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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 12, 2019?
82 free events take place on Thursday, September 12 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 September 12 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 September . 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 September 12, 2019?
82 free events take place on Thursday, September 12 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 September 12 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 September . 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!
82 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, September 12, 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 | Tai Chi in the Park
A morning class provided by the Tai Chi Chuan Center and led by teachers and students who train at CK Chu Tai Chi under the direction of Master Hyland Harris. Tuesdays and Thursdays, May 7-September 26, 2019
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
Free
Free
Workshop | Sunrise Yoga
Rise and shine and begin your morning with an outdoor yoga class that will help align your chakras and invigorate your day. Instructors focus on movements meant to enhance posture alignment and increase flexibility and balance. All levels welcome. Bringing your own mat is encouraged, as provided accessories are first come first serve.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
Free
Free
Workshop | Sacred Sounds Yoga
Get your yoga on in the park this summer and fall with Sacred Sounds Yoga. Breathe, move, and stretch. Please bring your own yoga mat. Wednesdays and Thursdays, June 6-September 19, 2019
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 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
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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10:00 am
Free
Free
Film | Flame of Barbary Coast (1945): Two Time Oscar Nominated Western With John Wayne
A rancher from Montana opens a casino in San Francisco after he falls in love with a saloon singer and hires her away from his rival across the street, only to lose everything in the 1906 earthquake. 91 min. Director: Joseph Kane. Starring John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut. Flame of Barbary Coast was nominated for two Academy Awards; Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Sound Recording.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free
Free
Lesson | Adult Coloring Group
Coloring can be done by anyone of any age, not just artists or creative types. Coloring can have therapeutic benefits such as alleviating stress and anxiety. Many have compared the benefits of coloring to achieving relaxation from meditation. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own!
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free
Free
Workshop | Essentials for Job Seekers: Resumes
Looking for a job? Discover what tools to use to find vacancies, learn inside tips from a certified Talent Acquisition Strategist on where to find job postings and what HR is looking for in your application. Laptops will be first-come-first-served; bring your own if you have one. Also bring paper copies of your resume/cover letter, or have the file accessible via email or flash drive. All levels of experience welcome. Please do not arrive late interrupting the class.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
Free
Free
Film | His Girl Friday (1940): She Learned About Men From Him
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. 92 min. Director: Howard Hawks. Starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy. His Girl Friday was selected in 1993 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Guided Falun Dafa Meditation Class
Stress relief, gain wisdom and work toward enlightenment
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
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: Kuni Mikami, 12 Years with Lionel Hampton’s Big Band
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:50 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 | Pipes At One Organ Recital
Janet Yieh, organ. Organist Janet Yieh has given concert tours throughout the United States and across the globe, performing at such prestigious venues as New York's Alice Tully Hall, Washington's National Cathedral, Yale University's Woolsey Hall, Taipei's St. John's Cathedral, Malaysia's St. Thomas's Cathedral, and Japan's Momoyama St. Andrew's University Chapel. She has appeared in collaboration with the Paul Winter Consort, the Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center, and Trinity's NOVUS NY at Carnegie Hall.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
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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1:15 pm
Free
Free
Classical Music | Examples Of Earliest Organ Music
Gwendolyn Toth, organ. Organ music from the earliest sources such as Buxheimer Orgelbuch, Kleber Tabulatur, Klagenfurter Tabulatur, and Luneburg Tabulatur.
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1:15 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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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | Gabriel Over the White House (1933): Political Fantasy
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident. 86 min. Director: Gregory La Cava. Starring Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | Long Shot (2019) With Charlize Theron: His Childhood Crush Running For Presidency
Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly. 125 min. Director: Jonathan Levine. Starring Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, June Diane Raphael.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Performance | Parade of the Moles: Exploring Greenwich Village
French theater director and visual artist Philippe Quesne invites you into a parallel universe where there are no humans and no words. In this mysterious underground world, larger-than-life moles are not solitary creatures, but the architects of something between a utopian community and a punk rock band. In this event, the Moles will venture forth to explore the great outdoors and Greenwich Village landmarks. The public is invited to join in this informal parade as the Moles explore the neighborhood.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | The Intruder (2019): Previous Owner Of The House Refuses To Leave
A young married couple buys a beautiful house on several acres of land, only to find out that the man they bought it from refuses to let go of the property. 102 min. Director: Deon Taylor. Starring Michael Ealy, Meagan Good, Dennis Quaid. The Intruder grossed $35.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $36.4 million, against a production budget of around $8 million.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Lesson | Researching The History Of Your New York City Home
Have you ever wondered about the history of your home? Who used to live there or what their lives were like? This class will show you how to research the history of your building and the people who owned and lived in it. The Milstein Division is home to one of the largest free United States history, local history and genealogy collections in the country. Looking at censuses, city directories, land conveyances, and photographs, newspapers and local histories available at the New York Public Library, and at other New York City institutions, you will learn how to construct a narrative history of your home.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | Fighting with My Family (2019): Sports Comedy Based On A True Story With Dwayne Johnson
A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment. 108 min. Director: Stephen Merchant. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Lena Headey, Vince Vaughn. Fighting with My Family has grossed $23 million in the United States and Canada, and $16.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $39.1 million, against a production budget of $11 million.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Diplomacy Movement Workshop
Camilo Godoy hosts a movement workshop that explores the power dynamics of the Cold War era and how it intersected with the choreography of José Limón.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 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
Workshop | Human Chess
Play as your favorite game piece and navigate the chess board from inside at the Human Chess games, where chess becomes an embodied team sport. All levels welcome! Thursdays, September 5-26, 2019
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | Reconstructing New Lives. The Experience in Mexico of Recent Deportees from the United States
Rafael Alarcón of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana will analyze the reasons for the detention and removal of Mexican male migrants from the United States using survey data and case studies of recent deportees living in Tijuana, Mexico. He will also examine the future plans of fathers of U.S. Citizen and DACA children living in the United States.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
Free
Free
Author Reading | Globalism and Localization: Emergent Approaches to Ecological and Social Crises
Within this collection, contributors expound upon the connection between local and global phenomenon within their respective fields including social ecology, climate justice, ecopsychology, big history, peace ecology, social justice, community resilience, indigenous rights, permaculture, food justice, liberatory politics, and both transformative and transpersonal studies. The following panel of authors will discuss their experiences in addressing the ecological and social crises highlighted in the book: -- Jeanine M. Canty, Professor and Chair, Environmental Studies department at Naropa University. Introduction and Chapter 3, The Ties That Bind: An Earth-Based Story of Home -- Brian Tokar, Director, Institute for Social Ecology and Professor, Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont. Chapter 1, Climate Justice and the Challenge of Local Solution -- Ana I. Baptista, Chair, Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management MS program at Milano. Chapter 8, The Evolution of the Environmental Justice Movement: Translocal Voices for Systemic Transformations -- Asoka Bandarage, Consultant and Practitioner, in social philosophy & consciousness, environmental sustainability, human well-being, international development, and political economy. Chapter 9, Ethical Path to Ecological and Social Survival
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5:00 pm
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Free
Opening Reception | Gowend Garden: Video Work by a German Artist
An exhibition of new works by Cologne-based artist Melike Kara. This is Kara’s first solo exhibition in the United States. A video work is projected onto windows in the gallery. It shows eight pairs of dancing feet, moving in unison. They perform multiple traditional Kurdish dances to the beat of a drum with a fluctuating rhythm, beginning slow, becoming faster and faster. Gowend is a word used to describe this type of dance, coming from the Zazaki dialect spoken by the artist’s family.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
Free
Free
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!
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | Living with Disability: About Us / Far from the Tree
– 5 p.m. // Book launch of About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times, with editor and contributor Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and New York Times series and book editor Peter Catapano, contributor and preface author Andrew Solomon, and contributors Alice Sheppard and Rachel Kolb. – 6 p.m. // Screening and discussion of Andrew Solomon’s award-winning film, Far From the Tree, followed by talk-back with Solomon, documentary directors Jamila Ephron and Rachel Dretzin, and film protagonists disability advocate Emily Kingsley, her disability activist Down Syndrome adult son Jason Kingsley, and his roomates Yaniv Gorodischer and Ray Frost. Reception to follow. RSVP, or email emily.rogers@nyu.edu. Co-sponsored by: The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute; The Center for Media, Culture and History; and Liveright Publishing Corporation. With generous support from: GSAS Dean Phillip Brian Harper and the Graduate School of Arts & Science; FAS Dean for the Humanities Carolyn Dinshaw, Dean for the Humanities; and FAS Dean for Social Sciences David Stasavage. + Google Calendar+ iCal Export Details Date: September 12 Time: 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Website: https://forms.gle/DuPoSsPabvySyrtZ6 Organizer NYU Center for Disability Studies Phone:
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5:00 pm
Free
Free
Forum | US Interventionism and the Perils of Iranian Diaspora Activism
Since the early days of the Trump administration, numerous U.S. government officials have started to meet with many renowned Iranian opposition groups and activists in diaspora, and actively attempted to recruit them to create an image of a solidified Iranian opposition that seeks the support of the US in its alleged fight for democracy and human rights in Iran. The speakers of this panel will explore the socio-political impacts and legal pay-off of this meaningful shift of the Trump administration toward Iranian activists and dissidents in diaspora. With: -- Abdee Kalantari, Iranian Freelance Journalist -- Saharnaz Samaeinejad, University of Toronto -- Saira Rafiee, Graduate Center, CUNY -- Setareh Shohadaei, New School for Social Research
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | A Beautiful Woman Eating a Spinach and Artichoke Dip Quesadilla: Carpet Paintings
Jessica Campbell has created an installation cataloguing the convergence of multiple histories: painting, craft, weaving, posters, wallpaper, quilting, cartooning, photography and personal narrative. Building off an ongoing research project on historical feminist figures and collectives, this group of works draws on personal as well as historical memory and combines them to create compositions referencing traditional painting subject matter. Campbell utilises material born out of a craft tradition; collaged carpet referencing latch hook rug aesthetics. Thus, Campbell terms these “carpet paintings.”
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Clay: Group Show
An exhibition featuring some of the most dynamic ceramic artwork in New York City this summer/ The exhibition includes artwork by: Joan Bankemper Judy Fox Viola Frey Tony Marsh Jesse Small
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Crossroads: Photographing Vibrant Traditional Spanish Costume
The photographs of Txema Yeste in his first solo exhibition. Yeste began his career as a photojournalist and has maintained a long-time commitment to photographing vibrant traditional Spanish costume. Both influences are reflected in his fashion photographs. This exhibition provides a glimpse into a world of powerful and sophisticated figures with strong and arresting faces and monumental bodies, often in motion. The work also acknowledges the growing diversity of expression and representation in the contemporary fashion world. Yeste's unique color sensibility and passion for the photographic medium are particularly evident in the dye transfer prints included in the exhibition. Dye-transfer prints are made with 4 separate color plates and showcase these contemporary images using one of the oldest and richest methods of printing color photography. Txema Yeste was born in Spain and lives in Barcelona. His inspiration comes from music, film, art, and the world around him. He has photographed the advertising campaigns for Chanel, Giorgio Armani, Lancome, and Yves Saint Laurent and his work appears in international editions of VOGUE, Vanity Fair, and Numero, among other publications.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Deserto-Modelo: A Play Between Light and Color
An exhibition of new work will be paintings that revolve around a play between light and color. Some are near-monochromatic compositions verging on abstraction, while others depict vaguely familiar vistas, including seascapes and wild forests, which are always painted from memory. All are built up with textured brushwork and grounded by an ever-present—if sometimes faint—horizon line that offers a perception of distance. In his “monochromes,” the artist applies paint to presaturated canvases, further blurring the notions of foreground and background. As he has noted, light and color are used to uncover a “sensation, a state of mind suspended within the medium of paint … that can’t be grasped through language because there aren’t sufficient visual elements to describe it.”
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | Embodiment: The Representation of Bodies
A group exhibition of works by Pope.L, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Cheyenne Julien and Tschabalala Self that explores the representation of bodies— both figuratively and abstracted, through language and image— in public and private spaces within a flattened plane.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Heavy Rag: Women's Work
Zoë Buckman’s first solo show with the gallery is explicitly linked to women’s work. Culled from deeply personal experience, the exhibition embraces the domestic archetype by balancing an ambiguity between vulnerability and strength. Occupying the three floors of the gallery, the bodies of work are interconnected by the manifestation of the artist’s relationship to physical spaces—the home, her mother’s kitchen table, the boxing gym.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | Heavy Sauce: Group Show
For this show, gallery artists were presented with a quotation by the artist Lee Lozano (1930–1999) as a starting point for a discussion about the physical, psychological, and sociological nature of New York City. In her NYC 1960s notebook, Lozano wrote: “Every day thousands of pounds of paint are applied to buildings in NYC, signs, benches, etc., which can only mean that the city is getting heavier and heavier.”
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | Indeterminate Hypothesis: Five Monumental Sculptures
An exhibition of work by French conceptual artist Bernar Venet (b. 1941). Consisting of five monumental Indeterminate Line sculptures, this exhibition marks Venet’s third solo show with Kasmin and will be on view in the gallery’s flagship space at 509 West 27th Street, opening September 12, 2019. This is the first time the series has been shown in a gallery in the United States since 2002.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | Kyrie: Hidden Narratives Behind Mundane Moments
A solo exhibition of works by Mikiko Hara, an award-winning Japanese artist known for her square-format snapshot photography. In Hara's latest series Kyrie - the title of which is inspired by its mystic sound rather than its origin in Christianity - the artist's intuitive eye taps into hidden narratives behind seemingly mundane moments in the suburbs of Tokyo. Hara utilizes a classic film camera to unassumingly approach her subjects at close range.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | Linus Coraggio: Ramifications
A one-man show of sculpture, painting, and mixed media. Street artist and New York City native Coraggio is best known for his abstract metal sculpture. An ardent proponent of recycling, he uses materials that can be found in vacant lots or building sites across Lower Manhattan and the city’s outer boroughs. This use of found materials is an essential component of his process. Coraggio’s richly graphic, welded street constructions provided a 3-D counterpoint to the 2-D graffiti street art by contemporaries Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as the masters of New York subway graffiti. Coraggio was a central figure in downtown New York’s early period of explosive art experimentation and cross-pollination of cultural ideas.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Lumina: Blown-Glass Sculptures and Vessels
Ritsue Mishima’s first solo presentation in New York features new blown glass sculptures and vessels by the Japanese artist. Textured and multidimensional, her work reflects and manipulates light, simultaneously illuminating their settings and becoming embedded within the surroundings.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | My World Is in Your Blind Spot: Remembering Tibetans' Sacrifices
Tenzing Rigdol's exhibition consists of five large mixed-media panels. The central buddha silhouettes greet the viewer in their recognizable cross-legged seated positions--a posture often associated with meditation and peace--and with a stunning visual effect enhanced by the use of silks and fire imagery. But the composed aesthetic of the series belies the meaning behind it. The fires seemingly emerging from the bodies of the buddhas reference the over 155 Tibetans who have self-immolated since February 27, 2009. In an ultimate act of sacrifice, these Tibetans set themselves on fire with the hope of bringing attention to the oppression currently faced by their society under the imposed laws of the Chinese government. And yet, the buddhas can seem peaceful, even welcoming in their balanced postures, their calming presences perfectly harmonized by an artist well-versed in representing both destruction and construction. The contradictions on display in this exhibition are meant to challenge us. They are simultaneously safe and subversive: beautiful to look at, devastating to comprehend.
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Opening Reception | Robots/Femmebots: The Nature of Artificial Intelligence
Cast in polished bronze and aluminum, Mia Fonssagrives Solow's otherworldy works expore the nature of artificial intelligence.
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Opening Reception | Tears in abstraction: Addressing Trauma
In these works, Mike Cloud speaks to the suffering of a series of named individuals, addressing their trauma within the language of abstraction. Collecting his new Hanging and Beheading Paintings, the show further elaborates the artist’s continuing exploration into painting’s intrinsic relationship to death. Cloud uses abstraction to offer the viewer an aesthetic account of individuality, death and the empathic space of communion in absence of the political mechanisms of personal, racial, cultural and gendered identification.
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Opening Reception | The Bather's Dilemma: Pneumatic Sculptural and Moving-Image Works
A series of pneumatic sculptural and moving-image works constructed of nylon fabric and powered by industrial fans, alongside painted “towel works,” and preparatory models. Paul Chan reconsiders the “bather,” a motif employed in compositions by artists like Matisse and Cezanne to express changing ideas of the body, pleasure, nature and society. For Chan, the “bather” in the 21st century is caught perilously between the pursuit of personal pleasure and suffering for social progress.
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Author Reading | The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories with Pulitzer Winner Jhumpa Lahiri
A landmark collection of stories--nearly half appearing in English for the first time--selected and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri, who now lives in Italy.
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Opening Reception | Town and Country: Grand Yet Intimate Paintings
A solo exhibition by Rebecca Morgan includes new oil paintings on panel, grand in their detail yet intimate in scale, and never before shown busts, which elevate Morgan's characters into regal brass, with a meticulous surface of pimples, chest hair, and crooked teeth. This new work crystallizes Morgan's use of art history and Americana to build archetypal characters straining against their roles. Themes of women, fabricated notions of romance, and the current crisis of masculinity come to life in her exquisitely rendered works. Morgan's narratives exist simultaneously in the past and present. Buxom maidens echo women painted by men over the ages and current conversations about gender, revealing a fresh look at American myths.
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Opening Reception | Who's Afraid of Verticality?: Hand-Forged Iron and Copper Sculptures
Who’s Afraid of Verticality? is comprised of eight hand-forged iron and copper sculptures. Demonstrative of Alain Kirili’s lifelong fascination with verticality, the selection traces an investigation of the subject in abstract sculpture and exhibits a subtle drive for aesthetic diversity. For five decades, the artist has cultivated a practice that embeds a formalist rigor with a humanist warmth. The exhibition is marked by an appreciation for abstract signs in three-dimensional space, one which spurs a dialogue with high relief that Kirili views as being a celebration of life, or la joie de vivre.
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Opening Reception | Within the Shadows: World-Renowned Japanese Photographer
A solo exhibition of work by world-renowned Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama. This is the gallery's first show with the artist since announcing exclusive New York representation in January.
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Concert | Orchestra Performs Works By Modern Composers
Program Paola Prestini Sanctus Julia Wolfe Flowers David Lang learn to fly Jessie Montgomery Source Code Julian Wachner Blood Rubies and Beyond Paradise Ellen Reid Lumee’s aria Ed Thomas Anna’s aria Trevor Weston Given Sound Du Yun Boy Angel’s aria Philip Glass XII. Dedication Trinity Church Wall Street’s contemporary music orchestra NOVUS NY is under the leadership of Trinity’s Director of Music, Julian Wachner. Hailed by the New Yorker as “expert and versatile musicians,” its members perform new music from all corners of the repertoire, meeting “every challenge with an impressive combination of discipline and imagination” (New York Classical Review). NOVUS NY has helped pioneer a number of major new operas. These include Ellen Reid’s Winter’s Child and Du Yun’s Angel’s Bone, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for music.
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Lecture | Original Copies: The Pre-History of the Facsimile
Called "the nightmare of book collectors" by John Carter and Nicolas Barker, facsimiles do not hold a particularly revered position in bibliography and book history. The opposite of the venerated "original," facsimiles are seen as a compromise at best and a downright deception at worst. This talk looks to re-examine the idea of the facsimile by exploring its pre-history in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Before the invention of lithography and photography in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (not to mention current advances in digital reproduction), scholars and printers employed creative technical strategies to reproduce the visual qualities of particular textual artefacts like inscriptions or manuscripts. Exploring a few case studies, this talk will think about how and why early print copied material objects that came before - and, in the process, rethink and expand our understanding of what facsimile means. Speakers include Jane Raisch, University of York
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Tour | Summer Garden Tour
Get to know every detail of the park's plant life while walking through the park with one of the knowledgeable staff horticulturists. Discover how our perennials, grasses, shrubs, and trees change as seasons pass, what plants are native, which are edible and medicinal, and how they take care of more than 500 varieties of plants growing in the park. This tour will highlight the ornamental grasses and wildflowers.
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Author Reading | Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
A discussion with author Kate Kirkpatrick on her ground-breaking biography, which draws on Simone de Beauvoir’s never-before-published diaries and letters, to tell the fascinating story of how this French philosopher, writer and iconic feminist became herself.
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Author Reading | Everybody Wants to Go To Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: A Disscussion About Healthcare System
Over the last 60 years an unprecedented revolution in healthcare has helped millions of Americans benefit from advancements in areas such as gene editing, reproductive technology, and organ transplants—but what about the legal and ethical challenges posed by continuing evolutions within medical science? And why in this country today do we pay far more for health care while having among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality of any affluent nation? Amy Gutmann, the president of the University of Pennsylvania, and Jonathan D. Moreno, a renowned professor of medical ethics and health policy, both served on President Obama’s bioethics commission. Their new book, Everybody Wants to Go To Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die blends history and public policy to examine some of the most fundamental challenges faced in the American healthcare system. They speak with The New Yorker’s David Remnick about the American paradox of wanting to have it all without paying the price.
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Author Reading | Get the Funk Out! %^&* Happens, What to Do Next!
Radio host Janeane Bernstein will tell you what to do next when you belly flop into another one of life's funks. Her book explores the upside of landing in a funk and the importance of self-care, mental health and personal development.
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Author Reading | Native Country of the Heart: An Intimate Portrait of the U.S.-Mexican Diaspora
Cherríe Moraga, the celebrated activist, writer, and co-editor of the influential anthology This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, holds a reading and discussion of her new memoir, a love letter to her mother and an intimate portrait of the U.S.-Mexican diaspora. She will speak to the issue of cultural amnesia in the United States and the recuperation of ancestral memory toward the radicalization of political consciousness and activism for the future.
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Concert | An Open-Air Concert in a Beautiful Courtyard
An open-air concert in our beautiful courtyard featuring Uta Habbig & Band. Born and raised in Cologne, Germany, Uta Habbig is a singer/multi-instrumentalist, composer and educator in NYC. In her original music she combines elements of jazz, folk, and classical music. Together with her band she will present her new project The Small Hours - original songs and arrangements, telling stories about the city, life and love.
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Discussion | Architectural Research in the Digital Age
In conjunction with the exhibition How to Build a House, a panel discussion – Architectural Research in the Digital Age – will take place. Participants Benjamin Dillenburger, Mania Aghaei Meibodi, Jenny Sabin, and Skylar Tibbits will give presentations of their work, followed by a discussion moderated by Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler. Introductions by Dean Nader Tehrani and Hannes Mayer.
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: The Reverse of Landscape
Artist Catalina De La Cruz discusses her exhibition of photochemical books The Reverse of Landscape in both English and Spanish.
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Workshop | Café Anxiety Drawing Club International
Café Anxiety Drawing Club International is a virtual café in the form of a mobile group chat, where participants are encouraged to share their daily lives and stream of consciousness through a regular practice of drawing exchange. Artist Joeun Kim Aatchim, founder of Café Anxiety, will lead a workshop and collective drawing session in which participants will be asked to bring their own drawings, draw on site, and to respond to eachother’s work through spontaneous drawing exchange. A live band will help set the evening’s tone. Participants should bring two or three drawings.
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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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Workshop | Yoga in the Park
Stretch, breathe, and find your inner peace at evening yoga classes. Bring a mat. Thursdays, May 2--September 19, 2019
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Workshop | Yoga on the Hudson
Enhance your yoga practice with skilled instructors and a rejuvenating river view. Bring your own mat! Thursdays, June 6-September 12, 2019 (except July 4)
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Movie in a Park | Captain Marvel (2019): Superheroics with Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law (Outdoors)
Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck 123 min. Grab a blanket or towel and come enjoy a movie in the park. Glass bottles and alcoholic beverages are strictly prohibited. You should arrive before 7:30 p.m. to get your spot. Feel free to bring a blanket to sit on.
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Author Reading | Gotti's Boys: The Mafia Crew That Killed for John Gotti
They called him the “Teflon Don.” But in his short reign as the head of the Gambino crime family, John Gotti wracked up a lifetime of charges from gambling, extortion, and tax evasion to racketeering, conspiracy, and five convictions of murder. He didn’t do it alone. Surrounding himself with a rogues gallery of contract killers, fixers, and enforcers, he built one of the richest, most powerful crime empires in modern history. Who were these men? Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano takes you inside Gotti’s inner circle to reveal the dark hearts and violent deeds of the most remorseless and cold-blooded characters in organized crime. Men so vicious even the other Mafia families were terrified of them.
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Author Reading | Improv for Writers: 10 Secrets to Help Novelists and Screenwriters Bypass Writer’s Block and Generate Infinite Ideas
Free yourself from writer’s block and inner critics with the creative power of improv. The author, Jorjeana Marie, will be joined by poet Kim Dower.
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Performance | Mobility Device: Collaborative Performance Art on Navigating Surroundings
Carmen Papalia, an artist and disability activist, presents Mobility Device, an innovative, collaborative performance in which he is accompanied by a marching band that plays a site-reactive score as guidance for navigating his surroundings. The work transforms the white cane—a symbol of someone with visual impairment—into a collective, sonic experience that opens up ways of thinking about care, collaboration, and a normative hierarchy of the senses. Papalia will work with the Hungry March Band, an 18-person ensemble founded in 1997 for the Mermaid Parade. With this work, he urges visitors to experience public spaces through the non-visual world.
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Author Reading | The Dragon Lady: A Woman Ahead of Her Time
Louisa Treger returns, bringing to life the untold story of another fiercely independent and inspiring woman ahead of her time: Lady Virginia (Ginie) Courtauld, the "Dragon Lady," so-called for the exotic tattoo snaking up her leg. Treger recounts Ginie's extraordinary life, from the glamorous Italian Riviera of the 1920s to the sultry, segregated Rhodesia of the 1950s.
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Author Reading | The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature
The Heart of a Stranger charts the history of our world’s civilizations through the prism of exile, taking the reader from Ancient Egypt to the present day through three hundred pages of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. The anthology spans six continents and twenty-four languages and is divided into six sections, which have been arranged thematically and chronologically. Highlights include the wisdom of the 5th century Desert Fathers and Mothers, the Siculo-Arabic poetry of Ibn Hamdis, Moses ibn Ezra, an excerpt from Dante’s Paradise, the Byzantine poet Michael Marullus, the Swahili Song of Liyongo, The Flight of the Irish Earls, Madame de Staël’s reflections after leaving Napoleon’s Paris, Emma Goldman’s travails in the wake of the First Red Scare, and the Syrian poet Nizar Qabbani’s ode to the lost world of Andalusia, concluding with a selection of work by more contemporary exiles, like the Uyghur poet Ahmetjan Osman, the Moroccan writer Abdellatif Laâbi, our old friend Alessandro Spina, and the Italo-Eritrean fabulist Ribka Sibhatu. Editor André Naffis-Sahely will be in conversation with: Jenny Xie Graywolf poet) Aaron Robertson (Lit Hub Editor and translator of Ethiopian memoirist Martha Nasibù) Jonathan Galassi (poet and translator, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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Talk | Hitler's Hostage Art
Mary M. Lane, former chief European art reporter at The Wall Street Journal and the author of Hitler's Last Hostages, will discuss how Hitler's obsession with art fueled his vision of a purified Nazi state, and the fate of the artwork that was hidden, stolen, or destroyed to "cleanse" German culture.
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Jazz | Jazz on the Pier
For New York music lovers and visitors alike, smooth tunes return to the pier. Tonight: David Schnitter Quartet
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Opening Reception | Photoville Celebrates Community
United Photo Industries (UPI) and the Photoville family as celebrate the photo community. Presenting the latest work of many in the photo world including: the Magnum Foundation, For Freedoms, Bronx Documentary Center, Batsi’ Lab, Facing Change: Documenting America, and introducing UPI’s new project Community Heroes, and announcing the photographers for the national project We, Women.
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Discussion | Poets in Conversation
Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of five poetry collections, including The Octopus Museum; So Much Synth; and Our Andromeda, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, The International Griffin Prize, and the PEN Open Book Award. A 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, she is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark. Hosted by Creative Writing Program Director Deborah Landau, the author of four poetry collections, most recently Soft Targets.
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Performance | Mobility Device: Collaborative Performance Art on Navigating Surroundings
Carmen Papalia, an artist and disability activist, presents Mobility Device, an innovative, collaborative performance in which he is accompanied by a marching band that plays a site-reactive score as guidance for navigating his surroundings. The work transforms the white cane—a symbol of someone with visual impairment—into a collective, sonic experience that opens up ways of thinking about care, collaboration, and a normative hierarchy of the senses. Papalia will work with the Hungry March Band, an 18-person ensemble founded in 1997 for the Mermaid Parade. With this work, he urges visitors to experience public spaces through the non-visual world.
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Concert | Traditional Colombian Rhythms with Caribbean Influences
Musician Kiko Villamizar fuses traditional Colombian rhythms with Caribbean influences, performing with a psychedelically electric ensemble that includes traditional Afro-Caribbean drums and the Colombian gaita flute.
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Performance | Oh Heroine How I Love You!: Modern Play Passing Through Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
75 min. Writer, Director: Callie Nestleroth. Performer: Sara Page. Meet with Cathy Earnshaw in her world from Emily Bronte's classic tale Wuthering Heights, and be taken by her on a journey that goes beyond the confines of her book. Whether from the many film adaptations, or Kate Bush's singular song, Cathy and Heathcliff are infamous characters. But do we ever consider the effect they have on those who learn their story? Oh Heroine How I Love You! transports you into the book and onto the Moors, to voyage with Cathy in this interactive one-woman show. A ghostly character, Cathy's grasp of her reality is fraught, and as she catapults between worlds the audience is taken along for the ride. You feel as if you are reading a book that has come to life around you and in being immersed in her world are called upon to assist this character who is lost in her own adaptations. In learning who Cathy is, we learn who Emily Bronte is, and unlock this enigmatic author with questions about feminist agency and the ownership one has to tell their own story. No intermission, please be prepared to walk and interact with the performer.
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