48 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, March 9, 2017
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World ...
more >> Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats.
Learn the basics of Adobe's vector graphic creation program and how to create exciting digital art for ...
more >> print, video, and web Class is taught on Mac computers.
On this east-west walk you will see some of the Park's most well-known landmarks, including Conservatory ...
more >> Water, Bethesda Terrace, the Lake, and Strawberry Fields. Route involves a few stairs. 90 minutes.
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Speaker: Lewis Eliot, PhD Candidate, University of South Carolina. Abolition in the British Caribbean ...
more >> has been celebrated as a vital cornerstone in the ending of slavery in the Atlantic basin. The realities of life for the now free Afro-Caribbean people, however, remained dangerous, given the consistent threat of re-enslavement from slavers from Latin America, Caribbean pirates, and nefarious people traffickers. This talk will examine the ramifications of this trade for the imperial governments involved, the smugglers capturing and selling their prohibited cargoes, and most importantly for the newly re-enslaved.
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This Sunken Cathedral concert features multiple versions and interpretations of Debussy’s classic and ...
more >> prescient prelude La Cathédrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral) alongside a variety of newer compositions focusing on climate change and water, including John Luther Adam’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Become Ocean. Bridget Kibbey, harp This spring, the Concerts at One series focuses on water justice, the subject of the 2017 Trinity Institute National Theological Conference on climate change and water crises.
1:00 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.
Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city ...
more >> life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
Stars: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger. At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra ...
more >> meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar who teaches her how to rule Egypt.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, ...
more >> food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments. This tour takes place Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 2pm, and Saturdays at 10am.
Learn more advanced methods of modifying shapes, create new kinds of fills with Gradients, Meshes, and ...
more >> Patterns, and explore Illustrator's powerful text tools.
Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan ...
more >> is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
In a world torn by conflict – in a place where the idea of peace has been abandoned – an energy of ...
more >> determined optimism emerges. When someone is willing to disturb the status quo and stand for the dream of a free and secure world, who will stand with them? From enemy combatants to peaceful warriors, Disturbing the Peace chronicles the transformation of individuals into the nonviolent peace activists they are today. See this inspiring narrative of finding peace in turbulent times and join us for a conversation on how to build a free and secure world. After viewing the film, audience members will join in on a discussion with two of the organization members and the film maker.
Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest ...
more >> mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public. Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly. Tour takes place every Thursday.
2:00 pm
Free plus subway...
Stars: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine. Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband ...
more >> falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly. 106 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin. A dramatization of the April 2010 disaster, when ...
more >> the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history. 107 min.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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A lecture by Andrew Hammond.. A reception with wine and cheese will follow the Q+A session.
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The talk will discuss the historically and culturally conditioned variations in the manifestations of ...
more >> socioeconomic and ethnic segregation. It will argue that the customarily distinguished two large categories of residential and institutional segregation need to be further deconstructed to provide satisfactory explanation for remarkable differences in the socioeconomic standing and also in the institutional exclusion/inclusion of different Roma groups that are all facing one or another form of forceful separation within their local community. Lecturer Julia Szalai is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies and Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Nationalism Studies Program and the Department of Political Science of the Central European University, Budapest.
4:30 pm
free, no reservation required
4:55 pm
free, no reservation required
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At the beginning of the Obama Administration, and in the wake of the Russia-Georgia War of 2008, Secretary ...
more >> of State Hiliary Clinton initiated a much-publicized reset of U.S.-Russia relations. Subsequent conflicts over Ukraine and Syria and the further deterioration in U.S.-Russia relations suggest that the approach failed to address fundamental sources of tension in the relationship. Now, with President Trump and his close advisors potentially indicating a willingness to re-engage with Russia and to even abandon certain long-standing U.S. positions, the question of a possible Trump-Putin “reset”, its parameters and significance, have once again become a central foreign policy issue. Speakers will address the issue of why reconfiguring U.S.-Russia relations has proven so difficult and why efforts to improve U.S.-Russia relations in the past, including the “reset” under the Obama administration, have unravelled. Featuring Stephen Kotkin (Princeton), Daniel Nexon (Georgetown) and Yuval Weber (Harvard University; Davis Center; HSE).
5:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
The exhibition features six large-scale drawings and three new sculptures by the French conceptual artist. ...
more >> With this new series of drawings, the artist deepens his radical, lifelong exploration of the line and material. Stretching to seven feet tall, these drawings are the artist’s largest to date. Venet uses graphite, oilstick and collage to create groups of four, five and seven arcs in six different configurations onto a white background.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Edward S. Curtis is famous for his monumental effort to photographically document traditional Native ...
more >> North Americans in the early twentieth century before they succumbed to assimilation. He is equally infamous within scholarly circles for fabricating a romantic and stereotyped image of Native people at odds with their actual lives at the time. Based on extensive research with one of the tribes prominently featured in Curtis's work, including the collaborative restoration of his spectacular 1914 melodramatic feature film, In the Land of the Head Hunters, Dr. Aaron Glass will address the controversy surrounding Curtis's pictures and assert that we can read a history of Indigenous agency and modernity through the veneer of his colonialist nostalgia.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
How can emotionally connecting with parks and public spaces make communities stronger, healthier and ...
more >> happier? With: · Peter Kageyama, author “For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places” · Mitchell J. Silver, FAICP, Commissioner of NYC Parks (moderator)
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The reclamation of spaces, ideas, and paradigms by female-identified and informed bodies and queer bodies ...
more >> embodying feminist ethos must be made paramount at this moment in American Life. Half Straddle’s Here I Go, pt. 2 of You is an open work period and colloquy that encompasses rehearsals and showings of new theater and video work; the launch of an online journal of performance writing; public lectures; and communal zine-making activities that will act as accessible discussion periods. Here I Go, pt. 2 of You engages company members, peers, and their artistic heroes to expand critical artistic discourse to interrogate and reflect on how we codify; and to consider why various performances are made and ask what their making means at this time. The installation includes art work by John Davis and Heidi Hahn, and is designed by Parker Lutz and Tina Satter. Series runs March 8-March 18. Speaker Schedule: Thursday, March 9 6pm Jennifer Krasinski 7pm Jess Barbagallo
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The film lays out the many ways women are disadvantaged in the United States under the Constitution. ...
more >> Using facts, figures, interviews, colorful graphics, news footage and occasional humor, the audience is led through current challenges to wage parity, legal protections, maternity leave, ending violence and poverty. 93 min.
A panel discussion on the history of humor magazines celebrating the Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s ...
more >> acquisition of the collection of Steve Boss. With: Mark Newgarden, cartoonist Eddy Portnoy, Rutgers University Mort Gerberg, cartoonist
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Since the emergence of Greek medicine as an independent field of study in the time of Hippocrates, there ...
more >> has been debate about its status vis-à-vis the humanities. In the second century A.D., the physician Galen took considerable pains to identify medicine as a foundational liberal art rather than as a manual or menial trade. The subsequent fate of his vast corpus—what was read when, how, and by whom—is illustrative of the push and pull of ancient medicine between science and the humanities up to the present day. Unlike the writing of his more literary contemporaries, Galen's corpus had an extensive, pragmatic role in professional training. He formed the cornerstone of medical education until the 17th century and his role there persisted even into the 19th century. It was only as his medical popularity waned that study of him among philologists began to gain momentum. This talk will investigate the issues at stake in Galen's time and then follow the fate of his influence through the ages into the modern debate on the role of humanities in medical education. With: Claire Bubb
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Acclaimed biographer Patricia Bosworth recalls her emotional coming of age in 1950s New York in this ...
more >> profound and powerful memoir, a story of family, marriage, tragedy, Broadway and art, featuring a rich cast of well-known literary and theatrical figures from the period. This is the deeply felt story of a woman who defied repressive conventions while being shaped by the notable men in her life.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In this lecture, Catherine Hall focuses on Edward Long, 18th-century slaveowner, family man, creole nationalist ...
more >> and historian, who’s encyclopaedic History of Jamaica (1774) explicates pro-slavery politics. Long’s imagined geographies, rooted both in his lived experience and his attempted theorisations of racial difference, constituted the Atlantic as a place of white power, made productive by enslaved black labour. His politics of place fixed England, Jamaica and Africa in a fateful triangle, secured by racial binaries of ‘White’ and ‘Negro.’ Those binaries could only be sustained by disavowal, that practice of knowing and not knowing the humanity of others, that remains central to an understanding of racisms in the present.
Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Excel 2010. Topics include using formulas and functions, ...
more >> data sorting and conditional formatting.
Learn how to use a brush pen to write Chinese calligraphy with an experience instructor. No Chinese language ...
more >> knowledge required. Library will provide supplies. This class repeats Thursday evenings in March and April.
In 1864 a U.S. army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota. Carefully ...
more >> recording his observations, he sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington, DC, that was collecting human remains for research. In the “bone rooms” of this museum and others like it, a scientific revolution was unfolding that would change our understanding of the human body, race, and prehistory. This illustrated lecture unearths the story of how human remains became highly sought-after arti…
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
This class is a great opportunity for both beginners, who want to try standup for the first time, and ...
more >> experienced comedians, who want to punch up existing material and receive feedback on their performing.
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6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Celebrate three generations of graphic novelists whpo use art and storytelling to examine society, memory ...
more >> and their own history.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Enduring a Seder sometimes feels like a 40-year schlep through the desert. Enter Dave Barry, Alan Zweibel, ...
more >> and Adam Mansbach, whose new Haggadah parody, For This We Left Egypt?, ensures that good Jews everywhere will never have to sit through another boring Seder again. The award-winning comedy writers will be joined by standup comedian and radio host Ophira Eisenberg. They'll talk Passover survival, tips for making it through any family holiday meal, and how every step of the Seder, from the first cup of wine to finding the Afikomen, can be much funnier than you imagined. Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize–winning humor writer and bestselling author whose work has appeared in hundreds of newspapers. Alan Zweibel is an original Saturday Night Live writer and has won 5 Emmy awards for his work in television for The Late Show with David Letterman and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Adam Mansbach is the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Go the F**k to Sleep and You Have to F*****g Eat, as well as the California Book Award–winning novel The End of the Jews. Ophira Eisenberg is a standup comedian and the host of the NPR/WNYC show Ask Me Another.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue, delivers a dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: ...
more >> a fabulous account of decades spent in the heart of London, New York, Los Angeles and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter and gold, illusion and reality and what looks like happiness from the thing itself. A conversation with fashion designer Zac Posen.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Kevin Young is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, most recently Blue Laws (Knopf, 2016), ...
more >> longlisted for the National Book Award; Book of Hours (Knopf, 2014), a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets; Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (Knopf, 2011); and Dear Darkness (Knopf, 2008). His collection Jelly Roll: a blues (Knopf, 2003) was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Paul La Farge discusses his new novel about a man who becomes obsessed with the horror-fiction writer ...
more >> H.P. Lovecraft, and then mysteriously disappears.
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Enjoy the unique thrill of the “theatre of the mind” with a live radio theatre experience courtesy ...
more >> of the celebrated and popular Fireside Mystery Theatre. Join maven of mystery Ali Silva as she leads a troupe of gifted voice actors on a tour of some of Fireside Mystery Theatre's best loved original radio plays as well as a spine-tingling performance of a classic little piece of dark literature. Live podcast taping.
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An active cellist and chamber musician, Phil Ewell is at home as both a classical and a contemporary ...
more >> musician, playing either his acoustic or his 5-string electric cello. He has concertized in North America, Europe, and Asia, and has played under the baton of such luminaries as Gustav Meier and Pierre Boulez, in master classes for Janos Starker and Glenn Dicterow, and in backup bands for artists such as Johnny Mathis and Stan Getz. Quynh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American classical pianist based in New York City. She currently serves on the piano faculty of Hunter College and the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes College of Music in New York City.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Make art and meet neighbors at this event from an artist-run collective that fosters community dialogue ...
more >> through creative collaboration. The Laundromat Project believes art, culture, and engaged imaginations can change the way people see their world, open them up to new ideas, and connect them with their neighbors. When artists have the opportunity to build and contribute their unique skills and perspectives to the needs of their neighborhoods, they can be invaluable assets in furthering community well-being. When the skills and strategies for igniting creativity are made broadly available to everyday people and purposefully applied as tools for envisioning a new and better world, these can be powerful forces for positive, transformative change.
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
A lecture by Hana Gruendler, Kunsthistorisches Institut/Max Planck Institut, Florence. Drawing on Wittgenstein, ...
more >> Thomas Bernhard and the history of psychiatric architecture, Hana Gruendler will analyze the notion of physical and psychic borders, not least in contemporary discussions of alterity and migration.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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In this class, learn simple, yet highly sophisticated, time-tested self-diagnostic tools that will enable ...
more >> you to nip health concerns in the bud. Traditional Chinese medicine has techniques for assessing the balance of vital energy (chi) throughout the body. Deficient or stagnant chi produces outward signs visible on the face, tongue and eyes and can even alter our voice patterns. Learn to read these signs and symptoms so that we can correct underlying problems and prevent disease. They will cover pulse, face, tongue and eye analysis; the art of “differential diagnosis,” which enables you to trace the origins of our symptoms; and how to go about correcting the imbalances you discover with targeted nutrition, herbs and exercise. With: Drew DiVittorio
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The MJ Territo Trio: MJ Terrio, vocals; David Pearl, keyboard; Lee Marvin, acoustic bass. MJ Territo ...
more >> is a jazz vocalist, music educator, composer and lyricist. She performs with her trio/quartet in venues throughout the tri-state region. MJ is also the founder of the Ladies Day Jazz Ensemble, a group of women jazz musicians dedicated to discovering and performing the compositions of classic and contemporary jazz women.
9:00 pm
free, no reservation required