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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 1, 2024?

34 free events take place on Friday, March 1 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 1 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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34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, March 1, 2024

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free events nyc 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many
free events nyc A Conversation with Pulitzer-Winning Novelist Hernan Diaz (online)
free events nyc Harpsichord Works by Rameau, Couperin and More (In Person AND Online!)
free events nyc Analyzing Dance and Music in George Balanchine's Ballets
free events nyc Heaven and Earth: A Ballet for Percussion Ensemble
free events nyc Dear KIKO! The Musical Advice Show
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Workshop | Tai Chi


Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide a serene background for the ancient flowing postures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Conference | Protecting Cultural Property: The 1954 Hague Convention at 70 (in-person and online)


Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, the 25th Anniversary of its Second Protocol, and the 15th Anniversary of US Ratification.  Session 1: Overview of the Legal Framework for Protection of Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict and O&A Session 2: "Around the World" Updates on the Status of Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict and Natural Disaster Session 3: Market Panel: How Can and Should the Market Respond to Looting and Thefts During Armed Conflicts and Natural Disasters? Session 4: Cultural Heritage, Indigenous and Minority Communities, and Human Rights
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 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
10:00 am
Free

Conference | The Puerto Rican Radical Tradition


On March 1, 1954, Lolita Lebrón led a group of four members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party in an armed attack on the U.S. Congress, to dramatize the ongoing colonial nature of the territorial relationship, in the wake of the “Commonwealth” constitution of 1952. Seventy years later, while perspectives on the preferred solution may vary, there remains little doubt as to the colonial nature of that relationship, especially following the imposition by Congress of an unelected “fiscal oversight” board in 2016. The political landscape in Puerto Rico seems to be shifting in dramatic and previously unexpected ways since then. In August 2019, then-governor Ricardo Rosselló was forced to step down, following a two-week uprising that reflected a heightened disposition to engage in confrontational protest tactics, especially by the younger generation. Developments in the 2020 elections, and in the build-up to the 2024 elections, seem to portend dramatic reconfigurations of the electoral arena, even as global dynamics raise new possibilities and challenges for decolonization. Enduring structural violences and the rise of far right politics in the U.S. also present challenges for an expanding Puerto Rican diaspora no longer concentrated in its traditional political enclaves.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Adult Zumba


Exercise in disguise! Join in on the fun featuring easy-to-follow Latin dance choreography while working on your balance, coordination and range of motion. Bring your friends and come prepared for enthusiastic instruction, a little strength training and a lot of fun.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Master Class | Adult Community Choir


Come and experience the joy of singing! This beginner, non-auditioned group welcomes all who love to sing. You will learn healthy singing habits, warmups, and how to find your own voice as you sing with a group. The class will sing and study music of many styles and genres like jazz, Latin, soul, choral, gospel, folk, and music from around the world. Everyone is welcome; no experience necessary!  The class will culminate with a final public performance.  Classes will meet Fridays, March 1st - May 10th from 12pm-1:15pm. The final performance date is May 17th at 12pm. Registration is required, and class size is limited. Participants should plan to attend all sessions. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Negotiating ‘Free Meter’ in Kazakh Folk Song


After Kazakhstan’s forced integration into the USSR in 1920, the Soviet state sponsored publications of folk music to celebrate the so-called “the friendship of the peoples.” The Russian-born ethnographer Aleksander Zatayevich (1869–1936) was the first to extensively collect and publish Kazakh songs. Among challenges in transcription Zatayevich mentioned that “the majority of songs allowed great liberty to free meter.” He further ascribed “irregularity,” “non-squaredeness,” and “variability” of meter to biological inferiority. This lecture examines approaches to meter in Kazakh vocal and instrumental folk music to show that negotiation of free meter was far more than a neutral artistic or scholarly endeavor. By tracing the afterlives of Zatayevich’s transcriptions, I argue that references to Kazakh free meter by Russocentric musicians, including Boris Erzakovich and Nikolai Tiftikidi, illuminate the glaring presence of racialization in the USSR. I place the discourse on free meter alongside nineteenth-century Russian anthropological writings that highlighted Kazakh people’s presumed backwardness and inferiority. As an alternative to evolutionistic approaches to free meter, I turn to Kazakh theorists—such as Asiia Baigaskina and Il’ias Kozhabekov—who link metro-rhythmic foundations of Kazakh music to the structure of language and prosody. Ultimately, I show that the Soviet state’s utopian claims about communism’s defeat of racism and colonialism was nothing but propaganda that aimed to conceal the polarized socio-cultural reality within the multiethnic Soviet empire. Speaker Knar Abrahamyan is an Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Race at the Department of Music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | The Military Origins of the Persian Language (online)


Early New Persian was the language of the Early ʿAbbāsid army, an evolved form of the specific koinè of Marw of the first half of the 8th c. The historical and vocabulary data perfectly fit what is known of the situation in Marw. Marw was the only Northern, Parthian-speaking, region of Iran, twice very heavily manned from the South by soldiers speaking Middle Persian and then soldiers speaking Arabic. It was also the origin of ʿAbbāsid power and its armies were twice victorious, in 749 and 811. Their heirs, the ʿAbbāsid soldiers and administrators were in a perfect position to unify the various Iranian koinè of Iran around their own.  Speaker Étienne de la Vaissière, professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is a specialist of the social and economic history of Central Asia in the early medieval period.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)


Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Discussion | A Conversation with Pulitzer-Winning Novelist Hernan Diaz (online)


Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of two novels translated into thirty-five languages. He is the recipient of the John Updike award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, given to "a writer whose contributions to American literature have demonstrated consistent excellence." His first novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and it was the winner of the Saroyan International Prize, the Cabell Award, the Prix Page America, and the New American Voices Award, among other distinctions. It was also a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year and one of Lit Hub's 20 Best Novels of the Decade. Trust, his second novel, received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was a New York Times Bestseller, the winner of the Kirkus Prize, and longlisted for the Booker Prize, among other nominations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Enjoy an afternoon of crafting and conversation


Bring your own project or choose something from a provided collection to work on during this freeform crafting workshop. The workshop will include materials for sewing, knitting, crochet, coloring, paper crafts, and puzzles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Discussion | New Perspectives on Crime, Violence, and Victims in Latin America (in-person and online)


Speakers: -- Paul Hathazy, Argentine Studies Visiting Fellow, National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba -- Martina Lassalle, Argentine Studies Visiting Fellow, Assistant Professor, Universidad de Buenos Aires -- Veronica Zubillaga, Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor, Universidad Simón Bolívar -- Sarah Daly, Associate Professor of Political Science  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Colloquium | Queer Liberation Beyond the Law: Past, Present, and Future of LGBTQ+ Rights


Contemporary queer rights within the law classroom are often taught merely within the confines of the Supreme Court’s decisions in Lawrence, Obergefell, and Bostock. Yet, the basic legal curriculum has yet to respond to the ways that these decisions have been increasingly attacked in state legislatures, and the failures of our institutions to ensure the full promise of equal protection for LGBTQ+ individuals in America. This colloquium will encourage the community to meaningfully engage in this conversation and consider the ways that each of us can forge a path for meaningful liberation. During our 2-day colloquium, they seek to explore the legal landscape of LGBTQ+ rights in the United States, the intersection between LGBTQ+ social movements and other movements for progressive social change, and a future of collective liberation from the intertwined systems of oppression that enact harm onto marginalized communities. They will hear from legal scholars and practitioners, queer liberation activists across generations, and people that have been impacted by the anti-LGBTQ+ animus ingrained deep within American society.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Ribbon Dancing


Instructor Margaret Yuen of the Red Silk Dancers will guide visitors to put their own spin on this traditional Chinese art. Classes will take place in in the heated space and feature music to set the tone. All ages and skill levels are welcome. Ribbons will be provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Classical Music | Harpsichord Works by Rameau, Couperin and More (In Person AND Online!)


Duangkamon "Wan" Wattanasak, Harpsichord. Program Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-1667), Partita, FbWV 620 Couperin (1668-1733), Pi?ces de clavecin, Troisi?me Ordre Rameau (1683-1764), Pieces de Clavessin
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges (online)


June Williamson, Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in Architecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture of The City College of New York, discusses her recent book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Analyzing Dance and Music in George Balanchine's Ballets


Lecture by Dr. Kara Yoo Leaman, a highly regarded music theorist whose expertise is in the relationships of dance and music. Dr. Leaman's work in this area received an Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory (2022) and an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication (2023). Dr. Leaman was a fellow at The Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Lecture | No More Peace: Memory, Narrative and the Precarious Self


A lecture by Dr. Jillian Cavanaugh of CUNY.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:15 pm
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Opening Reception | Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962


Following World War II, hundreds of artists from the United States flocked to the City of Light, which for centuries had been heralded as an artistic mecca and international cultural capital. Americans in Paris explores a vibrant community of expatriates who lived in France for a year or more during the period from 1946 to 1962. Many were ex-soldiers who took advantage of a newly enacted GI Bill, which covered tuition and living expenses; others, including women, financed their own sojourns.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Film | Fire Through Dry Grass (2023): Disabled Poets During Covid


Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets don't look like typical nursing home residents. These Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, using their poetry and art to underscore the danger and impris... Read all Directors: Andres Jay Molina, Alexis Neophytides 89 min. Followed by a discussion with the directors
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Andrés Bedoya: One of My Fingers is a Snake


The Mexico City-based, Bolivian-born artist affixes hand-sculpted brass icons to the surface of domestically-sized antique mirrors. Reminiscent of Milagros or Catholic ex-votos in their depictions of isolated body parts and everyday objects, Bedoya’s sculpted imagery embodies the playful spontaneity of his drawings. Groupings of suspended symbols float atop each mirror, like passing thoughts drifting in and out of view, intercepting one's reflection to form open-ended compositions meant to be projected upon and interpreted. This tension between what is shown and obscured speaks to the impossibility of ever truly defining oneself, acknowledging that our sense of self results from an ever-changing amalgamation of internal and external factors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Babette's Feast (1987): Danish Drama Won Best Foreign Film Oscar


During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters. Director: Gabriel Axel Stars: St?phane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel 103 min. Followed by a discussion
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Robert Filliou: Assemblage Du Film: DIY


A hybrid cinematic sculpture/installation by Institute for Cultural Activism International. The immersive assembly of the film in-progress echoes Filliou’s bricolage DIY techniques, in synch and out of register, re-creations, bounce, doubling, shadow and mimic, deploying multi-screens and projections, live performers, and Filliou’s objects. Animated and unique interviews with Marianne and Marcelline Filliou (Robert’s wife and daughter); Friends: Christo, Jean Dupuy, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Dorothy Iannone, Allan Kaprow, Carolee Schneeman, Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams, (more) transmit Filliou’s contagious methodologies and the vibrant 1960’s energies that became French New Realism, and the historic Fluxus movement. Through a unique new format, ICAI leverages Filliou and community’s shared (DIY) sensibilities in distinct Fluxus form, for the future. Robert Filliou (b. 1926 FR) was a member of the French resistance; travelled to the U.S.; worked in Los Angeles for Coca-Cola; received a PhD in Economics; and wrote the UN White Pages for the Reconstruction of South Korea. After meeting his wife Marianne Staffels in Denmark, he created works as a filmmaker, poet and sculptor; a maker of games, blurring the line between art product and production; a co-inventor of Fluxus. He synthesized Buddhist and western avant-garde practices and embodied poetics. Filliou died in 1987 near the end of a 3 year – 3 month – 3 day silent Buddhist retreat in Dordogne, France.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Accidental Exposures: A Media History of Failure


In 1980s India, the Ramsay Brothers and other filmmakers produced a wave of horror movies about soul-sucking witches, knife-wielding psychopaths, and dark-caped vampires. Seeing Things is about the sudden cuts, botched makeup effects, continuity errors, and celluloid damage found in these movies. Kartik Nair reads such "failures" as clues to the conditions in which the films were made, censored, and seen, offering a view from below of the world's largest film culture. By combining close analysis with extensive archival research and original interviews, Seeing Things reveals the spectral materialities informing the genre's haunted houses, grotesque bodies, and graphic violence. Speaker Kartik Nair is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Temple University in the city of Philadelphia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | “Not One Without the Other:” Creativity and Community


How can the work of writers contribute to building sustainable and inclusive futures for our communities? How can the work of community organizations contribute to creative work? And how can the arts serve as a tool of empowerment, liberation, and solidarity? Literary organizations like Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Kundiman, Indigenous Nations Poets, Fire & Ink, Mizna, and Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) were convened with the goal of creating spaces for marginalized writers to develop their craft and find community and connection with one another. This reading and conversation features George Abraham (executive editor of Mizna and Kundiman Fellow), Samiya Bashir (founding organizer of Fire & Ink and Cave Canem Fellow), Kimberly Blaeser (founding executive director of Indigenous Nations Poets), Cathy Linh Che (executive director of Kundiman), Deborah Paredez (co-founder of CantoMundo), and Glenn Shaheen (president and executive director of RAWI). They will explore what it means to lead, create, and write, centering the idea “not one without the other.”  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Concerete Utopia (2023): Earthquake in Seoul


An earthquake renders much of Seoul a smoldering ruin in the opening minutes of this post-apocalyptic epic thriller. But as survivors begin efforts to restore order, it seems the real calamity has only just begun. Director: Un Tae-hwa 130 minutes In Korean with English subtitles
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | A Reading with Author Melissa Febos


Melissa Febos is the bestselling author of four books, including Girlhood—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. Her fifth book, The Dry Season, is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf. Her awards and fellowships include those from the Guggenheim Foundation, LAMBDA Literary, the National Endowment for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The British Library, The Black Mountain Institute, MacDowell, and the Bogliasco Foundation. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Sun, The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Essays, Vogue, New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. Febos is a full professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz Originals and Covers


An evening of originals and covers featuring singer Katie Seiler.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works by Clara Schumann for Voice, Violin, and Piano


Sun Young Chang, voice; Masha Lankovsky, violin; Judy Woo, piano. All Clara Schumann (1819-1896) Program Three Romances, Op. 11 for Piano Three Lieder, Op. 12 Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22 Variations on Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 20
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Ensemble Works by Mozart and Haydn (In Brooklyn)


New York Classical Players; Dongmin Kim, conductor; Stella Chen, violin; Matthew Lipman, viola. Program Mozart (1756-1791), Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-flat major, K. 207 Haydn (1732-1809), Symphony No. 43 in E-flat major, Mercury Mozart (1756-1791), Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat major, K. 364
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | In Her Own Voice: Art Songs by Women (in-person and online)


Vocalists Lindsay Campbell and Madison Spahn perform art songs by female composers in with pianist Neill Campbell. The program will include works by Harriet Wainewright, Germaine Tailleferre, Adela Maddison, Liza Lehmann, Libby Larsen, Helene Liebmann, and Pauline von Decker.  =
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Play | Daniel: Questioning Gender


A high school teacher finds themself questioning their idea and experience of gender through the help of some students and finds some unexpected answers at the end of their journey, with the help of some imaginative memories and a Gender Elephant. Written by Tirosh Schneider
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performance | Heaven and Earth: A Ballet for Percussion Ensemble


Deborah Damast, Director; Eriko Daimo, Marimba Soloist; Pius Cheung, Composer and Guest Soloist. Heaven and Earth is a ballet for percussion ensemble, based loosely on creationism. While there are certain moments in the music relating directly to the composer's Chinese background, the subject matter itself is really quite universal. As the movement titles (Heaven/Angels' Dance/Earth/Time/Birth/Mankind/Union/Finale) suggest, this piece explores the ethereal ideal of "heaven," the powerful grounding of "Earth," and the place in between these opposites where union and peace can be found.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Performance | Dear KIKO! The Musical Advice Show


Come answer your heart's burning questions at Dear KIKO!, your favorite magazine advice column brought to musical life. Are you looking to make a big sweeping change in your life but can't seem to fold that pile of laundry in the corner? Do you wonder if you'll ever escape the insufferable grip of your intergenerational trauma? Have you ever wished your mean coworker would pee themselves during a presentation? Are you finally ready for l-o-v-e? Hosted by drag angel Kiko Soir?e, Dear KIKO! features three lucky audience guest stars who will take us on their life's journey. With the help of celebrity panelists, comedians, downtown personalities, and the occasional real-life expert, the DK community comes together once again to help our stars find their light, share an original anthem, and spit them out back into the Universe (spiritually speaking).
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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