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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 27, 2019?

39 free events take place on Wednesday, March 27 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 27 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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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, March 27, 2019

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free events nyc Bach at Noon
free events nyc Guided Historical Tour of the Columbia University Campus
free events nyc Works By Emmy Winning Dancer And Coreographer Paul Taylor
free events nyc Renowned Jazz Guitarist and His Trio
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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 | Night Must Fall (1937): Two Time Oscar Nominated Mystery Drama


When a rich but cantankerous dowager on an isolated estates hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives. 116 min. Director: Richard Thorpe. Starring Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, May Whitty.  Montgomery was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and Whitty for Best Supporting Actress. Night Must Fall was named the best film of the year by the National Board of Review.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Film | The Emperor's New Groove (2000): Oscar Nominated Animation About an Incan Emperor


Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-administrator Yzma, and must now regain his throne with the help of Pacha, the gentle llama herder. 78 min. Director: Mark Dindal. Starring David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt. The Emperor's New Groove was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Tour | City Hall Tour for Individuals


The tour of City Hall includes a discussion of the building's history, art, architecture, and civic function. The building is the oldest city hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions, such as the office of the Mayor of New York. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, New York City Hall is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
   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
12:20 pm
Free

Workshop | Battery Park City Adult Chorus


Directed by Church Street School for Music and Art, the BPC Chorus is open to all adults who love to sing. Learn a mix of contemporary and classic songs, and perform at community events throughout the year.
   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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Concert | Cello Duo


Cellist Elena Ariza performed as a soloist at Davies Symphony Hall with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra in the same year. Currently, she serves as Principal Cellist of the Columbia University Orchestra and the Columbia Pops Orchestra. Elena has won numerous solo and concerto competitions such as the Music Teachers National Association’s California State Competition, Pacific Musical Society Annual Competition, Mondavi Young Artists Competition, and the Symphony Parnassus Concerto Competition, among others. She has played in masterclasses led by David Finckel, Ronald Leonard, Colin Carr, Robert deMaine, and Bonnie Hampton. Cellist Lucie Ticho has collaborated with internationally acclaimed artists such as violinist Stefan Jackiw and dancer Charles “Lil Buck” Riley, and she has performed at venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall and NBA stadiums.
   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
1:00 pm
Free

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

Jazz | Midday Jazz: From Hard Bop To Soul Jazz


Harold Mabern, Jr. is an American jazz pianist and composer, principally in the hard bop, post-bop, and soul jazz fields. He is described in The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings as "one of the great post-bop pianists". Mabern's piano style has been described as being "aggressive, very positive, crashing out chords that drop like pile drivers and warming up and down the keyboard with huge, whooping bursts of action", while, at the same time, he shows "a keen sensitivity" as "an extremely perceptive accompanist".
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Wednesdays at One: Juilliard Percussion Ensemble


Juilliard artists share their talent with the community in these free, hour-long lunchtime concerts throughout the season.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Symposium | Women, Clothing, and Climate


Apparel and textiles is the second most-polluting industry on the planet. This interactive event, which includes a used clothing sale, hands-on workshops on repair and reuse, and a student design challenge, will explore the social and environmental impacts of our clothing, paying particular attention to the roles that women and circular economies might play in reversing the damage. The boutique and workshops will take place 1–5 PM. A panel follows at 6 PM. Scholars and activists Deborah Drew and Maxine Bedat join Sandra Goldmark, associate professor of professional practice in the Theatre Department and director of campus sustainability, for a discussion about how we all might create solutions for living in a more sustainable world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
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Screening | Works By Emmy Winning Dancer And Coreographer Paul Taylor


An event to celebrate the work of brilliant dancer and choreographer Paul Taylor, the Dance Division will screen works featuring and by Taylor. Dancer and coreographer Paul Taylor was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 1992 and received an Emmy Award for Speaking in Tongues. In 1993 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by United States President Bill Clinton. Taylor was also awarded France's highest honor, the Légion d'Honneur, for exceptional contributions to French culture, in 2000.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Lesson | Learn to play chess


Learn to play the most popular game ever: a game of strategy and problem solving. Whether you are a beginner or a more advanced player you can learn the strategies that will make you a better chess player.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Jazz | Renowned Jazz Guitarist and His Trio


Bill Wurtzel, a renowned jazz guitarist, has performed worldwide with many jazz greats. His style in his own words: "I love mainstream jazz and the American songbook. Albums I’ve played on range from gospel, mainstream and soul jazz to Christmas songs in Latin."
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Film | Two Time Oscar Nominated Serpico (1973) With Al Pacino: Undercover Officer Chasing Corruption 


An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him. 130 min. Director: Sidney Lumet. Starring Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe.  The film received Academy Awards nominations for Best Actor (Al Pacino) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Pacino's role as Frank Serpico is ranked at #40 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains list. Serpico is also ranked at #84 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers, a list of America's most inspiring films. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Figure Drawing Workshop


Challenge your artistic skills by drawing the human figure using a variety of materials. Models will strike long and short poses while an artist/educator offers constructive suggestions and critique.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poetry Workshop


No experience necessary. Just bring your love of poetry and your favorite writing implement. Bill Zavatsky is an American poet, journalist, jazz pianist, and translator. He is the author of three collections of poetry: Where X Marks the Spot (2006), For Steve Royal and Other Poems (1985), and Theories of Rain and Other Poems (1975). Zavatsky has received numerous honors and awards for his work, including fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony. He was named MacDowell Poet for 2007–2008. Zavatsky translated poems by André Breton with Zack Rogow; that volume, Earthlight (1993), won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Translation Prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Author Reading | Kugel and Frijoles: Latino Jews in the United States


Laura Limonic of the College of Old Westbury of the State University of New York explores issues of ethnicity, race, class and religious community building among Latino Jewish immigrants in Boston, New York, Miami and Southern California.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:30 pm
Free

Author Reading | Open Mic Night Moscow: A Book About Experiences In Russia and Central Asia


Comedian and Author Audrey Murray discusses her experiences in Russia and Central Asia. This is a raucous and surprisingly poignant story of a young, Russia-obsessed American writer and comedian who embarked on a solo tour of the former Soviet Republics, never imagining that it would involve kidnappers, garbage bags of money, and encounters with the weird and wonderful from Mongolia to Tajikistan. Audrey Murray moved from Boston to China and became a standup comedian. The co-founder of the Kung Fu Komedy, Audrey was named the funniest person in Shanghai by City Weekend magazine. Her writing has appeared in The Gothamist, China Economic Review, Nowness, Architizer. Audrey has appeared on the Lost in America, Listen to This!, Shanghai Comedy Corner podcasts, on CNN and ICS, and in Shanghai Daily, Time Out, Smart Shanghai, That’s Shanghai, and City Weekend.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Author Reading | Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir


Fay Wray and Robert Riskin is a Hollywood love story, memoir, and dual biography of two of Hollywood’s most famous figures, whose golden lives were lived at the center of Hollywood’s golden age, written by their daughter, Victoria Riskin, an acclaimed writer and producer, as well as the former president of the Writers Guild of America West.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Signing | Young American: A New Monograph


“This is a future free of gender binaries and stale old definitions of beauty. In Marie’s world people can just simply be. I wish all of America’s youth culture looked like Marie’s photos of Downtown, diverse and inclusive.” -- from the introduction by Ryan McGinley to artist Marie Tomanova's monograph.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | American Painter March Avery


An exhibition of the work of American painter March Avery. Born to artists Milton and Sally Avery, March was immersed in the world of artmaking from her earliest days. She grew up in the company of Mark Rothko, Adolf Gottlieb, and Marsden Hartley, and quickly developed her own distinctive voice as a painter of everyday life. Her portraits of humble lives and events are marked by a sense of humor and a keen sophistication of palette and form.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Youth Migration, Education, and Mega Cities: Promise and Peril in Karachi


Pushed by climate change, conflict, and dreams of a better life, many rural Pakistani youth migrate to urban areas to seek an education. In Karachi, these youth add pressure to already strained government and educational services, potentially increasing urban volatility. We know little about youths’ experiences in these urban environments. Dana Burde of NYU discusses youth experiences with the education system in Karachi, seeking to understand better why youth leave home, what their hopes are for their new urban lives, and how they try to address the challenges they face. Understanding these youths’ stories is a crucial first step toward systematically enhancing education services for youth in mega cities, easing the strains of migration, and strengthening the promise youth hold in these contexts.
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Film | I Am Not Your Negro (2017): Oscar-Nominated Documentary


Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck's brilliant documentary on racism in America is an essential work for our era, drawing a clear line from the Civil Rights struggle to today's Black Lives Matter movement via the thought of James Baldwin, one of the most lucid, fearless American thinkers on race (and many other matters). 93 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Film | Murder and Murder (1996): Later-in-Life Love


Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Director: Yvonne Rainer Stars: Joanna Merlin, Kathleen Chalfant, Catherine Kellner 113 min. Followed by a conversation with the director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Nellie Bly Makes The News (2018) and Shirley Chisholm: The Leader (1998): Short Movies On Successful Women


Nellie Bly Makes The News (2018) Animated short documentary presents the story of Nellie Bly, a muckracking investigative journalist who changed the game for women in reporting before women even had the right to vote. 23 min. Dir: Penny Lane. Shirley Chisholm: The Leader (1998) This short film covers the life and career of former Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, first black major-party candidate to run for President, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, and first chair of the National Black Women's Political Caucus. 30 min. After the films, attendees are invited to stay for a discussion of women's impact in journalism, media, politics, activism, and change-making.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II


While World War II created and destroyed nations, powered economic growth, and brought the rise and fall of fascism, it also created the conditions for New York City to emerge as a new global capital. A city of servicemen, politicians, and saboteurs; Nazi, Fascist, and Communist sympathizers; war protesters and conscientious objectors; gangsters and profiteers; poets and painters, atomic scientists and spies. In Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II, John Strausbaugh tells the story of New York City’s war years and provides readers with new insights into the greatest city on earth during a particularly transformative time in human history. John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village , has been writing about the culture and history of New York City for a quarter of a century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Who Is Dayani Cristal? (2013): Sundance-Winning Documentary


The film follows the search for the identity of a Latin American migrant who died in the Arizona desert, and whose only identifying mark is a tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal.” Directors: Gael Garcia Bernal, Marc Silver 98 min. Followed by a Q&A with Mónica Salmón Gómez, a graduate fellow in sociology, and Natasha Iskander, a faculty fellow and visiting professor from the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Lecture | Ariadne and the Minotaur: Symbolic and Literal Labyrinth in Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend


This talk explores Naples as the architectonic setting of Elena Ferrante’s novel My Brilliant Friend through the lens of classical mythology and urban sociology. It examines the city – and more specifically, the neighborhood or the rione – as a symbolic and literal labyrinth, an architectural manifestation of the patriarchal order which structures and oppresses the feminine body and psyche. The talk follows Ferrante’s two female protagonists, Lila and Elena, as they negotiate the labyrinth of the rione and face the monster-Minotaur of their childhood, thereby articulating new ways of resisting male-dominated urban space. With: Stiliana Milkova, Oberlin College
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | The Video Gaming Industry in NYC


The NYC game industry is thriving and is the home to developers, producers, marketers, and editors. Gaming experts share how you can level up your skills, and turn your passion for games into a career. Featuring: Timothy Doolen, creative leader, art director and visual developer Vonnetta Ewing, Director, Talent Acquisition, Take-Two Interactive Software Susanna Pollack, President, Games for Change Fox Chen, Co-Founder and CTO, Mokuni. Moderator: Krysti Pryde, Brand Marketing Manager, Tilting Point.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Play | Balm in Gilead: Exiles on the Upper West Side


Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead takes place in 1966 in Frank's Cafe, an all-night coffee shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side peopled by a makeshift community of dealers, junkies, hustlers, prostitutes, dreamers and runaways. One of the milestones of the dynamic Off-Off-Broadway theatre movement, this vivid and powerful play, first produced by La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, illuminates the bleak and terrifying world of young exiles and outcasts in New York's upper Broadway area. A student production.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | The Hum of the World: A Philosophy on Listening


The Hum of the World is an invitation to contemplate what would happen if we heard the world as attentively as we see it. Balancing big ideas with playful wit and lyrical prose, Lawrence Kramer’s poetic book identifies the role of sound in Western experience as the primary medium in which the presence and persistence of life acquire tangible form. The positive experience of aliveness is not merely in accord with sound, but inaccessible, even inconceivable, without it. Lawrence Kramer, Distinguished Professor of English and Music at Fordham University, is an award-winning composer and the author of fifteen previous books, including The Thought of Music, winner of the 2017 ASACP Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom


Hosted by Mariame Kaba, activist, organizer, and founder of Project NIA (which advocates the end of youth incarceration) editors and curators of The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom will read and discuss the narratives of people surviving the effects of long-term incarceration. With Kathy Boudin, Victoria Law, Janos Marton, Sarah Ross, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk: Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice


Patricia Cronin is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of gender, sexuality and social justice and has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally, including Shrine for Girls at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Other solo exhibitions were presented at the Capitoline Museum’s Centrale Montemartini Museum, Rome, and the Brooklyn Museum. Cronin is the recipient of numerous awards including the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. Her work is featured in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, both in Washington, DC. She is a professor of Art at Brooklyn College.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: in case you should forget to sweep before sunset


Featuring multiple lens-based works as well a new photographic installation, the exhibition by Zalika Azim explores notions of home, memory, migration, and remigration. Referring to southern lore, the title in particular, pulls from a common superstition which suggests that “the home should not be swept past sunset.” For believers, doing so puts one at risk of sweeping away the spirits of ancestors who may provide protection to the family home. in case you should forget to sweep before sunset is not only an engagement with ancestral knowledges and southern sensibilities, but is also a play on expectations of time, space, and narration.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | An Aftertaste of Dread: Writer Cornell Woolrich in Fiction and Film


This talk explores the distinctive literary techniques and moods of Cornell Woolrich, giving emphasis to the sense of dread that pervades his fiction and can also be found in other expressions of cultural modernity. The talk will try to explain why Woolrich was so frequently adapted into film, television, and radio during what we retrospectively think of as the noir decades of the 1940s and 50s. It will also provide notes on seven films (plus one television show) that are among the best of the adaptations. Speaker James Naremore is Chancellors’ Professor Emeritus at Indiana University and the author of the award winning More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Classical Music | Haydn’s Immortal The Creation


First performed in 1799, Haydn’s immortal The Creation captures the lavish drama of God’s creation of the universe, from the earliest verses of the Bible where chaos is separated into light, earth, and air to the first happy hours of Adam and Eve in the Garden. Inspired by the Book of Genesis, the Book of Psalms, and Milton’s Paradise Lost, Haydn’s most famous and enduring masterwork has enthralled audiences for centuries.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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