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free events nyc 4th Annual Camp Doughboy WWI History Weekend
free events nyc Flatiron District Walking Tour
free events nyc Grammy Nominated Choir Performs Work By the Most Important German Composer Before JS Bach
        

Festival | 4th Annual Camp Doughboy WWI History Weekend


The fourth annual Camp Doughboy World War I History Weekend will bring living history, reenactors, authors, more experts, vintage vehicles, and animals. This is the largest free public WWI exhibition in the United States. Reenactors representing the Allies and Central Powers--as well as civilians in Edwardian-era attire--are invited living history participants. The centennial of the service members returning to Governors Island is in 2019 and this group of volunteer reenactors will share the story of WWI participants. See living history, weapons and equipment displays, and vintage vehicles. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 am
Free

Tour | River Nature Walk


Learn about the park’s wildlife by joining knowledgeable naturalists on guided nature walks along the more park’s esplanade. Don’t forget to take photos! Sundays, June 2-September 22, 2019 less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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Park Walk | Freshkills Park Discovery Day Walk


Duration: 7-8 hours. Distance: 8-10 miles. There are 8 miles of paths to walk, there are various tours more given during the day and there are free bikes for those who want to ride. The plan is to start the day by walking around the park, then a quick lunch break, then join the 2:00 Landfill History Tour, then catch a shuttle back to the ferry. The last shuttle bus back to the ferry leaves the park at 4:15. Bring lunch, snacks, water, hat, sunscreen, etc. there is no food, water, or shade in Freshkills Park and only porta-potties. less
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9:45 am
$3

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 more 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 less
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10:00 am
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Gallery Talk | T. C. Cannon: At the Edge of America: Exhibition Tour


A 45-minute tour. One of the most influential, innovative and talented Native American artists of the more 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. Start times: 10 a.m., 11 a.m. less
   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.
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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.
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Yoga Sundays


Please be sure to bring your own yoga mat. With Active Spaces and volunteer Katy Nelson. Sundays, more August 4-September 29, 2019 less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Flatiron District Walking Tour


A journey through the vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the City's most notable landmarks, including more the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building. Tour guides: Miriam Berman, historian and the author of Madison Square: The Park and Its Celebrated Landmarks and New York in Words and Images, a book of New York postcards. Fred Cookinham, historian, author of The Age of Rand: Imagining an Objectivist Future World. Mike Kaback, a native New Yorker, has an unquenchable enthusiasm for everything about this city. No advance registration is required. This tour repeats every Sunday. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
Free

Workshop | Tejal Yoga


Tejal Yoga is back, overlooking the Fountain, the blooming Bosque, and majestic Lady Liberty for open-level yoga practice. more Bring your own mat. No additional music other than sounds of the park and nature. No props or towels provided. Sundays, June 2-September 29, 2019 less
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11:30 am
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Festival | Community Day Block Party


Celebrate the Lower East Side at Community Day. This unique highlights the importance of community by more sharing in food, music, and family-friendly activities together. less
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Community Rowing


Village Community Boathouse provides free, no experience necessary Community Rowing on the Hudson River. more After a brief orientation, participants will be split into crews with an experienced coxswain to steer the boat and a mixture of experienced and new rowers. The boats, Whitehall Gigs, are stable, traditional working boats for four rowers and a coxswain. Please note: Rows will last between one and three hours, dependent on weather, tides, and destination. Participants are expected to help launch, retrieve, and clean the boats each session. Community rowing is open to all, although some physical agility is required. The focus of the program is teamwork and recreation in a safe and respectful environment. Each participant must sign a waiver. Life jackets are provided. Expect to be out in the hot sun for several hours - bring water and sunscreen! Sundays, May 26-October 27, 2019 less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations: Exhibition Tour


A 45-minute tour of some 700 works of Native art from throughout North, Central and South America demonstrates more the breadth of the museum's renowned collection and highlights the importance of many of these iconic objects. Start times: 1pm, 2pm less
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | SecuriTEA Time: Understanding Cyber Risks


Feel like we’re in a bad episode of Black Mirror? Is Mr.Robot looking more like a documentary? Between more the corporate, state, and civilian threats we face, talking about cybersecurity can be overwhelming and stir up a lot of difficult emotions. This social event from the CyPurr Collective hopes to provide a comfortable space to discuss these anxieties as well as current events in the digital world. Let’s build up our digital-agency and form a critical understand the tech encroaching on our lives. All while enjoying delicious tea and snacks, of course. less
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Creating Other Worlds: Scifi Writing Workshop


Advanced technology without precious mineral mining. Interstellar travel without military funding. Alien more life forms in mushroom bodies. This workshop in science fiction (SF) thought and writing will explore images and speculations at the limits of genre. You will meet in three sessions over three weeks culminating in a day of sharing work and idea exchange about the social and political uses of other worlds. less
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1:30 pm
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Musical | No Brainer or the Solutions to Parasites: A Roaring Musical


A roaring musical that pits a New York social worker against a dictator consumed by parasites. Written more by Crystal Field and Joseph Vernon Banks less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House Tour


Highlights include a discussion of the history of the site, information about architect Cass Gilbert more 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. less
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Inwood Rocks! Geology Hike


New York City is the site of ancient earth-shaking and earth-shaping events. The bedrock that anchors more the city’s skyscrapers tells a story of a place going back more than a billion years. The island of Manhattan is built on three strata known as Manhattan Schist, Inwood Marble, and Fordham Gneiss. Urban Park Rangers lead this hike and teach about why Manhattan rocks! less
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2:00 pm
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Classical Music | Organ Recital 


Kenneth Corneille, organ; Peggy Jon Steckler, flute. Ken Corneille has been the Music Director/Organist more and Choral Director at Saint Anthony’s Church in Yonkers, New York, since 2011. He has been music director/organist and choral director within the Archdiocese of New York, serving a variety of churches for the past 40 years. Ken has been enjoying a long and productive career as a professional musician. He is an active recital organist in the New York area and has played organ recitals throughout the United States, such as Washington National Cathedral, Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Saint Mary the Virgin, Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, San Francisco's Saint Mary Cathedral and Saint Francis Church, Saint James and Saints Andrew and Paul (Montreal, Canada).  less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Classical Music | Afternoon Organ Meditations


Diverse programs of music celebrating the great repertoire of the organ. Takes place every Saturday more and Sunday from September 7, 2019 to May 24, 2020. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Book Signing | Ballerina Project: 170 Inspiring Photographs


Celebrate the publication of Ballerina Project with some of the ballerinas from the book. Created by more New York City-based photographer Dane Shitagi over the span of eighteen years, Ballerina Project has become the most significant, unique, and creative photographic archive of renowned ballerinas in the world The artistry, strength, and dedication of over fifty accomplished ballerinas are beautifully captured here with over 170 inspiring photographs in both black-and-white and full color. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Classical Music | Organ Recital


Benjamin Sheen, organ.  Hailed as ‘brilliant' by the New York Times organist Benjamin Sheen has performed more throughout Europe, the USA and Australia and in Hong Kong and Singapore. He has performed with notable orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the City of London Sinfonia and appeared on BBC radio and television several times. less
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5:15 pm
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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 more 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. less
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | L&D Motel: New Art


From the artist: "...that this world has things that double not halve, that the cut is such a smooth more criminal, that love’s holographic, that touch is impossible but we do it anyway, that a bunch of things operate at our incapacity beyond translation, that capacity is so overrated, that desire is abundant - that desire is abundance, sharing doubles, that some things get bigger the more you take away like holes, debt, dependency..." -- Constantina Zavitsanos less
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7:00 pm
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Book Signing | Re-visions: Staged Photos of Growing Up


In 1975, while driving her car in Manhattan, Marcia Resnick became embroiled in a car accident, and her more entire life flashed before her. When she awoke in the hospital, she began to think about all of the events which led to her being there. She began to write ideas and draw pictures considering her life thus far, in preparation for creating a new book. In 1978, her poignant and ironic autobiographical book of staged photographs about female adolescence, Re-visions, was first published by The Coach House Press in Toronto. Swiss art-book publisher Edition Patrick Frey will launch the republication of Re-visions. Resnick will be signing copies of her book. less
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Childhood and Selfhood


"Enemies are people whose story you haven't heard," says Dr. Irene Hasenberg Butter, a survivor of two more concentration camps who has dedicated her life to Holocaust education. Irene will share her story, in a conversation with Dr. Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Nonfiction). The two will share insights on selfhood, trauma, and navigating change gleaned from Butter's childhood in Nazi-occupied Europe and Solomon's research on the formation of self within different family frameworks. less
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7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Grammy Nominated Choir Performs Work By the Most Important German Composer Before JS Bach


Program Heinrich Schutz: Verleih uns Frieden Grammy-nominated interpreters of both early and new music, more The Choir of Trinity Wall Street has changed the realm of 21st-century vocal music, breaking new ground with an artistry described as "blazing with vigour...a choir from heaven" (The Times). The ensemle has been described as "thrilling" (New Yorker), "musically top-notch" (Wall Street Journal), and "simply superb" (New York Times). Heinrich Schutz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as one of the most important composers of the 17th century. He is credited with bringing the Italian style to Germany and continuing its evolution from the Renaissance into the Early Baroque. He is commemorated as a musician in the Calendar of Saints of some North American Lutheran churches on 28 July with Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free
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