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Explore the captivating world of literature in the heart of NYC with a range of classes covering diverse genres, from classic literature and poetry to modern fiction and creative writing, where participants can enhance their understanding and appreciation for the written word.
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The Abyss I am Made Of: an Intro to Clarice Lispector
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
The Abyss I am Made Of: an Introduction to Clarice Lispector Compared over the course of her life to Marlene Dietrich, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke, Arthur Rimbaud, a sphinx, a she-wolf, a “foreigner on earth,” and a hurricane, the Jewish Brazilian Clarice Lispector, born to Ukrainian parents who fled to Brazil from interwar pogroms, made an indelible stamp on the literature of her adopted homeland—and...
Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
What does it mean to be human in the world today? Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1958) is a provocative treatise on what it means to live on earth and share the world in common. Her study, originally intended to be titled Amor Mundi (Love of the World), investigates the central activities of human life—labor, work, action—and their corresponding realms—private, social, public. For Arendt, The Human Condition is about protecting spaces...
Blending the Arts: Visual Art, Music, and Poetry
The Jewish Museum @ 1109 5th Ave, New York, NY
Join us for a workshop that explores how music and poetry inspire artists. Discover the relationship between visual art, music, and language. View works of art in the exhibition Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything along with works in the Jewish Museum collection. Following the tour, educators will participate in art making activities that integrate the arts.
$12
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A Lot On The Mind: Autism
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
Come join us for a night of educational and theatrical fun while learning about some of the most misunderstood and stigmatized neurological disorders! Each month we’ll highlight a different neurological disorder and address the science behind the disorder, research being done in that field, and the stigmas patients face, featuring performances from patients themselves. Do vaccines cause autism? What are the signs of autism spectrum disorder and...
$15
Midnight Society
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
Was it Aliens... or Hypnosis, Ghosts... or Hallucination, Demons... or Delusion? Our storytellers dive in to the scary stories that have haunted us for generations, and the psychology behind them. We explore the unexplained and find that the reasons we invent supernatural stories are often more terrifying than the stories themselves. July Theme: Urban Legends Venue is mixed seating and standing-room: arrive early to get a good seat!
$15
Billy and The Situation
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
BILLY & THE SITUATION A NEW TWO-PERSON PLAY ABOUT NJ’S BADDEST BOYS Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino appeared on six seasons of MTV's The Jersey Shore before being convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to eight months in prison. Billy McFarland, the Fyre Festival guy, founded a members-only club for Millennials and a failed luxury music festival before being convicted of wire fraud and sentenced to six years in prison. For four months,...
$18.80
Monroe Martin: Public Property
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
I'm Monroe Martin, and I have a new one-man show called Public Property. It's about self-discovery and the effects that the foster care system has had on my adult life. I realized I'd been in survival mode for 36 years and it feels like I escaped from one of those bunkers where crazy dudes store their second family. I've been roaming this big dumb rock called earth for years, but I feel like I'm experiencing things for the first time: friendship,...
$24.05
Clown Gym Presents: Clown Flex
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
Come laugh with some of the most beautiful, funny, moving, and weird clowns creating work in New York City! Clown Gym presents "Clown Flex" to showcase the amazing talent of Clown Gym's members and friends. This is a mixed seated/standing venue. Seats are first-come, first-served.
$21.95
Boba Gays and Friends: an all Asian comedy show
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
Tired of only seeing only one or even ZERO Asians featured at your comedy show? Well how about a hilarious new comedy show that features only Asians! Produced by Alex Kim and Kenny Park Yi, Boba Gays & Friends is an inclusive all Asian comedy show, featuring the best comics in NYC, period. This is a mixed seated/standing venue. Seats are first-come, first-served.
$18.80
Comedytown
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
Comedytown is a traveling variety show with the best comedy acts from NYC to LA. From stand-ups seen on Comedy Central and HBO to improvisers from The Second City and UCB, it's the hottest destination nationwide. Get in the car and buckle up because we're headed to Comedytown! Hosted by Chicago improvisers John Randall and Trent Dozier. This is a mixed seated/standing venue. Seats are first-come, first-served.
$18.80
A Scientific Exploration of Why Jamie is Still Single
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
More Than Just A Friend: A Scientific Exploration of Why Jamie is Still Single Jamie Linn Watson dissects her past dating experiences to scientifically determine why she is still single. They say you will never truly know why a guy dumps you, why he decides to ghost or leave you hanging, why he may only “see you as a friend.” You will never have an answer for these heartbreaks. Some things will never be understood or explained….or so they...
$18.80
Anything But Standup!
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
A comedy variety show hosted by Bahlya Yansane III with a hidden narrative. Comedian and host Bahlya Yansane III started his career by taking improv classes. He found a love for sketch comedy and began creating his own characters and telling stories. When asked if he would ever try stand-up comedy, his response was always "anything but standup!" Bahlya Yansane will be joined by 3 improv teams doing rapid fire sets, a sketch team, someone doing comedy...
$18.80
Hum
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
A solo show about how neurodivergence can save the world - one hum at a time. Each performance of "Hum" is live-improvised by a different musical guest, hearing the story for the very first time on stage. Musician TBA! At 10 years old, Julie became consumed with the question ‘what will happen next?’. When she couldn’t find an answer in her uncertain world, her body gave her one: a hum. But when her hum was diagnosed as mild Tourette’s...
$24.05
And Scene
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
Actors are given a scene & learn their lines, improvisers are given nothing & must make it work. New York top improvisers and actors from Broadway, TV and beyond perform in scenes from Mamet to Moliere and everything in between. The actors will know their lines and the improvisers will improvise with no prior knowledge of the scenes. The format was inspired by Stephen Ruddy and was originally performed under the name "Gravid Water"...
$20
Next Slide Please
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
Next Slide Please invites comedians to prepare and present PowerPoints about whatever they want. That could mean a data-driven ranking of the best Manhattan street corners for first date make-outs, pitches for start-up investment opportunities that are *probably* not scams, or a passionate defense of the 2003 Jessica Alba vehicle "Honey" (21% on Rotten Tomatoes). Hosted by Reed Kavner and featured in The New York Times and Gothamist, Next Slide Please...
$29.30
Pizzazz with Gary Gulman
Caveat @ 21-A Clinton St, New York, NY
Comedian Gary Gulman (HBO, Comedy Central) performs an extended set of new material in preparation for his next special, and invites a few of his favorite local and visiting comedians to make you laugh. This is a mixed seated/standing venue. Seats are first-come, first-served.
$24.05
Stories in Art
The Jewish Museum @ 1109 5th Ave, New York, NY
Examine art inspired by fairy tales, folklore and Biblical stories in this workshop focusing on English Language Arts (ELA). Hear from Nina Jaffe, children’s book author, storyteller and bilingual special educator and explore the exhibition, Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone through the lens of literacy and storytelling. Price includes light dinner
$18
Virginia Woolf: Embodiment and Novel Experiments
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 230 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY
In an essay called “Flying Over London,” Virginia Woolf imagines herself as a passenger on an airplane passing over the city. Her imagined journey becomes an occasion to think about both the lures of a fixed, constant subjectivity and the shifting currents of an unstable modernity. This fraught relationship with the self (and the flight from it) offers a crystalline lens through which to view Woolf’s experiments in writing and thinking the...
The Divine Comedy
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 600 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Dante’s Divine Comedy follows the journey of the poet through hell, purgatory, and paradise. This epic Italian poem, composed between 1308 and 1321, is an allegory for the movement of the soul toward God. But it is also a multifaceted exploration of ethics, metaphysics, politics, love, order, chaos, poetic form, and the Classical literary tradition. In this course, we’ll read The Divine Comedy in translation—Inferno, Purgatorio,...
Gothic Feminism: Repression, Transgression, and Range
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 20 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
Madwomen, ghosts, witches, monsters—the gothic genre has long been a vehicle for representing female characters deemed too transgressive for inclusion in “respectable” fiction. Indeed, much of what makes the gothic dark and mysterious, what inspires dread, is how it reckons with thwarted female autonomy, repressed desire, and past injustice. It’s no wonder the genre has proved so fruitful for feminist theory: in its tales and archetypes,...
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