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54 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, September 29, 2018

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free events nyc Fashion Unraveled: Memory, Wear, and Imperfection in Dress
free events nyc East Village Sights and Sounds Tour
free events nyc Historic Greenwich Village Tour: Beats, Bohemians, and Icons from the 1950's to Today
free events nyc Concert at the coolest classical music concerts location in NYC
free events nyc Tonight We Dance: A Night of Jazz & Swing
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Workshop | Morning Fitness


One hour of walking, stretching, and strengthening exercises. For a breath of fresh air, take your workouts ... more >> outdoors. Parks are becoming a logical alternative environment for those who want to add variety to their workouts, or who just don't like the gym. And, it's an affordable way to increase physical activity opportunities, because there's nothing special to build. Exercise with a view, in natural sunlight, with green scenery all around bestows health benefits that can’t be found indoors. Scientific studies have shown that the pleasure of being outdoors for example gives your brain, psyche, and immune system an extra boost. Led by trained professionals, and suitable for all levels. Wear comfortable clothing and bring water. Every Saturday.
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8:30 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
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Workshop | Drawing in the Park


Paint in watercolor, or use pastels, chalk, and charcoal to capture the magical vistas of the Hudson ... more >> River and the unique landscape. An artist/educator will help participants of all levels with instruction and critique. Art materials provided. Please note that this program is for adult participants (age 18 and up). Saturdays, September 8-29, 2018.
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10:00 am
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Colloquium | Fashion Unraveled: Memory, Wear, and Imperfection in Dress


Inspired by the exhibition Fashion Unraveled, this one-day colloquium explores the concepts of memory, ... more >> wear, and imperfection in fashion. Speakers will focus on imperfect garments and the significance of dressing as a habitual, intimate, and ephemeral act.
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10:00 am
Free

Festival | Garden's 25th Anniversary Celebration


Come celebrate with at the 25th Anniversary Celebration! There will be free refreshments, live music, ... more >> and live dance performance from groups from Bolivia and Puerto Rico. Special awards will be given to special guests and volunteers.
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10:00 am
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Dance Lesson | Moves with Limón Dance


Experience the joy of movement and dance. Led by dancers from the world-renowned Limón Dance Company, ... more >> this modern dance class is now in its seventh year. Open to all levels and ages. Saturdays, June 23-September 29, 2018.
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10:00 am
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Park Walk | Park Tour: From Freight to Flowers


Hear the story behind New York City's park in the sky. Guided 75-minute walking tours led by knowledgeable ... more >> volunteer guides will offer you an insider's perspective on the park's history, design, and landscape. Tuesdays and Saturdays, June 23 -September 29, 2018.
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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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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 | Yoga Flow Workshop


Want to flow through your chaturanga with views of NYC's future mega-neighborhood? From May through September, ... more >> this yoga session will happen every Saturday morning. Mats and blocks for the first 20 participants.
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Workshop | Butt and Gut Workshop


Veteran Donald Calliste leads you to tone and define your core, lower back, and glutes with cardio exercises ... more >> that keep your heart rate up and fat burning. Please bring a mat.
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10:30 am
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City Walk | East Village Sights and Sounds Tour


Downtown Manhattan's East Village is one of NYC's most beloved neighborhood's for good reason--it's home ... more >> to one of the world's most renown centers of architectural study, a 163 year old bar, was the center of the punk rock scene and Nuyorican literary movement, and even holds a cemetery where a President was once buried. This walking tour showcases the the rich history of a neighborhood that means so much to so many.
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11:00 am
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Fair | Fall Harvest Fair


It's their biggest harvest yet featuring cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants, and much more. They'll have ... more >> a scavenger hunt, a jam-making activity, honey tasting from their very own bees, and much more.
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Shape Up NYC Zumba


It's Shape Up NYC's fun Zumba class! Colorful outfits are encouraged! Zumba is a fusion of Latin, International, ... more >> and popular music dance themes creating a dynamic, exciting, and effective fitness system! The routines feature aerobic, fitness interval training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body with easy-to-follow dance steps.
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11:00 am
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Talk | Voice of My City Exhibition Tour


New Yorkers see the city as a character in their own personal novels. Choreographer Jerome Robbins was ... more >> no different. Take a tour of the exhibition Voice of My City: Jerome Robbins and New York with Library staff and special guests to discover how all of Robbins’ love, frustration, and identity as a New Yorker were infused into his works. Special guest Robert Greskovic.
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11:00 am
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Slide Lecture | Windows to Heaven: Icons in the East and West


After a centuries-long decline under the influence of Western naturalism, early 20th century Greek artist ... more >> Photios Kontaglou revived traditional Byzantine style in the painting of Christian icons, which then precipitated a renaissance that swept through the eastern Orthodox churches since his death in 1960. With art historian Dennis Raverty.
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11:00 am
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Lesson | Yoga for beginners


In this session you will learn simple but powerful yoga postures to balance and stabilize your system. ... more >> No prior experience with yoga is necesary. Please bring a yoga mat, towel, and arrive on a empty stomach.
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11:00 am
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City Walk | Greenwich Village Walking Tour


Steeped in artistic, political and progressively social history, Greenwich Village today remains a cultural ... more >> melting pot. The ‘Village’ has been, and remains a bohemian capitol, a center of the modern LGBT movement and one of the birthplaces of the ‘Beat’ and 60’s counter culture movements. Alongside historic landmarks the tours visit the Villages’ modern day institutions, observing where the places todays Villagers’ work, live and play, and where they maintain the sense of the unique, bizarre and beautiful bohemia we call Greenwich Village. This event takes place every Saturday from June 2 to September 29.
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11:30 am
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Musical | Scale 1:5: An Alternative Musical Show -- Outdoors


The Hungarian company HoPPart will bring the alternative musical show Scale 1:5 to the streets of New ... more >> York by using a portable sound system and headphones to take the audience for a walk around the Yorkville neighborhood. The players will follow the traces of the Czech, German, and Hungarian communities that formerly inhabited this part of the Upper East Side. Scale 1:5 has been adapted and performed in Budapest, Prague, Kosice, Marseille, Graz, and Brussels. The members of HOPPart represent an alternative musical style. Each member of the company is professional actor, singer and multi-instrumentalist musician. While creating a theatre piece, they do everything themselves: collective writing and directing, working on the musical arrangement, singing and accompanying themselves on musical instruments. In the original languages with English supertitles, followed by talk-backs with the artists.
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12:00 pm
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Film | The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980): One Last Party


Three Puerto Rican brothers retreat to a town in New York following their father's death during a bank ... more >> robbery. There they are hired by an elderly Irishwoman to renovate her house so she can throw one last house party. Director: Kathleen Collins Stars: Rae Ferguson, Sylvia Field, Cesar Gonzalez 54 min.
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12:00 pm
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Festival | Little Red Lighthouse Festival


Celebrate Manhattan’s only remaining lighthouse with Urban Park Ranger educational presentations, visits ... more >> to the lighthouse interior, readings of eponymous children’s book, fishing clinics, live music, food vendors, and fun family activities.
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Writers discuss their work


Supportive gatherings where creative people meet, read their work, discuss craft, talk about how to improve ... more >> and how to achieve their goals as writers.
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12:00 pm
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Film | Oscar winning Darkest Hour (2017): Winston Churchill and the fate of Western Europe


In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide ... more >> whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire. Directed by Joe Wright. Stars: Gary Oldman, who won Best Actor Oscar for this role, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas. 125 min.
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Planting and Using Herbs for Intergenerational Wellness


It's said, "what is not healed gets passed on ..." During this workshop, work with plant wisdom to address ... more >> the ancestral root causes of painful health conditions, which present as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic conditions. They will also explore how to simply and strategically plan to plant medicinal herbs and foods which support our best health and satisfy our taste buds. Facilitated by Janiele Lewis, Legacies of Health, Farms at NYCHA, and GreenThumb
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1:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Shakespeare for Everyone: All's Well that Ends Well


All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare, published in the First Folio in 1623. Though ... more >> originally the play was classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, the play is now considered by some critics to be one of his problem plays, so named because they cannot be neatly classified as tragedy or comedy. The Shakespeare readings are set up to make Shakespeare accessible. The readings are usually without rehearsal, but they are on-your-feet Instant staged readings where the actors move around as much as they feel comfortable.
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1:00 pm
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Talk | The Hidden Streams and Wetlands of Manahatta North


Urban Park Rangers specialize in interpretation of historic turning points, both natural and man-made, ... more >> in our city’s long history. They discuss the hidden parkland of Manhattan North, formerly known as Manahatta.
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1:00 pm
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Film | Inherit The Wind (1960): Hollywood adaptation of the 1955 play


Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher ... more >> accused of the crime of teaching evolution. Directed by Stanley Kramer. Starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly. 128 min.
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2:00 pm
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Play | Sueño: Imprisoned by Astrology


Sueño is Obie Award-winning playwright José Rivera's translation and adaptation of Calderón de la ... more >> Barca's classic Life Is a Dream. Set in 1635, this metaphysical drama—renowned as one of the jewels of the Spanish Golden Age—Sueño follows the life of young Prince Segismundo, heir to the Spanish throne, who is imprisoned at birth when astrologers predict that his reign as king will result in the country's ruin.
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | T. C. Cannon: At the Edge of America: Exhibition Tour


A 45-minute tour. One of the most influential, innovative and talented Native American artists of the ... more >> 20th century, T.C. Cannon embodied the activism, cultural transition and creative expression that defined America in the 1960s and 1970s. Learn how Cannon interrogated American history and popular culture through his Native lens and exercised a rigorous mastery of Western art historical tropes while creating an entirely fresh visual vocabulary.
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2:00 pm
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Screening | Titicut Follies: The Massachusetts State Prison for the Criminally Insane (1967)


A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane ... more >> at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The film documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers, and psychiatrists. Director: Frederick Wiseman. 84 min. This film contains adult content and some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Tomb Raider (2018): action-adventure


Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits ... more >> when she discovers the island where her father disappeared. Director: Roar Uthaug. Starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, and Walton Goggins. 118 min.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Tully (2018): comedy-drama with Charlize Theron


An overwhelmed mother of three and her husband hire a young night nurse to care for their baby. The nurse ... more >> becomes a confidant for the woman, who is grappling with her identity as a wife and mother. Directors Jason Reitman. 96 min.
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2:00 pm
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Performance | A celebration of Edna St Vincent Millay and Jack Kerouac: music, poetry and more


A unique afternoon of words and music honouring two of the most celebrated Village writers, Edna St Vincent ... more >> Millay and Jack Kerouac. In Kissing in the Village: Edna St Vincent Millay on Bedford Street, Lucy McDiarmid, author and scholar, will reflect on the life and work of the feminist and activist whose Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry captured the defiance and free-spiritedness of her generation. Professor McDiarmid grew up in the Village and was taught by one of the Millay's lovers. Jack Kerouac will be celebrated by composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram, who knew the writer well and created with him the first ever jazz/poetry readings in New York City in 1957. Amram, The Village Trip's Artist-in-Residence, will perform Jack Kerouac's Blues in the Afternoon. The afternoon closes with a world premiere of David Amram's arrangement for saxophone and piano of his evocative Greenwich Village Portraits, which celebrates three old friends--all key Village figures--Arthur Miller, Odetta and Frank McCourt. It will be performed by Ken Radnovsky, saxophonist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and pianist Yoshiko Kline.
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Adult Colormania Club


If you're an adult looking for a fresh, new activity that will help bring stress relief to your busy ... more >> life, try the new coloring club. Sitting down to color a picture can be effective as meditation in reducing stress. Materials will be provided.
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | Historic Greenwich Village Tour: Beats, Bohemians, and Icons from the 1950's to Today


Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, Dave Attell, Patti ... more >> Smith, Joan Baez, and Truman Capote are just a few of the thousands of accomplished artists, writers, radicals, and performers who made their way through Greenwich Village. This tour, primarily focusing on the 1950s onward, visits the hangouts that have defined legendary people and the spirit of this iconic neighborhood.
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2:00 pm
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Classical Music | Instrument Discovery Day


Try out instruments at the instrument Petting Zoo, and learn about the Musical Mornings program, private ... more >> lessons, group classes, and more.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Jackie Chan's Project A (1983)


Dragon Ma is a lieutenant in the 19th-century Hong Kong marines. Pirates have been terrorizing local ... more >> waters, with assistance from the corrupt authorities. Dragon Ma hopes to defeat the evil pirate clan led by Sanpao, but his plan is short-circuited. Ma then teams with a navy admiral, a police captain Tzu and a crafty thief in a new round of high-seas battles with Sanpao and his pirates. Starring Hak Suen Lau, Biao Yuen, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo. 95 min. Subtitled in English.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Oscar-Nominated Girl With A Pearl Earring (2003): Vermeer's Muse


A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant ... more >> and the model for one of his most famous works. Based on the novel by Tracy Chevalier. Directors Peter Webber. With Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson. 105 min.
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Southern Park Welcome Tour


An introduction to some of the southern Park highlights, including Grand Army Plaza, the Pond, Gapstow ... more >> Bridge, Wollman Rink, Chess and Checkers House, and the Dairy.
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Water’s Edge Garden Tour


An experienced horticulturist leads a tour of one of the island’s stunning gardens. Learn about the ... more >> flowers, wildlife, plants, and trees that can be found.
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Grammy-winning singer performs folksongs and lullabies


Grammy Award Winning mezzo-soprano and former member of the acclaimed vocal quartet Anonymous 4, Jacqueline ... more >> Horner-Kwiatek sings lullabies and folk song from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century. Enjoy an enchanting afternoon of ancient lullabies, Irish, English, and American folk songs, along with Benjamin Britten’s mystical masterpiece A Charm of Lullabies. 
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2:30 pm
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Performance | Antigone in Ferguson: Sophocles and Choral Music


Antigone in Ferguson was conceived in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in 2014, through a collaboration ... more >> between Theater of War Productions and community members from Ferguson, Missouri. Translated and directed by Bryan Doerries and composed by Phil Woodmore, the project fuses a dramatic reading by leading actors of excerpts from Sophocles’s Greek tragedy with live choral music performed by a choir of activists, police officers, youth, and concerned citizens from Ferguson and New York City. The performance is the catalyst for panel and audience-driven discussions on race and social justice, the core component of the event. This multifaceted production will offer a glimpse not only into the effects of the tragedy in Brown’s local community, but also the trauma of police violence and racial injustice in communities of color in New York and across the nation. Local stakeholders and community leaders will participate as panelists, assisting in opening up dialogues with audiences. These guided discussions, which aim to promote healing and bridge the growing divide between law enforcement and local communities, will focus on the impact of racialized violence against communities of color, and the legacies of the tragic deaths of Michael Brown, as well as Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Saheed Vassell, and numerous other victims. The presentation will feature a rotating roster of acclaimed actors, including Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale), who will reprise the role she portrayed in the premiere of Antigone in Ferguson presented on the stage of Michael Brown’s high school in Ferguson in 2016. Other cast members include: Paul Giamatti (Billions), Tamara Tunie (Law & Order: SVU), David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck), Adepero Oduye (12 Years a Slave), Frankie Faison (The Wire) and Kathryn Erbe (Law & Order: Criminal Intent). Each week will feature a different group of actors. Tuesdays through Saturdays, September 13-October 13, 2018.
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3:00 pm
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Musical | Scale 1:5: An Alternative Musical Show -- Outdoors


The Hungarian company HoPPart will bring the alternative musical show Scale 1:5 to the streets of New ... more >> York by using a portable sound system and headphones to take the audience for a walk around the Yorkville neighborhood. The players will follow the traces of the Czech, German, and Hungarian communities that formerly inhabited this part of the Upper East Side. Scale 1:5 has been adapted and performed in Budapest, Prague, Kosice, Marseille, Graz, and Brussels. The members of HOPPart represent an alternative musical style. Each member of the company is professional actor, singer and multi-instrumentalist musician. While creating a theatre piece, they do everything themselves: collective writing and directing, working on the musical arrangement, singing and accompanying themselves on musical instruments. In the original languages with English supertitles, followed by talk-backs with the artists.
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3:00 pm
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Classical Music | Afternoon Organ Meditations


Forty-five minute organ meditations celebrating the diverse repertoire of the pipe organ. The program ... more >> features the great repertoire of the organ on the 101-rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor and Boody Organ Builders. Takes place every Saturday and Sunday from 9 September 2018 to 26 May 2019.
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4:00 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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Concert | Bringing It All Back Home: The Music of Greenwich Village


A live concert in celebration of the legendary and influential music heritage of Greenwich Village. Come ... more >> by and enjoy performances by talented artists in a magical setting.
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Piano works


Ishmael Wallace is a composer, pianist, and baritone singer.
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Jazz | Tonight We Dance: A Night of Jazz & Swing


A night of swing, dance, and live jazz. Enjoy dancing with The Harlem Swing Dance Society and Harlem ... more >> Renaissance Orchestra, share stories, and listen to the music reminiscent of the Big Band Era. Dance lessons take place from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Enjoy live music from Harlem Renaissance Orchestra, an 18 piece Orchestra. All are welcome to dance!
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5:00 pm
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Play | Sueño: Imprisoned by Astrology


Sueño is Obie Award-winning playwright José Rivera's translation and adaptation of Calderón de la ... more >> Barca's classic Life Is a Dream. Set in 1635, this metaphysical drama—renowned as one of the jewels of the Spanish Golden Age—Sueño follows the life of young Prince Segismundo, heir to the Spanish throne, who is imprisoned at birth when astrologers predict that his reign as king will result in the country's ruin.
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Author Reading | When Pregnancy Does Not Lead to a Child: A Graphic Novel


Women suffer the of loss of a pregnancy in a way that can never ‘be expected.’ More often than not, ... more >> they are compelled to ‘move on.’ Despite all the unspoken labor and subjection, there is no child. The Pregnancy ≠ Childbearing Project is an effort to make suspicious and subvert the markers of pregnant embodiment in an effort to speak for what has remained ‘unspoken’ in the brute force of pregnancy loss.
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Film | Ye Yo (1976): Nuyorican Drama


Ye Yo is, low-budget aside, a relatively slick (in terms of film technique) action drama with a few bits ... more >> of socio-political commentary. It's almost a Nuyorican version of a blaxploitation movie--the protagonist spends the whole film being chased by, and shooting it out with, the police--except it's resolutely even-handed rather than slanted against the establishment. Director: Toney Betancourt 79 min.
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Film | Steven Speilberg's Ready Player One (2018): Video Game with High Stakes -- Outdoors


When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges ... more >> all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. Stars: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn 150 min. You should arrive before 7:00 p.m. to get your spot. Feel free to bring a blanket to sit on. Bottled waters are OK, but no glass.
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Antigone in Ferguson: Sophocles and Choral Music


Antigone in Ferguson was conceived in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in 2014, through a collaboration ... more >> between Theater of War Productions and community members from Ferguson, Missouri. Translated and directed by Bryan Doerries and composed by Phil Woodmore, the project fuses a dramatic reading by leading actors of excerpts from Sophocles’s Greek tragedy with live choral music performed by a choir of activists, police officers, youth, and concerned citizens from Ferguson and New York City. The performance is the catalyst for panel and audience-driven discussions on race and social justice, the core component of the event. This multifaceted production will offer a glimpse not only into the effects of the tragedy in Brown’s local community, but also the trauma of police violence and racial injustice in communities of color in New York and across the nation. Local stakeholders and community leaders will participate as panelists, assisting in opening up dialogues with audiences. These guided discussions, which aim to promote healing and bridge the growing divide between law enforcement and local communities, will focus on the impact of racialized violence against communities of color, and the legacies of the tragic deaths of Michael Brown, as well as Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Saheed Vassell, and numerous other victims. The presentation will feature a rotating roster of acclaimed actors, including Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale), who will reprise the role she portrayed in the premiere of Antigone in Ferguson presented on the stage of Michael Brown’s high school in Ferguson in 2016. Other cast members include: Paul Giamatti (Billions), Tamara Tunie (Law & Order: SVU), David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck), Adepero Oduye (12 Years a Slave), Frankie Faison (The Wire) and Kathryn Erbe (Law & Order: Criminal Intent). Each week will feature a different group of actors. Tuesdays through Saturdays, September 13-October 13, 2018.
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7:30 pm
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Play | Cezary Goes to War: Military Pride and Oppression


The play deconstructs military ethos and pride to make the audience aware of their toxic dimensions and ... more >> oppressiveness. The play draws on the author’s personal experience of having to appear before an army conscription committee. This memory serves as the vehicle for a funny, witty, and spot-on critique of nationalistic war discourses, which resonates with particular force in modern-day Poland. Conceived and directed by Cezary Tomaszewski. Script by Justyna Wąsik. Music by Claude Debussy, Georg Friedrich Handel, Stanislaw Moniuszko, Dimitr Szostakowicz. In the original languages with English supertitles, followed by talk-backs with the artists
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