The BroadsheetDAILY ~ News of Lower Manhattan ~ 11/21/19

National Museum of the American Indian
Join Perry Ground for an engaging and informative workshop and storytelling session about the history of this very misunderstood holiday. Based on the only primary source documents that chronicle the “First Thanksgiving” and using a quiz-style format, visitors will learn accurate and culturally appropriate information about the English settlers at Plymouth and the Wampanoag, the Native people who inhabited that area, and learn about how this story became the holiday we know today. Program is repeated at 2pm, 2:30pm and 3pm. One Bowling Green.

Battery Park City School PS-IS 276 55 Battery Place
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McNally Jackson
Book reading. Mindfulness is now all the rage. From celebrity endorsements to monks, neuroscientists and meditation coaches rubbing shoulders with CEOs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it is clear that mindfulness has gone mainstream. Some have even called it a revolution. But what if, instead of changing the world, mindfulness has become a banal form of capitalist spirituality that mindlessly avoids social and political transformation, reinforcing the neoliberal status quo? In McMindfulness, Ronald Purser debunks the so-called “mindfulness revolution,” exposing how corporations, schools, governments and the military have co-opted it as technique for social control and self-pacification. A lively and razor-sharp critique, Purser busts the myths its salesmen rely on, challenging the narrative that stress is self-imposed and mindfulness is the cure-all. FREE 4 Fulton Street.

Poets House
On the occasion of polymath Bill Bissett’s 80th birthday, join us in welcoming the poet, painter, musician, and editor to Poets House! Bissett will present on his legendary career in Canadian small press publishing, introduced by Adeena Karasick. The evening will conclude with a reading from Bissett’s latest collection, breth. $7, $10 10 River Terrace.