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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 10, 2024?

49 free events take place on Wednesday, April 10 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 10 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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49 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, April 10, 2024

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Editor's Picks

free events nyc Park Tour: From Freight to Flowers
free events nyc Persisting Matters: Short Films on Artists
free events nyc Tears of History: The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States (in-person and online)
free events nyc Works by Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and More at a Consulate
free events nyc Orchestral Works for Silent Film
free events nyc Guitar Works by Piazzolla and More (In Person AND Online!)
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Workshop | Boot Camp Workout


An early-morning core body Boot Camp. Rotations through exercises like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back, and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high fives welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 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
10:00 am
Free

Park Walk | Park Tour: From Freight to Flowers


Hear the story behind New York City's park in the sky: an insider's perspective on the park's history, design, and landscape.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Ribbon Dancing


Combine cardio with artistry as you wave long ribbons in the air to create rainbows, waterfalls, dragons and ocean waves. Ribbon Dancing is as visually stunning as it is fun and easy to learn. All ages and skill levels are welcome. Ribbons will be available to borrow, but participants may also bring their own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Master Class | Cello Master Class


Cello Master Class with Rachel Mercer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Get in a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | Park Horticulture Tour


The Director of Horticulture shows you what’s in bloom and discusses special topics in urban horticulture, and the plants you see in the park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation (in-person and online)


A meditation session led by teachers Annie Bien and Geshe Ngawang Thugje of Sera Je Monastery. The session is non-denominational and will focus on the basics: meditation to quiet the mind, to focus the quiet mind, using the focused mind for analysis, and using the focused mind to create and uphold a positive vision of and outlook on the world.  Other more specific uses of meditation may be discussed however the class is meant for all, beginners and those with a regular practice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:15 pm
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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 in an intimate venue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Discussion | Lens of Impact: Human-Animal Relations


From cows and chickens to rats, donkeys, and elephants, how should artists and designers approach the relationship between animals and humans? How can art and design challenge dominant anthropocentric narratives? Radhika Subramaniam, Associate Professor, and Daniel Hellman, a Swiss artist and animal liberation activist also known as Soya the Cow, will share their uniquely situated perspectives as practitioners working in Switzerland and the US, and explore the different lenses through which they approach their practice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Workshop | Adult Chorus


Directed by Church Street School of Music, the chorus is open to all who love to sing. Learn contemporary and classic songs and perform at community events throughout the year.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Other | Eid al-Fitr Global Celebration (online)


As the Muslim holy month of Ramadan draws to a close around the world, people of all faiths together learn about and share in the celebration of Eid al-Fitr. To honor Islam’s sacred traditions, they are gathering in a virtual space, transcending geographical and cultural boundaries, for a unique musical and traditional experience showcasing what unites us all. This is a 60-minute celebration featuring messages from prominent Muslim and Jewish communal leaders, highlighting the shared heritage and values of the Abrahamic faiths.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Orchestral Works by J.S. Bach and Handel (In Person AND Online)


Trinity Baroque Orchestra; led by Avi Stein, organ. Program J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 Handel (1685-1759), Concerto Grosso in G Major, Op 6, No. 1, HWV 319
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
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Talk | Meet the Beekeeper


A presentation and talk led by Alveole beekeepers. Learn more about the importance of urban beekeeping and it’s benefits to sustainability efforts in BPC and throughout the city.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Film | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) with George Clooney and John Goodman


Ulysses Everett McGill is having difficulty adjusting to his hard-labor sentence in Mississippi. He scams his way off the chain gang with simple Delmar and maladjusted Pete, then the trio sets out to pursue freedom and the promise of a fortune in buried treasure. With nothing to lose and still in shackles, their hasty run takes them on an incredible journey of awesome experiences and colorful characters. Director: Joel Coen Cast: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, Michael Badalucco, John Goodman, Holly Hunter George Clooney is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards. Clooney has been honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2015, the Honorary César in 2017, AFI Life Achievement Award in 2018, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2022. John Goodman is an American actor. He rose to prominence in television before becoming an acclaimed and popular film actor. Goodman has received numerous accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He received a Disney Legend Award in 2013. Vanity Fair has called him "among our very finest actors."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Jumping the Line: Family Self-welfare and the Waning of Communism (in-person and online)


This talk discusses the moralities of consumption in late communism to understand how practices of “jumping the line,” which people understood as a form of family-centered self-care clashed with official norms of social justice and the communist welfare state. In the Soviet Union and the Soviet Bloc, conflicts over provisioning and equal access to consumer goods increasingly moved from an ideological crusade against private trade to everyday confrontations between consumers, shop assistants and the state. Waiting lines became depoliticized, but not for long. During the world economic crisis of the 1970s, which gravely affected Eastern Bloc, family-centered resourcefulness became  the key norm of distributive justice. In the case of  communist Poland, Mazurek argues, internalized norms of self-welfare contributed to dismantling of the socialist welfare-state and set the stage for post-communist transformation well before 1989/1990. Speaker Małgorzata Mazurek is an associate professor of Polish Studies at Columbia University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Book Club | Poetry Discussion: Anne Sexton, Selections from Live or Die


Live or Die is a collection of poetry by American poet Anne Sexton, published in 1966. Many of the poems in the collection are in free verse, though some are in rhyme.The poems, written between 1962 and 1966, are arranged in the book in chronological order. Their subjects are Sexton's troubled relationships with her mother and her daughters, and her treatment for mental illness.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Discussion | 2024 Global Elections and Climate and Energy Policy


What do the 2024 elections mean for the energy transition and climate action? This year more voters will take to the polls globally than in any other year in the past. The results could have consequential implications for future global climate and energy policy. Voters head for national elections in 64 countries, representing roughly half of the world’s population. Outcomes in the United States, U.K., India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, and the European Union, could influence the direction of global climate talks in the years to come, while outcomes for opposition voices under the circumstances of upcoming elections in Iran, Russia, and Venezuela might also hold clues for future energy geopolitics. Moderator: Carolyn Kissane, Associate Dean, NYU SPS Center for Global Affairs Panel: Ed Crooks, Vice Chair, Americas, Wood Mackenzie; Host, The Energy Gang podcast Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, Global Energy & Climate Innovation Editor, The Economist
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:45 pm
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Talk | 21 Praises to Tara: Exploring the Facets of the Buddha Nature (online)


The "Praise to Tara with Twenty-One Verses of Homage" is a tantric text popular in the Indo-Tibetan tradition of Buddhism. Many lay and monastic practitioners know this text by heart and recite it as a prayer for protection and success; however, it also has deeper dimensions associated with all the levels of the Buddhist path. In this introductory session with Buddhist translator Michael Lobsang Tenpa, look at the interplay between the "Twenty-One Praises" and Buddha-nature theory, especially as interpreted by the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions. In this approach, every verse can be said to describe different facets of our deepest nature, and each repetition of the praise can bring us closer to manifesting the associated qualities in our daily life. We will go through each verse, discussing their literal meaning; meditate on Green Tara; and discuss different ways to chant the praise.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | 31 Triggers Live Podcast


Share your triggers with the one and only Philip Galinsky, host of the 31 Triggers podcast. Get ready for an evening of hilarity and insightful discussions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Lanallwe: Autobiographical Essays


An autobiographical essay that connects photographic emulsions, the flow of water, the grain of wood, paper, and memory. With author Ángeles Donoso Macaya/.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | OP!: Optimistic Interiors


Internationally celebrated designer Oliver Furth launches his first monograph, showcasing his expertise in historic decorative arts and contemporary collectible design. In conversation with Mayer Rus.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Queer World Making: Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art


Premodern archives from the Middle East show rich and diverse homoerotic worlds that were disrupted by the colonial imposition of Western models of sexuality. Andrew Gayed traces how contemporary Arab and Middle Eastern diasporic artists have remembered and reinvented these historical ways of being in their work in order to imagine a different present. Building on global art histories and transnational queer theory, Queer World Making illuminates contemporary understandings of queer sexuality in the Middle Eastern diaspora.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Tears of History: The Rise of Political Antisemitism in the United States (in-person and online)


Author Pierre Birnbaum is outlining American exceptionalism, a society where no Jews were killed until the Leo Frank affair at the beginning of the 20th century. He looks at the various factors of this exceptionalism and shows that since the 1930s - and especially the 1950s, a new kind of political antisemitism has been rising, related to the growing power of the white supremacists militants looking at the State as "being occupied by the Jews." For the first time, many Jews were killed during the attack on the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue in 2018. We can therefore say that American exceptionalism is strongly declining nowadays, and since October 7th 2023, a new wave of antisemitism is threatening the Jews, extending the tears of history to the American society.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Wives: A Memoir


Simone Gorrindo discusses her memoir and the process of revision and publication, and the challenges of writing a memoir rooted in her current family community –- a story which Booklist called “[A] gorgeously rendered peek behind the curtain of military life” and Publishers Weekly "A haunting, beautifully written celebration of found sisterhood."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer & Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent


The volume centers on the writing, visual, and graphic art of 44 contemporary writers across Latin America, the Caribbean, and their diasporas. Joining us are five NYC-based Afro-Latinx contributors: Yamilette Vizcaíno Rivera, Irene Vázquez, Armando Alleyne, Edgie Amisial, and Darrel Alejandro Holnes. They'll be accompanied by editor, Alan Pelaez Lopez, a 2022-2023 Miriam Jiménez Román Fellow. When Language Broke Open collects the creative offerings of forty-five queer and trans Black writers of Latin American descent who use poetry, prose, and visual art to illustrate Blackness as a geopolitical experience that is always changing. Telling stories of Black Latinidades, this anthology centers the multifaceted realities of the LGBTQ community.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Black Curators Matter Oral History Project


The Black Curators Matter Oral History Project is an intergenerational dialogue series between Black visual art curators who have made an outstanding impact across the arts and cultural world, presented by the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies (AAADS) at Columbia University, in collaboration with the Columbia Center for Oral History Research. This evening's program will explore issues of race and diversity between the 1990s -2000s and how their commitment to institutional change has contributed to recentering Black culture as American culture. Participants include: Thelma Golden (Director and Chief Curator Studio Museum in Harlem), Franklin Sirmans (Director of Perez Art Museum), Rujeko Hockley (Arnhold Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art), and LeRonn Brooks (Curator of the African American Art History Initiative, Getty Research Institute).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Environmental Sound Artist Performs with Jazz Musician


Mary Edwards is a composer and sound artist whose interdisciplinary practice encompasses themes of temporality, impermanence, nostalgia and the natural world that recur throughout her work. Everywhere We Are is the Farthest Place is her "ode rather than an elegy" to the transforming Arctic landscape, climate vulnerability, elemental sensuality and terrestrial connectivity that also draws partly on sound as a vibrational phenomenon and Space Analogues. Edwards began this project while sailing on an artist and scientist research expedition above the 78th Parallel to Svalbard (halfway between Norway and the North Pole) to make field recordings and listen to the rhythm and breath of our planet from another pulse point. She documented sound properties of glacial geology and oceanographic data sonification--distinct groans and reverberant calving ice tumbling from the sublime glacier walls into the depths of fjords, the movement of subterranean rivers, Beluga whale song and vocal intonations--intended to provide sonic access for all by "de-centralizing the centered and un-othering the others." Mary Edwards (keyboards, Waterphone, electronics) will install and perform the piece with Michael Eaton (saxophone, flute, electronics,) a Brooklyn-based composer, and educator active in contemporary jazz and free improvisation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Liederabend (In-Person and Online)


Stephanie Bell, Mezzo-Soprano; Grace Wong, Piano; Song Hee Lee, Soprano; Fengyi Wang, Piano; Shavon Lloyd, Baritone; Marianna Vartikian, Piano; Kate Morton, Mezzo-Soprano Inkyo Hong, Piano; Joe Gervase, Baritone; June An, Piano; Jazmine Saunders, Soprano; Jiwoo Yun, Piano; Naomi Steele, Mezzo-Soprano; Dain Yoon, Piano; Benjamin Truncale, Tenor; Changchang Liu, Piano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Persisting Matters: Short Films on Artists


A screening and discussion around five short documentaries that showcase the variety of approaches that contemporary artists embrace in order to address pressing questions related to identity, social issues, history, and the active role of art in public discourse. The first documentary presents the exhibition on Italian artist Corrado Cagli (1910-1976), curated by Cooper Union Professor of Art History Raffaele Bedarida, which served as the background for a project with contemporary artists Leslie Hewitt, Kambui Olujimi, Sheila Pepe, Juan Sanchez, and Bea Scaccia; it was developed with a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The following four shorts features interviews with each of the artists recorded in their respective studios over the course of Fall 2023 about their practice and various questions related to art, society, and community. Each screening will be accompanied by conversation among the artists and art historians Raffaele Bedarida and Dr. Ksenia M. Soboleva.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Discussion | Technological Inhumanities and Imaginaries


Asians and Asian-ness have long circulated in literature, cinema, and pop culture as figures of science fiction threat and fantasy—what Michelle N. Huang has identified as the “inhuman figures” of robots, clones, and aliens. Beyond these techno-orientalist stereotypes and tropes, however, lies the shadow of social and economic forces that have materialized the injustice of such racialized logics, as well as artistic investigations that play with critical transformations of its coded imaginary.   This panel will put into conversation three scholars—Huan He, Jennifer Pranolo, and Whit Pow—whose research and teaching on the history, practice, and aesthetics of computational media extends the critique of representation that would spectacularly equate Asians/Asian-ness with a technological inhumanity. In distinct but reciprocal ways, their work complicates the blank interfaces of technology while asking how those technologies have been used to mediate modes and strategies of escape—through alternate narratives, archives, and forms—from seemingly inescapable regimes of representation. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | The Future of the (Progressive) University


Discussions on the future and fate of higher education are more important than ever. Amid the controversies, we see attacks on academic freedom, concerns about rising costs, the end of affirmative action programs, questions about fair treatment of contingent faculty, and the undermining of scientific inquiry. Progressive institutions appear particularly at risk, buffeted by political attacks and self-doubts about privilege and responsibility. This is a conversation on this timely topic with Nancy Cantor, Chancellor of Rutgers University – Newark and incoming President of Hunter University, and Andrew Delbanco, Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University, moderated by Donna E. Shalala, Interim President of The New School.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Hot Sheet: Sweet and Savory Sheet Pan Recipes for Every Day and Celebrations


Olga Massov and Sanaë Lemoine transform everyday meals into extraordinary ones, with more than 100 recipes harnessing the power of your sheet pan, including breakfasts, starters, dinners, and desserts. Say goodbye to boring food and hello to flavor-packed dishes for weeknight dining as well as special occasions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York


A unique look at the linguistic diversity of New York City as explored in Ross Perlin's new book. Perlin will share his race against time to map little-known languages across New York and will present a portrait of contemporary New York illustrated through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages deep in their communities, from the streets of Brooklyn and Queens to villages on the other side of the world. He explores the languages themselves, from rare sounds to sentence-long words to bits of grammar that encode entirely different worldviews. On the 100th anniversary of a notorious anti-immigration law that closed America’s doors for decades and the 400th anniversary of New York’s colonial founding, Perlin raises the alarm about growing political threats and the onslaught of “killer languages” like English and Spanish. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast: A New Translation


Published in London in 1584, The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast is Giordano Bruno’s first work of moral philosophy. It is dedicated with a long Explicatory Letter to Elizabeth I’s most cultured courtier, Sir Philip Sidney. It is a book about moral reform, expelling the beasts of evil, and putting virtues in their place. Its theme is presented as an allegorical drama in which ancient myths assume modern meanings questioning the ways in which moral and religious reform have been conceived in both the ancient world and the cultures of Renaissance Europe. This new Italian text, based on the original printed text of 1584 held in the British Library, presents a less modernized version than those presently available, while maintaining a modern page format. The aim is to provide a text closer to the sound of Bruno’s original mix of classical Tuscan Italian and Neapolitan dialectical forms. This edition also presents a new translation designed to render Bruno’s complex and baroque Italian into easily readable modern English. Hilary Gatti introduces The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, underlining Bruno’s meta-literary reflection on the nature of allegory and myth as well as the dramatic structure of his text. Drama, philosophy, and religion combine in this work to give an epic dimension to the perennial cosmic battle between evil and good.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism (online)


Jewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thought and action. Co-editors Anna Elena Torres (University of Chicago) and Kenyon Zimmer (University of Texas, Arlington) will be joined by contributor Samuel Brody (University of Kansas) and Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (University of Wisconsin, Madison) to discuss this work, recovering many aspects of this erased tradition. With Freedom in Our Ears brings together more than a dozen scholars and translators to write the first collaborative history of international, multilingual, and transdisciplinary Jewish anarchism. Contributors bring to light the presence and persistence of Jewish anarchism throughout histories of radical labor, women’s studies, political theory, multilingual literature, and ethnic studies. These essays reveal an ongoing engagement with non-Jewish radical cultures, including the translation practices of the Jewish anarchist press. Jewish anarchists drew from a matrix of secular, cultural, and religious influences, inventing new anarchist forms that ranged from mystical individualism to militantly atheist revolutionary cells.
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Talk | From Cholera to Clean Water: Daily Life in 19th-Century New York (online)


Dr. Gwynneth C. Malin discusses how our health today depends on a complex water supply and sewerage system built over 150 years ago and we often take clean drinking water and indoor plumbing for granted. Although wealthy New Yorkers installed indoor flush toilets starting in the 1860s, the working-class and poor residents of New York’s tenements buildings relied on chamber pots and outdoor toilets, in some cases into the 20th century. Women living in the tenements carried heavy tubs of water for household use up multiple flights of stairs daily. In the mid 19th-century, city officials in New York began to take responsibility for water and sewers by building, operating, and maintaining new infrastructure as a public undertaking and then gradually replacing the private companies which had been providing these services previously. This talk will center visual sources, to show some objects of daily life in the tenements and to honor the inestimable contribution of the contract laborers, everyday citizens, engineers, politicians and sewer tourists, who made New York’s public water and sewer system happen.
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Author Reading | My Final Territory at War: An Evening with Writer Yuri Andrukhovych


Yuri Andrukhovych will read from recent publications of his writing in English translation, including Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War (Penguin, 2023) and My Final Territory: Selected Essays (University of Toronto Press, reprinted 2023). Yuri Andrukhovych will also preview new translations of his poetry and prose from forthcoming publications and discuss Ukraine two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Works by Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and More at a Consulate


Program Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814), Kennst du das Land Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Kennst du das Land Liszt (1811-1886), Mignon's Song Schubert (1797-1828), Mignon und der Harfener Duet Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), None but the lonely heart Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), III (Wer nie sein Brot) Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Singet nicht in Trauert?nen Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), Philine Schubert (1797-1828), Lied Der Mignon (Heiss mich nicht reden) Maxwell Kaye, Heiss mich nicht reden Schubert (1797-1828), Lied Der Mignon II - So lasst mich scheinen Robert Schumann (1810-1856), So lasst mich scheinen Schubert (1797-1828), Suleika (Was Bedeutet Die Bewegung) Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), Komm, Liebchen, Komm! Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Lied der Suleika (Wie mit innigstem Behagen) Brahms (1833-1897), Ph?nomen (duet) Keaton Hoy, Suleika 108 Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), Hochbegl?ckt in deiner Liebe Please bring a government issued ID as there will be a security check.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Lecture | "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in Court: The Bern Trial (1933-1935) and the "Antisemitic International" (in-person and online)


Between 1933 and 1935, a trial was held in Bern against members of the Swiss extreme right-wing National Front who had distributed "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a widely disseminated antisemitic publication that spread lies about Jews. The real target of the Jewish organizations that initiated the trial, however, was the pamphlet itself, its origin, its dissemination, and its use in Europe's fascist movements. During the course of the trial, both sides received ample support in the form of material assistance and propaganda. The defendants and their supporters in Nazi Germany were able to rely on an extensive network that had been established in the early 1920s to combat "Judaeo-Bolshevism." This conspiratorial "Antisemitic International" united German v?lkisch circles, Italian fascists, Russian monarchists, and French conspiracy theorists. On the other side, the plaintiffs actively sought to expose the "Protocols" as a forgery in the hope that this would counteract their impact. In this lecture, Michael Hagemeister will use the Bern trial as a case study of Jewish legal self-defense in order to shed light on both the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and the concerted efforts against the "Antisemitic International" in the 1930s, which have received little attention from historians.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Painting on the Edge of Reality


Sarah Faux (b. 1986, Boston, MA, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) makes paintings that embrace unabashed sensuality, autonomy and pleasure. Faux's fluid compositions teeter on the edge of reality, revealing how much of our emotional and sensory lives take place beneath the surface. Faux's solo exhibitions include Sweetbitter, Hales New York, NY USA (2023); Whatever I see I swallow at M+B, Los Angeles, CA, USA (2021); Perfect for Her at Capsule Shanghai, China (2020) and Gemini, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2016), among others. She has been exhibited in many group shows, including Sim Smith, London, England (2023), Lyles & King, New York, NY, USA (2022); Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2020) and Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2019).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Curatorial Roundtable (online)


A talk with Yuko Hasegawa, the director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, and professor of curatorial and art theory at Tokyo University of the Arts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Master Class | Viola Master Class


Viola Master Class with Matthias Buchholz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | A Conversation with Afrofuturist Musician Nona Hendryx


Go beyond your headphones to meet the personalities behind popular arts podcasts at the free-to-attend Hear It Here series. This week's program spotlights the recently launched Art Class podcast, which focuses on the latest in arts education. Our distinguished hosts—Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Iya Mabolé Inawale), and Dr. Lee Bynum, Chief Education Officer of Lincoln Center—are passionate about composing a future of artmaking and arts education that creates more joy for more people more of the time. For this episode, they’re joined in conversation with iconic Afrofuturist musician Nona Hendryx on the occasion of her ongoing creative residency. Don't just hear the story, be a part of the telling at this live, one-night-only podcast recording.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Brass Solo Night


   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Building a State-of-the-Art Theatre for the Future of Dance


A conversation between architects and dance professionals to learn about the new Doris Duke Theatre.   Three years after a fire that destroyed the Doris Duke Theatre on the campus of Jacob’s Pillow which The New York Times called “the dance center of the nation,” a new theatre is now rising from the ashes. Join us for a conversation between architects and dance professionals to learn about the new Doris Duke Theatre under construction that is embracing Indigenous design and digital technology to produce a facility specifically for the creation and presentation of dance. Moderated by Jacob’s Pillow Executive & Artistic Director Pamela Tatge, speakers will include Jonathan Marvel, the Founding Principal of Marvel and the architect of record for Mecanoo, the Netherlands-based firm leading the design team. Others from the dance field will talk about artistic and choreographic capabilities that will be enhanced with the latest digital technologies that are being incorporated into the theatre.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Orchestral Works for Silent Film


The Mannes Orchestra; and Robert Kahn, comductor, perform the score for the silent film Metropolis (1927)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Guitar Works by Piazzolla and More (In Person AND Online!)


Isbin Guitar Studio Recital. Program Piazzolla (1921-2992), Histore du Tango Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909), Cataluna, Op. 47, No. 2 Antonio Jose (b. 1995), Sonata para guitarra Ken Murray, Trin Warren Tam-boore Radames Gnattali (1906-1988), Suite Retratos
   New York City, NY; NYC
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