35 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, March 14, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Learn mindfulness techniques that bring relaxation and effortless focus to challenging situations and ...
more >> relationships. Mindfulness is the practice of bringing full, non-judgmental awareness to the present moment. The struggle of searching for a job can be overwhelming at times. See if the practice of mindfulness meditation and some easy to use on-the-spot techniques can help you during these challenging times. Instructor Laura Jackson has been practising Zen meditation for 12 years and is a UCLA-trained mindfulness facilitator.
10:30 am
free, no reservation required
Stars: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak. A lawyer joins the government to hunt down a mobster ...
more >> who killed his friend. 85 min.
11:15 am
free, no reservation required
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Guitarist Richard Frank has recorded and/or toured with such artists as Neil Diamond, Bette Midler, Barry ...
more >> Manilow, Paul Anka, Patti LaBell, and Peter Allen. He has played on various jingles for Coke and KFC and spent many years on Broadway in shows such as Promises, Promises, Hair, Grease and Barnum, to name a few. A talented singer as well, he has worked for some of the major orchestras in NYC including, Peter Duchin and Lester Lanin and performs regularly throughout the NYC area with his country band, Stony Creek.
11:30 am
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
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
Featuring Barbara Rosene: singer Conal Fowkes: piano Murray Wall: bass Midday Jazz Midtown is an ongoing ...
more >> jazz program for the midtown community. Concerts are presented by Midtown Arts Common. Ronny Whyte is the producer.
1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
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Whether you want to learn key words and phrases for travel or build up fluency for school and work, these ...
more >> beginner-classes resources will make learning French practical, easy, and fun.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Stars: Julie Christie, George C. Scott, Richard Chamberlain. An unhappily married socialite finds solace ...
more >> in the company of a recently divorced doctor. 105 min.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Bill Wurtzel is a renowned guitarist with the experience to play jazz that fits any event or venue. He ...
more >> has performed worldwide with many great jazz artists. Wurtzel's groups have played for countless private affairs featuring mainstream jazz and the Great American Songbook. He is a member of local 802 and is a director of the Jazz Foundation of America.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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
Program arr. Craig Hella Johnson Let the River Run Blake Henson My Flight for Heaven Eric Whitacre Water ...
more >> Night Ipolitov-Ivanov Bless The Lord, O My Soul Hildegaard von Bingen O vivens fons Jonathan Dove It Sounded as if the Streets Were Running Eva Ugalde Miserere Arneson Even When He is Silent Hyo-Won Woo 8 Laughing Voices Stacey Gibbs Set Down Servant With: Martin County High School Choir (Stuart, FL)
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Each summer since its inception in 2011, Fire Island Artist Residency chooses five emerging lesbian, ...
more >> gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer identifying artists from hundreds of applicants to live and work together in Cherry Grove, a place long-steeped in LGBTQ history. FIAR hopes to bring both new creative perspectives and prestigious art professionals together in this extraordinary location to foster the creation—and preservation—of queer art-making in contemporary art.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Name Against the Same Sound investigates the geopolitical conditions of the English language through ...
more >> examining E.S.L (English as a Second Language) learning resources. Jesse Chun, a New York-based visual artist from Seoul, Hong Kong, New York, and Toronto, draws from a transcultural relationship to language to re-interpret English pedagogy through a multilingual, and non-linear perspective.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In funny, lyrical, poignant poems and prose poems, Herman conjures everyone from lonely teenage girls ...
more >> listening to records in their bedrooms to her own Depression-era seamstress mother to Betty Boop to the oldest daughter of the old woman who lives in a shoe.
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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The 7th edition of Tribeca Art Night will feature over 100 artists, 8 exclusive events in 26 venues - ...
more >> including fine art galleries, design galleries, university /institutional galleries and art non-profits in Tribeca.
Women’s economic empowerment has now become a buzzword both in international institutions and policymaking, ...
more >> with the SDGs making it a priority. Economists and policymakers have generally considered greater labor force participation as the primary channel through which such empowerment can be achieved. But is more work necessarily the answer? Considering that poor women from the South have always worked excessively long hours, that the nature of work itself is often degrading, exploitative and poorly paid, and that most women work a double day, is this emphasis on work as empowerment misplaced? Given the rapid rise of robotic and AI technologies that threaten future job creation particularly in exports, can we imagine alternative paths to economic empowerment that recognize women's 'invisible' labor? What role do a Universal Basic Income and other social protection schemes play in this regard? Is it possible to reimagine work as an aesthetic and creative category rather than simply a category of capitalist production? How can feminist economics contribute to this discussion? This panel will reflect on women and work from different perspectives and debate this issue through brief presentations and interaction. Speakers: Diane Elson, Julie Nelson, Shahra Razavi, Marina Durano Moderator: Sheba Tejani
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The latest novel from the National Book Award–winning author bridges midcentury Manhattan with twelfth-century ...
more >> Paris, united by the epic love story of Abelard and Héloïse.
The seventeenth century's Queen Njinga was one of the most multifaceted rulers in history, mixing political ...
more >> cunning and military prowess. At the height of her reign in the 1640s Njinga ruled almost one-quarter of modern-day northern Angola. Today, Njinga is revered in Angola as a national heroine and honored in folk religions, and her complex legacy continues to resonate, forming a crucial part of the collective memory of the Afro-Atlantic world. Speaker Linda Heywood, Professor of History and African American Studies at Boston University, offers the first full-length study in English of Queen Njinga’s long life and political influence.
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Every year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English ...
more >> in the categories of Fiction, General Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism. Finalists will read from their work.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Bestselling author Sam Kean details the secret science of the air around us. Embark on a journey through ...
more >> the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to discover the story behind the air we breathe. That tale, Kean argues in Caesar’s Last Breath, is also the story of Earth and our existence on it.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Miguel Gutierrez in conversation with Stephanie Acosta on a work by Portuguese choreographer Vera Mantero, ...
more >> Poetry and Savagery (1998). This work proposes a behavioral approach to the choreographic, and a different way to think about ensemble. This relates closely to Gutierrez’s own work using dance as a way of looking at difference. A dance screening and discussion series, Sorry I Missed Your Show highlights dance works from the recent past to explore their canonical historicity and relationship to contemporary practice.
Comedy has long been seen as overwhelmingly male, but the industry is experiencing a renaissance fueled ...
more >> by female comedians. Hear from three popular female comedians on writing and performing stand-up; what the new face of comedy looks like; and how they determine success. Mary Houlihan, comedian, writer, and animator Darcie Wilder, comedian and writer Aparna Nancherla, comedian and actress Moderator: Sam Corbin, playwright, actor, comedian, and freelance writer
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Palestinian French artist Taysir Batniji is the third recipient of Immersion, a French American Photography ...
more >> Commission, a program launched by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. Batniji brings together photographs, selections from family archives, drawings, and writings to explore the sense of dislocation and the different ideas of “home” experienced by various members of his family who immigrated to the United States from the Middle East.
A panel discussion and visual presentation of more than 50 artists' work responding to the silencing ...
more >> of women and the raising of women's voices, #MeToo #NeverthelessShePersisted #DontShutUp. Through interruptions, censure, violence, threatening behavior, both in person and online, women are silenced every day. It's time to ensure that women's voices are heard and valued. With: Katharine Bodde, Senior Policy Counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union NYCLU specializing in gender equality and reproductive rights issues. She is the Chair of the Sex and Law Committee at the New York City Bar Association and teaches a course at Cardozo Law School on Reproductive Rights Law and Justice. Brittany Brathwaite, MPH, MSW is the Organizing and Innovation Manager at Girls for Gender Equity (GGE).Girls for Gender Equity is an intergenerational advocacy organization committed to the physical, psychological, social and economic development of girls and women. Joanne Mattera (pictured), artist, feminist and blogger, paints in a style that is chromatically resonant and compositionally reductive. She exhibits widely, maintains her popular Joanne Mattera Art Blog, curates regularly and won't be shut up.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
In advance of this year's Oscars, a comedy roast of "great" screenwriters, directors, and producers of ...
more >> the overrated and male persuasion. Hosted by Eric Thurm, who is one of the two. Performers tba.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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During his many years as an entrepreneur, consultant, and star of Spike TV's show Bar Rescue, Jon Taffer ...
more >> has witnessed the destruction that results when people bullsh*t themselves. He argues that excuses are the root cause of nearly every business and personal problem. Fortunately, he knows how to fix your excuse habit for good.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
7:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Program: Tom Cipullo: "Late Summer" Ottorino Respighi: Selections from the "Cinque canti all'antica" ...
more >> Libby Larsen: "Songs From Letters" With other song selections by Kurt Weill, William Bolcom, Aaron Copland, Stefano Donaudy, and Leonard Bernstein Student Recital - Julia Meadows, Soprano
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Qing Zhao, collaborative piano 8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Mengyiyi Chen, piano 8:30 PM ...
more >> - 10:00 PM Moonyoung Jang, accompanying
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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The New School Community Orchestra enables instrumentalists in the New York City area to engage with ...
more >> their community through music. The orchestra is made up of community members, students, and faculty from Mannes and The New School. Participants come together to hone their skills, network with like-minded musicians, build lasting friendships, and perform throughout the year. Orchestral instrumentalists with various backgrounds are welcome, and repertoire is drawn from a range of musical periods and styles.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Wombat is a monthly comedy show with some of New York's hottest rising comics. This month, featuring ...
more >> comics like Yedoye Travis (album released by Comedy Central) and Ginny Hogan (humor and satire writer for The New Yorker). The pizza is free!