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76 free events take place on Thursday, November 7 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 November 7 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 November . 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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76 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, November 7, 2019

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free events nyc Music in Midtown: Turina, Brahms, Shostakovich
free events nyc Grammy Nominated Countertenor Performs Works by J.S.Bach
free events nyc Celebrate Broadway's Show Boat!
free events nyc How To Create A Positive Job Search No Matter What Your Age
free events nyc Wandering Melodic Road: Music from an All-Female Korean Band
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Workshop | Morning Fitness


One hour of walking, stretching, and strengthening exercises. For a breath of fresh air, take your workouts outdoors. Parks are becoming a logical alternative environment for those who want to add variety to their workouts, or who just don't like the gym. And, it's an affordable way to increase physical activity opportunities, because there's nothing special to build. Exercise with a view, in natural sunlight, with green scenery all around bestows health benefits that can't be found indoors. Scientific studies have shown that the pleasure of being outdoors for example gives your brain, psyche, and immune system an extra boost. Led by trained professionals, and suitable for all levels. Wear comfortable clothing and bring water.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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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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Discussion | Energy Perspectives 2019


Recent signposts show diverging paths in energy market developments in terms of economic and demand growth, energy efficiency, cooperation, technology development and geopolitics. Two of the scenarios (Reform and Rivalry) illustrate where the world may move if current path continues. The third, Renewal, illustrates where the world needs to move to achieve the Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to well below 2°C. Speaker Eirik Wærness, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at Equinor, gives a presentation of Equinor’s Energy Perspectives 2019 report, intended to provide a helicopter perspective on macroeconomics and global energy markets towards 2050. The report analyses relevant trends, impact of climate policies, energy mix consequences and sectorial and regional development across three very different scenarios - Reform, Renewal and Rivalry. Following his presentation, Wærness will join Dr. Melissa C. Lott for a moderated conversation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 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
10:00 am
Free

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 | China Seas (1935): Action Drama With Clark Gable and Jean Harlow


When earthy Dolly Portland is rejected by Captain Gaskell in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle, in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize his ship. Director: Tay Garnett. Starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Film | Possessed (1947): Oscar Nominated Film-Noir Drama


After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there. 108 min. Director: Curtis Bernhardt. Starring Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey.  Joan Crawford was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Writing Your Family History


Genealogy lovers, now is time to shape your genealogy research into a cohesive family history for others to read. Learn the different types of family history writing styles and explore the writing manuals that will match your writing style. Explore the history of the places where your family lived, learn tips for creating a cohesive narrative, and why writing a family history is the ultimate goal of genealogy research.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Private Rights and International Law: A History of Globalization


Speaker: Martti Koskenniemi, Professor of International Law, University of Helsinki, Director of Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:10 pm
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Lecture | Vile Bodies: Reassessing Chernukha in Recent Russian Cinema


It has become clear that chernukha was neither a one-time Soviet phenomenon, nor limited exclusively to the Russian context. And yet, the reemergence of chernukha aesthetics in the Russian cinema of the mid-2000s was unexpected, to say the least. Neither a response to a degenerated political discourse (as under late Socialism), nor a reflection of a sanguinary reality (as in the 1990s), this return came during a time of purported stability and prosperity. Speaker Daria Ezerova investigates this new chernukha as a cultural product of a changed relationship between political power and its subject in mid-2000s Russia; a phenomenon she refers to as “the biopolitical turn.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:10 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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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
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Classical Music | Music in Midtown: Turina, Brahms, Shostakovich


Norman Carey, Executive Officer of The Graduate Center's PhD and DMA music programs, along with Francesca dePasquale and DMA alum, Miho Weber, will perform a program of works by Turina, Brahms and Shostakovich.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Organ Recital with Marvin Mills


Organist Marvin Mills has performed throughout the United States in such places as The Academy of Music, Philadelphia, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Barns, Wolf Trap Farm Park as well as historic churches in Krakow, Poland.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Pipes At One Organ Recital


Marvin Mills, organ, of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Kensington, MD.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Grammy Nominated Countertenor Performs Works by J.S.Bach


Ryland Angel, countertenor; Rick Erickson, harpsichord. A Grammy-nominated British counter-tenor Ryland Angel has built an international reputation on both the opera and concert stage, in repertoire ranging from the Baroque to new operatic commissions at major opera houses, concert halls and festivals throughout Europe and the USA. Rick Erickson is the Director of Bach Society Houston and Cantor at Christ the King Lutheran Church. He is also Instructor in music at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
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Film | Les Girls (1957): George Cukor's Oscar Winning Musical Comedy


When dancer Sybil Wren (Kay Kendall) pens a memoir about her time in a troupe with two other women, she incurs the wrath of her former peers, Angele Ducros (Taina Elg) and Joy Henderson (Mitzi Gaynor). This leads to a lawsuit, and the presence of Barry Nichols (Gene Kelly), the mastermind behind the troupe, who presents his perspective as accusations of affairs fly between the women. Truth is slowly revealed, helped along by some lively musical numbers. 114 min. Director: George Cukor. Starring Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall. Les Girls won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design and was nominated for two other Academy Awards, Best Art Direction and Best Sound.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Rin Tin Tin Double Feature


Where the North Begins (1923) As a pup, Rinty is lost while crossing Alaska and is adopted by a wolf pack. As a grown "wolf-dog" Rinty rescues McGrail who has been waylaid while carrying furs and abandoned for dead. 60 min. Director: Chester M. Franklin.  Starring Rin Tin Tin, Claire Adams, Fred Huntley.  Clash of the Wolves (1925) A fire in the mountains drives a wolf pack, led by Lobo (Rinty), into the desert where they terrorize residents. Director: Noel M. Smith. 64 min. Starring Rin Tin Tin, Nanette, Charles Farrell. 
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2:00 pm
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Film | Shaft (2019): Action Comedy With Samuel L. Jackson


JJ Shaft, a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, enlists his family's help to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death. Director: Tim Story. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jessie T. Usher, Richard Roundtree.  It is the fifth film in the Shaft series and a direct sequel to the 2000 film with the same title.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Yesterday (2019): No On Remembers The Beatles Other Than Him


A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline where they never existed. 116 min. Director: Danny Boyle. Starring Himesh Patel, Lily James, Sophia Di Martino.  The movie grossed $148 million worldwide against a production budget of $26 million.
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | Top Down or Bottom Up? Politics and Society in Thailand and Indonesia


This panel discussion will look at the broad question of whether changes in society are happening as a result of political manipulation from the top; or because of substantive changes within culture, values and beliefs. With: -- Alex Arifianto, Research Fellow, Indonesia Programme, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University – Singapore -- Christopher Ankersen, Clinical Associate Professor, NYU Center for Global Affairs -- Amy Freedman, Department Chair and Professor of Political Science and International Studies at LIU Post
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2:30 pm
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Film | A Dog's Journey (2019): Dog Finds The Meaning Of His Existence


A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets. 109 min. Director: Gail Mancuso. Starring Josh Gad, Dennis Quaid, Kathryn Prescott.  A Dog's Journey grossed $22.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $49.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $71.7 million.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class with Principal Trumpet Of The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra


Trumpeter Martin Angerer has performed as a guest artist with the Vienna Staatsoper Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. He has appeared at the Salzburg and Bregenz Festivals and undertaken tours to many European countries, as well as the United States and Japan. He is principal trumpet with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
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Lecture | A Dark Nation Born in a Day: Trinity Broadcasting Network Defies the American Political Establishment, 1980-1995


Augusta Dell'Omo of the University of Texas at Austin is the speaker.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | What DNA Testing Can And Can’t Tell You


Can DNA testing help you trace your family history? If you are adopted, can DNA testing identify your biological parents? This class will help you determine whether DNA testing is right for you. Explore what DNA tests can reveal, explain the different types of DNA tests, and dispel common misconceptions about DNA testing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Untitled: Painting as Performance Art


Taiwanese artist Yahon Chang will give a new performance work referencing the Bauhaus theme. Chang’s new work sees a set of vertical drapes of semi-transparent silk scrolls juxtaposed with patches of linen canvas on the floor, referencing the linear and geometric forms favored by the Bauhaus school at the turn of the century. The structured form of the set is interrupted by the fluidity of Chang’s vigorous expression of ink and echoes essential theories of the martial art Tai Chi; “overcoming hardness with softness” and “combining hardness with softness.” Chang will be performing for the first time in New York. Exploring painting as performance, Yahon Chang is a contemporary ink painter who combines classical Chinese techniques with gestural Western expressionism in a highly physical manner. Brought up in Taiwan after Japanese colonial rule, his works portray a visual language voicing agony, adversity and acceptance, whilst striving for higher spirituality and peace. Through the act of painting, both cultural and spiritual values are embodied in an intensely personal manner. Harking to Chinese ink-wash traditions, Chang uses a large ink brush to create powerful strokes on canvas or Chinese paper. Viewing art-making as a mind-body discipline, the artist explores the close relationship between traditional calligraphy, philosophy and spirituality through performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk: Art from Social Media


Gina Beavers is an artist who lives and works in New York City. She creates paintings and installations from photos culled from the Internet and social media and rendered in high Acrylic relief. Series include paintings based on the creative realms of body painting, social media user’s photos of their meals, make-up tutorials, memes, and body builder selfies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Gated Community / Fragments in Time


Gated Community: A One Woman Ekphrastic Exhibition Artist Elaine Clayman’s evocative contemporary figurative paintings and portraiture shown in conjunction with the poetry of Susan Colton. This exhibition also commences the launch of their new ekphrastic book. Ekphrasis is a verbal description of a visual work of art. Fragments in Time Jane Stevens's photographs combine images from past and present moments to create a transformed reality. Fragments and portals into the past are powerful reminders of the passage of time and the ever-changing environment. These photographs are ae reflection on how the past affects out personal lives and alters the future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: The Great Perhaps / 1979-1994


Richard Hughes The Great Perhaps “I go to seek the great perhaps” were the last words of French philosopher François Rabelais. An optimism pervades this sentiment: a sense of wonder in the unknown and the beyond. This forms the core of Richard Hughes’ fourth solo exhibition, a mature and evolutionary turn in his practice and works. Chris Martin 1979-1994 Chris Martin’s exhibition on the gallery’s third floor will present these historic works bookended by the years 1979 and 1994; the majority of them created during this formative 1980s period. An exhibition in March 2019 in Los Angeles featured large paintings from this era; here we will present an intimate display of some key smaller paintings, as well as a number of drawings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Inner Horizons of Light: Feeling Existence


Michael Phelan will be presenting a selection of his latest paintings which show a combination of the free use of color and a greater abstraction. From the cremation grounds of Varanassi, through cosmic light and darkness, Phelan's artwork is an invitation to pause, observe and feel our own existence.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Interlude: Perdu: Vivid Yet Delicate Paintings


A solo presentation of new works by South Korean artist Lee Bul. This exhibition will feature recent mixed media paintings from the artist’s Perdu series that blend biomorphic and cybertronic forms, vividly yet delicately rendered in acrylic paint and mother of pearl. Among the most radical and internationally regarded figures in contemporary Korean art, this is Lee Bul’s first U.S. exhibition since two of her sculptures were featured in the 58th Venice Biennale. This marked Lee Bul’s second presentation in the Biennale; the artist was invited to return after representing her country in South Korea’s pavilion and receiving an honorable mention in 1999.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Jeff Kissel: Large-Scale Abstract Paintings


A solo exhibition of large-scale abstract paintings by artist Jeff Kessel in New York City. Using spray paint, oil, and string, Kessel’s theatrical work in this self-titled exhibition leans heavily on its direct relation to the body. One is confronted with the confounding duality of monumental space and tactile outward surface, keeping the viewer bouncing between the literal material and the perceived expanse of the work.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Mary Corse: Recent Paintings


Recent Paintings brings together ten large-scale paintings completed over the past year, which extend the artist’s career-long investigation into perceptual awareness while expanding upon her recent exploration of light as color.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Out of the Shadows: Photographs of New York City 1980-1992


By Photographer Marcus Leatherdale
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Shore Leave: High-Color Upholstered Shapes 


Comprised of large modular wall works in the artist's trademark high-color upholstered shapes with minimal accents, the show also features two floor works which combine upholstered protrusions with bedroom furniture. Shore Leave propels Trish Tillman's references ever closer to the body, as what before may have been hinted at now is paraded with pride. The show insinuates a confrontational approach to the viewer, while still wrapped in an elegant façade of impeccable finishes and embellishments such as studs or chains. Each piece combines abstracted forms with understandable physical allusions - for instance, a zipper evokes a movement, a sexual place, a hint of action - to create an overall enigma. The tightly bound vinyl both confronts with surface clarity and keeps overt messages hidden with physical tension, or deflects through minimal elements such as studs, ribbons, or metal tabs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Significant Form: Mastery of Material


Elie Nadelman's assembled works, spanning the artist’s career and sourced directly from the estate, demonstrate Nadelman’s fluid mastery of material, form, and process when modeling the female figure.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | The Expectations of Others: Complex Collage Work


A Texas license plate, wood paneling, and a crushed Coors light can are just a few of the objects adorning the figures populating Marcelina Gonzales, Dionis Ortiz, and Estelle Maisonett’s complex collage work. Viewers are forced to project an identity into empty space through the use of social signifiers, rather than relying on rendered physiology or recognizable portraits. Each artist utilizes their practice to question their viewer’s expectations. They question the boundaries of constructed identities and social relationships through embellishing the human figure with potential identity markers. Gonzales, Ortiz, and Maisonett utilize the radical strategies found in contemporary cultural studies (from Feminist-Marxism to Semiotics) to question the ways we encounter and perceive others. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | The Means of Protection: 14 Poems, Many Voices


Security—it’s something we all seek. But we also know that finding true safety requires taking risks along the way. How does it feel to live this paradox? These poems offer some clues, as does the format of my readings. I invite audience members to perform my work, standing up and reading unknown words out loud to strangers. Will taking the risk bring its own reward? So far, at readings in other cities, audiences have created sturdy sanctuaries using those most powerful of tools: rhythmic words bravely spoken. New Orleanian Amy Clipp shares her poems.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | The Queen of Versailles (2012): Billionaires Fall on Hard Times


A documentary that follows a billionaire couple as they begin construction on a mansion inspired by Versailles. During the next two years, their empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis. 103 min.
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Opening Reception | The Wooster Group: Commemorating Performative and Visual Culture


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Time Life: Cult Phenomena


Hernan Bas’ fifth solo exhibition with the gallery will include seven large-scale paintings and one decorative room screen that feature a series of strange and seemingly obscure (or possibly forgotten) moments that have influenced American culture. This body of work illustrates Bas’ innate ability to highlight cult phenomena from the past that offer insight into the political and social concerns of today. Rather than focusing on a singular subject matter, as Bas has done previously, this series spans time periods and themes, providing a unique perspective on American subculture and a contemporary version of History Painting, which traditionally depicts a particular moment within a narrative.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Trampoline: Resilience & Black Body & Soul: Richly Encrusted Sculptures


Vanessa German’s exhibition will showcase her richly encrusted sculptures, which she refers to as power-figures, alongside a series of wall-mounted altars that each act as seers or protectors carrying with them the gift of their own human technology: joy, love, and protection for the souls of Black Americans.
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Book Signing | Urs Fischer: Paintings 1998–2017


Urs Fischer will take over the shop, creating an immersive environment to celebrate the publication of Urs Fischer: Paintings 1998–2017. This three-volume monograph includes every painting produced by the artist from the beginning of his career through 2017.Fischer will be signing copies of the new book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Women in Possession of Good Fortune: Echoing Poses from Historical Paintings


Kira Nam Greene continues to explore and expand her interests in the sociopolitical arena of female identity and sexuality. The title of her exhibition refers to the opening lines of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice and alludes to both the persistence of sexist assumptions and the achievements made by women from different races, ages and sexual orientations. The subjects in Greene's paintings are women in creative fields who are echoing poses from historical figurative paintings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life


From Neil Pasricha, bestselling author of The Book of Awesome series and The Happiness Equation, comes a revelatory and inspiring book that will change the way we view failure and help us build resilience. Restrictions may apply. Call store for details.
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Talk | Celebrate Broadway's Show Boat!


In 1926, Edna Ferber published Show Boat, a tale of love and loss on a riverboat. A year later, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II transformed the novel into one of the first book musicals on Broadway. Harold Prince and Susan Stroman revived the show in 1994, enhancing and renewing its relevance. Stroman will be present to celebrate the legacy of Show Boat with readings, performances, and a dive into the archives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Discussion | How To Create A Positive Job Search No Matter What Your Age


In this interactive session Renee Rosenberg introduces 12 strategies for conducting a positive job search. Attend this session and learn why Renee believes "age is a mindset." Renee Lee Rosenberg has been a Clinical Career Counselor for over 25 years helping individuals on all levels to achieve a successful job search and a satisfying career transition and change. She is a NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and the author of Achieving the Good Life After 50: Tools and Resources for Making it Happen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | International Art Festival 2019


The 2019 edition of the International Art Festival will take place at the beautiful street-level air-conditioned gallery space with high ceilings located in the heart of trendy TriBeCa and a short walking distance from Wall Street, SOHO, and the World Trade Center. During the past five years, International Art Festival, Inc. has sponsored annual competitions and sales exhibitions of work by leading figures among establishing and emerging contemporary artists. International Art Festival generated a warm response and great excitement among trendsetting members of the New York community who support and patronize contemporary artists.
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Discussion | Should We Tolerate the Intolerant?


In the increasingly divided political and social landscape that surrounds us today, the idea of tolerance seems to be more relevant than ever. Beyond the acrimonious debates on migration, hate speech, impeachment, or religious symbols in public places, the ideal of tolerance offers the vision of a social order that accommodates diversity while preserving common principles that bind citizens together. But are there limits to tolerance? Are there circumstances when free speech should be curtailed? What should be done when extremist voices threaten the very order tolerance is founded upon? How do social media and digital threats to privacy change the terms of the debate on hate speech and tolerance? What can history teach us about the conditions needed to build a tolerant society? A debate between Denis Lacorne and Bernard Harcourt, moderated by Sheri Berman.
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Lecture | The Shadow of Democracy: May Fourth and Global History


This talk argues that China's May Fourth Movement (1919-1925) must be retrieved as an extended politicized moment of promise for mass radical democracy in China and the world. The contemporary retreat of democracy globally demands that we not conceal the times in history when peoples saw their potential futures otherwise: the May Fourth Movement was one such time. If the shadow of democracy in 1919 was a hopeful one, today that shadow is significantly more ominous. This talk attempts to think about why. Speaker Rebecca E. Karl teaches in the History Department at New York University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Conference | Who Owns the World?: The State of Platform Cooperativism


A conference on building a more inclusive economy, Who Owns the World? The State of Platform Cooperativism is the most international gathering of its kind. This much-needed event summons scholars and founders of platform cooperatives — businesses that use a website, mobile app, or protocol to sell goods or services while relying on democratic decision-making and shared ownership of the platform by workers and users.  Platform cooperativism is not a fleeting idea but an iterative process that unfolds with the support of community groups and anchor organizations such as universities, cooperative banks, and accelerators. Impulses for a democratic digital transformation come from numerous domains, which is why this event presents theoretical reflections, artistic provocations, and insights from on-the-ground workers, owners, and users.  Who Owns the World? convenes one hundred fifty speakers from over thirty countries to meet each other, co-design, and learn about topics such as worker power in the platform economy, antitrust, misogyny and racism in co-ops, ecological sustainability, best practices for cooperation including the allocation of startup funding, the potential of platform co-ops for data trusts, data co-ops, new models for distributed governance, and data sovereignty.
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Film | Bogdan's Journey (2016): Healing a Historical Wound


A Catholic Pole, determined to heal a historical wound, launches a crusade to reconcile Poles and Jews over a massacre that happened 69 years ago. Directors: Michal Jaskulski, Lawrence Loewinger 90 min. The screening will be followed by Q&A with Bogdan Bialek - the protagonist of the film. The Q&A will be moderated by Elzbieta Matynia, the director of The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies,
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Author Reading | Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place


Robert B. Talisse, Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University and an internationally recognized theorist of democracy, talks about a conversation about citizenship, moral disagreement, and political polarization.
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Screening | Van Alen Season Six: Two Border Towns


Van Alen Season Six visits two border towns in California and Texas to investigate how urban design can increase cross-border collaboration, strengthen social and economic networks in sister cities where the local economies are linked, and mitigate the environmental impact of the construction of border walls in delicate ecosystems. Following the film’s premiere, Stephania Taladrid of The New Yorker will moderate a panel discussion with the filmmaker, Merete Mueller; Steven Alvarez, associate professor of English, St. John’s University; and Patricio del Real, assistant professor of history of art and architecture, Harvard University.
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Author Reading | When I Am Italian: A Complex Identity in America


Four women writers, scholars and friends discuss what it is to be Italian in America, what it means to write about this complex and sometimes confusing identity in the context of this book and their other works. Joanna Clapps Herman is the author of The Anarchist Bastard: Growing Up Italian in America and No Longer and Not Yet: Stories, both published by SUNY Press. She is also the coeditor (with Carol Bonomo Albright) of Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana and (with Lee Gutkind) Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian-American Writers. She lives in New York City.
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Talk | Artist Talk: Photo-Text Images, Artists’ Books and Installations


An evening with Clarissa Sligh, who will be in conversation with Deirdre Lawrence. Sligh is a visual artist, lecturer, and essayist. Her photo-text images, artists’ books and installations have been exhibited in museums and Book Arts Centers across the United States.  For over 30 years, Sligh has woven together the cultural, historical, personal and political to explore concepts of memory and transmutation, and perceptions of boundaries and identity: themes that have roots in her own experiences. She is known for her photographic series, artists’ books and text-based installations to explore constructions of history, identities, transformation and change.
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Discussion | Reflections on Artist Carmen Herrera


Artists Teresita Fernández and Cecilia Vicuña for a free, public conversation reflecting on Herrera’s career through their own lives and celebrated art practices.
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Discussion | Saving Cities: How New York State Reshaped New York City since the 1950s


What do big projects like Battery Park City, the World Trade Center, Riverbank State Park, Times Square redevelopment, the MTA, and Mitchell Lama housing projects all have in common? The crucial, if often overlooked, role played by New York State in planning, financing, developing and managing these massive initiatives. Since the Great Depression, New York State has dramatically increased the scale and scope of its urban activity with the stated goal of counteracting central city economic decline. Three leading urban historians assess the competitions and collaborations of the State and City and debate what has worked, what has not, and why. Join us for a spirited discussion about New York State's wide-ranging role in New York City's housing and urban redevelopment plans since the 1950s. Moderator: Carol Willis, The Skyscraper Museum. Panelists: Lizabeth Cohen, Professor, Harvard University, author of the forthcoming Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age Lynne Sagalyn, Professor, Columbia University, author of Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Rebuilding of Lower Manhattan Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Professor, Hunter College, author of How States Shaped Postwar America: State Government and Urban Power All guests MUST RSVP to programs@skyscraper.org to assure admittance to the event. Not a member? Become a Museum member today!
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Discussion | The Future of Carbon


This panel examines new approaches to managing carbon, from turning CO2 into commercial products to strategies to capture, store and utilize carbon. Moderator: Vijay Vaitheeswaran, US Business Editor, The Economist Panel to include: -- John Hoffmeister, Former President, Shell Oil Company; Founder and Chief Executive, Citizens for Affordable Energy -- Ramanan Krishnamoorti, Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Professor of Petroleum Engineering; Professor of Chemistry, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston -- Amy Myers Jaffe, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment and Director, Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, Council on Foreign Relations
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Play | Everybody: The Meaning of Living


This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living. Written by Branden Jacob-Jenkins. The production will be directed by Jordana De La Cruz, and feature: Amber Barrios, Jesse Baxter, Veronika Chernitska, Dylan Gottlieb, Gebriella Hailemariam, Sophia Rizzuto, Selena Thurmond, Cole Walther, and Anastasia Webb.
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Author Reading | Futures: A Science Fiction Series


Radix Media launches the Futures: A Science Fiction Series box set. The box contains all seven chapbooks from the series, previously available as individual titles or as a monthly subscription. Futures explores critical contemporary issues in an imagined future. You’ll find stories about an embattled wind engineer struggling against personal and climatic disaster, a society on the brink of collapse, polar bear mutiny, and, of course, robots. Join us and our authors for an evening of speculative literature. There will be a meet and greet with the authors, and box sets available for purchase. With: germ lynn, Vera Kurian, John Dermot Woods, & Hal Y. Zhang
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Author Reading | Like Falling Through a Cloud: A Lyrical Memoir


Internationally renowned flute virtuoso Eugenia Zukerman will be discussing and signing her book, an honest and heartfelt memoir about the emotional journey of living with Alzheimer's.
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Author Reading | Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice


In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into poverty, and hunger reached levels unseen since the Depression. In response, New Yorkers set the stage for a nationwide food justice movement. Whether organizing school lunch campaigns, establishing food co-ops, or lobbying city officials, citizen-activists made food a political issue, uniting communities across lines of difference. The charismatic, usually female leaders of these efforts were often products of earlier movements: American communism, civil rights activism, feminism, even Eastern mysticism. Situating food justice within these rich lineages, Lana Dee Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net.
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Discussion | A Conversation about the Creative Life


Bestselling authors Fiona Davis and Julie Maloney have "A Conversation about the Creative Life". Two novelists - one a former actor, the other a former dancer - who both transitioned to writing, will interview each other, discussing the similarities and differences in their writing processes and writing lives. Fiona Davis is the author of The Chelsea Girls, The Masterpiece and The Address. Julie Maloney is the author of A Matter Of Chance.
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Talk | Artists Talk: Model Minority and Model Majorities


In collaboration with Asia Art Archive in America, artists Furen Dai and Christopher K Ho, with special guests, present a series of propositions responding to the strangeness of Asian and Asian-American lived experience in relation to historical meta-narratives and notions of “home”—country politics, history, and language.
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Poetry Reading | Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize Reading


With: Tsitsi Ella Jaji Irène Mathieu Matthew Shenoda
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Poetry Reading | Celebrating Bob Kaufman: An Evening of Poetry, Film, and Music


The launch of the City Lights publication of the Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) with an evening hosted by Raymond Foye. The celebration features poet David Henderson performing with bassist William Parker and trumpet, flute, and reed player Daniel Carter. The program also includes poets Maria Damon, Patricia Spears Jones, Kaye McDonough, Uche Nduka, Anne Waldman, and others. Bob Kaufman was an important figure in the poetry of the Beat Generation. Born in New Orleans of African American, Creole, Jewish, and Native American heritage, Kaufman embraced jazz, surrealism, and the poetry of Lorca and the Harlem Renaissance. He had a significant career as a merchant seaman and labor organizer before appearing on the Beat scene in San Francisco in 1958. His books include Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness (New Directions, 1965), Golden Sardine (City Lights, 1967), and The Ancient Rain (New Directions, 1981), as well as two broadsides from City Lights, Second April (1958) and Does the Secret Mind Whisper (1959).
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Jazz | French Jazz with a Rock’n Roll Twist


The unique sound and style of Cécile Nordegg & Band combine Edith Piaf and Frank Zappa in celebration of French jazz with a rock’n roll-twist. French jazz is not that easy to find and a new experience for many. But for both newcomers and those already soaked in the boozy musical brew, there is a wealth to savor. There are as many rock riffs as there are torch songs, there are glimpses into cabaret resurrected from a bygone age, and there is a contemporary experience that relates to this day and age. With a casual cover of Frank Zappa’s notorious “Bobby Brown” thrown in for good measure (sung in honeyed French tones, naturally), plus standards by Piaf and Brel, all contributing to Cécile Nordegg & Band’s own original songs and compositions, this is an experience not to be missed. Their latest release ‘Jazz Proclamation Vol.1 & 2 is moving, humorous, and unlike any jazz you’ve heard. ARTISTS Cécile Nordegg, vocals Megumi Otsuka, piano  Andreas Pirringer, clarinet, sopran sax, flute   JP Chiche, guitar and background vocals Marco Böhm, drums  
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Comedy Club | Hyperbole! The Weirdest Comedy Show Ever


This month's lineup: Sean Patton (Comedy Central, Colbert) Ryan Donahue (Jimmy Kimmel, HBO) Isabel Hagen (Just For Laughs) Mic Nguyen (Asian, Not Asian Podcast) Will Watkins (New York Comedy Club) Greg Warner (Oak City Comedy Festival) You go to a comedy show. All the comedians are great, you have a fun time, but something is missing. You leave with a gaping hole in your heart - you’re wishing there was something there that simply wasn’t. When it comes down to it....you’re just too weird for regular comedy; you need something WEIRDER. In fact, you need the very weirdest comedians in all of New York City, all in one night, in the same place. From the producers of Hyperbole, The Weirdest Comedy Show Ever brings you the wackiest comedians possible for free, with happy hour drink specials to get your wacky on!
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Discussion | University Press Panel


Columbia University Press, Fordham University Press, and NYU Press celebrate University Press Week. Come learn about university press publishing from a stellar panel of editors and authors, including Ilene Kalish, Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, Candis Watts Smith, William Cerbone, Lauren Mancia, and Hannah Gurman. 
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Play | Hoppla, We’re Alive!: A Landmark of Weimar and Early Epic Theater


Hoppla, We're Alive! is one of the landmarks of Weimar and early Epic Theater—the opening production of the Piscatorbühne in September of 1927 and a critical success on the scale of Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera. A thrilling indictment of the politico-military-industrial corrupting democracy, Toller’s play remains frighteningly relevant today. Toller’s dissection of political conspiracies, failed revolution, feminist emancipation and class solidarity suggests one answer: it is only in the constant struggle against power that we are alive. This adaptation of the Piscator collective’s original production constitutes the work’s US premiere.
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Master Class | Piano Master Class By Former Director Of Royal Irish Academy of Music


John O'Conor (Royal Irish Academy of Music), Marilyn Nonken, director. Irish pianist John O'Conor has given recitals in many of the world's most famous halls including New York's Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington, the Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre in London, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Dvorak Hall in Prague and the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, among others. He has been decorated with the title "Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Government, has been awarded the "Ehrenkreuz fur Wissenschaft und Kunst" by the Austrian Government and has also been decorated by the Italian and Polish governments. In 2011 he was awarded the "Order of the Rising Sun" by the Emperor of Japan.
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Concert | South Korean Songs By All-Female Korean Band


The all-female Korean band The Tune performs songs of South Korea. Featuring piano, percussion, traditional Korean string instruments, and vocals, this groundbreaking group combines shamanistic music with a contemporary sound, breathing new life into old musical stories.
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Concert | Wandering Melodic Road: Music from an All-Female Korean Band


The all-female Korean band The Tune fills the stage with its experimental spirit and songs of South Korean. Featuring piano, percussion, traditional Korean string instruments, and vocals, this groundbreaking group combines shamanistic music with a contemporary sound, breathing new life into old musical stories.
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Classical Music | Works By Mozart, Poulenc and Glinka


Pascual Martinez-Forteza, clarinet; R. Allen Spanjer, horn; Kim Laskowski, bassoon; Sherry Sylar, oboe; Yi-Fang Huang, piano. Program Francis Poulenc Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, FP 43 Mikhail Glinka Trio Pathetique in D Minor for Clarinet, Bassoon, and Piano Wolfgang Mozart Quintet in E-Flat Major for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, and Piano, K. 452
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