2-3:30PM After Poland with Author Cheryl Chaffin Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust As a student in Italy in the 1980s, Cheryl Chaffin first discovered the writing of Primo Levi, the eminent Italian-Jewish chemist, poet, and writer of Holocaust testimony. FREE 36 Battery Place. www.mjhnyc.org 6:30PM Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father Fraunces Tavern Museum Two decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young soldier serving the British Empire in the vast wilderness of the Ohio Valley. Peter Stark’s lecture will recount the wilderness trials, controversial battles, and emotional entanglements that transformed Washington from a temperamental striver into a mature leader. $10 54 Pearl Street http://frauncestavernmuseum.org 7-8PM BPC Running Club Battery Park City Parks Start with warm-up exercises before jogging the 2.4 miles down and back along the length of the Battery Park City Esplanade. Parks Programming Leaders guide the warm-up and cool-down and ensure a favorable pace for all participants. FREE Meets inside the Community Center at Stuyvesant High School at 345 Chambers St. www.bpcparks.org 7PM Poetry and Mathematics: A Conversation & Book Launch Poets House Emily Grosholz, poet and philosopher of mathematics, will discuss her new book, Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry, with Wall Street Journal Critic at Large Edward Rothstein, author of the book Emblems of Mind, about music and mathematics. Her book shows how poets use mathematical notions and mathematicians use poetic “figures of thought.” Grace Schulman will introduce her. FREE 10 River Terrace. www.poetshouse.org 8PM Highlights in Jazz: Satchmo & Sidney Bechet Revisted Tribeca Performing Arts Center David Ostwald, Louis Armstrong Eternity Band including: Alphonso Horne, Adrian Cunningham, Dion Tucker, Dave Gibson Bechet’s Leading Disciple Olivier Franc, Jean Baptiste Franc, Daniel Bechet. $50 199 Chambers Street www.tribecapac.org |
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