30 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, November 4, 2019
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Last year's UN report highlighted the urgent need to employ a range of measures to limit global warming, ...
more >> while meeting rising global energy demand. This could include the protection and restoration of natural ecosystems such as forests, grasslands and wetlands. Nature-based solutions aim to protect, transform or restore land allowing nature to absorb more CO2 emissions from the atmosphere. Between now and 2030, they could provide over a third of the climate mitigation needed to limit warming to below 2?C. Reaching that outcome is difficult, in part because the prospects for nature-based solutions are uncertain. A panel of experts will discuss the role of nature in tackling climate change. Panelists include: o Ruth DeFries, University Professor; Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology o Dirk Forrister, CEO & President of the International Emissions Trading Association o Michelle Manion, Lead Economist at the World Resources Institute o Todd Stevens, Executive Director, Conservation Science and Solutions at the Wildlife Conservation Society o Maarten Wetselaar, Director, Integrated Gas and New Energies at Royal Dutch Shell o Jason Bordoff, Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy (moderator)
Balance mind, body, and spirit in this Primordial Sound Meditation led by an instructor. Work with a ...
more >> personal mantra, a specific sound or vibration. Take part in a regular meditation practice that lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, and strengthens the immune system.
9:45 am
free, no reservation required
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations ...
more >> for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
Editor's Pick
Filmmaker Morgan Neville examines the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved host of the popular ...
more >> children's TV show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." 94 min. Director: Morgan Neville. Starring: Joanne Rogers, Betty Aberlin, David Bianculli. The movie has grossed $22 million, making it the highest-grossing biographical documentary of all time.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a ...
more >> world that has changed forever. 129 min. Director: Jon Watts. Starring Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Drifting through the densely forested landscape of southern Slovenia, Greetings from Free Forests, like ...
more >> a lifting fog, reveals a refuge of embedded historical memory. The film travels alongside the testimonies of local hunters, foresters, cavers, and foragers among others--orbiting around an absence left by radical struggle after it has come to fruition and since faded. During WWII, this forest served as a sanctuary for the Partisan Liberation Front, who were resisting the Fascist occupation of Yugoslavia.
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A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children. 72 min. ...
more >> Director: William A. Wellman. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Clark Gable.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Join this tour to learn more about the history, architecture, and sculpture of Columbia and the Morningside ...
more >> Heights campus. Whether you're an amateur New York City historian or visiting campus for the first time, you will leave the tour knowing more about our storied past. Given that the tour route is outdoors, please be aware that tours are occasionally suspended due to inclement weather.
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city ...
more >> life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Rubem Robierb's Dandara is Dedicated to the transgender community and a tribute to Dandara, a transgender ...
more >> woman who was brutally murdered in 2017. The following guests attending: -- Rubem Robierb, internationally-known visual artist -- Sam Champion, New York’s WABC-TV Eyewitness News and longtime weatherman for Good Morning America. -- Thom Filicia, Bravo TV’s Queer Eye -- Dawn Ennis, journalist & LGBTQ activist -- LGBT Task Force, GLAAD and other community leaders -- Celebrities/ VIPs in the media, entertainment and LGBTQ space
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
When boundaries are crossed, can we find our way to forgiveness? A new play about sex, video games, and ...
more >> the baggage we carry. Written by Eric Lane.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Cellist Hans Jensen has performed as a soloist in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan including ...
more >> solo appearances with the Danish Radio Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Copenhagen Symphony, and the Irish Radio Orchestra.
4:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A classical musician from the slums is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite. 125 ...
more >> min. Director: Jean Negulesco. Starring Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant. Humoresque received an Academy Award nomination for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Iris Origo’s autobiographical account of her early life is as perceptive and humane and beautifully ...
more >> written as her celebrated memoir War in Val d’Orcia. Images and Shadows is an autobiography that is as thoughtful as it is profoundly touching. With her grandaughter Katia Lysy.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
We love the Nutcracker. But every year we cringe as the curtain rises on the second act, not knowing ...
more >> if an offensive racial caricature in “Chinese Tea” will take the stage. How do we change this classic and beloved work to be more respectful? Phil Chan and Georgina Pazcoguin share how they are replacing caricature with character in 21st century Nutcrackers.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Allan deSouza’s book examines how we evaluate if art is good as well as art’s claims to be for the ...
more >> social good. The book provides an extensive analytical glossary of common terms used to discuss art, focusing on their current usage and adapting them to new artistic and social challenges. Like deSouza’s artworks, the book considers art as politicized culture and proposes decolonizing practices within the contemporary world. Reception to follow.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
Shining a light on a lost generation of American youth, this film brings to life the stories of 18 real-life ...
more >> people, among them current and former inmates, protesters, educators and politicians. Director: Kristi Zea 90 min. Followed by a talk-back with Anna Deavere Smith, whose play the film is adapted from. Restrictions may apply. Call theater for details.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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Speakers will also discuss the complexities of cultural duality and the nuances of an evolving artistic ...
more >> discourse Working in the aftermath of the 1979 Revolution, contemporary Iranian women artists are embracing themes of gender identity, repression, religion, and memory. In this panel, artists will also discuss the complexities of cultural duality and the nuances of an evolving artistic discourse. Moderated by artist Shirin Neshat.
The artists include:
Sepideh Salehi
Nazanin Noroozi
Roya Farassat
Afruz Amighi
Hadieh Shafie
Ala Dehghan
Shiva Ahmadi
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
An insightful evening of conversation surrounding the many ethical challenges that administrators, teachers, ...
more >> parents, and students face in our schools. Using case studies from Harvard University’s Justice in Schools program, they will tackle conversations ranging from grade inflation to the recent surge in divisive language and behavior seen in our classrooms. Attendees will draw out the dilemmas in each case, ask which values are at stake, and then consider the practices and policies that should be followed. JUSTINE FELLOWS is Dean as well as Registrar and Director of Special Programs at Greens Farms Academy. She serves on the Connecticut Association of Independent School’s Commission for School Growth and Collaboration. PETER HERTZBERG is a K-to-post-secondary educator teaching leadership, and partnership-building innindependent, public, and charter schools as well as community college. He also specializes in innovating high school programs, designing and integrating curriculum, building more robust, interactive teaching cultures, improving literacy, and cultivating student engagement.
Hear top editors, innovative publishers, savvy agents and dynamic booksellers reveal success strategies ...
more >> in the publishing world. Discover where the growth will be in the industry and how you can be a part of it. With: -- Dawn Davis, Vice President and Publisher, 37Ink, Simon & Schuster -- Alexandra Machinist, Literary Agent, ICM Partners -- Emma Straub, Owner, Books Are Magic; author, The Vacationers, Modern Lovers, and Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures -- Peter Catapano, Editor, Opinion Section, The New York Times
An international evening with emerging artist female Dominique Leclerc (Canada), Dr. Gora Parasit (in ...
more >> Contemporary Performance Lithuania) and female identifying and gender non-binary artist LaJuné McMillian (New York). The artists explore contemporary technology like virtual reality, physical computing, and worldwide cyborg and transhumanist movements.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A lecture by Stephanie Malia Hom presenting an excerpt from her new book Empire’s Mobius Strip: Historical ...
more >> Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of Migration and Detention. Italy’s current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions. Empire’s Mobius Strip investigates how mobile populations were perceived to be major threats to Italian colonization, and how the state’s historical mechanisms of control have resurfaced, with greater force, in today’s refugee crisis. What is at stake in Empire’s Mobius Strip is a deeper understanding of the forces driving those who move by choice, like tourists, and those who are moved by force, like refugees. It shows how mobility forges lasting connections between colonial imperialism and neoliberal empire, and positions Italy as the critical site for the study of imperial formations in Europe and the Mediterranean.
As part of the exhibition Walt Whitman's Words, this is a Letterpress Workshop with artist Roni Gross. ...
more >> Participants will learn various printing techniques used by Walt Whitman. Gross is a book artist whose work is in the collections of The Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale and many other public and private collections. She runs Z'roah Press which produces limited edition sculptural books.
“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly ...
more >> between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way.” His latest collection exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made him “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Kimberly Dark’s new book explores what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating ...
more >> her experience of being fat since childhood—as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-conforming “girl with a pretty face,” active then disabled, and inevitably aging—Dark blends storytelling and social analysis to deftly coax readers into a deeper understanding of how appearance privilege (and stigma) function in everyday life and how the architecture of this social world constrains us.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
When separated-at-birth siblings Felix and Hipolita are reunited, it's like The Parent Trap meets She's ...
more >> the Man. Written by Guillen de Castro y Bellvis
A Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. Lora Al Ahmad: A Musical Tribute to ...
more >> Václav Havel for cello & piano Bedřich Smetana: Selected songs Luboš Fišer: Sonate No. 8 for piano solo Leoš Janáček: Pohádka for cello and piano John Califra: Petr Ginz piano quintet Antonín Dvořák: Selected Songs Bohuslav Martinů: Bergerette for piano trio
7:00 pm
free, reservation required
Every family has secrets—secrets they keep from each other, as well as the ones they keep together. ...
more >> The bonds and scars of family are universal, but they manifest in different ways in every country, as well as in every community and every household. This is a reading and discussion with authors Steph Cha (Your House Will Pay), Catherine Chung (The Tenth Muse), and Angie Kim (Miracle Creek) will explore issues of immigration, history, legacy, and identity in new novels about American families and the secrets they keep.
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held ...
more >> in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join each season in performing at the historic church. Featuring: Sahar Damoni Nicole Goodwin Pei Ling Ho Julie Mayo
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required