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40 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, September 14, 2018

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free events nyc Accordions Around the World Festival
free events nyc Historic Greenwich Village Tour: Beats, Bohemians, and Icons from the 1950's to Today
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Concert | Carrie Underwood: Grammy-Winning Country Superstar


The Oklahoma-born American Idol alum has earned seven Grammy Awards, 10 Billboard Music Awards, 14 ACM ... more >> Awards, 12 American Music Awards, 8 CMA Awards, and a Guinness World Record. Her latest CD is Cry Pretty. Attendees are advised to arrive early.
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7:00 am
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Workshop | Tai Chi Outdoors


Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide ... more >> a serene background for the ancient flowing postures. Tai Chi results in strength and focus of body and mind. An ideal choice for participants of all ages. Instructor: Alex Hing Fridays, September 7-28, 2018.
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8:30 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 ... 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
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10:00 am
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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 ... more >> place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 11, 2018 to May 22, 2019.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required

Workshop | Beekeeping Workshop


Visit the park’s apiary, enjoy a honey tasting, and learn about the lives of honeybees from the New ... more >> York City Beekeepers Association.
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery ... more >> in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban historians Peter Laskowich and Madeleine Levi. This tour takes place every Friday.
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Piano in the Park: Ragtime, Stride, and Jazz


Summertime, and the livin’ is easy... so swing on by for toe-tappin’ performances by New York’s ... more >> finest, playing ragtime, stride, and jazz to your heart’s delight. Kuni Mikami played for 12 years with Lionel Hampton’s Big Band.
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12:30 pm
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Film | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) with Tom Hanks: 2 Oscar nominations


A 9-year-old boy searches NYC for a lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who ... more >> was killed on 9/11. Directors Stephen Daldry. 129 min.
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1:00 pm
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Film | The Hurricane Heist (2018): thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S.


A American heist action film that follows a band of thieves who plan to use a Category 5 hurricane to ... more >> cover their tracks of a bank robbery. Directed by Rob Cohen. Starring Toby Kebbell, Maggie Grace, Ryan Kwanten, Melissa Bolona and Ralph Ineson. 103 min.
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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 ... more >> 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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Workshop | Fencing Workshop


Learn the basics with masters from Manhattan Fencing Center. Must be 16 or older to participate.
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1:30 pm
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Film | Overboard (2018): Mexico’s fifth highest grossing picture of 2018


A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated ... more >> employee. A remake of the 1987 comedy. Director: Rob Greenberg. Starring Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris, Eva Longoria, Omar Chaparro, Mel Rodriguez. 112 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
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Film | September Issue (2009): Vogue's 2007 fall-fashion issue


Filmmaker R.J. Cutler chronicles the making of Vogue's now-infamous September 2007 issue, offering an ... more >> unprecedented glimpse into the world of fashion maven and Vogue editor Anna Wintour. Starring: Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington, André Leon Talley and Thakoon Panichgul. 90 min.
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2:00 pm
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Film | The African Queen (1951): a British-American adventure film


In Africa during World War I, a gin-swilling riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced missionary ... more >> to use his boat to attack an enemy warship. Directed by John Huston. Staring Humphrey Bogart & Katherine Hepburn. 115 min.
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2:00 pm
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Symposium | Relational Undercurrents: The Art of the Caribbean Archipelago


This symposium expands on the exhibition premise and delves more deeply into locating thematic continuities ... more >> in the art of the Caribbean archipelago from the perspective of scholars and visual artists. With Elia Alba, Alexander Alberro, Rocío Aranda-Alvarado,Edouard Duval-Carrié, Deborah Cullen, Tatiana Flores, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, David A. Scott, and Michelle A. Stephens.
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2:00 pm
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Reading | Share A Book You Loved


Come and share a book you loved reading or a book you plan to read. What to expect at an Open Book Hour ... more >> book social: - Introduce your book with its title, author, publication date and genre (mystery, memoir, play, etc.). - Tell what it’s about and why you loved it in 2 minutes or less. - No negative criticism please. - Learn about titles of books that you may enjoy and share with your friends. The theme is Bookish Best Friends. Frodo and Sam, Elena and Lila, Morrie and Mitch … From fictional BFFs to real life pals, we’d love to hear about best friends you’ve met in books. Sign up for booktalking slots begins at 1:45 PM.
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Strengthen Your Resume


This workshop is a crash course for people who want to revise their resumes. Sherry Natkow will discuss ... more >> how companies hire new staff, the 3 sections of a job posting, and address each resume section separately. She'll critique a variety of resumes and leave time for lots of questions.
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3:30 pm
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Lecture | Bicentennial Screens: Los Angeles and the Documentary Imagination


While the 1960s-1970s is often considered a galvanizing time for American documentary, scholars and critics ... more >> tend to concentrate on the New York- and Boston-based direct cinema of Robert Drew, the Maysles brothers, Ricky Leacock, and D.A. Pennebaker. Los Angeles is more commonly associated with Hollywood fiction as well as an experimental cinema scene. Drawing on his recently published book, Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958–1977, Joshua Glick will discuss how the city emerged as a hub for nonfiction media, one in which documentarians working between the election of John F. Kennedy and the Bicentennial created conflicting visions of the recent and more distant American past.
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Sounds: Afro-Dominican Fusion


Yasser Tejeda & Palotré is an Afro-Dominican fusion group that blends traditional folkloric roots music ... more >> from Dominican Republic with jazz, rock, and Caribbean rhythms. Palotré is currently finishing their second album, which will continue to inspire listeners to explore their roots and aims to share this rich culture with wider audiences.
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Accordions Around the World Festival


The five-hour Friday finale of Accordions Around the World. Experience meloies you love or the ones you ... more >> have never heard before and the wide range of this often-overlooked and little-known instrument.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
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Concert | 3 Folk Music Acts


5:30 pm Aria Nadège -- Jazzy/soulful singer/songwriter 6:05 pm Bright Brown -- Avant-indie 6:40 pm ... more >> Ella Sun -- Indie singer/songwriter
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Bingo in the Park


BYO food and beverages to this all ages, free to enter, B-I-N-G-O night. A mix of music plays as the ... more >> numbers roll out and each game winner receives a prize. Fridays, September 7-28, 2018.
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me: Dreams of Migrants and Landscapes


Taking his cue from the liminal spaces of the ocean and death invoked in the Blues Singer Mississippi ... more >> John Hurt’s ode to alternative mythologies and economic hardship, Christopher Myers presents a series of works that map the dreams of migrants, the micro-nations in which one finds belonging, and the landscape of dreaming that happens in the spaces between here and there. The exhibition will be accompanied by several events and special programming with a diverse range of artists, performers, and writers that have worked with Myers in the past. With musical guest, Mermaid and Monsters Brass Band.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | so much the less complete: Ink, Graphite and Charcoal Works


An exhibition of new and recent works on paper by Mumbai-based artist Aditi Singh. A meditative and meticulously ... more >> skilled artist, Singh works with tenuous mediums: ink, graphite, and charcoal. Using cumulative and repetitive processes, Singh builds transparency and light through density, achieving an abstraction that evokes the material and the ethereal—a recitative practice in which her applications on paper suggest an inner space of concentration and material expression.
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | An Archive of Struggle: Celebrating the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial


As the most photographed figure of his era, abolitionist, orator, and human and women's rights campaigner, ... more >> and ambassador Frederick Douglass is an iconic face of freedom in the U.S. and abroad. The transatlantic publication of If I Survive: Frederick Douglass and Family reveals the collective family endeavor behind Douglass's struggle. What does the Douglass family story and this black archive teach us about comtemporary fights for freedom, gender and research, scholarly collaboration, and friendship? With: Celeste-Marie Bernier, professor of black studies at the University of Edinburgh; Africana Studies Professor Kim F. Hall; and other members of the community for a conversation celebrating the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial.
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6:00 pm
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Birdwatching | Birding Walk


Explore the park on a family-friendly bird walk. Who knows what birds you’ll discover while taking ... more >> in views of the Hudson River!
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6:00 pm
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City Walk | Historic Greenwich Village Tour: Beats, Bohemians, and Icons from the 1950's to Today


Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, Dave Attell, Patti ... more >> Smith, Joan Baez, and Truman Capote are just a few of the thousands of accomplished artists, writers, radicals, and performers who made their way through Greenwich Village. This tour, primarily focusing on the 1950s onward, visits the hangouts that have defined legendary people and the spirit of this iconic neighborhood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Talk | A Conversation with the Curator of the 2018 Carnegie International Art Show


With 32 artists and artist collectives, the exhibition invites visitors to explore what it means to be ... more >> “international” at this moment in time, and to experience museum joy. The pleasure of being with art and other people inspired the composition of this International—a series of encounters with contemporary art inside the world of Carnegie Museum of Art. Curator Ingrid Schaffner's presentation will be followed by a conversation with Carin Kuoni, Director and Chief Curator of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics.
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Cultural History, Performance & Politics: A Dialogue


In light of the "post-truth" politics governing current events, this panel invites historians and performance ... more >> theorists to discuss historical approaches and methods for studying the politics of performance. With the aim of better understanding how memory (individual and collective) has been mobilized in a variety of political performances of the past and what this implies for the present and the future of both politics and performance, scholars will join with historians from the International Society for Cultural History to discuss recent shifts in the theorization of performance in transnational and "connected” histories. Panelists include: Alessandro Arcangeli (Univ. Verona) Christian Biet (Univ. Paris-Nanterre, NYU) Elizabeth Claire (CNRS-EHESS, Paris) Mariem Guellouz (Univ. Paris-Descartes) Felicia McCarren (Tulane Univ.) Ida Meftahi (Univ. of Maryland) VK Preston (Univ. of Toronto) Richard Schechner (NYU PS) Diana Taylor (NYU PS).
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | On Reality: Truth and 'Alternative Facts'


Terms such as “fake news” and “alternative facts” currently dominate the public discourse around ... more >> the relationship between word and reality. Today, however, it has almost been forgotten that even in journalism fiction has been used as an instrument to describe reality as adequately as possible. Tom Kummer, who gained fame not least from his fabricated interviews with Hollywood stars, was in the German speaking world one of the main representatives of “New Journalism.” Kummer will read from his latest novel Nina and Tom and together with literary theorist Philipp Theisohn will discuss topics such as the relation between reality and truth, the necessity of journalistic invention, and the moral basis of the current debate in Europe and America over what constitutes reality. The conversation will be moderated by Marcel Schmid.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Author Reading | Graffiti Grrlz: Performing Feminism in the Hip-Hop Diaspora


Graffiti Grrlz is the first significant interrogation into the gender politics of the art form and culture ... more >> of graffiti. Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón explores over 100 women artists in 23 countries to make a compelling case that graffiti subculture is a place where feminists come into their own. Pabón-Colón will be in conversation with Claw, one of the NYC-based street artists profiled in the book and the creator of Claw and Co.
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of 'On War'


For generations, among those who revere the work of Carl von Clausewitz, the role of his beloved wife, ... more >> née Marie von Brühl, in shaping his seminal work on military theory has been a subject of intense speculation. It seems certain that without her On War would never have been published. But as historian and Clausewitz scholar Vanya Eftimova Bellinger establishes in this ground-breaking biography of the "other" Clausewitz, Marie was far more than merely a supportive wife who facilitated her husband's legacy. With author Vanya Eftimova Bellinger of Air University at Maxwell AFB.
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7:00 pm
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Screening | People Mover: Three Moving Image Works


A program of three moving image works consisting of John Smith’s Blight (1994–96), Charles Atlas ... more >> and Karole Armitage’s From an Island Summer (1983–84), and People Mover (2017) by Marte Eknæs and Michael Amstad. Utilizing distinct visual languages, the three films are connected through the topics of the constructed urban space, movement, and flexibility. The program is a journey through different emotional states and atmospheres, guided by each film’s compelling use of soundscapes and music.
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Movie in a Park | The Last Dragon (1985): Martial Arts Adventure -- Outdoors


Stars: Taimak, Vanity, Christopher Murney. In New York City, a young man searches for the "master" to ... more >> obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way, he must fight a martial arts expert corrupted with power, and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter. 109 min. Director: Michael Schultz Starting at 7PM, enjoy pre-screening music by Theodore Jahng. The feature film begins at dusk.
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Concert | Gran Pianola Project I: Commissioned Works


Music of the Americas presents five new commissioned works for Disklavier piano and acoustic instruments ... more >> inspired by the music of Conlon Nancarrow. The commissioned composers—Tatiana Catanzaro, Kyle Gann, Jaime E. Oliver La Rosa, Carlos Sandoval, and Sabrina Schroeder—are all active in the United States and Europe. Two of them (Gann and Sandoval) worked directly with Nancarrow and have conducted extensive research on his music. For the creation of these new pieces, the composers have taken Nancarrow’s music for player piano as a point of departure, combining automatic and human-powered instruments. The Yamaha Disklavier, a modern descendant of the player piano, serves as the common thread between all the pieces. The practice of transcribing Nancarrow’s music for newer automatic instruments and live instrumentalists began decades ago and involved Nancarrow himself on several occasions. It is this rich space of interaction between live performers and the automatic piano, an instrument that performs without a live musician yet retains the physicality of a piano, that constitutes the focus of this project.
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Performance | Antigone in Ferguson: Sophocles and Choral Music


Antigone in Ferguson was conceived in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in 2014, through a collaboration ... more >> between Theater of War Productions and community members from Ferguson, Missouri. Translated and directed by Bryan Doerries and composed by Phil Woodmore, the project fuses a dramatic reading by leading actors of excerpts from Sophocles’s Greek tragedy with live choral music performed by a choir of activists, police officers, youth, and concerned citizens from Ferguson and New York City. The performance is the catalyst for panel and audience-driven discussions on race and social justice, the core component of the event. This multifaceted production will offer a glimpse not only into the effects of the tragedy in Brown’s local community, but also the trauma of police violence and racial injustice in communities of color in New York and across the nation. Local stakeholders and community leaders will participate as panelists, assisting in opening up dialogues with audiences. These guided discussions, which aim to promote healing and bridge the growing divide between law enforcement and local communities, will focus on the impact of racialized violence against communities of color, and the legacies of the tragic deaths of Michael Brown, as well as Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Saheed Vassell, and numerous other victims. The presentation will feature a rotating roster of acclaimed actors, including Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale), who will reprise the role she portrayed in the premiere of Antigone in Ferguson presented on the stage of Michael Brown’s high school in Ferguson in 2016. Other cast members include: Paul Giamatti (Billions), Tamara Tunie (Law & Order: SVU), David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck), Adepero Oduye (12 Years a Slave), Frankie Faison (The Wire) and Kathryn Erbe (Law & Order: Criminal Intent). Each week will feature a different group of actors. Tuesdays through Saturdays, September 13-October 13, 2018.
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7:30 pm
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Movie in a Park | Godspell (1973): Musical with Victor Garber


An adaption of the musical, a modern-day song-and-dance recreation of the Gospel of St. Matthew. Director: ... more >> David Greene 133 min.
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7:30 pm
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Comedy Club | An Evening of Standup Comedy


A standup comedy show featuring comics who have appeared on NBC, TruTV, Comedy Central and more.
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Concert | Italian singer-songwriter performs original songs


Singer, composer and lyricist Valentina Marino draws inspiration for her compositions and arrangements ... more >> from personal experiences and universal insight. Brimming with evocative phrasing through a lush tone, Marino’s music is an extension of her sensitivity and imagination as an artist and a human being. Leader of the Valentina Marino Quartet–a distinctive sound project whose rhythm section features Cameron Brown, Anthony Pinciotti and Jay Azzolina–she responds to each moment with a clarity of intention and an honest expression of self.
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8:00 pm
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Screening | Premieres 2018: A Showcase of New Film, Animation & VFX Work


An evening of exceptional live action, documentary, and animated shorts by the school's most recent graduates ... more >> from eleven different academic departments, including films nominated for Student Academy Awards. Following the event, join the filmmakers and artists in the lobby for drinks and dessert.
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