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24 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, November 12, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Workshop | Morning Meditation
Balance mind, body, and spirit in this Primordial Sound Meditation led by an instructor. Work with a ... more >> personal mantra, a specific sound or vibration. Take part in a regular meditation practice that lowers blood pressure, reduces stress, and strengthens the immune system. Mondays, October 15 through December 17, 2018
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9:45 am
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
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
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
free, no reservation required
Workshop | Meditation Mondays
Meditation Mondays provides a meditative space into which people are invited for an hour of individual ... more >> meditation, contemplation, centering, breathing, or prayer—whatever soothes and relaxes your soul. Some folks sit for 5 minutes, others the entire hour. In this fast-paced city, any amount of meditation can be beneficial. The meditation is not guided; it is "public personal" meditation. The space and the calming music will be provided. Every Monday, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM.
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12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour
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.
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Tour | Guided Historical Tour of the Columbia University Campus
Join this tour to learn more about the history, architecture, and sculpture of Columbia and the Morningside ... more >> Heights campus. Whether you're an amateur New York City historian or visiting campus for the first time, you will leave the tour knowing more about our storied past. Given that the tour route is outdoors, please be aware that tours are occasionally suspended due to inclement weather.
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation
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.
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
$10 suggested donation
Symposium | Japanese Playwrights Project
This event brings some of the brightest, most innovative, and most engaging emerging playwrights from ... more >> Japan to New York to develop their pieces through translation into English and public readings of the work. The Japan Playwrights Project plays an important rolein introducing contemporary writing and dramaturgy from Japan to the US.
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2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Workshop | Dance and sculpt
Move your body to the beat! Have fun while you exercise! Bring a towel or an exercise mat. Come in comfortable ... more >> clothing. This workshop takes place every Monday.
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5:30 pm
free, reservation required
free, reservation required
Author Reading | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics: Four African American Changemakers
Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore are four of the most influential African ... more >> American women in the United States. Together, they call themselves the Colored Girls. As political strategists, organizers, CEOs, and more, they have made history and shaped politics. Following the midterm elections, the quartet will discuss their book For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics which touches on their friendship and how it has changed politics in America, while offering a roadmap for other women of color with political ambitions.
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | New Italian Migrations to the United States
Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our historical ... more >> studies. Until now. In this new collection, Laura Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra edit essays by an elite roster of scholars in Italian American studies. These interdisciplinary works focus on leading edge topics that range from politics of the McCarren-Walter Act and its effects on women to the ways Italian Americans mobilized against immigration restrictions.
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Imagining and Narrating Plague in the Ottoman World -- Featuring Nobel Prize Winner Orhan Pamuk
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk and award-winning plague historian Nükhet Varlık will have ... more >> a conversation with historian A. Tunç Şen about how a novelist and a historian can imagine and recount past plagues. Pamuk and Varlık will share insights drawn from Ottoman plague episodes and discuss the challenges of relating these experiences in historical and fictional writing.
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6:30 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
Free tickets required...
Free tickets required...
Book Club | Everybody's Son: Two Families -- One Black, One White
The bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Us and The World We Found deftly explores ... more >> issues of race, class, privilege, and power and asks us to consider uncomfortable moral questions in this probing, ambitious, emotionally wrenching novel of two families—one black, one white—now updated to include an essay detailing the story behind the book, an in-depth reader’s guide, and an excerpt from the author’s newest novel.
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7:00 pm
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free, no reservation required
Author Reading | The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife 1965-2005
Zachary Leader, in conversation with Martin Amis, on the second volume of Leader's two-volume biography ... more >> of Bellow. When this volume begins, Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters - rich, famous, critically acclaimed. The expected trajectory is one of decline: volume 1, rise; volume 2, fall. Bellow never fell, producing some of his greatest fiction (Mr Sammler's Planet, Humboldt's Gift, all his best stories), winning two more National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | This Splintered Silence: A Virus in Space
From Kayla Olson, the author of The Sandcastle Empire, comes a sci-fi thriller that’s equal parts Illuminae ... more >> and One of Us Is Lying. Lindley Hamilton has been the leader of the space station Lusca since every first-generation crew member on board, including her mother, the commander, were killed by a deadly virus.
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | MET Opera singer gives a master class
MET Opera singer/coach Thomas Hammons presents a master class for voice students. Bass-baritone Thomas ... more >> Hammons has been acclaimed throughout the United States, Canada, and across Europe, for the depth and richness of his portrayals and the strength and beauty of his singing. A versatile singing actor Hammons has an active repertoire of over 60 roles spanning a variety of genres from the classical buffo repertoire, to the world of contemporary music, to modern musical theater. He made his début at The Metropolitan Opera as Sacristan in Tosca, during the 1996-97 season and took part in the première of Jonathan Miller’s acclaimed production of Le nozze di Figaro. He has returned to The Met in over 250 performances since, most recently for Lulu, Le nozze di Figaro, and La bohème.
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Self-Defense Workshop with Pop Gym
Come by this workshop to learn some introductory skills that will keep you feeling safe. They’ll be ... more >> covering the basics: stretching, conditioning, technique, and theory, with the hope that participants will leave with some super useful foundations that will aid them in the day-to-day. Mix that in with some sweat and some movement, and you’ll have an accessible and confidence-boosting good time for all. Whether you are a beginner, or someone with experience, come work it out with us! Open to all ages. Participants should wear clothing in which they are comfortable stretching and sweating.
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7:00 pm
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Talk | What Just Happened? The Resistance After the Midterms
Frances Fox Piven discusses the after-effects of the November midterm elections.
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7:00 pm
Free
Free
Play | As You Like It: Shakespeare Comedy
The Fall production of the Undergraduate Theatre students. Directed by Barbara Bosch.
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7:30 pm
$12 General admission,...
$12 General admission,...
Classical Music | Chamber works by Bach, Saariaho and Barrière
Jennifer Koh, violin; Davóne Tines, bass-baritone; Camilla Hoitenga, flute; Aaron Wunsch, piano; Jean-Baptiste ... more >> Barrière, electronics. Program J. S. Bach Violin Sonata in G Minor, BWV 1001 J. S. Bach Quia fecit mihi magna from Magnificat, BWV 243 J. S. Bach Flute Partita in A Minor, BWV 1013 Saariaho NoaNoa for flute and electronics Barrière Palimpsest Capriccio for violin and electronics Saariaho Tocar for violin and piano Saariaho Changing Light for baritone and bass flute Barrière Crossing the Blind Forest for flute and electronics Barrière Suite from The 38th Parallel About the Program A program of entrancing, mystical music that envelops the listener in sound. Kaija Saariaho’s fluid, beguiling works (such as L’amour de Loin, a critical and popular success at the Met in 2016); Jean-Baptiste Barrière’s works intermingle acoustic and electronic sounds to build new sonic landscapes, The 38th Parallel, a tale of Korean displacement and immigration and so on. Charismatic violinist Jennifer Koh (“one of our most thoughtful and intense musicians,” N Y Times), bass-baritone Davóne Tines (“immense power and fervor,” L A Times), and flutist Camilla Hoitenga (“explosive,” New York Times) perform in what promises to be an immersive musical experience.
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7:30 pm
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free, reservation required
Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress held ... more >> in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists, and join each season in performing at the historic church. Featuring: Patricia Hoffbauer Anna Natt Karen Bernard Jennifer Nugent
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Fun and fabulous music
D'Ambrose Boyd has shared the stage with such luminaries as Eartha Kitt, Mickey Rooney, Brenda Braxton, ... more >> Ken Page, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Frank Langella. He has been on the boards of many Broadway, off-Broadway, Regional and European theaters. Some favorite performances include: Ain't Misbehavin', Wizard of Oz, Five Guys Named Moe, A Christmas Carol, Babes in Toyland and Wall to Wall Broadway: A Century of Musical Theater. He can be heard on many cast recordings and voice-overs for Nickelodeon. Followed by the open mic. No cover and no minimum.
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8:00 pm
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Film | On Call (2016): French Documentary
In the service of the free medical center at Avicenne Hospital in Bobigny, assisted by a psychiatrist, ... more >> the general practitioner often speaks in English, trying, under no illusion, to repair bodies and minds. How are these beaten, starving, traumatized people to be helped using medicine’s inadequate means? Directed by Alice Diop. 90 min. In French with English subtitles.
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8:30 pm
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