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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 26, 2015?

43 free events take place on Thursday, February 26 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 February 26 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 February . 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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43 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, February 26, 2015

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Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Conference | Russia’s Races: Meanings and Practices of Race in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union


Traditionally scholars of Russia have paid little attention to race, either as a historical phenomenon or as an analytical category. Race, it would seem, does not matter in the Russian case. Only recently have some begun to challenge this long held view that has affected our understanding of Russia’s past no less than its present. But important questions remain. Why has race in Russia been so difficult to analyze? Do race and racism mean the same things in Russia as they do in “classical” racial regimes such as Germany or the United States? In what ways does Russia challenge the category of race as it has been developed in other contexts? Can we talk about the particularity of race in Russia without falling into Russian exceptionalism?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Skype and Video Chatting Workshop


Learn all about Skype and Video Chatting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Computer Safety and Maintenance Workshop


Learn how to protect your computer from viruses and perform regular maintenance functions to keep it running smoothly.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | MS Excel 2010 for Beginners Workshop


Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel 2010. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Park Walk | Heart of the Park Tour


On this east-west walk you will see some of the Park's most well-known landmarks, including Conservatory Water, Bethesda Terrace, the Lake, and Strawberry Fields. Route involves a few stairs. 90 minutes.
   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 free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Author Reading | Valerie Sperling reads from her book Sex, Politics, and Putin: Masculinity and Russian Foreign Policy


Valerie Sperling is Professor of Political Science at Clark University (Worcester, MA). She is the author of Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Her new book explores the use of gender norms and sexualization in Putin-era Russian politics, with a focus on pro- and anti-regime organizing and feminist protest.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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 choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America


Tour is led by the museum’s gallery guides.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | 'I laughed, I cried…': Music of the Prime Donne Innamorate in 17th-Century Italy


This season’s performers were chosen competitively by jury and are among the finest early music artists and ensembles from the New York area and beyond. Today: The commedia dell' arte character known as Isabella was a 'prima donna innamorata' - an educated, articulate, chaste and cultivated woman. Anima explores the legacy of her creator, the reknowned actress, poet and intellectual Isabella Andreini in this program of theatrical music. Anima: Beth Anne Hatton, soprano Vita Wallace, Baroque violin and lira da braccio Christa Patton, harp Motomi Igarashi, viola da gamba and lirone.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
$10 suggested donation

Film | George Marshall's Destry Rides Again (1939): The Lawless West


Stars: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer. Kent, the unscrupulous boss of Bottleneck has Sheriff Keogh killed when he asks one too many questions about a rigged poker game that gives Kent a stranglehold over the local cattle rangers. The mayor, who is in cahoots with Kent appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale, as the new sheriff assuming that he'll be easy to control. But what the mayor doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy under famous lawman, Tom Destry, and is able to call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry Jr to be his deputy. 94 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | John Field and the Russian Piano School


An extraordinary opportunity for connoisseurs of great music and young talent. An outstanding artist of today, Elena Sorokina, discusses John Field and the Russian Piano School.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Film | Philippe Falardeau's The Good Lie (2014): Sudanese Refugees in the Midwest


Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Corey Stoll, Arnold Oceng. Sudanese refugees are given the chance to resettle in America arrive in Kansas City, Missouri. where their encounter with an employment agency counselor forever changes all of their lives. 110 minutes
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Richard Anuszkiewicz: The Temple Paintings


Composed between 1981 and 1984, these works were inspired by a trip the artist took to Egypt. While inspired by the geometries of sacred temples, these paintings do not make direct reference to individual structures but use the geometric framework as a space in which to experiment with juxtaposed complimentary colors. While Anuszkiewicz is known for his early involvement as an optical artist the subtle luminous depths of these paintings call fourth other associations- mainly the recurring geometric structures of Donald Judd and Frank Stella, the color theory of his mentor Josef Albers or the luminosity of a Dan Flavin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Alex Da Corte's Die Hexe: A Haunted Dollhouse


Da Corte has created a site-specific installation that consumes the gallery’s East 77th Street townhouse, turning it into an implausible cross between a dollhouse and a haunted house. Here visitors will take a journey through familiar imagery and obscure biographical references that mingle, repeat, trade places, and morph into new provocations that invite reflections on memory, impulse, the stability of knowledge, and what constitutes value in a work of art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Angie Martinez and Chef Angelo Sosa discuss their book Healthy Latin Eating: Our Favorite Family Recipes Remixed


Welcome "The Voice of New York" Angie Martinez and Chef Angelo Sosa. They'll be here to discuss their fantastic new book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


Stephanie Wu, Piano 6 p.m. Edson Scheid, Baroque Violin 8 p.m. Trevor Fowler, Viola 8 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Designing Costumes for Ballets with a Twist


Costume designer and alumna Catherine Zehr will discuss her career designing for New York’s Ballets with a Twist, and the company will perform excerpts from artistic director and choreographer Marilyn Klaus’s Cocktail Hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Documentary: Brad Bernstein's Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2012)


This documentary depicts one man’s wild, lifelong adventure of testing societal boundaries through his use of subversive art. This film combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation from over 70 years worth of art from the renegade children’s book author and illustrator. 98 min. Renowned children’s book author and illustrator Peter Sís will introduce the film.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Yan Shanchun: West Lake


Born in 1957 in Hangzhou, Yan Shanchun graduated from the Printmaking Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Fine Arts) in 1982, and thus belongs to the generation of artists who were the first to graduate after the academies were closed during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: #spacetobreathe


The recent cultural climate has shed light on the systemic conflation of violence with the black male body — bodies that are often perceived as threatening. Featuring visual artwork by performing artists Raja Feather Kelly, Jaamil Kosoko, Jumatatu Poe, Will Rawls and David Thomson (in collaboration with artist/designer Tony Whitfield), this exhibition poses the question: how do men live with this perception and exist fully in the world? Hashtags emerged in the massive online response to these issues.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Double Visions


Artists: Louise Barry, Andrew Beccone, Fay Chiang and Sidd Joag, David Court, Kristyna Milde & Marek Milde, and David Rios Ferreira.
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Living History: A Lecture/Recital on the Diary Melodies of Gregory Spears' Virginiana


Composer Gregory Spears has a singular voice, writing music for modern and period instruments that blends aspects of romanticism, minimalism, and early music. His work has been called “astonishingly beautiful” by The New York Times and “coolly entrancing” by The New Yorker. This season Spears joins forces with the adventurous early music ensemble New Vintage Baroque and the Netherlands based Damask Ensemble to create a new work inspired by life in colonial Virginia. This is a fascinating lecture/recital with Spears and his musical collaborators.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Making the Colonial Subject: Law and Violence in the French Empire


In 1881, the French colonial State instituted a Code de l’indigénat (Native Code) in Algeria, a penal code applicable only to the subjects of the French Empire. The Code was a “judicial monster” in the words of one French deputy—a break with basic principles of French due process and penal law. It also provided the basic framework for extending and enforcing the colonial order, from the regularization of violence and expropriation to the administrative management of native populations, in the catastrophic context of the conquest. This talk will analyze the role of the Code de l’indigénat on the making of the “colonial subject” focusing on Algeria but also tracking its extension throughout the empire and into present day debates about the legacies of colonial rule. Lecturer Emmanuelle Saada is Associate Professor of French and History. Her main field of research is the history of the French empire in the 19th and 20th century, with a specific interest in law.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Mulitimedia Works by Kevin Beasley


Central to Beasley’s work is touch, though not just in the physical sense; his objects function as a register, both for his own engagement, and the histories of his materials. Items of clothing, shoes, studio debris, and others are filtered through Beasley’s process of molding, cast and forced assume the forms of others. Through this, they are broken and rebuilt, expanded in parts as they enact a duality, simultaneously occupying the space of what they were and what they have become.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Sculpture: Mia Fonssagrives-Solow's Robots


A series of never-before-exhibited works by sculptor Mia Fonssagrives-Solow in her first solo exhibition in New York. On view will be over twenty bronze and aluminum sculptures representing robots, fembots and aliens that Solow has created over a seven year period. Her career as a sculptor spans over fifty years, originally working with wood and more recently with metals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Sonatenabend Recital


Pianists from the Collaborative Piano Department perform sonata repertoire in collaboration with student instrumentalists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | The Making of a European Public Sphere in the Aftermath of Charlie Hebdo


A lecture by Nilüfer Göle, Professor of Sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She works on Islamic visibility, secularism and intercultural controversies in European public spheres. Her sociological approach aims to open up a new reading of modernity from a non-western perspective and a broader critique of Eurocentrism in the definitions of secular modernity. Her books have been published in many languages.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | A Conversation with Quentin Bajac, MOMA's Chief Curator of Photography


In conversation with Shelly Rice, Professor, Department of Photography and Imaging and Department of Art History.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Charles Baxter reads from his book There’s Something I Want You to Do


In conversation with Darin Strauss.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Elisa Albert reads from her book After Birth


A celebration of After Birth starring Elisa Albert, Paula Bomer, Chloe Caldwell, Emily Gould, Molly Jong-Fast, Amy Sohn, Anya Ulinich, Rebecca Wolff, and MC Maris Kreizman. Refreshments to follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Keisha Mayo reads from her book Deceived: What's Done in the Dark, Comes to Light


Keisha Mayo reads from her new book, the story of a woman whose life is turned upside down by a deceptive relationship.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | One-Man Performance: Anton van Dalen's Avenue A Cut-Out Theatre


Since 1972, Van Dalen has lived in the East Village, documenting the ever-changing culture of the neighborhood through paintings, drawings, prints, stencils, collage works and performances that captured the evolving history of the place. He will perform his work Avenue A Cut-Out Theatre, a portable model of his house, which he uses as a staging ground for telling the story of the evolution of the East Village. This one-man show incorporates a rotating selection of miniature cut outs and props that each contain a story about the neighborhood from the 1970s until the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Sundance Documentary: Andrew Rossi's Ivory Tower (2014)


A documentary that questions the cost -- and value -- of higher education in the United States. 90 min. The director will discuss the film after the screening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | 10³²K: The Skip James Project


Featuring Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Kevin Ray, and Andrew Drury with special guests J.D. Allen and Justin Hicks. The cooperative trio 10³²K explores the musical legacy of Delta blues legend Skip James in Hard Time Killing Floor Suite—a multi-part suite conceived and performed by founding members Ku-umba Frank Lacy (trombone, flumpet, voice), Kevin Ray (bass), and Andrew Drury (drum set).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Accompanying Seminar Concert 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM MSM Symphony 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM The Jazz Room Series 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Ge Gao, piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Susan Salm, 'Brilliant and Deeply Moving' Cellist


Program: Rainer Bischof (b. 1947) Pax Veneziana Restituito (2013) for Solo Cello - written for and dedicated to Susan Salm (N. American Premiere) Ludwig van Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102 No. 1 Wolfgang Florey (b. 1945) Vier Intermezzi (2013) for Solo Cello - written for and dedicated to Susan Salm (N. American Premiere) Ludwig van Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2 Hailed by critics as "a cellist of very great significance", "brilliant and deeply moving", Susan Salm received her earliest musical training in her native Chicago and later studied at the Juilliard School in New York with Leonard Rose and Harvey Shapiro and in master classes of Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatigorsky, and Pierre Fournier. As prizewinner of the coveted Concert Artists Guild Award Ms. Salm was presented in her New York debut at Carnegie Hall.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Pianist Marilyn Nonken, 'One of the Greatest Interpreters of New Music'


Marilyn Nonken is one of the most celebrated champions of the modern repertoire of her generation, known for performances that explore transcendent virtuosity and extremes of musical expression. Upon her 1993 New York debut, she was heralded as "a determined protector of important music" (New York Times). Recognized a "one of the greatest interpreters of new music" (American Record Guide), she has been named “Best of the Year” by some of the nation's leading critics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:45 pm
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Film | Documentary: Nefin Dinç's The Other Town: Why Do Nations Clash?


A film about Turks and Greeks and the sources of stereotypes, misunderstandings and prejudices against the 'Other.' It is about how the stereotypes and misunderstandings are perpetuated in education in a broader sense in Greece and Turkey." There will be a discussion with the filmmaker Nefin Dinç. Introduction by Christine Philliou, Associate Professor, Department of History. This film won the "Audience Award" at Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival and the "Best Historical Documentary" award at Chicago’s Greek Film Festival.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Mariano Aguirre, Guitar


A stellar musical event. A concert showcasing the artistry of internationally acclaimed performers and distinguished faculty members at a leading New York conservatory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Opera | Opera Apprentice Studio Concert


The Mannes Opera, directed by Joseph Colaneri, includes two performing groups, “Mannes Opera Young Artists,” consisting of advanced students, and “Mannes Opera Apprentice Studio,” for students in earlier stages of development. This "Mannes Opera Apprentice Studio” event will include semi-staged programs of varied opera excerpts featuring repertoire from the baroque to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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