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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 2, 2019?

54 free events take place on Wednesday, October 2 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 2 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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54 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, October 2, 2019

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Editor's Picks

free events nyc The Festival of New
free events nyc Bach at Noon
free events nyc Guided Historical Tour of the Columbia University Campus
free events nyc The Art of Audio Storytelling
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Workshop | Boot Camp


The Rise NYC, a community-driven pop-up fitness group, hosts a Boot Camp. Rotations through exercises like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back, and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high fives encouraged. Rain or shine. Every Wednesday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 am
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Workshop | Juggling Workshop


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in Midtown Manhattan. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Festival | The Festival of New


Since 1919, The New School has been home to scholars, creators, and activists who challenge convention and boldly make their mark on the world. To celebrate this groundbreaking legacy, they are opening our doors to the public for a weeklong festival of dozens of innovative performances, talks, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, and more. Taking place October 1-6, 2019, the festival reflect on a century of world-changing ideas and together imagine a new kind of future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 am
Free

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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Talk | A Conversation with an Award-Winning French Film Director


This is an extraordinary opportunity for students and faculty to meet and discuss filmmaking with French director Bertrand Bonello, whose new film Zombi Child is being shown in the Main Selection of this year's New York Film Festival. Bonello is the 2015 recipient of the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters. His films focus on such subjects as a Parisian brothel in the 19th century, young political terrorists in contemporary France, and the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, and have attracted an enormous amount of attention, praise, and controversy. Excerpts from his work will be shown and discussed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Master Class | Trumpet 


Trumpeter Michael Sachs is frequently featured as soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra. He has also appeared as guest soloist with numerous orchestras and chamber groups, including the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Auckland (New Zealand) Philharmonia, The Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech Republic), San Diego’s Mainly Mozart Festival, the Reno Chamber Orchestra, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Gallery Talk | T. C. Cannon: At the Edge of America: Exhibition Tour


A 45-minute tour. One of the most influential, innovative and talented Native American artists of the 20th century, T.C. Cannon embodied the activism, cultural transition and creative expression that defined America in the 1960s and 1970s. Learn how Cannon interrogated American history and popular culture through his Native lens and exercised a rigorous mastery of Western art historical tropes while creating an entirely fresh visual vocabulary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Elements of Nature Drawing


Get inspired by the beautiful expanse of the Hudson River and New York Harbor and by the verdant park, with its very special Hot and Cool gardens; each flower-filled and colorful throughout the season. All art materials are provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Midtown Recess: Games and Activities


Relive your favorite part of the school day with Midtown Recess. De-stress and clear your mind with activities including giant chess, oversized Connect 4, ping pong tables, jump ropes, hula hoops, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Film | Martin Scorsese's The Departed (2006): Crime Drama With Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon And Jack Nicholson


An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. 151 min. Director: Martin Scorsese. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson.  The Departed won four Oscars at the 79th Academy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing; Mark Wahlberg was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Tour | City Hall Tour For Individuals


The tour of City Hall includes a discussion of the building's history, art, architecture, and civic function. The building is the oldest city hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions, such as the office of the Mayor of New York. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, New York City Hall is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation: The Way of Illumination


Each of us has an unlimited wealth of Love within us. We are born with this divine inheritance. This everlasting fountain of love is pouring down upon us twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, every moment of our waking lives. If we only knew how to tap into this eternal abundance of joy, all our cares and worries would instantly disappear. We are born with love, but we learn fear. In this talk, participants will learn the art of letting go of fear — by embracing real love. Through a simple meditation practice, each of us can experience the great fountain head of Light, Love and Life shining within us. Join Andrew Vidich, Ph.D , author, educator, consultant and international speaker who has been practicing meditation for over 40 years. Learn practical tools to make this a reality.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. "The term 'baroque' has been widely used since the 19th century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750... Many famous composers from the first part of the baroque period came from Italy and have a link with Venice, including Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. Monteverdi was born in Cremona, but moved to Venice where he was 'maestro di capella' at the San Marco basilica. Vivaldi was born in Venice and was one of the greatest baroque composers. It is thanks to these strong musical traditions of Venice that we have today's music. Without Venetian church music and Monteverdi's advances with polyphony, the great traditions of choral music in England, France, and Germany would never have developed. Without the operas written by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi, not only would the later styles of opera never have been invented. There would be no basis for the American Musical or the German and Viennese Operetta, the Spanish Zarzuela, and even rock, pop, and contemporary music as we know it." The Venice Insider Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 10, 2019 to May 20, 2020.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. "The term 'baroque' has been widely used since the 19th century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750... Many famous composers from the first part of the baroque period came from Italy and have a link with Venice, including Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. Monteverdi was born in Cremona, but moved to Venice where he was 'maestro di capella' at the San Marco basilica. Vivaldi was born in Venice and was one of the greatest baroque composers. It is thanks to these strong musical traditions of Venice that we have today's music. Without Venetian church music and Monteverdi's advances with polyphony, the great traditions of choral music in England, France, and Germany would never have developed. Without the operas written by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi, not only would the later styles of opera never have been invented. There would be no basis for the American Musical or the German and Viennese Operetta, the Spanish Zarzuela, and even rock, pop, and contemporary music as we know it." The Venice Insider Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 10, 2019 to May 20, 2020.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Concert | Piano in the Park: Ragtime, Stride, and Jazz


Summertime, and the livin’ is easy... so swing on by for toe-tappin’ performances by New York’s finest, playing ragtime, stride, and jazz to your heart’s delight. With: Charlie Judkins, Ragtime, Protégé of Terry Waldo
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations: Exhibition Tour


A 45-minute tour of some 700 works of Native art from throughout North, Central and South America demonstrates the breadth of the museum's renowned collection and highlights the importance of many of these iconic objects.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Battery Park City Adult Chorus


Directed by Church Street School for Music and Art, the BPC Chorus is open to all adults who love to sing. Learn a mix of contemporary and classic songs, and perform at community events throughout the year. Wednesdays, September 6-November 6, 2019
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Guided Historical Tour of the Columbia University Campus


Join this tour to 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. Given that the tour route is outdoors, please be aware that tours are occasionally suspended due to inclement weather.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Juggling Workshop


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in Midtown Manhattan. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | T. C. Cannon: At the Edge of America: Exhibition Tour


A 45-minute tour. One of the most influential, innovative and talented Native American artists of the 20th century, T.C. Cannon embodied the activism, cultural transition and creative expression that defined America in the 1960s and 1970s. Learn how Cannon interrogated American history and popular culture through his Native lens and exercised a rigorous mastery of Western art historical tropes while creating an entirely fresh visual vocabulary.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Film | The Motorcycle Diaries (2004): Oscar Winning Story Of Che Guevara


The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling. Director: Walter Salles. Starring Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mía Maestro.  The Motorcycle Diaries won an Academy Award for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song and got an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Tour


Highlights include a discussion of the history of the site, information about architect Cass Gilbert and viewings of the Collectors Office with its Tiffany woodwork, Reginald Marsh murals and the 140-ton rotunda dome, designed and built by Rafael Gustavino.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Heart of the Park Tour


Walk straight through the heart of Central Park on this east-to-west tour led by guides. Enjoy a great variety of the scenic, sculptural, and ar chitectural elements the Park has to offer. Visit some of the Park's most famous landmarks, including Conservatory Water, Loeb Boathouse, Bethesda Terrace, Bow Bridge, Cherry Hill, The Lake, and Strawberry Fields.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Jazz | Renowned Jazz Guitarist and His Trio


Bill Wurtzel, a renowned jazz guitarist, has performed worldwide with many jazz greats. His style in his own words: "I love mainstream jazz and the American songbook. Albums I've played on range from gospel, mainstream and soul jazz to Christmas songs in Latin."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Figure Al Fresco Outdoor Drawing Class


Challenge your artistic skills by drawing the human figure. Each week a model will strike both long and short poses for participants to draw. Artists/educators will offer constructive suggestions and critique.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Master Class | Principal Viola


Violist Wesley Collins joined The Cleveland Orchestra as principal viola with the start of the 2016-17 season. He previously served as a member of the viola section of the Boston Symphony Orchestra beginning in 2012 and was promoted to third chair viola there in 2014. Mr Collins played in the Canton Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and City Music Cleveland, and served as assistant principal viola with the Akron Symphony Orchestra. His summer activities have included the Tanglewood Music Center, Sarasota Music Festival, Encore School for Strings, and the Pacific Music Festival.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Master Class | Grammy Winning Pianist


Classical pianist Richard Goode has performed with the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and in Europe with the London Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, and BBC Philharmonic. He recently had a performance in the Lincoln Center Great Performers Series as a great piano performer. His numerous prizes over the years include a Grammy award for his recording of the Brahms Sonatas with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Where I'm From: Art of the Incarcerated


An exhibition of artwork, writings and music created by people incarcerated on Rikers Island.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Why Does the Census Matter?


Census expert Aldrin Bonilla is the Manhattan Deputy Borough President.  He also serves as a Trustee to the New York City Employee Retirement System Pension Fund and is the Secretary to the Theater Sub-District Council providing grants to diversify the cultural and performing arts industries.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm


For years Charlie Burrell and his wife, Isabella Tree, farmed Knepp Castle Estate and struggled to turn a profit. By 2000, with the farm facing bankruptcy, they decided to try something radical. They would restore Knepp’s 3,500 acres to the wild. Using herds of free-roaming animals to mimic the actions of the megafauna of the past, they hoped to bring nature back to their depleted land. But what would the neighbors say, in the manicured countryside of modern England where a blade of grass out of place is considered an affront?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Aquatic Plants for the Garden Pond


Urban Park Rangers provide a look at some of the aquatic plants that can grow in small urban ponds. This workshop will cover plant choices, aquatic habitat creation, and maintenance considerations for garden ponds, as well as an overview of the GreenThumb Gardeners’ Handbook rules and regulations around ponds in community gardens.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Meditation: The Secret To A Peaceful Life


Meditation is much more than a simple tool to help people reduce stress; rather, it helps to positively transform our lives. Meditation can enhance our happiness on an individual level and is the secret to profound personal well being and global healing.  Many of us worry about the future or dwell upon the past. Our mind is constantly in turmoil. In this program, Jim Rose will explore the healing power of meditation and how to unlock the door to a life of improved physical and emotional well being. There will even be two short meditation sittings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Closets: Reimagining Identities While Embracing Memories


The “closet” in the American-English vernacular has long been a metaphor used to describe the psychological parts of ourselves that are kept most private, or hidden from public view. As an expression, it points to the zone of our secrets, or the site of our deepest vulnerabilities. The work shown in Closets explores these innermost aspects of ourselves, symbolized through closet space, and how we perform our identities based on how we desire to image ourselves to the world. Artists featuring in this exhibition include Janna Ireland, Elizabeth M. Claffey, Lorie Novak, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Matthew Morrocco, Deborah Willis, Patricia Cronin, Margaret Stratton, Hilton Als, Emma Kaufman, Maaza Mengiste, Tony Barboza, Sophia Peterson, Linda Foard Roberts, Adrian White, Ken Ard, Qiana Mestrich, Jessica Atkins, Bayeté Ross-Smith, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Darío Calmese, Wendel White, Lauri Freedman, and Karl Peterson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Los Dioses de los Pochos: Imagined Deities and Patron Saints


A selection of bold new work by Brooklyn-based painter Anna Ortiz that takes as its central subject imagined deities and patron saints of the Mexican diaspora. Long focused on the landscape as a source of inspiration for her paintings, in Los Dioses de los Pochos artist Anna Ortiz shifts to a more personal terrain, that of the socio-political and specifically cultural ground, an area particular to this Latinx artist with familial Mexican roots.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | The Family: A New Netflix Docuseries


Author Jeff Sharlet’s 2008 book on the secretive Christian organization based in DC was made into a Netflix docu-series by director Jesse Moss. They join Erica Robles-Anderson for a screening, conversation, and audience Q&A.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Tour | Bloomingdale Neighborhood Walking Tour


Explore the history of this part of Upper West Side with local historian Jim Mackin. While it is still technically part of the Upper West Side, Manhattan's Bloomingdale District takes its name from its original Dutch settlers. Located between West 96th and West 110th Streets, the Hudson River and Broadway, The Bloomingdale District is an almost-forgotten enclave (and name) in the Upper West Side. Perhaps named for the old Dutch village of Bloemendaal ("valley of flowers"), this neighborhood was once home to the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum. It is likely that the name fell out of disuse to avoid association with the facility. But now, the neighborhood is distinguished enough from the Upper West Side to the south, and Manhattan Valley to the east to warrant its own name - one that hearkens back to its roots, and befitting a scenic, almost "bucolic" city neighborhood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | In Defense of Democracy and Liberalism


Laurent Cohen-Tanugi and Adam Gopnik explore ideas about current threats to democracy, the meaning and value of liberalism, and the rise of populism in the U.S., France, Great Britain and beyond, explored in their recent books, Cohen-Tanugi’s Résistances: La démocratie à l’épreuve, and Gopnik’s A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | The (R)evolution of Arab Queer Cinema: Queer Representation in Film Pre- and Post-Arab Uprisings


This panel will engage five emerging LGBTQ filmmakers from the Arabic speaking region in a meaningful discussion on the role of Arab queer cinema in shaping and giving voice to the Arab LGBT community. The panel will explore how emerging Arab queer cinema is engaging with the region's turbulent socio-political arena, while drawing on the filmmakers personal journeys, creative expressions and motivations. Recognizing the agency of Arab queer filmmakers through cinema, the panel will explore how LGBTQ issues are being represented in popular Arabic culture, and how their work is being received by local and regional audiences.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Symposium | The Growing Pushback Against Harmful Artificial Intelligence


A behind-the-scenes insights from those at the frontlines of the growing pushback against harmful AI. Program features leading lawyers, organizers, scholars, and tech workers. These speakers are engaging creative strategies to combat exploitative AI systems across a wide range of contexts — from the automation of public services, to policing and border control, to worker surveillance and exploitation, and well beyond.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | The Urban Climate Change Resilience Challenge


From rising sea levels and increased droughts, to more intense wildfires and stronger storms, the impacts of climate change are threatening cities across the globe. This is a discussion with Matthew Kahn, one of the leading scholars on global environmental challenges. Kahn will expand upon this defining issue of the 21st century and discuss public policies that aim to address climate change.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | What Do Genocidal Mass Murderers Think When They Kill?


Richard Rechtman is a Psychiatrist and an Anthropologist. Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has conducted field research on the political and psychological consequences of the Cambodian genocide, and the invention of new psychiatric categories such as posttraumatic stress disorder, psychological suffering and adolescent psychopathology. His current research is focused on the anthropology of mass murderers in the different contexts, from génocide to djihadisme. He has published The Empire of Trauma. An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (with Didier Fassin).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond


Looking through a scientific and cultural lens Alexandra Horowitz reveals the odd, surprising, and contradictory ways we live with dogs. We celebrate their unique personalities but breed them for sameness. They are like family members but legally exist as property. And the way we talk to them can be at once strange and delightful. The story of humans and dogs is thousands of years old but is far from understood. Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond explores all aspects of this complex interspecies pairing.  Alexandra Horowitz, Senior Research Fellow and head of the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard College, Columbia University and author of three previous books will be joined in conversation by writer Melissa Dahl.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Naples, 1936: Benedetta, Aeropoetry, Futurism and Fascism


Through the analysis of the aeropoem “Volontà e poesia del golfo di Napoli,” which features the arrival of Mussolini in Naples in November 1936, this presentation discusses the relationship between art and politics in the work of Benedetta Cappa Marinetti.   Speaker: Lucia Re, UCLA  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | What We Mean When We Say Free Them All: Lessons from the Social Justice Initiative


Violence takes many forms. We see governments systematize it against their citizens. We witness how it plagues our most personal relationships. We read it in the ways societies record or elide their histories. Social Justice Institute residents La Vaughn Belle, Mariame Kaba, and CeCe McDonald will bring into focus forms of violence that target black trans and non-trans women, girls, and femmes — including the effects of colonialism, slavery, and racialized criminalization — and suggest how to build transformative, survivor- led responses to state and interpersonal harm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | 2 New Books: This Side of Water / Where You Want to Be


A reading with Maureen Pilkington and Kevin Pilkington. Refreshments will be served following the reading. This Side of Water Maureen Pilkington’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous anthologies, journals and magazines. Her work has also been read live WCOM, FM. Pilkington worked in book publishing and received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently writing a collection of personal essays, and a novel about a friendship between two women that begins at a Catholic boarding school. Where You Want to Be Kevin Pilkington is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.  He is the author of nine collections: Spare Change was the La Jolla Poets Press National Book Award winner; Getting By won the Ledge chapbook award; In the Eyes of a Dog received the New York Book Festival Award; The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree was a Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award finalist.   published in 2012 and a paperback edition was reissued in summer 2014. His collection Where You Want To Be: New and Selected Poems was a 2017 IPPY
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Beyond Guilt Trips: Mindful Travel in an Unequal World


What does it mean to care about others in an unequal world? If some of us will always have more opportunity and privilege than others based on wealth, race, and education, what then does global solidarity mean? Whether we're traveling abroad or much closer to home, it's hard to ignore the politics of identity and inequality. Showcasing her new book, Dr. Anu Taranath invites you to join her and co-panelists Bani Amor, Julia Michiko Hori and Nadia Misir for a book reading and lively discussion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Horse Crazy: Girls and the Lives of Horses


Horse Crazy explores the meaning behind the love between girls and horses. Jean O'Malley Halley, a self-professed "horse girl," contends that this relationship and its cultural signifiers influence the manner in which young girls define their identity when it comes to gender. Halley examines how popular culture, including the "pony book" genre, uses horses to encourage conformity to gender norms but also insists that the loving relationship between a girl and a horse fundamentally challenges sexist and mainstream ideas of girlhood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Play | Oliver Twist: Charles Dickens' Classic Adapted


An adaptation of Dickens' second novel, written by Neil Bartlett, about an orphan who escapes a workhouse,  travels to London, and becomes a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin. The production will be directed by Melissa Maxwell, and feature the entire cohort of MFA Third Year Actors: Hannah Adrian, Olivia Battle, William Berger-Bailey, Jazmyn Boone, Yun-Chin Chang, Caroline Hertz, Racquel Jean-Louis, Ian Lawrence, Philip Lopez, Kasey O'Brien, Riley Jo Payne, Kyle Ryan, Carla Smith, Michael Spara, and Jacqueline Theoharis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Sound Art Revisited: The Roots of an Art Form


The first edition of Alan Licht's Sound Art Revisited served as a groundbreaking work toward defining this emerging field, and this fully updated volume significantly expands the story to include current research since the book's initial release. Viewed through a lens of music and art histories rather than philosophical theory, it covers dozens of artists and works not found in any other book on the subject.  Locating sound art's roots across the centuries from spatialized church music to the technological developments of radio, sound recording, and the telephone, the book traces the evolution of sound installations and sound sculpture, the rise of sound art exhibitions and galleries, and finally looks at the critical cross-pollination that marks some of the most important and challenging art with and about sound being produced today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Flight Portfolio: Trying To Save Lives Fleeing The Holocaust


Julie Orringer and Nell Freudenberger talk about Orringer’s recent novel, The Flight Portfolio, based on the true story of Varian Fry’s attempt to save the work, and lives, of writers and artists fleeing the Holocaust. Julie Orringer is the author of the best-selling novel The Invisible Bridge and the award-winning short-story collection How to Breathe Underwater, which was a New York Times Notable Book. She is the winner of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Stanford University. Orringer worked on The Flight Portfolio during her Cullman Center Fellowship in 2008-2009. Nell Freudenberger is the author most recently of Lost and Wanted, as well as of the novels The Newlyweds and The Dissident, and the story collection Lucky Girls, winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award, she was the Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the Cullman Center in 2007-2008.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | The Art of Audio Storytelling


Dynamic podcasts and radio shows have the power to entertain listeners and open up ways of looking at the world. Whether it's a personal narrative or a smartly reported piece about someone's experience, dynamic podcasts and radio shows have the power to entertain listeners and open up ways of looking at the world. WNYC producers from The United States of Anxiety and Radiolab share how they tap into the emotions of their listeners and captivate audiences through the airwaves to create compelling theater of the mind. With Rebeca Ibarra, Producer, WNYC Studios, Narrative Division Jessica Miller, Associate Producer, The Stakes and United States of Anxiety; Contributor, The Brian Lehrer Show Moderator: Simon Adler, Producer, Radiolab Presented with WNYC
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy and the Hunt for Political Heresies


Author Robert Boyers is the editor of Salmagundi. He writes frequently for Harper’s, The Nation, The New Republic, and other magazines.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Shadow King: Woman at War


Set against the first real conflict of World War II, Maaza Mengiste’s novel is a heartrending, indelible exploration of what it means to be a woman at war.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | Henslowe! The Man Who Made History


Phillip Henslowe! The man who built the Rose Playhouse where Shakespeare's plays were first mounted, his struggle to achieve recognition, his need to leave a legacy! The story of a little known chapter of Elizabethan history as told in a human, compelling fashion. Be prepared to rethink the Renaissance. This remarkable in-depth portrait of a deeply driven man had an astonishing 14-year gestation filled with readings, workshops, and endless hours of research. Written by Alexander Carney.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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