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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 10, 2019?
77 free events take place on Thursday, October 10 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!
New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out October 10 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of 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.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 10, 2019?
77 free events take place on Thursday, October 10 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!
New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out October 10 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of 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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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
77 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, October 10, 2019
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Editor's Picks
Workshop | Morning Fitness
One hour of walking, stretching, and strengthening exercises. For a breath of fresh air, take your workouts outdoors. Parks are becoming a logical alternative environment for those who want to add variety to their workouts, or who just don't like the gym. And, it's an affordable way to increase physical activity opportunities, because there's nothing special to build. Exercise with a view, in natural sunlight, with green scenery all around bestows health benefits that can't be found indoors. Scientific studies have shown that the pleasure of being outdoors for example gives your brain, psyche, and immune system an extra boost. Led by trained professionals, and suitable for all levels. Wear comfortable clothing and bring water. Every Tuesday and Thursday
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
Free
Free
Workshop | Sun Salutations and Intentions Morning Yoga
Starts your day with a morning yoga practice. You will experience luxurious stretching warm-ups, empowering standing poses, and energizing breath work as we align the movements with the inhales and exhales. You will feel more awake, strong, balanced, and positive as a result of this time spent on the mat. Sun Salutations and warrior poses stimulate the seratonin in your brain (the “happy hormone) and improve self-esteem! You will be ready for anything that meets you as your day unfolds. Bring a yoga mat if you have one. You may bring your own coffee or tea.
New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
$5 requested donation...
$5 requested donation...
Workshop | Relational Meditation
This inclusive class weaves together gentle yoga/chi kung and guided relational meditation exercises. Relational meditation uses mindfulness of breathing, eye-contact, and compassion meditation to help people connect, promoting deep listening, presence and open heartedness.
New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
Free
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
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10:00 am
Free
Free
Birdwatching | Birding Basics: The North Woods
Located along the Atlantic Flyway, the park welcomes more than 270 migrating bird species each year. Learn the basics of bird identification while exploring the North Woods, the largest woodland landscape in the Park. Along with beautiful arches and peaceful waterfalls, the North Woods provides 40 acres of vibrant habitat in the middle of New York City, making it an important stopover for birds during spring migration. How many can you spot on this tour? Bring your own binoculars or borrow a pair from our tour guides.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
Free
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.
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10:00 am
Free
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Film | Night Nurse (1931): Crime Drama With Barbara Stanwyck And Clark Gable
A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children. 72 min. Director: William A. Wellman. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free
Free
Author Reading | Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of Qing Empire
After the fall of the Qing empire, amid nationalist and socialist upheaval, Buddhist monks in the Mongolian frontiers of the Soviet Union and Republican China faced a chaotic and increasingly uncertain world. In this book, Matthew W. King tells the story of one Mongolian monk’s efforts to defend Buddhist monasticism in revolutionary times, revealing an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms beyond old imperial formations and the newly invented national subject. Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood takes up the perspective of the polymath Zawa Damdin (1867–1937): a historian, mystic, logician, and pilgrim whose life and works straddled the Qing and its socialist aftermath, between the monastery and the party scientific academy. With author Matthew King.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | Alternative Food Movement in China
A huge component of Dr. Caroline Merrifield’s field research was studying food provisioning - she served as an informal apprentice to the head of procurement at a farm-to-table restaurant in Hangzhou. She will talk about the restaurant's supplier network and foodshed within the larger context of the alternative food movement and the cultural politics of food in China.
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976): Four Time Oscar Nominated Drama With Robert De Niro And Jodie Foster
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action by attempting to liberate a presidential campaign worker and an underage prostitute. 114 min. Director: Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd. Taxi Driver was nominated for four Academy Awards, including for Best Picture, Best Actor (for De Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (for Foster), it won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
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
Free
Free
Tour | Tour The Battery
Learn about the park's rich history, many important landmarks and monuments, the Seaglass Carousel, 195,000 square feet of beautiful perennial gardens designed by renowned Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf, and so much more! Tours last about an hour. Thursdays, April 25-October 31, 2019
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12:50 pm
Free
Free
Gallery Talk | Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler: Exhibition Tour
The collection of Audrey B. Heckler is emblematic of the growth of the field of self-taught art in the United States, which manifests a strong interest for African American artists, a consistent attention on American classics, a curiosity for European art brut, and a search for international discoveries. For the last twenty-seven years, Heckler has surrounded herself with excellent examples by the most significant artists associated to this art niche, among them Emery Blagdon, Aloïse Corbaz, William Edmondson, August Klett, Augustin Lesage, Martín Ramírez, Thornton Dial, and Anna Zemánková.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Author Reading | The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines Between War and Peace
Oscar Jonsson's book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia's current thinking about war is reflected in recent crises. While other books describe current Russian practice, Jonsson provides the long view to show how Russian military strategic thinking has developed from the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. He examines Russian primary sources including security doctrines and the writings and statements of Russian military theorists and political elites.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Master Class | Guitar Master Class with Two time Latin Grammy nominee
Featuring Brazilian guitar virtuoso and composer, João Luiz, this master class provides music lovers with a rare opportunity to witness the interaction between students and a great artist as they examine and explore the craft of performance at the highest level. Two time Latin Grammy nominee guitarist João Luiz' guitar ensemble and chamber music repertoire covers all the main works in the guitar literature from Dowland to Berio and Brazilian rhythms from Choro to Baião. For five years João performed and recorded with the classical guitar quartet Quaternaglia, one of Brazil’s most important chamber music ensembles.
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
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
$10 suggested donation
Classical Music | Music in Midtown: Beethoven, Brahms, Grieg
Acclaimed Israeli pianist Daniel Gortler has delighted audiences and critics alike with memorable performances around the world, receiving great praise for his technical mastery and musical ingenuity. Members of the Shanghai Quartet, Weigang Li and Yi-Wen Jiang, violins, Honggang Li, viola, and Nicholas Tzavaras, cello, will join Gortler in a presentation of the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Grieg.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Pipes At One Organ Recital
Avi Stein, organ, of Trinity Church Wall Street.
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1:00 pm
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Free
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.
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1:15 pm
Free
Free
Concert | Medieval Music From Scotland
Collectio Musicorum presents a works by Robert Johnson, a 16th Scottish composer/priest. Robert Johnson escaped execution for heresy during the Reformation by escaping to England, where he continued to write music and preach. His music and memory were virtually erased from Scottish history until the musicologist Elaine Moohan unearthed his compositions in English and continental collections. Collectio Musicorum ("Collection of Music") is an ensemble devoted to giving the best possible performances of music from the earliest of times. They combine the latest musicological research with the highest possible level of musicianship to present historically informed concerts that are both scholarly and entertaining. Featuring vocalists: Amanda Sidebottom Patrick Fennig Nate Adams Richard Lippold Jeff Dailey.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Free
Film | A Dog's Journey (2019): Dog Finds The Meaning Of His Existence
A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets. 109 min. Director: Gail Mancuso. Starring Josh Gad, Dennis Quaid, Kathryn Prescott. A Dog's Journey grossed $22.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $49.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $71.7 million.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977): Oscar Winning Sci-Fi By Steven Spielberg
Roy Neary, an electric lineman, watches how his quiet and ordinary daily life turns upside down after a close encounter with a UFO. 138 min. Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr. In December 2007, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The movie was nominated for 8 Oscars at the 50th Academy Awards, including Best Director, Supporting Actress, Visual Effects, Art Direction, Original Music Score, Film Editing, and Sound. It also won the award for Best Cinematography.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Possessed (1947): Oscar Nominated Film-Noir Drama
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there. 108 min. Director: Curtis Bernhardt. Starring Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey. Joan Crawford was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress.
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2:00 pm
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Free
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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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Tour | Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs 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
Free
Free
Film | Avengers: Endgame (2019): Highest Grossing Movie Of The Year
After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers assemble once more in order to reverse Thanos' actions and restore balance to the universe. 181 min. Directors: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo. Avengers: Endgame has grossed over $2.7 billion worldwide, surpassing Infinity War's entire theatrical run in just eleven days, setting numerous highest-grossing film and box office records, and becoming the highest-grossing film of 2019, as well as the second-highest of all time.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Free
Discussion | Learn What Your Money Can Do for You
This class is designed to help investors focus on their goals, to recognize the potential risks and rewards of different investments, to teach some basic information about different asset types, and to help match individual goals to investment choices. Useful information sources will be reviewed.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
Free
Free
Performance | Performance for One: Slippery Memory
Performance for One is a one-on-one performance event written and directed by Edward Einhorn, presented in 10-minute slots at venues across Manhattan. The performance is about memory, but even more so, it is about relationship between performer, audience member, and author. What is the responsibility of the audience member, and how is it felt differently when there is only one audience member? Who is the story teller, the author or the performer? What happens to a memory that two people share after one of those people is gone? Presented by Untitled Theater Company.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Free
Opening Reception | Touch This Page! Making Sense of the Ways We Read
An exhibition about multisensory experiences of reading. Its central objects are 3D replicas from historical books for blind and low-vision readers printed between 1830 and 1910.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Adult Coloring Club
Discover the fun and calming benefits of coloring. Color, relax and enjoy. Coloring supplies will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring their own materials too.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Master Class | Piano Master Class
Pianist Richard Goode is a classical pianist who is especially known for his interpretations of Mozart and Beethoven. He has appeared at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Lincoln Center, and for the Chicago Symphony. Other orchestral appearances include the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and in Europe with the London Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, and BBC Philharmonic.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Free
Lecture | Trapped in the Maze: Family Multi-Institutional Involvement, Poverty, and Inequality
Family multi-institutional involvement and its influence on social inequality are relatively understudied phenomena. Using qualitative data from 2011-2017 on 63 primarily low-income families in NYC, this project analyzes how families’ experiences in social control institutions (e.g., courts, hospitals, child welfare, public assistance, schools) exacerbate inequality. Analyzing these experiences requires extending previous conceptualizations of family institutional involvement beyond one generation or household. Speaker Leslie Paik is an associate professor of sociology at The City College of New York.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Birdwatching | Fall Birding Tour
Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season with a guided tour. Located in the heart of midtown, the park is a hot spot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will’s-widow!
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5:00 pm
Free
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Film | Pawn Sacrifice (2014): Cold War Between Chess Grandmasters
Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire. 115 min. Director: Edward Zwick. Starring Tobey Maguire, Liev Schreiber, Peter Sarsgaard. Director Edward Zwick explained the meaning of the film's title: "You have Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon calling Bobby Fischer; you have Brezhnev and the KGB agents following Boris Spassky. Both of these men were pawns of their nations".
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Talk | World-Renowned Performance Artist Karen Finley
Working in a variety of mediums such as installation, video, performance, public art, visual art, entertainment, television and film, memorials, music, and literature, Karen Finley has presented her work worldwide in various venues such as The Bobino in Paris, The ICA in London and Lincoln Center in NYC.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | By My Window: Decorative and Modernist Traditions
Robert Kushner’s ongoing fascination with decorative and modernist traditions, the use of fabric as a form of cultural expression, and the interfacing of ‘high’ and ‘low’ traditions is evident in this sumptuous exhibition of new paintings.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | EmBody: 2-Artist Exhibition
A joint show by artists Susan Kaplow and Pam Shields. Shields' scrolls and charcoal drawings move through space and time, lightness and dark, rendering the body in charcoal and ink. Kaplow's fiber sculptures present the body in its power and beauty, its woundedness and healing. Although the artists made their work without consultation or collaboration, they decided to join forces when they realized how their bodily visions dialogued with and complemented one another.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Girl Rising (2013): The Transformative Power of Education
A documentary film about the transformative power of education in the lives of girls around the world. The film follows nine unforgettable girls living in the developing world who confront tremendous challenges and overcome nearly impossible odds to pursue their dreams. Director: Richard E. Robbins 101 mins.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | Memento: Dejected Glory of Rock 'n' Roll
Oh no love, you're not alone', David Bowie pleads to the melancholy artist trudging the streets in 'Rock 'n' Roll Suicide', the smudged lyrics of which are chalked onto a blackboard in Memento. Bowie both sees and mourns the self-destruction and understands the lacerating shadows that an artist must live and work with in order to create something immortal. The paintings of Andrew Dykes reinterpret iconic portraits of great stars who struggled with self-destruction and in many cases were overpowered by it to the point of death. There is irony in the contrast between the resilient, creative self-invention (and re-invention) of artists and the way in which, after death, their images are re-interpreted as symbols of a latent tragedy.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Silencing the Bomb: Verifying the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and Preventing Nuclear War
Lynn R. Sykes, Higgins Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, discusses his new book.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Steve DeFrank: Recent Works:
An exhibition of recent works by faculty member and alumnus Steve DeFrank. DeFrank has prepared the following statement about his work: "I’m a queer man making queer paintings in a post-gay art world. We are at a crossroads with the heterosexualization of gay culture. Assimilation dampens identity; the shift of societies (some, not all) to integrate gay folks and their culture is a loss as well as a gain. There is a cost for having a more homogeneous world, a more homogenous art world, a blandness that feels very dry. Queer demands to be seen. The paintings share a dandified staging, a restrained fantastical flamboyance, with a modernist sensibility. I am synthesizing abstraction and a cartoony queer comic figuration. This dualism in the paintings contributes something that is secondary to the work but something it couldn’t exist without. That tension keeps me on the edge."
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted: Whisked Away
Jack Carlson is suffering through another awkward school day when he suddenly finds himself transported to the Hadley Academy, a secret institution that tracks teens with unlikely gifts and trains them to protect the world from a secret squad of killers. But Jack isn’t the only one who doesn’t know what he’s doing at Hadley. Despite indications that he is the one prophesied to end the ancient Reaper War, Jack appears to have no extraordinary abilities. Author Conor Grennan used to live in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he rescued trafficked children and reunited them with their families in remote mountain villages. He wrote a book about those adventures called Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | The Masters Series: Steve Brodner
Prolific illustrator and faculty member Steve Brodner will be homored with the 31st annual Masters Series Award and Exhibition in 2019. The Masters Series: Steve Brodner will be a comprehensive retrospective of his celebrated career and include never-before-seen political art and illustration work set along a timeline covering the past five decades.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists
An exhibition of more than 140 drawings by imprisoned artists from around the globe. Featuring works produced over a roughly two-hundred-year period, the exhibition presents powerful evidence of the persistence of human creativity in the most inhumane of circumstances. For each of the incarcerated artists represented in The Pencil Is a Key, the act of putting pencil to paper is a vehicle through which they proclaim their individuality and measure their humanity against systems of repression. Together, their drawings are containers of memories, records that bear witness, tools for survival, weapons in the fight for justice, and portals to a better future.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | There’s a better life and you think about it, don’t you?: Celebrating Labor Organizing
A joyous evening of singing and celebration featuring vocal and choral performances that share the spirit of Ruth Ewan’s commission Silent Agitator. Ewan’s commission is a giant clock based on an illustration originally produced for the Industrial Workers of the World labor union by the North American writer and labor activist Ralph Chaplin that reads “What time is it? Time to organize!” Building on this history, the performers in There’s a better life and you think about it, don’t you? use music to relieve the fatigue of organizing and celebrate labor rights victories, activists, and historical movements. Tayo Aluko will perform excerpts from his one-person show, Call Mr. Robeson, about the life and times of the singer and activist Paul Robeson; the Sing in Solidarity Chorus will sing a selection of their original choral arrangements for lyrics from the IWW’s Little Red Songbook; Lynn Marie Smith will bring her energetic covers of pop songs recast with labor organizing lyrics; NYC Labor Chorus will sing selections from their repertoire developed over the last 28 years of singing together; and Brooklyn Women’s Chorus will sing works including “We Were There” that speak to the central role of women in labor organizing. Morgan Bassichis will host the evening. Additionally, there will be live silk-screening of vintage IWW posters available on-site, provided by Shoestring Press.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Toward the Invisible: Making Light Palpable
An overview of Lynn Stern’s work, this exhibition features prints from 18 of her 24 series of photographs, tracing the increasing abstraction of her imagery. From the interior spaces of the early Interior Light series in which she thinks of “the architectural planes as vehicles that make the light reverberate,” to the in-progress Mystic Light series, her goal is to “make the light palpable.”
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Versailles '73: American Runway Revolution (2012): French Fashion Face-Off
This critically acclaimed documentary recounts the 1973 “Battle of Versailles” fashion face-off between American and French designers at Chateau de Versailles that catapulted African American models onto the European stage and made a name for American designers overseas. Director: Deborah Riley Draper 91 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | West: The American Cowboy
Photographer Anouk Krantz discusses her book featuring rich images of mysterious and inspiring elements of Amereican culture.
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Park Walk | East Side Evening Stroll
Come after work for an evening stroll along part of Central Park's East Side. Guides lead you on a casual walk from the southeast corner of the park to Bethesda Terrace. Learn about the Zoo, the Arsenal, Balto, The Mall, Bethesda Terrace and Fountain, and the Lake on this tour designed for New York summer evenings.
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Discussion | How To Reinvent Your Career
Would you like to make a career change but aren’t sure how to go about it? David Lees helps you reconnect to who you are at your core to envision a career move that works for you. This class will inspire and motivate you so you'll be more optimistic and confident about your new career direction. The discussion includes:
Learn the secret to changing careers
Be more aware of your unique personal strengths, skills and passions
Create a vision statement to help you find your next fulfilling job opportunity
Learn how to use the internet to search for the career you want
Since 2008, David Lees has been coaching professionals in career transition at the NY State Department of Labor. He has also proudly worked with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, including returning Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan re-entering the workforce. David has been a featured motivational speaker for corporate retreats and with non-profit organizations in New York City.
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Lecture | Narratives of Solidarity and Inequality: Social Class and Ethical Value in Argentina
CUNY professor Sarah Muir will examine middle-class narratives of ethical awakening in the aftermath of Argentina’s 2001-2002 financial crisis. These narratives helped orient middle-class volunteers toward the ethical value of inter-class solidarity, while also echoing the very patterns of racialized and classed inequality the narrators sought to overcome. Tracing this paradoxical dynamic, Muir will show how discourses of solidarity can unintentionally create new forms of distinction, hierarchy, and exclusion.
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Lecture | Reconstructing Nietzsche, Contextually
Matthew Meyer of the University of Scranton defends a contextual reconstruction of Nietzsche’s philosophical project. This contextualist reconstruction contrasts with the rationalist reconstruction predominant in contemporary Anglo-American scholarship.
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Lecture | The Voices of the Victims: The Rohingyas and Their "Subhuman" Life
The Rohingyas, widely known as the world's most persecuted ethnic minority, experienced an unprecedented brutality committed by Myanmar security forces along in collaboration with some ethnic extremists and Buddhist fundamentalist. Under the pretext of counter insurgency following an alleged attack by ARSA on August 25, 2017 onwards, Myanmar security forces indiscriminately killed, randomly raped and intentionally burnt houses and properties of the civilian Rohingya people in Rakhine state. Accounts gathered by speaker Nasir Uddin from the Rohingyas living in Ukhia and Teknaf unfold the horrible ways they were dealt with as if they were lesser than human beings what Uddin terms "subhuman" life. This talk presents the first-hand narratives of the Rohingya refugees, the voices of the victims, in the broader spectrum of statelessness, refugeehood and human rights in the world.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Author Reading | Before the Devil Fell: Deliciously Dark and Atmospheric Suspense
Neil Olson launches his long-awaited new book. The critically acclaimed author of The Black Painting returns with a deliciously dark and atmospheric suspense for fans of Dennis Lehane and Gillian Flynn. The book dives into the intertwined families of a small New England town, and the history of witchcraft that binds them.
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop: mass culture that have emerged from beyond the Western world
India produces between 1,500 and 2,000 films a year. Magnificent Century, Turkey's biggest dizi, or soap opera, is watched by upward of 200 million people across 43 countries. Gangnam Style famously became the first YouTube video to garner 1 billion views. New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-pop examines the undeniable surge of a global pop culture that has overtaken the mantel previously held by America. Drawing on interviews, research, and her personal experience of growing up between Syria and Pakistan, Kabul-born author Fatima Bhutto delves into the forces at play behind the new arbiters of mass culture that have emerged from beyond the Western world. Bhutto, who is the author of two novels and the memoir, Songs of Blood and Sword, about her father Murtaza Bhutto's life and assassination, speaks with Thessaly La Force, the features director of T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
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6:30 pm
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Film | Leadersheep (2011): A 10-Year Struggle for Justice
How did a group of isolated farmers, clueless about politics, manage to win a fight against the French government’s decision to extend a military camp over their land? This documentary focuses on a 10-year long struggle for justice and freedom. Deep in the French countryside, the Larzac became the birthplace of the anti-globalisation movement in France. Yet they did not use weapons to defend themselves, only tractors and sheep. Director: Christian Rouaud 118 min.
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Film | Ushui: Documentary on Women Shamans
Ushui is about Sagas—women shamans—and their wisdom and relation to water; how to give birth and raise children, to sing to the spirits, and what to do when they turn against us like Shekuita, the bad thunder that destroyed the town of Kemakúmake. Produced by the Bunkuaneyuman Communications Collective of indigenous Wiwa people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. Screening followed by a conversation with Amalia Córdova, NYU, José Gregorio Mojica Gil, Researcher, and Rafael Mojica Gil, Photographer.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | America's Death Penalty Problem: An ACLU Panel
This event will focus on why states around the nation are turning their back on the death penalty at the same moment the federal government is reinstating it. Panelists include: - Alexis Hoag, the inaugural Practitioner in Residence at the Eric Holder Initiative for Civil & Political Rights at Columbia University and a Lecturer at Columbia Law - Anthony Graves, an organizer, activist, author of Infinite Hope and U.S. Death Row Exoneree #138 - Cassandra Stubbs, the Director of the ACLU Capital Punishment Project - Chris McDaniel, the news producer at Last Week Tonight who has reported on lethal injection for more than five years - Hannah Cox, the National Manager of Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty and a Newsmax Insider where she writes about criminal justice reform at her column, Life and Liberty - Jeffery Robinson, a deputy legal director and the director of the ACLU Trone Center for Justice and Equality, which houses the organization's work on criminal justice, racial justice, and reform issues, moderates.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk and Poetry Reading
On the occasion of Plumb Line, Loie Hollowell's debut exhibition in New York, this will be a special talk and poetry reading in the gallery with the artist, independent curator Diana Nawi and poet Iris Cushing.
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Workshop | Yoga Flow
Link mindful breath with movement in this full spectrum yoga practice that includes modifications and intensifications depending on experience level. Veteran Nina Semczuk helps you cultivate strength, flexibility, balance, and focus while enjoying yoga outdoors. Please bring a mat. Every Thursday from May 23 to June 27, 2019, and July 11 to October 31, 2019.
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Para-architectural projects / Stage
Para-architectural projects: In 1971, Robert Morris produced some twenty large, ink-on-paper drawings that as a series reveal an expansive imaginary architectural complex. Many of these drawings were first exhibited in Morris’s 1971 Tate Gallery retrospective, where they were titled Para-architectural projects—observations, exercise courts, aqueducts, courts, concourse, etc. Stage: Archipelago is a project by artist Chris Domenick composed of five kitchen islands occupying various sites around New York City. Throughout the fall of 2019, each island will have its own event—some islands will inhabit their spaces for a day, some for a month, some for longer. For seven weeks Stage will live in a space activated by public events like voting, blood drives, and gallery openings.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Forces: 5 Ground-Breaking Contemporary Artists
A group exhibition comprised of five ground-breaking contemporary artists from around the globe. Forces bridges traditional and 21st century mediums through the common ebb and flow of natural elements that are responsible for creating the delicate ecosystem we all share today. With: Norman Mooney | Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi | Tedd Collier | Sarrita King Nampin | Tarrise King Nampin
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Author Reading | Last Letters: The Correspondence of Freya and Helmuth von Moltke
Goethe-Institut New York will be hosting a reading and discussion of Helmuth and Freya von Moltke’s Last Letters: The Prison Correspondence 1944-1945, translated by Shelley Frisch. The work is a profoundly personal record of the couple’s love, faith, and courage in the face of fascism and will be discussed by their grandchildren, Dorothea and Johannes von Moltke, and son, Helmuth Casar von Moltke, all of whom worked to edit the remarkable collection. Author and Vanderbilt professor of German Studies Meike Werner will moderate the discussion.
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Author Reading | No Judgments: Stranded by a Hurricane
When a massive hurricane severs all power and cell service to Little Bridge Island—as well as its connection to the mainland—twenty-five-year-old Bree Beckham isn’t worried . . . at first. She’s already escaped one storm—her emotionally abusive ex—so a hurricane seems like it will be a piece of cake. With author Meg Cabot.
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Poetry Reading | Telescope: Making the Abstract Concrete
For over fifty years, Michael Heller has been building one of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary American poetry. A poet who digs in and thinks hard, a poet who, in the tradition of George Open, makes the abstract concrete and the concrete abstract, Heller is a writer who returns again and again to his major themes, the better to rethink them anew. With his new collection of poems, Telescope, he makes his long-awaited return.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness
Discover an eye-opening and provocative new way to look at our health based on the latest groundbreaking discoveries in the science of compassion, kindness, and human connection. With author Kelli Harding.
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Discussion | The Storyteller: One of Walter Benjamin's Most Important Works
Walter Benjamin’s essay The Storyteller is one of his most important—a profound meditation on the contrast between storytelling and mass communication and the immense significance of the apparent fact that “Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly.” On the occasion of NYRB’s publication of The Storyteller and related essays to examine the meaning and enduring relevance of Benjamin’s essay—for modern politics, communication, literature, and sensibility. With Christine Smallwood, Suzanne Schneider, Ajay Singh Chaudhary, translator Tess Lewis, and novelist Alexandra Kleeman. A light reception will follow the talk.
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Discussion | Authors in Conversation
Novelist Kiran Desai is the author of The Inheritance of Loss, winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, and Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard. She is teaching this fall at the Graduate Creative Writing Program. Maaza Mengiste’s debut novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, was selected by the Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books and named one of the best books of 2010 by Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe and other publications. Her second novel is The Shadow King (W. W. Norton, September 2019).
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Discussion | Celebrating Gay Rights Activist Edie Windsor
An evening of never-heard-before stories about Edie Windsor’s indelible life. The first 100 attendees will receive a free copy of her memoir. In 2013, Edie Windsor’s landmark Supreme Court case overturned Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, paving the way for same-sex marriage in all fifty states. Her riveting memoir, A Wild and Precious Life, will be published posthumously by St. Martin’s Press on October 8. Moderated by David Mixner, Windsor’s close friend and legendary LGBTQ and civil rights activist. Panelists: Judith Kasen-Windsor, Windsor’s spouse Joshua Lyon, co-author of A Wild and Precious Life
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Jazz | Jazz Trio
Music from the Chien Chien Lu Trio featuring Chien Chien Lu on vibraphone, Jongku “JK” Kim on drums, and Richie Goods on bass.
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Talk | The Art and History of Mystery Writing
A talk with famed New York Times writer and critic Marilyn Stasio. Featured writers will include: Wilkie Collins Josephine Tey John D McDonald PD James Marcia Muller Sue Grafton Sara Paretsky Walter Mosley James Lee Burke Lee Child and likely many more!
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Opening Reception | Gymnasium: New Wall Painting
In this new wall painting, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi (b. 1980, USA) continues to work with key themes and imagery from an ongoing series of paintings titled Gymnasium. Elite gymnastics occupies a powerful symbolic position in the public imagination—the human body performing at, and sometimes seemingly beyond, the limits of the possible. The gymnasium is a stage where dramas are enacted under a gaze of intense scrutiny. Gymnasts become actors, producing layered narratives of far-reaching metaphorical and political significance. One of the most personally affecting narratives in the recent history of the sport has been that of the precarious position of the Black body in traditionally white spaces.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Brass Ensemble Perfoms Works by J.S. Bach, Strauss and more
MSM Brass Ensemble conducted by Kyle Ritenauer. Program Richard Strauss Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare Morten Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium Percy Grainger Lincolnshire Posy J.S. Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor Gunter Schuller Symphony for Brass and Percussion
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Jazz | Exploring Connections Between Afro-Cuban, Bolero, and Jazz
Havana-born artist Melvis Santa made a splash on the Cuban musical scene at 14, when she founded the collective Sexto Sentido--a project that jazz great Chucho Valdes deemed "the best Cuban vocal quartet of the past 30 years." The multitalented singer, composer, pianist, Afro-Cuban dancer, actress, and educator went on to perform at the historic Minton's Playhouse jazz club, Birdland, and the Zinc Bar, among other storied music venues. Santa, a 2018 Grammy nominee for Best Latin Jazz Album, now brings her band's rich palette of Latin sounds with their new project, Ashedi.
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Classical Music | Piano Works by Stravinsky, Schubert
PROGRAM: Franz Schubert: Two Characteristic Marches, D. 886; Rondo in A major, D. 951; Duo in A minor, "Lebensstürme," D. 947 Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring With: Larry Weng, piano Wayne Weng, piano
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Play | To Life: Meet the Rosens
The Rosen family, battered and blessed, celebrates Jeffrey’s life as their hearts lie gasping on the floor. Backs are turned and accusations hurled as the Rosens come together and fall apart, bound by heartbreak and humor. Nobody escapes a good kick in the tuchas as they expose their foibles, confront their fears, and cling to their fragile connection amidst the chaos. The story is both elegy and eulogy to the death of a family and reminds us that we’re not alone. Written by Eve Lederman.
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Jazz | Jazz Trio
Music from the Chien Chien Lu Trio featuring Chien Chien Lu on vibraphone, Jongku "JK" Kim on drums, and Richie Goods on bass.
New York City, NY; NYC
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