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American Museum of Natural History: Un-Highlights Tour
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Museum Hack
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Upper West Side
Central Park W , New York, New York 10024
Dinosaurs! Science! Adventure! Break out your pith helmet as we embark upon a brazen expedition through the halls of New York City's world-famous American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Join your maverick tour guide as we deftly navigate this massive 27-building, 1.6 million square foot landmark cultural institution. Learn the science...
The Eleusinian Mysteries
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Brooklyn Brainery
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Prospect Heights
190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11238
Course Name: The Eleusinian Mysteries: Occult Secrets of the Ancient Greeks Every year in the Ancient Greek city of Eleusis, people gathered from far and wide to worship the power of nature with a series of religious rituals called the Eleusinian Mysteries. Although it was kept secret from all but the initiated, the cult of the Mysteries...
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Greetings from Coney Island Walking Tour
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Brooklyn Brainery
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Coney Island
1215 Surf Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11224
The history of Coney Island is like nothing you’ve ever heard before. From prostitutes living in a giant tin elephant, to the invention of the hot dog, to a ride that’s so scary it actually made its riders pee themselves, and we’ll tell you all about it! Join New York Local Tours as we explore the engaging history of Coney Island’s...
The Movement for Black Lives Now
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Museum of the City of New York - Public
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East Harlem
1220 5th Ave, New York, New York 10029
Nearly five years after the rallying cry #BlackLivesMatter, the Movement for Black Lives has put forth a broad platform connecting systemic racism and criminal justice reform with issues such as gender discrimination, anti-immigrant sentiment, and economic inequality. Join BYP100 NYC organizer Christopher Paul Harris as he leads an evening...
History, Ecology & Architecture of the West Village
Full Class Name: History, Ecology & Architecture of the West Village Walking Tour Discover NYC’s dynamic waterfront history through a guided walking tour of the West Village neighborhood, led by a local historian. Explore Manhattan’s role as a major trade center and port through a chronological trip of history, ecology...
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American Museum of Natural History: Family Tour
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Museum Hack
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Upper West Side
Central Park W , New York, New York 10024
DINOSAURS! SCIENCE! ADVENTURE! Break out your pith helmet as we embark upon a brazen expedition through the halls of New York City's world-famous American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Join your maverick tour guide as we deftly navigate this massive 27-building, 1.6 million square foot landmark cultural institution. Learn the science...
Spotlight on Icelandic Design
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Artists and Fleas
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Williamsburg
70 N 7th St, Brooklyn, New York 11249
As part of Taste of Iceland 2017 in New York City, Artists & Fleas in Brooklyn is pleased and honored to be hosting a pop out event featuring some of the most talented emerging Icelandic designers. Stay tuned for more details. Iceland's famous cultural festival Taste of Iceland comes to Brooklyn Sept. 28 - Oct. 1. The...
Ban This Book (If You Can)
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Think Olio
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Greenwich Village
828 Broadway, New York, New York 10003
For many of the greats of literary Modernism, including James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Djuna Barnes, e.e. cummings, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, the ultimate cat and mouse game with the censors was played on a global scale. More than a decade before the Nazi book burnings turned public opinion against the obscenity laws, writers and their publishers...
Ghosts of the Boroughs
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Q.E.D.
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Astoria
27-16 23rd Ave, Astoria, New York 11105
Boroughs of the Dead Tour Guide Marie Carter is thrilled to present “Ghosts of the Boroughs”. In this eerie, illustrated lecture you will learn about the haunted mansions of the boroughs, a ghostly monastery, a creepy story involving murder and a spooky doll, former insane asylums, grisly murders, and many other ghastly NYC stories! And...
Computing Cultures
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
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Midtown
247 West 37th St 5th Fl, New York, New York 10018
We live in a networked, digitized, highly-automated world, where silicon-based microprocessors help us decide what to eat, who to date, how to dress, where to go, and even how to feel. Depending on which experts you trust, such everyday computing tools signify either radical possibilities for human liberation or a proliferation of dystopian techniques...
Reading Herodotus
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
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Lower East Side
178 Stanton St, New York, New York 10002
Since antiquity, Herodotus has been proclaimed the Father of History and the Father of Lies; and others have found in Herodotus the origins of western ethnographic writing. In our course, we will read and discuss the entirety of Herodotus’ Histories, with particular attention to the dialogic variety of narratives—historical, anthropological,...
Shocks and Phantasmagoria
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
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Gramercy
30 Irving Pl, New York, New York 10003
Shocks and Phantasmagoria: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project Walter Benjamin once wrote that The Arcades Project was “the theater of all my struggles and all my ideas.” Never completed and well over a decade in the making, The Arcades Project takes on the presentation and history of an entire era and place: the Parisian...
A History of Media from 1999 to Today
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Brooklyn Brainery
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Prospect Heights
190 Underhill Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11238
Since the launch of Napster in 1999, there has been a massive transformation in how we create and consume media. This class charts the waves of change over the past two decades. We’ll start by looking at the tools and technology that underpin the digital revolution. We’ll then trace what’s happened in four...
Genealogy: Finding our Ancestors, Finding Ourselves
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Queensborough Community College
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Bayside
222-05 56th Ave, Bayside, New York 11364
This workshop will explain how to get started in this fascinating hobby and how to grow a family tree from just a few "seeds". Learn the tools of successful genealogical research, and start on the path toward creating a well-documented family tree and family history. Discussion includes the obstacles beginners face in genealogical research and...
Postcolonial Cinema
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Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
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Williamsburg
308 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11211
Since the beginning of formal, political decolonization, cinema has been a key ground for emerging postcolonial identities and the struggle for decolonization . Working with technologies, techniques, and even sometimes idioms developed across the broadly “Western” world — from initial experiments in France to the experimental avant-garde in the...
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