing the birth of the real blockchain. This event brings together a panel of experts from IBM Blockchain Garage, ConsenSys Labs, Kadena, and more to map out the next phase of blockchain, its practical applications, and untapped opportunities, all in an evening of discussion and ideas that makes NYC a hub for blockchain innovation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
$5

Talk | Celebrating The Jerome Robbins Dance Division


In 1944 a tenacious, forward-looking librarian in The New York Public Library’s music division had a vision: The Library needed to be a place for dance. She courted and cajoled and delivered for the Library the archives of Isadora Duncan, Doris Humphrey, Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn, and other dance luminaries. Seventy-five years later, the Jerome Robbins Dance Division is the largest and most comprehensive dance archive in the world. Each generation of curators and staff have helped the collection grow. For this Dance Division celebration, all five dance curators, including the founding curator Genevieve Oswald, come to the Library stage to share their favorite acquisitions and memories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Comic Books Writer Talks About His Experiences


New York Times best-selling writer of comic books and animation, Brenden Fletcher will be discussing his career in comics and offering advice to those interested in the industry.  Writer Brenden Fletcher's current projects include Motor Crush and Isola and Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Network. Previous work includes the New York Times best-selling Batgirl of Burnside, Gotham Academy and Entertainment Weekly's "Best New Series" of 2015, Black Canary, all for DC Comics. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | The Civil War and Critical History


From the first shots of the war itself to recent debates about Neonazis and Confederate monuments, the history of the Civil War in the United States has played a major role in thinking about racism and democracy. The anti-racist side of Civil War memory has, however, too often attached itself to US state-building projects, projects of nation, empire, and of liberal citizenship. In his lecture, Andrew Zimmermann will discuss his current book project on the American Civil War as transnational working-class revolution, emphasizing questions of race, class, violence, and social transformation. Zimmerman is the author of Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (Chicago, 2001) and Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (Princeton, 2010). 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Depero Futurista: Celebrating the Futurist Art Movement


Celebrate the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Futurist art movement and also the publication of a facsimile of Fortunato Depero’s groundbreaking artist’s book Depero Futurista — known as the Bolted Book because it is famously bound by two industrial aluminum bolts. Graphic design experts Steven Heller and Raffaele Bedarida will speak discuss Italian artist and designer Fortunato Depero's 1927 achievement and its avant-garde experiments with type. You'll have a chance to examine the first exact copy of this rare volume, too.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Film | Haiku on a Plum Tree (2017): Documentary on the Price of Refusing Mussolini


Tokyo 1943: Italian anthropologist Fosco Maraini and painter Topazia Alliata refused to sign allegiance to Mussolini. They were imprisoned with their three daughters, Dacia, Yuki and Toni. Today, Toni’s daughter Mujah explores her family’s experience and legacy by trying to bring their memories to life by retracing their steps in her own journey to Japan. Directed by Mujah Maraini-Melehi 73 min. Followed by a Q&A with the director and author Dacia Maraini.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval


Saidiya Hartman’s highly anticipated new book wrestles with the question: What is a free life? In the early 20th century, a social revolution unfolded in the city. Hartman’s book explores the ways young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability, and outside the bounds of law. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live and shaped a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Exploring Ethical Dilemmas in Religion: From Theology to Congregations


Are religions ethical? What kind of ethics (if any) do religions teach? What makes a particular theology ethical - or not? How are theologies interpreted in congregations? What core values hold congregations together? What role does a clergy leader play? What are the responsibilities of a congregation towards its clergy and of clergy to the congregation? You'll explore these and other questions with someone who grew up in a Catholic congregation, raised her children in the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, and has served the Long Island and New York Societies as clergy leader. Anne holds a Doctor of Ministry degree in pastoral care and counseling from Hebrew Union College and is the Humanist Chaplain at New York University and Columbia University. What does one do when there’s no clearly defined ethical road to take? This program features speakers from a variety of backgrounds — medicine, law, business, science, education, the arts, social work, etc. — who share their experience and knowledge of ethical issues in those fields.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
$5

Lecture | Movable Type, Multiple Scripts, and Changing Alphabets in the late Ottoman Empire


The transliteration of Turkish writing from Arabic letters to Latin letters is often cited as a triumph of early 20th-century modernism. While this change was largely motivated by ideology, the presence and depth of Greek and Armenian learning cultures, a multi-script reading environment, and the slow adoption of the printing press for Ottoman Turkish writing all contributed. This talk will take a look at how print technology, the graphic/lettering landscape, and literacy all contributed to, and were not just derivative of, the cultural ideas that were carried forward. Speaker Juliette Cezzar was director of the BFA Communication Design and Design & Technology programs from 2011–2014. She served as president of AIGA New York’s board of directors from 2014–16.   
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | The Legacy of a Movement: Stonewall to Now


As one moment in LGBTQ+ history, the riots at Stonewall Inn were a critical milestone that incited and advanced LGBTQ+ movements in the United States and beyond. This event will engage LGBTQ+ activists from across the generations in dialogue and narrative sharing about what the fight for LGBTQ+ rights has looked like over the past 50 years since Stonewall.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | WCBS-TV anchor Mary Calvi reads from her book Dear George, Dear Mary


Calvi will present the fascinating historical documents she uncovered in the course of her research for her novel about Washington's unrequited love for Mary Philipse, the richest heiress in Colonial America. A true story of thwarted love, deception, and war, the book is an enthralling dive into a previously unknown episode of Washington's life, perfect for fans of Hamilton and historical romances. Q&A and book signing to follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Foucault in California: A True Story Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death


In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking "nostalgically...of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, and nice people'." This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade-ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade's partner Michael Stoneman, Foucault experimented with psychotropic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. Foucault in California is Wade's firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade's bungalow, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault "Country Joe"); and, of course, the fabled synesthetic acid trip in Death Valley, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Kill Class: Training for War


Poet and an anthropologist Nomi Stone launches her new collection based on her fieldwork conducted in war trainings in mock Middle Eastern villages erected by the US military around America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Women Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets


Social worker, activist, and cultural commentator Feminista Jones explores how Black women are changing culture, society, and the landscape of feminism by building digital communities and using social media as powerful platforms. As Jones reveals, some of the best-loved devices of our shared social media language are a result of Black women’s innovations, from well-known movement-building hashtags (#BlackLivesMatter, #SayHerName, and #BlackGirlMagic) to the now ubiquitous use of threaded tweets as a marketing and storytelling tool.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Songs of Bukovina: A Conversation with American Ballet Theatre's Alexei Ratmansky, former director of the Bolshoi Theater's Ballet


In celebration of Alexei Ratmansky’s 10th anniversary as American Ballet Theatre's Artist in Residence, ABT presents a special conversation with Ratmansky that will situate his famed piece, Songs of Bukovina, within its cultural and political contexts. Set to the music of Leonid Desyatnikov, Songs of Bukovina explores the folk traditions of the Eastern European mountains. Alexei Osipovich Ratmansky (Russian: Алексей Осипович Ратманский, born August 27, 1968 in Leningrad) was the director of the Bolshoi Theater's Ballet from 2004 to 2008.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism


Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Why Radomir Konstantinović's The Philosophy of Parochialism Matters Today


This year marks the 50th anniversary of Konstantinović’s book, relevant not only in Serbia and countries of the former Yugoslavia, but also beyond in the context of our global world. It offers a new analysis of the causes of totalitarianism, as well as an innovative methodology of the political reading of literature, specifically poetry. With: -- Branislav Jakovljević, Professor and Department Chair at the Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford. -- Branka Arsić, Charles and Lynn Zhang Professor of English and Comparative Literature.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance


A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join each season in performing at the historic church. Featuring: Julianne Chapple / Future Leisure Emmilou Rößling Yolette Yellow-Duke
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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