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

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10:00 am
Free

Museums | Special Viewing: New Acquisitions of Works on Paper

This limited-viewing exhibition will feature works on paper by el Greco, Goya, Fernaõ Gomes, Volkmar Machado, and Lázló.

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11:00 am
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**Book Discussion | Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Milieu of Fin-de-Siecle St. Petersburg (online)**

In this talk, Professor Olga Petri will explore the urban adaptations and peculiarities that made communal bathing in St. Petersburg so notably convenient as a context for queer encounters. She tells the story of how and why an unprecedented and ambitious law – the Bathhouse Ordinance of 1879 – failed to achieve the reform intended and, instead, reinforced queer spatial patterns and the commercial role of sex in the city’s bathhouses.

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12:00 pm
Free

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.

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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.

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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.

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1:00 pm
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**Film | Knives Out (2019) with Daniel Craig**

At the 77th Golden Globe Awards, Knives Out received three nominations in the Musical or Comedy category while also receiving Best Original Screenplay nominations at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards and 92nd Academy Awards. It was selected by the American Film Institute and the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2019. On his 85th birthday, crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead in his room. Just as authorities are about to dismiss the tragedy as suicide due to the lack of evidence to prove otherwise, detective Benoit Blanc arrives at the scene to conduct his own investigation. Soon, it is revealed that all of Thrombey's family have a reason to murder the family's patriarch. Dir: Rian Johnson With Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, and Christopher Plummer. 131 Min. Rated PG-13. Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor who made his film debut in the drama The Power of One (1992) and the family film A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995), with his breakthrough role coming in the drama serial Our Friends in the North (1996). He gained prominence for his supporting roles in films such as Elizabeth (1998), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Road to Perdition (2002), Layer Cake (2004), and Munich (2005). In 2006 he took on the role of James Bond in Casino Royale, a reboot of the Bond franchise which was favourably received by critics and earned Craig a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. His non-Bond appearances since then include roles in fantasy film The Golden Compass (2007), the drama Defiance (2008), the science fiction Western Cowboys & Aliens (2011), the mystery thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), the heist film Logan Lucky (2017), and the mystery comedy Knives Out (2019), the last earning him a Golden Globe Award nomination.

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2:00 pm
Free

**Book Discussion | The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II (online)**

In his book Dr. Robert Watson tells the riveting story of a German luxury liner ship – the Cap Arcona, meant to rival the English Titanic – which, after starring in a failed German propaganda movie, was repurposed as a seaborne concentration camp. When the British Royal Air Force mistakenly bombed the Cap Arcona, most of its prisoners were killed in this last major tragedy of the Holocaust and one of history’s worst maritime disasters. This webinar discusses not only the story, but Dr. Watson’s incredible process of discovering the evidence to prove it, hidden from view for over 60 years.

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2:00 pm
Free

Musical | Interactive Musical Comedy in an Off-Broadway Theater

A crew of everyday people leave normal jobs and families to live as pirates. Setting off to find the hidden treasure left behind by Captain Toothy, a pirate famous for pirating DVDs in the early 2000s, (and shutting down Blockbuster Video stores worldwide) the crew encounters a wild series of events, and ends up learning a little something along the way. With Book & Lyrics by Brayden Martino, and Music by John-William Gambrell, Toothy’s Treasure is a boisterous interactive theatrical experience that brings fresh life to the New York stage. Dir. Brayden Martino With Anneke Angstadt, Jordan William McKinney, Cait Winston, Chloe Gardner, and more.

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2:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press: Tools, Data, and Methods for Researching Secret Printing

A panel of Carnegie Mellon scientists and scholars will speak on the subject of "underground" printing during the Revolutionary period, focusing on its connection to the development of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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2:30 pm
Free

Festival | Lunar New Year Celebration

Celebrate Lunar New Year and the Year of the Rabbit with Atlantic Terminal and the New York Chinese Cultural Center at a festival featuring traditional Chinese and Lion Dance performances, a sugar painting demonstration, festive music, giveaways, raffles, and more.

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3:00 pm
Free

**Book Discussion | Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility (online)**

A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum. Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our hands every day. The world needs an ethical awakening, a consciousness-raising movement of international proportions. In Justice for Animals, one of the world’s most influential philosophers and humanists Martha C. Nussbaum provides a revolutionary approach to animal rights, ethics, and law. From dolphins to crows, elephants to octopuses, Nussbaum examines the entire animal kingdom, showcasing the lives of animals with wonder, awe, and compassion to understand how we can create a world in which human beings are truly friends of animals, not exploiters or users. All animals should have a shot at flourishing in their own way. Humans have a collective duty to face and solve animal harm. An urgent call to action and a manual for change, Nussbaum’s groundbreaking theory directs politics and law to help us meet our ethical responsibilities as no book has done before.

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5:00 pm
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Discussion | The Curatorial Roundtable (online)

Speaker Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide's exhibitions curator at Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Previously, Zola Zoli van der Heide was Deputy Director at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, where she began as an intern in 2008. She has co-edited publications, including A Lasting Truth Is Change (Van Abbemuseum, 2022); I Think My Body Feels, I Feel My Body Thinks: On Corpoliteracy (Van Abbemuseum, 2022); Laure Prouvost, This Means Love (Lisson Gallery, Van Abbemuseum, 2021); and Unlearning Exercises: Art Organisations as Sites for Unlearning (Casco Art Institute, Valiz, 2018).

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5:00 pm
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**Film | Boycott (2021): Documentary on the Perils of Free Speech**

When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona and a speech therapist in Texas are told they must choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles. This is a film about free speech and the far-reaching implications of anti-boycott laws. Director: Julia Bacha 73 min. Followed by a panel. Panelists include: Julia Bacha, Director Ramya Krishnan, Knight First Amendment Institute Alan Leveritt, Arkansas Times Lawrence Glickman, Professor of American Studies at Cornell University Moderated by Rozina Ali of The New York Times Magazine.

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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | François-Marie Banier: Writings & Pictures

The exhibition comprises paintings, drawings, photographs, along with various notebooks and ephemera.

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6:00 pm
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**Film | Knives Out (2019) with Daniel Craig**

At the 77th Golden Globe Awards, Knives Out received three nominations in the Musical or Comedy category while also receiving Best Original Screenplay nominations at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards and 92nd Academy Awards. It was selected by the American Film Institute and the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2019. On his 85th birthday, crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead in his room. Just as authorities are about to dismiss the tragedy as suicide due to the lack of evidence to prove otherwise, detective Benoit Blanc arrives at the scene to conduct his own investigation. Soon, it is revealed that all of Thrombey's family have a reason to murder the family's patriarch. Dir: Rian Johnson With Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, and Christopher Plummer. 131 Min. Rated PG-13. Daniel Wroughton Craig is an English actor who made his film debut in the drama The Power of One (1992) and the family film A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995), with his breakthrough role coming in the drama serial Our Friends in the North (1996). He gained prominence for his supporting roles in films such as Elizabeth (1998), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Road to Perdition (2002), Layer Cake (2004), and Munich (2005). In 2006 he took on the role of James Bond in Casino Royale, a reboot of the Bond franchise which was favourably received by critics and earned Craig a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. His non-Bond appearances since then include roles in fantasy film The Golden Compass (2007), the drama Defiance (2008), the science fiction Western Cowboys & Aliens (2011), the mystery thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), the heist film Logan Lucky (2017), and the mystery comedy Knives Out (2019), the last earning him a Golden Globe Award nomination.

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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Ser Serpas: Hall

An exhibition of work by Ser Serpas made in the decade since the artist moved from her hometown of Los Angeles. Trajectories of change and the allure of transience inform many of the works on view, which include new paintings, collaboratively produced photographs, extracted pages from notebooks and a decaying portrait. Across periods spent working in New York, Geneva, Tbilisi and, most recently, Paris, Serpas contemplates the ways in which cities can shape one’s wants and transformations. The outcome of years of travel, Hall is a study of bodies, movement and constructions with unfixed futures.

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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Ukraine in Ruins: 1941-42, 2022

The exhibit consists of 18 black and white acrylic-and-pen paintings, 9”x12”, on canvas sheets. Seven depict central Kyiv in ruins in 1941-1942, as a result of explosions set off by the retreating Soviets; the paintings were completed in mid-2021. Eleven depict Ukraine in ruins in 2022, as a result of Russia’s genocidal war; these were completed during the war, in 2022. Alexander J. Moty's artwork has been shown in solo and group shows in New York, Philadelphia, Westport, and Toronto and is part of the permanent collection of the Ukrainian Museum in New York and the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in Winnipeg.

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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Pulitzer Prize-winning Critic Jerry Saltz Presents his Book, "Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night"

Jerry Saltz will discuss his latest publication, which draws on two decades of his work to offer a real-time survey of contemporary art as a barometer of turning points in history.

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6:00 pm
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Classical Music | Sonatenabend Concert

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6:00 pm
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Discussion | 2024 Starts Now: Data and Analytics in the Next Presidential Campaign (online)

With the 2022 midterms in the rearview mirror, campaigns in 2023 are ramping up in earnest for the presidential primaries that kick off in January 2024. Hear from a panel of leading political data analysts, industry influencers, and academic experts about how data and analytics will be critical to building political strategies and will direct the billions of dollars that will be spent in the 2024 election cycle. Topics of discussion will include dark money, microtargeting, turnout strategies, and the challenges of polling in a polarized electorate. Speakers: -- Kristen Soltis Anderson -- Amy Kurtz, President, Sixteen Thirty Fund -- Becca Siegel, Former Analytics Director for the 2020 Biden campaign -- Doug Usher, Ph.D., Partner, Forbes Tate Partners -- Gregory J. Wawro, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science

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6:30 pm
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**Screening | 105 minutes Sofia (2019), documentary**

A full-length documentary presenting the complete history Bulgaria's capital city, from its first known origins in 6000 BC. to the present day. Dir.: Kamen Vodenitcharov and Misho Landzhev. In Bulgarian with English subtitles 105min.

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6:30 pm
Free

**Book Discussion | The Book of Goose: A Woman and Her Past**

A free live recording of Randy Cohen's public radio show Person Place Thing featuring Yiyun Li, author of The Book of Goose. A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, this novel is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will.

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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Metropolis Shaped by Waterfront: How NYC Came of Age

Start 2023 with author and historian Kara Murphy Schlichting when she investigates how the waterfront shaped the history of New York. This lively presentation will examine how New York City came of age as a modern metropolis and how the waterfront shaped the history of our city. An in-depth moderated discussion will follow the presentation. Kara Murphy Schlichting is Associate Professor of History at Queens College.

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6:30 pm
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Discussion | The Ideal – or Not So Ideal – Greek Woman

Classical Greek artists had no trouble depicting the ideal male, but the 5th-century painter Zeuxis needed five female models to synthesize details in his portrait of beautiful Helen of Troy. Unlike men who merited sculpted likenesses in public venues, women were mostly portrayed on their grave stelai. Jenifer Neils, Elsie B. Smith Professor emerita of Liberal Studies at Case Western Reserve University and former Director of American School of Classical Studies in Athens (which collaborates on this lecture), discusses how by viewing the imagery of ideal and less than ideal women, Greek artists portrayed females within a misogynist society.

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6:30 pm
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Discussion | 700 Years of Vilnius, a City of Translation (in-person and online)

The history and geography of Vilnius are marked by linguistic pluralism, cultural variations, territorial rearrangements, and human losses that make temporal correspondence and spatial continuity hard to decipher. Since the first written records of the city in 1323, Vilnius was put on the path of translation. The existence of many languages and the sense of discontinuity point to diversity and conflict, but translation unravels the tensions, interactions, rivalries, or convergences among different points of views, knowledge and experiences of the place. In the context of Vilnius, translation is often an outcome or response to erasure. Still, as Czeslaw Milosz pointed out, "everything would be fine if language did not deceive us finding / different names for the same thing in different times and places." In one of his poems dedicated to his hometown, the poet construes Wilno as a city without name, underpinning its untranslatable - 'unexpressed, untold' - character. On the other hand, for Moyshe Kulbak, the Jewish city opens up as "the dream of a cabbalist" with a "thousand narrow doors into the universe." Contrastingly, Avrom Sutzkver, in his threnody to Vilna, makes the town omnipresent with 'all the cities [being transformed] into your image.' As an act of creation, translation offers a possibility of entering Vilnius from an unknown territory; simultaneously, it frames the city within 'unfamiliar tongues.' In commemorating 700 years of the founding of Vilnius, Laimonas Briedis will give a presentation about the city as a form of translation, from poetic imagery and visual records to tangible geography and memory fragments. Briedis's presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by Jonathan Brent in which Briedis will be joined by Laima Lauckaite, Irena Grudzinska Gross, and David Roskies.

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7:00 pm
Free

**Book Discussion | Kreisky, Israel and Jewish Identity: Austria's Only Jewish Leader**

Israeli diplomat and author Daniel Aschheim will present his book about the former Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, the first and only Jewish leader of Austria. It explores his relationship with his Jewish identity, the Austrian "victim theory", the state of Israel, the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Terrorism, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the United States. After the book presentation there will be a panel discussion with Daniel Aschheim and the Austrian Philosopher and Germanist Thomas Wallerberger who is also a PhD candidate in the German Department at Rutgers University. Wallerberger's research interests include the literature of the 1920s and 1930s, political theory, 20th century philosophy, and migration and exile topics with a focus on Jewish exile.

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7:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Addictive Connections: The Impact on the Arts

A panel exploring issues of mental health, addiction, and social justice. Hip hop / theater artist Baba Israel, sound artist Fay Victor, and New York Philharmonic Director of Media Production Mark Travis discuss the nuanced impact that the criminalization of addiction and drug use has had on music and other creative arts. The group examines luminaries including Billie Holiday and Timothy Leary, as well as Hector Berlioz and Julius Eastman, both of whose works will be presented by the Philharmonic in February. Leah Goodridge, Managing Attorney for Housing Policy at Mobilization for Justice, moderates.

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7:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Artist Talk: Drawing on My Eastern European Roots

A lecture by Mark Podwal, one of today's foremost figures in American-Jewish art. Tablet Magazine has called Mark Podwal "one of our great American Jewish artists." Initially known for his drawings for The New York Times op-ed page, Podwal's artworks have been exhibited and published worldwide. He is the author and illustrator of numerous books, many of which focus on Eastern European Jewish history, tradition, and folklore. His slide presentation will show images from his collaborations with Elie Wiesel, Harold Bloom, and Francine Prose. Slides will also include his series "Kaddish for Dabrowa Bialostocka," the Polish shtetl where his mother was born, as well as an image of the 13-foot mural he was asked to design for Dabrowa's high school wall. Moreover, his textiles for Prague's gothic Altneuschul and Renaissance High Synagogue will be discussed along with as his current series, "Reimagining Polish Synagogues as Jewish Ceremonial Objects."

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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Ethics Unplugged (in-person and online)

This experimental, alternative platform has the goal to use art, music, uniquely focused events, and deeper discussions to re-imagine a humanist congregational experience for a younger and more diverse audience, while broadening and re-invigorating the experience for long-time members and friends in New York City and beyond.

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7:00 pm
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Performance | Theater Open Mic

Share a monologue, play a song, tell a story, or simply listen and reflect at this evening of open performance.

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7:00 pm
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**Film | Electric Appalachia: Silent Film with a Live Music Soundtrack**

Experience the New York premiere. Using found archival footage, the film offers a meditation on electricity and modernity in East Tennessee. Compiled by Eric Dawson (director at the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound - TAMIS) with score written and performed by guitarist William Tyler and harpist Mary Lattimore. Free popcorn while supplies last.

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7:30 pm
Free

Classical Music | New Works by Modern Composers

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7:30 pm
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Musical | Interactive Musical Comedy in an Off-Broadway Theater

A crew of everyday people leave normal jobs and families to live as pirates. Setting off to find the hidden treasure left behind by Captain Toothy, a pirate famous for pirating DVDs in the early 2000s, (and shutting down Blockbuster Video stores worldwide) the crew encounters a wild series of events, and ends up learning a little something along the way. With Book & Lyrics by Brayden Martino, and Music by John-William Gambrell, Toothy's Treasure is a boisterous interactive theatrical experience that brings fresh life to the New York stage. Dir. Brayden Martino With Anneke Angstadt, Jordan William McKinney, Cait Winston, Chloe Gardner, and more.

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8:00 pm
Free

January 2023

34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Editor's Picks

Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many

Museums | Special Viewing: New Acquisitions of Works on Paper

**Book Discussion | Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Milieu of Fin-de-Siecle St. Petersburg (online)**

Tour | Tour of New York City Hall

Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)

Workshop | Adult Chorus

**Film | Knives Out (2019) with Daniel Craig**

**Book Discussion | The Nazi Titanic: The Incredible Story of a Doomed Ship in World War II (online)**

Musical | Interactive Musical Comedy in an Off-Broadway Theater

Lecture | Freedom and the Press before Freedom of the Press: Tools, Data, and Methods for Researching Secret Printing

Festival | Lunar New Year Celebration

**Book Discussion | Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility (online)**

Discussion | The Curatorial Roundtable (online)

**Film | Boycott (2021): Documentary on the Perils of Free Speech**

Opening Reception | François-Marie Banier: Writings & Pictures

**Film | Knives Out (2019) with Daniel Craig**

Opening Reception | Ser Serpas: Hall

Opening Reception | Ukraine in Ruins: 1941-42, 2022

Book Discussion | Pulitzer Prize-winning Critic Jerry Saltz Presents his Book, "Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night"

Classical Music | Sonatenabend Concert

Discussion | 2024 Starts Now: Data and Analytics in the Next Presidential Campaign (online)

**Screening | 105 minutes Sofia (2019), documentary**

**Book Discussion | The Book of Goose: A Woman and Her Past**

Lecture | Metropolis Shaped by Waterfront: How NYC Came of Age

Discussion | The Ideal – or Not So Ideal – Greek Woman

Discussion | 700 Years of Vilnius, a City of Translation (in-person and online)

**Book Discussion | Kreisky, Israel and Jewish Identity: Austria's Only Jewish Leader**

Discussion | Addictive Connections: The Impact on the Arts

Slide Lecture | Artist Talk: Drawing on My Eastern European Roots

Discussion | Ethics Unplugged (in-person and online)

Performance | Theater Open Mic

**Film | Electric Appalachia: Silent Film with a Live Music Soundtrack**

Classical Music | New Works by Modern Composers

Musical | Interactive Musical Comedy in an Off-Broadway Theater