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58 free events take place on Thursday, November 10 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 10 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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58 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, November 10, 2022

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free events nyc Meet Me in the Kitchen: Making Healthy Choices
free events nyc George Philip Telemann's Bassoon Sonata Performed by Acclaimed Musician (In Person and Online)
free events nyc Guided Historical Tour of the Columbia University Campus
free events nyc Learn About the Future of Technology from One of the Godfathers of AI
free events nyc Violao: The Brazilian Guitar
free events nyc In the Founders' Footsteps: Landmarks of the American Revolution (in-person and online)
free events nyc Met Opera Singers: Beloved Opera Arias at a Landmark Venue
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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 | Democracy Dialogues: A Conversation on the Hispanic Vote in the U.S. Midterm Elections (online)


The host of Democracy Dialogues Eric Farnsworth in a one-on-one interview on the U.S. midterm election results with Simon Rosenberg, president of the New Democrat Network and the New Policy Institute, a think tank based in Washington, DC. A prominent American political strategist and thought leader, Rosenberg is also a frequent commentator in the national media. Control of the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and numerous statehouses is at stake on Tuesday, November 8. At a time of uncertainty and change, with unprecedented pressures on the democratic process, Hispanic voters are a critical component of the electorate and will play an important role in determining final results. Yet Hispanic voters are often miscategorized by observers and their interests are often misunderstood.   
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Have a Conversation with a Career Coach


Meet a career coach who can assist you in identifying career potential, skills, interests, and developing a plan to help you achieve your career goals. Receive unbiased, objective feedback that will be tailored to your job search and individual needs. Career coaches can assist with resume critique and feedback, career transition or advancement, clearly defining career goals and developing a plan for success, identifying companies and industries that align with career interests, updating your professional profile on sites like LinkedIn, or evaluating graduate school applications.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Have a Conversation with a Career Coach (Online)


Meet a career coach who can assist you in identifying career potential, skills, interests, and developing a plan to help you achieve your career goals. Receive unbiased, objective feedback that will be tailored to your job search and individual needs. Career coaches can assist with resume critique and feedback, career transition or advancement, clearly defining career goals and developing a plan for success, identifying companies and industries that align with career interests, updating your professional profile on sites like LinkedIn, or evaluating graduate school applications.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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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Talk | Meet Me in the Kitchen: Making Healthy Choices


Nutritionist Lauren C. Kelly offers creative twists on classic recipes, food prep and cooking trends. From appetizers, to entrees, to dessert, learn how to design menus using helpful tips and current research findings for better health and eating.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Classical Music | George Philip Telemann's Bassoon Sonata Performed by Acclaimed Musician (In Person and Online)


Joseph Jones, bassoon; Donald Livingston, harpsichord; Charles Asch, cello Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes and turned into one of the most prolific composers in history. He wrote a considerable amount of music for educating organists under his direction, including 48 chorale preludes and 20 small fugues to accompany his chorale harmonisations for 500 hymns. His music incorporates French, Italian, and German national styles, and he was at times even influenced by Polish popular music. He remained at the forefront of all new musical tendencies, and his music stands as an important link between the late Baroque and early Classical styles. Joseph Jones works as a bassoonist performing throughout the country and occasionally around the world. Ensembles he has worked with include The English Concert, the Boston Early Music Festival, Early Music New York, American Bach Soloists, and Les Arts Florissants at the festival Dans les Jardins de William Christie in Thire, France. He has appeared as a soloist with Lyra Baroque Orchestra and Juilliard 415.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
Free

Discussion | Music and the Holocaust: History, Memory and Justice (in-person and online)


The discussion is organized in memory of the November 1938 Pogrom. The panel comprises historian Jay Grymes; composer and conductor, Victoria Bond; conductor Noreen Green and violinist Renée Jolle.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Lecture | Being: A Digital Archive of the Age of Flux in China


Hai Zhang, an artist and visiting scholar on the inauguration of his collaborative digital archive project with India China Institute. Between 2008 and 2019, Zhang frequently visited China, his homeland, to photograph the changing social and physical landscape. Zhang’s work with India China Institute establishes the continuity between disjointed experiences by bringing individual lives in China to the forefront of contextual discourse. This digital archive closely examines life in a society that is in a perpetual state of flux. In addition, Zhang will share his thoughts on the process of archiving and what it means to make archival material accessible to the public.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Discussion | Conversations About Crafting (Online)


Join a community of fellow crafters and talk your latest creation. Whether you knit, stitch, sketch, or sculpt, you can chat and share tips with crafty people just like you.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Discover the Works of Archibald Motley, Jr (Online)


Professor Jan Yablow, Senior Docent and Lecturer at the Whitney Museum of American Art, analyzes the works of Archibald Motley, Jr. He will present some of Motley's masterpieces, talk about his career, and dive into the artist's background. This event is a part of the series about the artistic masterpieces of the 20th century selected from major museums across the globe to share and discuss. View works from major artists, hear amazing stories, and dive into the background of every artist, all while making connections between their artistic creations and considering the meaning of their work as it relates to your own experiences. Archibald Motley, Jr. (1891 - 1981) was an American artist famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s, and is considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, period in which African-American art reached new heights not just in New York but across America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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City Walk | Guided Historical Tour of the Columbia University Campus


Learn more about the history, architecture, and sculpture of Columbia and the Morningside Heights campus. Whether you're an amateur New York City historian or visiting campus for the first time, you will leave the tour knowing more about our storied past.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Dineh: Small-Town Life in Belarus (online)


Ida Maze's autobiographical novel is a haunting portrait of her rural, village, and small-town life in White Russia (now Belarus) at the turn of the 20th century. Dineh's story is interwoven with portraits of other people, chiefly women and girls, in her community. The novel examines the lives of women, including class stratification, thwarted romance, violence (domestic, state-instigated, and otherwise), and the perils of childbirth. In addition to exploring relations between Jews and non-Jews, Maze's novel touches on Tsarist anti-Semitism, restrictions on Jewish economic survival, and the rising tide of revolutionary movements.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Lecture |
From Social Movement Organizing to Policy Success: Lessons for Implementing Racially Just Policy from the Black Freedom Movements of the 1960s (in-person and online)


As the formal political system remains unresponsive to an array of social, political, and ecological crises, what power do ordinary people have to create a future that allows them to live safe, sustainable, and free lives? As a sociologist, speaker Tarun Banerjee's work focuses on broad questions of political power: who has it? what do they do with it? and how can those without power get it? He has two lines of research; first, on public policy and the power structure, focusing on how public policy is made, how business influences policy, and the effects of this on the democratic process. He also studies social movements to understand how people without power organize collectively to get it. What tactics do and don’t work when people are shut out of formal positions of power? And specifically, how does the world we live in today—one dominated by gigantic corporations and endless money in elections—change the strategies ordinary people can use to organize for change?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Learn About the Future of Technology from One of the Godfathers of AI


How can machines learn as efficiently as humans and animals? How can machines learn to reason and plan? How can machines learn representations of percepts and action plans at multiple levels of abstraction, enabling them to reason, predict, and plan at multiple time horizons? Yann LeCun discusses the future of artificial intelligence and a possible path towards autonomous intelligent agents. Yann Andre LeCun is a French computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics, and computational neuroscience. He is the Vice President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta (originally Facebook). He is known for his work on optical character recognition and computer vision using convolutional neural networks (CNN), and is a founding father of convolutional nets. LeCun received the 2018 Turing Award (often referred to as "Nobel Prize of Computing"), together with Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, for their work on deep learning. The three are sometimes referred to as the "Godfathers of AI" and "Godfathers of Deep Learning."
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
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Fair | Uptown Night Market


Manhattans' largest, most celebrated foodie series.50+ eclectic vendors representing the city's best culinary, packaged goods, and arts & crafts offerings. Dozens of local musicians and performers from every genre.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Why Is Democracy in Decline?


The rules and norms of democratic politics and individual rights that are crucial to liberal democracy, are under attack in the U.S. and around the world--often with high levels of public support for leaders who openly oppose democratic institutions and rights protections. What's behind the apparent popularity of illiberal, anti-democratic politics? Where and how did liberal democracy fail so many citizens? How might we imagine a future democratic politics that addresses the injustices and inequities that gave rise to the current moment of illiberal anti-democratic politics? Speakers include: Mark Frazier, Professor and Chair of Politics Anne McNevin, Associate Professor of Politics Jessica Pisano, Associate Professor of Politics Sandipto Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of Politics
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Opening Reception | Rita Letendre & Fred Eversley: Light Forces


Light Forces traces the creative rapport and friendship shared between Rita Letendre and Fred Eversley that began in the 1960s and continued for decades. Initially meeting in Los Angeles, Letendre and Eversley maintained an abiding fascination with light, exploring its experiential and conceptual properties through their work. If luminosity and vision were touchstones for artists working in Southern California in the 1960s, now codified under the rubric Light and Space, a close examination of Letendre’s and Eversley’s work reveals their distinctive innovations and a probing, singular focus on embodied perception.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Goyo: Hashiguchi Goyo and His Contemporaries


Renowned for his bijin-ga (pictures of beautiful women), Goyo Hashiguchi (1880-1921) was a luminary of the Shin Hanga, or “new print” movement. While he died before he could see the development of modern bijin-ga, Goyo set a tone and a standard for the genre through his intimate and technically brilliant woodblock prints. At his death, his entire artistic career spanned 15 years, of which only the last five were spent producing prints.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Michael C. Thorpe: 14 Years Old


At just 28 years of age, Thorpe is an exciting young artist who has burst on to the art scene telling stories about his world expressed in quilts of colorful fabric, meandering stitching and printed canvas, in playful pencil and stitched drawings, and in surprising sculptural works.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | "Motes to trouble the mind’s eye": Marcel Duchamp and Trompe l'Oeil


Trompe l’oeil (“deceive the eye”) motifs are calculated to puzzle eye and mind, perception, and cognition. Artist Marcel Duchamp’s notorious disdain for the realm of the “retinal” implicitly discredited fooling the eye. In this talk, Michael Leja explores how Duchamp’s work produces an array of conceptual conundrums by pushing trompe l’oeil devices to extremes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Fundamentals / Ripple Hiss


Carl D'Alvia: Fundamentals Neither wholly abstract, nor acutely figurative, Carl D’Alvia’s meticulously rendered and whimsically playful sculptures of creatures, shapes, and humanoids oscillate between liminal states. Enshrouded entirely in textural “skins” resembling tessellated patterns, wood grains, or shaggy furs, his chameleon-like sculptures complicate preconceived correlations between subject matter, form, and material composition, often placing them in ironic juxtapositions. Maureen St. Vincent: Ripple Hiss Embedded within Maureen St. Vincent’s painted and shaped frames, apertures open onto worlds of imagery at once surreal and familiar. The ovular as a guiding, compositional form here isn’t incidental: executed in arcadian, textured pastels; soft fleshy pinks; and saturated swaths of vibrant hues, her drawings invoke the bodily while sliding over into interior visions, intense viscerality, sensuous symbolism, and unruly fantasies.
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Opening Reception | Billy Childish: Spirit Guides and Other Guardians Joining Heaven and Earth


Billy Childish returns to New York with a new exhibition featuring large-scale paintings that expand the artist’s exploration of classic art historical themes including landscapes and bathers. The title reflects Childish’s philosophy that life is a spiritual journey focused on joining heaven and earth and his belief that creative expression, as well as the beauty of nature, allow for connection to the divine. Each painting in the show offers a glimpse into his worldview.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Brett Goodroad: Invitingly Open Paintings


In Goodroad's latest paintings, abstract compositions can veer toward landscape or figuration but remain invitingly open, resisting legibility. The artist builds his densely impastoed surfaces on linen but also makes use of less conventional supports, applying paint on copper panels or sheets of silk stretched over flannel. Employing techniques of scumbling and underpainting, Goodroad renders each richly hued tableau a world unto itself, in an ongoing bid to renew our sensory engagement with painting for its own sake.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Diana Thater: Practical Effects


A new large-scale video installation by pioneering video artist Diana Thater (b. 1962). Since emerging in the early 1990s, Thater has pioneered the use of film, video, light, and sound, continually challenging the boundaries of time-based media and installation art. Her work explores the relationship between the natural and man-made worlds while critically examining the structures of mediated reality. Approaching the idea of post-apocalyptic life through a poignant and wistful lens, Practical Effects speculates on the nature of our world in the coming years and centuries and explores the ways in which the relationships between man, machine, and animal might evolve in tandem with the physical and psychical condition of future Earth and its remaining inhabitants.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Erica Reade: Beach Lovers


Photographer Erica Reade celebrates the release of her first photo book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Libbet Loughnan: New Work


The pieces on display range in subject matter from deeply personal self-portraits reflecting recent events including the birth of her child, through abstract, playful and meditative pieces. Loughnan is a multi-award winning artist living in NYC, originally from Australia, and spending much of her time in Mexico. The artist's paintings and sculptures reflect a childhood rich in family warmth under the Australian sun, stories encountered across other countries, and a desire for more reflection on the place of humans within nature.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Mel Bochner: Seldom or Never Seen


This is a survey of paintings executed on various surfaces—canvas, velvet, paper, and directly on the wall. These text-based works pulse with a strong vein of irony and humor. Words, and phrases, spill, drip, and accumulate to the point of obliterating themselves in palimpsests of illegibility. They sit on, or recede into the substrate, they also emerge from it, as thickly pigmented forms, and three-dimensional reliefs, reenacting the current state of our national discourse.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Michael Reeder: Pushing Up Daisies


Contemporary figurative American painter Michael Reeder employs the use of flat graphic expanses of space alongside colorful patterning in conjunction with realistically rendered areas of human anatomy. Reeder brings opposing multimedia multilayered elements together in harmony to create bold and dynamic images. He uses fictional characters as a method of the self and its participation in society. Reeder's work has evolved over the years to reflect a more indirect self portrait that allows him to share more personal interests and themes such as the relationship of ego and the inevitable imminent death of the human.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Not Even Home Will Be With You Forever: Group Exhibition


Featuring:  William Glaser Wilson, Shoshana Walfish, Mason Scott Tepper, Jeremy Sorese, Andrew Norris, Pol Morton, Tristan Martinez, Laura Karetzky, Heath Johnston, Charles Hickey, Matthew Gallagher, Jared Freschman, Alexander Deschamps, Tommy Bruce, Hanna Brody, Braden Bandel, and Leonard Baby
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Opening Reception | Sterling Ruby: Turbines


Sterling Ruby’s work engages with issues related to autobiography, art history, and the violence and pressures within society. Employing diverse aesthetic strategies and mediums—including sculpture, drawing, collage, ceramics, painting, and video—he examines the tensions between fluidity and stasis, Expressionism and Minimalism, the abject and the pristine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | The Poverty of Ethics: Morality as a Political Tool


It is a common assumption that ethics must serve as the cornerstone of politics. Yet abstract moral arguments have always been used for justifying all kinds of atrocities; ethical sensitivity and compassion have been expressed towards particular kinds of victims, while totally ignoring others. The liberal West, in particular, continually manifests such blindness. It is horrified by non-Western oppressive methods, but turns a blind eye to their Western equivalents. The gratification of holding the moral high ground consistently serves as a political instrument in the hands of those seeking to shore up the existing order.  In The Poverty of Ethics, philosopher and activist Anat Matar argues for the conceptual primacy of political discourse over ethics and claims that only the political force which stands for equality, justice and democracy – the Left – can provide the coordinates for an ethical life under conditions of global injustice. Appealing to philosophical ideas on the essence of language, Matar shows how the ethos of the Left, as it has evolved over years, underlies and gradually forms the basis for ethics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Tomashi Jackson: The Great Society


Jackson continues to explore past legislation and key moments of history that are emblematic of times of important change and that are relevant to the present. She selects images that embody the spirit as well as facts of those moments to examine these historical events for their impact, heedful of how they resonate in our current time. For this exhibition, images taken from the public domain focus on three events where the possibility and promise of a great society was presented to audiences public and private in 1963, 1965, and 1969. Jackson looks at President Lyndon Baines Johnson's first formal speech about his intentions for the Great Society, given at the University of Michigan in 1963. Images are taken from the audience as they listen to him talk about his proposed legislation. Other images, from 1965, show young Black organizers meeting with him regarding the policies in that legislation on voting rights. These images from 1963 and 1965 collide with images of an audience applauding and cheering after a performance of "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" by Nina Simone at Morehouse College in 1969. Jackson looks at these high points from the 1960s with all their implications in relationship to the present unravelling of that same legislation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Trust: A Novel about Money, Power, Intimacy, and Perception


Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit. Hernan Diaz’s novel elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.    
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | William Eggleston: The Outlands


A selection of photographs by William Eggleston, the majority of which have never before been seen publicly. The exhibition opens in advance of a major survey of Eggleston’s work, featuring several of the photographs from The Outlands, that will debut in January 2023 at C/O Berlin before traveling to Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona, and Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid.
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Talk | Artist Talk: Floral Cures (online)


Blanka Amezkua will present her project, Floral Cure: Pre-Hispanic medicinal flowers, consisting of 20 papel picado objects from the 185 illustrations in the Cruz-Badiano codex in which a facsimile copy is in the collection of the Hispanic Society. Using the traditional papel picado (paper cutting) technique, its tools and tissue paper, she will also discuss her floral papel picado depiction and their medicinal properties taken directly from the codex. Blanka Amezkua was formally trained as a painter. Her creative practice is greatly influenced and informed by folk art and popular culture, from embroidery, papel picado to comic books. Collaboration, radical pedagogy, and community building are central to her art practice and projects. Her identity, experiences, and artistic decisions are shaped by the reality that she is an immigrant Mexican born-American artist living in New York City.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Posters That Sing: Notes on Indigenous Poster Design (online)


Indigenous representation in poster history typically focuses on racist depictions leaning on stereotypes and caricatures of Native culture to sell products or events. Alongside this horrific history, however, Indigenous poster designers and printers have thrived, creating a legacy of vibrant, exciting imagery that counters the dominant narrative. Poster House is pleased to partner with designer and scholar Brian Johnson for a brief survey on this often overlooked body of Indigenous work, helping expand the cannon of poster history.
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Classical Music | The Art of Scoring a Movie with Music


A series of short films and performances will be shown with musical accompaniment. Program Yr ?rastardottir, Agnez Iwaz Noah Tehusijarana, Now(here) Daniel Christophersen, Swan Song The Rodrigues Sisters, Apple Blossoms Prisca Devani, Asa Joan Dwiartanto, La Solitude Ezra Cecio and Elvina Kurniawan, SUNDAY Alexander Sargent, See Me Rhys Holland, Pitching
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Concert | Violao: The Brazilian Guitar


This will showcase three of the most talented Brazilian guitarists of the new generation. Curated by Brazilian guitarist and educator Joao Luiz, the program will honor the legacy of acclaimed guitarist and composer Sergio Assad in the year of his 70th birthday. Other highlights of the program will include works by Garoto and Bellinati.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | In the Founders' Footsteps: Landmarks of the American Revolution (in-person and online)


Author Adam Van Doren explores well-known and lesser-known historic sites in the 13 original North American colonies, accompanied by his paintings.
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Talk | Artist Talk: Collecting Materials from Beaches


Renowned visual artist Duke Riley presents work on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, described as:  “In DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash, Brooklyn-based artist Duke Riley uses materials collected from beaches in the northeastern United States to tell a tale of both local pollution and global marine devastation. Riley’s contemporary interpretations of historical maritime crafts—such as scrimshaw, sailor’s valentines, and fishing lures—confront the catastrophic effect that the oil, food, and beverage industries have had on the environment through single-use plastics. The works are presented in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jan Martense Schenck and Nicholas Schenck Houses, alongside a selection of historical scrimshaw from our collection, directly connecting environmental injustices past and present. In his contemporary interpretations of scrimshaw—ink drawings etched into bone by sailors—Riley replaces the medium’s customary whale teeth with repurposed plastic containers, detergent bottles, toothbrushes, and other waste. The works incorporate the maritime imagery traditional to scrimshaw, but expand it to portray international business executives that the artist identifies as responsible for the perpetuation of single-use plastics. Also on view are Riley’s fishing lures and sailor’s valentines, similarly created with detritus found on northeast coastal beaches. The exhibition juxtaposes corporation-driven pollution with new short films by Riley that highlight New York community members working to remediate plastic damage and restore our waterways.”
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Talk | On the Midterms (online)


Frances Fox Piven—sociologist, activist, one of the “nine most dangerous people in the world” (Glenn Beck) and author of the definitive analyses of social movements and the barriers to voting in the United States—will analyze the 2022 midterm elections.
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Workshop | Reducing Stress Through Meditation (Online)


Join professional meditator Bruce Faithwick as he discusses the effects of meditation for improving concentration, enhancing mental equilibrium, and reducing stress. He will also present a simple yet powerful meditation technique to help with seasonal stress that will be practiced during the session. Bruce Faithwick is a successful business consultant in the software industry with many years of product management and marketing experience. Mr. Faithwick currently provides workshops and training to groups in the California area, where he connects meditation and self development to important aspects of our lives. He has been meditating for over 40 years and now focuses much of his time on his own personal development and in helping others who wish to do the same.
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Discussion | Yiddish in Translation: On the Hunt for Novels by Women (online)


Explore the lives of Jewish women in tenements through women’s novels. On the hunt to defy the “urban legend” that women only wrote poems and short stories in Yiddish, but not novels, Professor Anita Norich discovered scores of novels, some of them at the YIVO archive. In this conversation, she’ll focus on these novels and her translations, and how they shed light on tenement life and women’s lives more broadly, including abortions, sex outside of marriage, and how women found and rebuilt homes in the face of revolution, war, economic challenges and misogyny. Dr. Anita Norich will be joined in conversation with Museum President Dr. Annie Polland.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | 2 Poets Share Their Work


Samiya Bashir is a poet, writer, librettist, performer, and multi-media poetry maker whose work, both solo and collaborative, has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, experienced, and Oxford comma’d from Berlin to Düsseldorf, Amsterdam to Accra, Florence to Rome and across the United States. Bashir is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Field Theories, winner of the 2018 Oregon Book Award’s Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. John Freeman founded the literary annual Freeman's, the latest theme of which is animals. He's also an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. The author and editor of eleven books, he lives in New York City and hosts the California Book Club, a monthly discussion of a great work of literature from the Golden State for Alta magazine. His new book is Wind, Trees, a collection of poems. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Light Skin Gone to Waste: A Black Family in White New York


In Toni Ann Johnson’s debut collection, a Black family, the Arringtons, moves to a small, predominantly white suburb of New York in 1962. The Arrington family—cosmopolitan, sophisticated, and secretly falling apart—is the center of exquisitely crafted, interconnected stories. With vivid character portraits and explosive, layered writing, Johnson creates an unflinching examination of racism and family dysfunction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera


Drama and myth frame the life and death of Maya Deren. Born in Kiev in 1917, at the start of the Russian Revolution, she died forty-four years later in New York City. In her brief life, she established herself as a pioneering experimental filmmaker, prolific writer, accomplished photographer, and crusader for a personal and poetic cinema. With its dreamy circular narrative and enigmatic imagery, her first film, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), has inspired generations of artists, filmmakers, and poets. Deren collaborated with numerous mid-century cultural luminaries, including Katherine Dunham, Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Anais Nin, and Gregory Bateson. In 1953, she published Divine Horsemen, a ground-breaking ethnographic study of Haitian religious culture. Although Deren completed only six short films in her lifetime, her impact on the history of cinema is immeasurable. She has become the patron saint of 20th century experimental film. The aura that suffuses Deren’s legend emanates from the power of her films, magnified by her bohemian glamour and visionary intelligence. This is the first full biography of Deren. Based on years of research, interviews with some of Deren’s closest collaborators, and generously illustrated with film stills and photographs, author Mark Alice Durant creates a vivid and accessible narrative exploring the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of this remarkable and charismatic artist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | The Disappearance of Josef Mengele: A Novel About the Nazi Doctor's Escape (online)


For three decades Josef Mengele, the doctor who performed horrific experiments on Auschwitz prisoners, floated through South America until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979. In his new novel, Olivier Guez traces Mengele’s travels during those years in hiding, as he kept two steps ahead of those trying to capture him. Guez will be in conversation about his book and his research. With author Olivier Guez.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Acclaimed String Quartet Performs New Music from Contemporary Composers


Hailed by The New York Times as "our leading new-music foursome", the JACK Quartet will perform works from modern composers as part of their ongoing mission of giving voice to underheard composers and cultivating an ever-greater sense of openness toward contemporary classical music. Program Erin Gee (1974 - ) Mouthpiece 39 (New York premiere) George Lewis (1952 - ) String Quartet 4.5 "Partial Truth" Helmut Lachenmann (1935 - ) String Quartet no. 2 "Reigen seliger geister" The JACK Quartet is one of the most acclaimed, renowned, and respected groups performing today. The quartet was selected as Musical America's 2018 "Ensemble of the Year", nominated for GRAMMY Awards for recordings in 2018 & 2022, and named to WQXR's "19 for 19 Artists to Watch." Featuring Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman, violin; John Pickford Richards, viola; Jay Campbell, cello Guests must provide proof of up-to-date vaccination, including a booster when eligible; a negative result from a PCR test taken within three days before arrival; or a negative result from a rapid test taken the same day. Masks are required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Digital Humanism: Shaping Transformation


Is the ‘digital world’: open, fair, diverse, sustainable, democratic? Digital technologies have fundamentally changed our world in recent decades. Human development has always happened via disruptions and radical changes, as triggered by groundbreaking technical developments, natural disasters or even wars. Today, technical developments open up unprecedented opportunities, but also risks. They challenge us as a society, question our view of humanity and our values and agreements. Knowledge transfer and knowledge dissemination must therefore be democratic and participatory as well as interdisciplinary and transnational in order to meet the challenges we are facing as a society. Above all, however, it also requires discourse on a broad societal level, because these developments affect us all. Nothing less than ‘being human’ is at stake. But what does that mean in the age of AI? With: Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger, Director Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Vienna City Councilor for Science and Culture Anita Eichinger, Director, Vienna City Library
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Discussion | Ethical Issues in a Socialist Kibbutz (online)


Former members of an Israeli Kibbutz, David Prager, Moshe Sayer, Aryeh Gold, and Michele Becker will discuss the ethical issues that arose in the daily life of a socialist Kibbutz
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Re-Discover King Tut's Tomb with Egyptian Historian (Online)


Join Christina Riggs, British-American historian and author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century, as she discusses the history of King Tut and the seismic impact the discovery of his tomb left on modern society. When discovered in 1922 in an Egypt newly independent of the British Empire, the 3,300-year-old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world. The boy-king became a household name overnight and kickstarted an international obsession with ancient Egypt and its ruling pharoahs that continues to this day. Christina Riggs is a British-American historian, academic, and former museum curator who specializes in the history of archaeology, history of photography, and ancient Egyptian art, and her recent work has concentrated on the history, politics, and contemporary legacy of the 1922 discovery of Tutankahmun's tomb.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Setting New Standards: Jazz, Gender and Equity


Drummer, composer, educator and NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington wants to transform jazz culture. She earned a full scholarship to Boston’s Berklee College of Music when she was just 11. At 57, she’s back there—as founder and artistic director of the Berklee Institutes of Jazz and Gender Justice, whose motto is “jazz without patriarchy.” 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Solo Performance From Acclaimed Organist (In Person and Online)


Featuring James Wetzel, organ. James D. Wetzel is the director of music and organist of the Parish of Saint Vincent Ferrer and Saint Catherine of Siena. Active as an organist and continuo player, he has performed with the American Symphony Orchestra, the American Classical Orchestra, the Collegiate Chorale, the Oratorio Society of New York, and the Orchestra of Saint Luke's.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Crirically Lauded Latin Singer-Songwriter


Composer-singer Francisca Valenzuela is having a spectacular 2022 on the heels of her fifth studio album debut. Vida Tan Bonita has been warmly received by both critics and audiences alike, appearing on the list of "The Best Albums of 2022 So Far" by Rolling Stone and has now been chosen as one of 22 Latin albums of the year by Billboard Latin. Furthering a string of successes and recognition, her latest single, "Dar y Dar" peaked at #1 on the mainstream Chilean radio airplay chart.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Highly acclaimed wind ensemble


George Manahan, conductor. George Manahan has served for more than a decade as Director of Orchestral Activities at the Manhattan School of Music. He is also Music Director of the American Composers Orchestra and the Portland Opera. He served as Music Director of the New York City Opera for fourteen seasons and was also Music Director of the Richmond Symphony (VA) for twelve seasons. Recipient of Columbia University's Ditson Conductor's Award, Manahan was also honored by the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) for his "career-long advocacy for American composers and the music of our time." Masks must be worn by audience members.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Met Opera Singers: Beloved Opera Arias at a Landmark Venue


The Metropolitan Opera vocalists perform famous opera arias.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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