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SUMMARY:Justice\, Truth\, And Memory In Jewish Argentina
DESCRIPTION:After World War II\, Argentina became home to one of the world’s largest communities of Holocaust survivors at the same time as the country provided refuge to many former Nazis. Today\, this complex legacy of the Holocaust interacts with other legacies of violence in Argentina\, including the 1976 to 1983 dictatorship and the 1994 AMIA bombing. Explore issues of justice\, truth\, and memory in Argentina in this virtual program\, which will be co-presented with the Museo del Holocausto de Buenos Aires.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/justice-truth-and-memory-in-jewish-argentina/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Supertall/Megatall: How High Can We Go?
DESCRIPTION:Skyscraper Museum webinar. Adrian Smith is the architect of more than 4\,500 meters ­­– nearly 2.8 vertical miles – of skyscrapers. He has been the designer for eight structures in SUPERTALL! 2020: including Burj Khalifa in Dubai\, the current world’s tallest man-made structure at 828 meters\, and Jeddah Tower\, under construction in Saudi Arabia\, which when completed will reach at least 1\,000 meters. In his talk\, “Supertall / Megatall: How Tall Can We Go?” Smith will explore how the skyscraper captured the imagination of the public while becoming widely popular to the architectural profession. He will focus on the stories behind his designs\, including projects completed while Design Partner at SOM Chicago\, including Jin Mao\, Nanjing Greenland\, and Burj Khalifa\, and AS+GG projects Jeddah Tower\, Chengdu Greenland Tower\, 1 Dubai\, and Biophilic Tower. He will discuss how each design was conceived for their specific sites and the successes and unique challenges of each project.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/supertall-megatall-how-high-can-we-go/
LOCATION:Skyscraper Museum
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Digital Trivia Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Test your trivia IQ at home with your friends and family! Follow along on Zoom and enter your answers via Kahoot\, as you compete for a variety of fun BFPL prizes with hosts The Union of Quizzers.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/digital-trivia-tuesday-2/
LOCATION:Brookfield Place
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Pen Parentis March Salon
DESCRIPTION:This Pen Parentis Literary Salon features readings & roundtable with the outstanding writers Angela Himsel\, Dylan Landis\, and Bryan VanDyke. Interactive Q&A with audience participation.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/pen-parentis-march-salon/
LOCATION:Pen Parentis
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T180000
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SUMMARY:The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York
DESCRIPTION:Skyscraper Museum webinar. In The Invention of Public Space: Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York\, Mariana Mogilevich details a watershed moment when designers\, government administrators\, and residents sought to remake New York City in the image of a diverse\, free\, and democratic society. Bringing together psychology\, politics\, and design\, her new book considers a broad array of projects in open spaces to affirm the value of city life in a moment of “urban crisis\,” and reveals the emergence of a concept of public space that remains today a powerful\, if unrealized\, aspiration. In Singapore\, his design for 18 Robinson integrates green space vertically throughout the structure.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-invention-of-public-space-designing-for-inclusion-in-lindsays-new-york/
LOCATION:Skyscraper Museum
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210311T120000
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SUMMARY:Pieces of China: Derek Sandhaus on Baijiu (白酒)\, China’s Fiery Alcohol
DESCRIPTION:For thousands of years\, Chinese emperors\, literati scholars\, and great men of letters have waxed poetic about the pleasures of getting drunk.  The distilled spirit known as “Baijiu\,” 白酒，was developed by the Ming dynasty\, but it was during the Communist era that this “working man’s drink” was elevated to the national sensation that we see in China today. Any businessperson will tell you that nary a deal can be sealed without a flurry of baijiu shots and bleary-eyed\, drunken toasts. Derek Sandhaus\, author of Drunk in China and founder of a Baijiu company\, will share the secrets of the world’s most fiery liquor. As China becomes more international\, how has its drinking culture changed? Will the West learn to drink baijiu and clink glasses with China?
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/pieces-of-china-derek-sandhaus-on-baijiu-%e7%99%bd%e9%85%92-chinas-fiery-alcohol/
LOCATION:China Institute
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210311T140000
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SUMMARY:A New Perspective On The Rescue Of Denmark’s Jews
DESCRIPTION:More than 7\,000 Danish Jews were evacuated to Sweden in October 1943. After crossing the Øresund by boat and landing on Swedish shores\, approximately 6\,000 of the refugees were interviewed by the Swedish Police Authority\, to whom they disclosed a wealth of information about their lives in Denmark and the logistics of their escape. The Police Authority’s records have only recently been uncovered and explored by Danish scholars. Join Therkel Straede\, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense\, for a discussion of the police records and what they reveal about this extraordinary feat of rescue.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/a-new-perspective-on-the-rescue-of-denmarks-jews/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Donald Johnson will discuss his book Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution. In the midst of British military occupation\, men and women from a variety of backgrounds navigated harsh conditions\, mitigated threats to their families and livelihoods\, took advantage of new opportunities\, and balanced precariously between revolutionary and royal attempts to secure their allegiance. In so doing\, Johnson argues that these people and their experiences shaped the course of the Revolution\, gradually discrediting Britain’s ability to govern the former colonies and rotting their attempts to restore order from the inside out. This lecture will take place via Zoom. Registration ends at 3:30pm on the day of the lecture.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/occupied-america-british-military-rule-and-the-experience-of-revolution/
LOCATION:Fraunces Tavern Museum
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T190000
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SUMMARY:Studio BFPL: Lunar New Year
DESCRIPTION:Studio BFPL returns in partnership with New York Chinese Cultural Center. Experience intimate\, one-of-a-kind\, live performances that are socially distant\, within the indoor spaces of Brookfield Place. Up to six people who have traveled together can expect to be entertained for up to 15 minutes. Registration opens on the Monday before each show at 10 AM.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/studio-bfpl-lunar-new-year-3/
LOCATION:Brookfield Place
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210314T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210314T160000
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SUMMARY:Studio BFPL: Lunar New Year
DESCRIPTION:Studio BFPL returns in partnership with New York Chinese Cultural Center. Experience intimate\, one-of-a-kind\, live performances that are socially distant\, within the indoor spaces of Brookfield Place. Up to six people who have traveled together can expect to be entertained for up to 15 minutes. Registration opens on the Monday before each show at 10 AM.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/studio-bfpl-lunar-new-year-4/
LOCATION:Brookfield Place
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210314T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210314T140000
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SUMMARY:Stories Survive: Martin Karplus
DESCRIPTION:Nobel Laureate Martin Karplus was eight years old when his family fled Nazi-occupied Austria\, shortly after the arrival of German forces in 1938. They escaped via Switzerland and France to the United States\, where he became a theoretical chemist. Karplus conducted groundbreaking work in the 1970s to develop multiscale models for complex chemical systems\, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013. He is the Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry\, Emeritus at Harvard University and the Director of the Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory in France. He credits his life as a refugee as a decisive influence on his worldview and approach to science. Join Karplus for a Stories Survive program exploring his childhood and accomplished career in science.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/stories-survive-martin-karplus/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T120000
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SUMMARY:Risky Decisions: How Mathematical Paradoxes and Other Conundrums Have Shaped Economic Science
DESCRIPTION:Online discussion. At its core\, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought\, great intellectual prowess has been exerted toward devising exquisite theories of optimal decision making in situations of constraint\, risk and scarcity. Yet not all of our choices are purely logical\, and so there is a long-standing tension between those emphasizing the rational and irrational sides of human behavior. One strand develops formal models of rational utility maximizing\, while the other draws on what behavioral science has shown about our tendency to act irrationally. In this talk\, George Szpiro will give examples of mathematical paradoxes and psychological conundrums that have led to advancements in economic science. He will challenge the audience with questions about how to make decisions\, and thereby show how people who believe themselves to be rational can be led astray. Advance registration is required. Registered guests will receive the Zoom link prior to the program.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/risky-decisions-how-mathematical-paradoxes-and-other-conundrums-have-shaped-economic-science/
LOCATION:Museum of American Finance
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T120000
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SUMMARY:Leading Your Business toward Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion
DESCRIPTION:The manner in which corporations are run globally is over. The leaders who recognize that employees\, customers\, and shareholders should be treated compassionately and equally are now displacing old leaders\, and are succeeding in retaining the best talent and surviving the new realities. Join Keesa Schreane\, ESG\, Risk Global Partner Director at Refinitiv\, and author of Corporations Compassion Culture: Leading Your Business toward Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion for a conversation about how corporations worldwide have failed when it comes to inclusion\, gender\, and racial equality\, and sustainability and the steps they can take to address these issues.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/leading-your-business-toward-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T173000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210311T201122Z
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SUMMARY:Senate Power vs. the Majority
DESCRIPTION:This is a program of Debate Defends Democracy\, a virtual discussion of Constitutional issues and the Bill of Rights presented at Federal Hall. With increasing frequency over the past two decades\, the political preferences of a majority of Americans have been subverted in the legislative process by the will of a shrinking minority. This inequity is particularly stark in the institution of the U.S. Senate\, which first convened under the new Constitution at Federal Hall on March 4\, 1789. To balance power in the central government\, the “Grand Compromise” at the Constitutional Convention\, had agreed that both the most populous and least populous states would each have two Senators. One of the contemporary impacts is that the Senate is increasingly stymied in passing major legislation even when supported by a majority of Americans. This program will explore the framer’s intent for the Senate\, the historical and political circumstances that have contributed to this imbalance\, the effects of this distortion of representation on the health of our democracy as well as areas for potential reform\, from expanded statehood to an overhaul of institutional rules. Federal Hall’s Sam Roberts will introduce the topic with an historical perspective.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/senate-power-vs-the-majority/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T114531
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SUMMARY:China’s Literary Giants: The Legacy of Yu Hua
DESCRIPTION:Literature experts discuss the work of Yu Hua\, one of China’s most revered writers\, and the state of Chinese literature today. Spanning four decades of modern history\, from the Republican Era to the Reform Era\, the novel To Live (活着) has enthralled generations of readers around the world. Professors David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University) and Michael Berry (UCLA) will discuss the challenges of translation and contemporary Chinese literature in a global context. This program is presented by the Museum at Eldridge Street and China Institute as part of the NEA Big Read 2021 project. Part I will be discussed with the Museum at Eldridge Street on March 8. From March 8-March 18\, Museum at Eldridge Street will be exploring Yu Hua’s To Live in a series of lectures\, book discussions\, and film screenings with partners from China Institute\, Chatham Square Library of New York Public Library\, and Museum of the Moving Image.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/chinas-literary-giants-the-legacy-of-yu-hua/
LOCATION:China Institute
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T180000
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SUMMARY:Burj Khalifa: What We Learned
DESCRIPTION:Skyscraper Museum webinar. Bill Baker is now a structural engineering consulting partner at SOM\, where he led the firm’s practice for over twenty years. Since joining SOM in 1981\, he has dedicated himself to extending the profession of structural engineering through design\, research\, teaching\, and professional activities. Baker is best known for the development of the “buttressed core” structural system for the Burj Khalifa in Dubai\, the world’s tallest manmade structure. Completed in 2010\, the 828-meter Burj surpassed the then-tallest Taipei 101 by more than 300 meters. This unprecedented vertical leap was accomplished by iterative responses to wind-tunnel testing and other creative solutions to constructability. In his talk\, Bill will discuss both the precedents that allowed their team to invent a new structural approach\, as well as the legacy of “Lessons Learned” a decade after the completion of the skyscraper that still remains the tallest in the world.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/burj-khalifa-what-we-learned/
LOCATION:Skyscraper Museum
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T190000
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SUMMARY:Digital Trivia Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Test your trivia IQ at home with your friends and family! Follow along on Zoom and enter your answers via Kahoot\, as you compete for a variety of fun BFPL prizes with hosts The Union of Quizzers.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/digital-trivia-tuesday-3/
LOCATION:Brookfield Place
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210316T190000
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SUMMARY:Heroines Of The Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:During the Holocaust\, more than 3\,000 women fought back against the Nazis in ghettos\, forced labor camps\, concentration camps\, and partisan units. Join Dr. Lori Weintrob\, Director of the Wagner College Holocaust Center\, for a program exploring the heroic lives and legacies of these female resistance fighters. Weintrob will be in conversation with Rokhl Kafrissen\, Yiddish culture writer and Tablet Magazine contributor\, and Rachel Rachama Roth\, a survivor of Auschwitz who will provide her eyewitness testimony to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/heroines-of-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T193000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20210311T201122Z
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SUMMARY:The Forbidden City at 600: Women in the Imperial Palace
DESCRIPTION:Much is known about the lives of the emperors who lived behind the vermilion walls of the Forbidden City. But what of the women? In the third program of a series commemorating the 600th anniversary of the Forbidden City\, Jan Stuart\, top China curator at the Smithsonian\, and Di Yajing\, architecture expert from the Palace Museum\, will share objects and spaces used by the women of the imperial court. Following that\, Jay Xu\, director of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco\, will join them in a wide-ranging conversation about life within the walls of the Forbidden City. Wang Xudong\, director of the Palace Museum\, will open the program with thoughts on conservation of the Forbidden City for the next 600 years.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-forbidden-city-at-600-women-in-the-imperial-palace/
LOCATION:China Institute
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T000000
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CREATED:20210303T182547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210311T210045Z
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SUMMARY:Seaport Fit Virtual Workouts
DESCRIPTION:Fitness classes via Instagram released every Tuesday and Thursday\, featuring Trooper Fitness\, Pure Barre and Lyons Den Power Yoga.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/seaport-fit-virtual-workouts-6/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Wellness
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210318T203000
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SUMMARY:STEM Supremes: In Conversation with Elizabeth Blackburn
DESCRIPTION:Conversation with the queen of telomeres: Australian-American scientist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn. Light years on from her early work sequencing the DNA of pond scum\, Blackburn unraveled our understanding of the function of telomeres—the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes—and the role they play in aging and diseases such as cancer. She took on US President George W. Bush on the political flashpoint of federal funding for stem cell research\, has pioneered a path for women scientists\, and received the pinnacle of scientific achievement—the Nobel Prize—for unlocking secrets about how we age at a fundamental level. Her 2017 New York Times Bestseller\, “The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger\, Healthier\, Longer”\, revealed how sleep quality\, exercise\, diet\, chronic stress\, and even the neighborhood you live in can impact the length of our telomeres and\, in turn\, our genetic heritage.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/stem-supremes-in-conversation-with-elizabeth-blackburn/
LOCATION:NY Academy of Sciences
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210321T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210321T140000
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SUMMARY:Stories Survive: Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff
DESCRIPTION:As a small child\, Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff fled her Nazi-occupied hometown of Kosice\, Slovakia (then Czechoslovakia) along with her parents and infant brother. They remained on the run and in open hiding for seven months—during which they had several narrow escapes\, including an arrest in Spain—until they reached Lisbon\, Portugal\, where they joined tens of thousands of Jewish refugees awaiting ships to the United States. With the assistance of HIAS\, Dr. Klein Kassenoff and her parents were rescued from Portugal in 1941\, boarding one of the last ships to safety. Dr. Klein Kassenoff became the founding director of the University of Miami Holocaust Teacher Institute. She is also the Education Chairperson at the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach\, Florida\, and the Education Specialist for Holocaust Studies for Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Join Dr. Klein Kassenoff for a Stories Survive program exploring her family’s journey of perseverance and escape.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/stories-survive-dr-miriam-klein-kassenoff/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Lost in The Desert Sky: Kayhan Kalhor in Memory of Mohammad Reza Shajarian
DESCRIPTION:Lost in The Desert Sky: Kayhan Kalhor in Memory of Mohammad Reza Shajarian was filmed in the spectacular Mahinistan Palace in Kashan\, Iran and features all new music by Kayhan Kalhor performed by his ensemble and introducing vocalist Hadi Hosseini. Experience this one-of-a-kind filmed concert honoring the legacy of one of Iran’s greatest vocalists Mohammad Reza Shajarian (1940-2020). Brookfield Place is presenting this performance on BFPLNY.com in celebration of Norooz (Persian New Year) to viewers in New York or New Jersey.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/lost-in-the-desert-sky-kayhan-kalhor-in-memory-of-mohammad-reza-shajarian/
LOCATION:Brookfield Place
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T180000
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CREATED:20210303T182602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T143340Z
UID:36247-1616522400-1616522400@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:Core Value
DESCRIPTION:Skyscraper Museum webinar. Peter Weismantle spent 31 years in the Chicago office of SOM before moving in 2008 to AS+GG as Director of Supertall Building Technology where he has been responsible for overseeing the firm’s development of supertall projects from onset to completion. Working with the project team\, Weismantle develops the design of such technical elements as the building envelope\, vertical transportation and life safety systems\, and compliance with applicable building codes and standards.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/core-value/
LOCATION:Skyscraper Museum
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T114531
CREATED:20210303T182603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210311T201005Z
UID:36249-1616526000-1616526000@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:Digital Trivia Tuesday
DESCRIPTION:Test your trivia IQ at home with your friends and family! Follow along on Zoom and enter your answers via Kahoot\, as you compete for a variety of fun BFPL prizes with hosts The Union of Quizzers.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/digital-trivia-tuesday-4/
LOCATION:Brookfield Place
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T114531
CREATED:20210303T182604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210311T200912Z
UID:36250-1616526000-1616526000@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:Isabel Wilkerson And Rabbi Angela Buchdahl On “Caste”
DESCRIPTION:While working on her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Warmth of Other Suns\, about the Great Migration of African Americans out of the Jim Crow South\, Isabel Wilkerson realized that the United States had an unspoken and deeply ingrained caste system. In her new book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents\, a #1 New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club pick\, Wilkerson explores the impact of this American caste system—a rigid hierarchy of human divisions—and its connections to caste systems in India and Nazi Germany. She documents how the Nazis studied American race laws as they planned the German Nuremberg Laws\, and she points forward to ways that we can move beyond artificial and destructive separations towards a common humanity. Join Wilkerson and Rabbi Angela Warnick Buchdahl\, Senior Rabbi at New York’s Central Synagogue and the first Asian-American person to be ordained as cantor or rabbi in North America\, for a conversation about Caste\, the legacy of the Holocaust\, and what lies under the surface of American life today.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/isabel-wilkerson-and-rabbi-angela-buchdahl-on-caste/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T114531
CREATED:20210303T182617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210311T200959Z
UID:36251-1616526000-1616526000@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:ReImagining Place
DESCRIPTION:The Deeper Lecture Series is a new talk + Q&A program on Zoom designed to acquaint Gibney’s community of artists and audiences with the most provocative\, influential and inspiring minds at work in the arts\, humanities and activism. Tonight\, see performance artist george emilio sanchez .
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/reimagining-place/
LOCATION:Gibney Dance
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210324T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210324T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T114531
CREATED:20210303T182617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210311T200954Z
UID:36252-1616587200-1616587200@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:Speak with Influence and Advocate for Yourself
DESCRIPTION:Even for the experienced speaker\, keeping an audience engaged and connected can be a challenge\, especially while remote. In this session\, we’ll read the (Zoom) room and build a toolkit to speak with influence and advocate for yourself. In this interactive workshop\, Jen Jamula and Allison Goldberg of GoldJam Creative will help you improve your presentation skills by practicing ways to engage a variety of audiences remotely\, and with impact.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/speak-with-influence-and-advocate-for-yourself/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T114531
CREATED:20210303T182619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210311T200947Z
UID:36255-1616673600-1616673600@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:Pieces of China: Ben Wang on Qi Baishi’s Chicks
DESCRIPTION:Qi Baishi\, who lived from 1864-1959\, is one of the most revered Chinese painters of all time. One of his paintings sold for $144 million in 2017\, breaking world records. Join us as Ben Wang\, China Institute’s beloved professor of Chinese culture\, shares one of his favorite Qi Baishi works—two chicks tugging on a worm—and explains why the painter’s art still speaks to us today.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/pieces-of-china-ben-wang-on-qi-baishis-chicks/
LOCATION:China Institute
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210325T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T114531
CREATED:20210303T182632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210311T200911Z
UID:36257-1616698800-1616698800@downtownny.com
SUMMARY:“Plunder” Book Talk With Menachem Kaiser And Stephanie Butnick
DESCRIPTION:Menachem Kaiser’s new book Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure is the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows. Kaiser’s story begins when he takes up his Holocaust survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec\, Poland. Soon\, Kaiser is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building\, with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer\,” and with a surprise discovery about his grandfather’s cousin that reshapes his quest. Join Kaiser for a conversation with Stephanie Butnick\, Tablet Magazine Deputy Editor and co-host of the leading Jewish podcast Unorthodox\, about Plunder and the profound questions it raises about family inheritance.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/plunder-book-talk-with-menachem-kaiser-and-stephanie-butnick/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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