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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 26, 2020?

36 free events take place on Wednesday, 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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36 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, February 26, 2020

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free events nyc (Re)Thinking Jewish Heritage: Opportunities and Limits Amidst Openings and Closings
free events nyc 2020 City Skate Concert
free events nyc A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis with Times Reporter Sam Roberts
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Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | City Hall Tour For Individuals


The tour of City Hall includes a discussion of the building's history, art, architecture, and civic function. The building is the oldest city hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions, such as the office of the Mayor of New York. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, New York City Hall is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Japan's Diplomacy in 2030


The Abe administration (2012-) and its diplomacy has been remarkably stable despite the geopolitical challenges and instability of its alliance partner, the United States. Is Japan going to stay its course, or are we going to witness major changes in the years ahead? Noriyuki Shikata of Harvard University will discuss how he forecasts Japan's diplomacy in 2030.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. "The term 'baroque' has been widely used since the 19th century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750... Many famous composers from the first part of the baroque period came from Italy and have a link with Venice, including Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. Monteverdi was born in Cremona, but moved to Venice where he was 'maestro di capella' at the San Marco basilica. Vivaldi was born in Venice and was one of the greatest baroque composers. It is thanks to these strong musical traditions of Venice that we have today's music. Without Venetian church music and Monteverdi's advances with polyphony, the great traditions of choral music in England, France, and Germany would never have developed. Without the operas written by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi, not only would the later styles of opera never have been invented. There would be no basis for the American Musical or the German and Viennese Operetta, the Spanish Zarzuela, and even rock, pop, and contemporary music as we know it." The Venice Insider Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 10, 2019 to May 20, 2020.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Slide Lecture | (Re)Thinking Jewish Heritage: Opportunities and Limits Amidst Openings and Closings


Holocaust narratives dominate contemporary Jewish heritage tourism, but an exciting New Jewish History offers a new paradigm in which the Jewish Street, and notably the Bund, is at the center of the making of Modern Jewish identity. Illustrated with slides, the lecture illustrates the possibilities, challenges, disappointments and surprises that frame the robust and changing terrain of Jewish Heritage today in cities such as Kiev, Krakow, Berlin, Warsaw, Lviv, Lodz, Bucharest and Belgrade to London and New York and two shtetlekh in eight countries. Speaker Daniel J Walkowitz is a social and cultural historian who in nearly a dozen books, two dozen articles and four films for public television has worked to bring America's past to both academic and broad public audiences.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Concert | 2020 City Skate Concert


A presentation of the Ice Theatre of New York. For the past 30 years, Ice Theatre of New York has created and advanced ice dance as a performing art form and provided education and presented public performances for people of all ages. Come experience the balance, flow and flight of skating.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Battery Park City Adult Chorus


Directed by Church Street School for Music and Art, the BPC Chorus is open to all adults who love to sing. Learn a mix of 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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Tour | Guided Historical Tour of the Columbia University Campus


Join this tour to learn more about the history, architecture, and sculpture of Columbia and the Morningside Heights campus. Whether you're an amateur New York City historian or visiting campus for the first time, you will leave the tour knowing more about our storied past. Given that the tour route is outdoors, please be aware that tours are occasionally suspended due to inclement weather.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation


Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Jazz | Renowned Jazz Guitarist and His Trio


Bill Wurtzel, a renowned jazz guitarist, has performed worldwide with many jazz greats. His style in his own words: "I love mainstream jazz and the American songbook. Albums I've played on range from gospel, mainstream and soul jazz to Christmas songs in Latin."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | From the Soviet Republic to the Planned Economy: Lenin, Socialism, and Cold War Modernity


Lenin’s enigmatic text State and Revolution has been read as both a key to Soviet history and as an irrelevant curio. Professor Adam Leeds will show that the surface of this text manifests two incompatible visions of socialism that reflect an epochal transition then underway. He argues that, in the early nineteenth century, socialism meant a form of radicalized democratic republicanism, in contrast to which even the freest existing states were only corrupted bourgeois oligarchies. Professor Adam Leeds is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Columbia University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | African Photographic Safaris from A to Z


Wildlife photographer Yaron Schmid takes you on a virtual photographic safari through some of East Africa’s premier wildlife reserves. Yaron will share many of his “secrets” that will enable you to anticipate and capture unique and emotion evoking images. He will share the stories behind many of his shots, the settings he used, and the thinking process that led to getting the desired shot. And if you dream of going on an African photographic safari yourself, Yaron will give you the insider’s scoop to turn your dream in to a reality.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Narrating East Asian International Relations from the Margins


This talk invites the audience to reflect on how we usually look at the world around us, East Asian international relations in this case, and consider what if we stop using the familiar state-centric, great-power-centered lens to do so. Specifically, it will excavate the discursive practices employed by relevant state and substate actors in framing, contesting and (dis)assembling totalizing claims over Ryukyu/Okinawa and Taiwan, as Japan's and China's margins, since the late nineteenth century. With: Ching-Chang Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Global Studies, Ryukoku University, Kyoto; Visiting Fellow in the Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs, New School, New York
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Gun Violence and Public Health


Featuring Ted Alcorn, researcher, journalist, and educator with expertise in gun violence prevention policies and programs. Youth Over Guns will also attend and lead a discussion on gun violence and its relationship to public health. Presenters will speak about gun regulation and policy in the U.S. and how the public health field may be suited to address the problem, as well as gun violence programming and interrupting the cycles of violence that lead to gun-related incidents.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Discussion | Universities Under Attack: Perspective from India, Turkey, and Chile


A panel discussion featuring Manu Bhagavan, professor of history and human rights at the City University of New York, Marcial Godoy a Sociocultural Anthropologist at New York University, and Kumru Toktamis, associate professor of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Talk | 1970s Land Art in the American Southwest


Emerging in the late 1960s, the land art movement was created by pioneering artists--the most well-known being Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt and Walter De Maria. They rejected traditional museums and commercial galleries, considering the experience of visiting them as "stale" and "senseless." Their early sculptures using natural materials like dirt, rocks, and plants evolved into site-specific explorations and interventions that incorporated the surrounding environment and introduced--but sometimes removed--objects both natural and man-made. They were especially attracted to the vast spaces and austere emptiness of the American Southwest, which offered an abundance of space and material far removed from the art world and urban centers. The land is not the setting for the work but a part of the work. --Walter De Maria This talk is based on the June 2017 travels of mural artist/historian/curator Jane Weissman. Covering 4,566 miles in a rented SUV through spectacular scenery and following vague directions over rocky, inhospitable roads, she visited Heizer's Double Negative (NV), Holt's Sun Tunnels (UT), Smithson's Spiral Jetty (UT) and De Maria's The Lightning Field (NM). Using her own photographs and the words of the artists, Jane takes you on a journey to the little known/visited works (past and in-development) of these and other artists--e.g., James Turrell and Charles Ross. She discusses the development of their work, the philosophies that inform them, and their effect on the surrounding landscape.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | 4 the Team: Fluid, Authorial Paintings


Jutta Koether's exhibition features new paintings alongside a selection of key canvases from the early 1980s to 1990. Departing from the question of what it means to paint, and to continue painting, in the present moment, Koether adopts a fluid authorial position. Mining the discourses of appropriation that shaped Cologne culture in the '80s, as well as those that she encountered when she moved to New York in 1991, she makes them her own, constructing an eclectic artistic genealogy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Help: Conceptual Stakes of Materiality


An exhibition of new paintings by Dan Colen. Moving between diverse styles and subjects, Colen investigates the conceptual stakes of materiality and mark-making. In his earliest paintings, elements of the supernatural intrude into naturalistic renderings of interior spaces, while his more recent canvases explore the technical, physical, and thematic limits of the medium itself. Colen has often worked with unconventional materials such as chewing gum, soil, and trash, relinquishing control of his work’s final appearance to their unpredictable surfaces.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Old Fruit: Photos from the Past 20 Years


An exhibition of photographs by Roe Ethridge spanning the past twenty years. This is his first solo exhibition with the gallery in New York, following exhibitions in Beverly Hills, Hong Kong, and San Francisco. Since the turn of the century, Ethridge has exercised a significant influence over young artists in particular, yet opportunities to see groupings of his early work have been rare. Old Fruit, which focuses primarily on his output from the early 2000s, offers a valuable chance to revisit many highly regarded and widely reproduced images that embody new ways of understanding the medium of photography in the context of emergent technological and social currents.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Ted Eron Designed That: Iconic Graphic Design


Authors Joseph B. Eron and Elizabeth Eron Roth―Ted's children―chronicle the life and art of their father through a nostalgic tour of the iconic graphic designs that have shaped twentieth-century visual culture. From his humble beginnings painting signs in the basement of a market while attending Cooper Union to the Eron & Eron Industrial Design years before World War II and beyond, Ted Eron Designed That pays a long overdue tribute to the man behind the iconic designs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Art Inspired by Kara Walker


Come create your own masterpiece inspired by work from famous artists and various techniques. The series will include an overview of the artist or technique, followed by a hands-on workshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Digital Praxis: The Role of Libraries in the Digital Age


Siva Vaidhyanathan, Director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia, Melissa Morrone, Librarian at Brooklyn Public Library, and Vicky Steeves, Research Data Management and Reproducibility Librarian at NYU Libraries, have a conversation about the role of libraries in the digital age. Shannon Mattern, Professor of Anthropology at The New School, will moderate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Other | Monsta X Karaoke Night


Choose from a selection of your favorite songs and have your moment in the spotlight.    
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | NY StartUP! 2020 Workshop 3: Developing Financial Statements


The financials section of your plan shows potential investors whether or not your business is viable. Learn about the different components of the financials section and how to develop financial statements for your business. This is the 3rd training workshop for the New York StartUP! 2020 Business Plan Competition. This session will be offered three times in February. Attendance for this workshop is REQUIRED for all entrants.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis with Times Reporter Sam Roberts


Sam Roberts, longtime reporter at The New York Times and host of CUNY-TV's program The New York Times Close Up, speaks about his new book. Exploring the history of the city via the prism of architecture, Roberts describes how these structures--some iconic, others far less so--shaped New York's political, economic, and social development. He joins in a conversation with Rob Snyder, who was recently appointed Manhattan borough historian.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Author Reading | Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City


Recent urbanist writings have pointed to a “creative class” of young professionals as the energy reviving American cities. But in his new book, historian A.K. Sandoval-Strausz argues that another, far less visible group really deserved the credit: Latino and Latina immigrants. In this illustrated talk, Sandoval-Strausz will focus on two barrios: Chicago’s Little Village and Dallas’s Oak Cliff, showing how Latinos made cities dynamic, stable, and safe by purchasing homes, opening businesses, and reviving street life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Bunin and The New Review


"The life is preserved in Word..." (I.Bunin) A literary series dedicated to 150th Anniversary of Ivan Bunin. Ivan Bunin (1870-1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature which he got in 1933. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry. The texture of his poems and stories, sometimes referred to as "Bunin brocade", is considered to be one of the richest in the language. The New Review /Novyi Zhurnal and the Hudson Note Group. Poetry reading. In Russian and English.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Narrating the Past: Innovative Strategies for Writing History


Why should historians consider developing new forms of historical writing, and of what might those forms consist? This discussion of craft will explore how historians can draw on literary and journalistic methods to construct and convey knowledge. Using  brief sample texts, historian and writer Ivan Jablonka and journalist Brooke Kroeger will demonstrate the practical application of specific strategies. With: Ivan Jablonka is Professor of Contemporary History at the Université Paris-XIII-Nord. Brooke Kroeger is a journalist and professor of journalism at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Hilary Handin is a doctoral candidate in History and French Studies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | New Poetry: The Autobiography of Envelopes / Maps


Oscillating between the US, France and Morocco, living on three continents and in three languages, Sarah Riggs felt the need to address her own self in order not to disperse into alternatives. But how do we address ourselves? The Autobiography of Envelopes asks. In Beirut, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Rome, and the foothills of a childhood hometown, John Freeman navigates legacies of ruin and construction, illness and memory. Warm, mournful, and distinctly urban, Maps offers a compassionate perspective from the experience of one American embroiled in empire.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Transforming the TWA Flight Center


Since its opening in 1962, the expressive form of Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center has helped define the modern airport terminal and served as a visual metaphor for flight. Conceived immediately before the advent of the jet age, the Terminal was designed for smaller aircraft and underwent a number of modifications to adapt to the rapidly changing aviation industry. When Trans World Airlines ceased operations in 2001, the Terminal was closed and threatened with demolition. Having worked for over 20 years to stabilize and protect the building, Beyer Blinder Belle has led the recently completed $265m project to adapt the site to a new use. The redevelopment of the TWA Flight Center restores the integrity of the 1962 landmark and reactivates the site as a hotel, restaurant and events space. Lecture with Miriam Kelly, Principal, Beyer Blinder Belle
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Who Owns Security Sector Reform -- and Why It Matters


A presentation by Adedeji Ebo of the United Nations: Chief of the Security Sector Reform Unit in the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions, United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations; Co-Chair of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Security Sector Reform.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners (2012): An Activist's Journey


A documentary that chronicles the life of young college professor Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt that ends with a shootout, four dead, and her name on the FBI's 10 most wanted list. 102 min.   Q&A with director Shola Lynch after the screening
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | The Escape Artist: The Danger of the Outside World


Helen Fremont writes with wit and candor about growing up in a household held together by a powerful glue: secrets. Her parents, profoundly affected by their memories of the Holocaust, pass on, to both Helen and her older sister, a penchant for keeping their lives neatly, even obsessively compartmentalized, and a zealous determination to protect themselves from what they see as danger from the outside world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk: Reimagining Memorials


Indira Allegra is reimagining what a memorial can feel like, the scale on which it can exist and how it can function. Deeply informed by the ritual, relational and performative aspects of weaving, Allegra explores the repetitive crossing of forces held under tension be they material, social or emotional. Her work has been featured at the Museum of Art and Design, Museum of the African Diaspora, The Arts Incubator in Chicago, John Michael Kholer Art Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SFMOMA and the de Young Museum among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Master Class | Brass Master Class With Philip Broome


Philip Broome, euphonium (West Point Band). As a soloist, Philip Broome has performed with the West Point Band, SUNY Purchase Wind Ensemble, Columbus State University Wind Ensemble and many regional Salvation Army Brass Bands.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Soul Sister Revue


Soul Sister Revue is a quarterly reading series for established and emerging poets who write in the narrative tradition of storytelling   With:  Jive Poetic (Clone Wars: A Poem by Jive Poetic) T'ai Freedom Ford (& more black) Catherine Chen (Manifesto, or: Hysteria) Starr Davis Susan John
   New York City, NY; NYC
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