47 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, March 8, 2018
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.
Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of ...
more >> the context of traditional art venues. The term gained popularity during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent incarnations. Stencil graffiti, wheat pasted poster art or sticker art, and street installation or sculpture are common forms of modern street art.
9:45 am
free, no reservation required
Comedy workshop presented by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council: Improv, Sketch, Story Telling and ...
more >> more. Every Thursday in March.
11:30 am
free, no reservation required
Recent events in Ukraine connected with the Euromaidan protests of 2013-2014, and, later, with the armed ...
more >> conflict in the eastern part of the country, brought changes into women’s lives and in their roles both in society and in their families. During these turbulent events, Ukrainian women managed to challenge traditional gender roles (as mothers and victims of conflict) and gained visibility and respect as revolutionaries and volunteers. When the so-called Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) started, women joined the front lines of the war in the Donbas as volunteers, journalists, medical staff, and military. But female fighters, as well as women in the Ukrainian army in general, encounter issues with gender discrimination and recognition. The results of the “Invisible Battalion” project (2016-2017) will be discussed via the roles of women’s participation in ATO and through their fight for equal rights and opportunities in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Speaker Tamara Martsenyuk holds a PhD in Sociology and her research interest focuses on the social structure of society and, particularly, on gender relations.
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays ...
more >> through Fridays, from September 12, 2017 to May 23, 2018.
12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ...
more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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We've always been taught not to stare; that if someone "different" catches our eye we’ve objectified ...
more >> them. Alternatively, should we possess a birthmark, a glorious height or a visible disability we risk being too noticeable, ostracized. In both scenarios, there is a limitation where one does not see beyond mere physical characteristics and the other cannot be anything but other. How can we create a safe space to really look? How can we nurture people to reveal who they are with fierceness and vulnerability and within the context of high art? This is On Display, a safe place where people have the time to engage with difference and those who are often ostracized are empowered through their own authenticity. A movement installation devised to disrupt public spaces with a meditative sculpture court of real people now reenters a traditional venue with the same energy of the outdoors. Heidi Latsky Dance will use this time to experiment with the multimedia aspects (film, projection, score) that enhance an audience’s perception of inclusion.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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
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Program: Bartok’s Rhapsody No. 1, Sz. 86 Ravel’s Violin Sonata No. 2 Schumann’s Violin Sonata ...
more >> No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121 With: Magdalena Filipczak, Violin and Peter Frankl, Piano
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright. A British family struggles to survive the first months ...
more >> of World War II. 134 min.
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A child prodigy. A brilliant performer championed by Haydn. An entertainer of tzars and kings. The stories ...
more >> are familiar, but the names are not: though Hélène Liebmann, Marianna von Auenbrugger, and Maria Szymanowska were celebrated in their day, history marginalized their music. Rediscover the dazzling works of these forgotten virtuosi. Passionately devoted to telling the forgotten stories of classical music, cellist Juliana Soltis tours the globe as both soloist and chamber musician. Acclaimed for her deeply affecting performances––"never did one think the heart could be so moved"––Juliana seeks to empower audiences to forge meaningful connections with historical music. www.julianasoltis.com Lauded for the "verve and vitality" of her interpretations, forte pianist Sylvia Berry performs domestically and abroad as chamber musician and soloist. A champion of historical keyboard instruments and keen scholar of music's sociological context, Sylvia is the founder of The Berry Collective: an ensemble playing works from Schobert to Schubert. www.sylviaberry.org Juliana Soltis, historical cello Sylvia Berry, fortepiano
1:15 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Cornel Wilde, Anita Louise, Jill Esmond. The adventures of Robert of Nottingham, the son of Robin ...
more >> Hood. 86 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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.
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.
2:00 pm
Free plus subway...
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NBC’s heartwarming new drama Rise follows dedicated teacher Lou Mazzuchelli (Josh Radnor) as he revives ...
more >> his high school theater program. After the screening, hear from executive producers Jason Katims and Flody Suarez about creating this youth-driven series.
As the rain pours down and the water keeps rising, a mother sits in a flooded basement, weeping. After ...
more >> her son is gunned down by police, Mary, a woman with a cracked past, finds herself paralyzed with grief. So her mother, sister, and daughter try to uplift and help her wade through the water, as she mourns. But when her tears begin to overflow, deep family secrets rise all around them. And once their painful past floats to the top, there's no telling who's going to drown. Written by Donja R. Love Directed by Saheem Ali
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A docent-led tour of items on display, drawn exclusively from the Library’s collections, exploring ...
more >> the breadth and significance of this pivotal era. The tour last approximately 45 minutes and covers highlights of the show.
3:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson. About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American ...
more >> Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases. 118 min.
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Over 10 million arrests take place annually across the country. These daunting statistics reflect a growing ...
more >> crisis in the United States – not of increasing violent crime, but of an ever-expanding web of criminalization. Beyond passage of criminal laws, criminalization represents a broader social and political process by which society determines which actions or behaviors will be punished by the State. The crisis of criminalization is dramatically intensifying in the current political climate, not just for black men, but also for trans/gender non-conforming communities.
The gallery's second solo exhibition of the prominent Japanese photographer Hitoshi Fugo. The exhibition ...
more >> features approximately thirty black-and-white gelatin silver prints out of the eighty that make up the series. Spanning from the early 1970s to the early 2000s, the series captures the subtle moments of the everyday passage of time - sprinklers watering an empty lawn, a paddle breaking the surface of water, flies fluttering around a bright light bulb, and sunlight illuminating part of a woman's face.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The gallery's first exhibition of this 35-year-old Los Angeles-based artist. This exhibition will feature ...
more >> selected photographs from three recent bodies of work. Valenzuela takes a multi-disciplinary approach, incorporating photography, painting, video, and installations. His photographs depict immersive assemblages constructed in his studio using discarded objects such as tires, chains, aluminum siding, cinder blocks, and folding chairs.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In 1974, 26-year-old Kathy Acker met the conceptual artist Alan Sondheim, and suggested a collaboration ...
more >> that would allow them to get to the bottom of their sexual attraction by exchanging “as much information about [themselves] as possible.” The result is Blue Tape, an hour-long, highly charged and confrontational truth-and-sex tape. It is remarkable for its braveness, as well as the insight it gives into a young Acker, about to find her voice on sexuality, intimacy, family, and power relations--all themes that consistently recur throughout her oeuvre. For this group exhibition, Blue Tape will be shown next to works by contemporary artists in dialog with Acker. With work by Kathy Acker, Ser Brandon-Castro Serpas, Celia Hempton, Beatrice Marchi, Bjarne Melgaard, Alan Sondheim, Diamond Stingily, Women’s History Museum
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The exhibition will feature three unique large-scale platinum prints and an array of intimately-scaled ...
more >> works created with a computer and electrostatic laser printer.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In Heller’s solo exhibition, the viewer experiences her canvases of landscapes, skyscapes, intimate ...
more >> details of nature or its broad vistas, as acts of passion rendered through an artist’s discipline. It is this tension between discipline and passion—indeed, resonance and dissonance—which provides the images with power and delicacy in equal measure.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
xpanded Sanctuary is part of a series of events that explore the possibilities of sanctuary – as ideal, ...
more >> as theory, as practice, as historical proposition, as a vision of social justice for the present. Expanded Sanctuary will focus on the intersections between sanctuary and diverse social movements working against racism, hetero/sexism, violence and containment. What are the connections between immigration detention, deportation, dispossession, gender-based violence, homophobic/transphobic violence and the carceral state? Does sanctuary offer a vision of politics that can encompass diverse struggles and provide a basis for cross-movement coalitions? Speakers include: Ravi Ragbir (New Sanctuary Coalition) Janaé Bonsu (Black Youth Project 100) Angy Rivera (NYS Youth Leadership Council)
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In 2010, with his second novel in shambles, Daniel Alarcón went to Lurigancho, Peru’s largest and ...
more >> most notorious prison, to cover the elections in Block 7. Quite unexpectedly, this freelance journalism assignment rescued his novel. Alarcón discusses the relationship between journalism, literature and oral history, and showing how interviews and lived experience can serve as the building blocks for different types of storytelling.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Program: SCHUMANN "Dichterliebe" for tenor and piano RHIM Kurze Waltzer for piano four hands BRAHMS ...
more >> Piano Quartet in C Minor, op. 60 Featuring Mannes students.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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A conversation with Julie Taymor and the first three recipients of the Julie Taymor World Theater Fellowship. ...
more >> In Japan, Zach Dorn experienced Karakuri's robotic puppet shows driven by waterwheels in a traditional form over three centuries old. Hector Flores Komatsu sought out the theatrical magic of Mexico's rural and indigineous communities. Jesca Prudencio explored the "outsider" in Thai folk puppetry, Japan's Noh drama, and Phillipine parades and festival. For this special Library program, they will talk with Julie Taymor and show video clips of their exploits as emerging directors in Japan, Mexico, Thailand, and the Phillipines.
Amin Moghadam of Princeton University discusses his current research on spatial dynamics related to artistic ...
more >> practices and the circulation of artists and cultural entrepreneurs in several cities of the Middle East.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Speaker Dr. Sophie Maríñez is an Associate Professor of French and Spanish at Borough of Manhattan ...
more >> Community College and the author of Mademoiselle de Montpensier: Writings, Châteaux, and Female Self-Construction in Early Modern France.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
The inaugural and commemorative book MFON offers a global view of the impact of women photographers of ...
more >> African descent. MFON is named after Mmekutmfon "Mfon" Essien, an acclaimed Nigerian-boarn American photographer who died of breast cancer at age 34. The conversation will feature co-founders and award winning photographers Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Adama Delphine Fawundu. Joining them are MFON photographers Fabiola Jean-Louis, Renee Cox, and Nona Faustine. MFON‘s deputy editor, Crystal Whaley will moderate.
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When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of ...
more >> a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper middleclass youth, what he longed for wasn’t so much the exotic as the raw, unfiltered humanity he had experienced in Japanese theater performances and films, witnessed in Amsterdam and Paris. One particular theater troupe, directed by a poet of runaways, outsiders, and eccentrics, was especially alluring, more than a little frightening, and completely unforgettable.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Bestselling author Janice Kaplan examines the phenomenon of luck—and discovers the exciting ways you ...
more >> can grab opportunities and make luck for yourself every day.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
An open mike night showcasing the incredible talents of Muslims in the Big Apple, hosted by the Islamic ...
more >> Center of NYU's Professionals Group. If the first and second events last year are anything to go by, the evening promises to be filled with laughter, reflection and even a few tears as performers bring the event's theme "Hope" to life through spoken word, comedy, song, and more.
As a museum curator, academic, editor and writer, Robert Storr has come into contact with the most important ...
more >> artists of our era. Over the years he has amassed a major body of interviews, collected here for the first time in a single volume. Interviews on Art includes over 60 fully illustrated discussions, conducted between 1981 and 2016, with some of the most renowned names in the art world.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In September 2000, 14-year-old Semiya is woken in her boarding school at 4am. Her father, Enver Simsek, ...
more >> has apparently had an accident. Only in the hospital does she learn that he’s in a coma after being shot eight times. He dies two days later. The police get to work, highly motivated to solve the case as quickly as possible. 95 min. In German with English subtitles.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
New York–based saxophonist, singer, and composer Stephanie Chou makes beautiful experimental pop by ...
more >> blending traditional Chinese music with elements of jazz, contemporary classical music, spoken word, folk, and the American singer-songwriter tradition. Among the music on tonight’s setlist, she’ll perform works from her latest album, Asymptote, which includes invigorating arrangements of Chinese classics such as "Kangding Love Song," "The Moon Represents My Heart," the tongue twister “Eating Grapes,” and a setting of one of Li Bai's most famous poems. Stephanie Chou: voice, saxophone Andy Lin: erhu, viola Vinnie Sperrazza: drums, percussion Isamu McGregor: piano
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Program: Frederic Hand (b. 1947) Cantiga de Santa María (1994) Antonio José (1902-36) Sonata Agustín ...
more >> Castilla Ávila (b. 1974) Música Callada (2007) Miguel Llobet (1878-1938) Selection from Popular Catalan Songs Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-99) Concierto de Aranjuez Federico Díaz, guitar with Nora Bartosik, piano
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Bodega Cat is a weekly comedy show brought to you by Kevin Seefried (202 Comedy Festival), Andy Ostroff ...
more >> (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), and Dane Hanson (Producer of Laughs on FOX). Live Stand-Up Comedy in New York City.
Wendy Richman is a founding member of the New York-based International Contemporary Ensemble. With ICE ...
more >> and as soloist and chamber musician, she has performed at the Lincoln Center Festival, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Miller Theater, Mostly Mozart Festival, Park Avenue Armory, Phillips Collection, and international festivals in Berlin, Darmstadt, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Morelia, and Vienna. Dr. Richman has collaborated with fortepianist Malcolm Bilson, the Claremont Trio, and members of the Cleveland, Juilliard, and Takács Quartets.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required