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53 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, December 10, 2015

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free events nyc What $18 Trillion Looks Like: A Visual History of the US National Debt
free events nyc Project Trio: From Bach to Rock to Hip Hop
free events nyc A Concert of Russian and Jewish Heritage Music
free events nyc The New Standards: The Holiday Show
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for ... more >> over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing. This tour takes place every day at 10am.
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Tour | Federal Hall National Memorial Guided Tour


Free Ranger-guided tours are available to the public. The schedule is subject to staff availability. ... more >> Starts times are 10:00AM, 1:00PM, 2:00PM, and 3:00PM. Tours take place Monday through Friday until December 31.
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10:00 am
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central ... more >> Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. This tour takes place every day at 10am, and Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Wednesdays at 2pm.
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Getting Started in Genealogy


Begin exploring your family history with the NYPL. This introductory class will explain first steps in ... more >> genealogical research. Find out best practices for getting started, learn about genealogical records, and discover how to search NYPL’s collections.
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome ... more >> to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. This workshop occurs every day through December 31.
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of ... more >> choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.
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12:20 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition. This tour occurs every day except on Sundays ... more >> and on December 24-27.
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Jingle Jams


Jingle Jams provide festive seasonal music at lunchtime. The concerts takes place Dec 8, 9, 10, ... more >> 15, 16, and 17.
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12:30 pm
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Talk | What $18 Trillion Looks Like: A Visual History of the US National Debt


The US national debt stands at some $18.5 trillion, increasing by over $1.5 billion per day. America ... more >> owes more money than any other nation in the world and has more debt than any other nation in history. The Treasury securities that comprise the national debt are foundational to both national and global finance. The world functions on US treasuries. Yet, for most Americans, the national debt is an ethereal number. It's a rhetorical football used by politicians. It’s a big number on a billboard in New York City. It’s a national credit card that many doubt will ever be paid down, let alone paid off. But America’s debt has a long, storied history. From the Revolutionary War to the beginning of the Reagan administration, this presentation will be a visual journey of the debt that has shaped the world’s most powerful economy. Speaker Joshua Tobias Herbstman is a portfolio manager specializing in municipal bonds. Presentation will be followed by Q&A. Feel free to bring your lunch.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
$5

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international ... more >> monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Project Trio: From Bach to Rock to Hip Hop


This genre-defying group delivers "subversive humor and first-rate playing" (Wall Street Journal). Expect ... more >> a program that includes classical, jazz, rock, hip-hop, salsa, and everything in between.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Tour of the Exhibition: Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet


A tour led by the museum’s gallery guides. This tour repeats Thursday October 22, Thursday October ... more >> 29, Saturday October 31, Thursday November 5, Thursday November 12, Saturday November 14, Thursday November 19, Saturday November 21, Thursday December 10, Saturday December 12, Thursday December 17, Saturday December 19, and Saturday December 26.
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Telemann in Paris: quartets performed on the period instruments


Tableau Vivant presents a program featuring quartets by Georg Philip Telemann. In 1737 Telemann journeyed ... more >> to Paris at the enthusiastic and long-standing invitation of four distinguished French musicians: the flutist Michel Blavet, the violinist Jean-Pierre Guignon, the gambist Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, and a cellist/harpsichordist known as Prince Édouard. In anticipation of this historic visit, the great master of the goûts-réunis wrote two sets of six quartets expressly for these four musicians. The first set was published in Hamburg; subsequently, both sets were published in Paris. All twelve quartets were played by the four musicians themselves, accompanied, no doubt, by the great master himself. Performers:  Karen Marie Marmer, baroque violin; Dongsok Shin, harpsichord; with guests: David Ross, traverso; Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
$10 suggested donation

Tour | Brooklyn Graffiti and Street Art Tour


New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists ... more >> from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick. This tour takes place Thursdays through Sundays at 2pm.
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2:00 pm
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Film | Gus Meins and Charles Rogers' March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934): Laurel and Hardy in Toyland


Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Virginia Karns. Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from ... more >> their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. 77 min.
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography


Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition. This tour occurs every day except on Sundays ... more >> and on December 24-27.
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3:30 pm
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Lecture | The Art of Seeing: Aesthetics at the Intersection of Art and Science


Art historian Emily L. Spratt and computer scientist Ahmed Elgammal explore the uses of vision technology ... more >> for the analysis of art and its philosophical implications for both aesthetic theory and artificial intelligence.
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4:15 pm
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Opening Reception | G. Daniel Massad: New Pastel Painting


G. Daniel Massad paints still life arrangements of fruit, vegetables, flowers, bowls, buckets, and bottles ... more >> that convey a powerful sense of psychological energy. Massad often arranges his objects on or around pockmarked stone walls redolent of ruins, some of which have letters or symbols inscribed into them, suggesting meaning or code.
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Love in the Middle East: Contradictions of Romance in the Facebook World


With Roger O. Friedland, Visiting Professor. Romantic love is a social fact in the Muslim world. ... more >> It is also gender politics impinging on religious and patriarchal understandings of female modesty and agency. This talk analyzes the rise of love as a basis of mate selection in a number of Muslim-majority countries: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia, and Turkey.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
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Concert | Holiday Sounds: Jason Green


The space comes alive this holiday season with acoustic, ambient musical performances. Jason Green ... more >> plays Dec. 10 and Dec. 19.
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5:30 pm
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Concert | Student Recitals


5:30 PM - 9:30 PM Jazz Arts Combo Festival 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM American Musical Theater Ensemble: Broadway ... more >> Babies 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Sophomore Vocal Recital
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Exposure 2


A unique rotating exhibition of multiple, one-week, one-person shows.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Over 85 - Still Creating, a Three-Artist Exhibition


Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Sonia Gechtoff and Liz Whitney Quisgard emerged during the Abstract Expressionist ... more >> era of the 50s and 60s. This exhibition marks a turning point, as attention is now being paid to the less well-known, but certainly not less important Abstract Expressionists who often happen to be female.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Speeds: New Paintings by Allison Miller


An exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Los Angeles-based artist Allison Miller in her third ... more >> solo exhibition with the gallery.
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | A Question of Africa, with Okey Ndibe


Focusing on the work of writers of the African diaspora, the "A Question of Africa" series brings together ... more >> contemporary writers and artists to read and discuss their work and its contemporary contexts. Okey Ndibe is the author of the widely acclaimed novels Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain, and co-editor (with Zimbabwean writer, Chenjerai Hove) of Writers Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa.
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Authors Read: Alphie McCourt / Malachy McCourt


Authors Alphie McCourt (The Soulswimmer) and Malachy McCourt (Singing My Him Song) share and read from ... more >> their respective titles.
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Erica Kohl-Arenas discusses her book The Self Help Myth: How Philanthropy Fails to Alleviate Poverty


Can philanthropy alleviate inequality? Do anti-poverty programs work on the ground? Author Erica Kohl-Arenas ... more >> seeks to answer these questions in this eye-opening analysis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Exhibition: Erik Parker: Undertow


Erik Parker: Undertow features new paintings that represent a confluence of ideas and styles explored ... more >> in previous bodies of work including the Maps, Heads, Landscapes and Hydroglyphics. His iconic, highly-saturated palette and intricate compositions are amplified by collage and airbrush techniques that create a balance of density and open space.
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Mark Ryden's Dodecahedron


Mark Ryden's second exhibition at the gallery features the Los Angeles-based artist’s first-ever bronze ... more >> sculpture, along with eight new paintings, drawings, color studies and a new porcelain edition.
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Talk | Open Studios: Gender/Power


Gender/Power is the first collaboration between artists Kris Grey and Maya Ciarrocchi. Ciarrocchi’s ... more >> work in video, photography, installation and performance addresses identity and otherness via documentation and durational portraiture. Grey works individually and collaboratively to raise the voices of marginalized populations and address social justice issues through visual art. Together, under the banner Gender/Power, they combine creative and activist motivations to produce installations, performances, and workshops. In Open Studios, audiences will learn more about the duo’s latest multidisciplinary project.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Stefanie Gutheil's The Home of Mr. Peeps


For this show, the Berlin-based artist has delved deep into the recesses of her imagination - back where ... more >> horned beasts, laser beams, onesies, a brass marching band, phonographs, multi-talented chickens, the original stooge named Krampus and a giant pink elephant all reside - and emerged with a phantasmagoric stable of characters à la a secularized and hallucinatory version of Noah's Arc.
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6:00 pm
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Book Signing | Photographer Len Prince signs copies of his book Remembering Marvin Hamlisch The People's Composer


Foreword by Terre Blair Hamlisch, Stories by Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, John Lithgow and many more. ... more >> Plus an extensive time line of Marvin Hamlisch's career.
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Opening Reception | Photography: Pacifico Silano's Tear Sheets


A solo exhibition by artist and 2015 Workspace Resident Pacifico Silano. He is a lens-based artist whose ... more >> work is an investigation into lost histories of the LGBTQ community and how it has shaped contemporary gay identity. In Tear Sheets, Silano creates composite images that appropriate gay iconography from 1970s and 80s porn magazines such as Blueboy, Torso and Honcho in order to negotiate his own identity and formative experiences as impacted by the AIDS crisis.
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Slide Lecture | Scholar Slam


The second Scholar Slam features 10-minute (and 10-slide) presentations from current Visiting Scholars. ... more >> Beatrice Glow will channel the Apprentice of the Ghost of Gauguin, divulging western-centric social imaginaries through a carousel of color and spices–all part of her artist book project, Post-Colonial Pantone Palette. Ryan Wong will share his findings on the development of Asian American identity through activist and artistic practices of the 1970s and 80s. Andy Yan examines the ownership patterns of real estate in New York City, with a focus on Manhattan’s Chinatown, and investigate the relationships (if any) between these patterns and transnational flows of people and capital from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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Concert | Student Recitals


Alex Shiozaki, Violin 6 p.m. French Horn Studio Recital 8 p.m.
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Author Reading | Victoria Wilson discusses her book A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940


Victoria Wilson, writer and Vice President/Senior Editor at Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, discusses her ... more >> biography of Stanwyck with Foster Hirsch, author and cultural historian. Stanwyck had an astonishing four decade career in movies (88 in all), from first “talkies” to the birth of television.
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Discussion | Clean Up Central Asia, Clean Up the World


An event devoted to water issues in Central Asia, including the Aral Sea and how the politics of trans-boundary ... more >> waters affect Central Asian economies. Speakers will include the Director of the Columbia Water Center Upmanu Lall, and guest speaker Shuhrat Muradov, Professor in Hydrology and Ecology, and a Chair of the Department of Environmental Protection and Ecology at Karshi Engineering-Economic Institute, Uzbekistan.
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6:30 pm
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Opening Reception | College Choir Concert


The college’s chorus group has their semiannual performance.
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | The 1930s Graphic Work of Richard Pousette-Dart


Phong Bui, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Brooklyn Rail, will moderate a discussion on the 1930s ... more >> graphic work of Richard Pousette-Dart with Charles H. Duncan, Lowery Stokes Sims, and other panelists to be announced.
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6:30 pm
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Performance | Time Farm explores communications through language


Time Farm (Abraham Adams, Lou Cantor, and Alexandra Pirici) is a research group dedicated to cultivating ... more >> temporal inquiry. This performance will be a platform to deepen the group’s interest in the nuances, difficulties, and wonders of human communication through language. With techniques that look beyond historiographic time out of joint, Time Farm's parapoetics seek out temporal dogmas in the conduct of meaning: Husserl's inscription of discursive sequence at the basis of experience; the fantasy eternal theorized by Félix Guattari; fears of transtemporalism observed by Rita Felski.
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6:30 pm
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Performance | HG/SSNZ: A Sound Performance by Gust Burns


Gust Burns will premiere a new composition HG/SSNZ (hear-stripe is the surplus of nature’s aura in ... more >> its erasure). Performed by cellist Meaghan Burke and Gust Burns on laptop and turntable, with a video component created by Anton Ginzburg.
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7:00 pm
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Concert | A Concert of Russian and Jewish Heritage Music


Linda Kunkin and Vlad West are husband and wife and recording artists with many CDs and movies to their ... more >> credit. The duo will perform old and new regional and popular songs in Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, and English including popular jazz standards. Linda Kunkin has performed in cabarets throughout Israel, the United States and Europe. Vlad West, known in Russia as Vladimir Sermakashev, is an internationally recognized jazz musician whose story and music inspired the movie Moscow on the Hudson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Julian Voloj reads from his book Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker


Author Julian Voloj tells the true story of Benjy Melendez, son of Puerto Rican immigrants, who founded ... more >> the 1960s Ghetto Brothers gang. Melendez extracted positive energy from this riot-ridden era: his multiracial gang promoted peace.The Ghetto Brothers initiated a gang truce and held concerts fostering the emergence of hip-hop. Benjy Melendez will be in conversation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Literature and Philosophy: Roman/Romanesque


ALAIN BADIOU is a philosopher, playwright, and author. His books include Logics of Worlds; Being and ... more >> Event; Theory of the Subject; The Century and a host of treatises and manifestos on aesthetics, Arab Spring, love, and, most recently, mathematics. EMILY APTER teaches in the departments of French and Comparative Literature. She co-edited a collection of Badiou's essays on literature with Bruno Bosteels (Verso, 2014), and is currently completing a book on "unexceptional politics."
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Tour | New York Holiday Lights Tour


It’s time to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and the New Year as Midtown Manhattan lights up like no ... more >> other place in the world. Mechanical window displays, synchronized light and sound shows, not to mention Santa Claus and toy soldiers surely await you in this winter wonderland. Check them all our on the New York Holiday Lights Tour. Experience the holidays in the city as only New York can offer. Take advantage of the subway to beat the street traffic, keep warm and catch some underground holiday music. Learn about the artists and backgrounds to these wonderful displays. This tour takes place daily at 7pm and Fridays through Mondays at 7:30pm from December 3 to January 3.
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Poetry Reading | Poet Elizabeth Willis discusses her work


Elizabeth Willis is the author of five previous collections of poetry. Her most recent book is "Alive: ... more >> New and Selected Poems" (New York Review Books, 2015). This event is hosted by Alice Quinn.
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7:00 pm
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Concert | American Musical Theater Ensemble: Broadway Babies


Performance will include songs and scenes from various musicals.
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Tactus Ensemble performs solos, duos and more


Margaret Kampmeier, Artistic Director.
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7:30 pm
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Concert | The New Standards: The Holiday Show


A little lounge, a little punk, a little rock, and a whole lot of cool, the New Standards — Chan Poling ... more >> on piano, John Munson on upright bass, and Steve Roehm on vibraphone — reinvent their favorite holiday (and non-holiday) songs with panache. For their popular annual Holiday Show they are augmented by horns and percussion and a dazzling array of guests including Julian Fleischer, Nellie McKay, Reeve Carney (Broadway's Spider-Man), Har Mar Superstar, Aby Wolf, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Concert | Early Music Workshop with Pianist Andrew Appel


Andrew Appel, Artistic Director of the Four Nations Ensemble, performs throughout Europe and the United ... more >> States as soloist in many festivals including Italy's Spoleto Festival, New York's Mostly Mozart Festival, and the Redwoods Festival.
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8:00 pm
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Theater | New Visions Directing Festival: Tango Palace


Tango Palace by Maria Irene Fornes is an exploration of the bounds and bonds of an ambiguously intimate ... more >> relationship. Isidore is a clown: a flamboyant horror, bewigged, lipsticked, half-man/half-woman; Leopold is an earnest youth, dressed in a business suit. Mind games, object lessons, and tender encounters that erupt into outbursts of escalating violence set the tone, as these two eccentrics go from strangers to partners – so agonizingly enmeshed that their separation could mean their destruction. This production occurs December 8-12.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Sonatenabend Recital


Artists from the collaborative piano department perform sonata repertoire with instrumentalists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Jazz | Robin Aleman, Jazz Vocalist


Robin Aleman is a vocal jazz artist from The Bronx. Her smooth vocals have been engaging audiences for ... more >> over 15 years. She has studied with a number of jazz artists in private or workshop settings, including Dena DeRose, Barry Harris, Tierney Sutton, Ann Hampton-Callaway and Janis Siegel.
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