35 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, March 10, 2022
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
ERM Mindfulness is an online program designed with positive psychology insights and neuroscience research ...
more >> 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
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations ...
more >> 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
Jugglers use the park throughout the year to provide free classes to the public. Stop by for a quick ...
more >> lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They’re a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
Connecting contemporary Shanghai, late Apartheid-era South Africa, and China during the Great Leap Forward ...
more >> and the Tiananmen uprising--and refracting this globe-trotting and time-traveling through Langston Hughes' confessional letters to a South African protege about the poet's time in Shanghai--C. A. Davids's novel is one of staggering ambition. It is also a heartbreaking exploration of what we owe our countries, our consciences, and ourselves.
With filmmaker and editor Nick Buffon and director Abby Ehrlich. Featuring new, short-format documentaries ...
more >> on major art works from the 1980's to 2020 including South Cove, The Real World, and the Hurricane Maria Memoria. Filmed on location and in studio with artists Mary Miss, Tom Otterness, Segundo Cardona, and Antonio Martorell.
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Women made their mark on Baroque music not only as muses, but also as virtuoso performers and composers. ...
more >> Mozart wrote his famous Sonata K454 for the Mantuan virtuosa Regina Strinasacchi, while Vivaldi composed most of his vast musical output for the incredibly talented women of the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. None other than Casanova was smitten by cellist Henriette de Schnetzmann's impromptu rendition of a concerto by Antonio Vandini. And women such as Ana Bon, Élisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre and Barbara Strozzi were acclaimed performers of their own compositions. Infusion Baroque presents an all-female tour-de-force celebrating the talent and prowess of women musicians throughout the ages. With Infusion Baroque: Alexa Raine-Wright ~ flute & recorder Sallynee Amawat ~ violin Andrea Stewart ~ cello Rona Nadler ~ harpsichord
Ernest Glaser was born Ernst Adolf Berthold Glaser on March 2, 1924 in Berlin. In 1939, his family left ...
more >> Germany to escape the Nazis and went to Shanghai, China after attempting to immigrate to the United States. The family thought that they would only be in Shanghai for a year at most, but ended up staying until 1947, when they left for the United States. After arriving in the U.S., Ernest and his family settled in San Francisco, Later, he married, raised a family, and became the president of Avoset Food Corporation. This is a program exploring Ernest's experiences during the Holocaust.
In his celebrated work of historical anthropology, Bernard Cohn showed how British studies and systematization ...
more >> of Sanskrit language and Hindu law functioned as tools of imperial control by making society more legible. In this talk, Professor Artemy Kalinovsky will explore the inverse situation: what happens when formalized knowledge proves insufficient, and government officials turn to informal knowledge to govern territories and peoples they do not understand. Drawing on his research on the use of sociological inquiry to understand living standards in late-Soviet Central Asia, he will show how planners increasingly came to rely on informal observations made by researchers even as they developed new computational and survey techniques. The late Soviet understanding of Central Asian rural economies drew heavily on these informal observations, and also informed how international organizations approached the region after 1991. Artemy Kalinovsky is Professor of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet Studies at Temple University.
Pani Farvid, Associate Professor of Applied Psychology, discusses her research and teaching which sits ...
more >> at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and technology - paying close attention to fringe and emerging intimacies and identities.
An exhibition of new works by Awol Erizku, includes a set of six lightbox photographs accompanied by ...
more >> a mixed-media sculpture which represent the sphinx as a complex, cross-cultural symbol that extends between and beyond Ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Asian mythologies.
This performance travels across two floors of the building and involves spoken text. Seating and a written ...
more >> transcript will be available upon request. Fia Backstrom stages a two-person performance as the final element of her new work. Backstrom charts an associative trajectory in this multifaceted work, which has unfolded in stages since the exhibition's opening in November. The foundation of the work is a set of what the artist calls "givens" in the space--existing materials related to historical or recent activities such as temporary structural remedies, wall colors, and artworks previously installed.
Interrogating racialized regimes of migration and citizenship in Singapore and Qatar, this talk demonstrates ...
more >> how contemporary Asian migration generates complex new territorializations, ethnic boundaries and temporal assemblages. Speaker Laavanya Kathiravelu is an Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
This museum of fine art was open to the public in 1935. Its permanent collection features masterpieces ...
more >> by major European artists from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. Exhibitions also include sculptures, furniture, porcelain items, textiles and more. Covid protocol applies. Children under 10 are not admitted.
4:00 pm
Pay-what-you-wish, advanced reservation...
Imani Winds regularly performs at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Hall. ...
more >> The group is known for its adventurous and diverse programming, which includes both traditional chamber music and newly composed works. Stop by to enjoy this pop-up concert in the storefront (you can watch it from the street; no seating provided).
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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In response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the international community levied and implemented unprecedented ...
more >> sanctions against Russia, effectively cutting off a major economy from the global financial system. This is an expert panel to break down the intentions behind these sanctions, what impact they are likely to have on Russia, Putin, EU members, and what implications they have for wider international community. As sanctions increasingly become the coercive tool of choice for the US, the panel will help shed light on what these sanctions mean for the future of the war, and what the war can tell us about the future of economic statecraft.
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The Café Cantante, a typical Spanish night-club of the time, was a favorite meeting-place where different ...
more >> kinds of artists would gather and perform. While searching for inspiration for their works, many artists, such the painter Joaquín Sorolla or the photographer Emilio Beauchy, would visit the various Café Cantantes. This event will recreate the ambience, music and dances of that specific period which differ slightly from the flamenco of today.
Award-winning artist and creative director Joan Chiverton leads a drawing workshops. Starting with faces ...
more >> and expressions, figure drawing and anatomy, basics of perspective applied to landscapes, and as culmination, drawing people in a landscape while telling a story. All levels welcome. Supplies will be provided but you are welcome to bring your own.
The exhibition will present a selection of paintings, sculpture and works on paper by the internationally ...
more >> renowned artist, in honor of the Maestro’s 90th birthday. The show focuses on works from Botero’s career that infuse art historical and contemporary references with his iconic “Boterismo” style. With exaggerated proportions and voluptuous figures, flat and bright color, and modest sensuality, Botero reimagines historical themes, mythological subjects and contemporary Latin American life.
A group portrait of contemporary religious diversity and practice in New York City by artist Karl Haendel. ...
more >> The exhibition presents a series of large-scale, realist drawings depicting the hands of some of the city’s most inspiring Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Christian, and Sikh faith leaders, paying homage to a diverse group of pastors, imams, rabbis and priests who have shared vital resources—from wisdom and hope to food and shelter—with thousands of New Yorkers in a time of pandemic, racial injustice, climate crisis, and civil unrest. Highlighting how these communities of believers are vibrant, welcoming, and tolerant, the artist hopes to provide space for viewers to reassess their own systems of belief, embrace complexity, and expand their acceptance.
The artist’s first show in New York with the gallery, this exhibition will feature new large-scale ...
more >> paintings that depict “false color” satellite renderings of hurricanes, continuing Lowman’s ongoing interest in this imagery.
A solo exhibition of works by Louisiana-based artist Willie Birch. The presentation features large paintings ...
more >> on paper and painted papier-mâché sculptures created between 1987 and 1996, complemented by a new monumental, mural-like work executed in black and white. Together, the thirty works on view reflect Birch’s perspective on the beauty and complexities of the human experience.
When 29 leaders from Africa and Asia met in Bandung in 1955, their purpose was to define a common vision ...
more >> of the postcolonial future, for their countries and the world. They constituted a coalition - The Third World - to pursue an agenda for a decolonized world order, with commitments to human rights, equality and self determination. In this event, Christopher Lee will explore Afro-Asian solidarity politics (representing half of the world’s population), both historically and contemporary, including Bandung, the Non-Aligned Movement, New International Economic Order, the Right to Development, South-South cooperation, up and through COVID-19.
A panel of pediatric specialists from Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian ...
more >> Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital hold an informational conversation for pediatricians and families on the latest on COVID-19 and its still-evolving impacts on children’s health. The experts will discuss current topics related to kids and coronavirus.
An acclaimed playwright, Sarah Ruhl is also author of the recent memoir Smile: The Story of a Face, 100 ...
more >> Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, and Letters from Max, with the late poet Max Ritvo. Her many plays, produced around the country and internationally, include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, The Clean House, Passion Play, Dead Man's Cell Phone, The Oldest Boy, and Dear Elizabeth (based on the letters of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell). She teaches at the Yale School of Drama.
In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended the domain of capitalist ...
more >> agriculture, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled continuously to keep their restive slaves under the yoke. In this contentious atmosphere, a movement of enslaved West Africans in Jamaica (then called Coromantees) organized to throw off that yoke by violence. Their uprising—which became known as Tacky’s Revolt—featured a style of fighting increasingly familiar today: scattered militias opposing great powers, with fighters hard to distinguish from noncombatants. With author Vincent Brown.
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In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences had announced their latest essay contest: explain the sources ...
more >> of "blackness." What is the physical cause of blackness and African hair, they asked, and what is the cause of Black degeneration? By the time answers were received two years later, more than four million Africans had been kidnapped and shipped across the Atlantic into a life of brutal enslavement in cities, farms, and plantations on the other side of the world. None of the contest submissions were ever published, until last year, in a new book edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew S. Curran. The essays, written by a mix of naturalists, theologians, physicians, and amateurs, document the search for a "scientific" understanding of race. Together they provide an indispensable record of the Enlightenment-era thinking that normalized the sale and enslavement of Black human beings.
Vocalist Nikita White began singing at a young age in her family's Baptist Church on the Northwest side ...
more >> of Chicago. Inspired by her large musical family, she performed with local R&B, rock, and blues bands before she started attending jazz jam sessions and began working with tenor saxophone great Von Freeman. In 1980 she moved to New York where she studied voice with Dr. Barry Harris' vocal workshop, recorded with George Braith, and worked with a variety of notable artists including Mulgrew Miller, Kenny Washington, Peter Washington, Henry Butler, Russell Hall and Lafayette Harris. She has toured in Europe and Africa, studied at Long Island University, and performed freelance for many years, including a turn as Ella Fitzgerald in Roz Nixon's play SS Nirvana.
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Program Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Piece en Forme de Habanera (trans. by G. Catherine) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) ...
more >> Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano, Op. Posthumous Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) Nocturne for Violin and Piano Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) Sonata for Violin and Piano, in A Op.13 #1 Stani Dimitrova violin; Jessica Xylin Osborne, piano **Audience members are required to present proof of full vaccination against COVID-19, and be masked.
6:30 pm
free, reservation required
Roger McCormack, Director of Education at The Bronx County Historical Society, explores the significance ...
more >> of the Bronx in the American Revolution. This lecture will highlight the Battle of Pell’s Point, the impact of the war on ordinary Bronx farmers and inhabitants, and the general history of the war in the Bronx.
In this hybrid memoir, novelist Stephanie Grant works to make sense of three generations of female self-disgust ...
more >> in her family while considering how it challenges both the American ideal of equality and our real-life experiences of intimacy. Disgust: A Memoir is funny, tender, and rigorous in its exploration of how the most difficult emotion functions both in our private lives and our collective imaginations.
Experience the beauty of Ugandan culture through the lens of music, dance, and storytelling. Godfrey ...
more >> Muwulya is an extraordinary artist from Uganda who will perform indigenous dances from Uganda and Rwanda including Intore, Runyege, and Entongoro. Muwulya also plays traditional instruments and sings memorable songs from his childhood. His charismatic and energetic performing style have impressed audiences around the world. Muwulya and Deborah Damast, Director of the Dance Education Program at New York University, have been collaborating in Uganda and the U.S. for 13 years and host a lively discussion about cross cultural collaboration, education, and friendship. Guest artists join them in the performance.
Author Maggie Nelson has been called “one of our most radical and forward-looking thinkers” (The ...
more >> Guardian). Her latest book was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2021, which “shows her at her most original and brilliant.” In this blend of memoir and philosophical meditation, she examines the complex concept of freedom in four realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate.
A night of Afrofuturistic film exploration. Through the work of Nigerian-Canadian film and video artist ...
more >> Adebukola Bodunrin, the program aims to provide rich examples of practices, theories, and aesthetics representative of Afrofuturist ideals.
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Author and historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010), particularly the classic bestseller A People's History ...
more >> of the United States, continues to shine a light on the extraordinary history of those engaged in struggles for freedom and justice in the United States. This event honors the centenary of Zinn's birth with The People Sing. This musical celebration of our nation's rich history of dissent sets Zinn's subjects' words to music, alongside protest songs by rebels and visionaries of our past and present. Featured musical accompanists will include the electrifying singer-songwriter J. Hoard, Martha Redbone, Aaron Whitby, and many more. Covid protocol applies.