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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 8, 2023?

34 free events take place on Wednesday, February 8 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 8 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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34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, February 8, 2023

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free events nyc The Rapid Rise in U.S. Interest Rates (online)
free events nyc Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
free events nyc The Mind and Music of George Gershwin
free events nyc Macbeth: Shakespeare's Examination of Ambition
        

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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Discussion | Cultivating Food Security in Ukraine: A Local and Global Perspective


A panel discussion with experts about the impact of war in Ukraine on agro-food systems. While policy-makers, industry specialists, and scholars have been tracking trends in global and regional markets, less is known about the rapidly-changing situation in Ukraine's agro-food economy that will have far-reaching effects on food security worldwide. The panelists will bring a grounded perspective on challenges that farmers face as they prepare for next year’s harvest; solidarity economies; changes in agricultural production and distribution patterns; the energy-food nexus; new policies and governmental support schemes as well as the issues surrounding the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Panelists include Vitalii Dankevych (International Economic Relations and European Integration, Polissia National University, Ukraine), Natalia Mamonova (Institute for Rural and Regional Research, Norway), and Susanne Wengle (Political Science, University of Notre Dame). The panel will be moderated by Diana Mincyte (Sociology, City University of New York-City Tech) and Renata Blumberg (Nutrition and Food Studies, Montclair State University).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Tour of New York City Hall


One of the oldest continuously used City Halls in the nation that still houses its original governmental functions, New York's City Hall is considered one of the finest architectural achievements of its period. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, the building was an early expression of the City's cosmopolitanism. City Hall is a designated New York City landmark, and its rotunda is a designated interior landmark as well.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)


Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Workshop | Adult Chorus


Directed by Church Street School of Music, the chorus is open to all who love to sing. Learn contemporary and classic songs and perform at community events throughout the year.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | Sennacherib: Father of His People (online)


A fascinating talk given by internationally renown expert on Assyrian art and culture Dr. Julian Reade. Over 2700 years ago, Sennacherib, King of Assyria, was making Nineveh, his capital-city, the center of the world. His imaginative projects -- represented by canals and monuments still visible in northern Iraq -- offered freedom from the perils of drought, famine, and other insecurities. They depended in part, however, on forced labour, the antithesis of freedom. This online talk given by internationally renown expert on Assyrian art and culture Dr. Julian Reade is presented in collaboration with the St. Petersburg Celebration of the Arts. The former British Museum curator in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities examines how Sennacherib transformed an ancient civilization.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Southside with You (2016): romantic biopic


A chronicle of the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side. Directed by Richard Tanne. With Parker Sawyers, Tika Sumpter, Vanessa Bell Calloway. 84 Min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | CANCELLED La Boheme (1926): Silent Movie Based on Opera


Silent adaptation of Henri Murger's novel, set in 19th-century Paris, about a seamstress, an impoverished playwright and their star-crossed romance. Dir: King Vidor. With Lillian Gish and John Gilbert Silent film. 101 Min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Class Traitors: One Percenters for Radical Redistribution


Most rich people don’t seem to have a problem with massive economic inequality, justifying their wealth with reference to their hard work and moral character. But some wealthy people don’t buy these justifications, because they recognize that they have had "unearned" advantages, and see themselves as beneficiaries of an unfair and unjust system. They want to use their social advantages—money, connections, and influence—to dismantle those same advantages and the social conditions that produce them. Though they are relatively few in number, these “class traitors” merit study because—like white antiracists working against white supremacy, but unlike most social movement actors—they are challenging systems that have benefitted them. Based on over 100 interviews with these rich redistributors and their non-wealthy movement partners, as well as ethnographic fieldwork among them, Class Traitors investigates this process of using power to give up power. In so doing, I argue, these wealthy confront deeply taken-for-granted cultural narratives about accumulation as the basis for worthy personhood and parenthood. In partnership with non-wealthy activists, they offer a vision of the common good that re-conceptualizes their own self-interest and challenges dominant ideas of who deserves what and why. Refreshments will be served. Speaker: Rachel Sherman, Professor of Sociology
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Figure Drawing


Challenge your artistic skills by drawing the human figure. Each week a model will strike short and long poses for participants to draw. Artists/ educators will offer constructive suggestions and critique. Materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their own favorite media.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | The Rapid Rise in U.S. Interest Rates (online)


Congress mandates the U.S. Federal Reserve to achieve conditions that satisfy their dual mandate of price (inflation) stability and maximum employment. The primary tool employed by the Fed to accomplish this challenging goal is adjustments to the Fed Funds Rate in response to what's happening in the economy. To combat the recently raging U.S. inflation rate, which is currently at a 40-year high, the Fed has been employing a very aggressive strategy of increasing the Fed Funds Rate to slow down economic activity and bring inflation back in line with historical averages. The magnitude and pace of these rate increases haven't been seen since the 1990s and are having a significant effect on all aspects of the U.S. economy, both the private and public sectors. Banks must carefully manage the impact of rate hikes on the market, credit, and liquidity risks arising from assets and liabilities on their balance sheets. Meanwhile, consumers feel the effects of skyrocketing borrowing costs on their credit card and home mortgage payments. Mortgage rates recently hit a 20-year high, negatively impacting home affordability. On the other hand, higher interest rates also present unique opportunities for financial institutions and consumers who now earn very high yields on deposits and other assets after many years of meager rates. This panel of experts from a cross-section of U.S. banks and broker-dealers will discuss the positive and negative impacts of this unique and volatile interest rate environment on financial institutions and consumers and provide their outlook for 2023. Moderator: Michael Leibrock, Managing Director - Chief Systemic Risk Officer and Head of Counterparty Credit Risk, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation Panelists: Anna Bertoni, Senior Director - Consumer Credit Review, Capital One Evan Gerhard, President, ASL Capital Markets Arthur Laichtman, M.D. Regional Head of Credit, Nomura Securities Louis Latona, Senior Portfolio Manager - Treasury, Standard Chartered Bank
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Learn About A Historic NYC Neighborhood


Stories of our Upper West Side neighborhood and of the thrills of chasing them down, along with an introduction to the neighborhood history collection and tips for your own research.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Bernadette Corporation: Traversing Film, Literature, Fashion and Art


Known for traversing film, literature, fashion, and art, in a mode precluding stable or individualized identity, the artists collective known as Bernadette Corporation has developed its own rules and contexts for producing and circulating content. Its latest exhibition is an exercise in improvisation, around topics such as the quick erasure of financial value, erasure in general, forgetting, the forging and forgery of memory, and foreseeing the future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History


Author Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. To Lea, it was home. People were equal, neighbours helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world. There was community and hope. Then, in December 1990, everything changed. The statues of Stalin and Hoxha were toppled. Almost overnight, people could vote freely, wear what they liked and worship as they wished. There was no longer anything to fear from prying ears. But factories shut, jobs disappeared and thousands fled to Italy on crowded ships, only to be sent back. Predatory pyramid schemes eventually bankrupted the country, leading to violent conflict. As one generation's aspirations became another's disillusionment, and as her own family's secrets were revealed, Lea found herself questioning what freedom really meant. Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age amid political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history. Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Lune: Croissants All Day, All Night


A conversation with Kate Reid celebrating the debut cookbook from Lune, the world-renowned croissant bakery in Australia. Lune Croissanterie is one of the most talked about bakeries in the world. From rave reviews from Nigella Lawson, Yotam Ottolenghi, René Redzepi and Rachel Khoo, to features in news outlets such as The New York Times and The Guardian, Lune has been touted as 'the best croissant in the world' since it opened its doors in 2012. Customers are queuing quite literally around the block from the early hours to eat Lune's pastries, but what makes this book so special is how Kate Reid elevates croissant pastry from a classic breakfast staple to a refined vehicle for breakfast, lunch and dinner. With step-by-step techniques for rolling and shaping croissants, followed by recipes for every hour of the day, plus what to do with leftovers and how to make a croissant a special occasion, this is the ultimate guide to baking the world's best-loved pastry. Kate Reid wasn’t always a baker—far from it, in fact. After studying Aerospace Engineering at university, she followed her lifelong passion for Formula 1 racing and became an aerodynamicist for the Williams F1 team in the UK in the mid-2000s. In 2008, though, she wanted to change direction, and returned to her native Melbourne to find her new niche—pastry. After working in the cafes and bakeries of Melbourne and a stint in Paris, she knew that she wanted to create something perennially popular, and take her skills to a new level, and so, Lune Croissanterie was born. Since opening Lune in 2012, it has amassed a cult, global following, with celebrity devotees and an Instagram following of 232k. It’s gone from a one-person show to a five-site bakery with queues around the block from dawn and The Cube, where Kate and her 120-strong team develop regularly changing recipes for everything from takeaway breakfasts to tasting menus of croissants.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Southside with You (2016): romantic biopic


A chronicle of the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side. Directed by Richard Tanne. With Parker Sawyers, Tika Sumpter, Vanessa Bell Calloway. 84 Min.
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Opening Reception | Tommy Kha: Ghost Bites


A solo exhibition featuring recent photographic prints and vinyl images by Tommy Kha. The exhibition title references ma cắn, the Vietnamese phrase that refers to mysterious scratches and bruises that appear on the skin from unknown sources. Ghost Bites explores Kha’s interests in how community and “preservation of the everyday” find expanded expression in a range of photographic forms.
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Discussion | Becoming Lit: The Limitless African Story


A salon-style conversation between authors Bisi Adjapon and Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond. The authors will discuss the recent surge of diverse African stories in publication and reflect on the differences in their experiences seeking publication and navigating shifts in public attention in America—versus working with the continent’s publishers and literary scene shapers. The conversation will explore how African storytellers have defied Western gatekeepers’ strident dismissal and rejection of their work and built a literary infrastructure that promoted the limitless African story—and strategies to grow and maintain it. The conversation will feature readings from Adjapon’s new novel, Daughter in Exile and Brew-Hammond’s new book Relations.  
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Film | CANCELLED La Boheme (1926): Silent Movie Based on Opera


Silent adaptation of Henri Murger's novel, set in 19th-century Paris, about a seamstress, an impoverished playwright and their star-crossed romance. Dir: King Vidor. With Lillian Gish and John Gilbert Silent film. 101 Min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Celebration of Life Poetry


Live performance poetry dedicated to the life long contributions of Katsuya Abe and Lainie Cooke. With performances by IMPACT Repertory Theatre, Harlem Bomb Shelter, Michael Green/ Shades of Truth Theatre, Sumiko Tajihi, Miki Yamanaka with Special Guest Joyce Adewumi. Lainie Cooke served as Chief Operating Officer for 40 years at New Heritage Theatre Group. Katsuya Abe served New Heritage Theatre Group for 35 years co producing international presentations in Japan and Harlem.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Just an Illness: The Black Death, Without Its Metaphors


How do we tell the history of the Black Death today? A global history of humanity’s largest demographic catastrophe over the longue durée, from our present pandemic times? Drawing from his teachings at the Collège de France and his Theatre of the Plague production with the Théâtre National de Bretagne, acclaimed medievalist Patrick Boucheron reflects back on his long standing engagement with the plague and its contagious, overflowing metaphors. Speaker Patrick Boucheron is a Professor and Chair of the History of Powers in Western Europe from the 7th to the 16th at Collège de France. The lecture will be in French with an English text available.
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Book Club | Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour


An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother’s home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of Sumwun, NYC’s hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Roma/New York, 1953–⁠1964: Exhibition Discussion


A panel discussion in celebration of Roma/New York,1953–1964, led by Massimiliano Gioni, the Edlis Neeson Artistic Director of the New Museum. Gioni, also the director of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation, will be in conversation with artist Peter Saul, Claire Gilman, the chief curator at The Drawing Center, Antonio Monda, founder and the artistic director of Le Conversazioni, and David Leiber.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Black Architects of the 19th Century (online)


From Robert Robinson Taylor to Paul R. Williams, Black Architects have contributed significantly to architecture in the nineteenth century in all styles from Beaux Arts ranging through Art Deco and International Style. As minorities they achieved projects both nationally and internationally with great odds against them. King focuses on architects who were born Black in the 19th century and their contribution and achievements in the architectural profession. Speaker Robert Arthur King is an architect who has taught at the New York School of Interior Design since 1988.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Five-time Emmy Award-Winner Hosts Special Taping of Public Radio Broadcast


The New York Academy of Art presents host Randy Cohen and Person Place Thing with special guests gallerists Wendy Olsoff and Brigitte Mulholland. The event will also feature live music by "Piano Pete" (Pete Favilla), and will be recorded with a live audience for later broadcast at Public Radio syndicates nationwide. Since 2008, Public Radio's Person Place Thing has been drawing hundreds of thousands of listeners on the premise that people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves, but about something they care about. Known for his Emmy Award-winning writing for "The Late Show with David Letterman" and Michael Moore's "TV Nation", as well as for being a regular contributor at the New Yorker and Newsweek, host Randy Cohen interviews guests in front of a live audience, asking them to speak about one person, one place, and one thing that have shaped their lives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Spanner in the Works Poetry Night


Featuring: Sahra Motalebi Steffani Jemison Alexandra Butler Lynne Tillman
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | The Histories of Modernity (online)


Delivered by Diana Martinez, Assistant Professor and Director of Architectural Studies at Tufts University.
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Lecture | The Mind and Music of George Gershwin


Dr. Richard Kogan discusses the life, psyche, and music of one of America's greatest composers during an evening that will include piano excerpts of Gershwin's work. Dr. Kogan was trained in piano at Julliard and in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and is currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Artistic Director of the Music and Medicine program at Weill Cornell Medical Center.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Talk | Winter Birds and Their Adaptations (online)


With Tod Winston. Learn about the great variety of birds that spend the winter in New York City and the fascinating adaptations that allow them to survive below-zero temperatures! Explore the ecology of Dark-eyed Juncos, Harlequin Ducks, Snowy Owls, and other northern species that spend the colder months with us. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Decent People: A Novel of Shame, Race, Homophobia, and Money (online)


Author De'Shawn Charles Winslow celebrates his newest, unforgettable novel. A propulsive mystery with crucial social commentary, Decent People is set among the Black community in the fictional town of West Mills. The town is reeling from a triple homicide and the secrets the killings reveal. Novelist Garth Greenwell joins Winslow for a conversation on this powerful novel about shame, race, homophobia, money, and the reckoning required to heal a fractured community.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages


A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of money, power, and fame in these complex and fascinating relationships. Author Carmela Ciuraru shares the stories of five literary marriages, exposing the misery behind closed doors. The legendary British theatre critic Kenneth Tynan encouraged his American wife, Elaine Dundy, to write, then watched in a jealous rage as she became a bestselling author and critical success. In the early years of their marriage, Roald Dahl enjoyed basking in the glow of his glamorous movie star wife, Patricia Neal, until he detested her for being the breadwinner, and being more famous than he was. Elizabeth Jane Howard had to divorce Kingsley Amis to escape his suffocating needs and devote herself to her own writing. Surprisingly, the most traditional partnership in Lives of the Wives is a lesbian couple, Una Troubridge and Radclyffe Hall, both of whom were socially and politically conservative and unapologetic snobs.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | Macbeth: Shakespeare's Examination of Ambition


William Shakespeare's play dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. A student production.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Author of New York Times Best-Seller in Conversation with New Yorker Staff Writer 


In Jessamine Chan's The School for Good Mothers, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance. A novel which has been described as “surreal” (People), “remarkable” (Vogue), and “infuriatingly timely” (The New York Times Book Review), will be the focus of a discussion moderated by essayist Jia Tolentino, also a New York Times best-selling author.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Staged Reading | Play Reading Series at a Historic Theater


In You, I, We by Shayan Lofti, two siblings born a world apart try to navigate life in America, all while the legacy of the old country looms large. Dir.: Margot Bordelon Since 1971, Playwrights Horizons has been a writer's theater dedicated to the development of contemporary American playwrights, producing over 400 innovative new works, including Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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