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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 11, 2019?

38 free events take place on Monday, March 11 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 11 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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38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, March 11, 2019

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free events nyc Piano Works by Rossini, Liszt, Scriabin and more
free events nyc Void: Repressed Jewish History in Austria
free events nyc Legendary comedian Steve Martin discusses the book My Young Life with author Frederic Tuten
free events nyc A Livable New York: The Future of Community Green Space and Affordable Housing
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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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Film | Suffragette (2015): British Women Struggle To Get The Right To Vote Starring Meryl Streep


In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end. 106 min. Director: Sarah Gavron. Starring Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter, Meryl Streep. Suffragette had grossed $30 million against a budget of $14 million.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | How To Design A Tote Bag


If you want to design your own tote bag this workshop is for you!  Canvas bags will be provided so you can paint them using fabric markers create the bag of your dreams. A tote bag is a large and often unfastened bag with parallel handles that emerge from the sides of its pouch.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Author Reading | Estonia: The Land of Skype and Digital Freedom


Author Neil Taylor take you through the exciting 1,000-year journey of Estonia to its present world acclaim as the Land of Skype and Digital Freedom, with a focus on the birth of Estonia as a free and independent country in 1918 and the restoration of its birth from the ashes of the Soviet Union in 1991.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Author Reading | The Future of Human Rights: Strategies for a Post-Liberal World


Human rights have fallen on hard times--yet rights are needed now more than ever. We stand at a crossroads between expansion and contraction of rights: new voices, spaces, and pathways contrast with declining democracies, deepening citizenship gap, and regression in the international regime. How can we secure a pragmatic future for rights based on evolving political practice? We will outline strategies for reclaiming rights in a post-liberal world. Author Alison Brysk is the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Author Reading | Transforming Empire in Japan and East Asia: The Taiwan Expedition and the Birth of Japanese Imperialism


In the spring of 1874 the Japanese government sent an expedition to southern Taiwan ostensibly to punish indigenous villagers who had murdered dozens of people from Ryūkyū. Contemporary records show that the Japanese government also attempted to colonize eastern Taiwan and it justified its actions using the argument that a state must spread civilization and political authority to territories where it claimed sovereignty. The expedition took place in the context of the unequal treaty system in East Asia and during the contentious early years the Meiji period, and it shows how Japan’s new foreign policy stance in the 1870s combined elements taken from Western imperialism with revolutionary changes in Japan after the Meiji Restoration (1868). The new foreign policy stance spread the effects of the Restoration beyond Japan and accelerated the disruption of dynastic power in East Asia. Author Robert Eskildsen is a Senior Associate Professor in the Department of History at International Christian University, Tokyo.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Countering Kleptocracy in Ukraine: The Battle at Home and in the West


How much progress has been made in tackling corruption in Ukraine since the Maidan Revolution of 2014? How have Western actors, institutions and professional service providers enabled Ukraine’s transnational corruption networks? And what changes in Western policy are required to further support Ukraine's, especially as the country heads towards presidential elections? Featuring one of the country’s leading anti-corruption advocates and practitioners: Daria Kaleniuk, co-founder of the Anti-corruption Action Centre in Ukraine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class With A Pianist: “Prodigiously Accomplished and Exciting” - NY Times


Pianist Blair McMillen has performed in all of the major concert venues in New York City, throughout the US, and around the world. Recent appearances include concertos with the American Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, solo appearances with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Albany Symphony, and a 3-week solo tour of Brazil sponsored by the US State Department. He is described by the New York Times as “prodigiously accomplished and exciting” and as one of the piano’s “brilliant stars”.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Film | Our Modern Maidens (1929): A Silent Drama On Relationships


A flapper charms a diplomat to procure her fiancé a career opportunity, while the fiancé starts a relationship with her best friend. Director: Jack Conway. Starring Joan Crawford, Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Our Modern Maidens was nominated for American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions list. According to MGM records the film earned $675,000 in the US and Canada and $182,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $248,000. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | CANCELLED! 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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Tour | Guided Historical Tour of the Columbia University Campus


Join this tour to learn more about the history, architecture, and sculpture of Columbia and the Morningside Heights campus. Whether you're an amateur New York City historian or visiting campus for the first time, you will leave the tour knowing more about our storied past. Given that the tour route is outdoors, please be aware that tours are occasionally suspended due to inclement weather.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | John Ford's Mogambo (1953): Adventure In Africa Starring Clark Gable and Grace Kelly


On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda. 116 min. Director: John Ford. Starring Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner.  The film was adapted by John Lee Mahin from the play Red Dust by Wilson Collison. The picture is a remake of Red Dust (1932), which also stars Gable in the same role. Mogambo was nominated for two Oscars for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Gardner) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Kelly).  
   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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Master Class | Vocal Master Class


Fabrizio Melano is an established figure of the international opera scene, having worked with leading opera houses throughout the world for more than twenty-five years. He began a long-standing relationship with the Metropolitan Opera in 1970, and since then he has directed new productions of Pelléas et Mélisande, Norma (with Renata Scotto), and Puccini's Il trittico, La bohème, and Madama Butterfly. The director's extensive work also includes Fabrizio Melano's new productions for Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Washington National Opera and Opera Company of Philadelphia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Writing club


Want to meet local writers? Commit to a writing schedule? Practice your craft through writing prompts? Read original work to get and give feedback? Then come to the biweekly meetings of the Writing Club. Writers of all genres and styles, at all levels, are welcome to participate. No sign-ups required. For adults (ages 18 and up).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Film | The Mysterious Lady (1928): Silent Romance Based On A Novel Starring Greta Garbo


An attractive Russian spy seduces an Austrian officer in order to get some important plans, but when she actually falls in love with him, both of them are placed in a dangerous situation. 96 min. Director: Fred Niblo. Starring Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz.  The Mysterious Lady is based on the novel War in the Dark by Ludwig Wolff. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Conversation With A Well Known Composer 


George Emanuel Lewis joins Claire Chase, soloist, collaborative artist, curator, and founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble for a conversation on aesthetics, practices, and the evolution of Lewis' Emergent for flute and electronics. George Emanuel Lewis is a composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar in the fields of improvisation and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971 and is a pioneer of computer music. 
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6:00 pm
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Film | Blindspotting (2018): Best Friends Having Problems


While on probation, a man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend. 95 min. Director: Carlos López Estrada. Starring Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar. Blindspotting had its world premiere on January 18, 2018 in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the United States on July 20, 2018, by Lionsgate. At the 34th Independent Spirit Awards, it was nominated for Best Male Lead for Diggs' performance.
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6:15 pm
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Discussion | Corruption and Kleptocracy: The Scourge of Eastern Europe


Western “enablement” of corruption and kleptocracy in Eastern Europe has been said to frustrate democratic political development in Eastern Europe. This is a panel discussion with Eastern European experts Charles Davidson, publisher of The American Interest magazine; Nino Evgenidze, Executive Director at the Economic Policy Research Center in Tbilisi, Georgia; Daria Kaleniuk, co-founder of the Anti-corruption Action Centre, Ukraine; and Miranda Patrucic, an investigative reporter based in Sarajevo. Professor Jenik Radon will moderate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:15 pm
Free

Performance | Alligator Pears: An Evening of Interventions


Artist Guadalupe Maravilla will host the game Tripa Chuca, in which players take turns drawing lines that do not intersect. Victoria Keddie will facilitate an auditory and visual exercise through a live performance with screening. Sharon Madanes and Mike Crane will organize the seating arrangement for the evening, allowing audiences to choose a place of remote contemplation or active participation in this temporary waiting room space.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Sentinel: The Unlikely Origins of the Statue of Liberty


Francesca Lidia Viano speaks about her new book. Few structures have become as iconic, for the city and nation, as the Statue of Liberty. Yet its own history remains obscure. In this new work, “the fullest account yet of the people and ideas that brought the lady of the harbor to life,” Viano, a Fellow at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, discusses the contradictory mix of ideologies and values behind it. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | A Streak of Violet: LGBTQ+ History within New York University


With the Stonewall Riots on its doorstep 50 years ago, New York University was confronted before most universities and institutions with the question of how to respond to requests and demands for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights. Join this panel of current NYU administrators, retirees, alumni, and others as we relive the history of human rights struggles from these front lines. Gathering for the first time oral histories, items from University archives, student collections, and dramatic firsthand accounts presented live, this event will leave you with stories you’ve only imagined about the excitement and persistence of how rights are actually won.
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Beyond the Game: Women, Sports, and Competition


A celebration of the 35th Anniversary of the Columbia-Barnard Athletic Consortium. Introduction by Barnard President Sian Beilock and Columbia Athletics Director Peter Pilling. Moderated by Dylan Dreyer, NBC News. Featuring: -- Meghan Duggan, Olympic Medalist, U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team Captain, and Advocate -- Judie Lomax, Columbia Hall of Famer and former WNBA player -- Caroline Nelson-Nichols, Olympian and Columbia Lions Field Hockey Coach -- Michele Roberts, Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association 
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Moving Mountains and Liberating Dialogues: Creating a Black Feminist Archaeology


Whitney Battle-Baptiste describes the process of bringing together disciplines and modes of inquiry that are often at odds as one of “moving mountains and liberating dialogues.” Linking inquiries into her own identity and scholarship, Battle-Baptiste brings an intersectional approach by focusing African diaspora archaeology through the lens of black feminist theory. These intersectional approaches are vital to improving contemporary historical archaeology, and developing it as a practice necessary to broader quests for social and political justice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Classical Music | Piano Works by Rossini, Liszt, Scriabin and more


Program: Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) Sonata in G minor, op. 7 No. 3 Alfonso Rendano (1853-1931) Variazioni sopra un tema calabrese Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Isoldens Liebestod (From Wagner's Tristan und Isolde) Rossini's La Danza, Tarantella Napoletana Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915) Sonata Op.68 n. 9 With: Daniela Roma, piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Discussion | Say It Like You Mean It: On Translation, Communication, Languages


This event  explores the particular ways in which we use language -- dialects, registers of speaking, non-verbal speech -- in relation to the knowledge we produce for imagined publics, as well as its impacts and, ultimately, how we convey our ideas.  A group of artists who think profoundly about these issues will be joined by anthropologists and language specialists, as well as educators, art historians and Indigenous scholars to contend with myriad related questions including: Do we imagine a particular person or a group when we formulate speech? Is this choice conscious? What might this reveal about us? What does the actual language we use to communicate convey? Is it a native tongue or in translation? Does it take up the languages of theory, or of daily speech? What does a silent position mean? What role does the refusal to speak play in the right to free speech? The evening begins with "Brighter Than the Brightest Star I've Ever Seen," a special performance by Kite (Suzanne Kite), Oglala Lakota composer and performance and visual artist. It will be followed by a discussion among Kite, writer and art historian Aruna D'Souza, artist and educator Kameelah Janan Rasheed, anthropologist Stefania Pandolfo, Mojave poet, language activist, and educator Natalie Diaz, and Ross Perlin, Co-Director of the Endangered Language Alliance. Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich will moderate, and seminar participants will be asked to reflect on the readings provided as well as contribute to the discussion. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Two Writers Discuss Writing About Other Eras and Combining Fiction And History


Two authors, Lisa Gornick and Christina Baker Kline will discuss the pleasures and perils of writing about other eras, and their approaches to combining historical and fictional events and characters. Lisa Gornick’s novel The Peacock Feast spans the 20th century, ricocheting between the Tiffany mansions, Anna Freud’s office, a California commune, a Texas death row unit, and today’s Manhattan. An historical saga about love, class, and the past we never escape, it is described by Meg Wolitzer as "one of those rare books that feels both grand and intimate." Christina Baker Kline’s A Piece of the World was inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting, "Christina’s World." An atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, it is described by Michael Chabon as "a graceful, moving and powerful demonstration of what can happen when a fearless literary imagination combines with an inexhaustible curiosity about the past and the human heart."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Club | Less: When the Answer Is Running Away


Andrew Sean Greer's novel asks: who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes—it would be too awkward—and you can't say no—it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll


The 1950s witnessed both the birth of both rock and roll and the creation of Southern literature as we know it. Around the time that Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley put their electric spin on Southern vernacular ballads, a canonical group of white American authors native to rock's birthplace began to write fiction about the electrification of those ballads, translating into literary form key cultural changes that gave rise to the infectious music coming out of their region. Florence Dore tells the story of how these forms of expression became intertwined and shows how Southern writers turned to rock music and its technologies--tape, radio, vinyl--to develop the "rock novel."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire


Film can make us want things we can not have. But, while sometimes rapturous, the interaction of onscreen beauty and private desire speaks to a crisis in American culture, one that pits delusions of male supremacy against feminist awakening and the spirit of gay resistance. Combining criticism, his encyclopedic knowledge of film history, and memoir, David Thomson examines how film has found the fault lines in traditional masculinity and helped to point the way past it toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person desiring others. Ranging from advertising to pornography, Rudolph Valentino to Moonlight, Rock Hudson to Call Me By Your Name, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Phantom Thread, Thomson shows us the art and the artists we love under a new light.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Void: Repressed Jewish History in Austria


Void unites two photographers, Yvonne Oswald and Tatiana Lecomte, to draw attention to forgotten and repressed aspects of Jewish history in Austria. The exhibition juxtaposes Oswald’s photographs of deserted rooms of a former grand hotel in the Austrian Alps with Lecomte’s pictures of mounted birds from the collec­tions of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. By bringing together these different artistic positions, they prompt a discourse about commemoration, its representabil­ity and communica­tion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Wheeling & Healing: Poems of Resilience


Ashley C. Ford hosts the launch of the anthology Wheeling & Healing, edited by the Reality Poets. The Reality Poets invited residents of their long-term care facility, neighbors on Roosevelt Island, mentors and friends to contribute poems toward a message of realness, resilience and healing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | A Celebration of Poetry


A celebration of the studio's poet-in-residence program. With: Sonia Sanchez Yusef Komunyakaa Idra Novey Gregory Pardlo Grace Schulman
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | A Livable New York: The Future of Community Green Space and Affordable Housing


Little Italy's Elizabeth Street Garden is a community sculpture garden with over 100,000 visitors a year and year-round free public programs. Currently, the City and NYC Housing Preservation & Development plans to destroy the garden to develop affordable housing, office space, and luxury retail, despite a proposed alternative site for the planned development. These propositions have set up a false choice between the community's needs for public green space and affordable housing, and reflect crucial issues with City planning and the livability of New York. Community garden representatives, activists, and scholars explore access to public green space and the availability of affordable housing in a constantly changing city through the lens of Elizabeth Street Garden. The panel will be moderated by Kai Wright, a WNYC reporter and host of the podcast There Goes The Neighborhood.= Introductory remarks will be provided from Mia White, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, and Joseph Reiver, Executive Director of the Elizabeth Street Garden.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Legendary comedian Steve Martin discusses the book My Young Life with author Frederic Tuten


Novelist, essayist, and critic Frederic Tuten recalls his personal and artistic coming-of-age in 1950s New York, a defining period that would set him on the course to becoming a writer. He will discuss his book with Steve Martin, one of the most well-known talents in entertainment whose work has earned him an Academy Award, five Grammy awards, an Emmy, the Mark Twain Award, and the Kennedy Center Honors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland


The New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe’s latest book explores the secretive and violent culture of the Provisional IRA. Radden Keefe will discuss the legwork and detailed reporting which enabled him to write this gripping narrative history, which David Grann (Killers of the Osage Flower Moon) calls “a work of revelation.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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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: DaEun Jung Benjamin Kimitch Susannah Simpson Tatyana Tenenbaum & Collaborators
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