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51 free events take place in New York City on Thursday, September 17, 2015.
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Workshop | Park Tai Chi


Classes for all ages and experience levels. Park Tai Chi is provided by the Tai Chi Chuan Center and led by teachers and students who train at CK Chu Tai Chi under the direction of Jeremy Hubbell. Classes are rain or shine. Takes place on Tuesdays and Thursdays through September 24.
   
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7:30 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.
   
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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.
   
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10:00 am
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Festival | 8th Annual Motorexpo


Motorexpo returns, transforming New York’s premier business district with a free-to-visit display of the latest vehicles. This event takes place September 13-19, 2015.
   New York, NY
11:00 am
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Workshop | Tai Chi Outdoors


With the Chinatown YMCA. This event takes place on September 17 and 24.
   New York, NY
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11:00 am
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Tour | Explore Castle Williams Tour


Castle Williams, the centerpiece of the system of fortifications designed to guard New York City just prior to the War of 1812, has long been off-limits to the public. After an extensive rehabilitation project in 2011, the National Park Service opened the Castle's to the general public for the first time in the fort's 200-year history. Tours of the Castle take visitors through all three levels and the roof. Tours are approximately 30 minutes in length. Visitors are advised that tours require climbing three flights of stairs. The Castle's upper floors are not handicap-accessible. Start times: 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm.
   New York, NY
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11:30 am
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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.
   
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesday through Friday, from Sept. 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.
   
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12:20 pm
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Concert | Dan Manjovi, Award-Winning Pianist


Dan Manjovi is an award-winning musician and composer, and a New York favorite. His song Somethin's Comin' My Way is featured in the film and soundtrack to the 2009 Oscar-winning Lionsgate film Precious. His songs, music, and arrangements have been performed by Grace Hightower, Michael Feinstein, and Donna Summer, among others.
   
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12:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition.
   
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12:30 pm
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Workshop | Getting Started in Genealogy


Begin exploring your family history with the NYPL. This introductory class will explain first steps in genealogical research. Find out best practices for getting started, learn about genealogical records, and discover how to search NYPL’s collections.
   
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12:30 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.
   
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: Folk Art and American Modernism


Tour will be led by the museum’s gallery guides.
   
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Retro Board Gaming for Adults


Share your passion for checkers, chess, mahjong, Monopoly, or Scrabble. All levels of play welcome.
   New York, NY
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1:00 pm
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Opera | Opera Feroce presents Treble in Paradise


The gods threaten, lovers lament and Elysium beckons in a kaleidoscopic program of divine selections for treble voices. Culled from operas, operettas, and cantatas, two of Opera Feroce’s favorite composers are featured: the restless and endlessly inventive Alessandro Stradella, and Nicola Porpora, voice teacher to the stars. Performers: Beth Anne Hatton, soprano; Hayden DeWitt, mezzo soprano; Alan Dornak, countertenor; Joseph Trent, traverso; Mark Ettinger, viola da gamba; Kelly Savage, harpsichord
   New York, NY
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1:15 pm
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Tour | Bushwick Graffiti and Street Art Tour


New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick.
   
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2:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Discuss Great Books in a Great Space


Monthly book discussions to explore titles you've been meaning to read, or reread, and discuss with other lovers of literature. Participants should read each title before the discussion. This month's title is The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.
   
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Getting to Know Your Mind, Body and Spirit


Take a journey with MetroPlus as we discuss practical tips on how to achieve a balance to your day to day living. Managing your health with your primary care physician, physical fitness, relaxation, and a nutritional intake of healthy foods will start you on your way to a full energetic life. Presented by Metro Plus - Gilda Gillim.
   
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2:00 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.
   
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation for Optimal Well-Bring


People have been practicing meditation for centuries and today we see a surge in its popularity as new benefits continue to be discovered. It is recognized how meditation can help the body, mind and spirit. Incorporating meditation into one’s life has many positive effects. Join Jim Rose, M Ed, Rutgers University, retired executive of Johnson and Johnson and a long time meditator for this inspiring program. Learn a simple meditation technique that can help you in all aspects of your life.
   New York, NY
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2:00 pm
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Film | Stuart Heisler's This Glass Key (1942): Politician's Turnaround


Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy. During the campaign for reelection, the crooked politician Paul Madvig decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of the gangster Nick Varna and associating with the respectable reformist politician Ralph Henry.
   New York, NY
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition.
   
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3:30 pm
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Workshop | Human Chess


Play as your favorite game piece and navigate the chess board from inside at our Human Chess games, where chess becomes an embodied team sport. All levels welcome.
   New York, NY
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Beginners' Chess Social


Join us at our weekly Game Socials to meet up with like-minded players interested in the same games as you. On Thursdays, beginners are invited to play chess.
   
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5:00 pm
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Birdwatching | Fall Birding Tour


Discover the birds that call the park home, as well as those that may stop by during migration. A surprising diversity of avian visitors drop in, even in the heart of midtown. Sightings could include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, even an American Woodcock.
   
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5:00 pm
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Talk | How to Accelerate Your Income


A discussion about personal reasons to increase one’s income and how we are capable of succeeding at any endeavor we commit ourselves to. Participants work on a skill/talent inventory worksheet and exchange ideas as to how they can best serve the public with their marketable skills. Learn about the importance of goal setting, organization, time management, and self-improvement. Presented by Edil Solis.
   New York, NY
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Pauline Chernichaw / Carlyle Chaudruc Upson


Pauline Chernichaw's photography speaks to twenty-first century socio-cultural issues facing today's urban communities. Her photographs embrace the strength and resilience of an ever-changing city's multi-layered diverse population and the human need to claim one's autonomous space in a rapidly converging world. Watercolor amulet paintings by Carlyle Chaudruc Upson explore the myriad of colors and intricate patterns which appear on the bodies of scarab beetles. This rendition of them explores the beauty of humble desert dung beetles. Revered over millennia for the ability to thrive and reproduce in harsh conditions, the scarab beetle was depicted frequently in ancient Egyptian art. These sketches of abstracted beetles swam in vivid hues and become objects of admiration for the persistence of life when faced with adversity.
   New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Dance Performance | An Evening with Traditional African Dance Artists in NYC: Conversation, Demonstration and Celebration


The Jerome Robbins Dance Division and Dance/NYC present an evening of conversation and dance demonstration with master African dance artists who have greatly transformed the dance landscape in New York City. Interviewed during the African Dance Interview Project of 2014, these esteemed artists include Maguette Camara, Marie Basse-Wiles, Mouminatou Camara, Youssouf Koumbassa, and N’Deye Gueye. Renowned scholar and lecturer of the African Diaspora, C. Daniel Dawson will moderate the evening.
   
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Dona Nelson's New Paintings


Nelson's first entirely new body of work after her widely discussed contribution to the 2014 Whitney Biennial as well as her concurrent, critically acclaimed show Phigor.
   New York, NY
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: The Last Stop: Dyckman in Color


This exhibit is an opportunity for Klashwon to combine the evolution and progression of time and culture and his vibrant art reflects the dynamic energy of the Inwood community.
   New York, NY
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: old Tech new Tech


Participants: Aaron Beebe, Yael Brotman, Book Art Museum of Lodz, Catherine Clover, Deborah and Glen Doering/DOEprojekts, Katherine Jackson, Alexandra Limpert, Trish Mackenzie, Patricia Olynyk, Marianne R. Petit, Benjamin Poynter, Joseph A.W. Quintela, Lorin Roser and Nina Kuo, Alan Rosner, Sophia Sobers, Carol Salmanson, Brett Wallace, Claire Watkins
   New York, NY
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Author Reading | Halley Feiffer reads from her play I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard


Playwright and actress Halley Feiffer reads and signs her latest published work. The talk will be conducted by Pulitzer Prize nominee Jon Robin Baitz while the reading will feature Reed Birney and Betty Gilpin, both of whom will reprise their roles from the Atlantic Theater Company premiere.
   New York, NY
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Workshop | Park Yoga


Perfect your downward dog under the trees and on the lush lawn at the 12th season of outdoor yoga classes, presented by Athleta with instructors curated by Yoga Journal and media support from Flavorpill. Mats are provided by Athleta - no need to bring your own.
   
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Opening Reception | Photography: Jill Freedman: Long Stories Short


The first exhibition of the artist’s work at the gallery features over 50 black-and-white vintage prints from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. This overview includes work from her famous projects on New York cops, New York firemen, Resurrection City protestors, circus workers, and dogs, as well as unpublished photographs.
   New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poetry Under Fata Morgana


A free, public poetry event showcasing leading voices in spoken word poetry and performance. Poetry Under Fata Morgana is conceived to take place under the golden canopies of Teresita Fernández’s Fata Morgana, the artist’s shimmering outdoor exhibition currently on view in Madison Square Park. Invited poets include Emanuel Xavier, Sandra María Esteves, Bonafide Rojas, Machete Movement, and True.
   New York, NY
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Book Discussion | Book Discussion Group: Family Life


By Akhil Sharma.
   New York, NY
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6:30 pm
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Tour | Central Park Sunset Photography Tour


Sunsets are a special time and what better place in New York City to experience and photograph the setting sun than the Middle Section of Central Park. A licensed guide, renowned photographer, and a downtown Manhattan resident of 40 years will guide you through some of the most iconic Central Park settings during what photographers call “the golden hour“ – Summit Rock, Winterdale Arc, the Great Lawn, Belvedere Castle, the Ramble, the Lake and Bow Bridge. You will be directed in how to get your shots no matter what’s the evening sky. Learn a bit about the Middle Section of Central Park as you hone your photographic skills.
   
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Talk | Heading Off Damage: New Insights in Traumatic Brain Injury


Despite the growing recognition of the risks associated with head injury, many questions remain. How does damage happen? What effects can it have in the days afterward? And what are the long-term consequences to the health of the brain? Dr. Barclay Morrison III, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, studies how the brain responds to head impact, and how it initiates, and sometimes falters, in its own repair. This talk is offered free to the public to enhance understanding of the biology of the mind and the complexity of human behavior.
   New York, NY
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Holly Phillips discusses her book The Exhaustion Breakthrough: Unmask the Hidden Reasons You're Tired and Beat Fatigue for Good


This illustrated lecture helps the audience to understand exhaustion, rule out any underlying illnesses, correct any allergies or hormonal issues that may be contributing to extreme tiredness, and incorporates lifestyle factors and alternative therapies that will improve overall energy.
   
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6:30 pm
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Talk | The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall


On November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall—the infamous symbol of a divided Cold War Europe—seemed to be falling. But the opening of the gates was not planned by the East German ruling regime—nor was it the result of a bargain between either President Ronald Reagan or President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It was an accident. In this talk, prize-winning historian Mary Elise Sarotte draws on her research for her recent book The Collapse: The Accidental Fall of the Berlin Wall to show how a perfect storm of decisions made by daring underground revolutionaries, disgruntled Stasi officers, and dictatorial party bosses sparked an unexpected series of events culminating in the chaotic fall of the Wall.
   New York, NY
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Discovering Emmanuel Bove, French Novelist


Author Donald Breckenridge and translator Alyson Waters will explore the novels of Emmanuel Bove, one of the most original writers to come out of twentieth-century France, on the occasion of the publication of his novel, Henry Duchemin and His Shadows. Conversation in English.
   New York, NY
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Author Reading | Fiction: Molly Antopol / Clancy Martin


Molly Antopol’s debut short story collection, “The UnAmericans” (W.W. Norton, 2014) was longlisted for the National Book Award. Clancy Martin is the author of the debut novel “How to Sell” (FSG, 2010), the memoir “Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love” (FSG, 2015), and the novel “Bad Sex,” new this fall from Tyrant Books.
   New York, NY
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Lecture | Forensic Architecture: The Image Complex


In this two-part lecture, Eyal Weizman will discuss the work of the research agency of the same name that he established in 2009. In Part One, Weizman will recount an incident in the West Bank in which two teenagers were shot and killed—a case that involved filmmakers, architects, and a sound artist before it could be properly resolved. In collaboration with Amnesty International, Forensic Architecture’s investigation of the 2014 Gaza war has similarly involved an analysis of social media—on unprecedented scale. Forensic Architecture’s report includes hundreds of testimonies and user-generated videos and photographs, 3D models, analytical videos, and dozens of maps to describe a single day during the war, August 1st, also known as Black Friday. Part Two of the lecture, "The Conflict Shoreline," will take place on Sept. 24.
   New York, NY
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Author Reading | Jim Shepard reads from his book The Book of Aron


Join us for a special reading and discussion with acclaimed National Book Award finalist Jim Shepard. His new novel joins a shortlist of classics about children caught up in the Holocaust, and was recently hailed a "masterpeice" by the Washington Post. Aron, the narrator, is an engaging if peculiar and unhappy young boy whose family is driven by the German onslaught from the Polish countryside into Warsaw and slowly battered by deprivation, disease, and persecution.
   New York, NY
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Author Reading | Photographer Cynthia Carris Alonso discusses her book Passage to Cuba: An Up-Close Look at the World's Most Colorful Culture


Photographer Cynthia Carris Alonso has spent 20 years capturing Havana's crumbling, baroque splendor. Her photographs celebrate the dreamy palette of Cuba and open the doors to an exquisite but rarely seen place.
   
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | The Greatest 3-Minute Midwestern Stories


With cheese curds and stories from Alexander Chee, Leigh Stein, Kashana Cauley, Abraham Riesman, Meredith Clark, Danielle Henderson, Jill Mapes, Tyler Coates, Meredith Modzelewski, Helen Rosner, Syreeta McFadden, and Michaelangelo Matos.
   New York, NY
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Book Signing | Tracey Alysson signs copies of her book Dying and Living in the Arms of Love


This book arose from a calling to go to Tibet and do prostrations around Mt. Kailash, a towering spiritual and physical presence in the wilderness of Western Tibet.
   
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Performance | HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, a Live Multimedia Performance


HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? invites you to imagine a world in which the surreptitious worship of Black people in Western culture is profoundly and openly acknowledged. Where stadiums built in devotion to Black masculinity are recognized as cathedrals; Where the music we breathe into being, appropriated the moment it leaves our nostrils, falls from our tongues, is glorified as sacred vibration, as hymn; Where Black female bodies are imagined as the vehicle through which the world conceives of and actualizes its most creatively seductive vision of itself. This collaborative and multimedia performance of film, sound and movement, marks a conversation within the YAMS collective in which they consider the consequences of erasure from the canon of the sacred. It's a call to an intervention into the very architectures of the Divine and a contemplation on the relationship between canonical erasure and state sponsored terror and violence against the deeply mystical resilience, beauty, and movement of Black bodies. HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? is an evolving multi-disciplinary collective of artists from the African diaspora who have lived and worked together in various iterations over the past twenty years.
   New York, NY
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7:30 pm
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Dancing | Loser’s Lounge Dance Party


Dress up like you’re going back in time to your favorite night club, then dance your way to the future with New York City's most entertaining house band, canonizing the great songwriting catalogues of the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
   
7:30 pm
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Master Class | Piano Master Class with Edward Auer, Noted Interpreter of Chopin


Edward Auer has long been recognized as a leading interpreter of the works of Chopin. As the first American to win a prize in the prestigious International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, he has returned to Poland for well over 20 concert tours, playing in every major city and with every major orchestra. Auer has played solo recitals and concertos in over 30 countries on five continents, collaborating with such conductors as Zubin Mehta, Charles Dutoit, Herbert Blomstedt, Sergiu Comissiona and Riccardo Chailly. Piano master classes take place every Thursday from Sept. 10 to Dec. 10.
   New York, NY
7:45 pm
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Jazz | The Glenn Alexander and Oria Aspen Duo


Acclaimed jazz, rock and blues guitarist Glenn Alexander has played and recorded with some of the world’s finest musicians, with many recordings released under his own name. Originally from a tiny farm community in Maize, Kan., Alexander took up guitar at the age of 12, and soon became obsessed with it, stating that “music changed my life forever.” He has spent many years touring, performing, and teaching around the world with many well-know musicians and entertainers. He served on the faculty for the New School in New York City for 18 years, and for the past 20 years has been director of jazz studies at Sarah Lawrence College. Singer-songwriter Oria Aspen released her debut CD "Yellow Paint" at the age of 17 and is proving to be a musical force to be reckoned with. Aspen is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, playing piano, flute, and percussion.
   New York, NY
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