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28 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, November 10, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Editor's Picks
Conference | Philosophy's Use of Its History
The conference examines the development of a central philosophical problem from early modern philosophy ... more >> to the present, exploring the evolution of formulations of the problem and of approaches to resolving it. By examining the work of philosophers of the past both in historical context and in relation to contemporary philosophical thinking, the conference allows philosophy’s past and present to illuminate one another.
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9:00 am
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Tour | 13 tours, all City neighborhoods, any time of the day, choose one tour or many
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations ... more >> for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
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10:00 am
free
free
City Walk | CANstruction: Statues & Outdoor Monuments of Manhattan and Brooklyn
Walk rain or shine. A walk through the Winter Garden, City Hall Park, Brooklyn Bridge, Cadman Plaza, ... more >> Grand Army Plaza and Prospect Park. Relaxed walking, slight inclines, about six to seven hours. Bring lunch, water, binoculars or a camera with optical zoom
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10:00 am
$3
$3
Fair | Street Fair
Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
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10:00 am
free, no reservation required
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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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10:00 am
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Book Club | Lisa Ko's The Leavers
One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the ... more >> nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. Set in New York and China, the Leavers is the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he's loved has been taken away--and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of her past. Lisa Ko is an American writer. Her debut novel, The Leavers, won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Please read the book before arriving at the book discussion.
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10:30 am
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
City Walk | Union Square, Broadway, and SoHo Historic Walking Tour
Learn about the making of New York City's most notable and celebrated public squares. Then, take a stroll ... more >> down New York's most famous street--learn about its origins as a Lenape trail, and how it eventually became the main artery of the most populous city in the United States. Finally, we walk through scenic SoHo, exploring both the neighborhood's recent history as well as some sordid tales from centuries past.
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11:00 am
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Play | A Midsummer Night's Dream: Classic Shakespeare Comedy Updated
This fall, a classic New York City block party becomes the enchanted setting where fairies work their ... more >> mischief in Shakespeare’s beloved play. Acclaimed director Jenny Koons takes you to the royal wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta, where a celebratory play is being rehearsed. But the real drama is unfolding in the concrete jungle of fairy King Oberon. There, four young New Yorkers discover the course of true love runs anything but smooth, as supernatural sprites and the lovable Puck conspire to reveal what fools we mortals be, and draw us all into the collective dream of romance and merriment.
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1:00 pm
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Free tickets required...
Tour | Maren Hassinger: Monuments: Site-Specific Sculptures
Maren Hassinger: Monuments will consist of eight site-specific sculptures installed for approximately ... more >> one year. Hassinger, who has been associated with the Studio Museum since 1984, is a Harlem-based multidisciplinary artist whose work, spanning performance, installation, sculpture, and video, are often meditations on nature and community. Hassinger will use branches to create forms that respond to aspects of the park’s landscape—an outcropping of rock, a triangle near flower beds, an oval near the pool.
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1:00 pm
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Free
1:00 pm
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free, no reservation required
Film | The Village of Fools (2014): Chinese Documentary
From the filmmaker: "This is my fifth time coming back to my own village, where I was born and brought ... more >> up. After I graduated from college, when I was staying in my village, I was always suspected and judged by the village people. Xizhu grandpa was called ‘fool’ by other villagers, and Zengxiang aunty was looked down by others. They come into my life, and I stayed with them. Their naïve and strange thought made think about my village in a new way. In this quite ‘normal’ village, who are normal people? In those normal people’s eyes, am I another fool of this village?." 80 min. Director: Zou Xueping
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1:30 pm
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Film | Book Club (2018): four friends read Fifty Shades of Grey
Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly ... more >> book club. Directed by Bill Holderman. Starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen. 103 min.
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2:00 pm
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free, no reservation required
Film | Precious (2009): Two time Oscar winning drama
In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her ... more >> second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction. Director: Lee Daniels. Starring Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton. 110 min.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Speak Up (2017): Black Women in Francophone Europe
What does it mean to be a black woman in francophone Europe today? Rather than turning to “expert” ... more >> sociologists, this film renews the art of the interview and lets her subjects speak for themselves: black women with roots in Europe’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. Director: Amandine Gay 122 min. In French with English subtitles.
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2:00 pm
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Free
Park Walk | Heart of the Park Tour
Walk straight through the heart of Central Park on this east-to-west tour led by guides. Enjoy a great ... more >> variety of the scenic, sculptural, and ar chitectural elements the Park has to offer. Visit some of the Park's most famous landmarks, including Conservatory Water, Loeb Boathouse, Bethesda Terrace, Bow Bridge, Cherry Hill, The Lake, and Strawberry Fields.
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2:00 pm
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free, no reservation required
Talk | Artist Talk
Frances F. Denny talks about her exhibition Major Arcana: Witches in America.
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3:00 pm
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Lesson | Democracy and Voting Rights in the United States: A Contested History
This course will interrogate the history of democratic participation in the United States, with an emphasis ... more >> on disparities in access to the ballot, racial discrimination, and violence, which continue to exclude voters from the franchise. We will start with an overview of the historical development of democratic inclusion, exclusion, and participation in the United States, and then focus on how social, political and economic institutions intersect with and inform this development. The second half of the course will focus on the ways that democratic participation in the United States is mediated and informed by the carceral state, the regulation of citizenship, political power, wealth, redistricting, and contemporary voter suppression efforts. The class will conclude with a discussion of current efforts to secure and expand voting rights in the United States, focusing on a selection of promising innovations, reforms, and movement building projects. Saturdays, October 6, 20, 27, November 3, and 10 from 3:00 - 4:30pm.
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3:00 pm
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free, reservation required
Film | The Monument of Huamulin (2015): Chinese Documentary
From the filmmaker: "Since 2011, I have been back to my village, where I was born and raised, to visit ... more >> the old people of my grandfather's generation, listening to their stories and recording their life.They are above 60 years old, telling me their experiences in the great famine of 1959-1961. They couldn't forget how their parents, brothers, neighbors starved to death, including my great-grandfather. Through the stories they told, I started to think the change from past to present, and the future. Building a monument for the people dying in the great famine became my wish this year." 74 min. Director: Li Xinmin
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3:30 pm
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Classical Music | Concert at the coolest classical music concerts location in NYC
Classical music on a boat with an intimate and romantic setting and beautiful view of New York City. ... more >> Followed by a Q & A session with the musicians. Program and musicians TBA. Doors open at 3:45 pm.
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4:00 pm
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Film | Dance with Third Grandmother (2016): Chinese Documentary
Documentary-style interview film that recorded the stories of Wen Hui’s third grandmother. When Wen ... more >> Hui visited her family’s hometown, a small village in Yunnan, on a project, she unexpectedly met her third grandmother. Spending time with her, Wen Hui listened to her stories of tragedy and hardships that she lived through the Great Famine and Cultural Revolution in China. 15 min. Director: Wen Hui Followed by roundtable discussion with Wen Hui, Zou Xueping, Li Xinmin and Prof. Angela Zito, moderated by Prof. Zhen Zhang
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4:45 pm
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Film | Towards Tenderness (2016): The Ragged Terrain of Masculinity
This short film charts the ragged terrain of masculinity as it follows a band of young men pacing through ... more >> a modern city, acting in the way society and their friends expect “men” to act. Their interior monologues, however, reveal other desires. Director: Alice Diop 38 min. In French with English subtitles.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Toy Temple Human Monk: A 2-Artist Exhibition
Daffy Scanlan is an artist from New Jersey and currently based in New York. Her work explores the transportation ... more >> of antiques through time and space, paying tribute to the neglect and ultimate disembodiment of un-new objects. She combines cracked and broken textures with antiquated color stories, creating portals into a canon of abuse and trauma. Chiara Ibrah is a visual artist based in Brooklyn. Allegorical imagery and visual puns are recurring motifs in her multimedia work, for which she combines contrasting mediums to further the visual narrative. In much of her recent work, she dissects themes of love and loss in order to draw parallels between those opposing forces.
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6:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and more
Program: Zelenka Haec dies, ZWV 169 Mendelssohn Psalm #43, "Richte mich, Gott" Op. 78 #2 Gal Serenade ... more >> for String Orchestra, Op. 46 Mozart Mass in C, KV 317, "Coronation" With: Columbia University Bach Society
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6:00 pm
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Play | A Midsummer Night's Dream: Classic Shakespeare Comedy Updated
This fall, a classic New York City block party becomes the enchanted setting where fairies work their ... more >> mischief in Shakespeare’s beloved play. Acclaimed director Jenny Koons takes you to the royal wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta, where a celebratory play is being rehearsed. But the real drama is unfolding in the concrete jungle of fairy King Oberon. There, four young New Yorkers discover the course of true love runs anything but smooth, as supernatural sprites and the lovable Puck conspire to reveal what fools we mortals be, and draw us all into the collective dream of romance and merriment.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | I Am More Than My Hair: My Outward Appearance Does Not Define Me
From the time we are young, girls are pressured into a set belief of beauty standards. Hair is certainly ... more >> high on the list and is often labeled as our “crown and glory.” Where does this notion fit for females with alopecia (the partial or complete absence of hair from areas of the body where it normally grows; baldness)? This new photography book by Alyscia Cunningham should bring light to the issue.
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | The Birds of Baghdad: Pains of War, Beauty of Nature
A solo play performed by Nixon Caesar. A powerful, poetic narration that takes one from Baghdad to the ... more >> island of Montserrat. It is a story filled with the pains of war and the beauty of nature. Written by Edgar Nkosi White, directed by Ajene Washington.
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation...
$10 suggested donation...
Staged Reading | The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion: Living After War
Two heroes return home from the First World War. Lawrence of Arabia is a leader without an army. Robert ... more >> Graves is a poet who can’t forget. Suffering the aftermath of war and foreseeing the dawning of new ones, the Benevolent Order of the Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion lays siege to a sleepy university town. A stand against stands, a dare to end all daring, a doing that protests all doing; the two haunted men -- armed with a talent for practical jokes -- grasp at love and dare to imagine a new world.
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Sophomore Vocal Recital
Ensemble led by Annie Shikany; William Woodward, piano. Annie Shikany has directed Così fan tutte for ... more >> Opera Cooperative, Cavalleria Rusticana for North Shore Music Festival, and New York Lyric Opera’s Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall.
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7:30 pm
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