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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 22, 2019?

44 free events take place on Friday, November 22 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 22 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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Symposium | Trans | Acker: Trans, Queer and Genderqueer Readings of the Work of Kathy Acker


This event invites trans writers and critics to address Kathy Acker's work, not just for its rich material on gender but also more generally. Together, we will create a community of trans readings of Acker that is lacking in her current reception, as a resource both for Acker studies and for trans literature. The work of experimental writer Kathy Acker (1947-1997) has been read as feminist and as queer, and has inspired writers coming from those perspectives. But what about trans writers? Gender can be reversible and fluid in Acker in all sorts of interesting ways. Perhaps this is why her work has been a point of reference for quite a few trans writers and critics. Participants: Marquis Bey, Kay Gabriel, Juliana Huxtable, Grace Lavery, Megan Milks, Torrey Peters, K. K. Trieu, McKenzie Wark
   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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Discussion | Inventing the Future: Zero Carbon Fuels and Climate Restoration


A discussion with David Keith, PhD, Professor of Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. The presentation will focus on carbon neutral synthetic fuels. Following his presentation, Dr. Keith will join Julio Friedmann, PhD, Senior Research Scholar for a moderated conversation including solar geoengineering, CO2 removal, and approaches to rapid and profound decarbonization.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Lecture | How To Pay Only Your Fair Tax Share


Sallie Mullins Thompson, CPA/PFS, CFP(R) discusses various tax planning actions that potentially can decrease 2019 income tax liability. The discussion includes: income deferral, expense bunching, capital gain losses, ROTH conversions, RMD distributions, retirement plan options Qualified Business Income (QBI) Deduction and more. Learn about specific actionable ideas that you can to implement in the next 30 days. Sallie Mullins Thompson provides assistance to professionals, families, and small business owners in accounting; tax return preparation; budgeting/cash flow; payroll; income/asset protection; investments; and college/retirement planning. In addition, she is a holistic financial planner; tax strategist; investment adviser; and divorce financial analyst and helps her clients navigate all aspects of their financial lives. She is a member of the Advisory Council of Women Impacting Public Policy and a Director of the board of the Accountants Club of America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban historians Peter Laskowich and Madeleine Levi. This tour takes place every Friday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Talk | Idol Ads in the Seoul Metro: K-pop Fandom, Appropriation of Subway Space, and the Right to the City


In the 2010s a new phenomenon was spotted in the Seoul Metro. K-pop fans began adorning subway stations with large ads congratulating their heroes—the so-called K-pop idols—on their birthdays and other anniversaries. Not only did these fandom-financed ads transform the visual landscape of the Seoul Metro, they also invited novel spatial practices when fans, primarily girls and young women, toured the ads to take photographs of them and with them. This talk explores how fandom ads and fans visiting them make the Seoul Metro social and public in new ways. Interpreting ethnographic observations through Henri Lefebvre’s theory of the production of space, I frame fans’ ads themselves and engagements they invite as assertions of the “right to the city” and relate them to spatial interventions which reclaim urban spaces based on symbolic, not legal, ownership, such as murals and graffiti. I will argue that K-pop idol ads recapture the Seoul Metro from domination by commercial advertisers’ interests and appropriate it as a space of fandom, particularly of female fandom, and explore implications of these fandom practices for broader reclamation of subway surfaces as urban resources. With Olga Fedorenko, Associate Professor at the Anthropology Department of Seoul National University.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Film | Change the Subject (2019): Libraries, Labels, and Activism


A documentary about libraries, labels, and activism that follows a group of Dartmouth students working with Library staff to campaign to change the subject headings in the Library of Congress for "undocumented immigrants." With a Q&A with members of the film team.
   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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Film | Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money (1986): Oscar Winning Drama With Paul Newman and Tom Cruise


Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback. 119 min. Director: Martin Scorsese. Starring Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.  Newman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, his first Oscar win after eight nominations, seven of them for Best Actor. The Color of Money had also three other Academy Award nominations for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Art Direction and Best Writing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Bohemian Rhapsody (2018): The Story Of Queen and Freddy Mercury


The story of the legendary rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985). 134 min. Director: Bryan Singer. Starring Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee. Bohemian Rhapsody has five nominations at the 91st Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Malek, it also won Best Motion Picture – Drama at the 76th Golden Globe Awards. As of 14 February 2019, Bohemian Rhapsody has grossed $210.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $635 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $845.9 million, against a production budget of about $52 million.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016): Oscar Winning Fantasy Written By J.K. Rowling


The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school. 132 min. Director: David Yates. Starring Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol.  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was nominated for two Academy Awards, winning Best Costume Design, becoming the first Wizarding World film to win an Academy Award. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Big Sick (2017): Oscar Nominated Romantic Comedy 


Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings. 120 min. Director: Michael Showalter. Starring Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter.  The Big Sick was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | On Getting Talked into an Intuition


Intuitions are often thought of as intellectual reflexes. But they are more malleable than reflexes: you can be talked into an intuition. Getting talked into an intuition is not just being caused to have an intuition, nor is it the same as being moved by an argument in favor of the intuition. Elijah Chudnoff (University of Miami) aims to bring this unique phenomenon into sharper focus and to describe a setting for thinking about the structures and mechanisms that might underlie it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Master Class | Cello Master Class


Cellist Frans Helmerson has performed under many conductors, including Sir Colin Davis, Maxim Shostakovich, Neemi Jarvi, Evgeny Svetlanov, among others. He has performed throughout Europe, Asia, United States, and Russia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Religion/Reformation/Revolution: Before, Inside, and Beyond the Early Modern


This roundtable reflects on early modern culture, history, and politics, and to consider the futures of early modern studies. What are the befores that gave rise to revolution, and how now do we study them? What forms and practices of belief emerged and transformed through this era, and how do we understand the conditions of their emergence as well as their impact in and to the modern? How do such questions and concerns give shape to future itineraries of early modern studies? Miles Grier, Steven Kruger, Feisal Mohamed, Tanya Pollard, and Richard Santana are the featured roundtable panelists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
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Film | Calle K (2019): Squatters in Ecuador


The transformation over 40 years of an illegal squatter settlement in Guayaquil, Ecuador. This film includes footage from People of the Barrio, a 1980 documentary that portrayed the struggles of the Indio Guayas community to negotiate access to basic physical and social infrastructure. In 2018, Fossgard and Moser (son and mother) go back to the slum in which they lived 40 years ago and show, not only the physical transformation of the barrio from a peripheral slum to a consolidated settlement, but also the stories of three of the families. Director: Titus Fossgard-Moser
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | New Poetry: feeld / The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony


Jos Charles is author of feeld, a National Book Award long-listed finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions) and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press).  In 2016 she received the Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship through the Poetry Foundation. In 2015 she received the Monique Wittig Writer's Scholarship. From 2013-2018 she served as the founding-editor for THEM lit, a trans literary journal. Ladan Osman is a Somali-born artist whose work is a lyric and exegetic response to problems of race, gender, displacement, and colonialism. She is the author of The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony, winner of a Sillerman First Book Prize. Exiles of Eden, a work of poetry, photos, and experimental text, was published by Coffee House Press in May 2019.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | 3 Folk Music Acts


With: Joanna Schubert, Daniel Rauchwerk, and May Cheung.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Author Reading | How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle Over School Choice


Education journalist Robert Pondiscio discusses his new book, an inside look at the moral and political questions around public education and school choice.     
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Talk | Betrayal and the Syria Crisis


Ilham Ahmed, Executive President of the Syrian Democratic Council, discusses the U.S. betrayal of the Kurds and the ongoing crisis in Syria. The conversation will be moderated by David L. Phillips, Director Program on Peace-building and Human Rights.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Between Four Mountains: The Interplay Between Artist, Subject and Viewer


A solo exhibition by Yana Dimitrova (b.1983), a New York -based, Bulgarian-born painter and mixed-media artist. Yana Dimitrova is a classically trained painter informed by contemporary theory and practice. Her work explores the interplay between artist, subject and viewer. For Dimitrova, her work is a conduit of her life as an immigrant and an artist - ideas around arriving and leaving behind, family and culture. Painting is a universal voice that can empower human experience and provide a sense of universality.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Knock Down the House (2019): Sundance Award-Winning Documentary


As the 2020 election season heats up, take a look behind the scenes of four grassroots campaigns. Knock Down the House, winner of this year's Festival Favorite award at Sundance, follows four women, including now-Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who ran insurgent campaigns for congress in the 2018 midterm elections. The women come from states across the country - New York, Nevada, Missouri, West Virginia - and are motivated by different issues. The film follows their campaigns and explores the personal stories that inspired them to run. 86 min. Followed by a Q&A with the director Rachel Lears. Pizza will be served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | My Father Was a Satyr: Intuitive Portraits of the City


Fascinated by the detritus of everyday life left on the curbs of his East Village neighborhood, Antony Zito collects discarded objects to use as the basis for his paintings. Through the artist’s hand, these artifacts’ stories—steeped in narratives all their own—merge with portraits of Zito’s peers, adhering the inherent emotional energy of the intuitively rendered portraits to layers of the city’s history.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Latina Leaders in Government


A panel discussion with Latina-identifying leaders in government. Hear about how they started their careers & their experiences navigating careers in government as women of color, specifically as Latinas whose backgrounds and identities vary by race, nationality and immigrant/citizen status.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Traveling with Adele (2018): Italian Drama


Adele, a twenty-five year old girl who suffers from mental disorder, has never met her father and has always lived under the protective wing of her mother Margherita. Everything changes when her very existence is overturned by the latter's sudden and unexpected death. Directed by Alessandro Capitani Starring Alessandro Haber, Sara Serraiocco, Isabella Ferrari 83 min. In Italian with English subtitles
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Forgotten Geographies of Artistic Diplomacy: Abby Grey and U.S.–Middle East Exchanges


A look at Turkey’s art world of the 1960s through the lens of Abby Weed Grey’s collecting activities, focusing on the intersection of art and international discourses about democracy in the wake of World War II. Speaker Sarah-Neel Smith is Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at Maryland Institute College of Art.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | As We Were Dreaming (2015): In Love with Techno


In 1990s East Germany, three boys are in love with techno music and start their own club. Directed by Andreas Dresen Stars: Merlin Rose, Julius Nitschkoff, Joel Basman 117 minutes In German with English subtitles
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Play | Measure for Measure: An Adaptation of Shakespeare's Classic Comedy


It's 1979, Mardi Gras has been officially cancelled, yet the community is still celebrating. Temporarily left in charge by the Duke, the upright and uptight Lord Angelo has decided to crack down on the city's debauchery, arresting young Claudio for impregnating his fiancee Juliet before their wedding. When virtuous Isabella, Claudio's sister, hears of his death sentence, she begs Lord Angelo for mercy. But hypocritical Angelo propositions her instead, leaving Isabella with an impossible choice: save her soul or her brother's life. In this timely production, lovers and leaders in disguise reveal how those in power take advantage of those without it - asking the question, can the law be both just and merciful? The all-black women cast features Jasmine Batchelor (Isabella), Nora Carroll (Escalus/Juliet), Toccarra Cash (Lucio), Alfie Fuller (Pompey), Adrian Kiser (Angelo), Gabrielle Murphy (Provost), Jacqueline Nwabueze (Understudy), Latonia Phipps (Mariana/Overdone), and Grace Porter (Duke).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance


Moving between theatre, experimental video, revolutionary protest, photography, poetry, and performance art, Ricanness stages scenes in which the philosophical, social, and psychic merge at the site of aesthetic practices. Sandra Ruiz theorizes Ricanness as a way to imagine, dream, and construct alternate forms of existence under colonialism, across bodies of water, beyond the annexation of land.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: The New Testament's Most Infamous Sinner


Set in a time-bending, darkly comic world between heaven and hell, this play reexamines the plight and fate of the New Testament's most infamous and unexplained sinner. Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis. The production will be directed by Melissa Crespo, and feature the entire cohort of MFA Second Year Actors: Ismael Castillo, Katherine Hare, Kwesiu Jones, Narges Khalehogli, Kate McLeod, Jordan Mosley, Nathan Nelson, Michael Sullivan, Kristina Szilagyi, Christopher Then, and Charlita Williams.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Ana Gasteyer of Saturday Night Live performs from her new CD Sugar & Booze


Beloved SNL alum and singer Ana Gasteyer helps you get in the holiday spirit by performing festive faves and throwback originals from her new release. A CD/LP signing will follow. Restrictions apply. Call store for details.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Asking for Trouble 2019: Ten-Minute Plays


Do you smell that in the air? It's not the whiff of pumpkin spice and fresh hay bales. It's trouble. Youngblood's annual ten-minute play festival with 24 brand new plays over four separate nights of theatre. Tonight: Don’t Piss in My Shirt Pocket and Tell Me It’s Raining written by Jake Brasch A Light Staggering written by Jeesun Choi They Pine for the Familiar Things written by AJ Clauss Is Anything Fair Game? written by Milo Cramer You’ve Got a Lot of Peppers in Your Garden written by Dan Giles Schlitterbahn. written by Phaedra Michelle Scott
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Classical Music | Music by Russian Composers


Pianist Olga Gurevich performs great Russian music for piano of the 19th and 20th centuries, featuring the brilliant masterpiece "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky. Pianist Olga Gurevich has appeared at Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall, 92nd Street Y and more. She collaborated with Manhattan Symphonie, Richmond County orchestra, New York Session Symphony orchestra and performed as a member of numerous chamber music ensembles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Comedy Club | No Name Comedy/Variety Show


With: Emily Winter Eric Neumann Liz Miele Jim Mendrinos
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talk | Painting as Distillation


On the occasion of Jill Mulleady’s exhibition Fight-or-Flight, join Mulleady, artist Avery Singer and curator Laura McLean-Ferris to discuss the two artists’ practices. The conversation will take as a starting point the concept of distillation in order to explore painting that includes a variety of compositional layerings and art historical motifs to depict contemporary life. The artists will discuss their own processes and how they approach each other’s work as painters. Please . Please note: events at Swiss Institute are limited capacity, and entry is on a first-come, first-served basis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Works By Chopin and Schubert For Piano


Pianist Alexei Tartakovsky has given concerts both solo and with orchestra in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, China, and Japan at halls that include the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Warsaw Philharmonic, Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Among the orchestras Tartakovsky has performed with are the Jacksonville Symphony and the North Czech Philharmonic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Chamber Orchestra: "a revelation", "intensity of focus" - The NY Times


Mannes Chamber Orchestra Program George Rochberg Black Sounds Henry Cowell Symphony No. 2 "Anthropos" Krzysztof Penderecki Threnody To The Victims of Hiroshima Johanna Beyer Cyrnab (world premiere) Johanna Beyer Music of the Spheres About Johanna Beyer Johanna Beyer was largely overlooked in her own lifetime, and only today is beginning to receive her due as one of the most experimental composers among the ultra-modernists who she associated with. An associate of Cowell, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Aaron Copland, and other great composers of the time, Beyer was at the forefront of new music and composed breakthrough works for orchestra, percussion ensemble, and was a pioneer of early music technology.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Jazz | Tribute To Three Time Grammy Nominated Jazz Musician


A celebration of the life and music of groundbreaking South African trumpeter and composer Hugh Masekela (1939-2018). Hugh Masekela was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who has been described as "the father of South African jazz". Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as Soweto Blues and Bring Him Back Home. He also had a number-one US pop hit in 1968 with his version of Grazing in the Grass. Masekela was nominated three times for a Grammy Award, including a nomination for Best World Music Album for his 2012 album Jabulani, one for Best Musical Cast Show Album for Sarafina! The Music Of Liberation and one for Best Contemporary Pop Performance for the song Grazing in the Grass.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Concert | City of Angels in Concert


NYU Broadway Orchestra presents a student production of a concert version of City of Angels. Ana Flavia Zuim, Conductor Book by Larry Gelbart Music by Cy Coleman Lyrics by David Zippel Restrictions may apply.  Call theater for details.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | I Can Drink the Distance: Plantationocene in 2 Acts: Performance Art


A new multimedia performative installation by Torkwase Dyson. Grounded in painting and sculpture, Dyson’s work considers the relationship between race and geography and engages with geometric abstraction to explore an alternative means to represent historical and environmental triumphs and trauma. Incorporating minimalist sculptural forms with acts of sound, movement, and literature, Dyson’s new work explores the practice of black movement as it relates to environmental liberation. Drawing on the artist’s theory of “black compositional thought ”, the project brings together contemporary thought leaders from a variety of disciplines to express spatial and architectural imagination in the time of the  “Plantationocene.” With diverse contributions that intersect with the artists’ architecture and direction, the project becomes a platform from which to navigate how paths, throughways, waterways, memories, architecture, objects and geographies are composed by black bodies and how properties of energy, space, scale, distance and sound interact as networks of liberation.
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Classical Music | Maurice Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges


The Barnard-Columbia Chamber Singers perform Ravel’s charming one-act opera, The Child and the Spells, that tells the adventures of a small, naughty boy. Throwing a tantrum to end all tantrums, the child abuses his pets, breaks his toys, and lays waste to his room. But all that changes when the animals and toys and furniture come to life to teach him the importance of kindness and compassion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Works By Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, And More


This "Preludes and Rhapsodies" session will feature music by Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Bartok, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Villa Lobos, Messiaen, and Hindemith.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Performance | Asking for Trouble 2019: Ten-Minute Plays


Do you smell that in the air? It's not the whiff of pumpkin spice and fresh hay bales. It's trouble. Youngblood's annual ten-minute play festival with 24 brand new plays over four separate nights of theatre. Tonight: Circumcision of the Heart written by Harron Atkins Yeah Maybe written by Karina Billini Anything Can Be a Baby If You Want It to Be a Baby written by Ava Geyer Dad, What Haunts You? written by Lily Houghton Nobody Told Me There Wouldn't Be a Floor written by Mona Pirnot Our Love Story Is Not Very Interesting written by Julia Specht
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