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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 9, 2020?

35 free events take place on Thursday, January 9 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 9 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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35 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, January 9, 2020

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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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9:00 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 | Pal Joey (1957): Four Time Oscar Nominated Romantic Musical With Rita Hayworth And Frank Sinatra


The tuneful Rodgers-Hart-O'Hara stage hit about a nightclub singer. 111 min. Director: George Sidney. Stars: Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak. Pal Joey was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration,, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Recording.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Heart of the Park Tour


Walk straight through the heart of Central Park on this east-to-west tour led by guides. Enjoy a great variety of the scenic, sculptural, and ar chitectural elements the Park has to offer. Visit some of the Park's most famous landmarks, including Conservatory Water, Loeb Boathouse, Bethesda Terrace, Bow Bridge, Cherry Hill, The Lake, and Strawberry Fields.
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12:00 pm
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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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Gallery Talk | Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler: Exhibition Tour


The collection of Audrey B. Heckler is emblematic of the growth of the field of self-taught art in the United States, which manifests a strong interest for African American artists, a consistent attention on American classics, a curiosity for European art brut, and a search for international discoveries. For the last twenty-seven years, Heckler has surrounded herself with excellent examples by the most significant artists associated to this art niche, among them Emery Blagdon, Aloïse Corbaz, William Edmondson, August Klett, Augustin Lesage, Martín Ramírez, Thornton Dial, and Anna Zemánková.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Literature Out Loud: Poetic Outliers -- British Edition


Do you want to find time for literature in your busy life? Join to celebrate literature in bite-size servings! Read aloud, enact, and discuss passages of classic and contemporary literature from across the globe. This month, the poetry of individuals who composed their work independent of cultural centers, intellectual trends and established poetic traditions will be explored. In this session, you can read and discuss the works of British poetic outliers such as William Blake and Emily Bronte. All literary enthusiasts are welcome! Participate in literature, connect with other readers, and take with you a bit of literary insight to season the rest of your day.
   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

Classical Music | Pipes at One: Organ Recital With Donald Meineke


Organist Donald Meineke has served as Director of Music and Organist at Trinity Lutheran Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he conducted the Choirs of Trinity Church and was founder and Artistic Director of Vox Triniti; Director of Music and Organist at First English Lutheran Church in Austin, Texas; Holy Trinity Lutheran in Chicago, Illinois; and served on the Worship and Music staff at the Churchwide Offices of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in Chicago.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works By Composers Of Renaissance


Christopher Morrongiello, lute; Erik Ryding, lute; Gregory Bynum, recorder; Rebecca Pechefsky, virginal/harpsichord. Ensemble Luini performs works by Tromboncino, Josquin, Sermisy, Francesco da Milano, Cabezon, Ortiz, Holborne, others. An assortment of musical delights from Italy, France, and Spain in the early 1500s, as well as England in the age of Elizabeth. Ensemble Luini is named after Bernardino Luini (ca. 1480-1532), an Italian painter who created an exquisite altarpiece depicting the Madonna and Child surrounded by angels playing lutes and recorders--the core instruments of Ensemble Luini, a combination we enrich with early keyboards. We specialize in music of Luini's era.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
Free

Workshop | Photo Skills: Editing on iPhone


Learn how to fine-tune your photos and videos using the Photos app on iPhone. They’ll show you how to adjust exposure, contrast, color saturation, and more to enhance your shot. Then you’ll add filters, crop, and experiment with fun effects. Get hands-on with the latest iPhone or bring your own. Recommended for all skill levels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Film | Hollywoodland (2006): Biographical Drama With Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck And Diane Lane


A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952). 126 min. Director: Allen Coulter. Starring Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, Diane Lane. Ben Affleck earned the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his portrayal as George Reeves. He was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Bribe (1949): Film Noir With Ava Gardner


Federal agent Rigby, in Central America to trace stolen plane engines, falls for the gorgeous wife of the chief suspect. 98 min. Directors: Robert Z. Leonard, Vincente Minnelli. Starring Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019): Action Comedy With  Dwayne Johnson And Jason Statham


Lawman Luke Hobbs and outcast Deckard Shaw form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity. 137 min. Director: David Leitch. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba.  As of October 27, 2019, Hobbs & Shaw has grossed $173.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $586.4 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $760.2 million.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Discussion | How To Save Your Money Effectively and Efficiently


Veronica Karas discusses savings strategies, account registration types, tax considerations across various account types, and everything in between. Learn how to structure your financial life to make sure all of your savings and investments are allocated in the best way for your financial future!  Veronica Karas, CFP® is a Vice President & Financial Advisor for Captrust, the largest independent advisory firm in the country, where she handles all aspects of financial planning for the firm’s clients. She has experience working with high net-worth individuals and small businesses in all areas of financial planning, including estate planning, retirement planning, tax planning, education planning, and insurance. Prior to joining FCE Group, Veronica worked for Merrill Lynch in the global wealth management division where she was the financial planner for a team of advisors. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Talk | How to Have 20/20 Vision in 2020: Propel Your Conversations into Successful Relationships


No matter what particular field we work in, interacting with others is a pivotal skill. At this special session you'll master the skills and art of meaningful conversations as they discuss: -- How we are addicted to our devices, and how that harms us--even eroding our health and well-being -- The retreat from conversation in major areas of our lives, and what it's costing us in our personal and professional relationships -- How social isolation is killing us more than heart disease, obesity and smoking -- The current exciting renaissance of conversation--in NYC, the U.S. and worldwide -- Ten ways you can benefit from great conversations Speakers: Michele Risa is CEO and Founder of Collaborative Solutions, Inc. working with thought leaders and influencers. She is an award-winning co-author of "Conscious Entrepreneurs: A Radical New Approach to Purpose, Passion & Profit. Ron Gross co-chairs the University Seminar on Innovation at Columbia University, and is the founder/director of Conversations New York, the foremost program of free public community-based conversations. His 12 books include The Lifelong Learner, The New Professionals, and Individualism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
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Workshop | Photo Lab: Disrupting the Portrait


Using the creative approach of photographer Christopher Anderson, learn how to rethink the subject, obstruct the lens, and stylize your shot to create unexpected portraits. Bring a friend or pair up with others, and creative pros will take you through immersive exercises and photo prompts. Try the latest iPhone or bring your own.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Charles Burchfield: Solitude


An exhibition highlighting 14 works created predominantly between 1917 and 1957 that give visitors a remarkable opportunity to examine the artist’s vibrant landscapes, which reveal his luminous, spiritual interpretations of the world. Over the course of five decades, Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) created paintings that were inspired by the seasons, natural world, and small-towns around him. Many decades later, Burchfield’s works continue to intrigue the contemporary art world with their intensely personal and almost mystical approach. A keen observer, he found evidence of the divine in the natural world, and of the universal in the particular. He felt strongly that his identity was bound up with his relation to nature, and, in many ways, his empathy with his environment defined both his life and his art.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Checkered Passed: Idealized Masculinity in America


Jack Balas is an artist whose work primarily includes painting, drawing, and photography, often incorporating extensive textual elements. Balas began producing paintings of athletic young men annotated and layered with numbers, anecdotes, and other disparate elements that offer a depiction of idealized masculinity in America through the lens of the artist’s personal experiences, as well as a contemporary counterpoint to the art-historical archetype of the female nude.
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Opening Reception | Comfort: Group Show


The exhibition will examine comfort versus discomfort and how this dichotomy conditions and drives human behavior, personal identity and societal norms. Combining utilitarian objects, sculptures, photographs and paintings into a visual landscape meant to provoke engagement from the viewer, Comfort investigates comfort's relationship to aesthetics and the tension that occurs when an object can be physically comfortable, but visually or psychologically uncomfortable, and vice versa. The exhibition looks at comfort beyond a physical state, but as a complete sensorial experience through the lens of diverse artistic interpretations of "comfort," such as a John Chamberlain foam Couch, Nicola L's monumental Canape Homme Geant, and marks the first time Andrea Branzi's rare Pigiama Armchair made for Alchimia's bau. haus I collection will be shown in the US.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | February Light: Tapestries and Textile Works


A focused exhibition of important tapestries and textile works by innovative Catalan artist Josep Grau-Garriga (1929-2011). February Light continues to reflect upon the political context of Grau-Garriga’s practice emergent from Franco-era Spain while reintroducing his impactful career to the audience of New York City. The exhibition is organized around the monumental-yet-delicate work, Llum de Febrer, 1978-81. Grau-Garriga constructed this sweeping, planar display of color and texture over four years and in its finished state the work hangs over twenty feet tall. When suspended from the ceiling, the weight of the material pulls itself taught, highlighting the verticality of the linear elements—colored string and yarn—from which it is produced. The dimensionality of the work extends beyond the pictorial with its majestic scale approaching the courtly.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Hoarders House: Group Exhibition


Through the darkness a lonely light glimmers ahead, gleaming in the juxtaposition of the cold winters night. A portal, a trap, or a hopeful transmission that glows ahead, one will only find out once they’ve set foot inside the hoarders house. In a similar way to being presented like a personal collection, Hoarders House plays with the idea of presentation through a desired sense of gathering, acquiring and collecting. Like anyone, we share the occasional calling to hold on to moments, imagery and objects to capture in some form our daily feelings and desires. This exhibition, which includes sculpture, painting, photography and many other forms of media, works to form a collection of meaningful visual human connections. Though these qualities take many different shapes and forms, the relation lies in the desire to hold on to them, capture and maintain in an almost endless abundance. Hoarders House invites viewers to step inside this carefully curated space to enjoy a constellation of our material world, meaningful connections and momentary experiences. For within this mass array of art, and theatrical display, we find ourselves steeped inside a precarious perspective on time itself, and present day life. Featuring: Angela Alba , Corinne Bernard, Margot Bird, Sebastian Blanck, Cady Bogart, Ian Clyde, Bobby Davidson, Keith Ervin, Matthew Farrell, Gregory Hedderman, Lindsey Howard, Kelly Inouye, Lindsay Iredale, Jessica Lancaster, Sarah Malekzadeh, Ana Medina, Ashley Miller, Kilee Price, Buket Savci, Emily Silver, Reba Tyson
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Hot, Hot, Hot: Rarely Seen Paintings of Times Square Peep Shows from the 1980s


Jane Dickson’s history and legacy are rooted in Times Square. She worked and lived there from 1978 to 2008 documenting her daily lived experiences and observations as a young woman. In photos, drawings, and paintings that utilize unconventional industrial and domestic materials as surfaces—including carpet, sandpaper, and black plastic bags—she captured a time and place that was notoriously lawless, squalid, and vibrantly alive.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Lothar Baumgarten: The Early Years


Over the last four and a half decades, Baumgarten has drawn wide acclaim and respect for his powerful body of work, centered on ethnography and anthropology.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Meander: Evolution of a Motif


Works by Croatian artist Julije Knifer (1924-2004). Featuring paintings, works on paper and a large-scale mural, this exhibition delves into the conceptual and political logic of Knifer’s meander—an abstract geometric form that the artist developed in 1959 and which became, through innumerable subtle permutations and various media, the primary, if not sole, visual motif in the artist’s practice.    
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Middle European Mysticism: Czech and Slovak Artists


An exhibition featuring Czech and Slovak artists Juraj Bartusz, Jiří David, Viktoria Langer, Štefan Papčo and Jitka Válová, whose work will be on view at the gallery for the first time. Art production out of Eastern Europe had its moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when Western audiences flocked to Prague and other gateway points of the former Soviet Empire, hoping to experience the world behind the Iron Curtain before its inevitable adaption to the prevailing political system. Art from the region was shown widely at international exhibitions, providing a breath of fresh air while being displayed as newly discovered and captured trophies. Now, thirty years later, contemporary art practices originating in the former East are gaining new confidence and empowerment. Middle European Mysticism proposes a comparison between the work of selected Slovak and Czech artists from different generations, with a focus on the element of mysticism permeating these artists’ works, in media ranging from painting and drawing to photography, sculpture and video.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Razor Burn: Stretched Silk and Colored Pencil Drawings


An exhibition of paintings on stretched silk and colored pencil drawings by Katarina Riesing. This will be the artist's first New York solo exhibition. At first glance the work's infatuation with laborious detail and rich material - especially in the hand-embroidered gold thread, use of silk, or the exquisitely-rendered swirls of patterned stocking - seem inspired by a northern Renaissance luxuriance. Yet Riesing's insistence on close croppings, and sometimes awkward, unsightly (i.e. the show's title) or uncomfortably erotic aspects of the body, reveal surreptitious squirming.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | The Wooster Group: Exhibition Walkthrough


An exhibition with The Wooster Group, featuring archival material, props, and performance documentation emphasizing the group's significant contribution to both performative and visual culture over the last four and a half decades. The Wooster Group has maintained a home at The Performing Garage at 33 Wooster Street since the mid-1970's, originating within a downtown experimental art scene of cross-disciplinary activity and hybrid forms. Led and directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, who draws on diverse sources including traditional plays, B-movies, stand-up comedy, and autobiographical material, The Wooster Group's work eludes categorization and obvious description. As part of a core of founding members* including Spaulding Gray (1941-2004), Jim Clayburgh, Ron Vawter (1948-1994), Willem Dafoe, Kate Valk, and Peyton Smith, LeCompte's singular vision remains central to the group's identity. Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk lead the walkthrough.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | True Grace: Subjects with Respect


Louis Draper was born in Virginia in 1935 and moved to Harlem, New York in 1957 where he enrolled at the New York Institute of Photography, studying under W. Eugene Smith. In 1960 Draper co-founded the Kamoinge Workshop in New York City. Translating to "group effort" from the language of the Kikuyu people in Kenya, Kamoinge sought to portray global African-American and African communities as having agency rather than being victimized by social and political oppression. The unifying concern of Draper’s practice was to portray his subjects with respect, and what Draper referred to as “true grace”. Coming of age in the South, and living in New York City during the Civil Rights movement greatly impacted not only Draper’s politics, but also the kind of images he created, and how they served as their own form of resistance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | We See You: Manhattan's Vibrant Hell's Kitchen Neighborhood


This group exhibition spotlights photographs of Manhattan's vibrant Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. The installation plays with the CMYK color model—the building block for every color print—to illuminate the accessibility and spontaneity of the work. The images included in the show effectively convey the play of light and shadow, humor, humanity, and the fleeting moments or details that often get lost in the flux of the urban landscape.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Watercolor Workshop


Artist Fran Del Re teaches the foundations of watercolor painting. Thursdays, January 9-23, 2020
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Consider the Feast: Divorced and Obsessed with Food


Carmit Delman's novel follows Talia, a recent divorcee, trying to find herself in a New York City obsessed with food. Especially in the streets of The Quarter, every imaginable delicacy is made and devoured, every unspeakable hunger is fulfilled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Kinstillatory Mappings in Light and Dark Matter


A monthly fireside gathering on the Lower East Side in the amphitheater. Sit by the fire and welcome the evening with neighbors, stories, and food (bring some to share). The January fire includes readings by Nicole Wallace, Demian DinéYazhi', and Karyn Recollet. Pumpkin soup and cornbread generously prepared by Anne Apparu.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Brooklyn-Based Composer and Guitarist Called "A Genre Unto Herself"


Hailed by Rolling Stone as "a genre unto herself," Brooklyn-based composer and guitarist Kaki King brings a special show. This performance will feature an interconnected set of works, showcasing signature performative and multimedia excerpts from her repertoire: The Neck is a Bridge to the Body (2014) and DATA NOT FOUND (2019), along with selected works from her nine-album career. Following the performance, King will open the floor to audience questions, delving deep into the ways in which she uses her guitar as a proverbial magnifying glass.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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