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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 1, 2018?

65 free events take place on Thursday, November 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 November 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 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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65 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, November 1, 2018

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free events nyc The Man Who Would Be King (1975) with Sean Connery: Nominated for 4 Oscars
free events nyc Jazz performance by an esteemed pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader
free events nyc The eye is not satisfied with seeing: Collages of America
free events nyc Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer followed by a performance
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Workshop | Sun Salutations and Intentions Morning Yoga


Sharyn Hahn starts your day with a morning yoga practice. You will experience luxurious stretching warm-ups, empowering standing poses, and energizing breath work as we align the movements with the inhales and exhales. You will feel more awake, strong, balanced, and positive as a result of this time spent on the mat. Sun Salutations and warrior poses stimulate the seratonin in your brain (the “happy hormone) and improve self-esteem! You will be ready for anything that meets you as your day unfolds. Bring a yoga mat if you have one. You may bring your own coffee or tea.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:45 am
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Workshop | Morning Fitness


One hour of walking, stretching, and strengthening exercises. For a breath of fresh air, take your workouts outdoors. Parks are becoming a logical alternative environment for those who want to add variety to their workouts, or who just don't like the gym. And, it's an affordable way to increase physical activity opportunities, because there's nothing special to build. Exercise with a view, in natural sunlight, with green scenery all around bestows health benefits that can’t be found indoors. Scientific studies have shown that the pleasure of being outdoors for example gives your brain, psyche, and immune system an extra boost. Led by trained professionals, and suitable for all levels. Wear comfortable clothing and bring water. Tuesdays and Thursdays through December 28, 2018.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 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

Tour | City Hall Tour for Individuals


The tour of City Hall includes a discussion of the building's history, art, architecture, and civic function.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Career Finders Bootcamp: Networking


An interactive session for career coaching, skill-building, peer feedback, networking and to help you stay focused on your goals. In this series, you will explore all stages of the job search and learn proven techniques to accelerate your work. Upcoming Session: Thursday, Nov 8: Interviewing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Film | Zero Hour! (1957): Drama in the skies


In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog. Director: Hall Bartlett. Starring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden. 81 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Essentials for Job Seekers: Networking


Looking for a job? Discover what tools to use to find vacancies, learn inside tips from a certified Talent Acquisition Strategist on where to find job postings and what HR is looking for in your application. Laptops will be first-come-first-served; bring your own if you have one. Also bring paper copies of your resume/cover letter, or have the file accessible via email or flash drive. Please do not arrive late interrupting the class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Discussion | The Current State of Human Rights in Uganda


With: Robert Kirenga is the Executive Director of the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders Uganda. Solomon Collins Nkulinga is a Program Assistant with the Disability and Human Rights Program at the National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda. Pepe Julian Onziema is the Programs Director for Sexual Minorities Uganda.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | The Rule of Law, Corruption, and Ukraine


It is a bit odd that “rule of law,” a notion invoked as frequently in the West—particularly since the advent of the Trump Administration—as it is in developing countries such as Ukraine, would at all be elusive, and yet that seems to be the case. From the perspective of someone who has had firsthand experience with both the U.S. and the Ukrainian legal systems, Bohdan Vitvitsky will share some reflections on what “rule of law” may mean in the U.S., what it may mean in Ukraine, and what its relationship is to controlling official corruption.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 11, 2018 to May 22, 2019.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Gallery Talk | John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night: Curators' Perspective Tour


A tour of the exhibition with co-curators Diana Nawi and Nicole Smythe-Johnson.
   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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Reading | Literature Workshop: Gothic Poetry


Do you want to find time for literature in your busy life? Join to celebrate literature in bite-size servings! Read aloud, enact, and discuss passages of classic and contemporary literature from across the globe. This session we'll be reading and discussing the genre of Gothic poetry. Come for a discussion of poets who invoke darkness, fearfulness, and repressed desire in their verses. We'll be reading from Poe, Wilde, and Baudelaire, among others. All literary enthusiasts are welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Dracula (1931): Horror Classic


The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina. Director: Tod Browning. Stars: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners. 85 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018): a journey to a galaxy far, far away


During an adventure into the criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebellion. Director: Ron Howard. Stars: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke. 135 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Heiress (1949): Winner of 4 Oscars


A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter. Directors William Wyler. Starring Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson. 115 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Man Who Would Be King (1975) with Sean Connery: Nominated for 4 Oscars


Two British soldiers in India decide to resign from the Army and set themselves up as deities in Kafiristan--a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander. Directors John Huston. 129 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Drug Policy in Portugal: The Benefits of Decriminalizing Drug Use


Dr. João Castel-Branco Goulão, the Portuguese Drugs and Alcohol National Coordinator and Director General of the Intervention on Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies General Directorate, will explain the evolution of drug policy in Portugal over the last several years and the recent decision to legalize cannabis. He was appointed by Antonio Guterres when he was prime minister of Portugal, and has been a delegate a the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lesson | Immigrant Writing Workshop


Free writing classes to inspire immigrants to tell their own immigrant stories. The workshops involve reading, responding to short immigrant narratives, and writing exercises led by experienced teachers. Required reading: The face: a time code by Ruth L Ozeki. Classes are conducted in English. Upcoming dates: November 8, November 15, November 29, December 6. Attendance to all sessions is required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Games and Hobbies Meetup


Bring your own game. Bring your knitting. Meet new people.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Film | Avengers: Infinity War (2018): a superhero film based on the Marvel Comics


The Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe. Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo. 149 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to 2010


A lecture by Joel Perlmann, Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and Research Professor at Bard College.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:15 pm
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Author Reading | They Said No to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President’s Abuses of Power


Author Michael Koncewicz worked for the National Archives at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum where he organized nonpartisan public programs and contributed to the museum’s research and editing process, including the renovated Watergate Gallery.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Jazz | Jazz performance by an esteemed pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader


Onaje Allan Gumbs, who was born in Harlem and raised in Queens, has accompanied and arranged for an array of important artists like Kenny Burrell, Woody Shaw, Norman Connors, Nat Adderley, Phyllis Hyman and TS Monk, and has released seven albums as a leader.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:30 pm
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Lecture | Philology and Authenticity: Lorenzo Valla, Constantine, and Styles of Renaissance Reading


Georgetown University's Christopher Celenza will deliver this lecture. He is the author of The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning (2018), Petrach: Everywhere a Wanderer (2017), and Machiavelli: A Portrait (2014).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Lecture | The Rise of Hindu Nationalism


Speaker Preeti Sampat represents the Sociology Program in the School of Liberal Studies at Ambedkar University Delhi.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Workshop | Writing Workshop: Reimagine End of Life


A special creative writing workshop exploring end-of-life themes. Reimagine End of Life Week is a city-wide exploration of big questions about life and death through creativity and conversation. NYWC’s workshop leader, Ann Marie Cunningham will lead the group through writing prompts touching on legacy, endings, and imagination - or you can write what you feel. Participants can share their work and receive supportive feedback. This process will allow for a dialogue through writing around loss, denial, wonder, and preparation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Lesson | Detox Your Mind Through Meditation


Many people are seeking wellness and participate in detoxification regimens that cleanse the body by eliminating toxins. Detoxing has become mainstream. While we tend to our physical well-being and we often overlook the health of our mental or inner well-being. By detoxing our mind we can improve our thought patterns which in turn will calm the mind and bring about mental wellness and inner peace.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Book Club | Misty Copeland's Life In Motion


Determination meets dance in this memoir by the history-making ballerina. In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history, telling the story of her journey to become the first African-American principal ballerina at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. Misty Copeland is an American ballet dancer for American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States. In addition to her dance career, Copeland has become a public speaker, celebrity spokesperson and stage performer. She has written two autobiographical books and narrated a documentary about her career challenges, A Ballerina's Tale. In 2015, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. Please read the book before arriving at the book discussion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: the doll show / Rumors of Fate


the doll show is a group exhibition that uses a variety of materials, techniques, and styles to create images and sculptures that they call dolls. They delve into the myriad aspects, uses, and attributes of dolls. Nancy Kahlow-Curtis's Rumors of Fate explores the feeling of “It is meant to be” in this painting retrospective. With a look into the past, one painting from each year was chosen from 1987 to 1997.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Classical Music | 20th C. Western & 21st C. American Eastern Music


This concerts features 20th century music from Europe paired with contemporary piano solos written by Syrian-American, Taiwanese-American, and Chinese American composers. These contemporary works, written by esteemed professors from major American universities, are exciting and accessible. Pianist Joanne Chang presents an unusual program of diverse cultural flavors with an American twist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Signing | America Border Culture Dreamer: The Young Immigrant Experience from A to Z


America Border Culture Dreamer presents poignant and powerful images and definitions along with personal stories of change, hardship, and hope. This book casts a new light on the crucial, under-heard voices of teenage immigrants themselves, making a vital contribution to the timely national conversation about immigration in America. In a unique collaboration with photographer and educator Wendy Ewald, eighteen immigrant teenagers create an alphabet defining their experiences in pictures and words. Ewald helped the teenagers pose for and design the photographs, interviewing them along the way about their own journeys and perspectives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Gutai : The Legacy of an Influential Japanese Avant-Garde Collective


An exhibition exploring the legacy of one of Japan’s most innovative and influential avant-garde collectives of the twentieth century. Demonstrating a freewheeling relationship between art, body, space, and time, the exhibition features presentations of masterworks by Gutai artists Tsuyoshi Maekawa, Takesada Matsutani, Sadamasa Motonaga, Shozo Shimamoto, Kazuo Shiraga, Atsuko Tanaka, Chiyu Uemae, and Tsuruko Yamazaki. Shown together, these artists’ iconic works illuminate many of the core tenets of a movement defined by experimentation, individuality, physical action, and psychological freedom.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Hedda Sterne: Structures & Landscapes 1950-1968


The reception includes a walkthrough with Shaina Larrivee, Executive Director of The Hedda Sterne Foundation, and Sarah L. Eckhardt, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Hot Farce: A Exhibition About Bad Faith Meta-Figuration and Sexual Satire


Featuring: Natalie Frank, Paul Gagner, Rebecca Morgan, Daniel Morowitz, Gahee Park, Anastasia Tarasenko, Patricia Renee Thomas
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Permeable/Resistant: Recent Drawings and Paintings


A solo exhibition with New York-based painter Harriet Korman. Presenting a new body of work, Korman continues her celebrated engagement with color, geometry, the picture plane, paint, and her handling of it. With such interests, Korman has frequently been cited as a champion of geometric abstraction or cast as a colorist: roles she has subtly sidestepped for decades.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | The eye is not satisfied with seeing: Collages of America


A solo exhibition of mixed media collage works by New York-based artist Hai Zhang. Zhang's collages are reflective of the complexity of living in America, splicing together photographs (both altered and unaltered), strips of tape, paint, and stitching. The works often contain multiple vantage points of a single location or person, though the original images themselves are separated by intervals of several years. Figures reappear, age, and disappear throughout the entirety of the series, an echo of the relationships the artist has cultivated within these communities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Works from the Collection of John Ashbery


An exhibition of selected works from the collection of the celebrated New York poet and art critic, John Ashbery (1927 –2017). Bringing together paintings, drawings, and collages by artists such as Alex Katz, Jane Freilicher, Helen Frankenthaler, Fairfield Porter, Joe Brainard, and Larry Rivers, the presentation reflects the deep-rooted artistic and personal associations amongst a group of artists and poets who, between them, defined New York’s downtown scene for almost two decades from the 1950s onwards.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Club | Alice Mcdermott's The Ninth Hour


A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early 20th-century Catholic Brooklyn. Alice McDermott is an American writer and university professor. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Please read the book before arriving at the book discussion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer followed by a performance


Celebrate the work of musician, vocalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw. This hourlong experience, curated and hosted by Shaw will feature performances of Shaw’s compositions by Juilliard students and culminate in Shaw singing with a Juilliard string quartet in a performance of her work By & By. Caroline was the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for Partita for 8 Voices, written for the Grammy-winning Roomful of Teeth, of which she is a member.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Forum | Indigenous/Modern: An Architectural Discussion


Can modernism benefit from the wisdom of the vernacular? In an age of increasing climatic pressures, can we derive lessons in adaptation and sustainability embedded in local building traditions, while still embracing modernity? A group of presentations by architects and historians, followed by a discussion, will provide a forum for looking at how traditional materials and construction methods, regional ecologies, historic practices, and local knowledge have contributed to and been changed by modernism, yielding a hybrid that is recognizable both locally and globally.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | MedShadow: Raising Awareness About Side Effects


MedShadow Foundation is the independent nonprofit that informs people about the side effects, long term effects, risks and benefits of medicine, both over the counter and prescription drugs. MedShadow accepts no funding from pharmaceutical or medical device companies. Speakers include US Representative Carolyn Maloney and Dr. Lillie Rosenthal. Location: Xavier High School, 30 W 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talk | My Unexpected Career in Rock Music Photography


An award-winning filmmaker and photographer, Amalie R. Rothschild is noted for her photographs of seminal rock events, venues and musicians from 1968 to 1974. She was considered the unofficial house photographer of the Joshua Light Show at the Fillmore East Theater in New York and was on staff at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. During that period she photographed most of the major east coast rock music events including the 1969 Newport Festival, Tanglewood, The Who's U.S. premiere of Tommy, the Rolling Stones at Madison Square Garden and Bob Dylan's 1974 tour. In this talk she will discuss how being in the right place at the right time led her to record the birth of rock theater creating a 20,000 picture archive. She'll show many photographs and will screen an excerpt of one of the very early 16mm music videos.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lesson | Ruling Ourselves: The Constitution of the United States


This course focuses on the purpose of the United States' Constitution to end tyranny and to protect our freedom--after we had won it from the British--and to establish a prototype of self-governance so we could live in peace with each other and pursue the blessings of liberty. Topic of the week: The powers of the states. Upcoming dates: November 8 from 6:00 - 7:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lesson | Thinking about the tyranny in the 21C


In this course, you will spend time thinking about the meaning of tyranny in the 21st century. To do this, the group will read theoretical accounts of tyranny given by different writers, scholars, and philosophers ranging from Plato to Hannah Arendt. This workshop will seek to understand what leads a society to embrace a tyrannical leader and how citizens of a society ensconced in tyranny can resist the totalitarian actions of such a leader. About the Professor: Erik Zimmerman is a PhD candidate in philosophy at The New School for Social Research where he teaches courses in gender and sexuality studies and philosophy. In addition, Erik is an editor at Routledge Press, where he publishes books on the sociology and gender studies lists, and he is a regular contributor to publications such as Into and OUT Magazine. This course will take place on Thursdays, October 18, 25, November 1, 8, and 15 from 6:00 - 7:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | A Wolf in the City: Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato's Republic


The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic. Though philosophers have mined the Republic for millennia, A Wolf in the City is the first monograph entirely devoted to the study of tyranny and of the tyrant's soul in Plato's Republic. The book argues that Plato's critique of tyranny intervenes in an ancient debate concerning the sources of the crisis of Athenian democracy and the relation between political leaders and demos in the last decades of the fifth century BCE. With author Cinzia Arruzza.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Properties of Light: Luis Barragán-Fred Sandback


Roger Duffy (architect and partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), Lilian Tone (curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art), and Edward Vazquez (art historian, author of Aspects: Fred Sandback’s Sculpture) discuss The Properties of Light: Luis Barragán-Fred Sandback. The panel will be moderated by Polina Strogonova (Director of Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City). The book is the record of a 2016 exhibition of Sandback sculptures temporarily installed at Casa Luis Barragán (1948), Casa Antonio Gálvez (1955), Cuadra San Cristóbal (1966–1968), and Casa Gilardi (1975–1977) in collaboration with Proyectos Monclova. The works of two distinct sensibilities are presented in a respectful dialogue between architecture and sculpture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | What Is Democracy? (2018): Philosophical Documentary


Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, the film reflects on a word we too often take for granted. An idiosyncratic, philosophical journey spans millennia and continents: from ancient Athens’ groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism’s roots in medieval Italy; from modern-day Greece grappling with financial collapse and a mounting refugee crisis to the United States reckoning with its racist past and the growing gap between rich and poor. Director: Astra Taylor
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Talk | Adventures in Italian Opera: A Conversation with Baritone Sherrill Milnes


The second Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features renowned American baritone Sherrill Milnes, whose commanding stage presence and majestic voice starred over 650 times at the Met placing him in the all-time operatic Hall of Fame.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | DrawNow! Workshop


Explore how drawing operates in the world today. Coffee and art materials provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Pioneering Women's Heart Health


Dr. Nieca Goldberg is a pioneer in women's heart health. Author of the award-winning book The Women's Healthy Heart Program, Goldberg is the medical director of the Joan H. Tisch Center for Women's Health at NYU Langone, a national spokeperson for the American Heart Association, and she started the "Go Red for Women" campaign.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | The Politics of Domestic Workers


Scholars and activists explore the history of activism and organizing around domestic laborers’ workplace rights in New York and the United States. How have workers and employers navigated attempts to regulate paid household labor? How have federal immigration laws impacted domestic workers? This conversation will reflect on the past, examine the present, and look toward the challenges ahead. Participants include: Andrew Urban, author of Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor During the Long Nineteenth Century Premilla Nadasen, author of Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement Vanessa May, author of Unprotected Labor Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940 Christine Lewis, Domestic Workers United
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | 99 Histories: The Unbreakable Bond Between Mother and Child


99 Histories is a beautifully haunting and moving play about memory, legacy, and the unbreakable bond between mother and child. Presented by the College of Performing Arts. Written by Julia Cho.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Play | A Midsummer Night's Dream: Classic Shakespeare Comedy Updated


This fall, a classic New York City block party becomes the enchanted setting where fairies work their mischief in Shakespeare’s beloved play. Acclaimed director Jenny Koons takes you to the royal wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta, where a celebratory play is being rehearsed. But the real drama is unfolding in the concrete jungle of fairy King Oberon. There, four young New Yorkers discover the course of true love runs anything but smooth, as supernatural sprites and the lovable Puck conspire to reveal what fools we mortals be, and draw us all into the collective dream of romance and merriment.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers


A child of the Great Depression, Elaine Mokhtefi left the United States in the early 1950s. She was on the run from McCarthyism and from the provincialism she'd encountered as a student in segregated Georgia. After time in Paris, she moved to Algiers which, following independence in 1962, has become a beacon and safe haven for radicals all around the world. Freedom fighters, anti-fascists and political exiles flocked to it from Spain, Portugal South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela and the United States. Mokhtefi, a journalist and translator, found her home here.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Here & Not Yet: Fellows Show Their Work


The exhibition will showcase new work by the 2017-2018 Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellows, produced as an outcome of their participation in Queer|Art’s celebrated year-long intergenerational creative and professional development program, now entering its eighth year. With works of film, literature, performance, and visual art by Justin Allen, David Antonio Cruz, Marco DaSilva, Federica Gianni, Lucas Habte, Ryan Haddad, Lamya Haq, Jarrett Key, Madsen Minax, and Zoe Schlacter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Jane Dickson in Times Square: When New York Was New York


Artist Jane Dickson is a deep-rooted and central voice in New York City's complex creative history. In the late 1970s and early '80s, she was part of the movement joining the legacies of downtown art, punk rock, and hip hop through her involvement with the Colab art collective, the Fashion Moda gallery, and legendary exhibitions including the Real Estate Show and Times Square Show. In the midst of this groundbreaking work, Dickson lived, worked and raised two children in an apartment on 43rd Street and 8th Avenue at a time when the neighborhood was at its most infamous, crime-ridden, and spectacularly seedy. Through it all, she photographed, drew and painted extraordinary scenes of life in Times Square. These works, many of which are reproduced here for the first time, include candid documentary snapshots, roughly vibrant charcoal sketches, and paintings created on surfaces ranging from sandpaper to Brillo pads. Featuring a foreword by Chris Kraus and afterword by Fab Five Freddy, Jane Dickson in Times Square is a time machine back to a New York City that was truly wild: lawless, manic, sometimes squalid, sometimes magnificent.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life During the Reagan and Bush Years


Sarah Schulman’s experiences as an artist and as a lesbian, AIDS and feminist activist spotlight the intrinsic homophobia of American society, and provide the basis for crucial discussions about the ways forward in the fight for equality. My American History is a collection that gives voice to both the personal and political struggles of feminist and lesbian and gay communities in the 1980s. It is an important historical record that will enlighten and inform activists, as well as academics of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality studies, in the 21st century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Musical | Star-Spangled: A New Musical


It’s the summer of 1972, and the college-aged "Star-Spangled Singers" are at the top of their game. They’ve kissed performing at local Kiwanis clubs and VFW halls goodbye and are now singing and dancing their patriotic show choir routines for Bob Hope and President Nixon. But, in America, change is afoot! It's “Up with People” in the age of Watergate. Can everything be sorted out in time for the bicentennial? A college production: Written and directed by Douglas Carter Beane Music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn Choreography by Joey Pizzi
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Useful Verses: Prize-Winning Poetry


Welcome the winner of one of the poetry world’s most coveted prizes, the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection. Richard Osmond will read from his collection. Osmond will be introduced by Northern Irish poet and novelist Nick Laird.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author


Colson Whitehead is the author of six novels, including The Intuitionist, Zone One, and, most recently, The Underground Railroad, for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The recipient of multiple awards, including a Whiting Award, a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Whitehead has taught at Princeton, NYU, the University of Houston, and Columbia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Comics & Friendship


Come hear two storytellers who became friends while working in animation and are releasing absurdist graphic novels based off popular web comics: internet sensation Aminder Dhaliwal, whose debut graphic novel Woman World started off an an infectiously funny instagram comic about a group of women who gab and hang out in a post apocalyptic future where men are extinct, and Megan Nicole Dong, whose Sharky Malarkey follows the travails of a washed up, vain, yet insecure Shark actor named Bruce.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Rethinking Gender


Some political movements around the world promise a return to an imaginary past in which clear and stable gender divisions maintained order and comfort for all. But what is the glorious gender future that is the opposite of the dark gender past? With Phia Ménard, Eric Fassin, and Sasha Velour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | A 'Major Vocal Talent Whose Range Shatters the Conventional Boundaries'


Recently hailed by The New York Times as a “major vocal talent whose range shatters the conventional boundaries,” singer and writer Joseph Keckler folds mesmerizing storytelling and sharp wit into a rich vocal range spanning over three octaves. He’s performed his work at the Centre Pompidou, Miami Art Basel, PEN American Center, and many other international venues, and has been featured on BBC America and WNYC. Joseph Keckler will be joined by: Matthew Dean Marsh, piano Dan Bartfield, violin Mike Hanf, percussion
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Intro Class: Practical Aromatherapy


Aromatherapy has a long and rich history in many cultures around the world. This class with Marc Gian will provide an overview of foundational aromatherapy and introduce you to a wide range of therapeutic techniques you can put to use in various aspects of your life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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