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47 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, November 16, 2018
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Editor's Picks
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
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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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Workshop | Sun Print Workshop for Beginners
Create beautiful blue-hued sun prints and have fun experimenting with new photogram designs. In this ... more >> workshop you will learn about the history and impact of this printing process and get plenty of time for experimentation. You're welcome to bring materials to photogram from home or the objects will be provided. Beginners encouraged. Each participant will walk away with a frame-ready, one-of-a-kind pieces of art that you can gift to friends and family, or keep for yourself!
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10:00 am
free, reservation required
free, reservation required
Workshop | Dance Class
Scientifically-based dance-exercise program. Gentle warm-up, light aerobics and targeted strengthening ... more >> that is safe, fun and enjoyable for all.
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10:30 am
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free, no reservation required
Workshop | Adult Coloring
Coloring is an activity we think of as being for kids. However, it can be beneficial for adults. Coloring ... more >> helps us de-stress because when we focus on a particular activity, we focus on it and not on our worries. Coloring generates wellness, quietness and also stimulates brain areas related to motor skills, the senses and creativity.
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11:00 am
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free, no reservation required
Workshop | Finding Clues in Family Photos
This class invites attendees to explore genealogy research through family snapshots and other historic ... more >> photographs. Attendees will gain insights on how to solve family mysteries and find genealogy clues through close inspection of photographic imagery - from newspaper images to heirloom portraits.
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon
The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts take ... more >> place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 11, 2018 to May 22, 2019.
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12:20 pm
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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 historians Peter Laskowich and Madeleine Levi. This tour takes place every Friday.
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12:30 pm
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free, no reservation required
Symposium | Édouard Glissant's Tout Monde: Transnational Perspectives
Édouard Glissant (1928 – 2011) was a French writer, poet, philosopher, and literary critic from Martinique. ... more >> He is widely recognised as one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary. Édouard Glissant’s thinking continues to inspire and inform the work of others across borders and continents years after his death. This symposium brings together scholars and artists who have been deeply influenced in different ways by his oeuvre .
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12:45 pm
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Author Reading | A Terrible Country: Disguisted with Russia
Keith Gessen's A Terrible Country is set in Moscow in 2008-2009, shortly after the war with Georgia, ... more >> at the dawn of the global financial crisis and the optimism of the early Medvedev years. The novel's narrator, a frustrated Slavic Studies postdoc living in New York, returns to the city of his birth to take care of his grandmother and jumpstart his academic career. Instead he plays hockey, becomes disgusted with Russian-style capitalism, and falls in with a group of leftist activists who are working to overthrow the system.
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1:00 pm
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Film | It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963): Oscar winning epic comedy
The dying words of a thief spark a madcap cross-country rush to find some treasure. Director: Stanley ... more >> Kramer. Starring Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Ethel Merman. 154 min.
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1:00 pm
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Film | Kes (1969): a tormented working-class boy
A sullen, working-class 15-year-old lad, abused at home and in school, finds a fledgling falcon, whom ... more >> he names "Kes" and lovingly trains as a pet. Directors Ken Loach. Starring Dai Bradley, Lynn Perrie, Freddie Fletcher, Colin Welland, Brian Glover. 112 min.
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1:00 pm
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Film | The 15 : 17 to Paris (2018): A biographical drama by Clint Eastwood
Americans discover a terrorist plot on a Paris-bound train. Starring Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, ... more >> Spencer Stone. 94 min.
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1:00 pm
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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
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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
Concert | Pipes at One Organ Recital
Organist Donald R. Meineke serves as Cantor at The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity where ... more >> he oversees the musical life of the Parish, conducts the Holy Trinity Parish Choir, curates an extensive concert series, and is Artistic Director of Bach Vespers featuring the renowned Bach Choir and Players. Weekly recitals showcasing the new organ, featuring New York City's leading organists.
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1:00 pm
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Film | No Reservations (2007): Romantic comedy-drama with Catherine Zeta-Jones
The life of a top chef changes when she becomes the guardian of her young niece. Director: Scott Hicks. ... more >> With Aaron Eckhart, Abigail Breslin. 104 min.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Superfly (2018): Remake of a blaxploitation crime movie
With retirement on his mind, a successful young drug dealer sets up one last big job, while dealing with ... more >> trigger-happy colleagues and the police. Director: Director X. Starring Trevor Jackson, Jason Mitchell, Lex Scott Davis. 116 min.
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Silent Mountain (2014): A love story during WWI
A young Austrian soldier in World War I fights his way through the Alps to rescue his first love and ... more >> escape the impending explosion that will rock the mountain. Director: Ernst Gossner. Starring William Moseley, Eugenia Costantini, Claudia Cardinale. 94 min.
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Art Express: Holiday Slider Greeting Cards
Actualize your ideas and inspirations into one-of-a-kind art pieces. Prepare to send tidings ahead ... more >> of the holiday rush. Join us and learn how to create holiday slider greeting cards. All materials are free and will be provided. Feel free to bring your own art materials.
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Inkface: An Alternate Genealogy for Atlantic Racial Ideology
Histories of racial ideology in the early Atlantic world tend to be derived from the fields of legal ... more >> history and the history of science and their archives of documents that elaborate and systematize. However, this archive does not capture the historical fact that racial difference had already been established in reading and performance cultures as a distinction between white persons capable of reading texts and bodies and blackened persons, covered in ink and, thus, meant to be read. In this talk, Miles Grier of Queens College will provide examples of this recurring trope in literary and performance culture.
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4:00 pm
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Concert | 3 Folk Music Acts
With: Cordelia Stephens Susan Kane Matt Sucich
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Andy Warhol: A Retrospective
A leader in the Pop Art Movement, Andy Warhol is today remembered most prominently for his pioneering ... more >> silkscreen prints. Warhol's series Flowers-based on photographs taken by Patricia Caulfield and originally featured in the June 1964 issue of Modern Photography Magazine-is a portfolio of ten screen-prints. The works, when initially presented, represented a surprising departure from the artist's initial themes of pop culture and commercialism.
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War
Martina Caruso of John Cabot University in Rome will discuss her recent book with David Forgacs, Contemporary ... more >> Italian Studies, and Maria Antonella Pelizzari, History of Photography, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
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6:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Xeixa: Fourteen Catalan Poets
During the post-civil war era, Franco’s fascist government forbade the people of Spain’s Catalonia ... more >> region from speaking, reading, and writing in Catalan, a crime punishable by imprisonment or execution. Throughout these years, the work of Catalan poets could only be found via the underground. Marlon L. Fick and Francisca Esteve traveled to meet each of the poets featured in this anthology, embarking on the long road of joy, pain, and friendship that is the work of translation. These fourteen poets, like fourteen blackbirds, provide keen angles of perception in beautiful and lyrical poetry.
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6:00 pm
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Film | Ouaga Girls (2016): Women of an African School for Auto Mechanics
A group of young women tweak machines and hammer away at a school for auto mechanics in Ouagadougou in ... more >> this poetic story about life choices, sisterhood and the endeavor to find one’s own way. In a country with youth unemployment at 52 percent, jobs are a hot issue. This is a feature-film debut and coming-of-age film with warmth, laughter, heartbreak and depth. Directed by Theresa Traore Dahlberg 80 min. In French with English subtitles.
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | The State(s) We're In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations – Economic Inequality and Populism
What makes populism attractive? Why do people believe it will improve their lives? Will it? Or will some ... more >> types and not others? This panel looks at populism in Western and Eastern Europe and the U.S. to understand the role that economics, race, and religion play. With this international comparison, we hope to get closer to the root of why populism "works" and so, how to address it. With: Torsten Meireis, Professor of Systematic Theology at Humboldt University-Berlin Michael Minkenberg, Professor of Comparative Politics at European University Viadrina Marcia Pally, Professor at New York University in Multilingual Multicultural Studies Charles Postel, Professor of History at San Francisco State University
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6:30 pm
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Concert | 10 Years of BronxBerlinConnection
The BronxBerlinConnection, a youth exchange program that has facilitated the encounter of young people ... more >> from Berlin and NYC, assisting them in becoming vocal voices for their communities, is turning 10. Program alumni, hip-hop artists and activists for social justice gather for a night of live performances with Brooklyn-based DJ Farbeon, beatboxers, MCs and dancers from both sides of the Atlantic. Add your own beat to the open mic sessions.
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7:00 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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Opening Reception | Do Not Litter, Do Not Feed Birds and Do Not Push the Help Button (Yet): Art from the Czech Republic
Czech artist and sculptor.Krištof Kintera showcases his interpratation of NYC’s layers, relating Manhattan ... more >> to an Ant Colony, decoding and transmuting his understandings into wall drawings. His movie called "Hands Tools of Brain" is about mass conversion into art piece. Videoprojection "Postnaturalia" will be presented in the gallery for the first time.
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7:00 pm
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Play | Marisol: A War in Heaven
There’s a war in heaven, God is dying, and he’s taking the universe with him: this is the premise ... more >> of José Rivera’s 1993 Obie-Award-winning play. The story of a young woman from the Bronx, Marisol is rich with the promise and the disappointments not only of life in New York, but of life itself—a life that, in the play at least, always seems to be mysteriously marked by the transcendent.
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | My Story, My Voice: Nigerian Immigrant in England
A one-woman play by Ivy Omere, performed by the author, directed by Passion. The story of a young girl, ... more >> child of Nigerian immigrants in England, who is cast out of her family into the foster care system and who later returns to navigate life in the troubled home of her own parents.
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | proxy: Award-Winning Poems
R. Erica Doyle was born in Brooklyn to Trinidadian immigrant parents. Her debut collectio, proxy won ... more >> the 2014 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America and was a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry.
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7:00 pm
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Film | Sanctuary (2018): A Sacred Garden Slated for Destruction
Sanctuary is about a time and place in our contemporary world that harkens back 2600 years. The Lumbini ... more >> Crane Sanctuary exists within the 3 square mile Sacred Garden area where Siddhartha Gautama ((also known as the Buddha “the awakened one”) ) was born. There are plans afoot to replace the 254 acre sanctuary with 5 hotels and a 1000 person meditation center. Sarus cranes, the tallest flying birds in the world, have lived in the fields around Lumbini since the time Buddha was young. Though crane numbers are dwindling, they still nest in the area today along with many other wildlife species. 30 min. There will be Q&A session after the screening with director Lillian Ball.
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Lecture | Big Week: Smashing the Luftwaffe, February 1944
A lecture by author and BBC presenter James Holland.
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Europe Then and Now in Audio Drama
This panel discussion will explore the role of audio drama in documenting and dissecting political events, ... more >> the experience of bringing history to life through sound, and the challenges and pleasures of reaching new audiences. Following the panel, there will be a staged reading of "Illegal Helpers," a German play by Maxi Obexer, in Neil Blackadder’s English translation. This innovative and timely piece of audio drama explores the current refugee crisis in Europe through the eyes of average citizens.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Perfectionism and the Athlete’s Body in History
A reading and conversation about perfectionism and the female body with two debut novelists Jaclyn Gilbert ... more >> and Jessie Chaffee. Jaclyn Gilbert’s debut Late Air interrogates the dangers of perfectionism in elite women’s distance running, while Jessie Chaffee’s novel Florence In Ecstasy looks at one woman’s search for herself in Florence after she joins a local rowing club, consumed by her quest for perfection through sport, and Florence’s own dangerous history of sainthood for women who starved themselves for God.
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Classical Music | Piano recital by an eclectic performer in both the classical and jazz worlds
Pianist Alexander Wu has established himself as an eclectic performer in both the classical and jazz ... more >> worlds. The Washington Post praised, “Wu’s exuberant etudes on Gershwin songs and the dreamy Ellington’s Reflections in D – sounded assured and settled... he is uncommonly attractive and entertaining.” He has given numerous concerts in the US and abroad with performances at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Merkin Concert Hall, Bargemusic, Steinway Series at the Smithsonian, Mannes College among others.
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Works by Schubert, Kreisler and Mahler
Mina Kusumoto and guest performers play works by great Viennese composers including Franz Schubert (1797-1828) ... more >> , Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962) and Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), culminating with the brilliant Piano Trio. Pianist Mina Kusumoto has given concerts each season in many world wide venues, such as Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Yamaha Salon in NY, Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Hall, Minatomirai Hall in Japan, Oxford Town Hall, and Jacqueline De Prez Memorial Hall in the United Kingdum.
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7:00 pm
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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,...
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Comedy Club | An Evening of Standup Comedy
A standup comedy show featuring comics who have appeared on NBC, TruTV, Comedy Central and more.
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Big-Voiced Bachata Singer
Raised in the Dominican Republic, Bronx-based bachatera Andre Veloz brings her big voice and effortless ... more >> soul to an evening of high-energy bachata infused with merengue, jazz, and more. The self-described “unicornio de la bachata,” whose viral hit “Eta Que Ta’ Aquí” took over the Dominican internet last winter, keeps the dance floor packed with her carefree charisma, feminine fearlessness, and killer band.
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7:30 pm
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Classical Music | Grammy-nominated choir presents: Rachmaninoff's Vespers
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street presents Rachmaninoff’s (1873-1943) Vespers or All-Night Vigil, a ... more >> hauntingly beautiful cornerstone of choral repertoire. The concert will be led by Julian Wachner. About the Performers Grammy-nominated interpreters of both early and new music, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street has changed the realm of 21st-century vocal music, breaking new ground with an artistry described as “blazing with vigour…a choir from heaven” (The Times). The ensemle has been described as “thrilling” (New Yorker), “musically top-notch” (Wall Street Journal), and “simply superb” (New York Times). Music director Julian Wachner has been variously described as “jazzy, energetic, and ingenious,” (Boston Globe), having “splendor, dignity, outstanding tone combinations, sophisticated chromatic exploration…a rich backdrop, wavering between a glimmer and a tingle...,” (La Scena Musicale) being “a compendium of surprises,” (Washington Post) and as “bold and atmospheric,” while having “an imaginative flair for allusive text setting,” and noted for “the silken complexities of his harmonies” (New York Times). He has made guest appearances with such major organizations as the San Francisco, New York City, and Glimmerglass Opera, the New York and Hong Kong Philharmonic and many more.
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7:30 pm
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Classical Music | Bach's Footsteps: works by J.S. Bach, Shostakovich and others
Bach's Footsteps will feature music by J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Busoni (1866-1924), Hess (b.1953), Shostakovich ... more >> (1906-1975), Rochberg (1918-2005), Lasser (b.1963), and Kurtag (b.1926).
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8:00 pm
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Play | The Winter’s Tale: Shakespeare Drama
As Leontes--King of Sicilia--convinces himself of his wife's adultery, he destroys his family, his friendships, ... more >> and everything he holds dear. Sixteen years later we pick up with his daughter in the opposing land of Bohemia. The Winter's Tale, directed by Aydan Shahd, explores the space between loss and recovery.
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8:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Waiting for Father: The Shadow of Auschwitz
The play by Zuzana Justman tells the story of Helena, a young woman who cannot accept the fact that her ... more >> father died in Auschwitz. It is set in the Terezin ghetto in 1944 and at Vassar College and in New York City in 1954.
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8:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Contour: Beautiful, Heartfelt Choreography
Choreographed by Jiří Bartovanec and performed by National Theatre of Brno; full of beautiful movements ... more >> and dancers who put their hearts into the performance. The production is the author’s commentary on the marginal events that have influenced the direction of society.
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