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33 free events take place on Monday, February 22 in New York City.
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33 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, February 22, 2016

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free events nyc Sivan Magen: Harp Master Class
free events nyc Bernini - the last of the universal geniuses
free events nyc Opera Screening: Alban Berg's Wozzeck Performed by the Bolshoi Opera
free events nyc Windscape presents Mozart and the Mississippi
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Workshop | Beastanetics Workout


Sunrise Beastanetics is an early AM high-intensity, back-to-basics, no-nonsense interval training.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 am
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Lecture | A Primer on Brazil: Global Giant


When the 2016 Summer Olympics were awarded to Rio de Janeiro late in 2009, Brazil was enjoying a decade-long ... more >> economic boom and the country seemed poised for a leap to global power status. But when the games open next August 6, the mood in Rio is sure to be a sour one. Since the end of 2014, Brazil has been mired in the worst corruption scandal in its history, with its political institutions and leaders discredited, and the economy has shifted into reverse and is actually shrinking. What went wrong? And what makes this tropical giant tick? Speaker Larry Rohter has spent thirty years as a foreign correspondent and cultural reporter for The New York Times. Before that he reported from Latin America and Asia as a correspondent and critic for Newsweek, The Washington Post, the Sunday Times of London and Rede Globo of Brazil.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Discussion | Kazakhstan’s Policy Initiatives in a Global Perspective


A roundtable discussion on policy in Kazakhstan featuring Omer Baris, Graduate School of Public Policy, ... more >> Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan and Aziz Burkhanov, Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan.
   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 ... more >> to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. This workshop occurs Mondays through Fridays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Lunch Crunch Workout


Lunch Crunch is a total body conditioning class that uses "outside the box" fitness trends to challenge ... more >> your thinking, athleticism and endurance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Master Class | Sivan Magen: Harp Master Class


"A budding superstar...harpist Sivan Magen's brilliant sound and remarkable technical acumen shatter ... more >> any stereotype of this instrument as domesticated and fey." - The New York Times
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
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Discussion | The Digital Divide: EU v. US over Data Protection


Legal procedures initiated by Max Schrems, PhD candidate at the University of Vienna, to ensure that ... more >> internet giants comply with European regulation on data protection led to the landmark “Safe Harbor” case at the European Court of Justice last fall. Schrems’ initiatives raise important questions about the differences between Americans and Europeans concerning the regulation of the internet, privacy rights, and the ability of consumers/citizens to ensure that their rights are respected by corporations and governments. Speakers: Max Schrems, PhD candidate at the University of Vienna, Founder of Europe v. Facebook Julia Angwin, Senior Reporter at Propublica Peter Micek, Global Policy and Legal Counsel at Access Now, Lecturer at SIPA
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Performance | Six New Theatrical Adaptations by Students


The MFA class of 2018 Actors, Directors, Dramaturgs, Playwrights, and Stage Managers have collaborated ... more >> on six new pieces of adaptation, which draw inspiration from works of fiction, poetry, theater, and film.
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recitals


Emily Liu and Lisa Sung, Violas 4 p.m. Caroline Ross, Baroque Oboe 6 p.m. Tristan Teo, Piano 6 p.m.
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | MS Word 2011 for Mac for Beginners


Learn the basics features of Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac, a word processing program you can use to create ... more >> documents. Topics include entering and editing text, saving files, and formatting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Origami 101 with Taro's Origami Studio


Get introduced to the Japanese art of origami. As each fold and crease transforms a single sheet of ordinary ... more >> paper into a recognizable model, origami inspires and challenges us to tackle everyday items from flowers and animals and brings us to mythical worlds filled with wizards and dragons. Origami is not simply a hobby – it’s practical as well. As participants practice origami, they will develop care, precision, and other skills that can easily be applied to other aspects of their lives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Film | Abigail Disney's The Armor of Light (2015): Documentary on Faith and Guns


The Armor of Light follows an Evangelical minister and the mother of a teenage shooting victim who ask, ... more >> is it possible to be both pro-gun and pro-life? 88 min. Followed by a Q+A with the director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Slide Lecture | Bernini - the last of the universal geniuses


Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the ... more >> last of the universal geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Bernini's artistic vision remains palpably present today through the countless statues, fountains, buildings and other works of his design that transformed Rome into the Baroque theater that continues to enthrall in our own time. Lecturer Franco Mormando, author of the first English-language biography of the artist - Bernini: His Life and His Rome - will offer a guided tour of Bernini's long, dramatic life (private and public) and his equally fascinating Rome, with special emphasis on his many (and troubled) interactions with the French court.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Film | Marija Ristic's The Unidentified (2015): Kosovo Memories


The film follows two storylines that focus on large-scale state-sponsored wrongdoing—war crimes in ... more >> four Kosovo villages and the subsequent cover-up operation. Both victims and perpetrators recall gruesome memories of the attacks, when scores of ethnic Albanian civilians were killed by Serbian forces in the course of a few days in the spring of 1999. Followed by a panel discussion with director/producer Marija Ristic; author and human rights advocate Fred C. Abrahams; sociologist, policy analyst, and journalist Anna Di Lellio; and human rights and post-conflict attorney Praveen Madhiraju.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Patrick Iber reads from his book Neither Peace Nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America


Patrick Iber is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. His first book, ... more >> Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America, was published by Harvard University Press in 2015. His articles and essays have appeared in Diplomatic History, the Journal of Latin American Studies, as well as Dissent,The New Republic, and other publications.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions


Speaker Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, ... more >> NJ, has addressed a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy: political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice and the welfare state. His books (among them Just and Unjust Wars, Spheres of Justice, The Company of Critics, Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, and On Toleration) and essays have played a part in the revival of practical, issue-focused ethics and in the development of a pluralist approach to political and moral life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Material Encounters: Surface Tension, Screen Space


What is the place of materiality in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it ... more >> fashioned in the arts or manifested in virtual forms? Professor Giuliana Bruno of Harvard University will discuss these elements in her talk based on the her latest research and book, Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Author Reading | Mary C. Bounds discusses her book A Light Shines in Harlem: New York’s First Charter School and the Movement It Led


The author tells the fascinating story of the Sisulu-Walker Charter School of Harlem, the first charter ... more >> school in New York, and of the charter movement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Spiritual Experience: A Lecture


A talk by professor Hent de Vries, Russ Family Professor in the Humanities and Philosophy at Johns Hopkins ... more >> University. Taking its lead from a central motif in authors as diverse as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodor W. Adorno, and now also Peter Sloterdijk, this lecture explores the fate of the concept and practice of "geistige Erfahrung," translated here as spiritual experience, that neither speculative philosophy nor dogmatic theology, indeed, neither normative ethics nor aesthetic theory have so far succeeded in rendering intelligible and plausible in its full meaning and overall force ​as a philological and philosophical, literary and political category of modern thought.
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Straus Park II: More Bloomingale Neighborhood History


With Jim Mackin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Trivia Night


Come and test your knowledge in a challenging though entertaining 30 question trivia quiz. There are ... more >> questions and categories for all comers, spanning subjects from Music and Movies to New York History, Sports, Literature and others in between. Individuals and teams welcome. Bring your friends and be prepared to have a good time. Trivia Master Chris Vaccari is a New York-based trivia host with the answers to (almost) all of your questions. He has hosted fun-filled trivia events in the Tri-State area since 2007.
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6:30 pm
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Reading | Writing In and Out of Iran: An Evening of Readings with Bidoun Magazine


An evening of eclectic readings with Negar Azimi and Michael C. Vazquez, senior editors, Bidoun Magazine, ... more >> and other speakers to be announced.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Idra Novey reads from her book Ways to Disappear


Ways to Disappear is an adventure. Deep in gambling debt, the celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda ... more >> is last seen holding a suitcase and climbing into an almond tree. Her American translator Emma flies immediately to Brazil. There, Emma and her author's children conspire to solve the mystery of Yagoda's curious disappearance and staunch the demands of her various affairs.
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7:00 pm
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Opera | Opera Screening: Alban Berg's Wozzeck Performed by the Bolshoi Opera


This event is a film screening of the Bolshoi Opera production. There will be an introduction and Q+A ... more >> with special guests Katerina Novikova, Bolshoi Theatre Press Secretary and Anna Winestein, Executive Director of Ballets Russes Arts Initiative.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Workshop | Punk Rope Workout


Tim Haft and Shana Brady bring this playful mash-up of recess and boot camp, which blends rope jumping ... more >> with creative conditioning drills.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Windscape presents Mozart and the Mississippi


Program: MOZART Serenade in E-flat Major, K. 375 FRED LERDAHL Episodes and Refrains JEFF SCOTT ... more >> Startin’ Sumthin’ JIM PARKER Mississippi Five MOZART (arr. Jolley) Sonata in D Major, K. 576
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Concert | Pulsing and Shaking Concert


Performances by students, faculty, and the Contemporary Music Ensemble.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Viola Recital


Jordan Tarantino, viola. A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement ... more >> of a solo recital by a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | The Weekly Comedy Show


A free weekly comedy show with comedians in the Kips Bay area. This event takes place every Monday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Singers Space


Hosted by D'Ambrose Boyd with David Pearl at the piano. Where New York's finest professional and aspiring ... more >> singers come to sing their favorites and hear their peers perform before an intimate audience. This event takes place Feb. 8, 22 and 29.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Concert | Student Jazz Double Bass Recital


Dion Kerr, jazz double bass
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