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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 3, 2022?

38 free events take place on Thursday, March 3 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 3 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 Thursday, March 3, 2022

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Workshop | Exploring the Power of Mindfulness (online)


ERM Mindfulness is an online program designed with positive psychology insights and neuroscience research to help participants to experience the present moment with increased acceptance, nurturing curiosity and promoting collaboration. Our minds have a natural tendency to wander. Now with the challenges that come from increased time spent at home and away from in-person activities, we have an opportunity to develop a greater sense of wellbeing and interconnectedness by training our minds to become more aware and less judgmental. By cultivating awareness of emotions while reinforcing positive values and goals, students will have an opportunity to practice mindful listening and meditation in 3 sections: Clarity: focused attention and open monitoring guided meditations Compassion: active listening and self-compassion for collaboration Creativity: leadership communication and visualization With: Rajiah Williams Leong Thursdays, January 27-April 7, 2022
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 am
Free

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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Book Discussion | The Spectre of War. International Communism and the Origins of World War II (online)


Professor Jonathan Haslam will discuss his most recent book, The Spectre of War. International Communism and the Origins of World War II, which explores the roots of the Second World War in the fear of Communism prevalent across continents during the interwar period. Jonathan Haslam retired as George F. Kennan Professor at the Princeton University Institute for Advanced Study last July. He is a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Professor Emeritus of Cambridge University and a Fellow of the British Academy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Discussion | New Urbanisms of China and India (online)


The speakers will discuss the meanings and significance of the “urban” in two of the largest and most populous urban centers in the world: Greater Mumbai and the Municipality of Chongqing. Drawing from their research on transformational processes that span conventional boundaries of rural-urban, formal-informal, state-society, citizen-subject, the panel addresses questions of governance, migration, infrastructure, and public goods provision.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Book Discussion | Versace: The Complete Collections (online)


Tim Blanks, editor-at-large of The Business of Fashion, and Dr. Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT, discuss Blank’s book. This is a comprehensive presentation of Versace’s women’s wear collections, from its 1978 debut to today, seen through stunning catwalk photography. It is a celebration of more than 40 years of Versace’s trendsetting creations. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | Garment District: Factories, Gangsters, Labor Unions and More


Hear an unusual perspective from somebody who spent the greater portion of his life working in the GARMENT industry. You will learn how the apparel industry developed in NYC through the years, and how it came to be located in its current District. Watch the development of the industry from sweatshops in the old tenement buildings on the Lower East Side, to giant factories in China and Bangladesh. See how immigrants were the backbone of the industry and in NYC, still are. Five minute flow chart "From Fibers To Garment". Learn about Calvin, Ralph and Oscar, as well as Labor Unions and Gangsters. A Factory Visit When Available. See "The Garment Worker'' by Judith Weller, The Fashion Walk of Fame. The Giant Button and Needle artwork on Seventh Ave. And much more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Hike | State Island Hike


A scenic hike through the heart of the Greenbelt. The Red trail winds along hillsides and streams.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Film | I Am Here (2021): 100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor (online)


100-year-old South African Holocaust survivor Ella Blumenthal is a force to be reckoned with. This documentary tells Blumenthal’s remarkable story, starting with her youth in Poland where she witnessed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and was imprisoned in the Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. Filmed as Blumenthal celebrated her 98th birthday with family and friends in South Africa, I Am Here showcases Blumenthal’s magnetic personality and uses hand-drawn animations to illustrate stories from her life. Director:Jordy Sank. 73 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Multitudes: Exhibition Tour (online)


From extraordinary early American portraits and dazzlingly complex quilts to playful whimsy bottles, delicately hand-tinted photographs, and fragments of rare twentieth-century art environments, this is an exhibition that celebrates six decades of collecting at the American Folk Art Museum across four centuries of folk and self-taught art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Works By Female Composers For Harpsichord


Kevin C. Devine, harpsichord. From remote convents to the bustling courts of royalty, female composers left an indelible mark on the music of early modern Europe. This program explores the keyboard repertoire left to us by these brilliant women, spanning two centuries. Kevin C. Devine performs engaging and unconventional programs in New York and across the United States. Dr. Devine has degrees from Boston University, Stony Brook University, and is pursuing a graduate diploma at The Juilliard School. He has been invited to play recitals on several concert series, including Gotham Early Music Scene and Harpsichord Heaven at the Barn at Flintwoods.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
Free

Jazz | Jazz Vocalist-Pianist-Composer (online)


Mala Waldron is a vocalist/pianist/composer born in New York City who balances shows in the tri-state area with tours in Europe and Asia. As a bandleader, Mala has performed at many esteemed NYC venues including the Jazz Standard, Dizzy’s, 55 Bar, BAM Cafe, and Minton’s Playhouse. She was also featured at the First Annual Coltrane Day Music Festival, and on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Her featured recordings include her CD debut, Lullabye, a tribute to her godmother Billie Holiday; He’s My Father, a duo project with her father, pianist/composer Mal Waldron; and Always There, which was licensed by Columbia Records (Japan) and voted one of JazzUSA’s Top 20 Jazz CDs of 2006.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | Russia in the Americas: What Now? (online)


In light of the invasion of Ukraine, a panel of expert speakers will discuss the geopolitical implications of Russia's increasing incursions into Latin America and the Caribbean. Moscow's violation of Ukrainian sovereignty raises urgent questions about the nature of Russian activities in the Americas. It puts into questions the compatibility of Russia's presence in the Western Hemisphere and long-standing efforts to build democracy. How does Russia view the Americas? What priorities are Moscow pursuing? And where do relations go from here? Speakers: -- Luis Guillermo Solis, Interim Director, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, and former President of Costa Rica -- Douglas Farah, Senior Visiting Fellow, National Defense University, Institute for National Strategic Studies(INSS); President, IBI Consultants -- David Kramer, Managing Director, Global Policy, George W. Bush Institute and Senior Fellow, Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University -- Eric Farnsworth, Vice President, Americas Society/Council of the Americas (moderator)
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | 2 Exhibitions: March Forth / Other Worldly


Ruth Bauer Neustadter's March Forth Driven by an archeological, environmental and political urgency, the artisttravel through life discovering discarded materials which I am inspired to transform into meaningful and provocative works of art. Mary Alice Orito's Other Worldly In this exhibition, her artistic dialogue is a series of fanciful Beasty creatures, guarding a large Pod, a flower and a bird all existing in Other Worldly. This paper-based mixed media effort of cut paper, torn paper, papier mache, wire and beads is one of experimentation with larger, organic monotone pieces.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Discussion | Cozy Mystery Talk with 2 Authors (online)


Welcome Joanne Fluke and writing duo Juneau Black for a "cozy" talk about their newest projects, all things cozy mystery writing, and the best mystery and thriller recommendations so you, too, can get your amateur sleuth on (at home...while cozied up with your blanket)! This conversation will be moderated by Cat Acree, Deputy Editor at BookPage.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Formless Formation: Vignettes for the End of This World (online)


Formless Formation is an experimental project conceived and co-authored by two performance theorists working in critical aesthetics and political thought. The book is an insurgent revolt, walking side by side with plural and planetary anticolonial forces organizing against debt, expropriative extractive capital, environmental catastrophe, and the militarized policing of people and borders. It is in direct conversation with all Indigenous, Black, Brown, ecological, feminist, queer, trans, diasporic movements countering capitalist predatory formations across time and space. Through shared resonances across differing aesthetic-life-worlds and solidarities that bypass the nation-state, authors Sandra Ruiz and Hypatia Vourloumis bring to the forefront performative and aesthetic practices that address current and future social organizing. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Michael Heizer: New Sculpture


An exhibition of five new sculptures which were made at Heizer’s studio in Nevada over a four-year period. They combine angular steel structures with rocks ranging from 14 to 23 tons in weight, which were extracted from a quarry in Riverside, California. The rocks and steel in conjunction weigh from 27 to 40 tons. The interplay between these two differently textured and colored components, and between the positive and negative spaces they establish, is key to the works’ impact, as is the relationship of the viewer’s body to their monumental heft.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Adger Cowans: Footsteps: Photographs


“To this day I carry a sense of pride, and have always tried to apply it to my art. I smile when I think of my mother insisting that my sister, Narcissia, always hold my hand because I was a daydreamer. I wandered aimlessly just looking around. Years later I understood that I was being primed to visualize, to think about, and to absorb the offerings of the world.” -Adger Cowans
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Amalgamation: Gallery's Tenth Anniversary Show


The opening includes a special tour of the show and a reception to follow. Explore the gallery and the eclectic array of works, traversing almost three centuries of art history and showcasing both historically renowned and previously overlooked artists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Dorothea Tanning: Doesn't the Paint Say It All?


A major exhibition of work by Dorothea Tanning brings together canvases and works on paper drawn from the artist’s remarkable oeuvre to present the most comprehensive solo presentation of her work for US audiences in decades. This is the first exhibition at the gallery dedicated to the work of Tanning, whose pioneering explorations into the space between abstraction and figuration continue to influence vital painters today. Spanning over four decades from 1947–1989, and including significant examples on loan from major museum collections and important private collections, the exhibition will trace Tanning’s stylistic arc from its roots in surrealism through interrelated phases of the artist’s career to what became a deeply original and timeless painting practice. Across these bodies of work, Tanning’s unique formal language is characterized by the tension between figuration and abstraction. Her insistence on mystery and enigma encourages an experience of ongoing discovery for the viewer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return (online)


In a deft mix of memoir and reportage, drawing on literature and art, recent and ancient history, and the experience of encounters with individuals, environments, and landscapes in New York City and in England, Rebecca Mead artfully explores themes of identity, nationality, and inheritance. She recounts her time in the coastal town of Weymouth, where she grew up; her dizzying first years in New York where she broke into journalism; the rich process of establishing a new home for her dual-national son in London. Along the way, she gradually reckons with the complex legacy of her parents. Home/Land is a stirring inquiry into how to be present where we are, while never forgetting where we have been.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | James Metcalf: Hammer and Hand


Bringing together works spanning almost 60 years and demonstrating the American artist’s startlingly original vocabulary of forms and techniques, the exhibition will be the first at the gallery dedicated to Metcalf’s practice and is staged in close collaboration with his family. A new essay by the artist's biographer, Roy Skodnick, will be published on the occasion of the exhibition. The formal elegance of Metcalf’s oeuvre speaks to the artist’s mastery of metal. Rendering works splendidly in copper, iron, and brass, the artist blends the biomorphic character of post-war surrealism with an obsession with material and the collaborative world of artisans.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Sorriso Negro by Dona Ivone Lara (online)


More than simply a paragon of Brazilian samba, Dona (Lady) Ivone Lara's 1981 Sorriso Negro is an album deeply embedded in the political and social tensions of its time. Released less than two years after the Brazilian military dictatorship approved the Lei de Anistia (the "opening" that put Brazil on a path toward democratic governance), Sorriso Negro reflects the seminal shifts occurring within Brazilian society as former exiles reinforced notions of civil rights and feminist thought in a nation under the iron hand of a military dictatorship that had been in place since 1964. By looking at one of the most important samba albums ever recorded (and one that also happened to be authored by a black woman), Mila Burns explores the pathbreaking career of Dona Ivone Lara, tracing the ways in which she navigated the tense gender and race relations of the samba universe to ultimately conquer the masculine world of samba composers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Winners of the Krappy Kamera Competiton


See the work of dozens of photographers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Zoonotic Hex: Group Show


Attuned to the climate conditions birthing increased interspecies disease, this specially selected group of artists offer an antidote to speed the collapse of humanity or perhaps a prophetic warning, a deterrent from that fate. The global pandemic has created a social landscape peopled by anxieties and post-truths. A trend toward omnicidal fantasy offers an escape, a futuristic outlet where the Earth-goes-on–– even if we, humans, don’t. Each artist here demands rapid, evidence-based, collective action as an antidote for our suffering Earth.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Challenging Institutional Power (online)


A panel discussion with Melanie Hart, Dr. Joy James and Ominira Mars as part of this year’s Stephan Weiss Lecture Series, presented by the School of Design Strategies centered around Raoul Peck’s four-part HBO documentary series, Exterminate All the Brutes.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Freeform’s Single Drunk Female: Cast and Creators Discuss New Series (online)


The stars and creators of Freeform’s Single Drunk Female — Sofia Black-D’Elia, Ally Sheedy, Lily Harrington, Rebecca Henderson, Sasha Compère, Garrick Bernard and Simone Finch — have a panel discussion moderated by Ashley Ray Harris to discuss their buzzy new series. Following an alcoholic twenty-something (Black-D’Elia) forced to move back home with her mother (Sheedy) after a very public meltdown at her NYC media job, Single Drunk Female is a hilarious and moving look at the messy business of confronting trauma and an ode to finding a better self in the worst of circumstances. Hear the cast and creators discuss the making of the series — the genesis of the story, how they developed their characters, stories from behind the scenes, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Jewish Women at Hunter College (in-person and online)


In the days when the City College of New York was all male and Hunter College was all female, Jewish women, mostly the daughters of immigrants from Russia and Poland, knew that a Hunter education was the springboard to a teaching career. Other Hunter Jewish subway scholars took different paths. At least one would win a Nobel Prize. Another tried to open the gate barring women from the rabbinate. Still another, an acclaimed travel writer, returned to her alma mater to join the faculty. American University Professor Pamela Nadell, author of the award-winning America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, and Hunter College Professor and Director of Hebrew and Jewish Studies and award-winning author, Leah Garrett, will launch Women's History Month 2022 with a conversation about the remarkable Jewish alumnae of Hunter College.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Non Fiction Forum (online)


Victoria Chang’s forthcoming book of poetry is The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon Press). Her nonfiction book, Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions), was published in 2021. OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), was named a New York Times Notable Book and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Colloquium | Preservation in China’s Future (online)


The colloquium will critically examine how Chinese architects are engaging with preservation to imagine new forms of creativity and cultural relevance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Small Island Sustainability (online)


This will be a Q&A panel event with four activists from small island nations to discuss the impacts of climate change on small island nations. This panel will focus on solidarity efforts between various islands, adaptation methods to combat sea level rise, natural disasters, and internal displacement, and what we can do to prioritize the voices of island nations in climate action.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Philip Montgomery: American Mirror (in-person and online)


A conversation and book signing featuring New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb and photographer Philip Montgomery as they examine the themes, images, and stories in the book, a dramatic chronicle of the United States at a time of profound upheaval, the first monograph by the award-winning photographer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Black Power Revisited (online)


A conversation with incredible thinkers exploring activism and scholarship on Black Power This virtual conversation takes up a host of new and exciting books on Black Power by Robin Hayes, Ed Onaci, D'Weston Haywood, and Monica White. Speakers will center rural organizing by Black farmers; analyze the reparations strategies of the Republic of New Afrika; widen the lens to consider the impact of international alliances across the African diaspora on domestic radicalism; and explore the role of the Black press in defining a freedom agenda for Black Americans
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | An Unmarried Woman (1978): Oscar-Nominated Drama with Jill Clayburgh (online)


An attractive and well-to-do New Yorker  finds her comfortable existence upended when her husband ends their marriage and takes up with a younger woman.  Director: Paul Mazursky Stars: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy 125 minutes
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | This Is My Office / Notes on My Mother's Decline: 2 New Plays


In these two newly published plays, Andy Bragen examines the intimacies and shadows that exist between parent and child. In This Is My Office, a guided tour through an empty office becomes the unexpected portal to a forgotten New York and a father’s legacy. The autobiographical Notes on My Mother’s Decline chronicles the final days of a woman’s life. The evening will include readings of excerpts from both plays, followed by a Q&A and a book signing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Three Funerals and a Chimp: Comedy (in-person and online)


Three Funerals and a Chimp is Brian Schiller's autobiographical stand-up comedy about the deaths of his mother and brother which precipitated his move to Southern Florida and becoming a live-in caregiver to his dad for four years before his passing. Brian goes on an unexpected journey in this sometimes philosophical, sometimes unflattering, funny search for meaning and truth. "Very nicely written and well delivered." - Joe Bolster, Comedian Full vaccination, valid ID and masks required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Chamber Music by Schubert and More


PROGRAM: Friedrich von Schiller Sehnsucht (1821) Karl Gottfried von Leitner Drang in die Ferne (1823) Ludwig Rellstab Aufenthalt (1828) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Willkommen und Abschied (1822) Johann Gabriel Seidl Der Wanderer an den Mond (1826) Rellstab Abschied (1828) Ernst Krenek (1900 Vienna ― 1991 Palm Springs, CA) Excerpts from Reisebuch aus den österreichischen Alpen (1929) Philipp Georg Schmidt von Lübeck Der Wanderer (1816) Johann Anton Friedrich Reil Das Lied im Grünen (1827) Rellstab In der Ferne (1828) Franz Schubert Piano Sonata no. 21 in B flat major (1828) An evening with Israeli-American pianist Daniel Gortler and tenor Daniel Johannsen from Vienna featuring works by Franz Schubert (1797 Vienna – 1828 Vienna) and Ernst Krenek (1900 Vienna – 1991 Palm Springs, CA). The concerts will be inspired by Edmund de Waal’s novel The Hare with Amber Eyes and the exhibition of the same name which is currently on view at the Jewish Museum.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Crafting Suspense Fiction (online)


Three masters of suspense—Alafair Burke (The Better Sister), Kellye Garrett (Hollywood Homicide), and Alison Gaylin (If I Die Tonight)—come together for a discussion of the craft of the thriller and their highly celebrated, twisting and timely mysteries.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Novelists in Conversation (online)


This event will feature readings by Joshua Ferris and Brandon Taylor and a conversation with both authors moderated by Darin Strauss. Audience Q&A to follow. Joshua Ferris is the author of four novels, including Then We Came to the End, The Unnamed, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, and the most recent A Calling For Charlie Barnes, which was named a New York Times Notable Book, as well as a collection of stories, The Dinner Party. Brandon Taylor is the author of the novel Real Life, which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and the short story collection Filthy Animals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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