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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 17, 2015?

47 free events take place on Tuesday, November 17 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 November 17 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 November . 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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47 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, November 17, 2015

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free events nyc Martin Sandbu discusses his book Europe’s Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt
free events nyc Jane Tylus discusses her book Siena: City of Secrets
free events nyc Income Inequality: Is This the End of the American Dream?
free events nyc Piano as a Drum: one of the world's most influential jazz musicians, Randy Weston, and Senegalese Master Drummers
free events nyc Guest Artist Recital: Joel Hastings, piano
        

Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest! This tour takes place Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing. This tour takes place every day at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. This tour takes place every day at 10am, and Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 2pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Master Class | Piano Master Class with Joel Hastings


Canadian-born Joel Hastings was the winner of the 8th International Web Concert Hall Competition and the International Bach Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar. This event recurs every Tuesday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. This workshop occurs every day through December 31.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Using Neglected Literary Texts to Understand the Evolution of Serbian Society


A talk by Svetlana Tomić, Alfa University (Belgrade). Tomić will discuss the historical, political, and literary value of four memoirs by Serbian women: Serbia’s Queen Natalia Obrenović, feminists Savka Subotić and Paulina Lebl Albala, and one of the first professional female teachers Stanka Gišićeva. Their autobiographical works came from different localities, social groups, and ethnicities. They focus on self-representation, women’s lives, and perceptions, and offer valuable insights into Serbian history and society.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Studio Showings


The center hosts six artists and companies who will work concurrently in all of the studios. Residents will have dedicated time and space to develop projects and collaborations, as well as opportunities to exchange with other artists across disciplines. This event includes a series of informal work-in-progress showings open to the public.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | 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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Author Reading | Martin Sandbu discusses his book Europe’s Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt


Leading economic commentator Martin Sandbu will discuss the origins of Europe’s monetary union, the impact of the financial crisis, and the way ahead for Europe to achieve an economic and political recovery. Sandbu is an economics editorial writer at The Financial Times.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Master Class | Piano Master Class: Vladimir Feltsman


This special event provides music lovers with a rare opportunity to witness the interaction between gifted students and great artists as they examine and explore the arts of performance on the highest level.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments. This tour takes place Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 2pm, Wednesdays at 4pm, and Saturdays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Symposium | Region and Mobility: The Afterlives of Galicia and Eastern European Memory Sites


2:00PM: Introductory remarks by Marianne Hirsch, Andreas Huyssen and Annegret Pelz 2:20PM: Olaf Terpitz, Bearing Witness and Transcending Literary Genres, The Yiddish Diary of Ansky "togbukh fun khurbm" (1921-23) 2:40PM: Marianne Windsperger, "El Libro de los recuerdos", Postmemory in Argentinian Jewish Literature 3:00PM: Elisabeth Janik, Networks of Transatlantic Migration, The Galician Emigration to South America, 1860-1914 3:40PM: Agnieska Legutko, Possessed by the Traumatic Past, Postmemory in Easter European Dybbuk Possession Narratives 4:00PM: Alyssa Greene, Resisting Metaphor, Narrating Children in Herta Müller's Niederungen 4:20PM: Magdalena Baran-Szoltys, German and Polish Travelogues about Galicia after 1989 4:40PM: Olena Dvoretska, Urbanism in the Works of Writers of the "Stanislau-Phenomenon" 5:00PM: Concluding remarks 5:30PM: Dinner
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Bill Pohlad's Love and Mercy (2014): The Genius Behind the Beach Boys


Stars: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks. In the 1960s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 1980s, he is a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist Dr. Eugene Landy. 121 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Talk | Mastering National Spaces: Security and Minorities in Poland and Hungary in the Interwar Period


A discussion with Professor Peter Haslinger (Herder-Institut).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Book Signing | Photographer Lois Greenfield duscusses her book Moving Still


Lois Greenfield is known for her stunning images of dancers in flight, caught in seemingly impossible configurations. Over the span of her 40-year career, she has redefined the genre of dance and movement photography and influenced a generation of photographers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Connecting to the Cloud Workshop


Learn all about the Cloud, what it is and how you use it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. This workshop occurs every day through December 31.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | Global Citizenship


A discussion with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, acclaimed novelist Joseph O'Neill (The Dog, Netherland), and Professor of Anthropology Rosalind C. Morris. Nicholas Lemann will moderate a panel discussion on global citizenship, statelessness, and Abrahamian's debut book The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jane Tylus discusses her book Siena: City of Secrets


Jane Tylus’s Siena is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history, intellectual memoir, travelogue, and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-traveled roads and alleys of a town both medieval and modern.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: William Anastasi's Puzzle


Throughout Anastasi’s career as a seminal figure in the field of Conceptual Art, semantics and tautology have long played significant roles. The subject of pairing in particular has been a recurring theme since as early as 1967, when Anastasi’s Six Sites exhibition at the Virginia Dwan Gallery featured the gallery’s walls photographically rendered on canvas, then hung on the same walls. Repetition has also been embraced in Anastasi’s well-known subway drawings, a continuing series of unsighted works on paper the artist creates while drawing blind on the train, letting the motion of the car dictate the chance markings on paper as pure gesture. Circular reasoning informs Anastasi’s puzzle works. Aside from the obvious playfulness of the subject (humor being one of the least talked-about aspects of this artist’s oeuvre), the puzzle as metaphor first appeared in 1975, when the Museum of Modern Art commissioned Anastasi to design a jigsaw puzzle for their store. The result was iconic, as his design was to create a puzzle-themed puzzle, similar in concept to his wall-on-a-wall works. It was popular enough to re-issue in a second color version, of which the current exhibition’s shaped paintings are based. Hung in pairs, the exhibition room itself becomes a sort of game, unresolvable in this instance as the room only holds a fraction of the series. Upon seeing the first enlarged piece in Anastasi’s studio, John Cage inquired how many pieces were in the puzzle’s box. When Anastasi replied with the number, Cage’s response was ‘Well then you’ve made 513 masterpieces!’ Puzzle also poetically references Anastasi and Cage’s many hours spent over a chessboard, silently engaged in a game of a different sort.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Performance Art: InstaCitizen by Tania Bruguera


Havana- and New York-based artist Tania Bruguera’s InstaCitizen is an impromptu call to action about ideas of self censorship. Bruguera will present a project that celebrates the possibilities of individual activism. With her powerful voice, as deeply moving and transforming as ever, Bruguera will utilize social media as a tool to fuel her continuing artistic and political actions, implicating a wider audience in her work with image and text based actions across Instagram and Twitter. Bruguera’s performance will shift our expectations of what it means to perform live or online. During her performance, Bruguera will engage the audience and her social media followers using the hashtag #instacitizen, inviting them to post personal moments of self-censorship regarding their gender, ethnicity, immigration status, race.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Sarah Jane Starcher Germani, Organist


A special organ recital series featuring the recently restored Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Editing the Genes of Embryos


A panel discussion exploring bioethical issues posed by the development of new technologies that aim to alter the genes of embryos, thus permanently changing human genes in future generations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Lecture | An Energy Plan for the 21st Century


Global energy systems have undergone numerous transitions over human history — from wood to coal, from animals to automobiles, from candles to electric lighting. Today, we are poised for yet another energy transition. Driven by evergrowing global energy demand, concerns over providing affordable and secure energy supplies, the need to reduce CO2 emissions, constraints on fresh water supplies, and discovery of new energy conversion technologies—we have embarked on a transition to a low-carbon energy system that relies more heavily on renewable energy resources. Speaker Sally Benson is the director of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University and a professor in the department of energy resources engineering.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | David Leopold reads from his book The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist and His Age


This illustrated lecture brings together the artist’s extraordinary eighty-two-year career, revealed in hundreds of his iconic black-and-white and color drawings, illustrations, and photographs—his influences, his techniques, his evolution from his earliest works to his last drawings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Income Inequality: Is This the End of the American Dream?


Peter Georgescu, Chairman Emeritus of Young and Rubicam, will speak about the true business cost of income inequality and what CEOs should be doing to help mitigate it. In a recent New York Times opinion piece, he describes how society is increasingly creating a caste system where it is becoming impossible to climb the economic ladder without exceptional talent, athletic skill or luck.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Film | Korean Film: Park Heung-sik’s Memories of the Sword (2015)


As the greed and excess of a corrupt monarchy threatens to destroy the once-glorious Goryeo Dynasty, three legendary warriors lead a revolt to overthrow the empire and save its people. 121 min. In Korean with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | Student Recitals


6:30 PM - 8:00 PM George Maronich, piano 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Sun Haeng Cho, cello
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | The Book as Performance


With Cecilia Vicuña and Jen Bervin, both poets/artists/Granary Press contributors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artists Talk: Vaginal Davis / Susanne Sachsse


This performative interview with artists Vaginal Davis and Susanne Sachsse is timed to coincide with Vaginal Davis’s staging of The Magic Flute. Both artistes will be on hand to discuss their current and past collaborations as part of the Cheap Collective, Berlin: collaborations that include the original evening-length melodrama, Communist Bigamist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Bill Griffith discusses his book Invisible Ink


Invisible Ink is about Bill Griffith's mother's secret 16 year affair with a famous cartoonist and how it affected him and his family. There will be a slide talk on the book's evolution and why it took him so long to do his first graphic novel. Digressions into Zippy and Ernie Bushmillerland may occur.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Book Discussion: George Eliot's Middlemarch


Rebecca Mead, staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of My Life in Middlemarch, will revisit the seminal book of her youth.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | David Thomson discusses his book How to Watch a Movie


From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | Double Take 14 Reading


Double Take is a unique reading series that asks award winning and emerging poets, novelists, editors, and artists to trade takes on shared experiences. Readings: - Lynn Crawford and Matvei Yankelevich consider the word border. - Jennifer Firestone and Katy Lederer double the Double Take by taking on twins. - Bruce Bauman and David L. Ulin contemplate Big Apple-born writers and why they love LA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process. With: Kimberleigh Costanzo, Luisa I. Martinez, Deena Spaner Experiments in Dance takes place every Tuesday from November 10 to 24, 2015.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


This introductory meditation class was featured in New York Magazine’s top picks. This workshop repeats Tuesdays November 10, November 17, November 24, December 1 and December 22.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Master Class | Percussion Master Class: Eriko Daimo


From the Program in Percussion Performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Piano as a Drum: one of the world's most influential jazz musicians, Randy Weston, and Senegalese Master Drummers


Tribute to Doudou Ndiaye Rose (28 July 1930 – 19 August 2015) -- a Senegalese drummer, composer and band leader, and the recognized modern master of Senegal's traditional drum, the sabar. Doudou Ndiaye Rose performed with Josephine Baker and collaborated with Miles Davis and the Rolling Stones. In this program, which was intended to feature N'Diaye as a special guest artist, they will instead pay homage to Doudou's incredible musical legacy, and will present performances by a group composed of several of his sons--master drummers in their own right--direct from Senegal.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Reading | The Greatest 3-Minute Basketball Stories


An evening of basketball stories from Mitchell S. Jackson, Stephanie Anderson, Maxwell Neely-Cohen, Rahawa Haile, Mensah Demary, and many more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Writing the Self: Heidi Julavits, Maggie Nelson, and Sarah Manguso


Maggie Nelson (The Argonauts), Sarah Manguso (Ongoingness: The End of a Diary), and Heidi Julavits (The Folded Clock) have written three of the most critically acclaimed books of the year. Filled with meditations on time, motherhood, identity, and desire, each volume seems to be in conversation with the other two, while still being wholly original and groundbreaking. The authors will come together for an evening of discussion about their often intensely personal work and how they turn a critical eye on themselves.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tour | 9/11 Memorial and Brooklyn Bridge Night Tour


A renaissance is taking place on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, a concerted effort has been undertaken to redevelop this part of the city, with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the construction of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. And from twilight into the night is the right time to pay a visit to this part of New York City. From the Memorial to the Woolworth Building, City Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge, some of the your most memorable experiences in the city await you. This tour takes place Tuesdays at 7:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Austrian Documentary: Josh Josimovic's Alive(2014)


This film narrates the eventful lives of the director's parents, Mitzi Fleischer and Leo Josimovic. 45 min. Also showing: Spectre of Memory, 23 min., directed by Claudia Kunin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Premiere Works by Gordon, Kurtag, Primosch, Sharp, Du Yun


Program: Du Yun Quatrain (Slow Portraits iii) (2014, New York premiere) Michael Zev Gordon Sehnsucht (2014, New York premiere) Elliott Sharp Wannsee noir (2015, world premiere) György Kurtág Brefs messages (2011, U.S. premiere) James Primosch From a Book of Hours (2001/2006, New York premiere) with soprano Alexandra Razskazoff
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | College Production: Or by Liz Duffy Adams


Aphra Behn: poet, spy, and soon to be the first professional female playwright. Sprung from debtors' prison after a disastrous overseas mission, Aphra is desperate to get out of the spy trade. She has a shot at a production, if she can only finish her play by morning despite interruptions from sudden new love, actress Nell Gwynne; complicated royal love, King Charles II; and very dodgy ex-love, double-agent William Scott – who may be in on a plot to murder the king. Can Aphra resist Nell's charms, save Charles' life, win William a pardon, and launch her career, all in one night? Performances run November 17-21.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Guest Artist Recital: Joel Hastings, piano


Canadian-born Joel Hastings was the winner of the 8th International Web Concert Hall Competition and the International Bach Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Concert | Song Interpretation Class Concert


This concert is a semester end performance by the Song Interpretation Class taught by Glenn Morton.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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