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Freedom of Expression National Monument |
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Creative Time has recommissioned this public artwork—basically
a giant megaphone for New Yorkers to voice their thoughts
and opinions—by architect Laurie Hawkinson, performer
John Malpede, and visual artist Erika Rothenberg. Part
of the Imagine Festival. |
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Books Not Bombs Youth Convergence |
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The National Youth & Student Peace Coalition
invites young people from across the country to gather
in a day-long forum of workshops, banner-making, protest
planning, and music. St. Mark's Church, 131 East 10th
Street. |
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| 11 a.m. |
March for Women's Lives |
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Protestors gather at 11 a.m. at Cadman
Plaza in Brooklyn and walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
at noon in this march sponsored by Planned Parenthood,
which ends with a 1 p.m. rally in front of City Hall.
Speakers will include Kathleen Turner, Vagina Monologues
playwright Eve Ensler, Manhattan borough president C.
Virginia Fields, and state comptroller Alan Hevesi. |
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| 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
A Green World Is Possible! |
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Supporters gather to hear Green Party presidential
candidate David Cobb and others speak about the Green
agenda. Washington Square Park. |
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| 2 p.m. |
Protest Starbucks |
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A recently formed union of Starbucks workers
meets to protest President Bush's intervention on behalf
of their employer. Outside Starbucks, Madison Avenue at
36th Street. |
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| 3 p.m. |
Abraham Lincoln's New York |
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Architectural walking tour including “Haughwout Store
. . . which Mary Todd Lincoln favored for the purchase
of White House china.” Part of the Imagine Festival. Woolworth
Building, 233 Broadway. |
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| 5:30 p.m. |
Ring Out the Republicans |
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With Democrats and Republicans battling
for symbolic ownership of Ground Zero, RingOut.org
hopes their simple plan to ring as many as 2,500 hand-held
bells at the site will resonate with the masses. New-music
pioneer Pauline Oliveros will debut an original work for
the observance. World Trade Center site. See
the Protest Barometer. |
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Margaret Cho's State of Emergency World
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According to comedian Cho, this tour will be "a raw
interpretation of what’s happening daily in our ever-evolving
or devolving state of the union." Part of the Imagine
Festival. The Apollo Theater, 253 West 125th Street. |
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| 7 p.m. |
The Christian Defense Coalition |
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The pro-life group will hold a sidewalk
prayer vigil, pending city approval, on Seventh Avenue
at 31st Street, across from Madison Square Garden. |
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| 7 p.m. |
The Right Stuff |
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Sample humor: “Now they’re calling illegal aliens undocumented
workers. Soon they’ll be calling burglars unwelcome houseguests.”
Laugh Factory, 669 Eighth Avenue, $20. |
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| 7 p.m. |
Sketch in the City |
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An evening at the Art Students League combining dancing
with life-drawing from nude models, as a rejoinder to
the Justice Department’s draping of suggestive statues.
Part of the Imagine Festival. The Art Students League
of NY, 215 West 57th Street, $12-$15. |
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Women Against War |
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Organized by Code Pink, the women-centric
social justice group, this music and spoken-word performance
features Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler
and "Democracy Now!" host Amy Goodman, among
others. Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive. Tickets
available at the door for $10, by calling 800-838-3006,
or at brownpapertickets.com/event/407.
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Convention Media Welcome Party |
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Hosts: Mayor Bloomberg,
Governor Pataki, and the NYC 2004 Host Committee.
Guests: Of the 15,000
credentialed journalists covering the convention, only
a fraction will find themselves with one of 6,500 invites.
The Lowdown: The party
will be held across the first three floors of the center,
overlooking the cavernous Great Room. Some stores will
stay open during the festivities; food will be provided
by on-site restaurants and by a mix of other area spots,
including Fiamma, Le Cirque, and Zarela. In addition to
a welcome from the mayor, guests will hear musicians from
Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Odd touch: The space
will be festooned with figurative sculptures made out
of magazines—Time Warner magazines.
• The Time Warner Center, Columbus Circle |
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| Imagine Festival
of Arts, Issues & Ideas: Many of the most provocative convention-week
events are presented under the auspices of the Imagine Festival
of Arts, Issues, and Ideas, a six-day (8/28-9/2) onslaught of
dance, music, theater, film, and art—more than 125 shows
in all. The Freedom of Expression National Monument (a
megaphone in lower Manhattan for New Yorkers to voice their
opinions; 8/17-11/13) and Photographs by Iraqi Civilians,
2004 (8/30-9/2) are among the installations that run throughout
the convention. The festival screens Spike Lee’s We
Was Robbed (8/28), about the 2000 Florida election, and
Robert Altman’s Secret Honor (8/29), a cinematic
riff on the Watergate scandal. American Oligopoly (8/28-8/29),
in Washington Square Park, allows participants to join in an
interactive theatrical “game” played on a gigantic
Monopoly board; acclaimed storytelling collective The Moth (8/30)
hosts a story slam at the Bitter End; and Patriot Acts—Patriots
Gone Wild (9/1) has Taylor Mac, the Dazzle Dancers, and
others lampooning the administration’s obsession with
patriotism. Margaret Cho’s "State of Emergency World
Tour" opens at the Apollo Theater (8/28), and in perhaps
the most ambitious (or at least masochistic) festival happening,
artist Marshall Weber performs NYC Odyssey and The Iliad
(8/31), a marathon reading of Homer’s epics while
riding the Staten Island Ferry, which is expected to take two
days. For complete schedule and venue information, go to imagine04.org.
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| Plus: Our Guide to the City's Politically Charged Artistic Offerings |
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Published on August 19, 2004.
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