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45 free events take place on Thursday, October 15 in New York City.
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45 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, October 15, 2015

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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 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. This tour takes place every day at 10am.
   Lower Manhattan,
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Tour | Federal Hall National Memorial Guided Tour


Ranger-guided tours are available to the public during operating hours. Times: 10:00AM, 11:00AM, 1:00PM, 2:00PM, 3:00PM. This tour is available Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from September through December 30.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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10:00 am
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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 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.
   Lower Manhattan,
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Google Series Workshop: Google Drive/Docs


Learn how to create, edit and share online documents using Google's ever-evolving word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and calendar programs.
   Midtown,
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10:30 am
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.
   Lower Manhattan,
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12:20 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 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.
   Lower Manhattan,
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Concordian Dawn presents Mystics, Clerics, and Heretics


"Mystics, Clerics, and Heretics" highlights the vastly varying philosophies and interests of monastic/clerical figures of the medieval times, from pious spirituality to caustic heresy against an apocryphal church to deviant songs of love and sex. Almost all texts herein come from manuscripts of monastic origin, with only one text from a manuscript containing works of secular composers, and all pieces display the range of feelings about religion and the church exhibited by medieval figures. Performers: Nicholas Tamagna, countertenor; Christopher Preston Thompson, tenor and historic harp; Jonathan Woody, bass-baritone
   Midtown East, New York, NY
1:15 pm
$10 suggested donation

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 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. This tour takes place Thursdays through Sundays at 2pm.
   East Williamsburg,
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2:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Discuss Great Books in a Great Space


Monthly book discussions to explore titles you've been meaning to read, or reread, and discuss with other lovers of literature. Participants should read each title before the discussion. This month's title is Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
   Midtown,
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2:00 pm
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Film | George Sidney's Cass Timberlane (1947): Judge's Love Life


Stars: Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott. Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. A baby is stillborn and she turns more and more to attorney friend of Cass' Brad Criley. While quarreling the Judge tells Virginia to stay with Brad, but when she becomes sick he brings her home. 119 min.
   Midtown,
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2:00 pm
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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, 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. This tour takes place Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 2pm, Wednesdays at 4pm, and Saturdays at 10am.
   Upper Manhattan,
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Film | Robert Siodmak's Phantom Lady (1944): Mystery Woman


Stars: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis. A beautiful secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife. 87 min.
   Carnegie Hill, New York, NY
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Photoshop CS6 for Beginners


Learn how to enhance photos using the #1 photo editing software in the world; Adobe Photoshop. In this class you will get acquainted with the features of Photoshop and learn about layers and use them to minpulate images to your desire.
   Midtown,
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2:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Performance: Transformental


With: kahiliksihr roninkode - flute Carolyn Koleszar - dance Elsa Keefe - meditation While the performers dance, play the flute, and go into silent meditation, they are surrounded by visual art: video projection, sound design, and 2D visuals. All these art forms serve a universal truth: all forces are inherently interconnected and must nurture those connections to insure the viability of a collective consciousness. The elements fire, earth, air, and water are essential to our very existence. They exist beyond creation and destruction. More importantly, they converse and rely on one another to weave life throughout our world for better, and at times, for worse. But there is always conversation, movement, and dependence between them. Drawing inspiration from these essential constants, the performers communicate beyond the conventional and the obvious, allowing parallels to be forged with the intangible exchange of the elements. From the still to the physical blur, a giving of information/energy is offered to and from each performer, thus allowing simultaneous conversations to thrive. This performance recurs on Tuesday October 13, Wednesday October 14, and Thursday October 15.
   Theater District, New York, NY
4:00 pm
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Author Reading | Cathy Horyn reads from her book Joe Eula: Master of Twentieth-Century Fashion Illustration


Esteemed fashion journalist and critic Cathy Horyn talks about ever-evolving fashion and design, and the indelible marks both leave on our culture.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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5:00 pm
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Birdwatching | Fall Birding Tour


Discover the birds that call the park home, as well as those that may stop by during migration. A surprising diversity of avian visitors drop in, even in the heart of midtown. Sightings could include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, even an American Woodcock.
   Midtown,
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Learnings from Recent Visits to Student-Centered Schools


This conversation with octogenarian learner, teacher, trainer, and author Judy Yero will be facilitated by NYC principal, Jamaal Bowman, of Cornerstone Academy for Social Action. Yero's interest in the neurosciences and experience as a teacher led her to writing Teaching In Mind: How Teacher Thinking Shapes Education. She will share the evolution of her thinking regarding our education system, why she is doing a nationwide tour to research student-centered schools, the surprises she encountered, the people who inspired her, and other stories.
   Midtown, New York, NY
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | Our Security vs Our Privacy: Debating the Trade-Offs


A panel discussion and reception looks at balancing the need to protect the public, government surveillance and personal freedoms. Featuring: -- Ervand (Jed) Abrahamian, Distinguished Professor of History, CUNY -- Stuart M. Blumin, Professor Emeritus of American History at Cornell University, and a former Director of Cornell in Washington -- Brian Phillips Murphy, co-director of the Columbia Seminar in Early American History and Culture, and Associate Professor of History at CUNY -- Steven L. Pomerantz, Director of Counter Terrorism Programs at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
   Midtown, New York, NY
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5:30 pm
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Lecture | A Little Move Toward Greek Philosophy: Reassessing the Statesman Myth


With Nickolas Pappas, Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY. The myth told in Plato’s Statesman separates the present from an “age of Cronus,” sometimes thought of as a golden age in which political order as we know it was unnecessary. And yet this golden age may not have been a time of happiness, if its inhabitants did not practice philosophy. The subtle, even evanescent difference between our time and that time reimagines the founding of philosophical institutions, which turn out to be almost indistinguishable from political ones.
   Midtown, New York, NY
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Drawings: Joan Linder's Project Sunshine


With artistic passion, a researcher’s tenacity, and enviable chutzpah, Linder spent the last several years visiting and drawing Buffalo’s brownfields, toxic waste sites, and the documents related to these hazardous properties. She takes the exhibition title from particularly shocking research done in the ‘50s that many times used the bodies of young children to ascertain the impact of radioactive fallout on the world’s population.
   Midtown, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Flamenco! Performance, Discussion, Video


An evening of flamenco in all its forms: live performance, discussion and video. They will focus on the journey flamenco has made over the years to become the music, song and dance we know today. Accompanying the talks, will be performances by artists and winners of the New York State Certamen-Competition of 2014. Presented by Flamenco Vivo, Carlota Santana and the Center for Flamenco Arts.
   Lincoln Square,
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Liederabend Recital


Artists from the Collaborative Piano Department perform repertoire with singers from the Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts.
   Lincoln Square, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Valeri Larko's Location, Location, Location


Valeri Larko's paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the US and Europe, including The Bronx Museum, New York, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, Jersey City Museum, NJ, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, The National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C,Barbara Frigerio Gallery, Milan, Italy and the American Embassy in Minsk, Belarus. The artist lives and works in New Rochelle, New York.
   Midtown, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photography: Jesse Burke's Wild and Precious


This exhibition brings together landscapes, portraits, and still life imagery which Jesse Burke photographed during a series of road trips with his daughter Clover from 2010 to 2015 to explore the natural world. To encourage a connection with nature, Burke used these adventures as a tool to give Clover an education that he considers essential—one that develops an appreciation and respect for the planet’s wildlife and natural resources, the importance of conservation, and self-confidence.
   Midtown, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Architecture and the Cuban Revolution


Microbrigades - Variations of a Story (2013, 30 min) and Institute Above-Ground (2015, 22 min), two films by Florian Zeyfang, Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, and Alexander Schmoeger that premiered at the Berlin Biennale, combine architectural images, archival material, and interviews to revisit modernist building experiments in post-revolution Cuba. After the screening, Zeyfang and Schmoeger will be in conversation with architectural critic and curator Jacob Moore about their filmic and other research of Cuba's architectural history.
   Midtown, New York, NY
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6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Rashid Johnson discusses his exhibition Anxious Men


Join artist Rashid Johnson and Claire Gilman, Senior Curator and curator of Anxious Men, for a walkthrough of the exhibition.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:30 pm
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Park Walk | Bringing the Park to Life Tour


Hear the story of the park’s creation and innovative approach to revitalizing urban spaces with Regina Myer.
   New York, NY
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Ginger Adams Otis discusses her book Firefight: The Century-Long Battle to Integrate New York's Bravest


This illustrated lecture features stories of courage—about firefighters risking their lives in the line of duty and risking their livelihood by battling an unjust system. It is an exciting blend of the high-octane energy of firefighting, critical Civil Rights history, and a grassroots struggle for opportunity.
   Midtown,
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6:30 pm
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Opening Reception | JB1.0: Jamming Bodies, an Immersive Installation by Lucy McRae and Skylar Tibbits


JB1.0: Jamming Bodies is an immersive installation that transforms the gallery space into a laboratory. The installation, a collaboration between science fiction artist Lucy McRae and architect and computational designer Skylar Tibbits with MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab, explores the relationship between human bodies and the matter that surrounds them. JB1.0: Jamming Bodies collapses architecture, technology, and art into a single object.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Chaya Deitsch discusses her book Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family


Even as a child, author Chaya Deitsch felt that she didn't belong in the Hasidic world into which she'd been born. She spent her teenage years outwardly conforming to but secretly rebelling against the rules. As she gradually shed the trappings of Hasidic life, Chaya found herself torn between her desire to be honest with her parents and her need to maintain a loving relationship with her family.
   Upper West Side,
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Crime Fiction Academy Master Class: Amy Hempel and Jill Ciment


Two great literary writers team up to write a mystery and hit a home run first time out. Amy Hempel known for her terrifically terse short stories (The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel) and Jill Ciment (Act of God) are the collaborative crime team of the season. The Hand That Feeds You is a psychological thriller based in part on reality, dedicated to a dear lost friend and the kind of crime fiction that lingers in the mind long after reading. Hempel and Ciment will discuss the genesis and process of their collaborative effort. Two Lit stars in one room, on one night, talking about writing crime. What could be better?
   Midtown East, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibit: The Amazing Nina Simone: Definition of an Artist


Featuring work from over 50 international artists and special performances, live painting, DJ remixes, and a chance to meet Nina's friends, family and band members.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | French Theory: The (In-)visuality Series


As part of their inaugural education program in New York, Iheap invites artists, curators, and philosophers to explore the convergence of opposing ideologies in French Theory as they apply to vision and visuality within interdisciplinary critical practice. Panelists: Dylan Gauthier, Post-Human Alexandre Gurita, The invisual Steven Henry Madoff, The Answerable Life Jean-Luc Nancy (via Skype), Désoeuvrement Steven Rand, Diogenes and me Giovanni Tusa, The negativity at work The Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques (Iheap) is a graduate institute for research and experimentation in art. It is the educational branch of the Biennale de Paris, manifesting as a liquid school that moves and composes itself within a multitude of environments.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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Author Reading | Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha reads from her book Dirty River


In 1996, queer femme of color poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queerpunk of color love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it reveals how a disabled queer woman of color and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the past and, as the subtitle suggests, “dreams her way home.”
   Lower East Side, New York, NY
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Poetry Reading | Poetry: Jonathan Moody / Frank X Walker


Jonathan Moody was recently awarded the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for his second poetry collection, “Olympic Butter Gold,” forthcoming in November 2015. Frank X Walker is the author of six poetry collections, most recently “Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers” (University of Georgia Press, 2013).
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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Concert | Aurelio and the Sounds of Garifuna


Born in a Caribbean coastal town in Honduras, the rich-voiced singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter Aurelio is the torchbearer for Garifuna music — a mix of West African, indigenous Central American, and European rhythms and rites born out of a difficult history. A protégé of Afropop legend Youssou N’Dour, Aurelio brings an innovative streak to songs firmly rooted in this tradition.
   Lincoln Square,
7:30 pm
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Concert | College Trombone Recital


Darian Freeman, trombone
   Upper Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Raskin and Fleischmann, Violin-and-Piano Duo


Johannes Fleischmann, violin, and Philippe Raskin, piano, have undertaken many festivals and are supported by many well known musicians and pedagogic figures including Hatto Beyerle (Alban Berg Quartet), Johannes Meissl (Artis Quartet), Evgenia Epshtein (Aviv Quartet), Marta Gulyas, Erich Höbarth (Quatuor Mosaïque), Avedis Kouyoumdjian, Andras Keller (Keller Quartet) and Peter Nagy. In November 2011, they released their first debut album that features works by Beethoven, Brahms and Franck to much critical acclaim - "Magnificent duo (...), the first offering his round, gleaming and orchestral playing to the lyricism of the second - of whom we will underline as well the perfect intonation and the bright sonorities" (MDM, La Libre Belgique 2013).
   Midtown East, New York, NY
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7:30 pm
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Master Class | Master Class with Highly Sought-After Pianist Stéphane Lemelin


Pianist Stéphane Lemelin is well-known to audiences throughout Canada and regularly performs in the United States, Europe and Asia. A guest soloist of the major Canadian orchestras, he is widely sought after as a recitalist and chamber music partner. His repertory is vast, with a predilection for the German Classical and Romantic literature and a particular affinity for French music, as evidenced by his more than twenty recordings. Piano master classes take place every Thursday from September 10 to December 10.
   East Village, New York, NY
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7:45 pm
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Concert | Chorus 72, an Art and Music Event


Composers Concordance continues its series 'Pitches at an Exhibition' with the art and music event Chorus 72. This will feature Rainer Gross' '72,' a large-scale set of paintings inspired by the kabbalah, together with a live performance of thirty-six brief choral compositions written in response to this artwork. The chorus will feature singers Charles Coleman, Lori Fredrics, Sharon Harms, Melanie Mitrano, Doug Shapiro, and Eleanor Taylor, among others, conducted by Thomas Carlo Bo. Compositions by Bruce Arnold, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, Thomas Carlo Bo, John Clark, Charles Coleman, Dan Cooper, Joe Drew, Mark Egan, Jane Getter, Masatora Goya, Patrick Grant, Melissa Grey, Carlton Holmes, Debra Kaye, Payton MacDonald, Eugene McBride, Melanie Mitrano, David Morneau, Alon Nechushtan, Frank J. Oteri, Milica Paranosic, Joseph Pehrson, Gene Pritsker, Arnie Rodriguez, Anton Rovner, David Rozenblatt, David Saperstein, William Schimmel, Zach Seely, David Taylor, Sergio Valenzuela, Michael Villmow, P. Kellach Waddle, Dorian Wallace, Carlton Wilkinson, and Randy Woolf will be premiered.
   Hell's Kitchen, New York, NY
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Polaroid Stories by Naomi Iizuka: A College Production


Inspired in part by Ovid's Metamorphoses, as well as interviews with homeless youth, Polaroid Stories conveys a whirlwind of psychic disturbance, confusion and longing. Like their mythic counterparts, these modern-day mortals are engulfed by needs that burn and consume with language that mixes poetry and profanity, imbuing the play with lyricism and great theatrical force. This production takes place October 15, 16, and 17, 2015.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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8:00 pm
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Concert | An Art and Music Event: Pitches at an Exhibition – Chorus 72 by Rainer Gross


This event will feature Rainer Gross’ epic series inspired by the kabbalah, plus a live performance of nearly fifty one-minute choral compositions inspired by the paintings. The eight-piece chorus will feature singers Sharon Harms, Melanie Mitrano, Eleanor Taylor, Melanie Gall, Gonzalo Mena, Charles Coleman, and Doug Shapiro, among others, conducted by Thomas Carlo Bo.
   Hell's Kitchen, New York, NY
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Concert | Dither and Friends: Full Band Electric Counterpoint


The electric guitar quartet Dither anchors an evening of music that encompasses minimalism, experimentalism, and rock and roll. The program will feature Steve Reich’s iconic work "Electric Counterpoint," performed by Dither, Mark Stewart (Paul Simon’s musical director, Bang on a Can All-Stars), and a live ensemble of 13 electric guitars and basses, plus other works for guitar multiples.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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Poetry Reading | The Poets of Omnidawn Publishing


The evening will include readings by Omnidawn authors/ translators: Andrea Baker, Eric Ekstrand, Claudia Keelan, Douglas Piccinnini, Donald Revell, Margaret Ross, Dan Rosenberg, and Susan Terris. Omnidawn will provide wine and sparkling water.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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Workshop | Advanced MS Excel 2011 for Mac Workshop


Learn the more advanced features of Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac. Topics include using formulas and functions, data sorting and conditional formatting.
   Midtown,
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