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27 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, November 14, 2022
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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 ... more >> for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
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10:00 am
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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 ... more >> 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.
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10:00 am
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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 ... more >> 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.
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10:00 am
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Tour | Tour of Gracie Mansion, Home of New York's Mayors
In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend ... more >> in the East River, five miles north of the then-New York City limits. Little did he know that, more than 200 years later, his home would be serving as the official residence of the First Family of New York City - a place where history is made, not merely recorded. As a historic house museum run by the Parks Department, sitting on 11 acres of grounds now known as Carl Schurz Park, Gracie Mansion has served as the home of 11 mayors, beginning first with Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1942. Start times: 10:30am, 12pm
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10:30 am
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Talk | The LGBT Struggle Amidst the War in Ukraine
Iulia Marcinschi will discuss International Lesbian Gay Alliance-Europe’s approach to the Ukraine crisis ... more >> as well as offer some lessons learned. She will discuss the challenges LGBTI groups and organizations faced when they had to rapidly restructure their work to provide direct support to people in especially difficult circumstances (refugees, survivors of torture, people fleeing from conflict zones).
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12:00 pm
free
free
Concert | The Music of Karol Rathaus (In Person and Online)
Works by Rathaus, Nichols, and Halat performed by the Karol Rathaus Ensemble: Marcin Halat, violin; Marcin ... more >> Maczynski, cello; Aleksandra Halat, piano; and guest artist Steven Beck, piano. Karol Rathaus (1895 -- 1954) was a German-Austrian Jewish composer who immigrated to the United States via Berlin, Paris, and London, escaping the rise of Nazism in Germany. He was a renowned film composer, writing many commissioned works and several film scores, while his compositional output includes mostly instrumental works: symphonies, orchestral works, serenades, sonatas and ballets. While he achieved global fame during his lifetime, in Nazi Germany his compositions were classified as "degenerate art" and assigned a performance ban. He is now considered one of the many great 'composers in exile'.
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12:15 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Slug: Disruptive Short Stories (online)
Megan Milks will read from the new short story collection, "a deranged, otherworldly collection that ... more >> disrupts gender, genre, and queer identity."
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12:30 pm
free
free
Book Discussion | Analysis and Exile: Boyhood, Loss, and the Lessons of Anna Freud (online)
The story of the childhood and youth of Peter Heller, one of the first children to be psychoanalyzed ... more >> by Anna Freud and one of the 20 students invited to attend her experimental school in 1920s Vienna. While Anna tries to teach him how to overcome his fears, Peter's native Vienna slides into fascist barbarism and he is forced to navigate an increasingly dangerous world. When he is eighteen, he flees to England only to be deported to Canada, where he is interned as a German-speaking foreign national; here Jewish refugees and Nazi P.O.W.'s live cheek by jowl. To tell this story, author Vivian Heller draws on a wealth of primary sources, including her father's case history and his internment diary, using novelistic techniques to bring the past alive.
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | Filmmaker Discusses All About My Sisters (online)
A Q+A with director Wang Qiong and to discuss her film All About My Sisters. In her astonishing ... more >> feature debut, Wang Qiong documents with unflinching and harrowing honesty her own fractured family, gradually revealing the personal and psychological effects of China’s one-child policy on the individual, the family unit, and women in society at large. At the center of the film is her sister, Jin, who remains profoundly affected by her biological parents’ abandonment of her as a baby after attempting to abort her. Adopted by her aunt and uncle, Jin resumed living with her birth parents as a teenager, yet the family remains embroiled in a legacy of trauma. Filming over the course of seven years, Wang moves far beyond the diaristic, capturing moments of vulnerability, joy, pain, and anguish with insight and delicate artistry.
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Internationally Acclaimed Pianist in Concert and Discussion
This event provides music lovers with a rare opportunity to witness the interaction between gifted music ... more >> students and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott as they examine and explore the craft of performance at the highest level. Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott performs over 100 concerts a year in a combination of solo recitals, concerti and chamber music. With over 50 concerti in her repertoire, Ms. McDermott has performed with many leading orchestra including the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic, among others. As a soloist, Ms. McDermott has recorded the complete Prokofiev Piano Sonatas, Bach English Suites and Partitas (which was named Gramophone Magazine's Editor's Choice), and most recently, Gershwin Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra with the Dallas Symphony and Justin Brown. Ms. McDermott has been named the Artistic Director of the famed Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado, and she is also Artistic Director of two new Festivals: The Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival and The Avila Chamber Music Celebration in Curacao. 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.
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1:00 pm
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Book Discussion | The Prospectors: Saga of the Klondike Gold Rush (online)
Author Ariel Djanikian discusses her sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American ... more >> history following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush.
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | A Discussion of Karol Rathaus' Life and Works (In Person and Online)
A two-part talk on the lasting cultural, musical, and historical impact of esteemed composer Karol Rathaus. ... more >> Jolanta Guzy-Pasiak: "Karol Rathaus in musical culture of Poland: Past and Present", Polish Academy of Sciences Aleksandra Halat: "Inspirations, contexts, and influences in the piano chamber music of Karol Rathaus", University of Silesia Karol Rathaus (1895 - 1954) was a German-Austrian Jewish composer who immigrated to the United States via Berlin, Paris, and London, escaping the rise of Nazism in Germany. He was a renowned film composer, writing many commissioned works and several film scores, while his compositional output includes mostly instrumental works: symphonies, orchestral works, serenades, sonatas and ballets. While he achieved global fame during his lifetime, in Nazi Germany his compositions were classified as "degenerate art" and assigned a performance ban. He is now considered one of the many great 'composers in exile'.
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3:00 pm
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Other | Video Game Trivia Night
Are you a fan of video games? Prove it by testing your knowledge of iconic video games against others ... more >> in an exciting evening of triva.
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4:30 pm
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Workshop | Intro to Photography: Lighting (online)
Tony Gale breaks down how to see, understand and use various sources of light—from natural/available ... more >> light to artificial light.
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5:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification
Author Mike Amezcua will discuss his recent book. Amezcua is Assistant Professor of History at Georgetown ... more >> University. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Teen Vogue, and Public Books.
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern, by Neil Baldwin
Biographer Neil Baldwin and Janet Eilber of the Martha Graham Dance Company discuss the life and legacy ... more >> of Martha Graham. They will explore Graham's personal and professional worlds, and her enduring contributions to the dance field, accompanied by live performances from the Company. Neil Baldwin's new biography of Martha Graham tells the story of the American choreographer who revolutionized modern dance, and who Time Magazine once called "the Dancer of the Century." Her technique, now used by dance companies throughout the world, became the first long-lasting alternative to the idiom of classical ballet. Her pioneering movements--powerful, dynamic, jagged, edgy, forthright--combined with her distinctive system of training, were the epitome of American modernism, performance as art. Her work continued to astonish and inspire for more than sixty years as she choreographed more than 180 works.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Peter Saul: Early Works on Paper, 1959 - 1965
The first exhibition to spotlight the colorful, comical, and complex works on paper made during the first ... more >> decade of the renowned American artist’s career. This focused presentation includes more than forty important and rarely seen works on paper and board, that together illustrate the importance of what Saul termed “small paintings” to the development of the irreverent, no-holds-barred style that has made him an icon of modern and contemporary art.
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Talk | Filmmaker Talk: Angola Do You Hear Us? (online)
Liza Jessie Peterson – playwright, artivist, poet, actor and advocate – returns for a dialogue about ... more >> her new short film Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison. Angola tells the story of how Peterson's acclaimed play The Peculiar Patriot was shut down by authorities of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, America's largest prison-plantation and examines what led to its censorship, the material that threatened the prison system, and how the impact of her visit rippled through Angola long after her art was silenced.
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Vignelli vs. Vigilantes/Art vs. Design (online)
In honor of the debut of the exhibition Masked Vigilantes on Silent Motorbikes and the 50th anniversary ... more >> of what is now commonly referred to as the “Vignelli” subway map, this is a discussion about design in the New York City transit system and artists’ public interventions. This panel discussion will include insights from curatorial and artistic perspectives.
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Adventures in Italian Opera with Met Conductor Carlo Rizzi
The second Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features conductor Carlo Rizzi, ... more >> who will be conducting Cherubini's Medea, Puccini's Tosca, and Verdi's Don Carlo at The Metropolitan Opera.
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Take a moment for mindfulness
Learn how mindfulness skills can help support your mental health and wellbeing with Shefalika Gandhi, ... more >> a wellbeing clinician in student mental health at Cornell Medical College in NYC. The constant cascade of life's demands in our personal and professional lives can leave anyone feeling stressed and scattered, but the practice of mindfulness can help you gain composure and center yourself. Enjoy discussion and reflection upon the theme of making the most of your time, followed by a guided mindfulness practice and light breathing exercises. Beginners and experienced practitioners are all welcome.
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Talk about life and death in an informal, open-minded setting (online)
Partake in an informal, group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives, or themes. Instead, ... more >> the purpose of this conversation is to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their finite lives. This is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session.
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Typography at VKhuTeMas, the Soviet Union's Revolutionary Art School
VKhuTeMas, or Higher Art and Technical Studios, is a revolutionary Soviet art school that opened its ... more >> doors just a year after the founding of Bauhaus in Germany. Today, the school is usually remembered for a slew of avant-garde artists who worked there -- Kandinsky and Malevich, Rodchenko and Stepanova, Lissitzky, and Tatlin, among many others. However, the school's innovative pedagogy deserves attention as well. Following some of the formal, theoretical, and political debates that happened in and around VKhuTeMas allows us to better understand the ground-breaking use of typography that developed there and became a staple of constructivist art and design. This lecture will shed light on the origins and trajectory of VKhuTeMas, paying especially close attention to how ideas on typography fed into the school's artistic output and how they evolved over time. Speaker Polina Godz is an art director at the Tribune magazine, and a graphic designer at the Jacobin magazine.
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive
Editors and contributors celebrate the publication of a collection of lectures transcribed from the audio ... more >> archives of Naropa University's Summer Writing Program that represent a continuing lineage of experimental literary movements. New Weathers asks us to consider how poetics might embolden deeper engagements with the world. Collected from the alternative education zone founded by Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg with the aim of opening up discourse and fostering political engagement, these texts invoke issues of gender and race-based injustice, the global climate crisis, and our possible extinction. They weave through our poetic community, the conversations we are having, the issues we are facing--our "new weathers" to posit strategies of resistance.
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress
A free, high visibility low-tech forum for experimentation, emerging ideas, and works-in-progress held ... more >> in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists Featuring: Helanius J. Wilkins, Vanessa Vargas, Karolina Kraczkowska, Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith
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Discussion | Express Yourself: Why Writers Write
The Festival Neue Literatur partners present the 2022 Friedrich Ulfers Prize Award Ceremony and the Festival ... more >> Neue Literatur satellite event “Express Yourself: Why Writers Write”. In this panel discussion acclaimed German- and English language authors Raphaela Edelbauer, Judith Keller, Nora Krug, and Jenny McPhee will read from their recent work and discuss “Express Yourself: Why Writers Write.” The conversation will be moderated by award-winning German-English literary translator Elisabeth Lauffer.
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Live at The Lortel: Pioneering Native American Playwright Larissa FastHorse (online)
Larissa FastHorse is an award-winning writer and 2020-2025 MacArthur Fellow. Her satirical comedy, The ... more >> Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons/Geffen Playhouse),was one of the top ten most-produced plays in America. She is the first Native American playwright in the history of American theater on that list. In Spring 2023, The Thanksgiving Play will make its debut on Broadway produced by Second Stage. She is the first female Native American playwright ever produced on Broadway.
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