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38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, November 30, 2022
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Festival | Luminaries: A Mesmerizing Display of Colorful Lanterns
Conceived by the LAB at Rockwell Group, Luminaries' glowing canopy consists of 640 twinkling custom lanterns ... more >> that change in color and intensity. View a special light show at the top of every hour from 8am to 10pm, set to holiday songs.
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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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Workshop | Have a Conversation with a Career Coach
Meet a career coach who can assist you in identifying career potential, skills, interests, and developing ... more >> a plan to help you achieve your career goals. Receive unbiased, objective feedback that will be tailored to your job search and individual needs. Career coaches can assist with resume critique and feedback, career transition or advancement, clearly defining career goals and developing a plan for success, identifying companies and industries that align with career interests, updating your professional profile on sites like LinkedIn, or evaluating graduate school applications.
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Workshop | Have a Conversation with a Career Coach (Online)
Meet a career coach who can assist you in identifying career potential, skills, interests, and developing ... more >> a plan to help you achieve your career goals. Receive unbiased, objective feedback that will be tailored to your job search and individual needs. Career coaches can assist with resume critique and feedback, career transition or advancement, clearly defining career goals and developing a plan for success, identifying companies and industries that align with career interests, updating your professional profile on sites like LinkedIn, or evaluating graduate school applications.
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Tour | Garment District: Factories, Gangsters, Labor Unions and More
Hear an unusual perspective from somebody who spent the greater portion of his life working in the GARMENT ... more >> industry. You will learn how the apparel industry developed in NYC through the years, and how it came to be located in its current District. Watch the development of the industry from sweatshops in the old tenement buildings on the Lower East Side, to giant factories in China and Bangladesh. See how immigrants were the backbone of the industry and in NYC, still are. Five minute flow chart "From Fibers To Garment". Learn about Calvin, Ralph and Oscar, as well as Labor Unions and Gangsters. A Factory Visit When Available. See "The Garment Worker'' by Judith Weller, The Fashion Walk of Fame. The Giant Button and Needle artwork on Seventh Ave. And much more. Rain or shine.
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10:30 am
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Book Discussion | Yiddish Paris: Staging Nation and Community in Interwar France (online)
Nick Underwood explores how left-wing Yiddish-speaking emigrants from Eastern Europe created a Yiddish ... more >> diaspora nation in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s in his new publication. In this first full-length study of interwar Yiddish culture in France, Underwood argues that the emergence of a Yiddish Paris depended on "culture makers," mostly Jews from Socialist and Communist backgrounds who created cultural and scholarly organizations and institutions, including the French branch of YIVO, theater troupes, choruses, and a pavilion at the Paris World's Fair of 1937. Yiddish Paris examines how these left-wing Yiddish-speaking Jews insisted that even in France, a country known for demanding the assimilation of immigrant and minority groups, they could remain a distinct group, part of a transnational Yiddish-speaking Jewish nation. Yet, in the process, they in fact created a French-inflected version of Jewish diaspora nationalism, finding allies among French intellectuals, largely on the left.
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Discussion | Picturing the Russian/Soviet Empire: Ilia Repin’s “Reception of the Volost Elders by Alexander III” and its Afterlife in Stalin’s Kremlin (online)
In 1887, Ilia Repin oversaw the installation of his massive royal painting in the antechamber of the ... more >> Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow. “The Reception of Volost Elders” (now at the State Tretyakov Gallery) portrays one of the key events in the celebrations of Alexander III’s ascension to the throne in 1883—his address to the representatives of the peasantry at the coronation dinner. This talk offers a new reading of Repin’s painting based on the investigation of contemporary nationalist and colonialist discourse in the artist’s treatment of the scene. Previously untapped sources have allowed us to identify many of the ethnically and religiously diverse participants depicted in this canvas and have revealed the logic behind their placement in the composition. In his painting, Repin reflects what Frederiсk Cooper and Ann Stoler have called the “tensions of empire.” Just as Russia’s dominant approach to dealing with those tensions was to rule through difference, Repin also followed a differentiating approach to rendering non-Russian minorities in the scene.
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Discussion | The Enduring Resonance of Carol of the Bells: Ukrainian Origins and Musical Contexts (in-person and online)
In honor of the centennial celebration of the first performance of Mykola Leontovych’s “Shchedryk” ... more >> (known to most Americans as “Carol of the Bells”) in North America at New York City’s Carnegie Hall, this panel will explore the historical context of the composed song, the tour that brought it to the United States, and its legacy as a cultural treasure of the United States and Ukraine. Panelists Maria Sonevytsky, with contributions from Prof. Yevhen Yefremov, will discuss the folk music that inspired Leontovych’s composition; Marika Kuzma will offer background on Ukrainian choral history and its place within the context of Western European repertoires; Leah Batstone will outline the early modernist milieu of Leontovych and other composers in his sphere; and Tina Peresunko will provide a short history of the Ukrainian Republic Capella tour and the global response to its singers. Mark Andryczyk will moderate.
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Tour | Tour of New York City Hall
One of the oldest continuously used City Halls in the nation that still houses its original governmental ... more >> functions, New York's City Hall is considered one of the finest architectural achievements of its period. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, the building was an early expression of the City's cosmopolitanism. City Hall is a designated New York City landmark, and its rotunda is a designated interior landmark as well.
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)
Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach ... more >> in an intimate venue.
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12:20 pm
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Talk | Trends in American Jewish Names (online)
Which names do Jews and non-Jews associate most with Jews? How do Jews of different ages, ancestries, ... more >> and religious orientations vary in the names they select for their children and their pets? How have American Jews' names changed over time? Who names their children after deceased and living relatives, and who has a "Starbucks name"? This lecture answers these questions using the results of a new study of American Jewish Personal Names, based on a survey with over 11,000 responses. The results are discussed in the context of American Jewish society and historical Jewish naming practices around the world. Speaker Sarah Bunin Benor is Vice Provost and Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion (Los Angeles campus) and Adjunct Professor in the University of Southern California Linguistics Department.
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Classical Music | Wednesdays at One: Music for Piano
Artists share their talents with the community in these free, hour-long lunchtime concerts throughout ... more >> the season.
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Film | Murder Most Foul (1964) with Margaret Rutherford
When Miss Marple joins a theatrical company after a blackmailer is murdered, several members of the troupe ... more >> are also dispatched by this mysterious killer. Directed by George Pollock. Featuring Ron Moody, and Charles Tingwell Not Rated. 90 minutes. Enjoy a free screening of the film, as well as a recommended reading list based on the movie. Dame Margaret Rutherford was an English actress of stage, television and film. She won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role as the Duchess of Brighton in The V.I.P.s, and in the early 1960s she starred as Agatha Christie's character Miss Marple in a series of four George Pollock films. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1961 and a Dame Commander in 1967.
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2:00 pm
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Classical Music | Cello Works by Bach, Haydn, and Cassado (In Person and Online)
Loa Kyounghee Cho, Cello Program Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV ... more >> 1009 Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major Hob. VIIb/2 Op. 101 Gaspar Cassado (1897 - 1966) Suite for Solo Cello
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Discussion | Contributing to the Public's Good: Public Health Services (in-person and online)
The country’s COVID-19 response made clear the critical importance of rethinking the role of public ... more >> health within our society. Reflecting on the deficiencies of the existing system, this year’s focus will feature discussions on equity, the healthy lifespan, how we translate science into the right solutions in the public health system, economic policy, and more. Featuring: Kaye Bender, PhD, RN, FAAN Executive Director, MS Public Health Association and President, American Public Health Association Virginia A. Caine, MD Director and Chief Medical Officer, Marion County Public Health Department Judith A. Monroe, MD President and CEO, CDC Foundation Michael Sparer, JD, PhD (moderator) Chair and Professor, Health Policy and Management at Mailman School of Public Heal
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Talk | On the Italian Stage: How Theater Travels (online)
On the Italian Stage is a series of encounters conceived and led by Laura Caparrotti (Artistic Director, ... more >> Kairos Italy Theater) that journeys into the history of Italian Theater to explore its language, and its contribution to Italian society and world theater. To end a year dedicated to traveling theater, this event will explore the locations and the means of transportation for those Italian theater artists who traveled from town to town or around the globe. From carts to temporary stages, from cars to ships, nothing stopped actors from touring even when conditions weren't at all safe. You will discover several kinds of theaters while traveling (no pun intended) through the ages.
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Performance | Area: A Unique Listening Experience
At this event, you get to experience and see the nexus between culture, music, innovation and business ... more >> unfold. What does that mean? You will be able to try out the innovative Austrian tech product NOUS Sonic. NOUS Sonic is a very precise indoor-locating headphone system, originally developed for museum purposes, that can be used for a unique augmented listening experience. You can witness the theater transform into a music studio in which you can individually experience an interactive sound installation by the well-known Austrian electronic musician Christian Fennesz with the NOUS Sonic headphones. PLease note: The sounds are pre-installed, this is not a live performance by the artist. But you get to be your own artist by creating your very own sound mixes, simply by walking through and looking around the theater.
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Book Discussion | Divine New York: Inside the Historic Churches and Synagogues of Manhattan
An exclusive tour through the breathtaking and inspirational interiors of Manhattan's houses of worship. ... more >> For the past fifteen years, Michael L. Horowitz has been photographing the interiors of Manhattan's historic churches and synagogues. Though their exteriors are often unassuming and overlooked by passersby, their interiors are spectacular, uplifting worshippers and architectural devotees alike. In this book, Horowitz takes us from Lower to Upper Manhattan, from the colorful wall paintings of Bialystocker Synagogue, to the jewel-like stained glass windows of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, to the awe-inspiring wooden ceiling of the Holy Name of Jesus and Saint Gregory the Great Parish. A lively and informative text by Elizabeth Anne Hartman tells the stories behind each of the seventy-five houses of worship featured. These sacred edifices reflect the hopes and aspirations of the many different communities that helped build the metropolis, expressed in numerous architectural and artistic styles. And many of these interiors bear the imprint of notable personalities in Big Apple history, from Clement Moore of "The Night before Christmas" to pioneering Black philanthropist Pierre Toussaint.
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Screening | When Women Won: Screening and Discussion with the Director (online)
A pre-recorded Q&A with director Anna Rodgers. Registration will give you access to an on-demand film ... more >> link to view ahead of the live Q&A discussion. When Women Won tells the emotional inside story of the Together for Yes campaign to repeal the 8th amendment and change Irish society forever. In the aftermath of the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar, three Irish feminists joined forces and set about establishing a grassroots, women-led social movement. Working with teams in every county in Ireland, they ultimately delivered a landslide victory. This compelling and insightful documentary recalls the highs and lows of the tumultuous campaign, and captures one of the most seismic shifts in Irish society in recent history. The film features footage from filmmakers, campaigners and volunteers from all over the country who captured elements of this groundbreaking moment in Irish society, alongside archive material going back 35 years.
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Classical Music | Sonatabend Recital (In Person and Online)
Artists from the collaborative piano department perform sonata repertoire with instrumentalists.
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Book Discussion | Inventing the It Girl: How Elinor Glyn Created the Modern Romance and Conquered Early Hollywood (in-person and online)
The modern romance novel is elevated to a subject of serious study in this addictively readable biography ... more >> of pioneering celebrity author Elinor Glyn (1864–1943). In elegant prose, Hilary A. Hallett traces Glyn’s meteoric rise from a depressed society darling to a world-renowned celebrity author who consorted with world leaders from St. Petersburg to Cairo to New York. After reporting from the trenches during World War I, the author was lured by American movie producers from Paris to Los Angeles for her remarkable third act. Weaving together years of deep archival research, Hallett movingly conveys how Glyn, more than any other individual during the Roaring Twenties, crafted early Hollywood’s glamorous romantic aesthetic. She taught the screen’s greatest leading men to make love in ways that set audiences aflame, and coined the term “It Girl,” which turned actress Clara Bow into the symbol of the first sexual revolution.
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Book Discussion | Mutualism: Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up
A labor lawyer, former chair of the board of the New York Federal Reserve, and a MacArthur “genius,” ... more >> author Sara Horowitz brings us a solution to the current crisis of work that’s rooted in the best of American traditions, which she calls mutualism. Horowitz shows how the future of our economic safety net rests on this approach and demonstrates how mutualist organizations have helped us solve common problems in the past and are now quietly driving rural and urban economies alike all over the world, inspired not by for-profit corporations but by labor unions and trade associations, religious organizations and mutual aid societies, and vital social movements from women’s suffrage to civil rights. Mutualism is for anyone who feels that the system is not working for them, and is looking for a new way to build collaboratively, create the new American social contract, and prosper in the twenty-first century.
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Book Discussion | Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
Ted Conover's just-released book recounts five years of life on a remote piece of Colorado prairie. Conover ... more >> discusses immersion reporting among marginal groups and distilling notes into a story with Prof. Rob Boyton and author Nicole Pasulka,
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Screening | the world like a jewel in the hand (2022): Short Film on Looted Museum Pieces
Objects held captive in museums and archives outside of the places from where they were looted are only ... more >> the tip of the iceberg of the mass colonial plunder of Africa. Substantial wealth has been accumulated through the extraction of raw materials, labor, knowledge, and skills throughout the continent, including the co-option of "visual wealth" attained by putting people in front of the colonizers' cameras. This long and enduring ransack cannot be addressed through the discourse or act of restitution alone, especially when arguments are made in support of the return of individual objects only. Rather, it requires a questioning of the imperial structures of the world in which we live. Within the wide landscape opened by this questioning, this film focuses on the destruction of the Jewish Muslim world that existed in North Africa. The film insists on making it imaginable and inhabitable again. Director: Ariella Aisha Azoulay 58 min. Followed by a conversation with the filmmaker
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Talk | Artist Talk: Layers of Material and Narrative
Firelei Báez, who is the Fall 2022 Alex Katz Chair in Painting and a 2004 alumna of the School of Art, ... more >> presents a talk about her practice. Through her process of painting and drawing in layers of material and narrative, Báez unearth women’s stories in the African Diaspora. Image and literary research inform conversations about resistance, climate, and healing while making connections between humans and nature. In recent years, Báez’s work has expanded into immersive installations providing critical interventions across disciplines.
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Talk | Down by Riverside: the Park, the Drive and Bloomingdale (online)
Riverside Park and Riverside Drive have lived many lives. Originally Native American hunting grounds, ... more >> over time they were also the site of vast farms, elegant country estates, stunning millionaires’ villas, and skyscraping Art Deco treasures. Stephanie Azzarone will focus on developments along the Park and Drive in the Bloomingdale neighborhood – the sights, stories, and people that make the area so special. Speaker Stephanie Azzarone is the author of the new book Heaven on the Hudson: Mansions,Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park, a colorful tale of the neighborhood’s history, architecture, and people. A native New Yorker who has lived across from Riverside Park most of her life, Stephanie is a former journalist.
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Discussion | Philosophy Salon: Power, Ambition, and Authenticity
What can 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli teach us about power, ambition, and authenticity ... more >> in the 21st-century workplace? Machiavelli for Women author Stacey Vanek Smith, How to Be Authentic author Skye Cleary, and Chris Salboudis gather to discuss.
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Poetry Reading | Spanner in the Works Poetry Night
Featuring: Matvei Yankelevich Bob Holman Mary Reilly Tsering Yangchen Lama David Rimanelli Jamian Juliano-Villani ... more >> Karen Finley
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Conference | The Timeless Work of Grazia Deledda, the Only Italian Woman to Win the Nobel Prize for Literature (in-person and online)
This seminar session will be dedicated to Deledda’s legacy in the United States. “I’ve developed ... more >> these events with my eye on the future. Dialogue between Italian scholars and leading North American researchers on Grazia Deledda allows us to consider the revolutionary and universal aspects of the great Sardinian author, a source of inspiration to the young” explains Valeria Orani, the New York-based curator of the seminar in collaboration with the Institutional Committee for the 150th Anniversary of Grazia Deledda, including representatives from the Province and Town of Nuoro, MAN, UniNuoro, and the Bank of Sardegna Foundation. For Anthony Muroni, the Committee’s Artistic Director, “It is especially important that the city of New York, with its history of freedom, defense of civil rights, and attention to the role of women in society, should participate in this homage to an author who lifted restrictions on women and set out before anyone else on the road of self-determination, as rendered in the lives of the protagonists of her novels.” Muroni’s words are echoed by Constantino Tidu, Chief Administrator of the Province of Nuoro and head of the Institutional Committee, who adds, “The New York seminar is particularly important for presenting the figure and work of Deledda to a sophisticated and sensitive North American readership.”
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Book Discussion | Tony award winner Idina Menzel, Pulitzer prize winner Anna Quindlen, and others discuss their books, careers, identities
Idina Menzel, Cara Mentzel, Lisa Barr, Anna Quindlen, Jenny Mollen and Zibby Owens in a panel conversation ... more >> about their latest books, newest characters, and what it means to be a powerful woman in the 21st century.
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Cocktails with a Curator: Art and Drinking
The curators of the Frick -- Xavier F. Salomon, Aimee Ng, and Giulio Dalvit -- present engaging histories ... more >> of works of art paired with creatively inspired cocktails—a crash course in art history and a delightful introduction to the treasures of the esteemed New York collection.
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Staged Reading | Oklahoma Samovar: Latvian Jews Flee the Russian Army
In 1887, two Latvian teenagers flee the Russian army and become the only Jews in the Oklahoma Land Run. ... more >> A century later, their daughter reinvents their story, aided by ghosts, blintzes, and strong Russian tea. Written by Alice Eve Cohen, directed by Eric Nightengale
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Talk | Artist Talk: The Sea of New Sands
A lecture by artist, curator and environmentalist Ravi Agarwal. Centering on the fluctuating sands that ... more >> form landing beaches in the Bay of Bengal, Agarwal’s presentation considers the ever-evolving relations between sea and shore, and how these changes influence the lives of those who inhabit this unstable boundary.
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Classical Music | Czech Christmas concert featuring Mezzo-Soprano
An evening of opera, musical theater, and Christmas carols featuring award-winning Czech mezzo-soprano ... more >> Marketa Cukrova, pianists Isabel Keleti and Francesco Pollon, and cellist Tomas Jamnik.
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Concert | An evening with an acclaimed chamber choir
Kent Tritle, Director. Kent Tritle is one of America's leading choral conductors. Called "the brightest ... more >> star in New York's choral music world" by The New York Times, he is Director of Cathedral Music and Organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City; Music Director of Musica Sacra, the longest continuously performing professional chorus in New York; and Music Director of the Oratorio Society of New York, the acclaimed 200-voice volunteer chorus. In addition, Kent is a member of the graduate faculty of The Juilliard School. Also an acclaimed organ virtuoso, Kent Tritle is the organist of the New York Philharmonic. Masks must be worn by audience members.
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Classical Music | Cello Works by Schubert, Haydn, and Boulanger (In Person and Online)
Connor Kim, Cello. Program: Nadia Boulanger (1887 - 1979) Three Pieces for Cello and Piano; Franz Schubert ... more >> (1797 - 1828) Arpeggione Sonata; Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major.
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Comedy Club | Half-Pint Comedy Show
The Half-Pint Comedy Hour is New York City's premiere live variety show. They're celebrating their ... more >> one-year anniversary with a free show. Hosts Aditya Mayya and James Donlon bring an unforgettable night of sketches, stand-up, and live music. The line-up: Casey James Salengo (Comedy Central) Riley Lassin (Stand-Up New York) Shalewa Sharpe (Comedy Central) Also featuring an unplugged set from folk-musician Ki's Garden and sketches from Half-Pint Comedy
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Lecture | Lessons from China: The Metaverse (online)
Neil Nand, Director of Creative Technology at Ogilvy Shanghai, explores the transformation of marketing ... more >> and PR in the region, changes in consumer behavior, the impact of technology on media, and the emergence of new business models.
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