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60 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, September 27, 2018

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free events nyc New York Philharmonic Open Rehearsal
free events nyc Dancing with the Future: Fusing Dance and Game-Playing
free events nyc Chamber Music on Fifth: Poulenc, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert
free events nyc Job Search: one chance to make a first impression
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Workshop | Morning Fitness


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


In honor of the launch of New York Philharmonic Music Director Jaap van Zweden’s tenure, New Yorkers ... more >> can see Jaap van Zweden at a Free Open Rehearsal. The program will feature Conrad Tao’s (b.1994) Everything Must Go, receiving its World Premiere that evening, and Anton Bruckner’s (1824-1896) Symphony No. 8. Following the Free Open Rehearsal Maestro van Zweden will stay onstage for a chat with President and CEO Deborah Borda and composer Conrad Tao. Jaap van Zweden has appeared as a guest conductor with many leading orchestras around the globe, among them the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, Orchestre National de France, and London Symphony Orchestra. He is a Music Director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic since 2012. General admission tickets will be handed out on a first-come, first-served basis, one per person, starting that morning at 9:00 AM.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:45 am
free tickets required

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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Tour | City Hall Tour for Individuals


The tour of City Hall includes a discussion of the building's history, art, architecture, and civic function.
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10:00 am
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Film | Hollow Triumph (1948): drama-crime film


A career criminal finds the ultimate hideout by taking on another man's identity. Director: Steve Sekely ... more >> Starring Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen. 83 min.
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Essentials for Job Seekers: Interviewing


Looking for a job? Discover what tools to use to find vacancies, learn inside tips from a certified Talent ... more >> Acquisition Strategist on where to find job postings and what HR is looking for in your application. Laptops will be first-come-first-served; bring your own if you have one. Also bring paper copies of your resume/cover letter, or have the file accessible via email or flash drive. Please do not arrive late interrupting the class.
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11:30 am
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Dance Performance | Dancing with the Future: Fusing Dance and Game-Playing


Dancing with the Future is a production that pushes the boundaries of art and science, fusing dance, ... more >> evolutionary dynamics, and an interactive game. It explores the mechanisms of cooperation and investigates a question that is at the heart of all sustainable development, yet remains widely elusive because it entails a moral component that cannot easily be assessed: Are humans able to cooperate with future generations? In other words, what planet are we willing to leave behind for the people who will come after us? The concept was devised by Martin Nowak and Gloria Benedikt; the choreography was headed by Gloria Benedikt, Mimmo Miccolis, Henoch Spinola, and Sophia Isidore. The performance will be accompanied by a stage game designed by Piotr Magnuszewski.
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12:15 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts take ... more >> place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 11, 2018 to May 22, 2019.
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12:20 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. Deanna Witkowski is the winner of the Great American Jazz Piano Competition.
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12:30 pm
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Author Reading | Central Banking in Turbulent Times


A discussion of the extraordinary policy actions by central banks, particularly the ECB, during the last ... more >> decade. Author Francesco Papadia, Senior Fellow at Bruegel, will be joined by Bill Dudley, recently retired New York Fed President, Jens Nordvig, CEO ExAnte Data and Brian Sack, D.W. Shaw. Central Banking in Turbulent Times was written in cooperation with Tuomas Valimaki.
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1:00 pm
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Film | The Big Street (1942): love story


A callous showgirl is adored by a naive nightclub busboy, who gets the chance to prove his love to her ... more >> when he's injured. Directors Irving Reis. Starring Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Barton MacLane, Eugène Pallette. 88 min.
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Chamber Music on Fifth: Poulenc, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert


Music In Midtown presents a chamber music concert featuring a stellar group of musicians from the performance ... more >> program, including Nora Bartosik, piano; Magdalena Filipczak, violin; Pala Garcia, violin; Nikoloz Namoradze, piano; John Popham, violoncello; Alexei Tartakovski, piano; Xiaoming Tian, baritone; and Jin Suk Yu, violin. Works by Poulenc, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov and Schubert will be performed.
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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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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: Charting the Divine Plan: The Art of Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863)


The exhibition explores the confluence of art, love, science, and religion in the extraordinary art of ... more >> Orra White Hitchcock, one of America’s first female scientific illustrators. White exhibited a prodigious scientific mind and abundant artistic talent at an early age. The exhibition traces her development from schoolgirl projects to highly accomplished renderings of the natural scenery of the Connecticut River Valley used in her husband’s many geology publications. Less well known are colorful paintings on cotton—some more than twelve feet long—that were used to illustrate her husband’s many college lectures on geology, botany, zoology, and anatomy. A tour of led by museum gallery guides.
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1:00 pm
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Lesson | Healthy Aging


Join Lynn Ringhaver for a 3 week series of programs dedicated to your physical and mental balance. Lessons ... more >> will focus on the connections between the mind, body and healthy aging, breathing practices and mindfulness and more. Upcoming dates: Thursday, October 4, 2018, 1 p.m. Thursday, October 11, 2018, 1 p.m. The participants must commit to all 3 sessions.
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation


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. Mondays through Thursdays
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Tour | Tour The Battery


A tour of The Battery, a 25-acre park at the tip of Manhattan. Learn about the park's rich history, many ... more >> important landmarks and monuments, the Seaglass Carousel, 134,000 square feet of beautiful perennial gardens designed by renowned Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf, and so much more.
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works by François Couperin for harpsichord


François Couperin (1668-1733), called “François Le Grand,” is considered the most illustrious member ... more >> of the Couperin family. His four books of keyboard suites contain some of the richest and most exquisite music of the French Baroque. To commemorate the 350th anniversary of his birth, this program will include selections from his Troisième Ordre and his magnificent Huitième Ordre in its entirety. Rebecca Pechefsky will be performing both suites. Harpsichordist Rebecca Pechefsky has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall’s Well Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and the Morris-Jumel Mansion. Recent European engagements include recitals in in Tallinn, London, Milan, Bologna, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Basel.
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1:15 pm
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Film | Beirut (2018): espionage thriller


Ex-diplomat returns to Beirut in 1982 to act as a hostage negotiator when a friend is kidnapped by terrorists. ... more >> However, his mission is complicated by the various agendas of the CIA, the Mossad and the terrorists' leader. Director: Brad Anderson. Starring: John Hamm & Rosamund Pike. 109 min.
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2:00 pm
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Film | It Started With Eve (1941): musical romantic comedy


In order to please his dying father, a man convinces a hat-check girl to impersonate his fiancée, but ... more >> complications arise when the father's health suddenly improves. Directed by Henry Koster. Starring Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings. 90 min.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Rampage (2018): Big Meets Bigger


When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist ... more >> team up to stop them from destroying Chicago. Director: Brad Peyton. Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman. 115 mins.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Rampage (2018): Big Meets Bigger


When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist ... more >> team up to stop them from destroying Chicago. Director: Brad Peyton. Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman. 115 mins.
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | Heart of the Park Tour


Walk straight through the heart of Central Park on this east-to-west tour led by guides. Enjoy a great ... more >> variety of the scenic, sculptural, and ar chitectural elements the Park has to offer. Visit some of the Park's most famous landmarks, including Conservatory Water, Loeb Boathouse, Bethesda Terrace, Bow Bridge, Cherry Hill, The Lake, and Strawberry Fields.
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2:00 pm
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Symposium | Towards Arab Dramaturgies


With a focus in this symposium on Arabic dramaturgies, they hope to begin to answer these questions. ... more >> As a term that bridges the ideas and practice of contemporary performance, dramaturgy draws our attention to the process of artistic production. It explores the notion that process is performance and invites us to look at the question of how artists connect ideas and forms in their work. This symposium will feature research papers, artist talks and roundtable events.The organization committee will select papers that will be presented in 15-20 minute sessions during the symposium next to artist talks and panels. In addition to this, the sessions and papers will be compiled in a publication/book that will be generated from the discussions at the convening.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Rampage (2018): Big Meets Bigger


When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist ... more >> team up to stop them from destroying Chicago. Director: Brad Peyton. Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman. 115 mins.
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Adult Coloring Club


Discover the fun and calming benefits of coloring. Color, relax and enjoy. Coloring supplies will be ... more >> provided, but participants are welcome to bring their own materials too.
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Human Chess


Play as your favorite game piece and navigate the chess board from inside at this Human Chess game, where ... more >> chess becomes an embodied team sport. All levels welcome. Thursdays, September 6-27, 2018.
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | If Hitler Were Alive, We’d Take His Money: The American Mercury and the Right-Wing Popular Front in the 1950s


A lecture by David Austin Walsh of Princeton University. A reception with wine and cheese will follow ... more >> the Q & A session.
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4:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Colonial Logic in Latin American and Caribbean Cities


Cartographic and literary depictions of colonial Latin American and Caribbean cities tell many stories; ... more >> of bustling port towns, economic hubs, and administrative colonial centers. Embedded within these narratives are also stories of competing geographies and the enslaved and free black peoples who moved within them. This seminar presentation serves as an entrance into one of the many faces of the black urban Atlantic. It uses Havana as a case study to explore the contested geographies of port and mainland spaces. Speaker Guadalupe García specializes in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean. Her research interests include colonial cities, urban space, and legal topographies. Her first book was published in 2016 with the University of California Press and is entitled Beyond the Walled City: Colonia Exclusion in Havana.
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4:30 pm
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Workshop | Birding Tour


Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season with guided ... more >> tours. Located in the heart of midtown, the park is a hot spot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will’s-widow.
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Tai Chi to the People


A walk-in tai chi class with a curriculum tested at the Tai Chi World Cup. Breathwork, visualization, ... more >> and body mechanics unite in this unique evolution of the Tai Chi system that gives practitioners something tangible to take with them in every class. Taught by former US Tai Chi Push Hands Team captain and World Cup silver medalist Jan Lucanus. Thursdays, July 12-September 27, 2018.
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | How to Grow and Maintain a Lawn


Dreaming of greener pastures? Come learn from Mercedes Nunez, NYC Parks Horticulture Manager for Manhattan ... more >> who formerly maintained the lawn at Gracie Mansion, to learn the tricks of the trade. She'll cover the best grass varieties for community gardens and maintenance techniques.
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Writers Group


A class of writing and sharing work in a supportive and respectful environment. Writers of all genres ... more >> and levels of experience welcome. No prior writing experience is necessary.
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | A Life Among Legends : Broadway performer in a conversation with NY Times critic


Glory Van Scott grew up in privilege, the daughter of a Chicago physician and his socialite wife. And ... more >> then, in 1955, when she was just a girl, her cousin, Emmett Till, was murdered. Even through her anger, Glory knew that if she lay down in the mire and horror of her family tragedy, she would sink. Following this realization, Van Scott grew up to be principal dancer with the Katherine Dunham, Agnes De Mille, and Talley Beatty Companies, joined American Ballet Theater, performed on Broadway, movies, and television, and educated and inspired new generations of empowered young men and women. Help us celebrate Dr. Glory Van Scott and the release of her memoir Glory: A Life Among Legends. New York Times Critic, Jennifer Dunning writes about Dr. Glory, excerpted from the new book: Glory A Life Among Legends by Dr. Glory Van Scott.
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6:00 pm
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Film | A Scanner Darkly (2006): animated science-fiction thriller with Keanu Reeves


An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to ... more >> lose his own identity as a result. Director: Richard Linklater. 100 min.
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6:00 pm
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Lesson | Job Search: one chance to make a first impression


Career coach and recruiter Steven Davis discusses how to use your resume, LinkedIn, and interviewing ... more >> skills to create a powerful first impression needed to secure a job offer.
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Pamelia Stickney, Author and Theremin Player


An American theremin player, musician, composer and author now living in Vienna, Austria. Pamelia Stickney, ... more >> has performed and recorded with many artists including David Byrne, Yoko Ono, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Seb Rochford, Otto Lechner and Simone Dinnerstein, and was instrumental to the final design of Robert Moog's Etherwave Pro Theremin, serving as primary test musician. Stickney's background as a jazz musician in the upright bass has led to develop a "walking bass" theremin technique.
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6:00 pm
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Book Signing | Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness: Award-Winning Photographer Launches Book


Award-winning South African visual activist and photographer Zanele Muholi's Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail ... more >> the Dark Lioness includes one hundred self-portraits created by one of the most powerful visual activists of our time. In each of the images, Muholi drafts material props from her immediate environment in an effort to reflect her journey, explore her own image and possibilities as a black woman in today’s global society, and—most important—to speak emphatically in response to contemporary and historical racisms.
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Discussion | Adventures in Italian Opera: A Conversation with Conductor Nicola Luisotti


The first Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features Tuscan conductor Nicola ... more >> Luisotti, on the occasion of his presence on the podium of The Metropolitan Opera, leading performances of Verdi's Aida, Rigoletto, and La Traviata.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Lecture | Detroit's Rivera: Public Art, Film and Labor


Speaker Julio Ramos has written extensively about literary and visual culture in Latin America and the ... more >> Caribbean.
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Discussion | Embodying Heaven: Curating the Space Between Fashion and Faith


The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s history-making exhibition Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic ... more >> Imagination (closing October 8th) explores how the Catholic imagination has shaped the creativity of designers and how it is conveyed through their narrative impulses. These impulses are reflected in the organization of the exhibition, which unfolds as a series of short stories told through conversations between religious artworks in The Met collection, both at the Met Fifth Avenue and the Met Cloisters, and fashions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Jessica Glasscock, Research Associate at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, will be in conversation with Fiona Dieffenbacher, Assistant Professor of Fashion Design.
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Talk | Loving Yourself Is the Solution


No matter what your problem is, loving yourself is the solution. It is the basis for living the life ... more >> you want. If you want more happiness, more health, more abundance, or more love, just love yourself more. If you are frustrated, confused, stuck, or you feel unlovable, don't think that it is impossible to create the life you want; don't keep accepting the way things are, or trying to hide your dissatisfaction. With Judith Costa.
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Discussion | On Article: The Death of a Once Great City


Author of the The Death of a Once Great City Kevin Baker laments what he sees to be the decline of New ... more >> York City—from an unpredictable, dynamic cultural hub to a rather boring collection of cupcake shops. Baker blames money, unfettered development, or, as Baker puts it, an urban crisis of affluence.
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Secrets of the Upper West Side


Author John Tauranac will talk about the UWS gems that he uncovered while researching his latest book, ... more >> Manhattan's Little Secrets: Uncovering Mysteries in Brick and Mortar, Glass and Stone, published last month by Globe Pequot.
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Lecture | The Biographer’s Dilemma: Searching for the Known and Unknowable


Geoffrey C. Ward -- a historian, biographer, and screenwriter who has collaborated with filmmaker Ken ... more >> Burns throughout his career -- gives this annual talk on writing and researching biography. Ward is the writer or co-writer of many acclaimed PBS documentaries, including The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, and most recently, The Vietnam War. He is also the author of 16 books, including A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Parkman Prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Workshop | Yoga Flow


Link mindful breath with movement in this full spectrum yoga practice that includes modifications and ... more >> intensifications depending on experience level. Veteran Nina Semczuk helps you cultivate strength, flexibility, balance, and focus while enjoying yoga outdoors. Please bring a mat. Every Thursday from June 7-October 25, 2018.
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Discussion | Conducting a Positive Job Search In Today’s Changing Economy


Renée Rosenberg's book, Achieving The Good Life After 50: Tools And Strategies For Making It Happen, ... more >> has helped numerous job seekers navigate through a stressful job search to achieve successful results. She will share her 10 strategies to stay motivated, resilient and remembered.
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6:45 pm
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Author Reading | Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future


An urgent call to arms by Mary Robinson, one of the most important voices in the international fight ... more >> against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward.
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7:00 pm
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Play | Sueño: Imprisoned by Astrology


Sueño is Obie Award-winning playwright José Rivera's translation and adaptation of Calderón de la ... more >> Barca's classic Life Is a Dream. Set in 1635, this metaphysical drama—renowned as one of the jewels of the Spanish Golden Age—Sueño follows the life of young Prince Segismundo, heir to the Spanish throne, who is imprisoned at birth when astrologers predict that his reign as king will result in the country's ruin.
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Poetry Reading | The Barbarous Century: New Poems


Aa new collection from poet Leah Umansky. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as ... more >> Poetry, Guernica, The New York Times, Pleiades, Salamander, and the anthologies, The Eloquent Poem (Persea Books) and Misrepresented Peoples (NYQ Books).
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Film | The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017): Animated Adventure with Jackie Chan, Dave Franco, Fred Armisen -- Outdoors


Shunned by everyone for being the son of an evil warlord, a teenager seeks to defeat him with the help ... more >> of his fellow ninjas. Directors: Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher 101 min. You should arrive before 7:00 p.m. to get your spot. Feel free to bring a blanket to sit on. Bottled waters are OK, but no glass.
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Author Reading | Your Duck is My Duck: Six Short Stories


A much-anticipated collection of brilliantly observant short stories from one of the great American masters ... more >> of the form. At times raucously hilarious, at times charming and delightful, at times as solemn and mysterious as a pond at midnight, Deborah Eisenberg’s stories gently compel us to confront the most disturbing truths about ourselves—from our intimate lives as lovers, parents, and children, to our equally troubling roles as citizens on a violent, terrifying planet.
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Discussion | A Conversation with Author Meg Wolitzer


Meg Wolitzer is the bestselling author of The Female Persuasion (2018), The Interestings (2013), The ... more >> Uncoupling (2011), The Ten-Year Nap (2008), The Position (2005), The Wife (2003), and Sleepwalking (1982), as well as the author of the young adult novel, Belzhar. She teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. Hosted by Darin Strauss.
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Concert | Grammy winner Angelique Kidjo performs from her album Remain in Light


Angelique Kidjo, the Grammy Award-winning Beninese songwriter, has been touring the world in anticipation ... more >> of her release of Remain in Light, a cover album of the Talking Heads’ 1980 album. Along with the Resistance Revival Chorus, who performed with Kidjo at the Women’s March on Washington, this dazzling show will take place in the artist’s adopted home of New York.
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7:00 pm
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Comedy Club | Sidehow Goshko Storytelling Show


Award-winning storyteller Leslie Goshko (Huffington Post, Sirius XM radio) invites some of NY’s top ... more >> writers and storytellers to share true, bizarre tales about their lives. There’s a challenging trivia game and a free wine giveaway where one lucky audience member will walk away with their very own bottle of Sideshow Sauce! Tonight’s stellar lineup includes stories from: Jeff Simmermon (This American Life, Moth GrandSlam Champion) Myka Fox (Comedy Central, Bridgetown Comedy Festival) Michaela Murphy (The New Yorker, The Moth) Calvin Cato (San Francisco Sketch Fest, Oxygen Network)
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Concert | The Music & Lyrics of Women, Part II


Featuring singer Lainie Cooke -- “…her unique brand of steel-lined warm - an enticing style that ... more >> suggests the musical astuteness of Sheila Jordan blended with the salty panache of Anita O’Day…” Jazz Times With: Miki Yamanaka, piano Neal Caine, bass Ralph Peterson, drums Roxy Coss, sax
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Sonic Landscapes, Pointillistic Textures, and Angular Melodies


Led by the "fiery alto saxophonist and prolific composer” Aakash Mittal (Minneapolis Star Tribune), ... more >> the Awaz Trio sculpts sonic landscapes, pointillistic textures, and angular melodies from Indian and American improvised music. Their debut project, Nocturne, is a series of pieces that deconstructs five Hindustani evening and night ragas. The colorful dissonances, meditative silences, and punctuated rhythms that emerge paint a unique picture of the night. At times the music evokes the meditation of a world at rest, night terrors conjured by the imagination, and the slow cadence of blue light melting into darkness. Nocturne is part of the trio's mission to create new work that explores the concept of Awaz, a Hindi-Urdu word that changes meaning between sound, noise, and voice depending on the context.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Orchestral works by Debussy, Saint-Saëns and Haydn


NYU02, orchestra; Adam Glaser, conductor; Janet Yu, piano. Program Debussy (1862-1918) Petite Suite ... more >> Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 Haydn (1732-1809) Symphony No. 100 in G major, “Military”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Violin Recital: works by Mozart, Bartok and more


Chloe Seunghyen Kim & Yukiko Kuhara, violin. Program Mozart (1756-1791) Der Vogelfanger bin Ichja Telemann ... more >> (1681-1767) Sonata no.3, Fur Zwei Querflote Violins in D Dur Bartok (1881-1945) Duet Sonatas Leclair (1697-1764) No.5 Wieniawski (1835-1880) Caprices for two violins
   New York City, NY; NYC
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