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SUMMARY:Lou Reed: The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of Lou Reed’s life\, music\, and meditations\, and the upcoming release of The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi\, a collection of unpublished writings by the late musician on the technique\, practice\, and purpose of martial arts\, as well as essays\, observations\, and riffs on meditation and life. The celebration falls on Lou Reed’s 81st birthday and the fourth annual Lou Reed International Tai Chi Day. Join us for a Tai Chi demonstration\, a public Tai Chi class\, and presentation by the book editors. The event will culminate with a performance of musical improvisors set against Lou Reed’s Musical Drones. For the complete schedule\, check the website.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/lou-reed-the-art-of-the-straight-line-my-tai-chi/
LOCATION:Brookfield Place
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Hidden Letters
DESCRIPTION:Nushu (女书)\, a secret language written in calligraphy shared by generations of Chinese women in their covert support of sisterhood\, hope and survival\, is now disappearing. Created during a time when women were not allowed to read or write\, Nushu was used to communicate their pain\, resistance and support with each other. Fast forward to modern China\, is Nushu still relevant when women have access to higher education and enjoy equal treatment in society? What are the challenges and implications\, if any\, that women still face today? Join China Institute for the screening of the award-winning documentary\, Hidden Letters\, on March 2nd\, followed by a conversation with Director Violet Du Feng\, hosted by Karen Ma\, film scholar and movie critic specializing in Chinese cinema. Spanning past and present Hidden Letters follows two millennial Chinese women\, connected by their fascination with the secret language of sisterhood and their desire to protect it.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/hidden-letters/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Remind Me to Hate You Later
DESCRIPTION:YA launch with Lizzy Mason. In a world that feels distorted by celebrity and the manipulations of social media and public opinion\, Natalie and Carter need something real to hold onto. Remind Me to Hate You Later is a moving account of grief\, depression\, complex relationships\, love\, and the search for truth.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/remind-me-to-hate-you-later/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230304T143000
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SUMMARY:Liss’s Long Road to Liberty in New York’s Founding Era
DESCRIPTION:Join historian and author Claire Bellerjeau as she introduces Elizabeth\, or Liss. Enslaved on Long Island\, Liss showed great agency when she risked everything to escape with a British commander during the Revolutionary War. Despite her bravery\, within weeks of her escape Liss was re-enslaved in British-held Manhattan\, where she interacted with Washington’s lead spy\, Robert Townsend\, aka “Culper\, Jr.” As the Culper Spy Ring began using secret codes and invisible ink to smuggle vital information to Washington\, Liss may also have engaged in intelligence gathering for the Patriot cause. At the end of the war\, Liss again chose her own path\, deciding not to leave with the British evacuation. Now expecting a child\, she remained in New York City in the home of Robert Townsend\, hoping for the chance of a better life. Townsend resold Liss and her son to a widow who promised they could stay in the city\, but her path took a terrifying turn when the widow remarried\, selling Liss south to Charleston without her young son. In Charleston she was enslaved for two years by a violent man who years earlier had been part of the rioting mob at the Boston Massacre. Eventually Robert discovered what had happened and worked to smuggle Liss back to New York where she could reunite her with her son and continue to work towards securing her legal freedom. Liss’s escape with the British\, re-enslavement in Manhattan and later Charleston\, and her complex struggle for freedom gives new insight into the country’s founding era\, through the eyes of an enslaved Black woman seeking liberty in a country fighting for its own.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/lisss-long-road-to-liberty-in-new-yorks-founding-era/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230305T100000
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SUMMARY:Hoppy Rabbit Playdate 华美跳跳兔亲子时光
DESCRIPTION:Every first Sunday starting March\, China Institute Hoppy Rabbit Playdate program offers 1-hour open session where families can bring their children to our spacious and cozy indoor playground space to play\, socialize\, have fun with age-appropriate toys and activities. This is also a great time to meet children and families interested in exploring Chinese language and culture. All families are welcome! We require all children stay with their caregivers at all times\, with the supervision and support from our Mandarin speaking educators and dedicated staff.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/hoppy-rabbit-playdate-%e5%8d%8e%e7%be%8e%e8%b7%b3%e8%b7%b3%e5%85%94%e4%ba%b2%e5%ad%90%e6%97%b6%e5%85%89/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Sea Chanteys and Maritime Music
DESCRIPTION:Includes a 45-minute performance by various local artists singing a variety of traditional maritime work songs and ballads. Attendees are invited to sing along with the featured guests or just sit back and enjoy their performance. Following the set\, the stage will open for a round-robin where attendees––in-person and virtual––can sing and share their favorite Chantey that will be heard by all. Singers of all levels\, as well as listeners\, are welcome to join in the choruses throughout the event\, lead or request a song in the round-robin\, or just listen. Those joining in-person\, before or after the Sing\, are invited to enjoy free access to the Seaport Museum galleries at 12 Fulton Street\, and visit tall ship Wavertree and lightship Ambrose on Pier 16. Advance registration required.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/sea-chanteys-and-maritime-music-6/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:“Di Shvester” – The Sisters: Eleanor Reissa and Cilla Owens with the Paul Shapiro Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate women in Jewish and Yiddish music with Di Shvester: The Sisters. Two of New York’s finest vocalists\, Eleanor Reissa and Cilla Owens\, will perform alongside the Paul Shapiro Quartet. They will harmonize\, swing\, and groove saluting the rich world of Jewish women composers\, lyricists\, and songstresses. Reissa and Owens have interpreted this music for decades as soloists and bring their experiences and talents together for a foot-tapping\, heart-grabbing concert. This concert salutes the rich contribution of Jewish women in Yiddish and English music. Reissa and Owens will be reunited with musical director\, composer\, and saxophonist Paul Shapiro whose career has traversed jazz\, R&B\, and Yiddishkeit.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/di-shvester-the-sisters-eleanor-reissa-and-cilla-owens-with-the-paul-shapiro-quartet/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T173000
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SUMMARY:New York Stories Book Club: Harlem Shuffle
DESCRIPTION:Set in Civil Rights–era Harlem\, this novel features shady cops and local gangsters in an entertaining and spellbinding way.  Join NYPL staff for a moderated discussion.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/new-york-stories-book-club-harlem-shuffle/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230307T190000
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SUMMARY:Madelaine Lucas Presents Thirst for Salt
DESCRIPTION:Reading. A Bustle\, LitHub\, Debutiful\, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023. A magnetic and unforgettable story of desire and its complexities\, and a powerful reckoning with memory\, loss\, and longing\, Madelaine Lucas’s debut novel\, Thirst for Salt\, reveals with stunning\, sensual immediacy the way the past can hold us in its thrall\, shaping who we are and what we love.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/madelaine-lucas-presents-thirst-for-salt/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230308T130000
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SUMMARY:Sing for Hope
DESCRIPTION:Performance in celebration of International Women’s Day from 1:00-3:00 PM. Featuring an All-Female-All-Star Band for Women’s International Day! Songs by Adele\, Lady Gaga\, Celine Dion\, Katy Perry\, Pink\, Bjork\, Beyoncé\, Taylor Swift\, Sia & much more.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/sing-for-hope/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230309T183000
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SUMMARY:“Those Who Forget: My Family’s Story in Nazi Europe”
DESCRIPTION:Géraldine Schwarz’s riveting account of her German and French grandparents’ lives during World War II is an urgent warning against forgetting the lessons of history in the dangerous rise of far-right nationalism in Europe\, the UK\, and the U.S. In her book\, Those Who Forget: My Family’s Story in Nazi Europe\, Schwarz weaves together the threads of three generations of her family story with Europe’s process of post-war reckoning with fascism. She explores how millions were ensnared by ideology; overcome by a fog of denial after the war; and\, in Germany\, eventually managed to transform collective guilt into democratic responsibility.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/those-who-forget-my-familys-story-in-nazi-europe/
LOCATION:Museum of Jewish Heritage
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T103000
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SUMMARY:Zaha Hadid\, Queen of the Curve
DESCRIPTION:Throughout her lifetime\, the Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid gained international fame as a designer who broke the rules. She designed distinctive and freeform museums\, concert halls\, and skyscrapers that gave her the nickname “Queen of the Curve.” In honor of Women’s History Month\, join us for a read-along of The World is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid. Then\, like Zaha\, we will draw inspiration from the natural world to create freeform tower models of our own! This is an in-person program that meets at the Skyscraper Museum\, 39 Battery Pl. Masks are required for indoor programs.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/zaha-hadid-queen-of-the-curve-2/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T130000
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SUMMARY:The Howe Dynasty: Britain's "First Family" of the American Revolution
DESCRIPTION:In this special Saturday afternoon lecture\, Julie Flavell will present her book The Howe Dynasty\, the first biography of a British “First Family.” The Howe family had as much at stake as the Washingtons and Adamses in the conflict that created the United States. Meet the men and women of the aristocratic Howe dynasty and explore rare paintings of the family.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-howe-dynasty-britains-first-family-of-the-american-revolution/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T143000
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SUMMARY:Women's History Lecture at the African Burial Ground National Monument
DESCRIPTION:Women’s History Month lecture.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/womens-history-lecture-at-the-african-burial-ground-national-monument/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230311T200000
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SUMMARY:The Fruits of Failure: How Chinese Resistance to Missionaries Led to Modern Institutions in China
DESCRIPTION:Lecture.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-fruits-of-failure-how-chinese-resistance-to-missionaries-led-to-modern-institutions-in-china/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230312T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230319T190000
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SUMMARY:Hot Shots
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate college hoops at Brookfield Place! Show off your skills with the interactive Pop-A-Shot in the Winter Garden.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/hot-shots-2/
LOCATION:Brookfield Place
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230312T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230312T200000
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SUMMARY:Compline by Candlelight: Trinity Youth Chorus
DESCRIPTION:Join the Trinity Youth Chorus\, alongside the Trinity Baroque Orchestra\, at a special Compline by Candlelight service\, for a performance of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. Pergolesi’s work is based on the Stabat Mater Dolorosa hymn\, a powerful meditation on the suffering of Mary as Jesus Christ’s mother during his crucifixion. Arrangement by Melissa Attebury.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/compline-by-candlelight-trinity-youth-chorus/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T130000
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SUMMARY:Jazz at One: Ingrid Jensen Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Hailed as one of the most gifted trumpeters of her generation\,  Ingrid Jensen leads her quartet at the 2023 opening of our Jazz at One series. To watch live\, go to Trinity’s homepage at the time of the concert.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/jazz-at-one-ingrid-jensen-quartet/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230313T190000
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SUMMARY:Sophie Ward Presents The Schoolhouse & Margot Douaihy Presents Scorched Grace
DESCRIPTION:Joint book launch. From Sophie Ward\, the Booker Prize-longlisted author of Love and Other Thought Experiments\, comes a masterful and gripping thriller about truth\, silence\, and the weight of the past. Meanwhile\, Margot Douaihy presents her masterful debut\, Scorched Grace in which Sister Holiday\, a chain-smoking\, heavily tattooed\, queer nun\, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this “unique and confident” debut crime novel (Gillian Flynn).
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/sophie-ward-presents-the-schoolhouse-margot-douaihy-presents-scorched-grace/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230314T130000
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SUMMARY:Pipes at One: Amelie Held
DESCRIPTION:Showcasing leading organists from around the country\, highlighting Trinity Church’s celebrated three-manual Noack organ.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/pipes-at-one-amelie-held/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230314T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230314T180000
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SUMMARY:An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City
DESCRIPTION:An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City\, written by Phillip James Dodd with photography by Jonathan Wallen\, is a sumptuous book on an era – roughly from the 1870s to the 1930s – when New York acquired and displayed its wealth and sophistication with complete confidence. The titans of American finance and industry were patrons of the arts in their private mansions\, public institutions\, and business establishments. An American Renaissance focuses on twenty of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts architecture in the city and recalls the lives of those who commissioned\, designed\, and built them. Some of the buildings and monuments are world-renowned landmarks\, while others are more obscure and seldom visited. The opulence of the Gilded Age is stunningly captured in this oversized and extravagantly illustrated volume.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/an-american-renaissance-beaux-arts-architecture-in-new-york-city/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230314T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230314T190000
DTSTAMP:20260421T060858
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SUMMARY:Fiction/Non Fiction Conversation Series: Remembering ACT UP
DESCRIPTION:For this month’s Non-Fiction/Fiction conversation series Join Sarah Schulman and K.M. Soehnlein in commemorating the 30-year anniversary of ACT UP.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/fiction-non-fiction-conversation-series-remembering-act-up/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230314T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230314T190000
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SUMMARY:Pen Parentis
DESCRIPTION:John Sibley Williams\, Barbara Graham\, and Sergio Troncoso read from their work during this month’s virtual salon.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/pen-parentis-10/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T130000
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SUMMARY:Bach at One
DESCRIPTION:Concert.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/bach-at-one/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230315T180000
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CREATED:20230302T150448Z
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SUMMARY:The Bin Laden Papers
DESCRIPTION:The U.S. Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden in his compound in Pakistan also gathered valuable intelligence on al-Qaeda. In her recently published book\, The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda\, Its Leader and His Family\, Nelly Lahoud\, Associate Professor in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College\, distills the content of nearly 6\,000 pages of Arabic language private communications that were recovered during the raid. In conversation with Museum Director Clifford Chanin\, Lahoud reveals al-Qaeda’s closely guarded plans and ambitions and provides additional insight about its role in international terrorism.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-bin-laden-papers/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T130000
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SUMMARY:Novus at One
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Trinity Church’s new music orchestra\, NOVUS NY\, a key player on the contemporary music scene. Program: Brad Balliett Quintet (World Premiere); Valerie Coleman Selections from Portraits of Langston; Joan Tower Island Prelude; Louise Farrenc Sextet in c minor\, Op. 40; Alex Temple Thick Line
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/novus-at-one/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T180000
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SUMMARY:The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem
DESCRIPTION:With its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses\, today’s Harlem bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis. In The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem\, first published in 2017 by Harvard University Press\, Brian D. Goldstein traces Harlem’s Second Renaissance to a surprising source: the radical social movements of the 1960s that resisted city officials and fought to give Harlemites control of their own destiny. Inspired by the civil rights movement\, young activists envisioned a Harlem built by and for its low-income\, predominantly African American population. In the succeeding decades\, however\, the community-based organizations they founded came to pursue a very different goal: a neighborhood with national retailers and increasingly affluent residents.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-roots-of-urban-renaissance-gentrification-and-the-struggle-over-harlem/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230316T183000
DTSTAMP:20260421T060858
CREATED:20230302T150554Z
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SUMMARY:Paradox Docs: Poly Styrene: I am a Cliche
DESCRIPTION:The Paradox Docs series features contradictory yet fascinating stories from unlikely sources. In celebration of Women’s History month\, Poly Styrene: I am a Cliche (2021)\, directed by Celeste Bell and Paul Sng\, follows  a journey through the archives of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene. Free popcorn will be served\, and a discussion will follow the screenings.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/paradox-docs-poly-styrene-i-am-a-cliche/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:The Defeat of the British Southern Strategy to Conquer America
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Ken Scarlett will discuss the British Southern Strategy for conquering America and extinguishing the American Revolution. He will discuss the role of a quisling in the framing of their base strategy and how those plans were completely defeated culminating with the forced British evacuation from Charleston\, South Carolina (Victory Day). Ken will examine General Nathanael Greene’s post-Yorktown counterinsurgency campaign to oust British occupation forces from the Lower South and reinstall elected state governments; which proved to be the final lynchpins for King George III and Parliament to end their war-gone-global and relinquish sovereignty over the declared “United States”.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-defeat-of-the-british-southern-strategy-to-conquer-america/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:The Old Town Girls
DESCRIPTION:Online screening and conversation with the director. Inspired by a true incident\, Shen Yu’s debut OLD TOWN GIRLS tells a tale about how an unsustained economic boom desolates working-class communities and familial relations. Tempted by living a new life as a professional dancer in big cities\, Qu Ting bid farewell to her marriage in a decaying rust bell town\, leaving behind her infant daughter\, Shui Qing\, who’s been alienated by her dad’s new family since. Never felt equally loveable as her peers\, Shui Qing instantly gets carried away by Qu Ting’s worldly charisma and maternal attention when the two meet seventeen years later. But the high schooler is soon forced to face the reality behind her mom’s sudden reappearance and years of unglamorous survival. As dangers loom\, she decides to sacrifice everything for the slim chance of reunification. A private link to the film will be available to event registrants from March 10th to March 16th. We will invite Director Yu SHEN of The Old Town Girls and film critic Karen MA to join us in an online discussion at 7-8pm ET on March 16th\, 2023.
URL:https://downtownny.com/event/the-old-town-girls/
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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