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Wednesday, 01 August 2012
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
Screening
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
6:30 - 8:30pm, $0
Kurt Andersen
BookCourt - 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
The Strand — 828 Broadway
7pm, $?
Jail the Bankers or Abolish the Jails?
Alexis Goldstein, Natasha Lennard, Joe Macaré & Liliana Segura
Brecht Forum - 451 West Street
7:30pm, $6
Thursday, 02 August 2012
The History and Future of Religious Violence and Apocalyptic Movements: Peter Bergen
Columbia University, International Affairs - 420 West 118th Street, Room 1501
6 - 7:30pm, $0
Monday, 06 August 2012
You Can't Kill A Revolution
Screening and Discussion with Chairman Fred Hampton Jr
Brecht Forum - 451 West Street
7pm, $6
Tuesday, 07 August 2012
Green Guerrillas Workshop
A History of NYC's Community Gardening Movement
Austrian Cultural Forum - 11 East 52 Street
11am - 1pm, $0
Wednesday, 08 August 2012
Lucky Luciano Screening
Introduced by Nancy Holmstrom & Richard Smith
Brecht Forum - 451 West Street
6:30pm, $6
D for Deception with Tina Rosenberg
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
6:30pm, $0
Thursday, 09 August 2012
Postracialism, Postblackness, & Postmodern Uncle Toms?
A. Shahid Stover, Iyanna Jones, Kazembe Balagun
Brecht Forum - 451 West Street
7:30pm, $6
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
The After-Match: A Discussion on Olympic Cities post-Olympics
Storefront for Art and Architecture - 97 Kenmare Street
7 - 9pm, $0
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Free Pussy Riot Public Reading
The Ace Hotel - 20 West 29th Street, Liberty Hall
7:30 - 8:30pm, $0
Friday, 17 August 2012
Mathias Kessler in conversation with Amanda McDonald
Austrian Cultural Forum - 11 East 52 Street
5:30 - 6:30pm, $0
Gender Equality: Political Backrooms, Corporate Boardrooms and Classrooms
with the New Americas Quarterly
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
6:30pm, $0
Learn to Code From an Artist
by Kitchen Table Coders
New Museum - 235 Bowery
7pm, $8
Monday, 20 August 2012
Words by the Water: Melville House Night
Shira Nayman, Elizabeth Nunez, and Kevin Holohan
East River State Park - Kent Ave and North 9th Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Occupy Their Desire
A conversation with Not An Alternative
Austrian Cultural Forum - 11 East 52 Street
6:30pm, $0
On Privacy
Garret Keizer with Chris Beha
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Central Park Film Screening: Do the Right Thing
Central Park, 72nd St. at 5th Avenue
8pm, $0
Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Victor LaValle & Kelly Link
Greenlight Books - 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $0
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Other Arrangements: An Evening of Screenings
Selected by Frédéric Moffet
New Museum - 235 Bowery, Theater
7pm, $8
Friday, 24 August 2012
You Can't Win, You Can't Break Even, and You Can't Get Out of the Game
Munier Salem, PhD candidate
Columbia University, Pupin Hall - 538 West 120 Street
8 - 10pm, $0
Sunday, 26 August 2012
For Chris Marker
Light Industry - 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn
10am - 11:59pm, $0
Monday, 27 August 2012
Words by the Water: Tin House Night
Readings from Tin House Fall 2012 issue
East River State Park - Kent Avenue at North 9th Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Syntax Supper with Erin Zaroukian
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 7102
6:30pm, $0
Wednesday, 29 August 2012
Advertising and Higher Education
New School, Lang Community Center - 55 West 13 Street, Arnhold Hall, Floor Two
6pm, $0
Jonathan Kozol
Barnes & Noble - Union Square 33 East 17th Street
7pm, $0
Victor LaValle: The Devil in Silver
BookCourt - 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
What Happens After "Animal Farm"?
John Reed with Eric Banks
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Thursday, 30 August 2012
Jay Caspian Kang with Rivka Galchen
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0