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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 31, 2019?

43 free events take place on Thursday, January 31 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 January 31 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 January . 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, January 31, 2019

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Editor's Picks

free events nyc Redemption Blues (2017): Reckoning with Vestiges of the Holocaust
free events nyc Nosferatu (1922): silent horror classic accompanied by live music
free events nyc Works by Haydn, Ravel and others
free events nyc Works by Mozart, Verdi and Strauss
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Workshop | Sun Salutations and Intentions Morning Yoga


Starts your day with a morning yoga practice. You will experience luxurious stretching warm-ups, empowering standing poses, and energizing breath work as we align the movements with the inhales and exhales. You will feel more awake, strong, balanced, and positive as a result of this time spent on the mat. Sun Salutations and warrior poses stimulate the seratonin in your brain (the “happy hormone) and improve self-esteem! You will be ready for anything that meets you as your day unfolds. Bring a yoga mat if you have one. You may bring your own coffee or tea.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:45 am
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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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10:00 am
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Film | So Evil My Love (1948): Gothic psychological thriller starring Oscar winning Ray Milland


An innocent woman falls under a villain's spell, a captivating thriller of obsession and deceit. English widow Olivia Harwood meets Mark Bellis, a charming but dangerous criminal, and lets him board in her home. Olivia soon descends into a life of crime. 112 min. Director: Lewis Allen. Starring Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald. So Evil My Love is a period drama set in the Victorian era. So Evil My Love began principal photography at Denham Studios and on location in London, on 6 May and wrapped production on 12 August 1947. Although the lead roles were played by Hollywood actors Milland, Todd and Fitzgerald; each British-born star had made their mark first in their homeland.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Art of coloring


De-stress and self-express through the art of coloring! It's a relaxing, stress-relieving and fun way to spend an hour or two. So, join us for a coloring session and unwind from your day. All materials will be provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 11, 2018 to May 22, 2019.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Gallery Talk | 2 Folk Art Shows: Exhibition Walkthroughs


A tour of John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night and Paa Joe: Gates of No Return, led by museum gallery guides.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 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. 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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Concert | Works by Monteverdi


Musical ensemble Vivi Cantando performs works by Monteverdi (1567-1643). About the ensemble Vivi Cantando, the namesake of the ensemble is derived from "O come sei gentile" found in Monteverdi's seventh book of madrigals. The name translated means "live singing." The mission of the ensemble is 'to celebrate the singing arts and to create a true human experience through the sung word'. Performers Julie Bosworth, soprano Janna Critz, mezzo-soprano Marc Bellassai, harpsichord Niccolo Seligmann, bass viola da gamba
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Film | Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018): Sixth of the series starring Tom Cruise


Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong. 147 min. Director: Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames. It is the sixth instalment in the Mission: Impossible film series, and the second film to be directed by McQuarrie following the 2015 film Rogue Nation. Mission: Impossible - Fallout was a box office success, grossing $791 million worldwide, making it the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2018, Cruise's highest-grossing film to date, and the highest-grossing film in the franchise, surpassing Ghost Protocol.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Shadow of a Doubt (1943): Oscar nominated Hitchcock noir


A young woman discovers her visiting uncle may not be the man he seems to be. Starring Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey. 108 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Smokey and the Bandit (1977): Oscar nominated action comedy by Hal Needham


The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over state lines, in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff. Starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed. As the highest paid stuntman in the world, Hal Needham broke 56 bones, his back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth. His career has included work on 4500 television episodes and 310 feature films as a stuntman, stunt coordinator, 2nd unit director and ultimately, director. With an original budget of $5.3 million (cut to $4.3 million two days before initial production), Smokey and the Bandit eventually grossed $126,737,428 in North America, making it the second-highest-grossing movie of 1977. The worldwide gross is estimated at over $300 million. Burt Reynolds rated the film as the one he most enjoyed and had the most fun making in his career. 96 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Tour


A tour of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, home of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York. Tour highlights include a discussion of the history of the site, architect Cass Gilbert, and sculptor Daniel Chester French; viewing the Collectors Office with Tiffany woodwork; Reginald Marsh murals; and the 140-ton Rotunda dome by Rafael Gustavino.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Vision board/journal creating


Welcome 2019! Embrace the New Year with new ideas. Map out your 2019 goals with your own vision board, or handmade goals journal. Feel free to bring in your own photos or trinkets. All Library Programs are free of charge.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Games and Hobbies Meetup


Bring your own game. Bring your knitting. Meet new people.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Researching an artist at the New York public library


Whether you are researching a well-known or obscure artist, this one hour course will show you how to access and use all of the tools the New York Public Library provides in order to research a specific artist. Taught by an Art Librarian and the Electronic Resources Librarian, this course will cover how to access and use NYPL’s print and online resources ranging from artist files to historical newspapers, discover more about an artist with helpful tips for research.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Film | Alpha (2018): Story of a friendship that changed humanity


In the prehistoric past, a young man struggles to return home after being separated from his tribe during a buffalo hunt. He finds a similarly lost wolf companion and starts a friendship that would change humanity. Director: Albert Hughes. Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Marcin Kowalczyk. The wolf is played by Chuck, a five-year-old Czechoslovakian Wolfdog. 96 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Adult Coloring Club


Discover the fun and calming benefits of coloring. Color, relax and enjoy. Coloring supplies will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring their own materials too.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lesson | Advanced American Sign Language


This workshop helps students to become a fluent communicator with other ASL users. American Sign Language is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | The Poetics of Digital Media: Tagging as Incantation and Incarnation on Social Network Platforms


In his new book, The Poetics of Digital Media (Polity 2018), Paul Frosh approaches digital media as poetic infrastructures and poetic performances: they populate our given lifeworlds with beings and objects and they also make manifest the mediated conditions of our existence through tangibility and disclosure. In this talk, Frosh fleshes out these ideas by focusing on the experience of being tagged in photographs uploaded to social media platforms. He argues that being tagged is a contemporary intensification of long-standing procedures for maintaining our being in the world: the naming of persons and the figural incarnation of bodies. However, tagging is also a generative procedure: when you tag someone your contacts and theirs are notified, and the tagged photograph is frequently replicated in contacts' various feeds. It is thus a way of performing sociability through the computational ‘selving’ of others, usually without their prior permission. Finally, tagging puts visual ‘flesh’ onto the informational and computational ‘bones’ underpinning the network apparatus. It thus produces a powerful poetic-ideological effect: the palpability of the apparatus as a sensuously inhabited world. Paul Frosh is a Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research spans visual culture, media aesthetics, consumer culture, media witnessing, and cultural memory. His publications include Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication (2011, edited with Amit Pinchevski), and The Image Factory: Consumer Culture, Photography and the Visual Content Industry (2003).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Author Reading | Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own


Professor and author Kate Bolick discusses her book Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own. “Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence.” So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why­ she—along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing—remains unmarried.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Writers Coalition


A class of writing and sharing work in a supportive and respectful environment. Writers of all genres and levels of experience welcome. No prior writing experience is necessary. Led by Elizabeth Leonard, writer and writing workshop leader certified to lead creative writing workshops with NY Writers Coalition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | "One of the most accomplished and adventurous groups in new music”- NYTimes


The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), described by the New York Times as “one of the most accomplished and adventurous groups in new music,” presents works by Chinese-American composer Wang Lu. The International Contemporary Ensemble has premiered over 500 compositions, mostly by emerging composers - since its founding in 2001. In an effort to reshape the way that music is created and shared, ICE is striving to create a radically accessible online archive, where composers, performers, and audiences can discover new works, and share their thoughts about how music is composed, performed, and heard. Wang Lu’s works for a variety of Western and Chinese ensembles and orchestras have been performed internationally, by ensembles including the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Minnesota Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Orchestre National de Lille, Holland Symfonia, Shanghai National Chinese Orchestra, Musiques Nouvelles (Belgium), Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (Montreal), Phoenix Ensemble (Basel), Columbia University Jazz Band, Ensemble Pamplemousse and counter(induction, among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Film | Crime + Punishment (2018): NYPD Whistleblowers


A semifinalist for the 91st Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Crime + Punishment tells the story of NYPD whistleblowers who risked their careers to challenge illegal policing practices. Director: Stephen Maing 115 min. The screening will be followed by a research and policy discussion with the director and the following panelists: Lt. Edwin Raymond, film subject Pedro Hernandez, film subject Dr. Patrick Sharkey, Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology Dr. Amanda Geller, Clinical Associate Professor of Sociology Angelo Pinto, Advocate, Attorney, and former Raise the Age Campaign Manager
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Julius Tobias: Abstractions of the 50s and 60s


Focusing on his 1950s and 60s body of works, the project recollects Tobias’s importance within Post-War American Art. The curated space located below the gallery will consist of paintings on both canvas and paper, showcasing the artists’ abstract and late neo-plastic works. In the project’s chosen artworks, Tobias exudes energy onto the canvas or paper creating a sense of movement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Slim...you don't got the juice: Multidisciplinary Departures from Figurative Representation


Slim…you don’t got the juice presents multidisciplinary departures from familiar modes of figurative representation, as they have evolved in the realm of photographic discourse. Wilmer Wilson IV has developed strategies of redaction and annotation in his work that begin to destabilize the norms of making and viewing portraiture through visual, material, and technical manipulation. An exploration into the complex renderings of individual subject-hood versus object-hood in portraiture, the artist has conceived of a stapled-surface-as-viewing-device that mediates image with material. The device is manifest in a series of staple works that almost fully shroud the photographic subjects beneath dense fields of metal fasteners. A set of large-scale ink drawings, in which small marks accumulate into compact, organ-like clusters, further interrogate the role of density in forming and describing a surface. In conversation with the staple works, they become almost speculative veils or blueprints for coating and protecting the image. Scaled wall images of figures taken while Wilson was moving at high speed are presented in the second gallery. The blurred images erode the details of their depicted subjects, and begin to confuse the function of monumentality and the narratives of value in public space. Wilmer Wilson IV is a recipient of The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage Fellowship and an American Academy in Rome Affiliated Fellowship. Select institutions that have presented his work include The New Museum, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; American University Museum, Washington, DC; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC; and In Flanders Fields Museum, Ieper, Belgium.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Exploring Colors, Forms and Relationships


Although truth and beauty are often considered, these works of acrylic paint and scotchlite film on aluminum panels by Edwin Schlossberg have been created to assign active engagement with both. One by exploring colors, forms and relationships that suggest new ways of seeing and the other that suggest ways of acting. The tension between the two is intended to create contemplation followed by inspiration and hopefully followed by action.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Learn how to do research for your business plan


This workshop provides research guidance specifically tailored to your particular business plan. A big opportunity to learn how to evaluate your business related ideas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Overcoming a career slump


From time to time all of us can experience a career slump; however, it can be a meaningful experience. It allows us to identify the gaps in our work and career. Lynn Berger helps you explore your interests, skills, personality style, needs, and values to allow you to achieve greater career satisfaction. Get inspired and energized to take action to achieve your future goals! Career Counselor and Coach Lynn Berger is specializing in helping people make the most of their lives and feel fulfilled. In her position, she counsels people how to effectively transition to jobs and/or careers, balance their roles and responsibilities and understand the choices before them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Redemption Blues (2017): Reckoning with Vestiges of the Holocaust


A documentary about the onerous legacy of the Holocaust, begins where conventional Shoah narratives leave off and traces a path forward, exploring redemption through the second generation’s point of view. At a time when the last members of the survivor generation are bidding us farewell, and historical witnessing cannot endure, Redemption Blues engages with emotional and political vestiges that are yet to be resolved. The film is presented as an artistic reckoning and a deeply personal journey into the future of living with the legacy of the Holocaust. The perspectives of survivors and the guiding narrative of the filmmaker are woven into a stream of music that runs from nostalgia and religious sources into an ocean of free, improvisational creation. Could this be a way forward, given the many spiritual and political fallacies? 84 min. Followed by a discussion between director Peter Statsny and Paola Mieli of the Après-coup Psychoanalytic Association. Peter Stastny is a filmmaker and psychiatrist living in New York and Vienna. His film work began as an impulse to document the pioneering accomplishments of former psychiatric patients and activists, Nerve (1995), followed by several collaborations with current and former patients, In the House (1996) and Coney Island (2003). Since 1999 he has also addressed the consequences of the Shoah in experimental documentary fashion, including Conversation in the Mountains (1999), based on a story by Paul Celan, and Munkacs 60-year Reunion (2005)). Paola Mieli is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is the president Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association (New York) and a member of Le Cercle Freudien (Paris) and of The European Federation of Psychoanalysis (Strasbourg).
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Film | The Other Boys of Summer (2018): Civil Rights and the Negro Leagues


This documentary debuts in New York City on the centennial of Jackie Robinson's birthday. The film explores civil rights in America through the lives of Negro League baseball players. Narrated by Cicely Tyson, it features never-before-seen interviews with some of the men (and women) who played alongside Jackie Robinson and changed baseball and America forever. Through the lens of America’s Pastime, The Other Boys of Summer connects a generation of trailblazers to issues monopolizing our headlines today. Director Lauren Meyer joins Jim Robinson and Pedro Sierra, two players featured in the film, to discuss the documentary following the screening. Lauren Meyer is an Emmy nominated director with a strong reputation for compelling storytelling. Her work has been seen on dozens of networks as well as Netflix, Amazon, and many digital platforms. She loves championing the underdog and crafting beautiful imagery to share stories. She began her career in Los Angeles and is currently based in NYC. Born in Harlem on January 21, 1930, Jim Robinson used to walk to Yankee Stadium and The Polo Grounds to watch baseball with his father. At the Harlem Y, he developed a friendship with Roy Campanella who ultimately helped him get a baseball scholarship to North Carolina A&T State University. Robinson played for The Philadelphia Stars, Indianapolis Clowns, and KC Monarchs in the Negro Leagues. He also played in the minors for the St. Louis Cardinals organization. After baseball, Robinson worked for the NYC Housing Authority and earned a master's degree from Hunter College. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1938, Pedro Sierra broke into the Negro Leagues as a teenager and played for the Indianapolis Clowns and The Detroit Stars during the 1950s. He was drafted into the U.S. Army and spent three years pitching for the U.S. Army baseball team. Following his time in service, he spent five years in the minors and was invited to tryout for the major league by Ted Williams and The Washington Senators. Sierra went on to play professionally in Canada and Mexico; after retiring from playing baseball, he coached college baseball. Located in the Frederick P. Rose Auditorium, at 41 Cooper Square (on Third Avenue between 6th and 7th Streets)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Music of the legendary Saint-Georges followed by a lecture


Musicians from the Festival de Musique Saint-Georges and Guadeloupean Soprano Léïla Brédent, will present a US preview concert of the Saint-Georges International Music Festival and lecture of the music of Saint-Georges under the direction of conductor Marlon Daniel, the festival’s Artistic Director and Music Director and Music Director of Ensemble du Monde. Joseph Bologne (1745-1799), better known as Chevalier de Saint-Georges, is a historical figure born in Guadeloupe who was a virtuoso violinist, conductor and the first known Black composer. He influenced fellow composers of the time Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and authors including Alexandre Dumas. He was also a renowned fencer and the colonel of the famous "Légion Saint-Georges," the first all black military regiment in Europe where he fought for equality in the face of France’s Slavery Trade laws. 2019 marks the 220th Anniversary of his death.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy


Andrés Cerpa's quiet, descriptive poems blaze with an inferno of lamenting and loving muses as a son helplessly watches his father suffer from a debilitating illness. The inquisitive voice of the speaker gently paints an emotional landscape ranging from childhood to the present, while trying to find glimpses of happiness in the imminent sorrow. Andrés Cerpa was raised in Staten Island, New York and spent many of his childhood summers in Puerto Rico. A recipient of fellowships from the McDowell Colony and Canto Mundo, his work has appeared in Ploughshares, Poem-A-Day, The Kenyon Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, TriQuarterly, The Rumpus, Frontier Poetry, West Branch, Foundry Journal, and elsewhere. He holds degrees from the University of Delaware and Rutgers University Newark.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style


He's the wizard of writing, guru of grammar and prince of punctuation! In conversation with bestselling author Peter Straub, Random House's longtime copy chief Benjamin Dreyer discusses his witty and informative guide to writing. Chockful of advice, insider wisdom, and fun facts, Dreyer's English is sure to become the bible not just for writers but for everyone who wants to improve their prose.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Sugar, Cigars & Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York


Lisandro Pérez and Esther Allen talk about Pérez's recent book, Sugar, Cigars & Revolution: The Making of Cuban New York. A hundred years before the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cubans were settling in New York City in what became the largest community of Latin Americans in the 19th-Century Northeast United States. Pérez traces the formation of this community and how it was shaped both by the sugar trade and the struggle for independence from Spain. Lisandro Pérez has devoted his academic career to the study of Cuba, especially the Cuban presence in the United States. Pérez worked on Sugar, Cigars & Revolution during his Cullman Center Fellowship in 2004-2005. Writer and translator Esther Allen is a is a two-time recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Translation fellowships. A 2018 Guggenheim Fellow and co-founder of the PEN World Voices Festival, she was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Art et des Lettres by the French government in 2006.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Staged Reading | The Space Race: A Rocket Scientist's Legacy


Marc Acito's The Space Race explores the complex ethical legacy of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, the only person to receive honors from both the USA and Nazi Germany. 
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Reading | ZYZZYVA: A Magazine Reading


A reading to celebrate the release of the newest issue of ZYZZYVA. Publishing from San Francisco since 1985, ZYZZYVA has established itself over the decades as one of the West Coast’s premier literary magazines, counting such authors as Haruki Murakami, Lucia Berlin, F.X Toole, Kay Ryan, Amy Tan, Adam Johnson, Peter Orner, Wanda Coleman, Jane Hirshfield, and Raymond Carver among its contributors. Editors Laura Cogan and Oscar Villalon welcome: -- Maggie Millner is an MFA student and instructor at New York University and is working on her first collection of poetry. -- Jessica Frances Kane is the author of the novel The Report and the story collection This Close, both published by Graywolf Press. Her novel Rules for Visiting will be published by Penguin Press in May. -- Ben Lasman’s fiction has been published or is forthcoming in Granta, Tin House, and Wired, and The Other Stories podcast. -- E.K. Ota’s fiction has been published in Ploughshares and Narrative. -- E.C. Osondu is the author of the story collection Voice of America and the novel This House Is Not for Sale and is a winner of the Caine Prize.
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Film | Nosferatu (1922): silent horror classic accompanied by live music


Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. Nosferatu continues to be one of the most influential horror films of all time featuring actor Max Schreck as the iconic vampire villain Count Orlok. Directed by F. W. Murnau. 81 min. Accompanied by live music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Staged Reading | The Un-auguration: An Evening of American Voices


Staged readings of new short plays by local NYC playwrights exploring current events, politics, and life in America. Featuring plays by Maximillian Gill, Emma Goldman-Sherman, Andra Gordon-Gatica, Steven Hayet, Penny Jackson, Elaine Kuracina, Annie LaRussa, and Matthew J. Wells Featured performers: Olivia DeSalvo, Kelsea Feder, Nayib Felix, Tyler Gardella, Mark Lanham, Jacob Lineberry, Molly Callahan, Jared Mason Murray, Rick Reed, Karen Eleanor Wight, Jazmin Williams, Jennifer Laine Williams Refreshments served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | World Music Anthems


A longtime fixture in both the indie rock and world music scenes, Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and activist Ani Cordero creates timely—and timeless—anthems, transforming messages of love, hope, and protest into memorable melodies with an irresistible pulse. She’ll be joined by Erich Hubner on guitar and bass, Eileen Willis on accordion and bass, David Cornejo on drums, and Victoria Berdy on percussion, with special guest JOATA on vocals and guitar.
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Author Reading | The Men in My Life: Actress Patricia Bosworth's Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan


The Men in My Life is a dramatic memoir of love and art in 1950s Manhattan. Patricia Bosworth defies her era’s repressive conventions while adjusting to her lawyer father’s faltering career, ruined by defending the Hollywood Ten. Married and divorced by age 20 and slammed by her brother’s suicide, she finds her way to the Actors Studio, where she studies alongside Marilyn Monroe, Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. On Broadway she acts opposite Paul Muni, Helen Hayes, Elaine Stritch and appears with Audrey Hepburn in The Nun’s Story. Bosworth is the bestselling biographer of Diane Arbus, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, and Jane Fonda.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Works by Haydn, Ravel and others


Tristan Teo, piano. Program George Gershwin Three Preludes Franz Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata in B minor, Hob.XVI:32 Maurice Ravel Jeux d'eau Marc-Andre Hamelin Variations on a Theme of Paganini Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Pianist Tristan Teo has performed as soloist with numerous symphony orchestras including Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Gulf Coast Symphony, and Yakima Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has given solo recitals in the United States, as well as in Canada, France, Germany, and Italy in venues such as Salle Cortot in Paris and the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, California. Tristan has participated in master classes and had lessons with many noted pianists, including Christopher Elton, Peter Frankl, Gary Graffman, Alexander Korsantia, Robert Levin, and Ilana Vered.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Works by Mozart, Verdi and Strauss


Dror Baitel, collaborative piano. Program Mozart (1756-1791) Recitative and Aria from "Don Giovanni" Mozart (1756-1791) Aria from “Don Giovanni” Mozart (1756-1791) Trio from “Cosi Fan Tutte” Verdi (1813-1901) Aria from “Faltstaff” Verdi (1813-1901) Quartet from "Rigoletto" Strauss (1864-1949) Aria from "Der Rosenkavalier" Strauss (1864-1949) Trio from "Der Rosenkavalier" Strauss (1864-1949) Final scene from "Salome" Pianist Dror Baitel has played on many stages, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, and others. Baitel has also worked on Broadway in Mary Poppins, The King and I, Matilda, Hamilton, and, most recently, in the Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen, where he served as Music Director and Conductor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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