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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 20, 2016?

72 free events take place on Thursday, October 20 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 October 20 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 October . 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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72 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, October 20, 2016

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Symposium | Ariosto: After 500 Years


500 years ago, the first edition of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso saw the light of day. Possibly the most important chivalric poem of - and not limited to - Italian literature, the Furioso's style, language and unforgettable characters well deserve the week-long series of celebrations that many of the major cultural institutions in the city are dedicating to this important anniversary. From exhibits to talks by the most important Ariosto scholars worldwide, I am sure each of you will find something that will make you discover or re-discover this genius of world literature. Oct. 17-21
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Tour | Alternative New York Tour


Time to learn about the other New York City; the city that nurtured political, cultural and intellectual revolutions. The city that gave birth to punk rock, the beat poets and graffiti. The city that has survived two centuries of mass riots, crime and corruption, murder and mayhem. The city that has flourished in spite of economic and social hardship. Thursdays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Downtown Manhattan 3-Hour Tour


The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats. Daily.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Advanced Photoshop: Compositing Techniques


Take your Photoshop skills to the next level with Layer Styles, Layer Comps, Advanced Text Tools, and Alternate Transform modes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Knitting and Crochet


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   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Workshop | Irish Genealogy: Resources and Research Methods


Have an Irish ancestor? Use NYPL's large free public collection of genealogical tools to help you find information on an Irish ancestor, especially those who passed through New York. Participants will learn about print and electronic sources of information and work on developing a research plan for genealogical quests.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Prince Saunders and African-American Emigration to Haiti: A Transatlantic Career in the Quest for Citizenship, 1815-1826


No significant monographs to date exist on Prince Saunders, an African-American abolitionist whose transatlantic crossings between the United States, England and Haiti demonstrates that the African-American struggle for citizenship at home, have always transcended American borders. This conversation will take a look at the extensive contribution Saunders made to early antislavery efforts, and explore how Saunders should be considered among the earliest founders of black transatlantic abolitionism. With: Westenley Alcenat.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Sixty Years On: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution and World Politics


A talk with Csaba Békés, István Deák Visiting Professor of History. Professor Békés will give us a broader picture of world politics and a better understanding of the background and the international context of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Mary Pan, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 13, 2016 to May 25, 2017.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Discussion | Mining the Archive: A Conversation on Anti-Arab and Islamophobic Visual Culture


Featuring readings and remarks from novelist Marina Budhos (Watched) and scholars Salah D. Hassan (Associate Professor, Michigan State University), Jack G. Shaheen (Distinguished Visiting Scholar, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies & A/P/A Institute at NYU), Helga Tawil-Souri (Director, NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies), and Jack Tchen (Founding Director, A/P/A Institute at NYU).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Workshop | A Moment of Zen: Meditation Group


Scientific studies show that just 10 minutes of meditation a day relieves stress and improves your health and well-being. Take time out of your busy schedule to come to the New Amsterdam library to learn meditation and find inner peace. Once a month we will teach, practice and discuss meditation. No prior experience necessary -- just bring an open mind!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
   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
$10 suggested donation

Classical Music | NOVUS NY performs works by Reich and Copland


Program: Steve Reich City Life Aaron Copland Quiet City Julian Wachner, conductor
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Retro Board Gaming for Adults


Share your passion for gaming the old-fashioned way. If words excite or inspire you, and crossword puzzles keep you going, then Scrabble is your game. Are you a Chess or Checkers champion? Whether you're a master or just starting out, show off your best moves. If you like wheeling and dealing, Monopoly's the game for you. Join for some lively board time. All levels of play welcome. Please feel free to bring your own game set, and friends.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Discuss Great Books in a Great Space


Monthly book discussions to explore titles you've been meaning to read, or reread, and discuss with other lovers of literature. Participants should read each title before the discussion. This month's title is Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Downtown Manhattan 3-Hour Tour


The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments. This tour takes place Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 2pm, and Saturdays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | José Quintero's The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961): Tennessee Williams Melodrama


Stars: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Coral Browne. An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo. 103 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation Session


Join the session and lessen the stress in your life. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 29.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Monthly Meditation


A peaceful lifestyle through meditation can bring about a sense of calm and balance that benefits both your emotional, physical and spiritual well-being. It is easy to learn and can have many lasting and beneficial effects. After you meditate the benefits don’t end when your session ends. Join Dr. Frank Pawlowski, longtime meditator for this enjoyable and informative workshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | NYC at its Best: Greenwich Village, High Line and Chelsea Tour


Join a three-hour journey through some of New York City's most historic areas. They'll begin in Greenwich Village, one of the cultural centers of America. Once a pastoral green oasis, and later a home for Irish and Italian immigrants, Greenwich Village has been at the forefront of some of the most important political, social, and artistic movements of the 20th Century. Filled with 19th century townhouses, and now one of the most desirable and high priced neighborhoods in America, the Village tells a multi-generational New York story. From secluded wealthy enclave to emerging Bohemian and Beat communities, from Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan to the Stonewall Inn. Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm and Sundays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Photoshop for Beginners


Learn how to enhance photos using the number 1 photo editing software in the world; Adobe Photoshop. In this class you learn the features of Photoshop and learn about layers and use them to manipulate images to your desire. Class is conducted on Macintosh computers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Shane Black's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005): Desperate Actor


Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan. A murder mystery brings together a private eye, a struggling actress, and a thief masquerading as an actor. 103 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | William A. Seiter's One Touch of Venus (1948): Comedy Fantasy


Stars: Robert Walker, Ava Gardner, Dick Haymes. A young window dresser's problems begin when he kisses a statue of Venus, which comes to life. 82 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Master Class | Chamber Music Master Class: Peter Oundjian


A dynamic presence in the conducting world, Toronto-born conductor Peter Oundjian is renowned for his probing musicality, collaborative spirit, and engaging personality. Oundjian’s appointment as Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) in 2004 reinvigorated the Orchestra with numerous recordings, tours, and acclaimed innovative programming as well as extensive audience growth, thereby significantly strengthening the ensemble’s presence in the world. In August 2014, he led the TSO on a tour of Europe, which included a sold-out performance at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the first performance of a North American orchestra at Reykjavik’s Harpa Hall.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Birdwatching | Falll Birding Tour


Go birding! Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season with guided tours. The location is a hotspot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will's-widow. Mondays and Thursdays throught October 20.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | eBook Help Hour: Get Started with eBooks


Need help getting started with eBooks? Bring your laptop, eReader, tablet or smart phone to eBook Help Hour. Get assistance loading electronic library books on your Kindle, create your free Adobe ID, learn about 3M Cloud Library, and so much more. Make sure you bring your library card and any necessary access passwords for your devices so they can help you as quickly as possible.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Workshop | iMovie for Beginners Workshop


Learn the basics of using Apple's entry-level video editing program iMovie by working through a simple project. Class is conducted on Macintosh computers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Film | Dispatches from the Gulf (2016): Documentary on the Environmental Impact of Deepwater Horizon


Six years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a global team works together to understand its environmental impact. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the Journey to Planet Earth documentary series, draws connections between the sciences, politics, economics, sociology, and history. Join the Sustainability Taskforce for a screening and talk with Emmy-award winning documentarians Hal and Marilyn Weiner.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Jazz | Wild Lines: A New Work for Jazz Quartet and Spoken Word


Award winning soprano saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom presents the New York premiere of Wild Lines, inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Bloom’s reimagining of Dickinson was ignited when she learned that the poet was a pianist and improviser, reaffirming Bloom’s intuitive connection to the jazz-like quality of Dickinson’s writing. This is a collaboration across time between two pioneering women artists - one a 21st century jazz musician, the other a 19th century visionary poet. Poetry recitation from actress Deborah Rush will echo and intermingle with music performed by the Jane Ira Bloom quartet: Dawn Clement (piano), Kent McLagan (bass), and Bobby Previte (drums).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Alt Weeklies: Past, Present, Future


A public conversation on the past, present and future of alternative weekly publications in the U.S. Peter Barbey, Owner, The Village Voice, leads the conversation along with Kit Rachlis, former Editor, LA Weekly, Rachel Rosenfelt, Founder and Editor, New Inquiry, and others. The discussion focuses on the intersection of counter-culture commerce (such as adult ads which supported many alternative weeklies in the past) and the more "literary" side of the alternative press in the U.S., which made it an incubator for journalistic talent. How do those two sides currently function in online publications? Can literary ambitions still be cross-subsidized with the lucrative side of the alternative/adult field? Or is that business model finished? The conversation will be moderated by James Miller, Professor of Liberal Studies and Politics and Faculty Director of the Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Concert | ARMS and The City & Horses: indie rock and pop


Nestled in the midst of some great eats, and boutique shops, Paper Garden Records brings some of NYC's best underground artists!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Bernie Swain reads from his book What Made Me Who I Am


With no experience or plan, Bernie Swain quit his job in 1980 to join his wife Paula and friend Harry Rhoads to start a lecture agency. Today, he is the Chairman of Washington Speakers Bureau, the largest and most respected speakers bureau in the world, and a foremost authority on the lecture industry. Over the past 35 years, Swain has represented former US Presidents, cabinet members, business executives, public figures, media leaders, and sports legends. In his new book, Swain captures the transformations of an eclectic and productive group—34 leaders he became friends with, thanks to representing them as speakers over the years. Don't miss the opportunity to hear these stories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Larry Tye discusses his book Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon


An in-depth, vibrant, and measured biography about the most complex and controversial member of the Kennedy family.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Marc Lamont Hill reads from his book Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond


Scholar and journalist Marc Lamont Hill presents a powerful and thought-provoking analysis of race and class by examining a growing crisis in America: the existence of a group of citizens who are made vulnerable, exploitable and disposable through the machinery of unregulated capitalism, public policy, and social practice. Timely and eloquent, the NYT-bestselling Nobody is a keen observation of the challenges and contradictions of American democracy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Mobility and Post Democracy: Democracy and Citizenship after the State


Acclaimed theorist Wendy Brown delivers a keynote address, co-sponsored with the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, on mapping the current landscape and possible futures in a post democratic era. Brown explores the transition from the political subject, homo politicus, to the neoliberal and anti-solidaristic homo economicus, and its disastrous implications for the institutions of citizenship, higher education, social justice, and democracy itself.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Book Signing | Photographer Tiago Chediak launches his book The Live Canvas Project


The Live Canvas Project is a photo essay showcasing the work of tattoo artist João Paulo Rodrigues, a Manhattan-based practitioner of the Japanese tradition, black-dominant tribals, and an evolving technician - through the lens of Tiago Chediak - Brooklyn fashion photographer and portraitist to whom photo editing has become a tool for building visual narratives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Symposium | Proust's Muse Symposium


The museum presents its 16th academic symposium, Proust’s Muse. The day-long symposium is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Proust's Muse, The Countess Greffulhe. Researchers from the United States and Europe will discuss the connections between fashion, patronage, literature, and the arts in turn of the century France. The Countess Greffulhe was a champion of the arts, who influenced literature, ballet, and music. The French composer Gabriel Fauré dedicated his slow processional piano piece—Pavane—to her, and she was a major supporter of the Ballets Russes, an itinerant ballet company based in Paris. She also supported the scientist Marie Curie, and the unjustly-imprisoned Jewish army officer, Alfred Dreyfus.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Taiwanese Documentary: Chen Singing's Mountain Spirits (2016)


Acclaimed artist Wang Wen-Chih has been taking part in various international art festivals in recent years. Using the natural materials of bamboo, rattan, and wood to express a profound serenity, and drawing on memories of growing up in the mountains, Wang displays a unique vision and style in contemporary art. Mountain Spirits follows Wang as he gathers material deep in the mountains, travels to Niigata and Shadoshima in Japan to construct his work, and mediates his creation. This documentary captures Wang’s attitude toward life and his passion for nature, in which both the work and the artist himself evoke the spirit of the mountain. 67 minutes In Chinese with English subtitles
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Lecture | Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space


Black holes are dark. That’s their essence. That’s the defining feature that earned them a name. They are dark against a dark sky. They are a shadow against a bright sky. A telescope has never found one unadorned. Bare black holes—those too solitary to tear down sufficient debris—in their obliterating darkness are practically impossible to observe, but not entirely impossible. Janna Levin investigates the astronomer’s aspiration to detect black holes (and other cataclysmic events) that culminated in the discovery of the century: the first human-procured recordings of a gravitational-wave sound from the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion years ago. Janna Levin is a professor of physics and astronomy, and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2013. Event is free and open to the public.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Dana Jacobi discusses her book The Power Greens Cookbook: 140 Delicious Superfood Recipes


This illustrated lecture introduces the fifteen Power Greens—from arugula to watercress—that are loaded with health-supporting nutrients and phytochemicals that enhance vitality and features healthy recipes for dark, leafy greens.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Filming at the Borders: Migrating to Europe Today


This timely film series will be enriched by the presence of most of the directors, joined in discussion about their films by invited Columbia faculty. The series invites dialogue about the urgent topic of migration and about the role images and narratives play in bringing it to our awareness. Tonight: Burn the Sea (Brûle la mer) by Nathalie Nambot and Maki Berchache, 2014, 75 min. Genre: Documentary. French production. Filmed in: Tunisia, Italy, France. Languages: French, English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, with English subtitles. Film screening followed by discussion with directors Nathalie Nambot and Maki Berchache and Professor Etienne Balibar, moderated by Nora Philippe. Films will be shown Oct. 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, and 28.
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Author Reading | Giorgio Agamben's The Coming Community: A Collective Reading


In this extraordinary and original philosophical achievement, Agamben develops the concept of community and the social implications of his philosophical thought. Agamben’s exploration is, in part, a contemporary response to the work of Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, and, more historically, Plato, Spinoza, and medieval scholars and theorists of Judeo-Christian scriptures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Reading | MFA Chapbook Reading


Winners of the 2015 MFA Chapbook Contest read their work: Robert Haller, selected for fiction by Christopher Castellani; Krista Gampper, selected for nonfiction by Jane Alison; Mariam Zafar, selected for poetry by Yona Harvey, and Anthony Ha selected for writing for children/young adults by Elana K. Arnold.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Neoliberalism, Financialization and Democracy: Ten Theses


In her work, lecturer Wendy Brown has explored the changing nature of citizenship, identity, free speech, democratic theory, and sovereignty from the 19th century to the present. Speaking about the impacts of financialization on democracy and citizenship, and with particular attention to the crisis of democracy in the European Union, Brown will expand on her 2015 book Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution, hailed as a clarion call to take back democracy. In Brown's striking analysis, the political subject, homo politicus, has been overcome by the value-enhancing, anti-solidaristic homo economicus, with far reaching implications for the institutions of citizenship, higher education, social justice, and democracy itself.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Regina Calcaterra and Rosie Maloney disuss their book Girl Unbroken


When Regina Calcaterra wrote her incredibly moving New York Times-bestselling memoir Etched in Sand in 2013, it caused a sea change in the way America thought about foster children. Since then more than 150,000 copies have been sold, colleges and high schools have incorporated it into their curricula nationwide and the book has received more than 4000 5-star reviews. Readers, moved by the stark portrayal of Regina’s childhood, responded to her cry for help by getting older foster children placed and adopted by intact families. Still, it left them with one lingering question: whatever happened to her baby sister Rosie?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | World Famous Soprano Kathleen Battle in Conversation


Kathleen Battle is world renowned for her pristine operatic soprano, and has performed Baroque-era compositions to contemporary works. In November, Battle will return to The Metropolitan Opera after 20 years to perform "Kathleen Battle: Spirituals From The Underground Railroad." Join us for an evening exploring of the Underground Railroad and the language conveyed in spirituals of a people determined to get and remain free. Battle will be in conversation with host Terrance McKnight (WQXR), Peter Gelb (President of The Metropolitan Opera), and ethnomusicologist Aja Burrell Woods.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Film | Pink Flamingos


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Author Reading | Ben Marcus reads from her book Leaving the Sea


Ben Marcus is the author of "Leaving the Sea" (Knopf, 2014), "The Flame Alphabet" (Knopf, 2012), and "Notable American Women" (Vintage Books, 2002). He is the editor of an anthology of contemporary fiction, "New American Stories" (Vintage Books, 2016). This event is hosted by Creative Writing Program faculty member and National Book Critics Circle Award winner Darin Strauss.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Book Launch: Social Medium: Artist Writing, 2000–2015


Join Paper Monument in celebrating the launch of their new book, an anthology of seventy-five contemporary artists' texts, with a discussion on the relationship between performance and artists’ writings. In conversation with the book's editor, Jennifer Liese, contributors will explore the significance of text within time-based and conceptual practices.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Creating a Catholic Popular Culture in 19th Century America: The Contribution of Irish-American Novelists


Dr. Eileen P. Sullivan discusses the nineteenth-century popular novels that defined Irish American identity anGlucksman Ireland Housed transformed American Catholic culture. The more than thirty novels, spanning the period from the 1830s to the 1870s, were published by Catholic houses in New York, Boston, and Baltimore, all owned by Irish immigrants. The novelists — six men and one woman, immigrants and the sons of Immigrants — included priests, journalists, editors, and professional writers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child discuss their book The Obsidian Chamber


Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child return with the 16th thrilling entry in their 'Special Agent Pendergast' series. The Obsidian Chamber finds FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast missing and presumed dead while his faithful bodyguard Proctor launches an international manhunt after Prendergast's ward Constance is abducted by a shadowy figure from the past.
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Author Reading | Florence Noiville discusses her novel A Cage in Search of a Bird


Join American author Siri Hustvedt for a conversation with French novelist Florence Noiville on her novel A Cage in Search of a Bird (translated from the French by teresa Lavender Fagan, Seagull Books), the gripping story of two women caught in the vise of a terrible delusion. Florence Noiville brilliantly narrates this story of obsession and one woman’s attempts to escape the irrational love of another—an inescapable, never-ending love, a love that can only end badly.
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Film | John Waters' Pink Flamingos (1972): Classic Ungerground Film


Stars: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce. Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive." 93 min.
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Author Reading | Mark Frost discusses his book The Secret History of Twin Peaks


From the co-creator of the landmark series, the story millions of fans have been waiting to get their hands on for 25 long years.
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Concert | NYC Constellation Ensemble


The NYC Constellation Ensemble is an ensemble Lucie Vítková organized when coming to NYC in February 2016. She invited 50 different musicians, artists, composers and poets to gather and play on a regular base, meeting every Friday in her living room. Because of the New York rhythm and busy schedules, they got different, small groups of people every week, fluctuating according to their free time. The combination of these emerging performers portrays the current artist scene of the city. At the concert, you will hear the October constellation. Lucie Vítková is a composer, improviser and performer (accordion, harmonica, voice and tap dance) from the Czech Republic. Her compositions focus on sonification (compositions based on abstract models derived from physical objects), while in her improvisation practice explores characteristics of discrete spaces through the interaction between sound and movement. In her recent work, she is interested in the musical legacy of Morse Code and the social-political aspects of music and art in relation to everyday life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Poets Read: Adam Fitzgerald / John Yau


Adam Fitzgerald is a poet, editor, essayist and educator. In 2013, his first book of poems The Late Parade was hailed by the New York Times Sunday Book Review as “a new and welcome sound in the aviary of contemporary poetry.” In 2015, he became contributing editor for Literary Hub and curates monthly poetry features. Recent poems can be found in Poetry, The New Yorker and elsewhere. In 2014, with poets Dorothea Lasky and Timothy Donnelly he founded The Home School. He has taught literature at Rutgers University and New York University as well as this past spring at Poets House. His newest book of poems, George Washington, was published by W. W. Norton’s historic Liveright imprint this September. John Yau is a poet who writes about art, collaborates with artists, and is the publisher of Black Square Editions. His most recent book is Catherine Murphy (Skira Rizzoli, 2016), the first monograph on this celebrated artist. He is one of the founders of Hyperallergic Weekend, an online magazine, and contributes regularly to it. He recently put together a book of essays on art and poetry, The Wild Children of William Blake, which will be published in the near future by Autonomedia. He is currently putting together a book of poems, Firefly Promises.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Power Talk with Minerva Tantoco, NYC's Chief Technology Officer


Minerva Tantoco is a Senior Advisor for Future\Perfect Ventures, focused on applied innovation. For the past two years, she served as the first Chief Technology Officer for the City of New York, working with the Mayor on the development and implementation of a citywide strategy for technology and innovation. Join us for a conversation with Minerva to discuss emerging innovation in technology and her inspiring career as an inventor, innovator, and entrepreneur.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Stripped to the Bone: Sequencing Queerness in the Comic Strip Works of Joe Brainard and David Wojnarowicz


As East Village residents during key moments in the development of contemporary U.S. queer culture (gay liberation and the AIDS crisis), Joe Brainard and David Wojnarowicz each turned to comics during pivotal transitions in their artistic careers. In the mid-1970s, Brainard visually appropriated the classic American comic strip character Nancy, using serialized canvas panels to depict Nancy in a variety of radical sexual and social positions (as transgendered, having anal sex, with an Afro, etc.). In the early 1990s, Wojnarowicz collaborated with Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger to produce a visual autobiography 7 Miles a Second. A radical departure from traditional sequential comics style, 7 Miles a Second offers a series of gritty visual vignettes of Wojnarowicz’s life, first as a teenage hustler and later as a queer artist and political activist living with AIDS. This talk explores how Brainard and Wojnarowicz deployed the formal codes of the comics medium to articulate emergent affective orientations towards transformations in queer sexual culture. Speaker Ramzi Fawaz is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Forum | The Death and Life (and Rebirth?) of NYC's Great Mom and Pops: A Forum on the Crisis in Commercial Rent


At an alarming and ever-increasing rate New York City has been losing its beloved retail, restaurants, art spaces, and other local institutions. Are we to look forward to a city filled only with chain stores, banks, and luxury boutiques? This forum focuses on ways to halt out-of-control increases in commercial rent, a major contributor to the loss of local vendors and not-for-profits. The discussion should be lively, with possible solutions to this urban crisis as diverse as New York itself! SPEAKERS: Steven Barrison, Spokesperson for the Small Business Congress Councilman Robert E. Cornegy, Chair of the Committee on Small Business Lucian Reynolds, Urban Planner at Manhattan Borough President's Office Light Refreshments
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Legacy of Grove Press’s Barney Rosset


To honor the legacy of Grove Press’s Barney Rosset—who introduced American readers to D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Jean Genet, and more—and celebrate the publication of his correspondence with Samuel Beckett, Dear Mr. Beckett: Letters from the Publisher, we’re bringing together some of the people who knew him best. Paul Auster, Lois Oppenheim (The Beckett Society), Glenn Young (Opus publisher), Astrid Myers-Rosset, and Robert Solomon, Esq. (who represented Barney for many years) will discuss Rosset’s relationship with Samuel Beckett, and his impact on literary publishing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Brooklyn Raga Massive: From Tradition to Original Vision


Indian classical music has touched and influenced people from around the world. Brooklyn Raga Massive takes you on a raga-music journey, presenting pure classical raga from India to contemporary evolutions in America, which have taken various shapes as a result of pivotal musical collaborations. A deeply diverse collective, Brooklyn Raga Massive artists are rooted in traditions ranging from Carnatic to African to jazz. While honoring pioneers like Ravi Shankar and John Coltrane, BRM will present their original visions of raga music, reflective of their ties to various communities, cultures, and experiences as artists in today’s world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tour | Ghosts of Greenwich Village Tour


New York Ghost tours capture the spiritual side of the Big Apple through stories. famed explorers, native tribes, lost opportunities and political intrigue. With almost every step one takes through the West Village, one encounters the ghosts and spirits of New York City’s past. Every corner has its stories, every building has its haunted spirits.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Master Class | Piano Master Class: Alexander Kobrin


Called the “Van Cliburn of today” by the BBC, pianist Alexander Kobrin has placed himself at the forefront of today's performing musicians. His prize-winning performances have been praised for their brilliant technique, musicality, and emotional engagement with the audience. The New York Times has written that Kobrin was a “fastidious guide” to Schumann’s “otherworldly visions, pointing out hunters, flowers, haunted corners and friendly bowers, all captured in richly characterized vignettes.” “This was a performance that will be revered and remembered as a landmark of the regeneration of exceptional classical music in Central New York,” a critic wrote after Kobrin’s performance of Second Piano Concerto by Johannes Brahms with Syracuse Symphony in Syracuse, NY.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Tactus: Contemporary Chamber Music


Students form the core of the school's resident contemporary ensemble, Tactus, playing a large variety of works written in the last 100 years.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tour | Midtown Manhattan Night Tour


New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline. NOTE** THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS. Please note they do utilize the subway on this tour so you will need $5 for subway. Takes place Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Comedy Club | The Bombshelter Comedy Show - with Free Pizza


Local Favorites Matt Azark, Jeff Cerulli and Erik Bransteen invite some of their favorites comedians to perform on this weekly showcase. Every Thursday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Comedy Club | The Bombshelter Comedy Show - with Free Pizza


Local Favorites Matt Azark, Jeff Cerulli and Erik Bransteen invite some of their favorites comedians to perform on this weekly showcase. Every Thursday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | The Jamie Baum Duo


Award-winning NYC flutist/composer Jamie Baum brings an exciting mix of jazz standards and her own critically-acclaimed jazz compositions to Bar Thalia, going toe-to-toe with NYC-based Spanish pianist Yago Vazquez for an intimate evening of fun music-making.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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