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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 13, 2025?
41 free events take place on Thursday, November 13 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 13 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.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 13, 2025?
41 free events take place on Thursday, November 13 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 13 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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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
41 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, November 13, 2025
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Workshop | Central Park Running Session (All Levels Welcome)
If you prefer not to run alone or are looking to improve your running performance, you can run with a club! Open to runners of all levels. Weekly changed routes through the park. Coaches, training, running company and inspiration!
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 am
Free
Free
Symposium | International Textile History Conference (In Person AND Online!)
Experience a symposium on the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Textile History. What is the place of textile history scholarship today? What does it mean to use textiles to write history, and which methodologies are most effective in this form of writing history? How do textile objects speak to us and what can they tell us? Program:
9:00 am - 9:15 am Registration & Coffee
9:15 am - 9:20 am Welcome Remarks
9:20 am -10:45 am Panel 1. Byzantine Textiles: Iconography & Attribution (Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, Jennifer Ball, Warren Woodfin)
10:45 am -10:55 am Coffee Break
10:55 am -12:20 pm Panel 2. Asian Textiles: Iconography & Circulation (Mariachiara Gasparini, Eiren Shea, Debarati Sarkar, Molly Aitken)
12:20 pm - 1:05 pm Lunch Break
1:05 pm - 2:35 pm Panel 3. Asian Textiles: Markets & Meaning (Amanda Phillips, Rachel Silberstein, Nazanin Hedayat Munroe)
2:35 pm - 2:45 pm Coffee Break
2:45 pm - 4:15 pm Panel 4. Spanish Textiles: Embodying the Nation (Jackie Edwards, Amanda Wunder, Inés Corujo Martín)
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm Closing: Textile Study in Museums (Carol Bier, Eva Labson)
New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
Free
Free
Tour | New York City Hall Guided Tour
One of the oldest continuously used city halls in the nation that still houses its original governmental functions, New York's City Hall is considered one of the finest architectural achievements of its period. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, the building was an early expression of the City's cosmopolitanism. City Hall is a designated New York City landmark, and its rotunda is also a designated interior landmark. Note: When registering, choose the "Individual Tour" option.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
Free
Gallery Talk | Treasures of the Griffin Warrior: Discovering Mycenaean Secrets
Join archaeologists Sharon Stocker and Jack L. Davis, co-investigators of the Griffin Warrior grave in Pylos, as they reveal their extraordinary discoveries of gold, silver, bronze, and precious gems. Learn how these finds are reshaping our understanding of the Mycenaean civilization and the rise of Europe’s first states around 1450 BCE, and explore the ongoing story of archaeological work in Pylos since 2015.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free
Free
Classical Music | Serene Organ Meditations in Intimate Venue
Enjoy a program of hymns, anthems, and voluntaries for the organ.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Ensemble Works of 18th Century Cultural Exchange by Couperin & More (In Person AND Online!)
Featuring works by François Couperin and Arcangelo Corelli — the undisputed titans of their respective musical worlds — Au pied du Parnasse program celebrates the rich tapestry of cultural exchange at the heart of 18th-century music. This performance by the Yale School of Music, period-instrument ensemble Y415 highlights the creative tension between French elegance and Italian brilliance, celebrating Baroque virtuosity and affirming the enduring power of dialogue across cultural boundaries.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
Free
Free
Jazz | Multi-Instrumental Soul and Rhythm
Experience a vibrant ensemble performance that seamlessly integrates soul, R&B, and innovative rhythms. This presentation showcases virtuosic drumming, sophisticated arrangements, and compelling storytelling, delivered by a multi-instrumental ensemble that infuses energy and creativity into each moment.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | Superman (2025): DC Superhero Film Directed by James Gunn
Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned. Director: James Gunn Cast: David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan James Francis Gunn Jr. is an American filmmaker, producer, musician, and the co-CEO of DC Studios. He's known for directing the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy for Marvel and The Suicide Squad (2021) for DC. Gunn's work has earned him a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | Learn about Electronics in Classical Music: Interactive Lesson
Enjoy the inaugural lecture of a brand-new Chamber Music Lecture Series, being offered by our faculty member Dr. Levy Lorenzo. Over the past century, repertoire and performance practice in classical music have evolved alongside the development of modern technology. This performance-lecture focuses on electronics in classical music, tracing their impact from early analog experiments to today’s digital sound manipulation techniques. Drawn from Dr. Lorenzo’s internationally recognized work as a percussionist, sound designer, electronic musician, and instrument inventor, he will perform custom-built instruments and present works for acoustic instruments and electronics that highlight live performance in conversation with computers. The presentation will also feature interactive pieces with electronics, illustrating how classical chamber instruments can engage dynamically with digital systems.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free
Free
Talk | Learn about Writing & Literature in Contemporary Russia (In Person AND Online!)
This talk will be given by the co-founders of The School of Literary Practices is an independent, avant-garde, Russian-language creative writing program. Award-winning novelist Evgenia Nekrasova will discuss Russia’s younger generation of literary authors and emergent trends in their writing today, while professor and curator Tatiana Novoselova will speak on the broader topic of how the book industry is managing as a whole in contemporary Russia.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Writing Class: Learn To Tell the Immigrant Story (All Levels Welcome)
Restless Books runs an immigrant writing workshop series! These free writing classes seek to inspire immigrants to tell their own immigrant stories. Workshops will involve reading, responding to short immigrant narratives, and writing exercises led by Professor and Publisher at Restless Books, Ilan Stavans. In this workshop, participants will reflect on personal experience with immigration through their writing. During this series, participants will have the opportunity to work with an immigrant writer to write, edit, and workshop their own work. This entry level workshop is open to writers with all levels of experience.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | Expert Discusses Abolitionist Education (In Person AND Online!)
Urban planning researcher and professor Dr. Akira Rodriguez speaks on "'Teachers Care': Student Walkouts, the Teachers' Strike, and Schools as Collectivized Plots of Abolitionist Education in Los Angeles."
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:15 pm
Free
Free
Discussion | Experts Talk about Freedom of the Press & Censorship
Attend a panel discussion that features scholars and writers offering perspectives on news media and investigative journalism as a global authoritarian turn erodes norms of press freedom. The varied playbook of intimidation includes the use of laws on libel to sanction commercial print media outlets, withdrawal of funding, surveillance and physical attacks on journalists, and the criminalization of dissent under vague national security and defamation laws. Panelists will discuss how regimes of India, China, the United States, and the UK have tried to restrict if not control what journalists and writers produce, as well as coping strategies that deployed in response.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
Free
Free
Museums | Thursday Evening Exploring the Photography Museum
This museum is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture. It was founded in 1974 to champion “concerned photography”—socially and politically minded images that can educate and change the world. Through its exhibitions, education programs, community outreach, and public programs, the museum offers an open forum for dialogue about the power of the image.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
$5, tickets required
$5, tickets required
Performance | Multi-Arts Showcase: Short Films, Live Music, Poetry, Dance, & More
This student-produced arts showcase features original songs, short films, visual art, poetry, dance, a short play, and more. Come watch the show and hang out with the artists.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free
Free
Reading | 3 Authors Share Their New Books
Persea Books celebrates independent publishing and three new books from Persea authors. Poetry Editor Gabriel Fried will introduce Elizabeth Bradfield, reading from her new book SOFAR, Michelle Peñaloza, winner of the Persea Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice and the James Laughlin Awards for All the Words I Can Remember Are Poems, and Carey Salerno, reading from her new book The Hungriest Stars. Persea is an independent, literary publishing house founded in 1975 by Michael Braziller and Karen Braziller, who still own and direct the company. Persea books focus on contemporary issues expressed through individual experience.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Acclaimed Composer & Musician Ljova's Original Works a New Instrument: The Fadolín (In Person AND Online!)
Ljova's (Lev Zhurbin) solo project, “Enter the Fadolín” introduces a new instrument into the classical cannon -- the fadolín — that combines the range of the violin, viola and most of the cello, in one unique sonority. Since 2020, Ljova has been building a repertoire for the unaccompanied fadolín, adapting music by J.S. Bach (originally written for the keyboard), Bach's Irish contemporary Turlough O’Carolan (originally performed on the folk harp), a popular theme by Dvořák originally written for the orchestra, and many pieces written especially for this unique, haunting new instrument, by Ljova himself. Ljova divides his time between composing for the concert stage, contemporary dance & film, leading his own ensemble LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND, performing with and composing for TRIO FADOLÍN, as well as a busy career as a fadolínist, violist, and musical arranger. Among recent projects is a film score for the National Geographic, commissions from the City of London Sinfonia, The Louisville Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma and the Silkroad Ensemble, Brooklyn Rider, The Knights, Sybarite5 and A Far Cry, as well arrangements for the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductors Gustavo Dudamel and Alondra de la Parra, songwriters Ricky Martin, Natalia Lafourcade and Carlos Vives.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Talk | Artist & Theorist Discusses Her "Dark Play" Creative Process
In this talk, artist and theorist Aliza Shvarts will discuss the broader arc of her practice, and explore how "dark play" can offer an aesthetic and political strategy to navigate increasing forms of censorship. Performance theorist Richard Schechner describes “dark play” as the condition when the performer knows they are performing, but the audience does not. The term also invokes the “dark arts” or clandestine powers attributed to witches as reproductive criminals: women who, as described by Marxist feminist Silvia Federici, not only often helped others manage their reproductive health, but whose speech—insofar as they possessed the power to cast spells or curses—possessed the power to act. The talk with be followed by a Q&A led by NYU Performance Studies Department Chair and Professor Ann Pellegrini and a reception.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Exploring Life in East Germany through Harald Hauswald's Photography
Experience the opening of Harald Hauswald: Life in East Germany, an exhibition of Harald Hauswald’s photographic work, curated by photographer Martin Schoeller. The exhibition opening will include an artist talk between Harald Hauswald and Martin Schoeller. Harald Hauswald is one of the most important East German photographers who captured the everyday reality of life in the German Democratic Republic in the late 1970s and 80s with empathy, humor, and precision. The exhibition provides an unembellished look at what life in East Germany looked like before the fall of the Berlin Wall, juxtaposing an often ironic view of the public sphere with intimate glimpses at the private and inner worlds of the GDR’s citizens. A self-proclaimed “chronicler of the East,” Hauswald was constantly observing the system, which in turn was surveilling him. From 1978 until the fall of the Berlin Wall, Hauswald was under constant surveillance by the Stasi, and the contents of his Stasi file are included in this exhibition, highlighting the powerful ways in which Hauswald’s images created an unofficial counter archive to dominant state-propagated ideology and narratives. The exhibition will remain on view through January 16, 2026.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Book Discussion | Learn about Pioneering Mexican Writer, Elena Garro
At this event, María Julia Rossi (John Jay) will speak with author Jazmina Barrera about her new book on Mexican author Elena Garro, The Queen of Swords, recently longlisted for the National Book Award. A limited number of books will be available for give-away at the event.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Talk | Learn about Recent German Right-Wing Fiction with Experts
As a genre, the novel seems ill-suited to the whims of the 21st century. What once made writers praise the novel as quintessentially modern—its discursive capaciousness, its ability to incorporate other genres within itself—appears less impressive in the digital age, where new forms are constantly being produced and character-limits reign king. As many a cultural critic has lamented, no one has the attention span to finish a novel anymore. Even if we set aside our current obsession with AI and social media, the novel still seems constitutionally ill-suited to political messaging. The very act of reading a novel stagnates political action: reading takes time, of course, but also demands isolation and a retreat from collective life. And yet, even today, writers are still turning to the novel as a tool for political persuasion. What do these novels understand themselves to be doing? How do they work? By investigating recent political novels in German, especially from the far right, this talk argues that the contemporary political novel is preoccupied with the question of its own efficacy. With Sophie Salvo, Assistant Professor in Germanic Studies and the College at the University of Chicago
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn the Alexander Technique for Body Alignment & Vocal Alignment with Juilliard Professor
Experience an uplifting, all-levels body alignment and vocal session that blends the Alexander Technique—focusing on improving breathing, coordination, balance, posture and body awareness—with singing as a group. Guided by Lori Schiff, Alexander Technique master teacher at The Juilliard School, this interactive workshop will explore how releasing tension and tuning into yourself can enhance your wellbeing, while also expanding your vocal freedom. No experience required. First-come, first-served. Limited capacity.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | New Works on Paper Blending Retro Americana and Japanese Sensibility
Experience this exhibition of new works on paper that reinterpret the aesthetics of 1960s underground comics and surf culture through a uniquely Japanese lens. The artist Yusuke Hanai's poignant images blend humor, nostalgia, and personal reflection.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Discussion | Prize-Winning Author Discusses Enlightenment Philosophy & Death
This lecture explores the question: What would the Enlightenment look like if we viewed it through the eyes of the philosophers as they were facing death? In The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death, Professor of French and prize-winning author Joanna Stalnaker discusses works written at the end of the Old Regime and at the end of their authors’ lives. These works, all written before the French Revolution, cast a retrospective glance over the intellectual movement their authors participated in, and over the authors’ own lives and works. Stalnaker shows that the beauty of these works stem from their authors’ efforts to give literary form to the fragility of their dying bodies. As they reflected on writing as a means of reaching posterity, Enlightenment philosophers embraced the possibility that neither their names nor their writings would survive long beyond the decomposition of their bodies. They inscribed the silence and nothingness of death into their last works, capturing their sense of an ending rather than the confidence in a glowing future so often attributed to them.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Sculptures and Paintings Exploring Beauty and Reflection
This exhibition presents a new body of work by world-renowned artist Jeff Koons. Featuring large-scale sculptures and paintings inspired by eighteenth- to early twentieth-century porcelain figurines, the works depict mythological figures, animals, and lovers in luminous, mirror-polished stainless steel coated in transparent color. Blending the everyday with the sublime, Koons transforms familiar forms into radiant icons that explore beauty, history, and self-reflection.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Free
Classical Music | Works by Frederick Block
Using the archive of pianist and composer Frederick Block, musicians perform his works. Frederick Block was a celebrated composer in Vienna forced to flee when Nazis took control in 1938, eventually settling in New York. Aside from his commercial work, Block in known for composing the opera Esther, three symphonies, four suites, a piano quintet and other chamber works, piano pieces and songs.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | Award Winning Architect Explores Design, Subjectivity, & Labor in Architecture(In Person AND Online!)
Hear from Peggy Deamer, Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture and principal in the firm of Deamer, Studio. Her theory work explores the relationship between subjectivity, design, and labor in the current economy. She received the Architectural Record 2018 Women in Architecture Activist Award and the 2021 John Q. Hejduk Award. Dr. Deamer is a founding member of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural design and labor. She is the editor of Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present and The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design and the author of Architecture and Labor. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Dila Koksal.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Capoeira: Movement, Rhythm, and Brazilian Tradition
Experience the energy of capoeira in a series of free, all-level sessions inspired by the exhibition Território vivo. Led by Capoeira Guatambu and Mestre Gordinho, these gatherings celebrate the Brazilian art form’s fusion of dance, music, and martial expression.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Columbia Writing Professor Celebrates His New Book, Vera or Faith
Columbia Writing Professor Gary Shteyngart reads from his latest book, Vera or Faith: A Novel. Followed by a conversation with Professor Bruce Robbins, English and Comparative Literature. Synopsis: The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love one another deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds. There’s Daddy, a struggling, cash-thirsty editor whose Russian heritage gives him a surprising new currency in the upside-down world of twenty-first-century geopolitics; his wife, Anne Mom, a progressive, underfunded blue blood from Boston who’s barely holding the household together; their son, Dylan, whose blond hair and Mayflower lineage provide him pride of place in the newly forming American political order; and, above all, the young Vera, half-Jewish, half-Korean, and wholly original. Observant, sensitive, and always writing down new vocabulary words, Vera wants only three things in life: to make a friend at school; Daddy and Anne Mom to stay together; and to meet her birth mother, Mom Mom, who will at last tell Vera the secret of who she really is and how to ensure love’s survival in this great, mad, imploding world.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | Kouté Vwa (2024): Intergenerational Drama from French Guiana
In this moving drama, 13-year-old Melrick spends his summer vacation in Cayenne with his grandmother, Nicole. When he sets out to learn the drums, his music stirs the memory of Lucas, Nicole’s late son and a drummer himself, whose tragic death 11 years earlier still echoes through their family.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Chamber Works by Aaaron Copland in Celabration of His Birthday
In celebration of Aaron Copland’s 125th birthday, this program will feature four major works that reveal the brilliance and originality of one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. The concert will include selections from his ballet score Billy the Kid and his song cycle Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, the Concerto for Clarinet, and his festive El Salón Mexico featuring the Bloomingdale School of Music Faculty Chamber Ensemble, conducted by Conrad Chu.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Chamber Works by Schubert, Sofia Gubaidulina, Wynton Marsalis and More
This event is a night performed solely by the Mannes chamber music faculty coaches at The New School! This evening will feature music by Franz Schubert, Sofia Gubaidulina, Wynton Marsalis, and Mannes very own composition faculty member Timo Andres. Faculty artists for this evening will include bassoonist Rebekah Heller; violinists Miranda Cuckson and Rebecca Fischer; violists Milan Milisavljevic and Daniel Panner; cellists Jia Kim and Michael Nicolas; and pianists Timo Andres, J.Y. Song, Vladimir Valjarevic, and Xiayin Wang. This night will be a true celebration of chamber music as a whole.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Exploring the Boundaries of Performance and Image
Artist Will Rawls joins curators in conversation to discuss a project that blends photography, cinema, and performance to question the line between the living, the rehearsed, and the recorded. In a world saturated with images and mediated identities, this work invites audiences to consider how Black performance resists capture and redefines storytelling through movement, language, and collective imagination.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Films Exploring UFOs and the Mysteries of Human Belief
Experience an evening of experimental films and videos. These works probe the unknown, where imagination, science, and spirituality collide, inviting viewers to question how the unexplained shapes our understanding of reality and our place in the cosmos. Featuring films by Peggy Ahwesh, Kevin Jerome Everson, George Kuchar, Adam Putnam, and Tony Oursler.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Melissa Febos & Donika Kelly Share Their Recent Works (+ Book Signing)
Memoir and poetry reading by Melissa Febos and Donika Kelly, followed by a reception/signing with books for sale. Melissa Febos is the author of five books, including the national bestselling essay collection, Girlhood, which has been translated into ten languages and was a LAMBDA Literary Award finalist, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and named a notable book of 2021 by NPR, Time, The Washington Post, and others. Her new memoir, The Dry Season, was published this summer. Febos is also recipient of a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and the Jeanne Córdova Nonfiction Award from LAMBDA Literary. Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf book award in poetry, and Bestiary, the winner of the 2015 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Kelly’s poetry has been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Publishing Triangle Awards, the LAMBDA Literary Awards, and longlisted for the National Book Award.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Music on the Brain & Transforming Tension into Groove
Discover how music and the brain intersect in an interactive evening of performance and conversation. Pianist/composer Kelly Green demonstrates how musicians turn tension into rhythm and flow, while neuroscientist Dr. Anna Zhukovskaya explores the science of stress resilience. Engage with live music and insights into how the brain responds to creativity and groove.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Opera Open Dress Rehearsal
One of New York City's oldest opera companies has been bringing over 50 years of world-class performances to audiences. Their upcoming shows feature incredible singers and a full orchestra. This is a perfect opportunity for first-time opera-goers to experience the magic of live opera. Note: Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
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Discussion | Music Jam & Conversation Blending Art, Music, & Technology
Enjoy a musical jam and conversation between Jaron Lanier, often referred to as the "father of virtual reality"; multiple GRAMMY Award winner Will Calhoun; theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander; composer, musician, and writer Melvin Gibbs; multi-instrumentalist, educator, composer, and electro-acoustic adventurer LaFrae Sci; and moderated by the one and only Nona Hendryx. There are two ways to access this event: 1. General Admission, first-come first-served. Just show up! 2. Fast Track opening the Monday before the event at noon
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Play | Fairview: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Comedy
Beverly needs her mother’s birthday party to be perfect, but nothing is going to plan. Jasmine is drinking, Dayton is happily unhelpful, Keisha is a teenager, Tyrone is MIA, the radio is going off, and other people’s opinions are intruding on everything! Playwright: Jackie Sibblies Drury Director: Jasminn Johnson Cast: Lola Fadiran, Bryce-David King, Shannon Fish, Anita Parrott, Ayla Decaire, Nick Rossi, Brianna DeMilio, Jeff Parkinson
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Hear from Local Poets
Enjoy an evening of live poetry. Curated by local poet and playwright Galinsky, with "Five Minute Features" from a dozen poets of all styles.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Open Mic | Poetry, Music, and Comedy Showcase (Online!)
Join a weekly online showcase featuring poems, songs, and comedy. Performers can sign up for a 4-minute spot by reserving one of 20 Artist-RSVP tickets, available starting Wednesdays at 8:00 PM ET. If all spots are filled, performers may join the “good-luck round” at the end of the session. Audience members are welcome to watch live via Zoom.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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