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55 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, November 17, 2017
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Conference | Reckoning with Slavery: New Directions in the History, Memory, Legacy, and Popular Representations of Enslavement
Thirty-one scholars from the U.S. and other countries will present new research on abolition, Civil War ... more >> and Reconstruction, gender and sexuality, archives, memory and identity, photography, the search for freedom, and public history.
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Conference | The Dead Sea Scrolls at 70
Celebrate the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the first Dead Sea Scrolls with a group of distinguished ... more >> scholars addressing many of the central questions regarding the contribution of the Scrolls to our understanding of the Bible and the history of Judaism and Christianity. In marking seventy years of scholarship, the colloquium will also be retrospective: participants will consider how three generations of scholars have addressed the very questions that dominate their own intellectual projects. In addition, this conference will offer an opportunity to consider the role of digital technologies in deciphering these 2,000-year-old manuscripts.
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour
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.
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Tour | Downtown Manhattan 3-Hour Tour
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.
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City Walk | Lower Manhattan Tour
It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled ... more >> and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
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City Walk | Manhattan Street Art Tour
Join a Manhattan Street Art Tour and experience the Lower East Side - SoHo, NoHo, Nolita and Little Italy. ... more >> The Lower East Side of Manhattan is a playground for street artists, Soho is known to be one of NYC first permit Joint Live-Work Quarters for artists and the area received landmark designation in 1973. Noho and Nolita’s street art is either hidden in courtyards or on the more prominent street art facades. Learn about the history of the art of many famous and unknown artist.
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour
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.
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Workshop | Bridge Club
Are you a Bridge buff? Put your game face on and show off your best plays. Join the fun and meet new ... more >> friends! All players welcome!
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Tour | Lower Manhattan, Chinatown, Little Italy and SoHo Tour
A multi-neighborhood tour of the Lower Manhattan area. The tour begins on Wall Street, where you will ... more >> see the New York Stock Exchange and Trinity Church before moving on the the World Trade Center and City Hall. We then move on by subway to visit the largest Chinatown in the United States. Following Chinatown, the tour will continue on through Little Italy and on to SoHo.
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Fair | Street Fair
Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
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Film | Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent (1940): Crusading Reporter
Stars: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall. On the eve of World War II, a young American reporter ... more >> tries to expose enemy agents in London. 120 min.
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Lecture | Japan’s Foreign Policy in a Time of Shifting Geopolitical Goals
Three years have passed since Shinzo Abe became the prime minister of Japan. Attitudes toward this administration ... more >> are divided into two extreme poles, with little ground in between. What, then, is new under Abe’s leadership? How is Japan’s current foreign policy different than that of its previous administrations, and why? Professor Noboru Yamaguchi will explore the position of the Abe administration in the emerging power relations in East Asia, and unravel the contradictions that lie beneath the many policy goals that Abe has promised to achieve.
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Workshop | Reactive v. Proactive Job Hunting: The Total Search
How do you look for a new job? By sitting in front of your computer for hours each day, searching job ... more >> sites like indeed.com, and hitting “send resume” to those that appeal to you? Reacting to an existing job market is less than HALF of what you should be doing to get the right job. Learn the difference between Reactive (i.e. responding to postings) and Proactive (sourcing and creating opportunities appropriate to your skills, background, and goals) job hunting. A successful search incorporates both strategies. Presented by Jacqueline Rose
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon
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.
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour
Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery ... more >> in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate. This tour takes place every Friday.
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Discussion | Everyone is Radicalizing: Discussions
1:00-2:00pm Black Morocco Prompted by recent instances of violence against black African migrants in ... more >> Morocco, Omar Berrada discusses an ongoing project investigating histories of trans-Saharan encounters over centuries of commercial, spiritual, and scholarly exchange when the desert looked more like a bridge than a barrier, one where cultures met and created new, creolized forms of life. 3:00-4:00pm Black Listening Teju Cole’s DJ lecture is an exploration of the way music, over the past 25 years, played an essential role in his personal notion of Africanness. Through a rejection of national or ethnic boundaries, he developed a sense of common cause with other Africans, in a way that had not been available to him as a Yoruba boy growing up in Lagos. Presented by Kwani Trust, a Nairobi-based literary network.
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Film | Hal Ashby's Being There (1979): Melvyn Douglas' Oscar
Stars: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas. A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely ... more >> trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics. 130 min.
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Book Discussion | New Books in the Arts & Sciences: Jane Austen and Women Writers
Panel discussions celebrating recent work by the faculty. At Home In The World by Maria DiBattista and ... more >> Deborah Nord - A bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing. Reading Jane Austen by Jenny Davidson - Whether you're new to Austen's work or know it backwards and forwards already, this book provides a clear, full and highly engaging account of how Austen's fiction works and why it matters.
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Workshop | Stress Management
Feeling stressed? This stress management session is led by a physician of Weill Medical Center.
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Film | Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016): Showdown of the Unitards
Stars: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams. Fearing that the actions of Superman are left unchecked, ... more >> Batman takes on the Man of Steel, while the world wrestles with what kind of a hero it really needs. 151 min.
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Discussion | Central Asian Diaspora in the USA: The Case of Kyrgyz Americans
A roundtable discussion followed by Kyrgyz dance and musical performance.
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Film | Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel (2006): Oscar-Winning Drama
Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal. Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in ... more >> the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families. 143 min.
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Tour | Bushwick Graffiti and Street Art Tour
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.
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Book Discussion | Contemporary Classics Book Discussion: The Wheels of Chance
The Wheels of Chance is an early comic novel by H. G. Wells about an August 1895 cycling holiday, somewhat ... more >> in the style of Three Men in a Boat.
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour
Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, ... more >> however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
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Tour | Harlem Tour
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.
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Film | Martin Rosen's Watership Down (1978): Animated Drama
Stars: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Ralph Richardson. A group of rabbits flee their doomed warren and face ... more >> many dangers to find and protect their new home. 91 min.
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Film | Pablo Larrain's Jackie (2016): Saga of a President's Widow
Stars: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig. Following the assassination of President John ... more >> F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy. 100 mins.
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Tour | Rockefeller Center Tour
Rockefeller Center is one of the most popular public spaces and tourist attractions in New York City. ... more >> This depression-era commercial complex takes up over three full city blocks and is rich with history, public art, and art-deco architecture. Built by business mogul John D. Rockefeller Jr. with his own money, he instructed his team of designers and architects to build the most beautiful commercial complex of it’s kind in the world. That vision resulted in what is still one of NYC’s greatest treasures and gave rise to some of NYC’s favorite traditions including the Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the famous dance team the Rockettes and the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour
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.
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Symposium | Art and Power: From Museum to Real World
This two-day conference aims to foster discussion about the relationship between art and power, including ... more >> reflections on the appropriation of visual and print culture by political regimes; the intersections of **so-called high culture and popular culture in dictatorships or periods of political crisis**; and the constructions of history in light of current events.
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Author Reading | Four Way Books Reading
Miranda Field is the author of the forthcoming Imaginary Royalty (Four Way Books, 2017) and Swallow, ... more >> along with publications in numerous anthologies. Panio Gianopoulos has written the forthcoming How to Get Into Our House and Where We Keep the Money (Four Way Books, 2017) as well as A Familiar Beast. Martha Rhodes has published five poetry collections, including At the Gate, Perfect Disappearance, Mother Quiet, The Beds, and The Thin Wall (Pitt Poetry Series, 2017); she is the director of Four Way Books.
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Other | Jazz trumpeter Keyon Harrold signs copies of his CD The Mugician
The sophomore album from Keyon Harrold, 2017's ambitious, socially conscious The Mugician, finds the ... more >> New York-based, Ferguson, Missouri-raised jazz trumpeter laying out an intensely felt, genre-bending vision of jazz in the 21st century. Restrictions may apply. Call store for details.
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Talk | Salvatore Allocca's Taranta on the Road (2017): Italian Comedy-Drama
The day following the Arab Spring revolution of 2011, Amira and Tarek, two Tunisian migrants with nothing ... more >> in common, reach the Italian coast. By chance, they both find themselves seeking help from a Taranta band from Salento pursuing success between festivals and weddings. The band mistakes them for a couple expecting a child, and decides to help them reach France. A trip marked by fear, love, and an uncertain future brings the travelers together in an unforgettable shared experience, one that might change their lives forever. 80 min.) In Italian with English subtitles. Followed by a Q&A with director Salvatore Allocca and screenwriter Amara Lakhous, in conversation with Stefano Albertini.
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Lecture | Five Theses on the Public Sphere
The current crisis of democracy reminds us how firmly the public sphere is grounded in reading and readership. ... more >> Counterintuitive as this assumption might seem in our visually inclined media age, Laura Bieger expounds it in five theses. Studying the public’s continuous investment in reading and readership is indeed a pressing task at a time when printed matter ceases to be the unrivalled foundation of our reading culture while the public sphere is undergoing its perhaps gravest transformation since the invention of the printing press.
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Film | Sebastian Grobler's Lessons of a Dream (2011): German Cinema
A young teacher is hired to teach English at a strictly-run German school for boys in 1874. 113 min. ... more >> In German with English subtitles.
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Author Reading | Emerging Writers Reading with Erika L. Sánchez
Erika L. Sánchez is the author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Knopf Books for Young Readers, ... more >> 2017), and the poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf, 2017).
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Joan Forsyth, piano
Joan Forsyth is an eclectic artist whose performing career has taken her all over the world. Teaching ... more >> has always been an important part of her musical life, and she maintains a vibrant piano studio in Mount Vernon, New York. Dr. Forsyth holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University and a Master’s degree from the Juilliard School of Music. She has over thirty years of teaching experience, having taught both privately and for such institutions as New York University, Concordia College and Sarah Lawrence College.
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Renee Heitmann, soprano
Heitmann delves beyond the song in this in-depth program of Broadway musical scenes.
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Concert | Indigenous New York, Artist Perspectives
Indigenous New York, Artist Perspectives kicks off its culminating public program of the series with ... more >> an exciting event featuring performances by artist Nadia Myre (Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinaabeg First Nation), artist Suzanne Kite (Oglala Lakota), and musician and composer Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache). Drinks and refreshments will be served.
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Play | New Visions Directing Festival 2017: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
In Paul Zindel's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, we find an unfulfilled single mother raising two teenage ... more >> daughters. When her youngest, Tillie, enters a science fair with atomic marigolds, we hope the family can overcome the ‘toxic world’ around them – and not get crushed beneath it.
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Comedy Club | No Name Comedy/Variety Show
With Dave Lester (SIRIUS XM), Abbi Crutchfield (TruTV “You Can Do Better”), and illusionist Lee Alan ... more >> Barrett (Coney Island Circus Sideshow).
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Jazz | Roots and Branches: Jazz Explorations on World Music Traditions
Vocalist and composer Jocelyn Medina leads an ensemble in a program entitled Roots and Branches: Jazz ... more >> Explorations on World Music Traditions.
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Lecture | Sacrificed in Vain: The History and Fate of Nationalist China's Elite 74th Corps 1937-1949
A talk by Edward Chen.
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Author Reading | Terry Tapp reads from his book A Serf’s Journal
Join artist, writer, and activist Terry Tapp for the New York launch of his first book which tells the ... more >> story of the United States’ longest wildcat strike. The strike took place at the JeffBoat, the US’s largest inland shipyard, on the Ohio River in May of 2001. Tapp was the core organizer, a member of the Teamsters and the IWW.
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Tour | 9/11 Memorial and Brooklyn Bridge Night Tour
A renaissance is taking place on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Since the terrorist attacks of ... more >> September 11th 2001, a concerted effort has been undertaken to redevelop this part of the city, with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the construction of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. And from twilight into the night is the right time to pay a visit to this part of New York City. From the Memorial to the Woolworth Building, City Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge, some of the your most memorable experiences in the city await you.
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Concert | Arturo Ortiz & 7 Con Calle: Salsa Piano
Salsa piano legend Arturo Ortiz has performed alongside some of Latin music’s biggest stars, including ... more >> Rubén Blades, Ricky Martin, and Marc Anthony. Tonight, he brings his band to the Atrium for a joyful night of nonstop dancing to classic salsa tunes.
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Tour | Ghosts of the East Village Tour
The ghosts of Greenwich Village are too numerous and interesting to meet in just one evening! Due to ... more >> popular demand, they are offering a new tour, “Ghosts of the East Village,” as a companion tour to one of their biggest crowd-pleasers, Ghosts of the West Village.
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Classical Music | Orchestral works by Debussy, Bartok, Stravinsky, Varese
Program: DEBUSSY: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun BARTOK: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste ... more >> STRAVINSKY: Symphonies of Winds VARESE: Ameriques The Orchestra have been hailed by The New York Times for playing with “inviting warmth and solidity,” and for their “intensity of focus.”
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Tour | 9/11 Memorial and Brooklyn Bridge Night Tour
A renaissance is taking place on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Since the terrorist attacks of ... more >> September 11th 2001, a concerted effort has been undertaken to redevelop this part of the city, with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the construction of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. And from twilight into the night is the right time to pay a visit to this part of New York City. From the Memorial to the Woolworth Building, City Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge, some of the your most memorable experiences in the city await you.
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Concert | Mezzomonis: Music of the Jewish Soul
The music department presents Monika Krajewska and Natasha Ulyanovsky’s revival of Jewish music from ... more >> Eastern European countries that had been suppressed by Nazi and communist regimes.
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Concert | NYUO2 performs works by Philip Glass and David Byrne
Program: David Byrne: The Forest Philip Glass: Symphony No. 1, “Low”
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Play | Admissions: Protesters' Reckoning
Spectrum Stage Works is a new all-university theatre organization dedicated to diversity and equity in ... more >> the performing arts. In their debut production, Admissions by Tony Vellela, “racism and hidden prejudices surface when seven college students lock themselves in the president’s office to protest tuition hikes. As outside pressures mount, they must confront feelings which tear apart the personal relationships within the group, and threaten the success of their action.”
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Classical Music | Student Voice Recital
Virginia Reed, mezzo-soprano
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Play | New Visions Directing Festival 2017: Spring’s Awakening
1891. Wilhelm, Germany. A group of children struggle against the ebb and flow of their sexual awakening. ... more >> Led by their burgeoning curiosity out of the jaws of a restrictive society, the unfettered choices they make will lead them either to adulthood – or extinction. Written by Frank Wedekind.
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