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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 11, 2019?

68 free events take place on Thursday, April 11 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out April 11 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of April . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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Workshop | Sun Salutations and Intentions Morning Yoga


Starts your day with a morning yoga practice. You will experience luxurious stretching warm-ups, empowering standing poses, and energizing breath work as we align the movements with the inhales and exhales. You will feel more awake, strong, balanced, and positive as a result of this time spent on the mat. Sun Salutations and warrior poses stimulate the seratonin in your brain (the “happy hormone) and improve self-esteem! You will be ready for anything that meets you as your day unfolds. Bring a yoga mat if you have one. You may bring your own coffee or tea.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:45 am
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Workshop | Morning Fitness


One hour of walking, stretching, and strengthening exercises. For a breath of fresh air, take your workouts 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 Tuesday and Thursday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
Free

Conference | Lessons from the Ground: Framing and Interpreting Human Rights in the Balkans


This symposium brings together activists, practitioners, and scholars to reflect upon critical human rights-and research-oriented issues that receive less international attention but are well-known locally in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first is the long-term traumatic as well as professional impact that the country’s history, people, and culture have had upon those who have worked there for any period of time. A new generation of activists and survivors, both at home and abroad, are also asserting more control over the existing wartime narratives—either by reinforcing and/or or pushing against them creating new tensions. Finally, the Bosnian research landscape has been fundamentally changed by the hundreds of analyses with and about the population over the years which has important implications for the kind of nuanced scholarship that is sorely needed but increasingly difficult to conduct.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:05 am
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Conference | Erasures: Excision and Indelibility in the Art of the Americas


What can and cannot be erased? This question emerges when monuments are destroyed, cultural artifacts vanish, or the faces of the disappeared continue to interrogate government violence and corruption. Though the recent fire at the Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro resulted in the devastating loss of approximately twenty million objects, the impact goes beyond physical destruction. Marina Silva, Brazil’s former Minister of the Environment, went so far as to call the fire a “lobotomy of the Brazilian memory.” Tragedies and subsequent actions to confront them shape this year’s theme. Erasure is commonly understood as an obliteration of content or removal of all traces, often forcefully. And yet, as demonstrated by Horacio Zabala’s burned maps from the 1970s or Jacques Bedel’s erased Cordillera (1972), visual art maintains an uncanny ability to demonstrate resilience in the void of visible content. Erasure can manifest through strategies of elimination, cleansing, or effacement as aesthetic practice, or it might instead emerge in issues surrounding medium, as in the ephemerality of site-specific or performative work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 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 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
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | City Hall Tour for Individuals


The tour of City Hall includes a discussion of the building's history, art, architecture, and civic function. The building is the oldest city hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions, such as the office of the Mayor of New York. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, New York City Hall is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Prepare And File Your Tax Return


It’s tax time! Get your refund. A tax prep with AARP who can help you prepare and file your tax return electronically—all for free. To participate in this program, you must: Have a valid e-mail address and basic computer skills. Bring all necessary documents and information (review the relevant PDF below see what information you will need to bring with you to file your taxes).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Conference | Politics of the Present: Crises of Democracy


Panelists will discuss issues affecting democracy across the globe, including "The Populist Appeal of Strongmen," "Weaponizing the Classics," and "Journalists at Risk."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:15 am
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Film | Lust for Life (1956) With Kirk Douglas And Anthony Quinn: Oscar Winning Story Of Vincent Van Gogh


The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh. 122 min. Directors: Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor. Starring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald. Lust For Life is based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Irving Stone. Douglas won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama for his performance, while Quinn won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. It had also three other Academy Award nominations for Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Writing (Screenplay--Adapted) and Best Art Direction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Dance Performance | Dance Studio Showings


This spring, artists and their collaborators will develop new projects in a residency period that encourages peer exchange by hosting multiple artists in the studios concurrently. Come get a glimpse of the creative process and an opportunity to see works in varying stages of development. 11AM / Rudolf Nureyev Studio Hadar Ahuvia 12PM / John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio Schoen Movement Company: An American and Tunisian Collaboration 1PM / Danny Kaye & Sylvia Fine Kaye Studio Terrence O'Brien 3PM / John Cage & Merce Cunningham Studio Ellen Cornfield 4PM / Rudolf Nureyev Studio Joseph Keckler
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Workshop | Essentials for Job Seekers: Resumes


Looking for a job? Discover what tools to use to find vacancies, learn inside tips from a certified Talent Acquisition Strategist on where to find job postings and what HR is looking for in your application. Laptops will be first-come-first-served; bring your own if you have one. Also bring paper copies of your resume/cover letter, or have the file accessible via email or flash drive. All levels of experience welcome. Please do not arrive late interrupting the class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Film | Black Lights (2006): A Momentous Meeting in Paris


September 1956: the first Congress of Black Writers and Artists takes place at the Sorbonne. Over three days, Africans, Caribbeans, and African Americans come to Paris to participate. Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Richard Wright and Frantz Fanon address questions about black identity and are joined by famous figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Édouard Glissant and James Baldwin. Through interviews and images, the film shows how the event became a landmark, influencing countless other black artists and intellectuals. Directed by Bob Swain 52 min. Also showing: Africa on the Seine, short film by Paulin Vieira, Mamadou Sarr and Melo Kane, 1955 (21 min.)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Film | The Lords of Flatbush (1974): Drama From Brooklyn With Sylvester Stallone


A group of kids in Brooklyn form a gang. From this moment on they do everything together. This makes things easier but at the same time they have to face new problems. Directors: Martin Davidson, Stephen Verona. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler, Perry King.  Sylvester Stallone was also credited with writing additional dialogue for the movie. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Monday through Friday
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Immigrant Heritage Week Concert


Celebrate Immigrant Heritage Week with a trio of local musicians! Daniel Lamas, Juhyun Lee, and Adam Bilchik will perform music for violin, guitar, and voice, highlighting composers from different cultures, celebrating their own backgrounds, those of the Roosevelt Island community, and what unites us as New Yorkers and Americans.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:15 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. "The term ‘baroque’ has been widely used since the 19th century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750... Many famous composers from the first part of the baroque period came from Italy and have a link with Venice, including Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. Monteverdi was born in Cremona, but moved to Venice where he was ‘maestro di capella’ at the San Marco basilica. Vivaldi was born in Venice and was one of the greatest baroque composers. It is thanks to these strong musical traditions of Venice that we have today’s music. Without Venetian church music and Monteverdi’s advances with polyphony, the great traditions of choral music in England, France, and Germany would never have developed. Without the operas written by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi, not only would the later styles of opera never have been invented. There would be no basis for the American Musical or the German and Viennese Operetta, the Spanish Zarzuela, and even rock, pop, and contemporary music as we know it." The Venice Insider Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 11, 2018 to May 22, 2019.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Film | Enter the Dragon (1973) With Bruce Lee: Martial Action


A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover. 102 min. Director: Robert Clouse. Starring Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly. In 2004, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art: Exhibition Tour


Folk art has flourished in the heart of New York City since the eighteenth century, contrary to popular belief that it was a rural genre that reflected local tastes, traditions, and needs. Around 100 works of art by self-taught artists tell the story about New York City as the center of America’s financial and commercial world from two perspectives simultaneously: “The Art of Business” portrays the people and places that were part of the city’s thrumming commercial life, and “The Business of Art” highlights the diverse mediums and formats used by the artists, artisans, and manufacturers. This tour of the exhibition is conducted by museum gallery guides.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Symposium | Meeting the Challenges of Sustainable Development in a Changing World


Speakers include: • Pilar Fernández, "Context matters: Contrasting behavioral and residential risk factors for Lyme disease between the Northeast and Midwest regions in U.S." • Elisabeth K. Ilboudo Nébié, "We move with the birds: Indigenous Knowledge and Pastoral mobility among the Fulβe of Burkina Faso" • Anand Osuri, "Carbon sequestration characteristics of species-rich forests and species-poor tree plantations" • Andy Stock, "Satellite remote sensing of phytoplankton diagnostic pigments in the northern Gulf of Mexico" • Sha Zhou, "Projected increases in intensity, frequency, and terrestrial carbon costs of compound drought and aridity events"
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Social Media Marketing


Social media has become an essential tool of every modern business. The challenge for entrepreneurs, however, is knowing how to create the right content on the right platform for their target customers. In this course, the NYC Department of Small Business Services will teach you how to navigate the modern social media platforms as an entrepreneur. By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Determine the social media platforms that your target customers use • Operate these platforms as a business according to best practices • Create “repurposed content” that attracts social media users and links them to your website • Choose a social media management tool for your business A computer is recommended, but not required, for this course.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Works For French Horn


Douglas Lundeen, Selmer piston French horn; Barbara Gonzalez-Palmer, piano.  This program will feature French pieces written for the piston-valve French horn. Horn artist Douglas Lundeen has played principal horn with leading period instrument orchestras in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Montréal, Boston, and Washington, D.C., and has recordings on the Sony, Koch, Titanic, Centaur, and Musical Heritage Society labels. He is Principal Horn of the Clarion Consort and Sinfonia New York. On the modern horn, he has toured throughout the US and England as a member of Brass Roots Trio (as tenor and hornist). Pianist Barbara Gonzalez-Palmer has performed in concert with Barry Tuckwell, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Richard Zeller, Peter Damm, Joseph Genualdi, and varied artists associated with the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Symphony, American Brass Quintet, New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, Stuttgart Opera, and other organizations of note.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Film | Mary Queen of Scots (2018): Two Time Oscar Nominated Power Struggle Between Cousins 


Mary Stuart's attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution. 124 min. Director: Josie Rourke. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden.  Mary Queen of Scots two nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 91st Academy Awards. For her performance, Robbie earned nominations for a SAG Award and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945): Film-Noir Drama Based On A Play


An aging bachelor in a small New England town, Harry Quincey finds love when a New York fashion designer visits the fabric mill where Harry works. 80 min. Director: Robert Siodmak. Starring George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald.  It is based on the play Uncle Harry by Thomas Job.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | First Man (2018): Story Of The First Person To Walk On The Moon Starring Ryan Gosling


A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969. 141 min. Director: Damien Chazelle. Starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke. First Man received four Academy Award nominations for Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, Best Production Design, and Best Visual Effects at the 91st Academy Awards. It is based on the book First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong by James R. Hansen. First Man grossed $44.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $55.6 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $100.5 million, against a production budget of $59 million.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Film | Sugar Cane Alley (1983): Award-Winning French Film


Set in Martinique during the 1930s under French colonial rule, the film follows a young boy named José along his educational, spiritual and personal journey that hoists him from the sugar cane fields to opportunities beyond. The first Black director to ever receive a César Award, in 1984, Euzhan Palcy presents us with a poignant story about family, community and self-discovery. Director: Euzhan Palcy 103 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Symposium | The Kindertransports, 80 Years Later


In the months between the Kristallnacht Pogrom of November 9-10, 1938 and the start of World War II, nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children were sent, without their parents, from Nazi Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland to safety in Great Britain. These children were saved by the Kindertransport rescue movement.  3:00-5:00 PM Panel Discussion Art in conversation with history: Creative responses to The Kindertransport 5:00 PM Reception  6:00-8:00 PM Panel Discussion Dividing Lines: On the history of child separation, psychological impact, memory, identity, and trauma
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
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Workshop | Adult Coloring Club


Discover the fun and calming benefits of coloring. Color, relax and enjoy. Coloring supplies will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring their own materials too.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Gang Control in Postwar New York


A talk by Ella Antell, Center for the United States and the Cold War Haury Dissertation Fellow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Populists, Reformers, Russian Soft Power and War: Ukraine's 2019 Elections


Five years Ukraine after the Euromaidan Revolution of Dignity, Ukraine held presidential in March and will hold parliamentary elections in October 2019. The elections will not witness the traditional battle between 'pro-Western' and 'pro-Russian' forces because 16% of traditionally pro-Russian voters and 27 election districts are under Russian occupation in the Crimea and Donbas, the Party of Regions no longer exists, and the Communist Party is banned.  Russia’s annexation of the Crimea, the on-going Russian-Ukrainian war in the Donbas and Azov Sea will provide the background to an election that will resemble those held those in Europe and the US where populists battle against reformers. With Russian soft power in Ukraine in terminal decline, as seen in the emergence of a Ukrainian Orthodox Church independent of Moscow, the 2019 elections will be a test if Ukraine's reforms and European integration will continue and prove to be irreversible by the 2024 elections. Speaker Taras Kuzio received a BA in Economics from the University of Sussex, an MA in Soviet and East European Area Studies from the University of London, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Birmingham, England, UK. Professor in the Department of Political Science, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and Non-Resident Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:15 pm
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Lecture | Centering Nativist Racism: How Doing So Helps Us Grasp New Forms of Citizenship and Would Have Predicted Trump


Speaker Nadia Y. Kim is Professor of Sociology at Loyola Marymount University. Her research focuses on transnational experiences of US race and citizenship inequalities among Korean/Asian Americans and South Koreans in the (neo)imperial context, and among Asian and Latin activists for Environmental (Health) Justice as well as immigration and education reform in Los Angeles; she also specializes in race/gender/class intersectionality, cultural globalization, and race theorizing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Lecture | Creole Miami: Black Arts in the Magic City


What would it mean to simultaneously construct—spatially, intimately and aesthetically—an archive of black Miami’s intellectual and artistic formation? Though not often recognized in larger national and scholarly conversations about art, especially Black art, Miami has produced generations of dynamic practitioners. Of course, with the advent in 2002 of Miami Art Basel as well as Perez Art Museum Miami, and Institute for Contemporary Art joining the older institution of Museum of Contemporary Art, a discourse emerges about Miami’s multicultural visual art consumption. Less explored, however, is how this city—its landscape, institutions, racial, ethnic and cultural sensibilities—has shaped the intellectual and creative foundations of the most acclaimed black creative artists working in the US today. This talk will discuss a few of these artists in relation to the socio-cultural context of Miami.   Speaker Donette Francis directs the American Studies Program at the University of Miami, where she is Associate Professor of English and founding member of the Hemispheric Caribbean Studies Collective.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Lecture | Expert Assessments of Environmental Understanding: What Do They Actually Produce?


Environmental assessments like those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the National Research Council, assemble groups of experts to review, evaluate and assess, and ultimately, by writing reports, render judgment on the current state of knowledge about a wide range of fields that are relevant to public policy. In contrast to earlier research on the factors determining success of an assessment in terms of recognition and uptake by the policy community, an ongoing study begun in 2009 examines the process by which experts in such assessments reach conclusions on matters of fact and uncertainty. Over time, the project has employed archival research, interviews, and ethnographic observations. Results of the phase one of the project, using the first two of these approaches, were recently published in Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy, which focuses on assessments of acid rain, the West Antarctic ice sheet, and ozone depletion that took place over a 40-year period. Among the questions addressed are the role of institutional factors (e.g., the way authors are chosen or assigned to particular topics) in determining the judgments rendered by assessment authors; the circumstances under which assessments, rather than merely reviewing existing understanding, produce new knowledge; the management of expert bias in assessments; and the influence of assessments on the broader basic research agenda of some fields. Speaker Michael Oppenheimer is Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Discussion | Let's Talk Democracy: Government Through A Gender Lens


Would you like to understand our political system better and have the tools to improve it? This is a community conversation to learn about how our federal, state and local governments are structured and how you can make an impact. Empower yourself to make the changes you want by learning how the system works & what you can do to get government to respond to you.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Age of Spectacle: Large-Scale Works


An exhibition of new large-scale works by Dutch artist Nemo Jantzen. Includes a live music performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | All the Nations Under Heaven: A Close Look At The Cultural Diversity Of New York


In certain neighborhoods of New York City, an immigrant may live out his or her entire life without even becoming fluent in English. From the Russians of Brooklyn's Brighton Beach to the Dominicans of Manhattan's Washington Heights, New York is arguably the most ethnically diverse city in the world. Yet no wide-ranging ethnic history of the city has ever been attempted. In All the Nations Under Heaven, Frederick Binder and David Reimers trace the shifting tides of New York's ethnic past, from its beginnings as a Dutch trading outpost to the present age where Third World immigration has given the population a truly global character. All the Nations Under Heaven explores the processes of cultural adaptation to life in New York, giving a lively account of immigrants new and old, and of the streets and neighborhoods they claimed and transformed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Aus dem Boden / From the Floor: Psychologically Complex Paintings


Neo Rauch: Aus dem Boden / From the Floor will be the first exhibition entirely devoted to the painter Neo Rauch's drawings in the United States. Painter Neo Rauch is one of the best-known artists from the Leipzig school in Germany. His psychologically complex paintings have been widely collected and written about for more than twenty years. Featuring more than one hundred fifty never or rarely seen works that span over thirty years of Rauch’s career, this exhibition will present drawing as an essential but often overlooked aspect of his work of art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Chocolat (1988): Race, Privelege and French Colonialism


A young French woman returns to Cameroon, where she grew up as the child of colonial administrators. Immediately, she is transported back to her life as a young girl with the family’s African household servant, Protée. In the aftermath of colonialism, Claire Denis’ semi-autobiographical César-nominated film explores questions of race, power, privilege and the legacy of French colonialism in West Africa. Director: Claire Denis Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet 105 min. There will also be a panel discussion: How does one move beyond colonialism through both cinematic and professional practice? What was the image of Black people in France at the time? Were director Euzhan Palcy and actor Isaach de Bankolé too early for the French movie scene? How has their career in the United States allowed them to redefine themselves? Is legitimacy constructed differently in the United States?Moderated by Isabelle Boni-Claverie (screenwriter and director). With de Bankolé, Alice Diop (director) and Lydie Moudiléno (University of Southern California).
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Opening Reception | Condemned Building: Japanese Printmaking


A unique set of ten black-and-white prints of five of the theoretical projects from visionary architectural designer Douglas Darden’s now legendary 1993 architectural treatise published by Princeton Architectural Press, entitled Condemned Building and created by the printmaking studio of Osama Nakasuji, Osaka, Japan. This reception and panel discussion celebrate the exhibition of this prints in the gallery. Through sumptuous architectural drawings, Condemned Building explores and attempts to understand architecture as it is commonly comprehended, but done so by overturning and inverting common notions and canons and studying, as Darden would call it, “architecture underbelly.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Cover Story: Sculptural Wall Pieces


A solo exhibition of new work by Martin Kersels. This show will feature a series of new sculptural wall pieces. Kersels will debut a new performance piece incorporating “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” the 1968 song by Iron Butterfly.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Out on a Limb: 3 Artists


A three-person exhibition featuring a series of new paintings by Jason Eberspeaker, sculptures by Martin Maeller, and ceramics by Stanley Rosen.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Resonance: Paintings, 1965-2002


Highly regarded as an artist, scholar and curator, David Driskell is cited as one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of African American Art. He has been the recipient of ten honorary doctoral degrees and has contributed significantly to scholarship in the history of art on the role of Black artists in America. He has authored seven books on the subject of African American art, co-authored four others, and published more than forty catalogs from exhibitions he has curated. His articles and essays on African American art have appeared in major publications throughout the world.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Trophy Life: Laugh-Out-Loud Novel


A refreshingly honest, laugh-out-loud novel about losing the life you always wanted... and finding the life you were meant to have. Author Lea Geller is a recovering lawyer who lives in New York with her husband and five children. She began her writing career by blogging about her adventures in the trenches of parenting, and got the idea for Trophy Life
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Vivian Suter: Paintings


Comprised exclusively of mixed media paintings, this show furthers Suter’s singular style of installation, in which canvases flood the gallery space, creating an enveloping mise-en-scène of visual characters that intermingle, juxtapose, and cavort with one another. Composed individually, the works on view – through their unique display – inevitably become an interconnected painterly biome, openly inviting gallery-goers into the artist’s cosmos. Vivian Suter was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina; studied in Basel, Switzerland; and currently lives and works in Panajachel, Guatemala. Solo exhibitions of the artist’s work have been held at numerous international institutions, including: The Power Plant, Toronto; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Jewish Museum, New York; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland; and Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Warth, Switzerland. In the coming year, solo installations of Suter’s paintings will be staged at MUDAM, Luxembourg; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; and Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom.
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Talk | Artist Talk: The Black School


Shani Peters and Joseph Cuillier are artist educators who work collaboratively under the name The Black School, an experimental art school using socially engaged art and Black history to educate Black/POC students and allies in becoming radical agents of social change by combining artmaking workshops, radical Black political theory, group discussions, and public projects addressing community needs.  
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Performance | Simply Starstruck: Featuring the Music of Barbra Streisand


Teaming up with conductor, musical director and arranger Phil Hall (The Philhallmonics), international cabaret artist LINDA SUE MOSHIER weaves a humorous tale of inspiration featuring the music of Barbra Streisand. With classic hits and lesser known gems, Linda takes us from her childhood in Kansas through a musical adventure to face what each singer must face - finding her own voice. Directed by Kevin B. McGlynn. A must-see musical odyssey that will leave the audience Simply Starstruck!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Festival | 30th Anniversary Book Fair


MFA Photography, Video and Related Media welcomes the public to a community celebration of 30 years of photographic practice and the art of bookmaking with its 30th Anniversary Book Fair. Featuring the work of alumni, faculty, students and close department friends, the program is holding a three-day event, inviting visitors to explore a history of published works on display and for sale, accompanied by a series of panel discussions. Each element of the fair exemplifies the history of higher education, fine art photography, and the exciting future of the artist book.
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Author Reading | Horizon: Journey Across The Globe


Barry Lopez takes readers along for his journeys across the globe in his latest book, Horizon. Moving from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to the ice shelves of Antarctica, Lopez meditates on the long history of humanity’s spirit for quest and exploration and delves into the stories of prehistoric trekkers, colonists, and ecotourists who have defined it.  Lopez is joined by Alberto Manguel, author, translator, and director of the National Library of Argentina, for a conversation about what he learned from the scientists, archeologists, artists, and local residents he met while researching the world he brings to life on the pages of Horizon, and what his encounters can tell us about ourselves.   Barry Holstun Lopez is an American author, essayist, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Arctic Dreams (1986) and his Of Wolves and Men (1978) was a National Book Award finalist. 
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Author Reading | In the Shadow of Genius: The Brooklyn Bridge and its Creators


In the Shadow of Genius combines striking photographs with a powerful first-person narrative, taking the reader on a unique journey by recalling her experiences living alongside the bridge for more than 30 years and by tracing her own curious path to understand the brilliant minds and remarkable lives of those who built it: John, Washington, and Emily Roebling. Photographer and author Barbara Mensch discusses the book with Fernanda Perrone, Curator of Special Collections and the Roebling Family Archive at Rutgers University and moderator Zette Emmons.
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Talk | An Acclaimed Experimental Filmmaker


A special evening with filmmaker Vivian Ostrovsky to mark the New York launch of a compendium of her newly-remastered works by Paris-based experimental film hub Re:Voir. Ostrovsky, whose work ranges from montage shorts and diary features to experimental artists' bios and immersive installations, will introduce selections within and beyond the Re:Voir collection. A sneak peek of footage from her upcoming short, Unsound, which will be included in Film Forum's artists' commissions series, as well as short meditations on Chantal Akerman and Clarice Lispector, will be followed by a Q&A and reception.
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Talk | Artist Talk: Chorus


Ann Hamilton is internationally acclaimed for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. Chorus, a marble mosaic of text from the Declaration of Independence and the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, was recently installed in New York City’s Courtlandt Street subway station — destroyed on 9/11 and reopened in 2018.
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Discussion | Black Bodies and Social Justice: Building on the American Experience


Featuring Robin McGinty, Calvin John Smiley and Earl Smith.  
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Talk | Resisting Gendered State Violence Across Turtle Island: Cross-Border Solidarity Against Anti-Blackness


A timely conversation with the author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Robyn Maynard invites us to think about the similarities and differences in histories, tactics, and consequences of state violence targeting black communities in the U.S., Canada, and at the border. It’s an important opportunity to ask critical questions and formulate strategies for cross-border solidarity, organizing, and resistance in our current political moment.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Beyond Mourning?: A Reading of Eugenio Montale's Arletta Poems


Focusing on Eugenio Montale’s ciclo di Arletta, in particular" La casa dei doganieri [The Custom Guards’ House]," this lecture will discuss the nature of the poetic subject’s mourning for Arletta and how it challenges traditional views on elegy. Mourning in Montale’s poetry is intermittent but, nevertheless, unending. By considering the relationship between Montale’s poetry and mourning from the Derridean perspective of demi-deuil [half mourning], the lecture will offer an original contribution to the study of Montale. Speaker Dr. Adele Bardazzi is the Laming Junior Fellow at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | New Poetry: Deaf Republic / Holy Moly Carry Me


Ilya Kaminsky’s new book, Deaf Republic, is a parable-in-poems, will be published by Graywolf Press in March 2019. Kaminsky's earlier collection of poems, Dancing in Odessa, was published by Tupelo Press and received international acclaim. Kaminsky is the recipient of Whiting Writer's Award, Lannan Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, Ruth Lilly Fellowship, Dorset Prize, and Poetry magazine's Levinson prize. Erika Meitner is the author of five books of poems. Her newest collection, Holy Moly Carry Me, was just released (also by BOA Editions) in September 2018.
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Film | Assassination (2015): Korean Action Film


While Korea is occupied by the Japanese Army in 1933, the resistance plans to kill the Japanese Commander. But their plan is threatened by a traitor within their group and the enemies' forces are hunting them down. Director: Dong-hoon Choi   140 min.
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Author Reading | Guest Book: Ghost Stories: What Haunts Us?


What haunts us? What can’t we let go of? A tennis prodigy collapses after his wins, crediting them to an invisible, not entirely benevolent presence. A series of ghosts appear at their former bedsides, some distraught, some fascinated, to witness their unfamiliar occupants. A woman returns from a visit to Alcatraz with an uncomfortable feeling.  In more than two dozen stories and vignettes accompanied by an evocative curiosity cabinet of artifacts and images–found photographs, original paintings, Instagram-style portraits–this book beckons us through the glimmering, unsettling evidence that marks our paths through life. With Leanne Shapton.
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Book Discussion | Portraits Without Frames: Glimpses into the Lives of Soviet Artists


Portraits Without Frames offers fifty shrewd and moving glimpses into the lives of Soviet writers, composers, and artists caught between the demands of art and politics. Some of the subjects—like Anna Akhmatova, Isaac Babel, Andrey Platonov, and Dmitry Shostakovich—are well-known, others less so. All are evoked with great subtlety and vividness, as is the fraught and dangerous time in which they lived. Composed in free verse of deceptively artless simplicity, Lev Ozerov’s portraits are like nothing else in Russian poetry. Editor and translator Boris Dralyuk and translator Irina Mashinski will read from Ozerov’s remarkable portraits and discuss the author’s life and work. 
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Author Reading | Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power


A rollercoaster investigation of fake news, conspiracy theories, and the wildest beliefs imaginable in post-Trump America. A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond. Republic of Lies looks beyond the caricatures of conspiracy theorists to explain their tenacity. Without lending the theories validity, Anna Merlan gives a nuanced, sympathetic account of the people behind them, across the political spectrum, and the circumstances that helped them take hold.Bringing together penetrating historical analysis and gripping on-the-ground reporting, Republic of Lies transforms our understanding of American paranoia. Author Anna Merlan is a New Mexico-born, New York-based journalist, specializing in politics, crime, religion, subcultures, conspiracy theories, and women’s lives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Richard Roe: Name Withheld


Richard Roe is Tyler Coburn's fictional memoir of a legal person. The name is one of the oldest used in English law when the real name of someone is withheld, or when a corpse can’t be identified. Richard Roe is a known unknown, a one-size-fits-all, a potentially everyone and actually no one. Divided into seven fragmentary sections, this memoir gives voice to the legal fictions that influence terms of selfhood, politics and economics. On the occasion of this launch, Coburn will read excerpts from the book exploring concepts of personhood from legal, psychological, and metaphysical realms.
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Author Reading | So Who's Counting?: The Little Quote Book About Growing Older and Still Kicking Ass


A hilarious evening of conversation about the ups and downs of aging: finances, attitude, love and sex, respect, and--of course--humor! Author Erin McHugh and Chief Pastry Officer of San Francisco's Big Night Restaurant Group Emily Luchetti discuss their inspirational new book about growing older with grace and chutzpah.
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Author Reading | The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies


The Book of Help traces one woman’s life-long quest for love, connection, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies, Megan Griswold’s narrative spans four decades and six continents –– from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil, to academia, the Ivy League, and the study of Eastern medicine.  
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Author Reading | The Kindness Advantage: Cultivating Compassionate and Connected Children


In homes and school communities nationwide, there is reenergized interest in the values of community and finding our way to a kinder culture. Authors Amanda Salzhauer and Dale Atkins offer inspiration and activities to encourage empathy, inspire a culture of compassion and connection, and to empower children to make a difference in their communities and beyond. They will share ten fundamental concepts to weave into daily life to raise happier, more socially engaged children, and to equip them with the essential skills necessary to have a positive influence on the world as they grow up.
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Poetry Reading | Visiting Days: Poems in a Maximum-Security Prison


Visiting Days is a collection of persona poems "set" in a maximum-security men’s state prison like the ones in which the author has been teaching for many years. Incarcerated men and others speak from various places in the facility—the laundry room, the hallway, the school building, the visiting room, solitary confinement, and more. Perfect for those concerned with issues around mass incarceration and social justice, along with contemporary poetry lovers. With author Gretchen Primack.
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Dance Performance | We Sinful Women: Contemporary Dance Influenced by Indian and Pakistani Traditions


A performance eight poems by six dancers with original music, We Sinful Women was conceived by Janaki Patrik, artistic director of the NYC-based classical Indian dance company, Kathak Ensemble & Friends, and choreographed with the dancers. Speaking through a contemporary dance vocabulary influenced by Indian and Pakistani folk and classical dance, the production depicts women’s passionate resistance to repression, and features original music by two-time Canadian Grammy winner and composer Kiran Ahluwalia. Following the performance, a panel discussion will be moderated by Columbia University’s Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities and director of the South Asia Institute Gauri Viswanathan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | De-Escalation Workshop with Pop Gym


Whether for you, for someone in your life, or someone whose being messed with on the street, de-escalation is an important skillset in your self-defense toolbelt. Come by this workshop from Pop Gym, which will present an introduction to the topic, overviewing tactics and strategies to get your de-escalation game on point. Come for the presentation, stay for the roleplay scenarios.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Swing and Jazz


Swing singer and dancer Kateřina Steinerová accompanied by jazz pianist Jiří Růžička will present her program Swingin' to Freedom. The concert is a part of this year's celebration of 30 years of freedom in the Czech Republic. Swing music has been linked with Czech history for decades. During the Second World War, swing reflected people's longing for freedom. This feeling prevailed even during the era of the communist oppression as swing symbolized the free West. Nowadays, swing clubs are more popular than ever all over Europe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Talking Translation


Ana Luísa Amaral has published over thirty books of poetry, a play, a novel, essays, and several books for children. She was translated into over twenty languages and published in several countries. She herself has translated the poetry of Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare or John Updike. A collection of her poems has recently come out in the USA (The Art of Being a Tiger, translated by Margaret Jull Costa). Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for over thirty years and has translated works by novelists such as Eça de Queiroz, José Saramago and Javier Marías, as well as the poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Ana Luísa Amaral and Fernando Pessoa. She has won various prizes, most recently the 2017 Premio Valle-Inclán for her translation of Rafael Chirbes’ novel On the Edge.
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Classical Music | Works By Beethoven, Chopin And Ravel


Quynh Nguyen will be presenting a piano solo recital featuring works by Beethoven, Chopin and Ravel. Pianist Quynh Nguyen has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe, and Asia, in notable venues such as the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York; McEvoy Auditorium and the Freer Gallery at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.; the Berlin Konzerthause in Berlin, Germany; the Grand Opera House in Hanoi, Vietnam, among many others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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