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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 29, 2022?

45 free events take place on Thursday, September 29 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 29 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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45 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, September 29, 2022

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free events nyc Peace and War: Music from the German Courts (in-person and online)
free events nyc European Fine Art: Vermeer, Rembrandt and More
free events nyc Vanished Waters: The Old Springs, Wells and Watercourses of Bloomingdale Manhattan Neigborhood (online)
free events nyc Of Surviving and Living: Viennese Stories
free events nyc Period Instrument Ensemble: Sounds of Galileo's World
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Workshop | Pick Up Pickleball


An exciting fusion of badminton and tennis, pickleball has been proven to strengthen muscles, boost cardiovascular health, and enhance brain function. BPCA is proudly working with NYC Pickleball to offer beginner pickleball classes to the community. All equipment will be provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Park Walk | Macro Photo Walk


Come out to NYC for a Macro Photo Walk with Heather Larkin. Learn about easy ways to get better closeup photos with a macro lens. You’ll have an opportunity to test loaner gear. Learn how to find critters or interesting flowers. This walk will cover things like shutter speed and aperture for close-up photos, plus macro photography composition, subject framing, and techniques for getting good focus. Larkin will be teaching her methods on how to slow down and see the world so many people miss.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Choice or Chance? Driver-Labor and Reproductive Justice


Taxis are often perceived as vastly different from gigged driving companies like Uber and Lyft, in large part because gigged driving companies spend billions of dollars every year marketing themselves this way. In contrast, Spent Behind the Wheel (2022), co-authored by Kasturi Ray and Julietta Hua, traces the ways traditional taxis and the gigged driving sector have more commonalities than differences. Most importantly, both share the presumption of, and ground their profits in, unfettered access to drivers’ reproductive labor. Drivers, we find, work to support the social reproduction, or full life-flourishing of others, at the expense of their own life chances. However, the masculinized bodies of drivers occlude the reproductive nature of their work, and along with it, the ways that the siphoning of drivers’ reproductive capacities structures industry accumulation across the taxi and gigged sectors. This presentation deploys a reproductive justice lens, broadly understood, to understand the gendered and racial conditions of labor that structure the passenger ride-for-hire industry, whether taxi or gig.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Discussion | Forgotten, Ignored, and Distorted Histories of Romani People: Past and Present (online)


Scholars Ethel Brooks, Ioanida Costache, and László Csősz move between past and present as they plumb the history of anti-Roma racist violence, and the erasure of that history even as the violence persists. Drawing upon testimonies and documents, their presentations reveal individual, communal, and institutional obstacles to remembrance and education.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Symposium | The Global Politics of Restoring Africa's Cultural Heritage (online)


Speakers:  • Dr. Monica Hanna is an international figure in the world of Archaeology. She is Acting Dean, College of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage at The Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport in Cairo, Egypt. • Dan Hicks is a writer, academic and curator. He is the author of The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence, and Cultural Restitution (Pluto Press, 2020).  • Molemo Moiloa is an artist and researcher based in Johannesburg. She is one half of the artists duo MADEYOULOOK and director of Andani.Africa. • Ibrahima Niang is a Dakar-based team manager for the Open Society Foundations' Global Initiative for the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage • Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy is Professor of Modern Art History at the Institute of Art Studies and Historical Urban Studies at the Technische Universität Berlin since 2009. The session will be moderated by Sean Jacobs, associate professor of international affairs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Artists Talk: Paper as a Medium (online)


Artist talk with Workspace Residency alumni Juan Hinojosa, Melissa Joseph, and Fanny Allié in conversation with curator Eliana Blechman. Learn more about each artist’s practice, their exploration of paper as a medium, and their time working in the Dieu Donné studio.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Peace and War: Music from the German Courts (in-person and online)


Melanie Williams, flute; David Bakamjian, cello; Rebecca Pechefsky, harpsichord While eighteenth-century aristocrats often waged wars, music created an oasis of peace. Quantz and C.P.E. Bach worked for Frederick the Great, known both for aggressive militarism and a passion for music. Franz Xaver Richter, by contrast, worked for the less bellicose Elector of Bavaria, while J.S. Bach wrote masterpieces for the music-loving Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Kothen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
Free

Workshop | Juggling in the Park


Jugglers use the park throughout the year to provide free classes to the public. Stop by for a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Challenging the ‘Official Story' of U.S. Migration Policy History (in-person and online)


The project starts with the official story of U.S. migration policy history as portrayed by DHS and works to challenge its historical accuracy. The presentation covers antebellum U.S. migration policy, focusing on the colonial period when mechanisms of sifting migrants were created. These policies and laws were continued through the early republic and antebellum period when states and localities retained virtually exclusive control over the freedom of movement and remain. I Professor Anna Law argues that in the antebellum period, slavery policy was politically and constitutionally inseparable from broader migration policy. She will show that unpopular groups including the foreign and domestic poor and sickly migrants, and free and enslaved Black people faced a subnational patchwork of restrictions on their freedom of movement for over a century. That long period of subnational control ended with the federalization of migration controls in 1882, marked by the federal Chinese Exclusion Act. The presentation ends with some of the contemporary political implications of one’s historical amnesia of antebellum U.S. migration policy history.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museums | European Fine Art: Vermeer, Rembrandt and More


This museum of fine art was open to the public in 1935. Its permanent collection features masterpieces by major European artists from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. Exhibitions also include sculptures, furniture, porcelain items, textiles and more. Children under 10 are not admitted.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
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Lecture | The Noomechanics of Theater: Brecht and Tret'iakov


In addition to the famous biomechanical theater of the avant-garde, there was a second path that opened after the collapse of naturalistic drama: a noomechanical theater of coordinated, collective thinking. This talk investigates the communicative architectures that the playwrights Bertolt Brecht and Sergei Tret'iakov developed in the 1920s to organize the thought of the performers and induce acts of mass cognition. With Devin Fore (Princeton University).
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Juggling in the Park


Jugglers use the park throughout the year to provide free classes to the public. Stop by for a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Emily Stedman: Remembered Gardens—Watercolors of Capricious Nature


The wildflower series on display evokes feelings of impermanence and fragility. In their short time of bursting exuberance, the flowers symbolize how delicate and fragile life is. Their magnificent beauty is on display for a moment but doesn't last. It leaves us remembering, wondering, and longing for their return in a future season—the cycle of life. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Emily Stedman: Remembered Gardens


Stedman's current wildflower series evokes feelings of impermanence and fragility. In their short time of bursting exuberance, the flowers symbolize how delicate and fragile life is. Their magnificent beauty is on display for a moment but doesn't last. It leaves us remembering, wondering, and longing for their return in a future season—the cycle of life. 
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Book Discussion | How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel Spanning Continents and Centuries (online)


Sequoia Nagamatsu's novel is one of the most celebrated debuts of the year, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient book. From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resilience of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Finding Black Joy in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan


Where do we find Black joy in the archive? How do we evaluate claims of interracial affection or friendship made by white imperialists? Using case studies of servants, sex, and food, Marie Grace Brown addresses these questions and more in her examination of everyday life in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. She argues that the search for Black joy—whether we find it or not—is a new, critical responsibility for today’s racially conscious scholars.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Justice and the Developing Brain: Revisiting People Incarcerated as Youth


The harshness of youth justice in the United States is notorious. In some states, 16- or 17-year-old children involved in serious offenses can be tried and punished as adults. Likewise, children may be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and can even serve periods of their sentence in solitary confinement. Meanwhile, developmental sciences have been contributing critical knowledge about the developmental trajectories of the brain and their reflections on social behavior. Extensive neurodevelopmental research has demonstrated that a “bright-line” age for adulthood is not reflective of the variability in brain maturity. It has further highlighted that children are exceptionally vulnerable to adverse social experiences and that (re)traumatizing events (such as incarceration) can entail disruptive effects on healthy development, with negative repercussions throughout life. This discussion will explore how knowledge from neurodevelopmental sciences can drive systemic change in youth justice policy. Law, science, and justice experts will discuss how this body of evidence can support avenues for meaningful youth justice reform, including shifting the youth justice system from harsh punitiveness to education, healing, and rehabilitation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Birdwatching | Park Birding Tour


Spot a wonderful diversity of birds that visit the park during migratory season with guided tours by NYC Audubon. Located in the heart of Midtown, our park is a hotspot 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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Book Discussion | Cities and Economic Inequality in Latin America: Intra-Urban Inequality in Argentina


Lena Simet's book examines trends and determinants of economic inequality in cities in Latin America, the world’s most unequal region. It explores how the gap between the haves and the have nots manifests in every part of urban life – from housing to schooling to employment. It asks why some cities have higher inequality than others and what we can learn from these differences as we push back against inequality.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Eve’s Rib: Group Show


With: Aili Shmeltz Keisha Prioleau-Martin Future Retrieval Lindsay Rogers Elizabeth Pena Alvarez Haylie Jimenez Adam Lefebre Alessandro Gallo Yeh Rim Soo Jin Choi Justin Paik Reese Adam Chau Lisa Schilling Raoul Pacheco Dasha Bazanova Melissa Joseph  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis


Co-editors Alyosha Goldstein and Simón Ventura Trujillo discuss their collection of powerful BIPOC voices who offer a range of anticolonial, Indigenous, and Black Radical traditions to think with.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Nina Chanel Abney: Framily Ties — You Win Some, You Lose Some


A solo exhibition of large-scale prints and collages by American painter Nina Chanel Abney (b. 1982, Chicago). The exhibition will center Abney’s monumental works on paper, a medium which she has developed into a pillar of her practice over the course of four years of collaborations with Pace Editions’ master printers. Beginning with relief printing processes that render Abney’s graphic forms in richly saturated oil-based inks, the artist then cuts and combines printed elements into immersive collaged compositions that use all of the myriad imagery and symbolism of her personal lexicon. The tensions between geometric figures and patterns and the vibrant interaction of colors give Abney's work their distinctive formal energy, which draws on the legacy of Henri Matisse's découpage works.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Press Release: Group Exhibition


The exhibition explores how feelings of pressure and tension –be they physical, social, or emotional– have become unsustainable and what new dimensions of release –in protest, in violence, in loving acts, and mutual care– have been created in response to the relationship between the power of pressure and the pressure of media and art production at large.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Radical Practice: The Work of Marlon Blackwell Architects


Radical Practice celebrates the extraordinary, award-winning designs of Marlon Blackwell Architects, an Arkansas-based firm with a focus on public and civic projects that are located outside of the established centers of architectural culture. The distinct and original work of Marlon Blackwell Architects has produced iconic and award-winning designs across building types, scales, and budgets. Located in Arkansas, the firm merges the universal language of architecture and the particulars of place, a process that has resulted in a distinguished body of work, from schools to parks and beyond.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk: Transforming Social Structures


A conversation between Rick Lowe and his longtime friends Tom Finkelpearl, author and former commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and Eugenie Tsai, senior curator of contemporary art at the Brooklyn Museum, will discuss how Lowe’s new paintings evolve from his ongoing community project, moving beyond the conventions of visual practice, as well as their shared interest in transforming social structures and policies to effect change.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Broadstone Women in the City: Various Poets


Broadstone Women in the City: Broadstone Books is a Kentucky-based imprint, which started out as a regional press, but then became national and even international today. Six Broadstone poets from the New York area read from recent books spanning topics as diverse as the experience of women to the sixth extinction. Poets: Amy Barone (Defying Extinction); Susana H. Case (The Damage Done); Lily Greenberg (In the Shape of a Woman); Ann Lauinger (Persuasions of Fall); Margo Taft Stever (The End of Horses); Estha Weiner (This Insubstantial Pageant)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Cultural Sovereignty and the Fight for Native American Artifact Restitution


For more than 100 years, the United States was the largest single collector of Native American artifacts and human remains. In 1990, Congress approved landmark legislation to restore those artifacts and human remains to living Native communities. What followed was a massive restitution effort, which set in motion new configurations of sovereignty, stewardship, and the rights of the dead. This talk asks why this happened, and with what consequences for a sociological theory of cultural sovereignty. Presented by Professor Fiona Rose Greenland (University of Virginia)  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Poets in Conversation


A poetry reading and roundtable talk between Jenny Xie, Natalie Wee, Cynthia Dewi Oka, and George Abraham on their new collections, the possibilities and limitations of language work, and rest and fatigue from the margins. This talk will be moderated by Asian American Writers’ Workshop editor Yi Wei.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Rebuilding After 9/11: How the FDNY Was Forever Changed


In the aftermath of 9/11, the FDNY faced a terrible reality: 343 active-duty members had been killed in the attacks, including much of its leadership. The department needed to rebuild from top to bottom, while caring for grieving members and 9/11 families, deploying firefighters to the World Trade Center site for the rescue and recovery operation, and providing fire protection for the city. Former FDNY Fire Commissioners Thomas Von Essen, Salvatore Cassano, and Daniel A. Nigro are joined by Brian McDonald, author of Five Floors Up, which chronicles the life of Chief William Feehan, the only person to have held every rank in the FDNY, who was killed on 9/11. They will reflect on the history of the FDNY, the experience of the department on 9/11, and how the department rebuilt.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Saludos desde Mariúpol: Covering Ukraine for the Spanish Audience (in-person and online)


A discussion with writer Argemino Barro, moderated by Yuri Shevchuk. In the Spanish media landscape, the shadow of Russia has always loomed large over the image of Ukraine: a confusion fueled by geographical distance and historical myth-making. The Russian-Ukrainian war that began in 2014 and the current large-scale invasion have created an opportunity for Spanish journalists to get to know Ukraine, challenge stereotypes and engage in a dialogue with the readers back home. An ongoing process that nevertheless has brought some change.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | The Melancholic Renaissance: Dürer and After


A discussion of melancholy in the modern world must begin with Dürer’s "Melencolia I." Its theme, the speaker suggests, is the drama and tragedy of intellectual life. The pursuit of knowledge begins with passion, excitement, even mania. In extreme forms, it may become (or be mistaken for) madness. Even (or especially) with success, it culminates in apathy and depression. Dürer’s view had its critics. One was Cranach the Elder, who produced a number of painting depicting Melancholy as a witch, seducing those unwise enough to fall under her spell. But despite Cranach’s warnings (and those of his master, Luther), the threat of melancholy, or perhaps its temptations, remained powerful. In this context, the speaker will discuss the Renaissance’s best known melancholic, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | City of Science; A Conversation with Nobel Prize Winner Phillip Sharp and Pulitzer-Winning Cancer Researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee (in-person and online)


A stimulating conversation between two great scientific minds. Molecular biologist Phillip A. Sharp received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of “split genes,” which has been fundamental to medical research on the development of cancer and other diseases. Sharp is an institute professor at MIT and member of its Department of Biology and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research; he also co-founded the biotech companies Biogen and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. He speaks about his groundbreaking work with Siddhartha Mukherjee, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, a faculty member at Columbia University Medical Center, and a cancer physician and researcher. Mukherjee is also the author of The Gene: An Intimate History and the forthcoming The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Talk | Vanished Waters: The Old Springs, Wells and Watercourses of Bloomingdale Manhattan Neigborhood (online)


It's very possible that there's a stream running under the basement of the building where you live. Or that there was once a well at the corner of your block. Water has always been an important part of Bloomingdale neighborhood history. Streams and ponds covered our landscape before the Dutch arrived and when the Croton Aqueduct came right through Bloomingdale, it changed the neighborhood forever. Some 120 years ago, James Ruell Smith, an interesting fellow with a camera and a bicycle, found and documented every spring and well in the area. Gil Tauber and Jim Mackin will cover all this and much more in this illustrated presentation created especially for the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Kick the Latch: Life at the Racetrack


Kathryn Scanlan's novel vividly captures the arc of one woman's life at the racetrack--the flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner's circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy suits and fancy boots; and the "particular language" of "grooms, jockeys, trainers, racing secretaries, stewards, pony people, hotwalkers, everybody"--with economy and integrity.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Of Surviving and Living: Viennese Stories


An insight into the lives of 7 Jewish Austrians who survived the Holocaust in various ways. Lucia survived hidden in a workshop, Blacky survived several concentration camps, Walter escaped to Palestine, Elfi was concealed from her Jewish father, Kurt survived in a labor camp in Karaganda, Alfred survived in a small Italian mountain village and Helga survived Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. They all live in Vienna again today, in the place where everything started back in 1938. The film is not a historical memorial but tells different life stories. At the end of each portrait are images from contemporary Vienna related to the narrated story. The film screening will be followed by a short presentation of the Regiobiograph project that builds upon the films content and historic research.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | The West Wing and Beyond: What I Saw Inside the Presidency: Photographs of the Obama Years


Bestselling author and former presidential photographer Pete Souza will share rarely-seen photographs and tell stories from his new book. Following his presentation, Souza will take questions from the audience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Unraveling the Extended Guitar: Documentary on a Musical Technique


The first North American screening of the new documentary film with Mário da Silva, distinguished guitarist, composer, innovator, and teacher. Directed by acclaimed Brazilian documentarian Anaí Bagnolin, the film centers on three mainstream Brazilian composers who use extended technique in their works: Edino Krieger, Arthur Kampela, and Chico Mello. The film is an extension of a doctoral dissertation that explores these composers' aesthetic. The event will include a screening of the film, plus demonstrations by Mário da Silva and discussion with the audience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory


Jeanne Morefield's book is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said's influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Arguing that the generative power of Said's thought extends well beyond Orientalism, the book explores Said's writings on the experience of exile, the practice of "contrapuntal" criticism, and the illuminating potential of worldly humanism. Said's critical vision, Morefield argues, provides a fresh perspective on debates in political theory about subjectivity, global justice, identity, and the history of political thought. Most importantly, she maintains, Said's approach offers theorists a model of how to bring the insights developed through historical analyses of imperialism and anti-colonialism to bear on critiques of contemporary global crises and the politics of American foreign policy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Maritime Film Festival


A three-part film festival celebrating the rich coastal culture, maritime traditions, and legacy of human engagement with New York's harbor. The film: A World Within a World: Long Island Bay Houses examines the lives, history, and experiences of bay house owners in the Town of Hempstead from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Based on fieldwork by folklorist and maritime ethnographer Nancy Solomon of Long Island Traditions, local filmmakers Barbara Weber and Greg Blank capture the essence of how bay house owners have persevered and endured through severe storms and hurricanes as well as eroding marshlands all while preserving traditions that began in the early 19th century. The film profiles Long Island families who have owned bay houses for over 100 years including the Muller, McNeece, Burchianti, Warasila and Jankoski families. The screening will include a discussion and Q & A session with the filmmakers - Barbara Weber and Greg Blank - and Nancy Solomon of Long Island Traditions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Period Instrument Ensemble: Sounds of Galileo's World


From Galileo to the James Webb: a concert, talk and preview of excerpts from Galileo's Daughters' film "Perpetual Motion." Galileo's Daughters was founded by soprano Sarah Pillow in 2001 to present a different kind of early music recital that combines music, spoken word and the visual arts to create thought-provoking and intriguing programs. Praised for her "gorgeous" singing (Sunday London Times), Sarah and Mary Anne Ballard, viola da gamba, along with special guests, present performances that clarify the vibrant relationship between science, the arts, human thought and faith.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie


Investigative journalist and author Gary Weiss discusses his newly released book with writer Kurt Boone. Weiss has covered fraud and corruption on Wall Street for over a quarter century and the book - a biography of Eddie Antar- details the rise and fall of the celebrated electronics chain.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Performance | The Art of Forgiveness


Is there an art to forgiveness? This a powerful compilation of stories, plays, and poems performed by The Braid reveals the secrets to forgiving, and wonders...do we ever forget? Celebrate and honor the High Holidays, a time of renewal, repentance, and forgiveness, with the Museum through this moving and thought-provoking virtual performance. Delve into these essential themes with stories that cover sibling rivalry, betrayal, ex-husbands, a German's plea for forgiveness, and one woman's ability to forgive herself after a horrible accident.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Comedy Club | Bomb Shelter Comedy Show


Bomb Shelter is a free weekly comedy show in New York City where you'll find some of the best comedians performing. Expect free pizza.
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