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Where else but in New York City can you listen to a world-class musician, discuss a book with a famous author, take a part in poetry reading, have a glass of wine at an art exhibition opening, and all that on the same day, and all that free of charge, and all of that on any day of the year, whether it's December or July, April or November!
The trick is to know about those free events, free things to do BEFORE they happen, not after the fact. That's where Club Free Time comes in handy! Become a Club Free Time member and start using these unique New York City (NYC) opportunities today, March 23, 2023!
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In addition to providing information about free events, free things to do in New York City (NYC), Club Free Time offers its members complimentary tickets to classical music concerts, dance performances and theater: when a producer wants that special buzz of the 'full house' - Club Free Time members are welcomed for their enthusiasm and sophistication!
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Experience an entirely new perspective on New York. 'Open up a whole new cultural world... in one of the most vibrant capital cities in the world, sampling cultural delights beyond anyone's wildest dream.' Rupert Parker, journalist, photographer, cameraman, and TV producer
This Week New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment whether it's summer or winter, spring or fall, January or June, May or September.
New York's cultural scene is at its busiest in October and March (and the same goes for free events, free things to do), but other months of the year still offer incredible amount of high quality, off the beaten path, unique free events, free things to do which will take your breath away!
So start using these unique New York City opportunities today, March 23, 2023!
Where else but in New York City can you listen to a world-class musician, discuss a book with a famous author, take a part in poetry reading, have a glass of wine at an art exhibition opening, and all that on the same day, and all that free of charge, and all of that on any day of the year, whether it's December or July, April or November!
The trick is to know about those free events, free things to do BEFORE they happen, not after the fact. That's where Club Free Time comes in handy! Become a Club Free Time member and start using these unique New York City (NYC) opportunities today, March 23, 2023!
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Club Free Time is your perfect guide to Free Entertainment and Free Culture in the City That Never Sleeps.
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Free things to do, free events that take place in New York City every day of the year are truly amazing. So if you're looking for something interesting to do today (March 23, 2023) or on any other day of the year don't miss those free-of-charge opportunities that only New York provides! You can find lots of high quality, off the beaten path, unique free events, free things to do which will take your breath away!
In addition to providing information about free events, free things to do in New York City (NYC), Club Free Time offers its members complimentary tickets to classical music concerts, dance performances and theater: when a producer wants that special buzz of the 'full house' - Club Free Time members are welcomed for their enthusiasm and sophistication!
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Get a taste of free culture and free entertainment in New York City (NYC)!
Join the Club!
Experience an entirely new perspective on New York. 'Open up a whole new cultural world... in one of the most vibrant capital cities in the world, sampling cultural delights beyond anyone's wildest dream.' Rupert Parker, journalist, photographer, cameraman, and TV producer
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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!
This Week in New York City (NYC): 274 Free Events, Free Things to Do
All events, things to do this week (Sun, 03/19/2023 - Sat, 03/25/2023) are free unless otherwise noted.Birdwatching | Park Birding
Discover a diversity of wintering birds with longtime birder and Staten Island resident Anthony Ciancimino. Expect to see a variety of species of waterfowl and wintering songbirds as you explore the diverse habitats found at the park.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
8:00 am
Free
8:00 am
Free
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 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
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
10:00 am
Free
10:00 am
Free
Tour | Historic Flatiron-Nomad District Walking Tour
Join a professional guide on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the City's most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse, and the famous Flatiron Building. Rain or shine. Every Sunday at 11 am.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
Free
Hike | Spring Has Sprung Hike
Spring season is upon us and nature adapts to the changes. Find some of these adaptations and signs of spring on a hike through the trails in the park.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
11:00 am
Free
11:00 am
Free
Gallery Talk | DomesticanX: Exhibition Walkthrough
A gallery tour to explore and discuss the on-view exhibition that explores the concept of “domesticana,” first theorized by artist, scholar, and critic Amalia Mesa-Bains in the 1990.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
1:00 pm
Pay-what-you-wish
1:00 pm
Pay-what-you-wish
Discussion | The Kindertransports: The KTA, the 80th Year Commemorative Journey, and New Research
From December 1st, 1938, through September 1st, 1939, nearly 10,000 mostly Jewish children traveled from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Danzig to the United Kingdom without their parents. This rescue mission became known as the Kindertransport. In 1990, more than 50 years later, a group of Kindertransport survivors in New York City came together to establish the Kindertransport Association. This unique volunteer-run organization was founded not solely for survivors, but as an intergenerational group with the missions of connecting these child Holocaust survivors and descendants, educating the next generations on the Kindertransports as an important part of Holocaust history, and supporting and advocating for children at risk today, especially refugees and those without parents. In 2019, KTA president Melissa Hacker, whose mother fled Vienna on a Kindertransport in January 1939, created and organized an 80th-year commemorative journey. Over two weeks four Kindertransport survivors, now in their late 80s and early 90s, returned to the countries they fled, accompanied by fourteen members of the second generation. Traveling by train and ferry, the travelers traced the Kindertransport journey, visiting memorials, learning from scholars, and conducting family research along the way. Melissa, a filmmaker, will discuss the trip and show excerpts from 256,000 Miles From Home, a new film she has just finished about this trip. She made her directing debut with the documentary My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering The Kindertransports, the first film made on the Kindertransports, which was shortlisted for Academy Award nomination. Melissa consulted on the 2018 exhibit Rescuing Children on the Brink of War, jointly presented by Yeshiva University Museum and Leo Baeck Institute and provided material for Without a Home: Kindertransports from Vienna, a 2021 exhibit at the Vienna Jewish Museum. Wendy Henry, a JGSNY member and a longtime member of the KTA, will speak about her experiences on the trip. Wendy found family photographs she had never seen before in archives in Berlin and met in London with a member of the Schlesinger family who created the hostel where her mother lived. Wendy's mother, who was born in Berlin, became an early childhood educator and began working at hostels in Britain with child Holocaust survivors before emigrating to the United States. Dr. Amy Williams, who spoke with the Kindertransport Journey travelers at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London, will talk about her Kindertransport research. She recently completed her PhD in History at Nottingham Trent University, where she is a part-time lecturer. Her thesis, Memory of the Kindertransport in National and Transnational Perspective, is a comprehensive examination of the different national and international memories of the Kindertransport. Dr. Williams is writing a book on the Kindertransports for Yale University Press and is working with other publishers to produce new publications on their history and memory. Amy works with the KTA and is in New York City for 2023 on a postdoctoral fellowship at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at the New School.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
2:00 pm
$5
2:00 pm
$5
Gallery Talk | Juan Francisco Elso: Por América: Exhibition Walkthrough
A gallery tour to explore and discuss the on-view exhibition that examines the brief yet significant career of the late Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso (1956-1988).
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
2:30 pm
Pay-what-you-wish
2:30 pm
Pay-what-you-wish
Play | Calf Scramble: A Dangerously Funny Play
In a barn outside Huntsville, Texas, five Future Farmers of America raise and ruin their prize-winning calves in a raucous rodeo of girls playing God and wrangling for power--over their animals, their bodies, and each other. Libby Carr's play is dangerously funny.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
3:00 pm
$6.08
3:00 pm
$6.08
Book Discussion | JEWels: Teasing Out the Poetry in Jewish Humor and Storytelling
The launch of Steve Zeitlin's's new book. This multi-media reading will include live drawings, storytelling, poetry and music. Artist Flash Rosenberg will be live drawing alongside our readers. Violinist/composer Alicia Svigals, the world's leading klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics, will provide the melodies. Featured readers will include the lead commentator for the book, the doyenne of Jewish storytelling, Peninnah Schram, featured poets, Zev Shanken, Esther Cohen, Flash Rosenberg, and Marc Kaminsky, former cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, and others. JEWels is an original hybrid - jokes and stories boiled down to their essence in short poems. Jewish witticism is preserved side by side with evocative storytelling and deepened with running commentary.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Concert | CANCELLED!! Yiddish Folk Song Illuminated (in-person and online) CANCELLED!!
Internationally acclaimed soprano Juliana Yaffe performs the rediscovered groundbreaking Yiddish folksong arrangements of the late Robert De Cormier, done for the 1950s/60s Vanguard recordings of Marthe Schlamme and Netanya Davrath. These arrangements were never performed live, but now concert tours in the UK, Europe, and the U.S. are bringing them to a global audience in Juliana's Yiddish Folksong Project more than sixty years after Schlamme and Davrath made their seminal recordings. In Robert De Cormier's evocative arrangements, songs like "Rozhinkes mit mandlen," "Tayere Malke," "Tum-balalayke," "Az der rebe zingt," "S'brent," and "Lomir ale freylekh zayn" come to life as never heard before. Juliana's new recording of eighteen of these songs, and the corresponding (recently published) songbook will also be for sale at the performance. Juliana will be joined by the dynamic Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra and guest conductor John Yaffe.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Classical Music | Organ Recital at a Cathedral
Organist Stefan Madrzak performs. Program Brian Sawyers (b. 1963), Rising Sun Stefan Madrzak (b. 1977), Theme & Variations on Patroclus, Our Patron Saint (Soest Anthem) J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Prelude & Fugue in C Minor, BWV 847 (1722) Joseph Jongen (1873-1953), Papillons noirs, Op. 69, No. 11 Edward Elgar (1857-1934), from Enigma Variations, Op. 36, 9. Nimrod (1898-1899) Max Reger (1873-1916), Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, Op. 59
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
3:15 pm
Free
3:15 pm
Free
Classical Music | Organ Concert in Intimate Venue
Alexander Pattavina, Organ.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
Free
Classical Music | Serene organ meditations in an intimate venue (In Person AND Online)
Enjoy a program of hymns, anthems, and voluntaries for the organ.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Rethinking Migration: From State Sovereignty to Human Solidarity (in-person and online)
Speaker Dr. Harald Bauder (Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies and the Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies, Ryerson University), will talk about his book.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
4:30 pm
Free
4:30 pm
Free
Classical Music | J.S. Bach, Maurice Durufle, Edward Elgar and more at a Beautiful Church
Organist Daniel Ficarri. Program Maurice Durufle (1902-1986), Chorale Variations on the Theme Veni Creator, Op. 4 J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Allemande, from 'Pastorale', BWV 590 Daniel Ficarri (b. 1996), Visions of the Holy Spirit (2019) Edward Elgar (1857-1934), Nimrod from Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma', Op. 36 (1898-1899) Daniel Ficarri, Ceremonial Dialogue (2022)
New York City, NY; NYC
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Sun, Mar 19
5:15 pm
Free
5:15 pm
Free
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 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
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
10:00 am
Free
10:00 am
Free
Tour | Garment District: Factories, Gangsters, Labor Unions and More
Hear an unusual perspective from somebody who spent the greater portion of his life working in the GARMENT industry. You will learn how the apparel industry developed in NYC through the years, and how it came to be located in its current District. Watch the development of the industry from sweatshops in the old tenement buildings on the Lower East Side, to giant factories in China and Bangladesh. See how immigrants were the backbone of the industry and in NYC, still are. Five minute flow chart "From Fibers To Garment". Learn about Calvin, Ralph and Oscar, as well as Labor Unions and Gangsters. A Factory Visit When Available. See "The Garment Worker'' by Judith Weller, The Fashion Walk of Fame. The Giant Button and Needle artwork on Seventh Ave. And much more. Rain or shine.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
10:30 am
Free
10:30 am
Free
Lecture | Representation in Programming Matters
The ethnocultural diversity of our nation is among our greatest strengths, but representation among performers, composers, and audience members of classical music has not reflected that diversity. The programming of works by underrepresented composers can educate all of us and empower our next generation. This presentation features works by three phenomenal women of color – Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and Betty Jackson King – contextualized within a lecture on their journeys and legacies.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
10:30 am
Free
10:30 am
Free
Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors
In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend in the East River, five miles north of the then-New York City limits. Little did he know that, more than 200 years later, his home would be serving as the official residence of the First Family of New York City - a place where history is made, not merely recorded. As a historic house museum run by the Parks Department, sitting on 11 acres of grounds now known as Carl Schurz Park, Gracie Mansion has served as the home of 11 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Start times: 10:30am, 12pm, 1:30pm
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
10:30 am
Free
10:30 am
Free
Poetry Reading | Girls That Never Die: Intimate Poems
Safia Elhillo will discuss intimate poems that explore feminine shame, violence and liberation.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
Free
Jazz | An Eclectic Afternoon of Jazz (In Person and Online)
Jazz concert at an intimate venue featuring Nikara Warren.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Forum | Memory Politics and Illiberal Turns in Central and Eastern Europe (online)
Over the past few decades, Central and Eastern Europe has become a battleground for different and frequently conflicting interpretations of the past. Historical events of the 20th century, including WWII, the Holocaust, and the Nazi and Communist regimes, are remembered very differently across the region, sometimes resulting in memory wars within and between states. What is more, memory politics has been often used for justifying illiberal turns. The webinar will explore the link between the politics of memory and democratic backsliding in different Central and Eastern European countries. Professor Nikolay Koposov will focus on Putin’s Russia as a classic case of right-wing memory politics. Systematically pursued by the Kremlin for more than twenty years, this politics has significantly contributed to laying the groundwork for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and its confrontation with the West. Professor Andrea Pető will discuss the change in memory politics that have been taking place in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary. Dr. Anna Wójcik will explore the memory laws of the rule of law backsliding in Poland. Moderated by Carna Pistan.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
Free
Workshop | Memoir Writing Workshop
A writing session led by author Jon Curley. Taking inspiration from life events, participants will be encouraged to use reflection as a way to enhance their writing styles in any preferred mode.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
Free
Staged Reading | This Could Be You: The Dirty Side of Mentoring
What makes a good mentor? A good mentee? When does mentorship become dangerous? This staged reading grabs the warm and fuzzy idea of mentorship by the lapels, lifts it up, slams it down, and collects the dirty change that falls out of its finely lined pockets. Written by Ying Ying Li.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
3:00 pm
Free
3:00 pm
Free
Staged Reading | Watch Me: One Couple's Wild Story
How can you get over slavery if you can't even get over my ex? Dave Harris's play is the wild ass love story of a couple from their first date, to their first time, to a reckoning with sex, ancestry, desire, and Black Jesus.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
Free
Lecture | The Long Hand of Moscow: The International History of an African-American Protest Song (in-person and online)
This lecture considers the problem of the cultural value of political mystifications, forgeries, and appropriations. In doing so, I will focus on the historical and ideological contexts (in particular, the role of the Communist International in Moscow) of one of the most popular “songs of protest,” which was published by the American folklorist and pro-Communist activist from a Jewish-Hungarian family Lawrence Gellert’s (1898-1979) in his influential collection of African-American political songs (1936). In the 1930s, the song was translated into several languages and published in various left-wing periodicals, set to music, illustrated, performed in various countries, choreographed, interrogated by the American government as a part of “the propagandistic play,” and, all in all, embodied the anti-religious nature of a revolutionary new genre of song created by Black Americans. It eventually became an integral part of many communist singers’ repertoire (from Paul Robeson, William Bowers, and Pete Seeger to Ernst Busch). Ilya Vinitsky's lecture shows that the poem itself was both an ideological construct and a significant cultural fact which helped to introduce a new musical genre and secretly promoted the Soviet political agenda of the mid-1930s.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
4:30 pm
Free
4:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | Contingent Encounters: Improvisation in Music and Everyday Life (online)
Dan DiPiero's book offers a sustained comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and critical improvisation studies, as well as his own performing experience, DiPiero argues that comparing improvisation across domains calls into question how improvisation is typically recognized. By comparing the music of Eric Dolphy, Norwegian free improvisers, Mr. K, and the Ingrid Laubrock/Kris Davis duo with improvised activities in everyday life (such as walking, baking, working, and listening), DiPiero concludes that improvisation appears as a function of any encounter between subjects, objects, and environments. Bringing contingency into conversation with the utopian strain of critical improvisation studies, DiPiero shows how particular social investments cause improvisation to be associated with relative freedom, risk-taking, and unpredictability in both scholarship and public discourse. Taking seriously the claim that improvisation is the same thing as living, Contingent Encounters overturns long-standing assumptions about the aesthetic and political implications of this notoriously slippery term.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
Free
Discussion | A Path Forward for Women, Water, Peace and Security: Elevating Central Asian Voices (in-person and online)
From March 22-24, 2023, the United Nations will convene the first UN Water Conference in 50 years. This important conference will bring thousands of water champions to New York City to advanced shared goals to address the critical state of global freshwater resources. Despite long efforts to foster inclusive policy dialogue spaces, many critical global water and climate dialogues retain rigid gender barriers negatively impacting women’s equal participation and influence. Despite these persistent barriers, members of the Women in Water Diplomacy Network will be participating throughout the UN Water Conference with focus on elevating a diversity of perspectives to impact the trajectory of water and peace related policy dialogues at this seminal global event. This event sponsored by the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, will feature women water experts engaged in the Women in Water Diplomacy Network from across Central Asia and Afghanistan in an effort to foster dialogue and knowledge sharing. The Women in Water Diplomacy Network consists of members of the Women in Water Diplomacy Network in the Nile (initiated in 2017), the Women in Water Management Network in Central Asia and Afghanistan (initiated in 2021) as well as the supporters of both networks and representatives of newly developing basin communities in Africa and the Americas including the Zambezi River Basin Commission, the Okavango River Basin Commission, the Orange-Senqu River Basin Commission and the International Joint Commission. The Networks include representatives of the Ministries of Water and Foreign Affairs or other related ministries as well as informal influential intermediaries such as academics and civil society leaders from dozens of countries on the frontlines of water insecurity including Afghanistan, Angola, Botswana, Canada, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Lesotho, Rwanda, South Africa, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States, Uzbekistan, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Discussion | Black Dance Stories and the Pandemic
In 2020, a small group of Black artists created an online platform for Black dance artists to share their practice with the world. Since that time, Black Dance Stories has grown to become a weekly livestream series that highlights and celebrates Black creatives through story sharing, interviewing dance practitioners like Bebe Miller & Kyle Abraham, Nia Love, and Maria Bauman Morales. The series platforms Black artists who use their talents to progress and broadcast activism. In this evening discussion, the original Black Dance Stories team members, Charmaine Warren, Kimani Fowlin and Cynthia Tate, through stories and process, share the joy of making the weekly online program as they continue their mission to work as a community to support, uphold, highlight, and celebrate Black creatives.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Classical Music | Music Monday: Women of the Movements
The event will celebrate Women's History Month with a special performance from the Harlem Chamber Players. "Women of the Movements" will feature pieces from five different women composers. PROGRAM Caroline Shaw Entr’acte Ke-Chia Chen Rhapsody of Seasons for String Quartet Ellen Zwillich Divertimento for Flute, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello Dorothy Rudd Moore Transcension for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and String Quintet
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
Free
Talk | "Normal" in Contemporary Art
We are living in an age when the normal seems suddenly up for grabs. In the art world we are typically told to scorn all that is normal (right?), but in the wider culture today we hear more and more about "new normals" in contexts ranging from politics to the weather. This talk will look at some of the ways in which the idea of the normal has been treated in contemporary art both in terms of subject matter and stylistic conventions, and it will wonder out loud if there's not something we want to salvage there after all. Speaker Alex Kitnick is assistant professor of art history and visual culture at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, and a frequent contributor to publications including Artforum, Art Journal and October.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
Free
Book Discussion | More than a Glitch by Meredith Broussard (In Person AND Online)
The word "glitch" implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they're coded into the system itself? In her new book, Meredith Broussard demonstrates how neutrality in tech is a myth and why algorithms need to be held accountable. A data scientist and one of the few Black female researchers in artificial intelligence, Broussard explores facial recognition technology that favors light skin, mortgage-approval algorithms that encourage discriminatory lending, and the dangers of medical diagnostic algorithms trained on insufficiently diverse data. Broussard discusses More than a Glitch and solutions that aren’t about making tech more inclusive, but rather rooting out the algorithms that target certain demographics as “other” to begin with.
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Mon, Mar 20
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Discussion | Adventure in Italian Opera: Met Mezzo-Soprano Ekaterina Gubanova
Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova sang the role of Neris in Cherubini's Medea during the Fall, and is currently singing the role of Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma at The Metropolitan Opera.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Discussion | Adventures in Italian Opera with Mezzo-Soprano Ekaterina Gubanova (online)
The fifth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova, who sang the role of Neris in Cherubini's Medea, and will be singing the role of Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma at The Metropolitan Opera.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Mar 20
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Exploring Bias in Race, Gender, and Ability (In Person and Online)
The word glitch implies an incidental error, as easy to patch up as it is to identify. But what if racism, sexism, and ableism aren't just bugs in mostly functional machinery—what if they're coded into the system itself? In her new book, Meredith Broussard demonstrates how neutrality in tech is a myth and why algorithms need to be held accountable. A data scientist and one of the few Black female researchers in artificial intelligence, Broussard explores facial recognition technology that favors light skin, mortgage-approval algorithms that encourage discriminatory lending, and the dangers of medical diagnostic algorithms trained on insufficiently diverse data. Broussard discusses More than a Glitch and solutions that aren’t about making tech more inclusive, but rather rooting out the algorithms that target certain demographics as “other” to begin with. Meredith Broussard is Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and Research Director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology. She is the author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, BBC, Wired, The Economist, and more.
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Mon, Mar 20
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Discussion | Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration
Co-edited by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi and Rachel Lee, this is a collection of articles and media published in three phases from 2019–2022 in the open-access online journals ABE Journal: Architecture Beyond Europe, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and Aggregate. It takes migration as the central concept and historical event behind feminist narratives of constructed environments and spatial and material practices, testing migration as a method of writing antipatriarchal, antiracist, anticasteist, and antiformalist architectural histories. In historiographical solidarity with people in the past and present deterritorialized and dispossessed of land and home, collaborators on this project undertake a feminist practice of history writing and make a space for migrant narratives of built environments. Both, by necessity, are based in collaboration.
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Mon, Mar 20
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Lost Americans: Smart, Atmospheric Thriller
In Christophher Bollen's novel, a young woman finds herself in the crosshairs of powerful and very dangerous enemies when she travels to Cairo to uncover the truth about her brother’s mysterious death in this smart, atmospheric, and propulsive literary thriller from the acclaimed author of A Beautiful Crime. When the lifeless body of Eric Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his employer and the Egyptian authorities quickly declare his death a suicide. But the dead man’s sister, Cate, doesn’t believe Eric took his own life and is determined to get to the truth. Traveling to Egypt she begins to piece together her brother’s life in Cairo with the help of a handsome, young, gay Egyptian man named Omar, who yearns to escape the brutality of his nation’s harsh, restrictive government. Unfortunately, Cate’s quest raises more questions—and problems—than she ever imagined, as she takes on not only the arms company’s top brass but the Egyptian military, secret police, and a slew of American expats with their own reasons to keep the dead buried once and for all. Soon she’s in over her head, and it’s not clear if either she or Omar will get out alive. This riveting thriller of set in loud, boisterous Cairo of Americans lost and found showcases Bollen’s depth of characterization and haunting descriptive powers.
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Mon, Mar 20
7:00 pm
$5
7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | This Could Be You: The Dirty Side of Mentoring
What makes a good mentor? A good mentee? When does mentorship become dangerous? This staged reading grabs the warm and fuzzy idea of mentorship by the lapels, lifts it up, slams it down, and collects the dirty change that falls out of its finely lined pockets. Written by Ying Ying Li.
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Mon, Mar 20
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists Featuring: Cherrie Yu, Adrienne Westwood, Raymond Pinto, gorno (Glenn Potter-Takata)
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Mon, Mar 20
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Musical Journeys Across Generations
Dazzling works which bridge the centuries, embrace and renew artistic ancestry, and affirm the continuing relevance of a rich creative legacy. How can the same 12 notes of the chromatic scale be made to sound so different across six centuries? Brandon Patrick George, flute; Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet; Siwoo Kim and Stephanie Zyzak, violins; Dana Kelley, viola; Alberto Parrini, cello; Ayano Kataoka, percussion; Michael Boriskin, piano. Program: Gabriella Smith Brandenburg Interstices [NY Premiere]; a riff on J.S. Bach that "morphs fluidly through the centuries and genres." John Musto Piano Quintet [NY Premiere]; a memorial tribute tapping into the intricacies of Baroque counterpoint and the passions of Italian opera to symbolize a life intertwined with art, love, and humanity. Robert Xavier Rodriguez Estampie; a contemporary ballet score built on Medieval song and dance, flavored with Wagnerian gestures and Ragtime energy. Nico Muhly Motion; the virtuosic repurposing of an English Renaissance hymn as the underpinning of a kinetic, stylishly contemporary work.
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Mon, Mar 20
7:30 pm
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7:30 pm
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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 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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Tue, Mar 21
10:00 am
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Adult Zumba
Exercise in disguise! Get in on the fun featuring easy-to-follow Latin dance choreography while working on your balance, coordination and range of motion. Bring your friends and come prepared for enthusiastic instruction, a little strength training and a lot of fun.
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Tue, Mar 21
10:30 am
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10:30 am
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Book Discussion | I, Human: AI, Automation, and the Quest to Reclaim What Makes Us Unique (online)
AI is impacting human behavior and changing the way we work, our relationships, well-being and consumption. In I, Human, psychologist and data scientist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic corrals the extensive data on human behavior that our interactions with tech have produced thus far, to ask the big question: What does it mean to be human in the AI age?
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Tue, Mar 21
12:00 pm
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12:00 pm
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Talk | Ukrainian Military Manpower
A conversation with Alona Verbytska, an advisor of President Volodymyr Zelensky on Rights of Defenders (military members). Prior to serving in this role, Verbytska was an advisor to the Joint Chief of Staff of the Ukrainian Military and Prosecutor General. In this talk, Verbytska will discuss Ukrainian military manpower, including prisoner of war issues.
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Tue, Mar 21
12:15 pm
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12:15 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)
Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
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Tue, Mar 21
12:20 pm
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12:20 pm
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Book Discussion | Claim Your Confidence: Unlock Your Superpower and Create the Life You Want
You Are a Badass meets Grit in this powerhouse guide to overcoming your fear and finding the confidence within. “How do I become more confident?” is the question Lydia Fenet hears almost every time she speaks to women across the country. Many of us have forgotten what it feels like to trust ourselves, if we ever knew at all. But that can all change today. From Lydia Fenet, the world’s leading charity auctioneer and author of The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You, Claim Your Confidence is a powerful guide to overcoming your fear and finding the confidence within. Navigating a two-decade career at the world’s leading auction house while raising three children, Lydia had her own journey of learning self-assurance. Through stories of overcoming challenges in both her work and personal lives, she demonstrates that confidence isn’t something that only some people are born with; rather, it’s inside every one of us, waiting to be claimed. Lydia provides powerful tools anyone at any phase of their life can use.
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Tue, Mar 21
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | What That Quilt Knows About Me: Curators' Tour (online)
Curators Emelie Gevalt and Sadé Ayorinde go behind the scenes of What That Quilt Knows About Me to learn more about the artworks, the artists and the themes included in this exhibition. Featuring approximately 40 quilts and related works of art from more than two centuries ago into the present, the exhibition presents a large and rich selection of artworks chosen from the museum’s own collections of American textiles. In this program, curators Emelie Gevalt and Sadé Ayorinde walk through the exhibition, which is not organized by time period, style, culture, or technique. Instead, the visitor is encouraged to revel in a wide range of objects and their stories, and focus attention on the intimacy of the human-textile relationship.
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Tue, Mar 21
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | An Afternoon of Pipes (In Person and Online)
Thomas Gaynor, pipes, at an intimate venue.
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Tue, Mar 21
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | EcoDharma Practice: Connecting to the Elements of Nature (online)
In this EcoDharma-themed meditation facilitated by Michael Lobsang Tenpa, we will explore the five natural elements as they relate to both our mind/body and the world around us. Reconnecting to each element and the psychological qualities it represents (from the point of view of the Indo-Tibetan contemplative tradition) can help us strengthen our inner wellbeing and inspire our service to the preservation and protection of the planet and its multiple communities.
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Tue, Mar 21
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | Business and Human Rights: A Japan-Based NGO's Perspective (in-person and online)
Featuring: Kazuko Ito, Founder and Vice President, Human Rights Now Moderator: Bruce Aronson, Senior Advisor, Japan Center, U.S.-Asia Law Institute; Adjunct Professor
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Tue, Mar 21
1:15 pm
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1:15 pm
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Book Club | Poetry Discussion Circle
Join fellow poetry enthusiasts in unpacking the layered meanings of poetry through an informal group discussion. This meeting's theme is the sonnet. The sonnet takes on deeply human matters with an economy of language and characteristic wit. Join in discussing the impact of this timeless poetic tradition. Reading selections for this meeting are: Diane Seuss, [I met a dying man] (2021) John Murillo, A Refusal to Mourn the Deaths, by Gunfire, of Three Men in Brooklyn (2020) American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [Seven of the Ten Things] Reading selections will also be provided at the event. Please note that contemporary poetry deals frankly with contemporary issues and all works discussed are artistic expressions selected for an adult audience.
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Tue, Mar 21
2:30 pm
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2:30 pm
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Film | Beast (2022) with Idris Elba
The thriller centers on Dr. Nate Samuels and his two teenage daughters. When the family visits South Africa, they tour the savanna with his old friend and biologist Martin Battles. Soon, a bloodthirsty rogue lion stalks Samuels' family, making their trip a fight for survival unlike any other. Director: Baltasar Kormakur Cast: Idris Elba, Sharlto Copley, Iyana Halley, Leah Jeffries Idrissa Elba is an English actor who is known for roles including Stringer Bell in the HBO series The Wire (2002-2004), DCI John Luther in the BBC One series Luther (2010-2019), and Nelson Mandela in the biographical film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013). For Luther, he received four nominations each for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, winning one of the former.
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Tue, Mar 21
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | The Creative Journey Workshop
For this introductory workshop, Robert Rabinovitz, Associate Professor of Design, will explore the intersection between four fundamental human frameworks: The Design Process, The 12 Archetypes, The 12 Stages of The Hero's Journey, and The 12 Steps of Recovery. These seemingly disparate concepts are intertwined, revealing patterns that may contribute in creating new, powerful, and transformative experiences. Through the exploration of these concepts, we'll gain a holistic understanding of how we might apply this knowledge to create experiences that inspire, heal, and transform the ways in which we live, interact, and collaborate. By the end of this workshop, you'll have a deeper understanding of these universal truths, how they overlap and may continue to be applied in your life and creative work.
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Tue, Mar 21
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | The Shifting Science of Social Media Use and Adolescent Mental Health (online)
Adolescents spend much of their daily lives online and fears are high that digital technology use, and social media in particular, is harming their social and emotional development. The narrative around social media and adolescent development has been negative, but empirical support for the story of increasing deficits, disease, and disconnection is limited. This talk will synthesize findings from our recent review of associations between social media use and adolescent social and emotional well-being and present new findings from our large study of adolescents followed daily via their mobile devices. Recommendations for improving science and practice for adolescents in an increasingly digital and uncertain age will also be provided. Speaker Candice Odgers is Associate Dean for Research and a Professor of Psychological Science and Informatics at the University of California Irvine.
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Tue, Mar 21
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
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Book Club | "The Woman Who Arrived at Six" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (In Person AND Online)
"The Woman Who Arrived at Six" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a short story in the book Eyes of a Blue Dog. The story is about an unnamed woman prostitute who comes into Jose's diner everyday at 6:00 for a free meal. One day, she comes in and convinces him to say that she came in earlier so that she has an alibi for the murder she has just committed.
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Tue, Mar 21
4:30 pm
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4:30 pm
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Talk | The Science Fiction of Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Early Film Experiments
Over a hundred years ago, Spanish neurobiologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal made groundbreaking discoveries about the structure of the brain. Using the Golgi silver staining technique, he identified a specialized cell type—the neuron—that binds all the matter together. His surreal hand-drawn paintings illustrated how electrical signals were received and transmitted across cerebral time and space. Drawing from his short stories, this talk presents early film experiments to craft a Cajal biopic. Under the working title of "The Kiss," Cajal on screen is a time traveler that reminisces about his past and invokes the future through his dreams and fictions. Speaker: Alexis Gambis, Assistant Professor of Biology, Film & New Media
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Tue, Mar 21
4:30 pm
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4:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Rodríguez Calero: re:tratos urbanos
Features artwork by acclaimed Nuyorican painter and collage artist Rodríguez Calero (affectionally known as RoCa). This two-decade survey exhibit showcases RoCa’s signature acrollage and fotacrolétechniques. These two innovative processes fuse painting, printmaking, photography, and collage to spellbinding effects. The resulting pieces are bold, surrealist portraits that masterfully combine religious iconography, classical and Byzantine patterns, and elements of hip hop and street art.
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Tue, Mar 21
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Bennett Miller: Art by AI
New prints produced using a DALLoE image generator. This is Miller's first exhibition with the gallery. The works on view in New York emerged after a five-year period in which Miller researched and shot a documentary film about the technological crossroads at which we now find ourselves. Having interviewed numerous figures involved with artificial intelligence (AI)--including Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the San Francisco-based developer of DALLoE--the artist began using the software to reflect on the nature and progression of shifts in the ways we understand representational artwork. The striking results engage the history and format of photography to pose questions around the contingent and enigmatic nature of perception, reality, and truth--an enquiry made newly urgent by revolutionary innovations in computing. DALLoE--a portmanteau of Salvador Dali and Pixar's robot character WALL-E--is a "neural net" that employs a deep-learning algorithm trained to translate written prompts into high-fidelity images. It was launched in 2021 by OpenAI, the company also responsible for "large language model" ChatGPT, which performs a comparable operation with text. As Miller's project acknowledges, such generators already exert a pervasive and not-uncontroversial influence on education, media, and commercial art and design, complicating debates around authenticity, appropriation, and style to a degree not seen since Postmodernism's 1980s heyday.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Creole Noise: Early Caribbean Dialect Literature and Performance
Belinda Edmondson's book is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. By emphasizing multiracial origins, transnational influences, and musical performance alongside often violent historical events of the nineteenth century - slavery, Emancipation, the Morant Bay Rebellion, the era of blackface minstrelsy, indentureship and immigration - it revises the common view that literary dialect in the Caribbean was a relatively modern, twentieth-century phenomenon, associated with regional anti-colonial or black-affirming nationalist projects.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem
With its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today’s Harlem bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis. In his book, first published in 2017 by Harvard University Press, Brian Goldstein traces Harlem’s Second Renaissance to a surprising source: the radical social movements of the 1960s that resisted city officials and fought to give Harlemites control of their own destiny.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire (online)
The Sassoons, known as "the Rothschilds of the East," were one of the richest families in the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Baghdadi Jewish family built a vast financial and trade empire that spanned continents, became members of British Parliament, and owned some of Britain's leading newspapers. In his new book, Joseph Sassoon details the family's history. At this event, Sassoon will be in conversation about his book with Rebecca Kobrin, Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History at Columbia University.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Cuban Exodus: Causes and Consequences (online)
A webinar focusing on the causes and consequences of Cuban migration. Speakers: Susan Eckstein is a professor in the Pardee School of Global Studies and in the Sociology Department at Boston University. Guillermo J. Grenier is Professor of Sociology, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University, State University of Florida.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Play bridge in a stress-free environment
One of the most popular card games of the last century, bridge is still enjoyed by professional and amateur players alike today - and now you can stop by and enjoy it too! Bring your bridge partner, or you will be matched up with someone to play as a pair. There will be instructions and the chance to observe players, making this a perfect event for beginners looking to learn how to play bridge.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Strangers to Ourselves: Writing about Mental Health
Panelists: -- Rachel Aviv, author of Strangers to Ourselves and staff writer for The New Yorker -- Keith Gessen, George T. Delacorte Assistant Professor of Magazine Journalism, founding editor of n+1, and a contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and The London Review of Books.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | To See and Be Seen: Queer and Trans Visibility in Photojournalism (in-person and online)
Professor Lauren Walsh and photographers Allison Lippy and Annie Tritt have a discussion that will consider what belonging means for trans and queer photographers within this industry, how queer subjects are represented in documentary and photojournalistic spaces, as well as what changes can be made for future generations.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Talk | What Makes It Italian?: Modern World: Italian and English (online)
French Impressionism was resonating throughout European music and art, but the British and the Italians responded with their own home-grown versions. Italian pairing: Composer Franco Alfano (1875 - 1954) and painter Emilio Longoni (1859 - 1932) English pairing: Composer Edward Elgar (1857-1934) and painter Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) "What Makes It Italian?" is a music listening and discussion group that meets online. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who has also guided listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y; acted as maestro del coro for opera in Italy; instructed music at The New School; and directed Underworld Productions.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | If Some God Shakes Your House: Antigone Reimagined
Jennifer Franklin reimagines an Antigone for our times in her third collection, where filial devotion and ossified roles of gendered labor become the engine of her defiance. Franklin’s Antigone is ferocious, feeling, and unafraid of the consequences of speaking the truth to power about the political atrocities she has witnessed and personal traumas she has withstood.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:15 pm
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6:15 pm
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Film | Silent Love (2022): Lesbians in Poland
At the death of her mother, Aga decides to leave her life in Germany with her partner Maja to look after her younger brother in Poland. To do this, she has to hide her love for another woman from the authorities. Director: Marek Kozakiewicz In Polish with English subtitles Followed by a live Q&A with the director.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The God of Endings: An Immortal Woman Navigates Love
By turns suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking first novel weaves a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman. Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather’s long-ago decision to make her immortal like himself. Now in 1984, Collette finds her life upended by the arrival of a gifted child from a troubled home, the return of a stalking presence from her past, and her own mysteriously growing hunger. Combining brilliant prose with breathtaking suspense, Jacqueline Holland's The God of Endings serves as a larger exploration of the human condition in all its complexity, asking us the most fundamental question: is life in this world a gift or a curse?
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Tue, Mar 21
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Bridging Time and Space: The Collaborative Photographic Practice
A talk with artists Isaac Diggs and Edward Hillel. From Harlem's iconic 125th street to the musical landscape of contemporary Detroit, the collaborative photographic work of Issac Diggs and Edward Hillel offers a nuanced and penetrating look at the contemporary urban environment in America. Diggs and Hillel will talk about their various projects, books and exhibitions, as well as the process of collaboration. Diggs and Hillel met in 2004 in Harlem and began to collaborate soon thereafter. In 2014, they published 125th: Time in Harlem, subject of their current exhibition at the Hunter East Harlem Gallery. In 2021, their second publication together, Electronic Landscapes, was shortlisted for the Aperture Paris Photo Book Award, named one of top ten art books of 2021 by Hyperallergic and received a national design award from AIGA, the professional association for design.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Kicking the Back Door In: The Radical Imagination of 1970s New York
An evening of conversation, intervention and performance with the radical social thinker Jack Halberstam and artist and writer Yasi Alipour The 1970s were a time of increased private ownership, social tensions and booming real estate that was visible on New York City’s skyline and landscape. By breaking open a counter-archive of unruly art, working class aesthetics and the rapid financialization and development of New York City, Kicking the back door in draws on the radical imagination of 70s New York City to frame the state of working-class art practice in the city today. Empty commercial space means empty streets. Rapid development and investment produce streets with empty apartments. Oppositional communities need to see people, hang out together and talk. Queer anarchy, protest, counter archive, and art will be used as a way at looking at the marginalised and working-class aesthetics of the present city, drawing parallels between New York and Berlin to ask: How might looking back on the city – its modes of collapse and forms of resistance to capital systems of corporate investments and private ownership – be part of an unbuilding, “unworlding” and unruly project for today? An evening of making an errant path through the city, across the Atlantic to Berlin, back to the ‘70s and the contemporary moment, Kicking the back door in will question and offer unruly answers. Before the conversation and intervention from Jack Halberstam, there will be a short series of performances by artists working on these themes.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Morganthaus: Power, Privilege, and The Rise of a New York Dynasty
Journalist Andrew Meier discusses his recent book, Morganthau, which traces a family dynasty which includes an early 20th-Century U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, the U.S. Treasury Secretary to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the longest-serving district attorney in New York State. Andrew Meier is a regular contributor to the BBC, CNN, NPR, and PBS, as well as the co-director of the recent Netflix documentary, Our Godfather. Meir will be joined in conversation with Marie Brenner of the The New Yorker.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Why a New Water Awareness is Urgent for New York (in-person and online)
At a time of climate change, sea level rise, flooding, drought, and changing groundwater and rainwater patterns, water managers need to adjust their current practices and develop new approaches. This lecture examines the role that architectural historians and architects can play in connecting the past, present and future of water management, and how to help identify transformative actions. Speaker Carola Hein is Professor and Head of History of Architecture and Urban Planning at Delft University of Technology and Professor at Leiden University and Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
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Tue, Mar 21
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Disorientation: College Satire
Elaine Hsieh Chou's debut novel explores a Taiwanese American woman’s coming-of-consciousness as she ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a college campus. The hilarious satire is an examination of privilege and power...
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Tue, Mar 21
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Swallows of Lunetto: Escaping Italian Fascism
From Joseph Fasano comes the powerful story of a young couple's escape from Italian fascism at the end of the Second World War. Alexandra Bianchi lives and works in Lunetto, a provincial village in Italy's Calabria region, which finds itself ravaged by war in the summer of 1945. Leonardo Gemetti, a young man from Lunetto, has been missing for nearly eight years, and all his village knows of him is that he has carried out an atrocity against the Italian partisans in Mussolini's fallen Republic of Salò. When Alexandra meets a masked figure in the streets of Lunetto, she cannot imagine what she will learn about history and her place in it. A sweeping love story and historical drama, The Swallows of Lunetto is a timely meditation on the left-right political divide, the reckonings of inherited trauma, and the potential of forgiveness to heal deeply divisive wounds.
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Tue, Mar 21
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Photographer Talk: The Female Voice
American artist, photographer and filmmaker Joni Sternbach’s work has explored a variety of themes, including domesticity, the family, sexuality and the body. Issues of gender, identity and feminism are the most critical themes in her work from the 1980s–1990s, where the female figure is the central voice. Sternbach has experimented with a variety of photographic media and is best known for her series Surfland, a collection of wet plate collodion tintype portraits of surfers made around the globe. She uses both large format film and early photographic processes to explore the present-day landscape and create environmental portraits.
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Tue, Mar 21
7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Long Division: Award-Winning Fiction
Kiese Laymon is the author of Long Division, which won the 2022 NAACP Image Award for fiction, and the essay collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, named a notable book of 2021 by The New York Times critics. Laymon's bestselling memoir, Heavy: An American Memoir, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose, the Barnes and Noble Discovery Award, the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media, and was named one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years by The New York Times.
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Tue, Mar 21
7:30 pm
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7:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Third Girl From the Left: A Memoir of AIDS
As a middle child in a large military family, author Christine Barker just wants to dance. Her parents support her dreams, even if they seem beyond their comprehension. At 20, determined and talented, Christine heads across the country from Santa Fe to New York City and, in a made for-Hollywood story, is chosen for the London cast of A Chorus Line. While unwilling to fully cut ties with the traditional life her parents envision for her, she finds a new family with the dancers and more fluid, open characters that fill the theater world in London, and later New York, in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Christine learns that one member of her family is equally at home in her new world: Laughlin, her older brother—divorced, a father, ex-military and a corporate lawyer—also makes his way to New York City, where he meets, and begins to build a life, with rising fashion star Perry Ellis. The two men enjoy a partnership and a financial success that Christine both admires. and envies. She spends much of her free time in their Upper West Side brownstone and Water Island retreat. Soon everyone is talking about a mysterious new disease. As deaths of dancers, theater folk, and eventually friends start to mount, Christine realizes she’s in the middle of an epidemic that neither her traditional family nor the public at large is ready to reckon with. As the AIDS crisis cuts closer and closer, eventually impacting those she loves most, Christine does what she has always done: she strikes her own path. This memoir is an emotional, honest examination of what it takes to succeed in the competitive world of New York theater, how hard-won dreams can be quickly lost, what it means to redefine family, and the devastating toll AIDS exacted on a generation of artists.
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Tue, Mar 21
7:30 pm
Free
7:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Mr. B: George Balanchine's 20th Century
George Balanchine, arguably the greatest choreographer of all time, was also a cultural titan of the 20th century. A co-founder of the New York City Ballet, the Russia-born Balanchine brought ballet in the U.S. to the forefront of modernism. Jennifer Homans has had full access to his papers and many of his dancers in researching and writing Mr. B: - a comprehensive history of Balanchine's life and times. Ms. Homans, who was named The New Yorker's dance critic in 2019, is also the founder and director of the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University, where she is also on the faculty.
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Tue, Mar 21
8:00 pm
Free
8:00 pm
Free
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 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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Wed, Mar 22
10:00 am
Free
10:00 am
Free
Concert | Amplified: A Marathon of Music by Women from Around the Globe
Lunchtime Performances: 12-2pm Evening Performances: 5-8pm On the occasion of Women’s History Month, enjoy a marathon of music by women artists from around the globe, based in NYC. Lunchtime and evening performances will take place and will feature music rooted in locations as far away as Venezuela and Sudan, and as close as next door.
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Wed, Mar 22
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
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Talk | Marjorie Merriweather Post: An Intimate Look Inside the Life of an American
Apart from being known as one of the wealthiest women of the 20th century with an extensive art collection and luxurious residences, Marjorie Merriweather Post was also a dedicated philanthropist and involved in important U.S. diplomatic missions. In this exclusive chat with historian Ken Mensing, learn more about Marjorie from those who knew her best. In 1999 when Ken Mensing was named the first historian of the LIU Post Campus, which is located on the original Hillwood estate of Post Cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, he didn’t realize the depth of information about this amazing American socialite and philanthropist that was quietly waiting to be shared. He was fortunate enough to meet various members of Post’s immediate family and hear firsthand accounts of their mother and grandmother's amazing life. The family provided access to their private photo albums as well as home movies and documents from Marjorie’s life. This documentation coupled with their memories helped him not only learn the story of this amazing woman, but be able to tell it from their perspective.
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Wed, Mar 22
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
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Symposium | State of America Summit (online)
A virtual summit that explores the most important questions facing the country right now -- spotlighting the future of democracy, civic engagement, technology, journalism, politics and policy.
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Wed, Mar 22
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
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Tour | Tour of New York City Hall
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 a designated interior landmark as well.
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Wed, Mar 22
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
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Discussion | Western Sanctions and the Fates of Russian Oligarchs (online)
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Western countries imposed major sanctions on key members of the Russian business elite, although some Russian oligarchs have escaped these punishments. Did these sanctions work, and is targeting business elites an effective way of sanctioning a country? Our panel of political scientists, economists, and sociologists will discuss in what ways the sanctions have affected the wealthiest Russians, whether they have divided the Russian elite or brought it closer to Putin, how the oligarchs mitigate and evade the restrictions, and whether more individual sanctions against wealthy Russians could follow. Speakers: -- Brooke Harrington, Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College -- Daniel Nielsen, Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin; Co-founder and Chief Research Officer at Evaluasi -- David Szakonyi, Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University; Associate Director of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia; co-founder of the Anti-Corruption Data Collective
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Wed, Mar 22
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
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City Walk | Guided Historical Tour of the Columbia University Campus
Learn more about the history, architecture, and sculpture of Columbia and the Morningside Heights campus. Whether you're an amateur New York City historian or visiting campus for the first time, you will leave the tour knowing more about our storied past.
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Wed, Mar 22
12:15 pm
Free
12:15 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)
Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
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Wed, Mar 22
12:20 pm
Free
12:20 pm
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Workshop | Adult Chorus
Directed by Church Street School of Music, the chorus is open to all who love to sing. Learn contemporary and classic songs and perform at community events throughout the year.
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Wed, Mar 22
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz Trio
The Rick Germanson Trio, featuring Rick Germanson on vocals and piano, and accompanying bass and drums.
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Wed, Mar 22
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Processing Climate Grief (online)
Our leaders aren’t leading, our institutions are failing us, and every day, the planet lurches toward uninhabitable living conditions. So many are already feeling the impacts on the frontlines from increased storms, raging wildfires, unprecedented flooding, and changing seasons. We’ve also been launched into the sixth mass extinction as key ecosystems and species are swallowed up by the dominant culture. Loss is in the air we breathe. There is so much to grieve. When we are overwhelmed by these shared losses and don’t take time to process them, they threaten our ability to feel present, connected, and joyful. It prevents us from making the necessary changes to protect what is still here. Grieving connects us to our love and helps fuel our work to transform these destructive aspects of our culture. At Good Grief Network and Reimagine, we know there is wisdom and a soul maturity that happens when we are able to name loss and describe how it has transformed us. As soul activist and therapist Francis Weller says, "Any who undertake real mourning return with gravitas, wisdom gathered in the darkness." In this workshop, Good Grief Network Founding Director Laura Schmidt will help us touch our feelings of grief and balance them with love and joy. We will practice grounding exercises, honor our losses, connect with each other, share some poetry, and move our bodies to metabolize grief and distress associated with the climate crisis and ecocide.
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Wed, Mar 22
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Jazz | Standards from the American Songbook
Jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook. Bill Wurtzel began playing guitar at age 9, and was a radio and TV country music performer by age 12. He attended art school and had a career as an award-winning advertising creative director. He continued to play professionally and switched to music full time in 1989. Bill has played worldwide with many jazz legends, including the Count Basie Countsmen, Wild Bill Davis, Bill Doggett, Jimmy McGriff, the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band, singers Gloria Lynne and Terri Thornton, as well as Paul Simon. Bill is a director of the Jazz Foundation of America.
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Wed, Mar 22
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Vocal Works by Bach (In Person AND Online)
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Avi Stein, director. Program J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht, BWV 105 (1723) Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder, BWV 135 (1724)
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Wed, Mar 22
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Film | Doctor Faustus (1967) with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
A 16th century scholar sells his soul to the devil in exchange for gaining great knowledge and power for 24 years. Based on Christopher Marlowe's classic play The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Directors: Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill Cast: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Andreas Teuber Richard Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s and gave a memorable performance as Hamlet in 1964. He is widely regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation and was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never won. He received BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Tony Awards for Best Actor. In the mid-1960s, Burton became a top box office star, and by the late 1960s, he was one of the highest-paid actors in the world. Elizabeth Taylor began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood cinema.
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Wed, Mar 22
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Workshop | Figure Drawing
Challenge your artistic skills by drawing the human figure. Each week a model will strike short and long poses for participants to draw. Artists/ educators will offer constructive suggestions and critique. Materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their own favorite media.
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Wed, Mar 22
2:00 pm
Free
2:00 pm
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Discussion | Anti-Gender Politics and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey and Beyond
Mobilization against women’s rights, LGBTI+ rights, and gender equality (denoted "anti-gender politics") has become a near-universal feature of populist, authoritarian and religious-conservative movements around the world. As they erode constitutional democratic safeguards of all kinds, these movements take aim at the civil, political, and socio-economic rights of women and LGBTI+ and seek to overturn the achievements of decades of local and transnational rights-based activism. Alongside seeking traditional legislative, administrative, and constitutional means of advancing their political agenda, they construct and disseminate alternative, essentialist narratives of gender and sexuality in a variety of contexts, including universities, civil society, and the media. Paying attention to the global ramifications as well as local specificities of anti-gender mobilization, this panel will examine "anti-gender" mobilization as both a symptom and an accelerant of democratic backsliding, and discuss their implications on gender and sexuality activism, policy-making, and the academy. Speakers: Yasmine Ergas (Columbia University) Zeynep Gülru Göker (Sabancı University) Zehra Kabasakal Arat (University of Connecticut) Barbara Sutton (SUNY-Albany) Convener: Türküler Işıksel (Columbia University)
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Wed, Mar 22
4:10 pm
Free
4:10 pm
Free
Lecture | Sergei Loznitsa's Historical Films (in-person and online)
Part of a trilogy of films about the USSR that began with The Event (Sobytie, 2015), Sergei Loznitsa's The Trial (Protsess, 2018) and State Funeral (Pokhorony, 2019) are archival / found-footage compilation films in the style of early Soviet avant-garde documentary filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Esfit Shub, where previously existing footage was used to construct a new film "thing" by means of montage. In The Trial (whose title suggests Franz Kafka's novel), Loznitsa condenses an eleven-day show trial hearing from 1930 into just over two hours, alternating bureaucratic procedure and fabricated testimony with snippets of popular demonstrations, to produce "a nonfiction account of a fastidiously composed fiction." Similarly, State Funeral, Loznitsa's second found footage film on the Stalinist period, chronicles the Soviet Union's national mourning of the death of Joseph Stalin based on shot footage that no one ever saw: a thirty-eight minute film called The Great Farewell made by four leading Soviet directors to commemorate Stalin's death, which was never screened during the Soviet period. Loznitsa uses footage shot in the last four days of the funeral to tell a different story from the one intended by the original filmmakers, but which nevertheless retain the "truth" of the original. Indeed, the basic structure of State Funeral is taken from Vertex's 1925 Kinopravda #24 / Lenin's Kinopravda (and repeated in his 1934 Three Songs of Lenin) -- the model for a nation grieving the loss of its leader. This talk will consider Loznitsa's films in the context of early Soviet avant-garde documentary practices that clearly serve as the context for the two films, looking specifically at the uses and reuses of the original source material, including editing, reframing, and sound. With Lilya Kaganovsky, UCLA. Moderated by Mark Lipovetsky and Tatiana Efremova.
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Wed, Mar 22
4:15 pm
Free
4:15 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Displacement and What Remains (online)
This talk will highlight Krista Svalbonas’ two most recent bodies of work focusing on the history of the Baltic states surrounding WWII. Displacement traces former Baltic WWII displaced person camps in Germany and the refugees that inhabited these spaces. To honor their struggles, she uses archived copies of the plea letters the Baltic refugees sent. Kirsta merges these painful accounts with photographs through a process of burning, an echo of the traumas of war the refugees had endured. What Remains combines Krista’s photographs of Soviet architecture in the Baltic region with traditional Baltic textile designs. She uses a laser cutter to cut the textile patterns directly onto her black and white photographs of the cold and imposing buildings. This series explores the power of folk art and crafts as a form of defiance against the Soviet occupiers.
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Wed, Mar 22
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
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Discussion | Curatorial Roundtable (online)
Marina Reyes Franco, curator at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, co-founded La Ene, an itinerant museum and collection. Her past projects include De Loiza a la Loiza, a MAC en el Barrio public art commission by Daniel Lind Ramos (2020); “Resisting Paradise” at Publica, San Juan and Fonderie Darling, Montreal (2019); “Watch your step / Mind your head” at ifa Galerie-Berlin (2017); the 2nd Grand Tropical Biennial, co-curated with Pablo León de la Barra, Stefan Benchoam, and Radamés “Juni” Figueroa (2016); “A Summer in Puerta de Tierra,” an exhibition and day outing in a San Juan neighborhood in response to the policies of population displacement and tourism focus in the area (2015); “Calibán,” a selection of Puerto Rican contemporary artists at the MAC in San Juan (2014); “Sucursal,” an exhibition of the collection of La Ene, at the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires, (co-curated with Gala Berger, Sofía Dourron, and Santiago Villanueva, 2014); and numerous exhibitions at La Ene while she was director. Her research interests include the work of Esteban Valdés, artistic and literary manifestations on the frontier of political action, new museology and the impact of tourism on cultural production.
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Wed, Mar 22
5:00 pm
Free
5:00 pm
Free
Film | Doctor Faustus (1967) with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
A 16th century scholar sells his soul to the devil in exchange for gaining great knowledge and power for 24 years. Based on Christopher Marlowe's classic play The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Directors: Richard Burton and Nevill Coghill Cast: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Andreas Teuber Richard Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s and gave a memorable performance as Hamlet in 1964. He is widely regarded as one of the finest actors of his generation and was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never won. He received BAFTAs, Golden Globes, and Tony Awards for Best Actor. In the mid-1960s, Burton became a top box office star, and by the late 1960s, he was one of the highest-paid actors in the world. Elizabeth Taylor began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend of Classic Hollywood cinema.
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Wed, Mar 22
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Redaction: Poetry and Art
In celebration of their new book, Titus Kaphar and memoirist, poet, and attorney Reginald Dwayne Betts will sign copies, following a poetry reading by Betts. The volume documents the pair’s Redaction series, first presented in 2019 at MoMA PS1, New York. Bringing together poetry by Betts that draws upon redacted legal documents and Kaphar’s etched portraits of incarcerated individuals, the project exposes the ways in which the legal system exploits and erases the poor and incarcerated from public consciousness. Redaction was designed in close collaboration with Kaphar and Betts and also includes an introduction by Sarah Suzuki, associate director at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Wed, Mar 22
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Right-Wing Populism and Gender: European Perspectives and Beyond
A roundtable conversation among Hadas Aron (NYU), Erasma Beras-Monticiollo (Tambora Dialogues), Julia Roth (Bielefeld University) and Ulrich Baer (NYU) on the recent “obsession” with topics around gender and sexuality (“gender ideology”) in right-wing populist debates. Tracing different patterns of gender mobilization in right-wing populist discourse that Julia Roth has elaborated on in her co-edited book Right-Wing Populism and Gender (2020), the roundtable asks how "gender" serves as a platform or metalanguage? Why and how can gender issues be used to mobilize affects? Which counter strategies can we observe?
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Wed, Mar 22
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Upon Thy Gates: The Winik Mezuzah Collection: Curator's Talk (online)
Exhibition curator Kenneth Helphand discusses the Elaine and Norman Winik Mezuzah Collection, currently on view at the Museum at Eldridge Street. This talk will not only touch upon examples from the collection, but dive into the three thousand year old custom of marking a Jewish home by affixing a mezuzah to the doorpost. Learn about the rich yet little-examined art of the mezuzah case, using examples from the collection spanning the past two centuries. The cases come from all over the world, and are made from an array of materials. This talk will address the deep symbolism on display in these miniature works of art.
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Wed, Mar 22
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Lecture | Territorial Soils: The British Excavating the Egyptian Delta
When Victorian archaeologists began overseeing large-scale excavations in the Egyptian Delta in the 1880s, they capitalized on the colonial infrastructure of the cotton trade—especially agricultural land and labor. Foreign excavators recruited workforces from landless Fellahin, local Bedouin, and young villagers to dig ancient soil through the winter months before the annual Nile inundation in the summer. Most archaeological sites were moreover buried under tells (artificial mounds) and situated on modern farmland. Territorial disputes were commonplace. Archaeologists sought to preserve the soil in situ, while farmers needed to rotate and redistribute it. The messy growth of British Egyptology was therefore predicated on the identification, popularization, demarcation, and especially, long-distance control of a new scientific space termed the “field site.” This talk will denaturalize the field site by exploring the literal shared ground between archaeology and agriculture, and the process by which Pharaonic ruins were made archaeological through Egyptian dispossession and exploitation. Speaker: Meira Gold, Assistant Professor
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Wed, Mar 22
6:00 pm
Free
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation (online)
Author Annie Pfeifer rethinks collecting as an artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice that flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a constellation of three author-collectors—Henry James, Walter Benjamin, and Carl Einstein—Annie Pfeifer examines the relationship between literary modernism and twentieth-century practices of collecting objects. From James's paper hoarding to Einstein's mania for African art and Benjamin's obsession with old Russian toys, she shows how these authors' literary techniques of compiling, gleaning, and reassembling constitute a modernist style of collecting which that reimagines the relationship between author and text, source and medium. Placing Benjamin and Einstein in surprising conversation with James sharpens the contours of collecting as aesthetic and political praxis underpinned by dangerous passions. An apt figure for modernity, the collector is caught between preservation and transformation, order and chaos, the past and the future.
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Wed, Mar 22
6:15 pm
Free
6:15 pm
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Book Discussion | 3 Books Celebrating Science and Literature
This event identifies three books to deepen readers’ understanding of science and technology with a focus on work that highlights the diversity of voices in scientific writing: Dyke (geology), Real Life, and Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside. The program will feature readings and conversation with authors Sabrina Imbler, Brandon Taylor, and Xiaowei Wang. Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)
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Wed, Mar 22
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Film | A House Made of Splinters (2022): Oscar-Nominated Documentary
Ukrainian children and staff in a special kind of home: an institution for children who have been removed from their homes while awaiting court custody decisions. Staff do their best to make the time children have there safe and supportive. Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont 87 min. In Russian with English subtitles Followed by a discussion
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Wed, Mar 22
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House by Alex Prud'homme
A history of presidential taste, from the grim meals eaten by Washington and his starving troops at Valley Forge to Trump’s fast-food burgers and Biden’s ice cream—what they ate, why they ate it, and what it tells us about the state of the nation—from the coauthor of Julia Child’s best-selling memoir My Life in France. Alex Prud’homme invites readers into the White House kitchen to reveal the sometimes curious tastes of 26 of America’s most influential presidents, how their meals were prepared and by whom, and the ways their choices affected food policy around the world. And the White House menu grew over time— from simple eggs and black coffee for Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and celebratory turtle soup after and squirrel stew for Dwight Eisenhower, to jelly beans and enchiladas for Ronald Reagan and arugula for Barack Obama. What our leaders say about food touches on everything from our nation’s shifting diet and local politics to global trade, science, religion, war, class, gender, race, and so much more. Join author Alex Prud'homme in conversation with Rebecca Federman, Assistant Director NYPL General Humanities Reference & Center for Research in the Humanities. "[A] beautifully written book about how the presidential palate has helped shape America...Fascinating."—Stanley Tucci
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Wed, Mar 22
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Two Wars and a Wedding: New Fiction from New York Times Bestselling Author Lauren Willig
From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig: a dramatic coming-of-age story with a dual timeline and a single heroine—a bold and adventuring young woman who finds herself caught up in two very different wars on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Wed, Mar 22
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Discussion | Can Democracy Survive in the U.S.? (in-person and online)
As America becomes even more polarized, two leading commentators discuss the past and future of our threatened democracy. What are the constitutional and historical roots of our current crisis? Can our democratic institutions withstand the forces at play? Jamelle Bouie, columnist for The New York Times Opinion section, joins in conversation with Corey Robin, distinguished professor of political science at Brooklyn College, and author, most recently, of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas. Moderated by Katrina vanden Heuvel, publisher and editorial director of The Nation.
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Wed, Mar 22
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Discussion | This Changes Everything | This Changes Nothing: ChatGPT, Journalism, and the Future of Creativity (in-person and online)
Speakers: Joanna Stern writes and makes videos at The Wall Street Journal, where she is the senior personal technology columnist. She won an Emmy in 2021. Jean Oh is an associate research professor at Carnegie Mellon University who builds robots with advanced artificial intelligence capabilities. Moderator Anna Rothschild is a science presenter, video producer, and journalist. A visiting scholar, she is the senior video producer at ABC’s FiveThirtyEight, where she also hosted the COVID podcast, PODCAST-19.
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Wed, Mar 22
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Discussion | Why Do We Still Burn Books? (In Person AND Online)
Emma Smith, the Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Oxford University, lectures on the history of book-burning from the ancient Mediterranean to Margaret Atwood. "Book burning for ideological reasons is almost as old as the book form itself," writes Smith in her new book, Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers. It "is a highly emotive trope and is... compelling for those who burn and those who deplore it. But, in itself, burning a book is irrelevant." Debating the practical implications of burning books against their symbolic power, Smith lectures on items, including some in the Library's Treasures exhibition, to examine this peculiar corner in the history of censorship and the talismanic power of books.
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Wed, Mar 22
6:30 pm
Free
6:30 pm
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Play | Curie_Meitner_Lamarr-INDIVISIBLE: One Actress, Three Fascinating Women
A theater play with Austrian actress Anita Zieher who impersonates 3 fascinating women: Marie Curie, Lise Meitner and Hedy Lamarr. Radiation. Nuclear fission. Frequency hopping. This show brings the lives and works of three extraordinary women to the stage: Double Nobel Prize winner and discoverer of radioactivity Marie Curie (1867-1934), Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist Lise Meitner (1878-1968), and the Viennese Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) who invented of frequency hopping. All three are outstanding pioneers representing the achievements of women in the field of science and technology. The play shows their passion for science and technology, the obstacles and barriers these women had to face in their work environment as well as the great joy and fascination they gained through their research and inventiveness. Actress Anita Zieher, who impersonates the three women, delivers a stunning performance in the roles. The play, directed by Sandra Schueddekopf provides an entertaining and vivid performance, raising questions about female career paths that are still valid.
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Wed, Mar 22
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Nights from This Galaxy: New Short Fiction (online)
Wil Weitzel's debut is a set of deep, lush short stories that are full of wonder; the collection’s tales range from a couple that cares for a starving lion to a boy held captive by a dangerous old man who hunts dogs for sport. In conversation with writer and critic John Freeman, the literary duo will explore the craft of fiction, the work’s fierce characters, and our shared human fragility and the imminent grief that binds us all.
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Wed, Mar 22
7:00 pm
$5
7:00 pm
$5
Talk | Ballroom Dance as an Art Form
DNA Dance (Denys Drozdyuk and Antonina Skobina) will present ballroom dance in its various forms as a social, competitive and performing art. They will discuss how it developed and what makes it different from other dance genres and will perform excerpts from such well known forms as the Rhumba, Cha Cha, Jive, Samba and Waltz, explaining what makes each unique. This is a dance form that contains much individuality, creativity and musicality. You will be able to join them yourself in a few basic steps and experience the delight in moving.
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Wed, Mar 22
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Film | Short Film: Unlocking the Creative Self With Marshall Arisman
A screening of a master-class-style documentary directed by faculty member Nada Ray following the work of late artist and MFA Illustration as Visual Essay Chair Marshall Arisman.
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Wed, Mar 22
7:00 pm
Free
7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine (online)
Writer, teacher, and practicing doctor Ricardo Nuila presents his debut work. For many, U.S. health care is unaffordable and often unavailable. But not for patients at the Ben Taub Hospital, operated by the Harris Health System in Houston, TX. With compassionate insight, Ricardo Nuila follows the cases of five patients to show how this publicly funded hospital supports the community by making good health care accessible to all.
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Wed, Mar 22
7:30 pm
Free
7:30 pm
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Jazz | Revolutionary Big Band Music
New School Studio Orchestra. Program Cal Massey (1928-1972), Black Liberation Movement Suite Fred Ho (1957-2014), Struggle for a New World Suite (2009) Sebastian Alexander Johnson, Unity & Struggle (for Fred Ho)
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Wed, Mar 22
7:30 pm
Free
7:30 pm
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Classical Music | Works for Piano by Busoni
Sara Davis Buechner, piano. Program Busoni (1866-1924), Seven Elegies (1907) Liszt (1811-1886) and Busoni (1866-1924), Six Etudes after Paganini About the Performer Sara Davis Buechner has been lauded for her "intelligence, integrity and all-encompassing technical prowess" (New York Times) and her "thoughtful artistry in the full service of music" (Washington Post). Buechner has performed in every state and province of North America -- as recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with top orchestras like the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Philadelphia Orchestra; and in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Hollywood Bowl. She has toured throughout Latin and South America and Europe; and she enjoys a special following in Asia, where she has been a featured soloist with the Sydney Symphony, New Zealand Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic and Shanghai Philharmonic, among many others.
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Wed, Mar 22
7:30 pm
Free
7:30 pm
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Talk | Inspire to Aspire: How to Build a Self-Driven Community in China (online)
Welcome Jill Tang, Co-Founder of Ladies Who Tech. She explores the transformation of Marketing and PR in the region, changes in consumer behavior, the impact of technology on media, and the emergence of new business models.
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Wed, Mar 22
8:00 pm
Free
8:00 pm
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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 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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Thu, Mar 23
10:00 am
Free
10:00 am
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Tour | Tour of New York City Hall
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 a designated interior landmark as well.
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Thu, Mar 23
10:00 am
Free
10:00 am
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Film | The Miracle Worker (1962) with Anne Bankcroft
A dramatization of the story about the struggle of a Boston teacher, Annie Sullivan, to communicate with and teach the deaf, blind, and mute child, Helen Keller. Director: Arthur Penn Cast: Anne Bankcroft, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson, Victor Jory, Andrew Prine Anne Bancroft was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Cannes Film Festival Award. She is one of only 24 thespians to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.
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Thu, Mar 23
11:00 am
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11:00 am
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Talk | Approaches to Help Seniors Age at Home: The View from Silicon Valley (online)
Nirav R. Shah of Stanford University will talk about technology and aging. While new technologies and Artificial Intelligence have changed how we live, how we work, and how we socialize - little has changed in health and healthcare. Yet promising technologies will facilitate aging at home, improved access to care, and reduced disparities, along with nascent opportunities to improve prevention and healthcare at scale. We present a framework for identifying, selecting, and implementing such supporting structures for healthy longevity.
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Thu, Mar 23
11:30 am
Free
11:30 am
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Discussion | A Year of War: A Reporter’s View of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
A discussion with Joshua Yaffa, contributing writer for The New Yorker. Moderated by Keith Gessen. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Joshua Yaffa, who spent a decade living and reporting in Russia, has traveled across Ukraine—where he also has deep experience as a journalist—witnessing the war up close and publishing regularly in The New Yorker. He will share his impressions from his numerous reporting trips, which began in the early, fraught days in Kyiv, when the capital was the primary target of the Russian military; to Kharkiv, a historically Russian-speaking city that has faced relentless rocket and artillery fire; from the decimated towns of the Donbas to Zaporizhzhia, a regional capital in the south that became a waystation for Ukrainians fleeing the horrors of Mariupol and elsewhere. Yaffa will describe how the conflict looks and feels on the ground, whether for civilians trapped under bombardment or newly enlisted soldiers. He will also discuss a number of key questions at the start of the war’s second year. What has been the role and effect of Western military aid? What sort of end to the fighting is possible? And how will both Russia and Ukraine be forever changed as a result?
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Thu, Mar 23
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
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Lecture | The Neuroscience of Change (online)
Humans are hardwired to resist change. Contrary to common belief, the human capacity for rational judgment is much more limited, especially when it comes to dealing with change and the conflict that can result. Neuroscience can help explain why situations can escalate so quickly, and the negative consequences that can result. This foundational understanding, which provides evidence that many personality traits, including how to relate to other individuals and groups, has some basis in the biology of the brain. There is a balancing act between parts of the brain that deal with memories, pleasures, and fears and the analytical and logical processing function. These parts can vary between individuals and groups and impact their perceptions of situations. In this webinar, you’ll learn how the brain dictates our behavior while we undergo change especially when it’s unwelcome or unexpected. Explore practical approaches to managing the conflict that can emerge from the change. Speaker:Susan Levin is a global facilitator, coach, trainer, mediator, and organization development practitioner with more than 30 years of experience. She has worked with thousands of employees in a variety of organizations in the United States as well as more than 40 countries. She focuses on maximizing individual and organizational strengths to get great results. She uses an appreciative approach to help her clients leverage their best practices to achieve their future vision. Whether abroad or in the US, she’s mindful of making sure her work is culturally relevant.
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Thu, Mar 23
12:00 pm
Free
12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)
Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
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Thu, Mar 23
12:20 pm
Free
12:20 pm
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Screening | Reimagining Queen Nanny of the Maroons: Documentary Short (online)
A screening and panel discussion for the launch of a documentary short. This event features Professor Jacqueline Bishop, Dr. Marcia Douglas, Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe, and Dr. Thera Edwards. The documentary celebrates the self-determination, eco-spirituality and Afro-Indigenous retentions of the formerly enslaved peoples of Jamaica and the diaspora.
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Thu, Mar 23
12:30 pm
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12:30 pm
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Performance | Winter 2023 City Skate Concert
Ice Theatre of New York is proud to hit the ice with ITNY Ensemble members Liz Yoshiko Schmidt and Danil Berdnikov performing Lorna Brown’s Timelessness. Timelessness Choreography by Lorna Brown Performed by Liz Yoshiko Schmidt and Danil Berdnikov Music: Nocturne in D Flat Major "Un Rêve" by Brooklyn composer/pianist Eric Christian
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Thu, Mar 23
12:30 pm
Free
12:30 pm
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Book Discussion | The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
Orly Lobel, a renowned tech policy scholar, defends technology as a powerful tool we can harness to achieve equality and a better future. Much has been written about the challenges tech presents to equality and democracy. But we can either criticize big data and automation or steer it to do better. Lobel argues that while we cannot stop technological development, we can direct its course according to our most fundamental values. Lobel explains that digital technology frequently has a comparative advantage over humans in detecting discrimination, correcting historical exclusions, subverting long-standing stereotypes, and addressing the world’s thorniest problems: climate, poverty, injustice, literacy, accessibility, speech, health, and safety.
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Thu, Mar 23
1:00 pm
Free
1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works for Percussion, Violin, Clarinet, and Piano (In Person AND Online)
NOVUS NY: Ian Rosenbaum, percussion; Kristin Lee, violin; Yoonah Kim, clarinet; and Conor Hannick, piano. Program Tania Leon (1943-present), Mestizo Paola Prestini (1975-present), Last Hymn (2007) David Crowell, Celestial Sphere (2017) Christopher Cerrone (1984-present), Double Happiness (2021) Kevin Puts (1972-present), And Legions Will Rise (2001)
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Thu, Mar 23
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Songs of the Silk Road (In Person and Online)
During the 6th century Buddhist music filled the region between India and China. Japan became a cul-de-sac of music and instruments. Enjoy this ancient and fascinating blend of musical cultures performed on period instruments. Eurasia Consort: Tomoko Sugawara, kugo (ancient Angular harp); August Denhard, lute; Rex Benincasa ~ hokyo (metallophone), drum; Gamin Kang, piri (bamboo oboe), seanghwang (mouth-organ); James Nyoraku Schlefer, shakuhachi (bamboo vertical flute).
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Thu, Mar 23
1:15 pm
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1:15 pm
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Jazz | Live Jazz from Harlem (online)
The legendary Dr. Lonnie Smith describes organist Akiko Tsuruga this way: "Akiko's playing is like watching a flower blooming, a bird spreading her wings in the music world. Akiko is here to stay." Raised in Osaka, Japan, Akiko began studying the organ at the age of three. After discovering her passion for jazz early on, she launched her career immediately after graduating from the Osaka College of Music. While playing in Osaka she had been inspired by meeting many great American musicians who came through on tour, especially Grady Tate. She moved to New York City, and eventually landed work with Frank Wess, Jimmy Cobb, and Lou Donaldson, who chose her in 2006 as his quartet's organist. But it was meeting organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith that proved to have the greatest impact on Akiko's musical development and career. He became an important mentor, and she considers him her greatest influence. Akiko has ten albums as a leader to her credit, both in the U.S. and Japan.
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Thu, Mar 23
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | The Future of Brazil (online)
Panelists: -- Flávio Dino, Minister of Justice and Public Security of Brazil. -- Carolina de Mattos Ricardo, Lawyer, and sociologist. Master in Philosophy of Law from the University of São Paulo Law School. Executive Director of Instituto Sou da Paz -- Lívia Sant’Anna Vaz, Public Prosecutor of the MP-BA. Ph.D. in Juridical-Political Sciences from the Law School of the University of Lisbon. -- Juliana Borges, writer, and Director of AgôLab, Laboratory of Criminal Policy, Public Security, Gender and Racial Relations. -- Thiago Amparo, International and Human Rights Law Professor at FGV Law School in São Paulo (Brazil). Moderator: Paulo Blikstein, Associate Professor at Columbia University, Director of the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
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Thu, Mar 23
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Between Ukrainian Nationalism and Soviet Propaganda: Ukrainian Monumental Art of the Early Twentieth Century (in-person and online)
In late 1917, Mykhailo Boichuk established a fresco, mosaics and tempera studio at the newly founded Ukrainian Academy of Art. Advocating for art as “the national treasure and not a mere commodity,” Boichuk arrived at a synthesis of styles, drawing on Byzantine art, pre-Renaissance Italian frescoes, Ukrainian folk art, and French symbolism. In the early Soviet period, his studio emerged as a school of monumental art, with its students completing numerous state commissions for public spaces and buildings. Boichuk’s method and artistic vocabulary were henceforth applied to forging a new proletarian society. State cooperation was short-lived, however: labeled as bourgeois nationalists, Boichuk and a close circle of his associates were executed during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s, with most of their public art subsequently destroyed. Building on the existing scholarship, this talk examines Boichuk’s and his school’s commitment to both Soviet and Ukrainian culture in Soviet Ukraine of the 1920s, at a time when local intelligentsia pursued an autonomous cultural trajectory that ran in parallel to the Moscow-center and was not dictated by it. Speaker Katia Denysova is a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
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Thu, Mar 23
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | The Electoral Effects of Decentralization: Evidence from Ukraine (in-person and online)
How do institutional reforms affect voter mobilization in weakly-institutionalized democracies? I examine the effect of decentralization on turnout and candidate diversity in local elections in Ukraine in 2015-2020. In 2014, the government of Ukraine initiated decentralization reform which allowed territorial communities to gain wider administrative, financial, and fiscal independence. Difference-in-differences estimates show that decentralization increased turnout and decreased the percentage of successful candidates with higher education and party affiliation. These effects can be explained by the increased interest in local politics and easier access to candidacy due to improved salience of local politics and communities’ relative independence from central authorities. Thus, even under weak democratic institutions, decentralization can have an immediate effect on voter mobilization through increased perception of local elections as ‘meaningful’ and, thus, worth time and effort. Dr. Anastasiia Vlasenko is a postdoctoral fellow. She studies electoral politics and democratization with specialization in politics of Ukraine and Russia.
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Thu, Mar 23
4:00 pm
Free
4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Rebels: From Punk to Dior
Photographer Janette Beckman presents her most recent book. A celebrated street photographer, Beckman photographed the legends of hip hop, and other underground scenes, including rappers Salt-n-Pepa wearing Dapper Dan, Slick Rick with his gold chains, LL Cool J wearing his signature Kangol hat, and Run DMC in Adidas. This book showcases the spirit of a generation that made history and continues to influence the world of fashion and the international collective imagination.
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Thu, Mar 23
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | A Tribute to Filmmaker Rodger Larson
Through Rodger Larson Young Filmaker's Foundation, Larson, who passed away in the summer of 2022, pioneered the use of filmmaking as a tool for youth, especially marginalized and disadvantaged youth, to express themselves and engage in their communities. A generation of New Yorkers were directly impacted by Larson's work to empower young people through filmmaking. Guest speakers will share their experiences, and films from the students he taught will be shown along with archival material from his career.
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Thu, Mar 23
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | Martin Sostre at 100: A Legacy of Action
This event will highlight Martin Sostre's lifetime commitment to revolutionary study and political education, featuring a keynote conversation between abolitionist educator Mariame Kaba and imprisoned (dis)organizer Stevie Wilson. Following, will be a discussion about the Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition with Masia Mugmuk, Jose Saldana, and Laura Whitehorn, moderated by Orisanmi Burton. Martin Sostre (1923-2015) advocated for prisoners' rights to religious freedom, political expression, and due process regarding prison censorship and solitary confinement. He was also a teacher and mentor, as the owner of the radical Afro-Asian Bookshop in Buffalo, New York, and a community organizer with the Juvenile Education and Awareness Project in New Jersey. Agenda 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Zine and Resource Fair 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Keynote Conversation with Mariame Kaba and Stevie Wilson 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Panel discussion, Q&A Registered guests are given priority check-in 15 to 30 minutes before start time. After the event starts all registered seats are released regardless of registration, so we recommend that you arrive early.
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Thu, Mar 23
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Talk | The Evolution of an 1853 Fifth Avenue Mansion
Esteemed architectural sleuth Anthony Bellov explores the historic fabric and social history of the Hawley Mansion. He'll explore the complete transformation of the basement and what it had been like before it was converted to a bar and dining room. He'll also examine the intact architecture of the rarely visited Third and Fourth Floors - once the domain of the family children and servants. Joining him in this voyage will be guest speaker Annie Haddad, Merchant's House Museum Historian, the beloved historic house museum in NoHo. She will discuss the daily life and work of 19th century domestic servants, and how it would have been impossible to run a home like 54 Fifth Avenue without them.
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Thu, Mar 23
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Classical Music | Works by Ravel, Brahms, and More for Violin (In Person AND Online)
Tianyu Liu, violin. Program Ravel (1875-1937), Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano Chen Yao (1941-present), Air for Solo Violin Brahms (1833-1897), Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in D minor, Op. 108 Schubert (1797-1828), Grand Caprice on Schubert's "Erlkönig"
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Thu, Mar 23
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | A thought is a memory: Group Show
A group exhibition curated by Noel Maghathe that brings together works by four artists: Zeinab Saab, Kiki Salem, Nailah Taman, and Zeina Zeitoun. These artists, who all have lineages that trace to the so-called Arab world, draw upon their varied backgrounds in ways that both celebrate and subvert inherited identities. Through sculpture, photography, collage, animation, and painting, they embrace playful ways of making that are highly personal, often collective, and that position fluidity and rootedness as complementary rather than opposing forces in the building of selfhood, community, and culture.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Hannah Yata: The Alchemy and the Ecstasy
Yata's paintings are bursting with enthusiastic joy and surreal dreamscapes that capture the transitional zone between fear and wonder. Her artwork harmonizes the human body, ritual, and growth with all other living beings. Using alchemical symbols, Yata's work portrays the transformation of the soul as it undergoes a metamorphosis through its encounters with light and darkness. Myths and ancient symbols take us back to the subconscious psyche, where Yata's colossal female forms urge us to become initiated in their world and play in the realm of both the material and spiritual, delving into the enigma of existence.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Harold Shapinsky: Abstract Soul
An exhibition of his paintings and drawings. The exhibition marks Shapinsky’s first solo exhibition in New York since the 90s and will showcase works spanning from the 1940s to the late 80s, including many rarely- and never-exhibited works like early figurative paintings and the elegant, modest-sized paper paintings for which he is best known. Together the paintings in the exhibition illuminate the remarkable story of the artist’s long overlooked practice in New York and his late career rise to recognition as a significant Abstract Expressionist.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Heidrun Rathgeb: My Yellow Room
Most of these small panel paintings were made without thinking they would ever be shown. They came together from different sources of inspiration - my children, our home in rural Southern Germany, as well as several artist's residencies since 2018 in Norway, Denmark and the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. The long hours of dusk and dawn, the mellow colours and light casting long shadows, the wild untouched nature keeps drawing me to northern countries but also to the alps, the dark woodlands and moonlit nights at home.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Film | Las Abogadas: Attorneys on the Front Lines of the Migrant Crisis
A documentary about women immigration attorneys on the front lines of the migrant crisis. Followed by a discussion with panelists: Elora Mukherjee, Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia University Charlene D’Cruz, Immigration Attorney Nara Milanich, Professor & Director of the Center of Mexico and Central America at Columbia University
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Of Mythic Worlds: Works of the Distant Past through the Present: Exhibition Walkthrough
Curator Olivia Shao and writer and curator Bob Nickas in a conversation and walkthrough of the exhibition, which explores the ways in which rituals, myths, traditions, ideologies, and beliefs can intersect across cultures, histories, and time periods. The exhibition brings together fifty-three works by more than thirty artists including Jordan Belson, Lee Bontecou, Cameron, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Walter De Maria, Steffani Jemison, Duane Linklater, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Georgia O’Keeffe, Betye Saar, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, and Jack Whitten, among others. ···
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Pete Turner: The Color of Light
Turner's passion for photography has brought him innumerable awards from various design groups and photography associations including The Outstanding Achievement in Photography award from the ASMP. In 1986, Harry Abrams published his first monograph, Pete Turner Photographs. His second monograph, Pete Turner African Journey (Graphis, 2001), is the visual diary of Turner's adventure in Africa which began with his first journey in 1959 from Cape Town to Cairo. His most recent book, The Color of Jazz, is a comprehensive collection of his memorable and provocative jazz album covers that have become legendary.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Shells for Teeth: 2 Artist Showcase
A two-person exhibition of work by Lisa Saeboe and Kate Jones. Saeboe and Jones began their joint practice in 2014 in Rome—while both were students in SVA’s inaugural semester in Italy—co-directing the experimental short film Satori. The piece is a sensuous take on sublime visual horror—themes that would prove prescient for their future creative endeavors. While most of Saeboe and Jones’s collaborative work has been film- and photography-based, this is the first time the artists’ individual works are presented alongside one another. Saeboe’s meticulously composed erotic tableaux activate Jones’s daringly raw and explosive paintings and ceramics. Their contrasting approaches to art making present two disparate strategies for deconstructing the myth of the body and the perversion of the feminine.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Time in Harlem:Artists in Conversation
In celebration of their exhibition Isaac Diggs & Edward Hillel: Time in Harlem, the artists will be in conversation with Kunbi Oni, Collection Specialist in the department of Drawings and Prints at MOMA, to discuss the rewards and challenges of revisiting past work, designing and publishing photo books, and long term artistic collaboration.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Zachary Leener: Clock, go inside a stone
A solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based sculptor Zachary Leener. The show will feature fifteen new intimately-scaled ceramic works which share commonalities within a typological group, but also possess subtle and magical idiosyncrasies. Leener’s ceramics are both illustrative and open to interpretation, suspended somewhat ambiguously between iconographic and unexplainable. They’re objects that at once appear totally familiar—evoking a range of horizontal forms such as bassinets, strollers, hospital beds and coffins—yet resist fully resolving into explicable things. Every sculpture in the exhibition consists of a smooth, hard-edged geometric prism embedded within a rounder and craggier exoshape. And while the repetition of this single motif is almost meditational, each work’s individuality is expressed through variations in structure, surface, personality, and an assortment of additive and excavatory interventions: geode-like open tubes, coconut-flaked piles of rubble, handlebars and spoilers, rib cage sandal straps, ponds of rough glass heaped with clay chunks resembling marshmallowed fruity cereals, and stuck-on wads of discarded chewing gum. Gritty and textured, covered in pastel shards and smooth glazes, the surfaces of Leener’s works are built up and often significantly transformed over the course of repeated firings. This sense of mutability informs the exhibition title — Clock, go inside a stone — a line inspired by a Charles Simic poem. The notion that time, which is always progressing, could enter a sedentary rock, is analogous to the practice of ceramics: wet clay, liquid-like time, becoming fixed, literal hard stone, by means of duration, incantation, and unbelievable heat.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Classical Music | Liederabend (In Person and Online)
Artists from the Collaborative Piano department perform repertoire with singers from the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Open Mike | Open Mic Night
Hosted by Jonathon Timpanelli. Enjoy a night of singing, comedy, poetry and art.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers in the 1960s and 1970s
A panel discussion featuring Luca Falciola, Jeremy Varon, Johanna Fernandez, and Michael Tigar. As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America's most confrontational activists. In pursuit of radical change themselves, these militant attorneys went beyond providing mere representation. They identified with their clients, defied the habits of a conservative profession, and formulated a corrosive critique of the legal system, questioning the neutrality and transformative power of law. While exploiting the courtrooms as political forums, they developed aggressive litigation strategies and became involved with the organization of protest. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, historian Luca Falciola reconstructs this largely unmapped phenomenon and challenges the reader to think anew about the pivotal role of lawyers in social movements.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Voices of AfroBrazilian Liberation
The Beatriz Nascimento Foundation, in partnership with the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, are hosting an event to celebrate the Black Brazilian history through the voices of historical figures. The event will be hosted by Bethânia Nascimento, Beatriz’s daughter, who will talk about the legacy of her mother’s work. There will also be an exhibit with pictures of Black Brazilians who have transformed the country, as well as guest speakers. Brazilian Hors D’Oeuvre and refreshments will be provided.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Neorealist Architecture: Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy
After World War II, there was a wave of films made in Italy that came to be labelled "neorealism" and are now regarded as pivotal to world film history. But was neorealism limited to cinema, or did it spread to other spheres of the arts? If so, was there a neorealist architecture? David Escudero's book explores how neorealism manifested itself in architecture by studying the links between filmmaking and the built environment of postwar Italy. Terms such as "neorealist architecture" or "architectural neorealism" circulated during this period and were used by scholars in the following decades, but they were concepts adopted ad hoc and popularized post hoc. Though internalized by Italian architecture historians, the specific transfers between neorealism —as ethics and aesthetics— and architecture —as potential medium for its embodiment— have remained largely unexplored. Illustrated with over 100 black and white images and archival plans, this book is the first to tackle this topic and provides a new in-depth discussion of the concept of "neorealist architecture."
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Thu, Mar 23
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Black Meme: Black Visual Culture from 1900 to the Present Day
This lecture explores the construct, culture, and material of the “meme” as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to present day. Using archival media Russell explores the impact of blackness, Black life, and Black social death on contemporary conceptions of virality borne in the age of the Internet. Offering insight into Russell’s ongoing research and work, this lecture will touch on some of the subjects within her second book, BLACK MEME, forthcoming via Verso.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Fighting Fascism: In the Archive, on the Walls, and in Print during the Spanish Civil War
A panel discussion related to the exhibition Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) With: Jordana Mendelson, Director and Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Speakers: Miriam Basilio Gaztambide, Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies Juan Jose Lahuerta, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Barcelona School of Architecture and Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Evelyn Scaramella, Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures, Manhattan College
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Thu, Mar 23
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Concert | Music and Culture of the Andes Mountains and Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia
Pepe Santana, guitar.
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Thu, Mar 23
6:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Inside Congressional Committees: Function and Dysfunction in the Legislative Process
It is widely believed that Congress has broken down. Media accounts present the storied legislature as thoroughly gridlocked, paralyzed by partisan rancor. Political scientists find that Congress is passing fewer laws and spending less time on legislative work. Which parts of a supposedly dysfunctional legislature continue to function? Maya L. Kornberg examines the legislative process beyond voting patterns, emphasizing the crucial role of congressional committee hearings. In committees, lawmakers hear from expert witnesses, legislators revise and discuss bills before bringing them to a vote, and the public has an opportunity to engage with Congress. Kornberg scrutinizes the inner workings of committees—the different types of witnesses who testify, the varied hearings Congress holds, and the distinct effects that committee work has on congresspeople. She deploys original mixed-methods datasets that span from insider interviews to sentiment analysis examining the language used in hearings. Kornberg evaluates how committees operate and the conditions affecting their performance, finding that committee work can be more deliberative and productive than the politics of the Congress floor. Through a comprehensive exploration of who committees hear from and how they listen, this book demonstrates that Congress is not as dysfunctional as is often claimed. Inside Congressional Committees also suggests timely reforms based on these findings that can strengthen Congress.
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Thu, Mar 23
7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Undaunted: How Women Changed American Journalism (online)
Authors Brooke Kroeger, Kim Todd, and Knopf editor Jonathan Segal discuss the inspiring stories of pioneering women journalists. Hear about the challenges they faced and how they paved the way for the next generation.
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Thu, Mar 23
7:00 pm
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Discussion | An Evening with Tony-Winning Actor Wilson Jermaine Heredia
In conjunction of the 25 year anniversary of Rent, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, known for originating the role of Angel on Broadway and film, will be in conversation.
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Thu, Mar 23
7:00 pm
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Concert | Celebrating a Life of Yiddish Song (in-person and online)
Musicologist, song collector, and writer Chana Mlotek, the longtime music archivist, played a key role in crafting the historical memory of Yiddish songs in our time. Nobel laureate Issac Bashevis Singer called Mlotek and her husband Yosl the "Sherlock Holmeses of Yiddish folk songs" for their work uncovering the origins and history of Yiddish songs. Moltek took a leading role in this research which she and Yosl published in over 40 years of columns in the Yiddish newspaper the Forverts. Through a collection of popular song books Mlotek made hundreds of Yiddish songs accessible to a broad audience of musicians from amateurs to professionals. This is an evening of Yiddish music celebrating Mlotek's memory. Performances will feature Chana's son Zalmen Mlotek as pianist and music director, family members Avram Mlotek, Elisha Mlotek, Hillel Yosl Ziskind Mlotek, Lee Mlotek, Moish Mlotek, Ravi Mlotek, Sarah Mlotek Dar, Marissa Mlotek Schonbrun and special guests Joanne Borts, Sarah Gordon, Elmore James, Daniella Rabbani, Eleanor Reissa, Lorin Sklamberg, and Steven Skybell.
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Thu, Mar 23
7:00 pm
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Reading | Fiction and Poetry Reading with 3 Authors
Readings by Idra Novey (fiction), Brenda Shaughnessy (poetry), and Monica Youn (poetry), followed by a reception/signing. Idra Novey’s novel Take What You Need was published in 2023. Brenda Shaughnessy is the author six poetry collections, including Liquid Flesh. Monica Youn is the author of From From.
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Thu, Mar 23
7:00 pm
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Other | National Book Critics Circle Awards Ceremony
Every year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English in the categories of Fiction, General Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism.
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Thu, Mar 23
7:00 pm
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Play | Comte des Cierges: The Life of a Doorman
Written by playwright Carlos Cotto and directed and organized by artist Salome Oggenfuss in collaboration with The Working Theater, Comte des Cierges is a play that draws from Cotto’s decade-long experience as a former doorman
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Thu, Mar 23
7:30 pm
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Play | Botticelli in the Fire: The Fever in Florence
Playboy painter Sandro Botticelli has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear - and the wife - of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as Florence's hottest young apprentice, Leonardo. While working on his breakthrough commission, The Birth of Venus, Botticelli's devotion to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As plague sweeps through the city, the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola starts to stoke the fires of dissent against the liberal elite. Botticelli finds the life he knows breaking apart, forcing him to choose between love and survival. Written by Jordan Tannahill. A student production.
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Thu, Mar 23
8:00 pm
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Comedy Club | Bomb Shelter Comedy Show
Bomb Shelter is a free weekly comedy show in New York City where you'll find some of the best comedians performing. Expect free pizza.
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Thu, Mar 23
8:00 pm
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Classical Music | Vocal Works by Handel, Schoenberg, and More (In Person AND Online)
Marisa Karchin, soprano. Program Handel (1685-1759), Susse Stille, sanfte Quelle, HWV 205 Handel (1685-1759), Flammende Rose, HWV 210 Amy Beach (1867-1944), A Mirage, Op. 100 Schoenberg (1874-1951), Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21
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Thu, Mar 23
8:00 pm
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Jazz | Works by Stevie Wonder, Thelonius Monk, and More for Jazz Trombone (In Person AND Online)
Joseph Giordano, jazz trombone. Program A Tribe Called Quest/Bud Freeman (1906-1991), Check The Rhime/Crazeology Randy Weston (1926-2018), Waltz for Sweet Cakes Sylvia Rose Moy (1938-2017), Henry Cosby (1928-2002), Stevie Wonder (1950-present), Sylvia Marc Cary (1967-present), The Afterthought Thelonius Monk (1917-1982), Four And One Joseph Giordano, Imani Joseph Giordano, 13th Story (for Roy)
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Thu, Mar 23
8:00 pm
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Workshop | Tai Chi
Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide a serene background for the ancient flowing postures.
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Fri, Mar 24
8:30 am
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8:30 am
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Conference | Fashion: Faith, Rituals and Dialogues
We all wear clothing... We all have rituals... We all are confronted with life's biggest questions... Explore the fascinating relationship between fashion, faith and philosophy. Framed by a series of questions led by scholars and faith practitioners from a variety of academic specialties and perspectives, these conversations aim to address misconceptions, presuppositions and contradictions at the intersection of these three fields.
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Fri, Mar 24
9:00 am
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Tour | Governors Island Guided Walking Tour
Today, Governors Island offers a place to rest and reflect on a transformative decade of waterfront planning and climate action in New York City. Join the Trust for Governors Island for a 1-hour walk from its ferry landing and historic district through urban meadows and forests, including an award-winning 43-acre park that opened to New Yorkers in phases throughout the 2010s. Designed by Dutch landscape architecture firm West 8, the park includes eco-friendly destinations that are designed to withstand coastal flooding and guide stormwater flows, while also inviting thriving, biodiverse ecosystems for generations to come. The park enables visitors to renew and enjoy their connection with salt winds, dynamic waters, and expansive views of New York Harbor. Tour guides from the Trust will bring visitors through three nature-based features on Governors Island: Colonels Row, the original shoreline of the Island; Hammock Grove, a young urban forest with wind-, heat- ,and drought-resistant species that native insects and birds call home; and Outlook Hill, with 360-degree views of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the Statue of Liberty. The tour will involve 60 minutes of walking through flat and hilly terrain with gentle slopes. The tour will be entirely outdoors.
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Fri, Mar 24
9:00 am
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Symposium | Material Landscapes: Architecture and Sources
In the one-day symposium, scholars investigate histories of architectural materials at the intersection of the geographies and sites of their extraction, accumulation, and waste, the conditions of labor, and environmental histories.
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Fri, Mar 24
9:00 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 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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Fri, Mar 24
10:00 am
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10:00 am
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Book Discussion | Jewish Politics in Spinoza's Amsterdam: A New Theopolitical Self-Understanding (online)
Anne O. Albert's book untangles a web of ideas about politics, religion, exile, and community that emerged at a key moment in Jewish history and left a lasting mark on Jewish ideas. In the shadow of their former member Baruch Spinoza's notoriety, and amid the aftermath of the Sabbatian messianic movement, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam underwent a conceptual shift that led them to treat their self-governed diaspora community as a commonwealth. Preoccupied by the question of why and how Jews should rule themselves in the absence of a biblical or messianic sovereign state or king, they forged a creative synthesis of insights from early modern Christian politics and Jewish law and traditions to assess and argue over their formidable communal government. In so doing they shaped a proud new theopolitical self-understanding of their community as analogous to a Christian state.
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Fri, Mar 24
10:00 am
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Conference | Indigenous Water Ethics
Indigenous peoples are the most impacted by decisions made about our waterways. Indigenous original instructions embedded in our languages and ancient stories, ceremonies and rituals maintain, sustain and protect biodiversity. There will be two panels of Indigenous speakers from various regions of the world. Speakers will address the central roles of Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous governance as real solutions. Speakers will connect Indigenous water ethics to Indigenous resurgence, sovereignty, self-determination, land rematriation and decolonization. The intention is to reclaim and recenter the historical practices and leadership of Indigenous peoples as indispensable governance and knowledge pathways to restoring ecosystems and achieving sustainability. International Indigenous water statements and declarations that reflect this will be discussed in this session.
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Fri, Mar 24
10:00 am
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10:00 am
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Discussion | US and UK to Asylum Seekers: Apply Elsewhere (online)
The US and UK have recently announced dramatic new border policies intended to deter the arrival of asylum-seekers. The Biden Administration will, with limited exceptions, deny migrants the opportunity to apply for asylum if they have passed through another country on their way to the US. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's "no small boats" policy would summarily return asylum-seekers to their home country or a designated "safe" third country. Are the proposed measures consistent with international refugee law? Will they accomplish their goals? Are there alternative policies that would both better protect the right to asylum and manage unauthorized flows? Will the new US and UK proposals spur a global "race to the bottom" of hardened borders? Doris Meissner (Migration Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.) and David Cantor (Refugee Law Initiative, University of London) will discuss the recent asylum policy announcements in a conversation moderated by Zolberg Institute Director Alex Aleinikoff.
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Fri, Mar 24
10:00 am
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10:00 am
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Symposium | Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color
A two-day symposium to learn about new discoveries and the significance of polychromy with a multidisciplinary and international group of scholars, including art historians, conservators, curators, imaging specialists, and scientists.
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Fri, Mar 24
10:30 am
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10:30 am
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Conference | Visual Philosophy Conference
This two-day conference aims to initiate dialogues between philosophy and the arts. Philosophers and thinkers/ scholars across disciplines of humanities and social sciences will meet with artists and scholars from a wide variety of visual and visual artistic disciplines, including painting, photography, and literature, as well as travel, dance, and fashion. Rather than taking art as a mere object of philosophical study, this conference will explore the manifold confluences and intersections of philosophy and art, exploring how each can become the object of the other and how the boundary between the philosophical and the artistic can be sharpened or blurred. The motive is specifically to explore the "visual" and "movement" element in art of, and in everyday life and theorize it - both philosophically and critically.
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Fri, Mar 24
11:00 am
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11:00 am
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Discussion | Fate in My Hands: The Death Penalty in the Soviet Union After Stalin
A discussion with Yana Skorobogatov. In 1954, just one year after Joseph Stalin’s death, the leaders of the Soviet Union passed a law making homicide a death penalty-eligible crime for the first time in the country’s history. Over the next thirty-seven years, approximately 38000 Soviet citizens would be sentenced to death by shooting. This talk will examine the nearly four decades worth of oral and written records that these condemned men and women produced – interrogation transcripts, courtroom testimonies, pardon letters, and many others – as they navigated this most extraordinary of experiences. At once intimate and highly curated, these records offer unparalleled access into the shifting morals, legal paradigms, and discursive practices that their authors turned to as they asked the Soviet state to save or avenge human life.
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Fri, Mar 24
12:00 pm
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Identity, Nation-Building, and War in Ukraine (online)
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Ukraine’s spirited and effective resistance caught many observers by surprise amidst expectations of Russia’s quick victory. This talk will focus on profound identity transformation within the Ukrainian society that began following the Euromaidan revolution and the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2014. Examining sources and consequences of these identity shifts sheds light on the sources of Ukrainian resistance, the nature of Putin’s miscalculations about Ukraine, and the likely future of post-war Ukraine, Russia, and their relations with each other and with Europe. Speaker Oxana Shevel is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University.
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Fri, Mar 24
12:00 pm
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)
Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
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Fri, Mar 24
12:20 pm
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12:20 pm
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Jazz | Jazz Trumpet Works (In Person AND Online)
Andrew V. Stephens, jazz trumpet. Program Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971), Don't Jive Me Joe "King" Oliver (1881-1938), Weatherbird Rag Andrew V. Stephens, Activity #1 - Chromatic Descent for 2 Voices Elmo Hope (1923-1967), De-Dah Andrew V. Stephens, Activity #2 - Downward Spiral Lil Hardin Armstrong (1898-1971), Just For A Thrill Andrew V. Stephens, Activity #3 - Imperfect Fourth with Half-Step Adjustment Queenie Ada Rubin, Let's Be Fair and Square In Love
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Fri, Mar 24
12:30 pm
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12:30 pm
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Film | Motherless Brooklyn (2019) with Edward Norton and Bruce Willis
Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton), a lonely private detective living with Tourette Syndrome, ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend, Frank Minna (Bruce Willis). Armed only with a few clues and the engine of his obsessive mind, Lionel unravels closely guarded secrets that hold the fate of New York in the balance. In a mystery that carries him from gin-soaked jazz clubs in Harlem to the hard-edged slums of Brooklyn and, finally, into the gilded halls of New York's power brokers, Lionel contends with thugs, corruption and the most dangerous man in the city to honor his friend and save the woman who might be his own salvation. Director: Edward Norton Cast: Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, Willem Dafoe, Ethan Suplee Edward Norton is an American actor and filmmaker who has received numerous awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe Award and three Academy Award nominations. Bruce Willis is a retired American actor. He achieved fame with a leading role on the comedy-drama series Moonlighting (1985-1989) and appeared in over 100 films, gaining recognition as an action hero after his portrayal of John McClane in the Die Hard franchise (1988-2013) and other roles.
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Fri, Mar 24
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Film | Where the Crawdads Sing (2022): drama
Kya is a young woman who raised herself in the North Carolina marshlands after being abandoned there by her mother when she was a little girl. She feels detached from the small-town community near the marshes until two men show interest in her. However, when one of them later dies, she becomes the town's prime suspect. Director: Olivia Newman Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, David Strathairn, Michael Hyatt
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Fri, Mar 24
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | Legacy and Hope After Loss (online)
A conversation that respects the emotional experience of your unique grief journey, whether past or present. Time does not heal wounds; actions do. All experiences of loss are welcomed with equal acceptance. Loss of: a Loved One, Health, Significant Relationship, Employment, Life, Housing, Finances, Safety, Trust, and on... Come and share your experience in a safe and brave space. Move beyond the pain that comes with grief and loss; and move towards living your best life! Looking forward to seeing you there.
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Fri, Mar 24
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Midday Concert: Brahms, Chopin and More
The concert will include solo and chamber works by Brahms, Chopin, and more.
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Fri, Mar 24
1:00 pm
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Enjoy an afternoon of crafting and conversation
Bring your own project or choose something from a provided collection to work on during this freeform crafting workshop. The workshop will include materials for sewing, knitting, crochet, coloring, paper crafts, and puzzles.
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Fri, Mar 24
1:30 pm
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1:30 pm
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Film | Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022): superhero action-adventure
Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M’Baku, Okoye, and the Dora Milaje fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda. Director: Ryan Coogler Cast: Angela Bassett, Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B. Jordan, Winston Duke.
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Fri, Mar 24
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Film | The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) with Chris Pratt and Channing Tatum
The much-anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed, global box office phenomenon that started it all, The LEGO® Movie 2: The Second Part reunites the heroes of Bricksburg in an all new action-packed adventure to save their beloved city. It’s been five years since everything was awesome, and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild. The battle to defeat them and restore harmony to the LEGO universe will take Emmet, Lucy, Batman, and their friends to faraway, unexplored worlds, including a strange galaxy where everything is a musical. It will test their courage, creativity and Master Building skills, and reveal just how special they really are. Director: Mike Mitchell Cast: Will Arnett, Chris Pratt, Jadon Sand, Brooklynn Prince, and Channing Tatum Chris Pratt rose to prominence for playing Andy Dwyer in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015). Pratt established himself as a Hollywood leading man by starring in two lucrative film series. Since 2014, he has played Star-Lord in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Guardians of the Galaxy. He has also starred as Owen Grady in the Jurassic World trilogy (2015–2022), part of the Jurassic Park franchise. Channing Tatum made his film debut in the drama Coach Carter (2005), and had his breakthrough role in the 2006 dance film Step Up. He gained wider attention for his leading roles in the comedy-drama Magic Mike (2012) and its sequels Magic Mike XXL (2015) and Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023), the latter two of which he also produced, and in the action-comedy 21 Jump Street (2012) and its sequel 22 Jump Street (2014).
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Fri, Mar 24
2:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Dutch Oil, Dominican Sugar and the Back Doors of the Caribbean Diaspora, 1910-1970
The development of the oil industries on the Dutch Caribbean islands Curaçao (1918) and Aruba (1928) and the booming sugar industries in the Dominican Republic during the American occupation (1916-1924) triggered a heightened interaction between the islands that would last for decades. The initial intensification involved labor migration from the English and Papiamentu-speaking Dutch islands to the sugar factories of San Pedro the Macoris, and a steady stream of temporary sex workers from the Dominican Republic into the Dutch and Dutch-American oil towns of Curaçao and Aruba. Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Margo Groenewoud (CUNY Dominican Studies Institute & University of Curaçao) studied the intensified interactions between the Dutch Caribbean and the Dominican Republic in times of occupations, Garveyism, dictatorship and the cold war. In this presentation she shares provisional findings that shed new light on policing and registration, and how this affected agency, belonging and citizenship of so far understudied and invisible groups within the Black diaspora. The presentation is followed by a conversation led by Dr. Chelsea Schields (University of California, Irvine).
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Fri, Mar 24
2:30 pm
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2:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times
Jessica Hardie's book demonstrates how planning for the future and pursuing those plans are stratified by social class, race, and gender. Drawing on qualitative data from a five-year period, Best Laid Plans makes the case for why we need to move beyond the individual appeal to “dream bigger” and “plan better” and toward systematic changes that will put young people’s aspirations within reach. Jessica Hardie, received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Family Demography and Individual Development at Penn State University.
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Fri, Mar 24
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works by Bach, Robert Schumann, and More for Violin (In Person AND Online)
Rabia Brooke, violin. Program Bach (1685-1750), Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017 Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105 Eugene Ysaÿe (1858-1931), Caprice d'après l'étude en forme de valse de Saint-Saëns
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Fri, Mar 24
3:00 pm
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3:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico
With the largest municipal debt in US history and a major hurricane that destroyed much of the archipelago's infrastructure, Puerto Rico has emerged as a key site for the exploration of neoliberalism and disaster capitalism. Author Rocío Zambrana develops the concept of neoliberal coloniality in light of Puerto Rico's debt crisis. Drawing on decolonial thought and praxis, Zambrana shows how debt functions as an apparatus of predation that transforms how neoliberalism operates. Debt functions as a form of coloniality, intensifying race, gender, and class hierarchies in ways that strengthen the colonial relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. Zambrana also examines the transformation of protest in Puerto Rico. From La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción's actions, long-standing land rescue/occupation in the territory, to the July 2019 protests that ousted former governor Ricardo “Ricky” Rosselló, protests pursue variations of decolonial praxis that subvert the positions of power that debt installs. As Zambrana demonstrates, debt reinstalls the colonial condition and adapts the racial/gender order essential to it, thereby emerging as a key site for political-economic subversion and social rearticulation.
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Fri, Mar 24
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Talk | Doing “The Huckle-Buck”: Jazz and the Long-Playing Record, 1949 to 1955
This talk revisits, retells, and attempts to revise the history of jazz between 1949 and 1955. To do so, Prof.Darren Mueller strace the circulation of “The Huckle-Buck,” a 1949 R&B hit by Paul Williams that would inspire jazz versions by Louis Armstrong, Buck Clayton, and Frank Sinatra (among others). The song’s movement through the record industry occurred in tandem with the adoption of the long-playing record (LP) as a consequential medium for popular music. As the contours of the music industry dramatically shifted, jazz became the only music played by Black musicians to appear on LP despite the genre’s comparatively small market share. The talk asserts that the repackaging of Black artistry onto a new, prestige format is best understood as a contemporaneous form of cultural repackaging as well. With jazz’s rising popularity, LPs began to circulate racially coded language about the music’s social and economic value. The analysis of “The Huckle-Buck” explores how postwar ideologies of race, class, and gender came to be encoded on the hardware of circulation. It argue the sound of 1950s jazz cannot be separated from its material history. The six-year journey of “The Huckle-Buck” makes clear that recording format remains an under-recognized force on jazz history.
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Fri, Mar 24
4:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Lying-in-State: Contradicting Constructions of Louis XIV's Brother Philippe
Professor Domna Stanton will present a chapter from her current book project, The Nation and Its Others: France and Frenchness in the Age of Louis XIV, followed by a discussion and reception.
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Fri, Mar 24
4:30 pm
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4:30 pm
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Reading | 5 Authors Read from Their Work
Featuring Rebekah Anderson, Sidik Fofana, Dionne Ford, Paul Hlava Ceballos, and Rachel Mannheimer.
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Fri, Mar 24
5:00 pm
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Coup: Learn to Play the Popular New Game
This is an event where customers can play a featured game with the assistance of staff. Customers will be able to play the chosen game for free, so they can test out some of the most popular titles before unboxing them at home. The featured game will be suitable for all ages, and will be perfect for your next game night with family and friends. The next Game Night will feature the bluffing and bribing card game, Coup. In the game, you play as the head of a family in a corrupt city. Your objective is to sniff out your opponents' schemes, forcing each of them into exile until only you remain...
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Fri, Mar 24
5:00 pm
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5:00 pm
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Conference | The Philosophy of Deep Learning
A two-day conference will explore current issues in AI research from a philosophical perspective, with particular attention to recent work on deep artificial neural networks. The goal is to bring together philosophers and scientists who are thinking about these systems in order to gain a better understanding of their capacities, their limitations, and their relationship to human cognition. The conference will focus especially on topics in the philosophy of cognitive science (rather than on topics in AI ethics and safety).
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Fri, Mar 24
5:00 pm
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5:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works by Mozart and More for Baroque Violin (In Person AND Online)
William J. Drancsak III, baroque violin. Program Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c. 1620-1680), Sonata secunda (from Sonata unarum fidium, 1664) Mozart (1756-1791), String Quartet No. 23 in F Major, K. 590 Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764), Sonata in B minor, Op. 5 No. 5 Anonymous, Selections from "The Division-Violin" Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli (1630-1670), Sonata No. 2 "La Cesta", Op. 3 No. 2
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Fri, Mar 24
5:30 pm
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5:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
Some of the most significant moments in American history have occurred over meals, as U.S. presidents broke bread with friends or foe: Thomas Jefferson's nationbuilding receptions in the new capital, Washington, D.C.; Ulysses S. Grant's state dinner for the king of Hawaii; Teddy Roosevelt's groundbreaking supper with Booker T. Washington; Richard Nixon's practiced use of chopsticks to pry open China; Jimmy Carter's cakes and pies that fueled a detente between Israel and Egypt at Camp David. Here Alex Prud'homme invites readers into the White House kitchen to reveal the sometimes curious tastes of twenty-six of America's most influential presidents, how their meals were prepared and by whom, and the ways their choices affected food policy around the world. And the White House menu grew over time-- from simple eggs and black coffee for Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and celebratory turtle soup after and squirrel stew for Dwight Eisenhower, to jelly beans and enchiladas for Ronald Reagan and arugula for Barack Obama. What our leaders say about food touches on everything from our nation's shifting diet and local politics to global trade, science, religion, war, class, gender, race, and so much more.
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Fri, Mar 24
6:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Kanten: The Limits of History: Group Exhibition
Artists: Bontaro Dokuyama Taro Furukata Soni Kum Kyun-Chome Ken Okiishi Haji Oh Motoyuki Shitamichi The East Asia Image Collection, Lafayette College The seven artists featured in this multimedia exhibition navigate, reevaluate, and process generational memory—creating artworks that delve into complex issues that have long been established as “history.” Together, these artists demonstrate very distinctive approaches to both the material and immaterial traces of wartime displacement and imperial subjectivization, the blurring of national boundaries, as well as the role of the US in the aftermath of the Asia Pacific War. By juxtaposing their work with a collection of original Japanese wartime postcards, Kanten aims to reveal the limits of memory, narrative, and testimony.
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Fri, Mar 24
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Film | Mad Max: Fury Road (2015): 6-Time Oscar Winner with Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max. Director: George Miller Stars: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult 120 min.
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Fri, Mar 24
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Film | Talking About the Weather (2022): A Woman's Life Balance (online thru Mar. 26)
A woman who is trying to balance her career, relationship, affair, family life and individual freedom. Director: Annika Pinske Stars: Anne Schäfer, Judith Hofmann, Marcel Kohler 89 min. In German with English subtitles
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Fri, Mar 24
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Opening Reception | Tom Burr John Knight Brandon Ndife Diamond Stingily: Group Show
This cross-generational group of artists use conceptual strategies to quietly subversive ends, making found materials and imagery speak to broader forces in American life. Departing from familiar objects—of commerce, domesticity, or the built environment—they work to stir the repressed or unsanctioned narratives contained in a given form.
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Fri, Mar 24
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Lecture | Palestinian Local Governance and Resistance in a Post-Oslo Era
Professor Diana B. Greenwald (City College of New York) will discuss recent events in the West Bank in the Post-Oslo Era. Her research focuses on the politics of the Middle East, nationalism, conflict, and state-building. Her current book manuscript, Mayors in the Middle: Indirect Rule and Local Government in Occupied Palestine, examines Palestinian local politics under Israeli occupation. This project draws on interviews with municipal leaders and local data on policing, taxing, and spending collected in the West Bank between 2014 to 2019.
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Fri, Mar 24
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Screening | Short Films by Students
6:00 pm Undergraduate Drama/Historical Shorts David Huang ROCK SPRINGS (19:40) Eliza Beltz AFFLICTION (20:00) Joseph Schweitzer NEW LIVES (18:45) Friday 6:30 pm. Graduate Thriller and Comedy Shorts Andrew Brame SCHRODINGER (10:49) Blaine Isreal BIG TROUBLE IN TWINCEST TOWN (10:47) Victor Pigasse MÉNAGE À TROIS (8:51) Friday 7:30 pm Graduate Films David Rafailedes NEVER BEEN KISSED (8:30) Ian Barling SAFE (16:39) Mary-Catherine Harvey IT'S NOT ABOUT THE HAT (12:00) Friday 8:00 pm Graduate Drama Shorts Caitlyn Johnson BAD BLOOD (11:16) Ella Gibney DON'T FALL ASLEEP (7:20) Marshall Cooper GOODMAN!?! (8:14) ADITI MODY MUMMY' (17:53) Friday 9:00 pm Undergraduate Experimental Shorts Samuel Smith LANDLINE (2:13) John Keville SOUTHERN CROSS (14:59) Margot Piorkowski LETTER TO MY FRANCE (11:00) Caid Slattery SANGUINE FATHER (15:09) Friday 9:30 pm Graduate Family and New York Stories Shorts Noam Argov SULAM (THE LADDER) (10:52) Nada Bedair WADING (9:35) Christian Del Rio Solorzano I AM NEITHER HERE NOR THERE (11:06) Elizabeth Rao LATE SUMMER (8:04)
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Fri, Mar 24
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Lecture | Timeless Architecture: Finding Kronos (in-person and online)
What can we leave for the 22nd century? There are many divinations about oldness, but unlike trees or fossils, the age of architecture is too young for radiocarbon dating. There are only the stories written by human beings. However, history is not science but memorandum, memorandum is nothing more than data, and data is nothing more than a result. Takaharu and Yui Tezuka discuss the future, not the past. There are world heritage buildings older than a millennium where most of the materials have been replaced during restoration processes. It is necessary to replace some materials to meet modern needs, and thus the longevity of a building has nothing to do with the durability of material—most old architecture is fragile and needs to be taken care of. The inclined wall and aged floor are seen as authenticity of the architecture. Functionality has nothing to do with the life span of a building—old architecture is usually inefficient compared to modern architecture. Nothing is old at the beginning of its existence. If the architecture was built as old, it wouldn't last long. What makes a city old? No architect knows how long the architecture will last when they build it. Only Kronos knows which one will last.
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Fri, Mar 24
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Discussion | Water, Art, and Activism
René van Engelenburg, the Artistic and General Director of Dropstuff Media; Sarah Cameron Sunde, a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, and environmental interdisciplinary artist; and Tim Gilman-Ševčík, the Executive Director of the RETI Center, gather for a panel discussion that explores the importance of water and how art can serve as a conduit for activism and awareness. Together, these artists will discuss how water is essential for life, but access to clean drinking water is becoming increasingly more scarce for many people throughout the world. They will also talk through what is being done to spread awareness and protect this valuable commodity.
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Fri, Mar 24
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Book Discussion | Crecy, the Battle of Five Kings (online)
Dr. Michael Livingston on his groundbreaking new study of the battle of Crécy, in which the outnumbered English under King Edward III won a decisive victory over the French and changed the course of the Hundred Years War.
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Fri, Mar 24
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Party | A Celebration of Life Honoring R&B Legend Chuck Jackson Hosted by Grammy Winner Dionne Warwick
The departed legendary R&B hitmaker/crooner Chuck Jackson will be honored in a Celebration Of Life event - hosted by Grammy winning icon Dionne Warwick, performing arts advocate Voza Rivers (Executive Director of the New Heritage Theater in NYC’s Harlem) and legendary songwriter/singer Valerie Simpson. Chuck Jackson was known for hits such as “Any Day Now (My Wild Beautiful Bird),” “I Don’t Want To Cry,” and “I Keep Forgettin.’” His passionate performances have thrilled fans and music lovers alike. The Celebration Of Life will bring together family, friends, fans, and fellow musicians to pay tribute to Jackson’s legacy. The program will feature live performances from artists such as the legendary Melba Moore, video tributes from music industry colleagues, personal remembrances from retired Congressman the Honorable Charles Rangel, and others. To RSVP, call Double XXposure at 201-224-6570 or email theellerbeegroup@aol.com
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Fri, Mar 24
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Classical Music | Cuban Sketches for Piano (in Person and Online)
The pianist Mariel Mayz launches her latest album, dedicated to Leo Brouwer's piano music and featuring premiere recordings of piano music by Cuban composer superstar Leo Brouwer.
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Performance | Performance Art: Drawing in Circles WHY?:
Joan Jonas’ and Eiko Otake discovered shared influences including Japanese theater, film, dance, and literature as well as an intense interest in one another’s divergent processes with regard to live performance and video. In 2019, they began experimenting in Jonas’ studio both in New York and in Nova Scotia. During the pandemic, Danspace’s director and curator Judy Hussie-Taylor invited Eiko and Joan first to a public conversation in 2020 then to collaborate in 2021 on a video With the Earth at My Waistline.
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Fri, Mar 24
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