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SUMMARY:New Works: Joan Larkin and Alicia Ostriker
DESCRIPTION:Engage with new poems on feminism and humanity from lauded poets Joan Larkin and Alicia Ostriker.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/new-works-joan-larkin-and-alicia-ostriker/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:PAC NYC Lobby Stage
DESCRIPTION:Escaflowne\, an innovative electronic music producer and DJ based in Brooklyn with roots in the Bay Area and Austin\, is renowned for his genre-defying approach. Seamlessly fusing elements of house\, UK garage\, techno\, electro\, jungle\, and more\, he’s a true multi-genre virtuoso. Escaflowne takes audiences on an exhilarating journey through the many diverse soundscapes of electronic music. His sets are a testament to his boundless creativity\, seamlessly transitioning between tempos and moods\, leaving dancefloors pulsating with energy and excitement.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/pac-nyc-lobby-stage-6/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:PAC NYC Lobby Stage
DESCRIPTION:Marco Foster is a recording artist based in Brooklyn\, New York\, who has found a musical home reinventing classic songs of the past for a modern world. Having performed at venues as historic as Wembley Stadium and as intimate as the coffee shops of New York City\, Marco’s extensive repertoire and dynamic ability in any setting has led to a career spanning over a decade. With his unique acoustic style\, Marco has built a following of over 250\,000 fans and amassed over 30 million streams on all platforms.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/pac-nyc-lobby-stage-7/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:China Institute Calligraphy and Music Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Listen to the performance of the unique Chinese instruments\, and practice Chinese calligraphy with a master calligrapher. No previous experience of calligraphy is required. Ink\, paper\, and brush will be provided.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/china-institute-calligraphy-and-music-meetup-7/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Skyscraper Pictionary
DESCRIPTION:It’s time to put your creativity to the test! Join us to learn about the artistic side of architecture as we discuss sketches\, renderings\, and all the art architects make before their building can be built. We will then play a game of Skyscraper Pictionary with familiar towers in New York and abroad! Recommended for ages 5 and up.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/skyscraper-pictionary-2/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241116T140000
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SUMMARY:PAC NYC Lobby Stage
DESCRIPTION:An interactive program of family friendly music from the Great American Songbook and more. Mariella Price is an award-winning songwriter and vocalist. She has been featured on Sesame Street seasons 40 and 41 and in Elmo’s Music Magic DVD\, as well as the GRAMMY® nominated album Fu Chronicles. A genre-busting artist\, Mariella is the founder of Jazz Baby Music\, offering classes that combine her love of jazz standards\, popular music\, and multi-sensory play and is the co-creator and co-founder of the critically acclaimed\, long running hip-hop jam session\, Freestyle Mondays.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/pac-nyc-lobby-stage-8/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241116T190000
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SUMMARY:PAC NYC Lobby Stage
DESCRIPTION:Stephan Said is an internationally acclaimed musician\, writer and activist\, and the host/cofounder of borderless\, a global movement\, docuseries\, and platform promoting a pop-culture revolution for a better world. His songs have helped build movements for social justice across the world. Billboard Magazine called him “this generation’s Woody Guthrie.” This performance will kick off Stephan’s expanding tour for global unity to the heart of a world in crisis\, singing songs\, bridging divides\, and lifting voices at the frontlines of climate change\, war\, inequality\, racism\, natural disasters\, and the refugee crisis.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/pac-nyc-lobby-stage-9/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241117T150000
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SUMMARY:The Sound\, A New Musical
DESCRIPTION:Based on true events\, this uplifting musical about family\, courage\, hope\, and never forgetting our past tells the story of an aging Holocaust Survivor who speaks to a young American woman about his harrowing escape from Denmark to Sweden as a boy during World War II. With help from a magical entity\, he recounts the day that the Nazis decided to round up the Danish Jews for concentration camp assignment in the fall of 1943\, and how his family raced to elude capture by hiding in a fishing boat traveling to Sweden – and freedom – across The Sound. Recommended for ages 9 and up.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-sound-a-new-musical/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Puerto Rican Heritage Celebration 2024
DESCRIPTION:Celebratory event.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/puerto-rican-heritage-celebration-2024/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:The History of Antisemitism: Mendel Beilis
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, March 20\, 1911\, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder\, the police\, with no direct evidence\, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis\, a 39-year-old Jewish manager at a factory near the site of the crime. Beilis’s trial in 1913 quickly became an international cause célèbre. The jury ultimately acquitted Beilis but held that the crime had the hallmarks of a ritual murder. Robert Weinberg’s book Blood Libel in Late Imperial Russia: The Ritual Murder Trial of Mendel Beilis explores the reasons why the tsarist government framed Beilis\, shedding light on the excesses of antisemitism in late Imperial Russia.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-history-of-antisemitism-mendel-beilis/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T130000
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SUMMARY:BPC Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Discussion of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/bpc-book-club-11/
LOCATION:Battery Park City Library
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T180000
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SUMMARY:The Collaborators
DESCRIPTION:Book reading by author Michael Idov.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-collaborators/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T180000
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SUMMARY:The Modern Concrete Skyscraper: Translations in Concrete: Montreal’s Place Victoria
DESCRIPTION:In 1965\, the 47-story and 623ft/190m Place Victoria in Montreal’s financial district\, also known as the Stock Exchange Tower or Tour de la Bourse\, surpassed Chicago’s 1000 Lake Shore Plaza as the world’s tallest concrete skyscraper. Designed and built from 1960-1965 by Italian architect Luigi Moretti and Italian structural engineer Pier Luigi Nervi\, along with a team of professionals based in both Montreal and in Italy\, the project brought together expertise from both sides of the Atlantic. In her talk\, based on research for her dissertation\, Katie Filek will detail the use of concrete in the tower and discuss how the project was the product of highly localized conditions of costs\, materials\, and labour in Montreal that relied on the specialized knowledge of Montreal-based architects and engineers for its realization.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-modern-concrete-skyscraper-translations-in-concrete-montreals-place-victoria/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T190000
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SUMMARY:Crosswords: Carmen Boullosa\, Jicky Schnee\, and Samantha Schnee
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate The Book of Eve (Deep Vellum\, 2023) a feminist twist on the Book of Genesis\, by Mexican poet Carmen Boullosa. She is joined in conversation by translator Samantha Schnee and art pieces by Jicky Schee\, which will be screened alongside the reading. Afterwards\, the two poets will discuss The Book of Eve and the translation process.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/crosswords-carmen-boullosa-jicky-schnee-and-samantha-schnee/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T150000
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SUMMARY:PAC NYC Lobby Stage
DESCRIPTION:Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) is proud to present free performances from the college’s music as well as speech\, communication\, and theatre arts departments as part of our afternoon showcase series each month.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/pac-nyc-lobby-stage-10/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T173000
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SUMMARY:Transgender Day of Remembrance & Resilience 2024
DESCRIPTION:New York City Council public event.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/transgender-day-of-remembrance-resilience-2024/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T180000
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SUMMARY:Faces of Ground Zero: A Conversation with Joe McNally
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning photographer Joe McNally’s “Faces of Ground Zero: Portraits of the Heroes of September 11\, 2001” is comprised of 246 large-scale polaroids featuring individuals who responded to 9/11 and contributed to the rescue and recovery operations at Ground Zero. A cross-section of these responder portraits will be on view in the Museum beginning this November. In conversation with Executive Vice President of Collections & Chief Curator Dr. Jan Ramirez\, McNally will discuss his undertaking of this project in the emotional weeks following the attacks\, how this medium served to uniquely capture this community\, and his own experience interacting with those at the heart of this tragedy.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/faces-of-ground-zero-a-conversation-with-joe-mcnally/
LOCATION:World Trade Center
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241120T193000
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SUMMARY:Almost\, Maine
DESCRIPTION:BMCC Theater presents “Almost\, Maine\,” written by acclaimed playwright John Cariani and directed by Jonny Maldonado. Presented by BMCC’s Speech\, Communication\, and Theater Department\, the production will feature a series of heartwarming and whimsical vignettes about love and loss in the remote town of Almost\, Maine.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/almost-maine/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T180000
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SUMMARY:Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense
DESCRIPTION:Book reading by author Joyce Carol Oates.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/flint-kill-creek-stories-of-mystery-and-suspense/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T183000
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SUMMARY:Julian Zabalbeascoa presents What We Tried to Bury Grows Here
DESCRIPTION:A masterly crafted and haunting tale of survival\, longing\, and empathy\, set during the Spanish Civil War.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/julian-zabalbeascoa-presents-what-we-tried-to-bury-grows-here/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T183000
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SUMMARY:Screen/Print: The Poet Speaks with Amanda Eke: Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Special two episode screening of  the new upcoming TV show\, The Poet Speaks with Amanda Eke\, with host and Executive Producer\, Amanda Eke. Embark on a poetic excavation unearthing parallels between ancient oral traditions and the vibrant world of spoken word poetry today. From Sumerian epics to Slam poetry\, Eke explores how words have shaped cultures\, rituals\, and societies.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/screen-print-the-poet-speaks-with-amanda-eke-screening-and-discussion/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T183000
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SUMMARY:Divine Muse: Honoring St. Cecilia
DESCRIPTION:The Divine Muse series culminates on the eve of Saint Cecilia’s Feast Day\, with two master works inspired by the patron saint of music: George Frideric Handel’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day Overture and Alessandro Scarlatti’s St. Cecilia Mass. Now rarely heard\, the latter piece during its time was considered an equal to Bach’s Magnificat. Trinity’s adaptation by music librarian Harrison E. Joyce adds wind instruments to the original orchestration.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/divine-muse-honoring-st-cecilia/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T190000
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SUMMARY:Filmmakers for the Prosecution
DESCRIPTION:Adapted from Sandra Schulberg’s monograph\, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood – brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg – serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day. Seventy-five years after the trial\, French journalist and filmmaker Jean-Christophe Klotz returns to the German salt mines where films lay burning\, uncovers never-before-seen footage\, and interviews key figures to unravel why the resulting film about the trial – Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today by Stuart Schulberg – was intentionally buried by the U.S. Department of War. Klotz’s riveting film also fills in the gaps of how these groundbreaking materials were sourced\, and poses still-pertinent questions about documentarians’ obligations to posterity.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/filmmakers-for-the-prosecution/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241121T190000
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SUMMARY:PAC NYC Lobby Stage
DESCRIPTION:Chris Hierro and Katya Diaz met while both were accompanying Alejandro Sanz on his 2021 tour. Their chemistry was undeniable\, leading to the formation of the duo who went on to collaborate with notable Latin artists like Debi Nova\, Andrea Echavarría\, Andres Levin\, Ceci Bastida\, hit writer Claudia Brant\, and Latin GRAMMY-winning producer/DJ Cruz\, among others. Chris and Katya’s work can be heard on the soundtrack of the Netflix original series It’s Bruno and on Trinidad’s beloved Kes the Band’s Latin/Soca fusion turned Carnival hit Body Talk. They lent their voices to the hit Lejos de Ti\, serving as the backdrop to the climactic scene of the 2018 remake of the classic Hollywood film Overboard.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/pac-nyc-lobby-stage-11/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241122T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241124T000000
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SUMMARY:Keith Michael's The Nutcracker
DESCRIPTION:Experience four ticketed performances of The Nutcracker set to Tchaikovsky’s cherished score in Art Nouveau-style circa 1907 with innovative choreography by long-time New York Theatre Ballet choreographer\, Keith Michael. Advanced registration is required.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/keith-michaels-the-nutcracker/
LOCATION:Brookfield Place
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241122T190000
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SUMMARY:New Works: John Shoptaw & Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate John Shoptaw‘s collection Near-Earth Object (Unbound Edition Press\, 2024) with readings and a conversation between Shoptaw and Jenny Odell.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/new-works-john-shoptaw-jenny-odell/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241124T120000
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SUMMARY:A Sweet Year
DESCRIPTION:In Jewish tradition\, holidays are a time for family and feasting\, and for Joan Nathan\, nothing embodies the holiday spirit more than cooking delicious festive favorites with friends and loved ones. When her own children were young\, Nathan published the first version ofA Sweet Year. Now she updates a beloved go-to resource for her grandchildren’s generation and adds a heaping helping of new recipes. Included are essays on the history of Jewish holidays\, instructions for how to celebrate them\, and craft activities such as making challah covers and candlesticks. There are also personal essays on how Nathan’s family celebrates the holidays and how various menus can be mixed and matched. Nathan will discuss the updated book and also demonstrate her recipe for apple latkes\, just in time for Hanukkah!
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/a-sweet-year/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241124T130000
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SUMMARY:An Exploration of Mysticism with Mirabai Starr
DESCRIPTION:Author Mirabai Starr will share wisdom from her new book\, Ordinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground\, which challenges readers to discover the extraordinary in the everyday. Grounded in lessons from spiritual teachers across the centuries and informed by her own experiences of heartbreak\, Starr’s teachings offer an antidote to despair in these turbulent times\, and a roadmap back to our common humanity.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/an-exploration-of-mysticism-with-mirabai-starr/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241124T150000
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SUMMARY:Opening Doors: The Unlikely Alliance Between the Irish and the Jews in America
DESCRIPTION:Popular belief holds that the various ethnic groups that emigrated to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century regarded one another with open hostility\, fiercely competing for limited resources and even coming to blows in the crowded neighborhoods of major cities. In Opening Doors\,Hasia R. Diner\, one of the world’s preeminent historians of immigration\, tells a very different story; far from confrontational\, the prevailing relationships between Jewish and Irish Americans were overwhelmingly cooperative\, and the two groups were dependent upon one another to secure stable and upwardly mobile lives in their new home. The Irish had emigrated to American cities en masse a generation before the first major wave of Jewish immigrants arrived\, and had already entrenched themselves in positions of influence in urban governments\, public education\, and the labor movement. Jewish newcomers recognized the value of aligning themselves with another group of religious outsiders who were able to stand up and demand rights and respect despite widespread discrimination from the Protestant establishment\, and the Irish realized that they could protect their political influence by mentoring their new neighbors in the intricacies of American life. Opening Doors draws from a deep well of historical sources to show how Irish and Jewish Americans became steadfast allies in classrooms\, picket lines\, and political machines\, and ultimately helped one another become key power players in shaping America’s future.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/opening-doors-the-unlikely-alliance-between-the-irish-and-the-jews-in-america/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:“Blind Spot” Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Blind Spot is the first film to document both the antisemitism that existed on American campuses long before October 7 and how it led to the explosion of virulent and often violent campus antisemitism after October 7. A modern-day civil rights story told in the inspiring words and voices of more than two dozen students who’ve experienced and fought against this hatred on the front lines at more than a dozen schools across America\, Blind Spot bears witness to their bravery in the face of extreme hostility\, indifference\, and efforts to silence them and erase their Jewish identity while too many school administrators fail to take action. Joining and supporting the students in the film are more than two dozen professionals\, including leading activist lawyers\, elected officials from both parties\, faculty\, campus Chabad and Hillel directors and other Jewish community leaders\, college administrators\, and journalists/authors\, who express their views and prescriptions for change.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/blind-spot-film-screening/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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