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SUMMARY:Transforming Moments: A Conversation With Diane Von Furstenberg
DESCRIPTION:Before she was an international fashion icon and a member of the TIME 100\, Diane von Furstenberg was a young girl growing up with parents who had just survived the Holocaust. Her father\, originally from Moldova\, escaped the Nazis in Switzerland. Her mother\, originally from Greece\, fought the Nazis as a member of the resistance until she was captured and sent to Auschwitz. Join the Museum for a conversation with von Furstenberg about her identity as the daughter of survivors and how it has informed her remarkable career at the helm of one of the world’s most recognizable brands. She will be in conversation with Dr. Eva Fogelman\, renowned psychologist and author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated book Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/transforming-moments-a-conversation-with-diane-von-furstenberg/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T120000
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SUMMARY:Sustainable: Moving Beyond ESG to Impact Investing
DESCRIPTION:The global economy is at a crossroads. Can finance fix it? Proponents of environmental\, social and governance (ESG) investing say yes. They claim that new financial strategies that consider all stakeholders are essential tools for addressing runaway carbon emissions and stark income inequality\, among other ills. ESG-integrated investments already encompass more than $120 trillion in financial assets. Is this approach really leading to better social and environmental outcomes for all? If not\, how can it be improved? In Sustainable\, a finance-industry veteran offers an insider’s look at the promises\, prospects and limitations of ESG investing and provides comprehensive solutions that would promote more optimal outcomes. Terrence Keeley argues that both activist and C-suite advocates have been overly optimistic about what ESG can accomplish. Divestment threats are ineffective tools for altering corporate behavior\, and verifiably “good” companies do not systematically generate great returns. Most importantly\, business and finance cannot achieve inclusive\, sustainable growth on their own: regulators\, public policies\, civil society and individuals must all play specific\, complementary roles to shape the future we need.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/sustainable-moving-beyond-esg-to-impact-investing/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T130000
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SUMMARY:Jazz at One
DESCRIPTION:Today\, hear the Coleman Hughes Sextet
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/jazz-at-one-4/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T180000
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SUMMARY:Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York
DESCRIPTION:Book presentation. Bits and pieces of the lives led long before the age of skyscrapers are scattered throughout New York City\, found in backyards\, construction sites\, street beds\, and parks. Indigenous tools used thousands of years ago; wine jugs from a seventeenth-century tavern; a teapot from Seneca Village\, the nineteenth-century Black settlement displaced by Central Park; raspberry seeds sown in backyard Brooklyn gardens—these everyday objects are windows into the city’s forgotten history. Buried Beneath the City uses urban archaeology to retell the history of New York\, from the deeper layers of the past to the topsoil of recent events.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/buried-beneath-the-city-an-archaeological-history-of-new-york/
LOCATION:Skyscraper Museum
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T190000
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SUMMARY:Emily Flitter Presents The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America
DESCRIPTION:An explosive and deeply reported look at the systemic racism inside the American financial services industry\, from acclaimed New York Times finance reporter Emily Flitter.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/emily-flitter-presents-the-white-wall-how-big-finance-bankrupts-black-america/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221101T190000
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SUMMARY:Writing Twentieth Century Jews Into Sports History
DESCRIPTION:Journalist Helen Epstein is the daughter of Holocaust survivor and Olympic Swimmer Kurt Epstein. Helen has created a photography exhibit that will be on view at the Terezin Memorial from September 8 through November 30\, 2022. Join the Museum and Helen Epstein for an illustrated talk about the process of designing this documentary exhibit\, starting with one artifact – her father’s tallis in which he was a bar mitzvah in 1917. Epstein will tell the story of a provincial Jewish son of a factory owner who loved to swim and how he became a reserve lieutenant in the Czechoslovak Army and a national sports hero.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/writing-twentieth-century-jews-into-sports-history/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221102T130000
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SUMMARY:Concert at One: ChamberQUEER
DESCRIPTION:Guest artists ChamberQUEER will present historically underrepresented queer figures in classical music. More details will be announced soon!Crumb: Vox Balanae\, Four Nocturnes; and Higdon: Little River Songs.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/concert-at-one-chamberqueer/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221114T200000
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SUMMARY:Canstruction
DESCRIPTION:The annual design competition challenges teams of architects\, engineers and contractors to build sculptures made entirely out of unopened cans of food. The large-scale sculptures are placed on display and later donated to City Harvest to help provide families with a holiday meal.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/canstruction-2/
LOCATION:Brookfield Place
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T183000
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SUMMARY:Noir Pairing: Le Cercle Rouge
DESCRIPTION:The Noir Pairings hybrid film series pairs a neo-noir with a classic noir movie for comparison and discussion. In Le Cercle Rouge (1970) directed by Jean-Pierre Melville\, ex-convict and master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist at a jewelry store in Paris. This film is paired with The Asphalt Jungle(1957) available on-line. Free popcorn will be served\, and a discussion will follow the screenings.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/noir-pairing-le-cercle-rouge/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T183000
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SUMMARY:Selected Music and Songs from Shanghai Sonatas – a new musical
DESCRIPTION:China Institute is partnering with Shanghai Sonatas to present Selected Music and Songs from Shanghai Sonatas – a new musical about the Jewish refugee musicians from Nazi Germany who brought classical music to Shanghai and their connection to the millions of classical musicians of Chinese descent today. Based on the memoirs of Jewish refugee musicians who escaped Nazi Germany and found refuge in Shanghai in the 1930s and ’40s\, Shanghai Sonatas shares how music helped them to survive the war and how they taught classical music to the local Chinese. Today\, countless classical musicians of Chinese descent become the driving force of the field worldwide. China has millions of music students who are directly or indirectly related to this part of the history. The Juilliard School opened its only overseas campus in China in 2019 while the Philadelphia Orchestra now tours China almost annually\, as the first western orchestra to visit China in 1973.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/selected-music-and-songs-from-shanghai-sonatas-a-new-musical/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T183000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T202100Z
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SUMMARY:Curator Tour of “Boris Lurie: Nothing To Do But To Try”
DESCRIPTION:Join Sara Softness\, the Museum’s Curator of Special Projects and Elizabeth Miseo\, Collections Manager at the Boris Lurie Foundation for a special tour of Boris Lurie: Nothing To Do But To Try before it closes on November 6\, 2022.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/curator-tour-of-boris-lurie-nothing-to-do-but-to-try/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221103T190000
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CREATED:20221101T202100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T202100Z
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SUMMARY:Good Grief: On Loving Pets\, Here and Hereafter
DESCRIPTION:Reading. An unexpected\, poignant\, and personal account of loving and losing pets\, exploring the singular bonds we have with our companion animals\, and how to grieve them once they’ve passed. RSVP required.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/good-grief-on-loving-pets-here-and-hereafter/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221105T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221105T110000
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CREATED:20221101T202201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T202201Z
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SUMMARY:The Boy Who Grew Flowers
DESCRIPTION:Whenever the moon is full\, Rink sprouts beautiful flowers all over his body. When a new girl\, Angelina\, moves to town\, Rink’s life truly begins to grow. Incorporating shadow puppetry\, original music\, and movement into the play\, The Boy Who Grew Flowers is a thoughtful story that lends itself to themes of diversity\, creating empathy & celebrating individualism. A Treehouse Shakers Production. Ages 4+
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-boy-who-grew-flowers/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221105T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221105T120000
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SUMMARY:Workshop at The Battery: Bulb Design and Planting
DESCRIPTION:Learn about different types of bulbs and how to plant them properly\, and explore techniques for designing a spring display of flowers.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/workshop-at-the-battery-bulb-design-and-planting/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221105T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221105T200000
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SUMMARY:Yuen Ren Chao: A Rare Genius and Versatile Man of Letters
DESCRIPTION:As one of the “Four Great Masters of Tsinghua University” and a versatile genius in many fields\, Prof. Yuen Ren Chao is known for having unparalleled enthusiasm and achievements in modern Chinese linguistics\, along with a rare talent for music and scholarly wit. His life was like ‘a work of art’ (Mary Hass) and his research encompassed ‘a broad multi-disciplinary perspective’ (William S-Y. Wang). Professor Chao’s exemplary research and charismatic personality have influenced and continue to influence many scholars in various academic fields. To mark the 130th anniversary of Prof. Chao’s birth\, the Renwen Society presents a lecture on November 5 on the great legend by Dr. Liwei Jiao\, a scholar and translator of Ruen Ren Chao. Using original texts and soundtracks drawn mainly from his oral history\, this lecture will showcase Prof. Chao’s extraordinary academic and personal life through much of the turbulent twentieth century.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/yuen-ren-chao-a-rare-genius-and-versatile-man-of-letters/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T110000
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CREATED:20221101T202201Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Walking Tour: Wonders of Ashkelon National Park
DESCRIPTION:Ashkelon is a picturesque coastal city\, located on the Via Maris\, an ancient trade route dating from the early Bronze Age linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria\, Anatolia\, and Mesopotamia. Its plentiful water sources and fertile soil account for its prominence through the ages. It is believed that the first settlement on the site of the current city dates back to five thousand years ago\, making Ashkelon one of the oldest cities on earth. In this tour\, we’ll walk through the Canaanite City Gate\, the oldest arched gate in the world. We’ll learn its history\, see the unique mosaic\, and enjoy breathtaking views of the Mediterranean Sea.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/virtual-walking-tour-wonders-of-ashkelon-national-park/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T140000
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CREATED:20221101T202300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T202300Z
UID:47988-1667743200-1667743200@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:Stories Survive: The Extraordinary Life of Yaffa Eliach with Smadar Rosensweig
DESCRIPTION:Yaffa Eliach (née Sonenson) was born on May 31\, 1935 in Eišiškès\, Lithuania. She was just six years old when German soldiers invaded her hometown and massacred the Jewish population. Yaffa and her family survived in hiding\, and after WWII Yaffa moved to Israel\, where she spent the rest of her childhood and met her husband\, David Eliach. The couple moved to New York City in 1954\, where Yaffa earned her Ph.D. and became a professor at Brooklyn College. Then\, in 1974\, Dr. Eliach opened the Center for Holocaust Studies\, Documentation and Research–the first organization in the United States dedicated to the study of the Holocaust. This groundbreaking project merged with the Museum on August 2\, 1990\, and thanks to the Center’s impressive community outreach\, its collection provided a robust and unique collection of materials to the Museum and the world. Join the Museum for a discussion about Yaffa Eliach’s life and work with her daughter\, Smadar Rosensweig.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/stories-survive-the-extraordinary-life-of-yaffa-eliach-with-smadar-rosensweig/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T140000
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CREATED:20221101T202301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T202301Z
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SUMMARY:Sea Chanteys
DESCRIPTION:Join a round-robin of shared maritime songs on the deck of tall ship Wavertree. Lead or request a song\, belt out the choruses\, or just listen in.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/sea-chanteys-6/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221106T170000
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CREATED:20221101T202301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T202301Z
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SUMMARY:Kim Hyun Joong World Tour
DESCRIPTION:A concert with the Prince of Asia will kick off in New York! Having dabbled in a variety of music genres\, expect to hear folk music\, ballads\, alternative\, and many more at Kim Hyun Joong’s comeback concert.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/kim-hyun-joong-world-tour/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221107T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221107T190000
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CREATED:20221101T202401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T202401Z
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SUMMARY:Empire of Pain
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Radden Keefe Presents Empire of Pain in conversation with Ginia Bellafante. The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Oxford\, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world\, but the source of the family fortune was vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world\, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich\, Connecticut\, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington\, D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin\, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors\, influencing the FDA\, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company\, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/empire-of-pain/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T205303
CREATED:20221101T202401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T202401Z
UID:47995-1667908800-1667912400@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:The Business of Personal Finance
DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime talk. In The Business of Personal Finance: How to Improve Financial Wellness\, Joseph Calandro\, Jr. and co-author John Hoffmire present\, in a highly accessible way\, how to effectively understand and manage personal finances\, avoiding debt and building for the future\, and using straightforward tools and techniques developed in conjunction with business economics.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-business-of-personal-finance/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T205303
CREATED:20221101T202401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T202401Z
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SUMMARY:Jazz at One
DESCRIPTION:Today\, hear Samara Joy.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/jazz-at-one-5/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T205303
CREATED:20221101T202502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T202502Z
UID:47998-1667919600-1667923200@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:Election Day Art and Play
DESCRIPTION:Children are invited to take part in an art project and activities themed around voting and responsible citizenship.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/election-day-art-and-play/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T183000
DTSTAMP:20260406T205303
CREATED:20221101T202502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T202502Z
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SUMMARY:Marriage\, Divorce\, I Love You?
DESCRIPTION:Marriage is the foundation of a Chinese family. As the Chinese saying goes: a harmonious family prospers everything (家和万事兴). It used to be the norm that once people marry\, they should never divorce – they should try everything possible to maintain the marriage and make the family “harmonious.” However\, as the Chinese society evolves rapidly in recent decades\, the divorce rate in China has increased about 10-fold from 1979-2019. To cope with that\, China passed a law in 2020 to mandate a 30-day “cooling off” period before formalizing a divorce. The divorce rate dropped drastically after the law went into effect\, but it sparked anger especially among women and deterred young people from getting married. What has been causing the rising demand to untie the knot in China? Do marriage and family still hold the foundational value for Chinese nowadays? How would the change of the law affect men and women differently? Join us in the conversation with two experts in this field and tell us what you think at China Institute.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/marriage-divorce-i-love-you/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221108T190000
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SUMMARY:Pen Parentis
DESCRIPTION:Diane Zinnia\, Anna Malaika Tubbs\, Jessica Dulong and Richard Jeffrey Newman read from their work during this month’s virtual salon. The theme: trauma.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/pen-parentis-6/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T130000
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CREATED:20221101T202503Z
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SUMMARY:Concert at One: Bach at One
DESCRIPTION:Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes\, BWV 76; Nimm von uns\, Herr\, du treuer Gott\, BWV 101. The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Avi Stein\, conductor.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/concert-at-one-bach-at-one-2/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T000000
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CREATED:20221101T202703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T202703Z
UID:48004-1668024000-1668211200@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:New Works by Alexander Anderson\, Jie-Hung Connie Shiau and UNA Productions
DESCRIPTION:Gibney Center presents new works by Gibney Company Artistic Associates and the 2022 Company Choreographic Fellows Alexander Anderson and Jie-Hung Connie Shiau on November 9 and 10\, and the 2022 ILLUME Choreographic Awardee UNA Productions led by Artistic Director and Choreographer Chuck Wilt on November 11 and 12.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/new-works-by-alexander-anderson-jie-hung-connie-shiau-and-una-productions/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221110T183000
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SUMMARY:In the Founders' Footsteps: Landmarks of the American Revolution
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Adam Van Doren explores well-known and lesser-known historic sites in the 13 original North American colonies\, accompanied by his paintings.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/in-the-founders-footsteps-landmarks-of-the-american-revolution/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera
DESCRIPTION:Drama and myth frame the life and death of Maya Deren. Born in Kiev in 1917\, at the start of the Russian Revolution\, she died forty-four years later in New York City. In her brief life\, she established herself as a pioneering experimental filmmaker\, prolific writer\, accomplished photographer\, and crusader for a personal and poetic cinema. With its dreamy circular narrative and enigmatic imagery\, her first film\, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)\, has inspired generations of artists\, filmmakers\, and poets. Deren collaborated with numerous mid-century cultural luminaries\, including Katherine Dunham\, Marcel Duchamp\, John Cage\, Anais Nin\, and Gregory Bateson. In 1953\, she published Divine Horsemen\, a ground-breaking ethnographic study of Haitian religious culture. Although Deren completed only six short films in her lifetime\, her impact on the history of cinema is immeasurable. She has become the patron saint of 20th century experimental film. The aura that suffuses Deren’s legend emanates from the power of her films\, magnified by her bohemian glamour and visionary intelligence. This is the first full biography of Deren. Based on years of research\, interviews with some of Deren’s closest collaborators\, and generously illustrated with film stills and photographs\, author Mark Alice Durant creates a vivid and accessible narrative exploring the complexities and contradictions in the life and work of this remarkable and charismatic artist.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/maya-deren-choreographed-for-camera/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:“The Disappearance of Josef Mengele” Book Talk
DESCRIPTION:For three decades Josef Mengele\, the doctor who performed horrific experiments on Auschwitz prisoners\, floated through South America until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979. In his new novel\, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele\, Olivier Guez traces Mengele’s travels during those years in hiding\, as he kept two steps ahead of those trying to capture him. Guez will be in conversation about his book and his research.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-disappearance-of-josef-mengele-book-talk/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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