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49 free events take place on Thursday, March 7 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!

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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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49 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, March 7, 2019

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free events nyc Susanna: Second Part Of The Oratorio By Handel
free events nyc Open Kimono: Photos of China and Japan
free events nyc Delectable Venice: Desiring and Encountering 'La Serenissima' Through Cuisine and Cinema
free events nyc Works by Respighi and Beethoven
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Workshop | Sun Salutations and Intentions Morning Yoga


Starts your day with a morning yoga practice. You will experience luxurious stretching warm-ups, empowering standing poses, and energizing breath work as we align the movements with the inhales and exhales. You will feel more awake, strong, balanced, and positive as a result of this time spent on the mat. Sun Salutations and warrior poses stimulate the seratonin in your brain (the “happy hormone) and improve self-esteem! You will be ready for anything that meets you as your day unfolds. Bring a yoga mat if you have one. You may bring your own coffee or tea.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:45 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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Film | The Catered Affair (1956): Huge Wedding Plans Against Father's Dream


Aggie Hurley is making up for a lifetime of making do. Her daughter Jane is going to have a lavish wedding even if Jane wants a simple ceremony. And even if Aggie's husband Tom must give up his dream of owning his own taxi to finance the extravaganza. 94 min. Director: Richard Brooks. Starring Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds. Bette Davis won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue 10 Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Essentials for Job Seekers: Networking


Looking for a job? Discover what tools to use to find vacancies, learn inside tips from a certified Talent Acquisition Strategist on where to find job postings and what HR is looking for in your application. Laptops will be first-come-first-served; bring your own if you have one. Also bring paper copies of your resume/cover letter, or have the file accessible via email or flash drive. Please do not arrive late interrupting the class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Lecture | National Self-Determination during the Russian Civil War: The Views of Constitutional-Democratic Émigrés


A talk with Julia Klimova of University College London revolving around the Constitutional-Democratic (Kadet) Party during the Russian Civil War. Drawing from archival research involving the papers of Kadet émigrés, Klimova will focus on how the Kadets reacted to the emergence of nation-states within the Russian Empire in the aftermath of the First World War. She will also explore how the Kadet Party's policies were intertwined with the wider context of the Russian Civil War and the Whites' struggle against Bolshevism.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | The Organization and Evolution of the Surveillance State in China


Speaker Minxin Pei is from Claremont McKenna College  He is also the Library of Congress Chair in U.S.-China Relations (2018-2019) and a non-resident senior fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Prior to joining Claremont McKenna College in 2009, he was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and served as its director of the China Program from 2003 to 2008.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. "The term ‘baroque’ has been widely used since the 19th century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750... Many famous composers from the first part of the baroque period came from Italy and have a link with Venice, including Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. Monteverdi was born in Cremona, but moved to Venice where he was ‘maestro di capella’ at the San Marco basilica. Vivaldi was born in Venice and was one of the greatest baroque composers. It is thanks to these strong musical traditions of Venice that we have today’s music. Without Venetian church music and Monteverdi’s advances with polyphony, the great traditions of choral music in England, France, and Germany would never have developed. Without the operas written by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi, not only would the later styles of opera never have been invented. There would be no basis for the American Musical or the German and Viennese Operetta, the Spanish Zarzuela, and even rock, pop, and contemporary music as we know it." The Venice Insider Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 11, 2018 to May 22, 2019.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Opera | Susanna: Second Part Of The Oratorio By Handel


Handel’s oratorio Susanna explores the biblical story of a blameless young woman who stood strong in the truth when faced with threats of sexual violence and false accusations of promiscuity that carried the punishment of the death penalty. Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Julian Wachner, conductor. Grammy-nominated interpreters of both early and new music, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street has changed the realm of 21st-century vocal music, breaking new ground with an artistry described as “blazing with vigour…a choir from heaven” (The Times). The ensemle has been described as “thrilling” (New Yorker), “musically top-notch” (Wall Street Journal), and “simply superb” (New York Times). The Grammy-nominated Trinity Baroque Orchestra made its debut for Trinity Wall Street’s 2009 performances of Messiah, and has since performed and recorded exclusively with the Trinity Choir in master- works of Bach, Handel, and Schütz, including Handel’s Israel in Egypt, Bach’s Passions and more. The Trinity Baroque Orchestra has recorded with the Choir of Trinity Wall Street for the Grammy-nominated Israel in Egypt and J.S. Bach: Complete Motets. Music director Julian Wachner has been variously described as “jazzy, energetic, and ingenious,” (Boston Globe), having “splendor, dignity, outstanding tone combinations, sophisticated chromatic exploration…a rich backdrop, wavering between a glimmer and a tingle...,” (La Scena Musicale) being “a compendium of surprises,” (Washington Post) and as “bold and atmospheric,” while having “an imaginative flair for allusive text setting,” and noted for “the silken complexities of his harmonies” (New York Times). He has made guest appearances with San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, New York Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic and many more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

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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Reading | Literature Workshop: What's New in American Poetry 2018-19


Do you want to find time for literature in your busy life? Join to celebrate literature in bite-size servings! Read aloud, enact, and discuss passages of classic and contemporary literature from across the globe. This month's theme is Contemporary American Poetry. This session the class will discuss how poetry published within the last year reflects upon our culture and society as it happens. All literary enthusiasts are welcome.
   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

Film | Beau Geste (1939): Two time Oscar nominated adventure with Gary Cooper


Three adopted English brothers join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, after one of them steals their adoptive family's famous heirloom sapphire. 112 min. Director: William A. Wellman. Starring Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston. Brian Donlevy was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film. The movie has an Academy Award Nomination for Best Art Direction as well. The film is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of the 1926 silent version of the same title starring Ronald Colman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Boy Erased (2018): Drama With Nicole Kidman And Russell Crowe


The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents. 115 min. Director: Joel Edgerton. Starring Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe. The movie is based on Garrard Conley's 2016 memoir of the same name. Boy Erased received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor for Hedges and Best Original Song for Revelation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Equalizer 2 (2018): Struggle For Justice Starring Denzel Washington


Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves? 121 min. Director: Antoine Fuqua. Starring Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders. Filming took place in Boston as well as other areas around Massachusetts. It marks the first time Washington has starred in a sequel to one of his films. The Equalizer 2 has grossed $102.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $88.4 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $190.5 million, against a production budget of $62 million.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Getting Started with Astrophotography


Astrophotography is one of the most challenging, time-consuming, equipment-heavy and technical genres of photography, which is why many people are drawn to it. Once you start learning the intricacies of this scientific artform, you quickly learn that there is always more to learn. This lecture will discuss how to get started taking images of the night sky with minimal equipment. Some of the topics we will discuss are: • How to get perfectly round stars that stay sharp throughout your exposures • Using calibration frames to correct for bias, noise, and vignetting • Choosing a suitable object in the sky for you to photograph • Important equipment considerations • How to keep improving your images after you master the basics Speaker Forest Chaput has been immersed in photography since he was born. He grew up in Missoula, Montana and began taking photos with an SLR when he was seven years old. He started working for Rocky Mountain School of Photography at age 13. During his free time, he likes to master new things, build stuff, run, hike, bike, photograph, and be an amateur astronomer. Forest has a BA in Astrophysics, just because. He really enjoys teaching and loves to help students understand concepts thoroughly. Forest has vast experience working with and teaching Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop, and has worked many hours in the black and white darkroom. Visit Forest’s website www.forestchaput.com/
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | Roma and Contemporary Mexican Cinema


This roundtable will discuss Roma, Alfonso Cuarón's film, which is nominated for 10 Oscars. With: -- Carlos A. Gutiérrez is a film/video programmer, cultural promoter and arts consultant based in New York City. -- Jerry Carlson is Director of the Cinema Studies Program in the Department of Media & Communication Arts at The City College.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Symposium | Artist Ilia Zdanevich: The Tbilisi Years


Tbilisi, Zdanevich’s hometown, became a “fantastic” haven for artists of all stripes during the Russian Civil War. In this multi-lingual environment where feuds among artistic schools had been suspended, Zdanevich worked out the principles of “mature” zaum and a corresponding approach to book design.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Talk | Diplomats vs. Dissent: Israel and the Politics of Palestine in 1950s America


Geoffrey Levin will deliver this talk.     
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Multilingualism, Global Citizenship, and the Civic Promise of Higher Education


The shift from “citizenship” to “global citizenship” in university missions can be explained by the need to prepare graduates to enter the arena of economic and cultural globalization. This talk examines how the production of global citizenship intersects with the civic promise of higher education. Speaker Amy J. Wan is Associate Professor of English at Queens College. She is the author of Producing Good Citizens: Literacy Training in Anxious Times (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014).
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:30 pm
Free

Discussion | International Contemporary Ensemble: Discussion & Performance


Join the International Contemporary Ensemble for a panel discussion on creating (in) a more just society and a performance of "Earth Ears" by Pauline Oliveros, together with students from the College of Performing Arts. 5:00-7:00 pm PRESENTATIONS AND PANEL DISCUSSION Creating (in) a More Just Society: Representation, Equity, and Openness in Performing Arts 7:00 - 7:30 pm PERFORMANCE Earth Ears by Pauline Oliveros
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Conference | Inequality: Ancient and Modern


5:15 PM  Welcome and Introduction                 Matthew Santirocco 5:30 PM  Keynote Address: A Brief History of Inequality                 Walter Scheidel (Stanford University) 6:30 PM  Discussion                 Walter Scheidel (Stanford University)                 David Stasavage 7:00 PM  Reception               Friday, March 8, 2019      10:15 AM ‘The Greatest of All Plagues’: Plato on Economic Inequality                      David Lay Williams (DePaul University) 11:00 AM  Taxing Rich and Poor in the Ancient Mediterranean                   Andrew Monson (NYU) 11:45 AM  Piketty’s Dilemma: Taxation in Fourth Century Athens                   Dorothea Rohde (Universität Bielefeld) 12:30 PM  Lunch 1:30 PM    Ancient Equality and Modern Inequalities: Reflections on  the Jury Trial in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America                    Sara Forsdyke (University of Michigan) 2:15 PM   The Measure and Mismeasure of Inequality                  Walter Scheidel (Stanford University) 3:00 PM   Political Inequality: Ancient and Modern                  Melissa Schwartzberg (NYU)                  David Stasavage (NYU)   This conference is cosponsored by the NYU College of Arts and Science and by the Department of Classics.   This event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required. To RSVP, please visit: as.nyu.edu/ancientstudies/news.html For more information, contact the NYU Center for Ancient Studies at 212.992.7978 or ancient.studies@nyu.edu Inequality: Ancient and Modern   Date: Thursday, March 7, 2019 Time: 5:30pm to 4:00pm March 7 - 8, 2019 EST Location: Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center for Arts and Science Contact: For more information, contact the NYU Center for Ancient Studies at 212.992.7978 or ancient.studies@nyu.edu Contact ancient.studies@nyu.edu Cost: Free Calendar: NYU Arts and Science File under: lecture, politics, Ancient Studies, Classics, economics, conference, Ancient Greece, Center for Ancient Studies, Conversations in the Social Sciences Share Add to my calendar
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Workshop | Experience The Calming Effects Of Meditation


Meditation can have a soothing effect on the nerves. The sympathetic nervous system is affected the most by anxiety, tension, fatigue and depression. Experts have proven that meditation alone can dramatically reduce the many negative effects brought about by these emotions. It is easy to practice and the benefits are grand. Long time meditator Rosanna Jimenez will be present for this workshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | A Different Pose: Abstaction and Animation


These paintings are grounded in both gestural abstraction and the history of 20th-century animation, aspects that combine to imbue his work with a rare sense of kinetic energy. Jan-Ole Schiemann’s process begins with the collection of references—cut-outs from cartoon strips, elements from his own drawing process—which the artist then collages onto transparencies and projects against the canvas. Using primarily ink on the unprimed surface, Schiemann uses sweeping gestures to build the dynamic base of the picture plane before moving on to more precise, illustrative detailing. The works are then built up to fruition carefully, introducing exuberant color and spontaneity as Schiemann reimagines the projected configurations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Milagros: Large-Scale Tapestries


The New York-based artist Angel Otero will debut a series of recent, large-scale tapestry-like oil paintings that hang entirely free from a stretcher bar. Over the last decade, Otero has developed physically rigorous and experimental techniques to push the boundaries of painting. Drawing much of his inspiration from the inherent qualities of oil paint, Otero uses collage and materiality as he explores the potential for abstraction to engage issues of identity as well as form, color, and line.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Off Balance: Feminine Forms and Minimalistic Ones


This body of work represents a balancing act between overtly feminine forms and minimalistic ones. The pieces are not even, stable, or correctly proportioned. They are vulnerable and fragile in appearance with imagery evoking bones, trees, and fertility figures. Line rather than mass is the predominant consideration in this work. Modigliani and Matisse impart inspiration. All the pieces are made with light weight materials allowing the balance point to be small. In this exhibition, Jo-Ann Brody explores papièr maché and the addition of color as well as continuing with cement. Many of the papièr maché torsos are remade from previous work, reshaped, reimagined with thinner faces, arms/hands, more acute angles. By manipulating the figures and distorting them, the women grow stronger and emotionally truer. The sensory experiences explodes into color. Brody’s typical vocabulary includes elongated figures grouped. The cement figures are intended to create a “forest of women.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Open Kimono: Photos of China and Japan


Pixy Liao's Open Kimono presents photographs taken in 2018 while traveling through China and Japan. As the title of the exhibition suggests, several of the images portray both artist and muse in traditional Japanese dress, although the intimate settings and sensual imagery take their inspiration from Japanese female Yakuza films rather than feudal Japan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Our People: A Group Show


In a time of deep division, gallery artists were asked to think about what community means to them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Pawn Sacrifice (2014): Cold War Between Chess Grandmasters


Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire. 115 min. Director: Edward Zwick. Starring Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard. Director Edward Zwick explained the meaning of the film's title: "You have Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon calling Bobby Fischer; you have Brezhnev and the KGB agents following Boris Spassky. Both of these men were pawns of their nations".
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | That Which We Do Not See: Los Angeles Paintings


The first solo exhibition in New York City featuring new work by Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Martinez. The exhibition comprises three bodies of work; cake paintings, Los Angeles “landscape paintings” and neon text pieces. Patrick Martinez was born in Pasadena, CA, in 1980. His work has been exhibited throughout the US and internationally at venues including Vincent Price Art Museum, California African American Art Museum, LA Louver, Showroom MAMA, Providence College Galleries, Galerie Lelong & Co., SUR biennial, Chinese American Museum, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. His public collections include Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The George D. and Harri
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Lesson | Labor and Gender Segregation


This course will present economic concepts from a feminist perspective and critically discuss some assumptions and conclusions of the economic discipline. The overall objective of this course is to allow the students to critically assess some economic statements and understand the gender bias that they carry. The course will start by discussing the social construction of gender and its correlation to class, followed by an overall critique of the discipline of economics. Students will then gain exposure to feminist economic theory and the counterpart concepts necessary to build an economic system that is not gender biased. The topic of the fourth session will be Labor and Gender Segregation. The Professor: Luiza Nassif Pires is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the New School for Social Research. She holds a Bachelor's and Masters' degree in Economics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, her home city. Her specializations are Development Economics, Feminist Economics, Industrial Economics and Macroeconomic Modeling.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Learn How To Choose The Right Marketing Strategies For Your Business


Digital Marketing expert Jimmy Newson breaks down the 5 top digital marketing strategies that you can use today in your business. Each strategy, on its own yields great results, and even better ones when you can align a few of them to serve you. You will learn: Local SEO Social Media Marketing Website Functionality Google AdWords Organic SEO Jimmy Newson's purpose is to help entrepreneurs and small business owners effectively share their message with the world. He has over 25 years of experience in the marketing, digital media, and entertainment industries.  He has worked with local and national brands including NARAS (Grammys), People Magazine, AT&T, Microsoft, AOL, New York Presbyterian Hospital, St. Mary's Healthcare System for Children, Smart Hustle Magazine and the list goes on.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Mapping the Sacred: Transforming the Medical Industrial Complex


This talk will begin with understanding the impact of the Medical Industrial Complex as an extension of policing, state violence and control. Speaker Cara Page will explore ways we imagine our sacred practices and traditions as integral to our collective survival and liberation rooted in place and ancestral geographies. Finally she will present on critical and contemporary questions of surveillance of race & ancestry and how to 'unsurveil the surveilled' by challenging scientific racist notions of "blood quota and DNA."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Parting Glass: Upstairs/Downstairs New York City


A captivating historical fiction of 19th century upstairs/downstairs New York City, the novel examines sexuality, race, and social class in ways that feel startlingly familiar and timely. With author Gina Marie Guadagnino.
   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


Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives recreates the experience of young urban black women who desired an existence qualitatively different than the one that had been scripted for them—domestic service, second-class citizenship, and respectable poverty—and whose intimate revolution was apprehended as crime and pathology. For the first time, young black women are credited with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. Through a melding of history and literary imagination, Wayward Lives recovers their radical aspirations and insurgent desires. With author Saidiya Hartman.
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Talk | Conversation On Radical Feminism


This is a conversation with Barbara Smith, Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor, and Barbara Ransby in which they elevate the voices of path-breaking radical Black feminists and discuss how to carry their philosophies for freedom into the future.
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Lecture | Delectable Venice: Desiring and Encountering 'La Serenissima' Through Cuisine and Cinema


The talk, dedicated to learning from Venice, will treat Venice as a cultural text in which food and cinema are central to how we encounter and desire it. Addressed to food and wine lovers, to cinephiles, and, above all, to travelers who wish to question their touristic identity and to stage profound encounters with La Serenissima, the talk will take the form of a “celluloid feast” in which scenes of Italians and Venetians at table will be screened and closely analyzed with attention to the “food operas” through which Italians stage their family life and use food as a language with which to create community and to perform their cultural identity. Particular attention will be paid to films set in Venice that represent the food experiences and interpersonal encounters of Venetians and/or tourists – gourmets in search of “aristopiatti,” foodies fetishized by the variations on radicchio on the menu at Taverna La Fenice, gluttons magnetized by polenta, and romantic travelers who use food as seduction. They will screen clips from canonic tourist films such as Summertime and The Tourist. A lecture by Pellegrino D’Acierno, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, Hofstra University
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poet reads from her work


Poet Brenda Hillman is the author of Extra Hidden Life, among the Days; Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire; Practical Water; Pieces of Air in the Epic; Cascadia; Loose Sugar; Bright Existence; Death Tractates; Fortress; and White Dress.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Rape Culture and Sexual Violence in the Arts


In 2006, activist Tarana Burke originated Me Too as a slogan of empathy and solidarity with victims of sexual harassment and assault. More than a decade later, #MeToo has grown into a movement confronting rape culture and its manifestation across the arts and other work and social environments. This discussion digs into the impact that these developments have had on dance artists and institutions and the possibilities for justice and personal healing. Guest Host: Yasemin Ozumerzifon Core Participants: Adrienne Truscott, Alexandra Beller, mayfield brooks, Jules Skloot, Qurrat Ann Kadwani
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Talk | The Future of Education and Civic Engagement for the Latino Community in America


Dr. Luis R. Fraga, Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership and Director of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, talks about his leadership journey, and the future of education and civic engagement for the Latino community in America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | 2 Authors: Darryl Pinckney / Gary Shteyngart


Darryl Pinckney is the author of two novels, High Cotton and Black Deutschland, and two works of nonfiction, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature, part of the Alain Locke Lecture Series, and Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy. Gary Shteyngart is the author of the novels Super Sad True Love Story, Absurdistan, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, and, most recently, Lake Success (Random House, 2018). He is also the author of the memoir Little Failure.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Opera | Artemisia: Life Of The Female Italian Painter


Laura Schwendinger’s opera Artemisia narrates the life of the famed 17th-century female Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi who explored trauma through her art, depicting herself as Susanna in her painting Susanna and the Elders. Trinity Church Wall Street’s contemporary music orchestra NOVUS NY is under the leadership of Trinity’s Director of Music, Julian Wachner. Hailed by the New Yorker as “expert and versatile musicians,” its members perform new music from all corners of the repertoire, meeting “every challenge with an impressive combination of discipline and imagination” (New York Classical Review). NOVUS NY has helped pioneer a number of major new operas. These include Ellen Reid’s Winter’s Child and Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for music. Composer Laura Schwendinger’s works have been performed at Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln-Center, and numerous other prestigious concert halls.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Seven: Family, Lineage and Identity.


A new collection of works by artist Shani Jamila. Jamila’s collages, paintings and soundscapes explore family, lineage and identity. The collages utilize her archive of photo essays created over the course of her travels to nearly fifty countries as source material. They interrogate how the idea of home is constructed and the surrealist nature of our political reality. As Jamila encounters people and places through her camera lens, moments of recognition or solidarity emerge which are reorganized and re-purposed through collage, simultaneously revealing and obscuring identity and familiarity.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Altruists: A Professor Unravels


Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college, he can't afford his mortgage, he's exasperated his much younger girlfriend, and his kids won't speak to him. And then there's the small fortune his late wife Francine kept secret, which she bequeathed directly to his children. Andrew Ridker was born in 1991. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, Boston Review, The Believer, and St. Louis Magazine; and he is the editor of Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics. He is the recipient of an Iowa Arts Fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The Altruists is his first novel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | The Feigned Courtesans: 1679 Comedy


The Feigned Courtesans (or A Night's Intrigue) is a 1679 comedic stage play by the English playwright Aphra Behn. Behn dedicated the play, originally performed at the Duke's Company in London, to the well-known actress and mistress of King Charles II, Nell Gwyn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Most Beautiful Night of the Soul: More Stories from the Middle East and Beyond


Told from the perspective of Cairo-based European war correspondent, the book is, above all, about a journalist examining some of today's most pressing Middle East conflicts while forced to question his own assumptions and haunted by his own demons. Hungarian journalist and author Sandor Jaszberenyi discusses his latest book of short stories
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Stolen Images: A Screening and Conversation with Raoul Peck, Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker


Raoul Peck, the School of Media Studies' 2019 Hirshon Director-in-Residence, will present his films and discuss his work in conversation with Michelle Materre, Associate Professor of Media Studies & Film, Raoul Peck is one of the most significant and prolific filmmakers of our time. He has been richly rewarded for his historical, political, and artistic work. His work includes such films as The Man by the Shore (Competition, Cannes 1993); Lumumba (Director’s Fortnight, Cannes 2000, HBO); Sometimes in April, on the genocide in Rwanda, which he produced and directed for HBO; (Competition, Berlinale 2005); Moloch Tropical (Toronto and Berlin); and The Young Karl Marx (Berlinale 2017). His documentary films include Lumumba, Death of a Prophet, and Fatal Assistance (Berlinale and Hot Docs 2013). His latest documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro, on the life of James Baldwin, was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards and won the Audience Award at both the Toronto and Berlin International Film Festivals, LA Film Critics' Best Documentary Award, the Best Documentary Award at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) (U.K.) and the French national film award, the César, among many others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Tavern Nights: Colonial Tabletop Roleplaying Games


Submerge yourself in the American Revolution in a fun and alternative way! Players will be given characters and backstories relevant to the colonial period but the possibilities of where the adventure will take you are endless.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Forum | The Art of Resistance: An Artists Forum on Race, New Media, Technology and Placekeeping in the Global City


The forum will explore a variety of art, culture and new media approaches to re-imagining housing equity and racial justice. The conversation will highlight the ways in which technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), new media platforms such as Augmented Reality, and oral history storytelling can help us unleash our imagination of what’s possible. How can these tools elevate the resilient stories of those most directly affected? Can it be a tool to help us envision social justice now and into the future? Speakers: -- Stephanie Dinkins, transdisciplinary artist -- Betty Yu, co-founder Chinatown Art Brigade -- Lynn Lewis, Picture the Homeless -- Moderated by Professor Laura Y. Liu of Global Studies
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Works by Respighi and Beethoven


Program: Respighi: Quartet in D major Beethoven: Quartet in F major, Op. 135 Originally formed at The Juilliard School, the Tesla Quartet won Second Prize at the prestigious Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2016. At this hour-long concert, the New York–based quartet demonstrates its “superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they played, regardless of era, style or technical demand” (International Review of Music).
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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