23 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, January 8, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for ...
more >> over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing.
New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists ...
more >> from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick.
You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central ...
more >> Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Michael Sheen, Candice Bergen. Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an ...
more >> unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her. 97 min.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Lisa Boily of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics discusses the employment outlook and the latest edition ...
more >> of the Occupational Outlook Handbook. Learn how to effectively manage your job search or your career in transition.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international ...
more >> monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
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1:00 pm
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2:00 pm
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Stars: Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft, Billy Chapin. A baseball team makes a boy the youngest manager on record. ...
more >> 80 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In 1943, Bulgaria complied with German demands and deported nearly 11,400 Jews from occupied territories ...
more >> in northern Greece and Yugoslavia (Macedonia). At the same time, Bulgaria successfully resisted repeated German pressures to deport the 50,000 Jews living in Bulgaria. Dr. Joseph Benatov will offer an overview of the facts surrounding these historical events and will focus on the conflicting opinions about the role played by King Boris III, church officials, and politicians in the rescue of Bulgaria’s Jewish population. Dr. Benatov will also discuss the international debate over the way in which this historical moment should be interpreted, remembered, and commemorated. Dr. Joseph Benatov teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and is the recipient of the 2017 Fred and Ellen Lewis / JDC Archives Fellowship.
Stars: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman. An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during ...
more >> the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents. 115 min.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program: John Corigliano's Chiaroscuro, with pianists Anna Han and Yijia Wang Arnold Bax's Piano Quintet ...
more >> No. 1 in G Minor, GP 167, with violinists Sein An and Sophia Steger, violist Isabella Bignasca, cellist Jenny Bahk, and pianist Siyumeng Wang Brahms' Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60, with violinist Byungchan Lee, violist Elijah Spies, cellist Jonathan Lien, and pianist Chaeyoung Park
The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal is the first U.S. museum exhibition to present ...
more >> the extraordinary drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spain, 1852–1934), the father of modern neuroscience. Cajal’s astonishing depictions of the brain—which combine cutting-edge scientific knowledge with consummate draftsmanship—offer much greater clarity than photographs, so much so that they are still in wide use today. Baya: Woman of Algiers is the first North American exhibition of works by the self-taught Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine (1931–1998). Known as Baya, she was born in Bordj el-Kiffan and orphaned at age five. Encouraged by her adoptive French mother to pursue art, she began as an adolescent to paint gouaches and make ceramics. Her work was soon discovered by fabled gallerist Aimé Maeght who, along with André Breton, organized an exhibition in Paris in 1947.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo. A documentary filmmaker and her fellow Gen X graduates ...
more >> face life after college, looking for work and love in Houston. 99 min.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Fifty years ago: the Vietnam War raged; Laugh-In debuted; students protested at Howard and Harvard; Robert ...
more >> Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated. In New York City, Joe Papp, the restless, young champion of free Shakespeare for all, responded to the angst of the nation with a radical reinvention of Hamlet. Papp said his “production aimed radioactive iridium 192 at the nineteenth-century Hamlet statue, and by gamma ray shadowgraphing [discovered] the veins of the living original, buried under accumulated layers of reverential varnish.” Performing to a rock score by Hair composer Galt MacDermot, all actors were, in fact, fully clothed, but the traditions and pretentions of past generations were stripped off. The Shakespeare Society excavates Naked Hamlet from archives, with an evening of re-constructed scenes, photos, rarely heard recordings, and recitations from Papp’s personal papers.
7:00 pm
Free, RSVP required
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From the enslavement of Blacks and the conquest of Native America, to the arsenal of institutions that ...
more >> constitute the “gun lobby,” Loaded presents a people’s history of the Second Amendment, as seen through the lens of those who have been most targeted by guns: people of color. Meticulously researched and thought-provoking throughout, this is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the historical connections between racism and gun violence in the United States.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Program: Dutilleux's Les Citations, diptych for mixed ensemble featuring oboist Pablo O'Connell, double ...
more >> bassist Janice Gho, percussionist Tyler Cunningham, and harpsichordist Anastasia Magamedova Philip Lasser's setting of Debussy and Fauré songs for voice and chamber ensemble, Vieux Amis - Nouveaux Costumes (Old Friends in New Clothes). Performing Lasser's piece will be sopranos Kelsey Lauritano (Fauré songs) and Onadek Winan (Debussy songs), flutist Yejin Choi, clarinetist Phillip Solomon, violinist Ji Soo Choi, violist Meagan Turner, cellist Minji Won, percussionist Leo Simon, and pianist Arthur Williford Dvořák's Serenade for Winds, Cello, and Double Bass, Op. 44, with oboists Lucian Avalon and Ryan Roberts, clarinetists Sam Boutris and Wonchan Doh, bassoonist Jonathan Gibbons and an additional bassoonist (tba), hornists Cort Roberts, David Alexander, and William Loveless, cellist Lucia Ticho, and double bassist Alex Bicard
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Program Andrew Norman Music in Circles Timo Andres Safe Travels Gabriella Smith Maré Robert Sirota ...
more >> Epimethius Paul Simon, arr. Gabriel Kahane Train in the Distance Original works by Gabriel Kahane, including selections from Craigslistlieder and From the Union Dead yMusic: Rob Moose, violin / Nadia Sirota, viola / Gabriel Cabezas, cello / Alex Sopp, flutes / CJ Camerieri, trumpet / Hideaki Aomori, clarinet Gabriel Kahane, vocals, piano, and guitar The genre-bending ensemble yMusic—“at the forefront of a rapidly changing performance culture” (New York Times)—joins with composer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane ("needs to be heard" - NPR) for a performance of their latest projects, both separately and together. yMusic performs new works by Gabriella Smith, Robert Sirota and Gabriel Kahane, along with music by Andrew Norman and Timo Andres; Kahane performs original songs, including several together with (and selected by) yMusic. Hear how Kahane has combined "art-song and pop-ballad conventions into something new and entrancing" (New York Times).
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held ...
more >> in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests each season in performing at the historic Judson Memorial Church. Featuring: Beth Graczyk lily bo shapiro STAYCEE PEARL dance project Anna Westberg
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Hosted by D'Ambrose Boyd with David Pearl at the piano. Where New York's finest professional and aspiring ...
more >> singers come to sing their favorites and hear their peers perform before an intimate audience.