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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 27, 2017?

39 free events take place on Monday, March 27 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out March 27 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of March . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, March 27, 2017

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City Walk | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Film | Tate Taylor's The Girl on the Train (2016): Based on the Novel


Stars: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson. A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life. 112 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Lecture | The 'Belt and Road' or the 'Gap and Load'? Hard Infrastructure and Security in the Baltic States


The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania share a historically extremely precarious, but also potentially lucrative geostrategic position, which throughout the last several years has become of interest to the promoters of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The three “Baltic sisters”, however, are aware of the strategic nature of hard infrastructure precisely due to their peculiar negative experience during both the Soviet occupation and post-Soviet interaction with their direct neighbors to the east. The crucial case of Lithuania as the southernmost and the largest of the three countries demonstrates the nature of the strategic dilemma between opportunities and threats of eastern-bound transnational infrastructural projects. Despite the politically sensitive and opaque option of the BRI, the Balts are forced to prioritize the traditional harder (the so-called “Suwalki Gap”) and softer (e.g. transit of particularly important cargoes) security issues, which China would find hard to fully appreciate. Speaker Konstantinas Andrijauskas is Associate Professor of Asian Studies and International Politics at Vilnius University, Lithuania, and Fulbright Visiting Scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | U.S.-Taiwan Relations Under the Trump Administration


Ambassador Raymond Burghardt, Former Chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan, will engage in a frank discussion of U.S.-Taiwan Relations, and how that relationship is effected by the new Trump Administration.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Talk | God Behind Bars: The Rise of Faith-Based Prison Ministries in the Age of Mass Incarceration


In prisons throughout the United States, punitive incarceration and religious revitalization are occurring simultaneously. Faith-based prison ministries operate under the logic that religious conversion and redemption will transform prisoners into new human beings. Cash-strapped and overcrowded state and federal prisons increasingly relying on ministries to provide educational and mental health services and to help maintain order. These religious organizations are overwhelmingly run by nondenominational Protestant Christians who see prisoners as captive audiences. How do people in prison practice religion in a space of coercion and discipline? What are the legal implications of the state's promotion of Christianity over other religious traditions in some prisons? What role do faith-based groups play in the bipartisan movement for criminal justice reform, and how can faith-based ministries more effectively work on policies to end mass incarceration? Speaker: Tanya Erzen, Associate Professor, Religion and Gender Studies, University of Puget Sound and Executive Director of the Freedom Education Project, Puget Sound.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:10 pm
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Concert | Lunchtime Organ Recital


Take a 30-minute lunch break for your soul with Matthew Smith, Organ Student at Westminster Choir College.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at One


Program: J. S. Bach: Clavier-Übung III: Wir glauben all' an einen Gott, BWV 681 J. P. Krieger: Herr, auf dich trau ich J. S. Bach: Bekennen will ich seinen Namen, BWV 200 D. Buxtehude: Trio Sonata Op. 2, No. 5 in A major, BuxWV 263 J. P. Krieger: O Jesu, du mein Leben J. S. Bach: Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich, BWV 150 Features musicians from the period-instrument ensemble New York Baroque Incorporated and soloists from The Choir of Trinity Wall Street.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Great Organ: Midday Monday


Cathedral organists provide a 30-minute break for mind, body and spirit on Mondays at 1 pm with an entertaining and informative demonstration of the Cathedral’s unparalleled Great Organ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Guided Exhibition Tour: A World of Emotions


Bringing to vivid life the emotions of the people of ancient Greece, and prompting questions about how we express, control, manipulate, or simulate feelings in our own society, A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece, 700 BC–200 AD is a path-breaking exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Discussion | Insights Into Gender, Land, and Corruption in Africa


Speakers: Annette Jaitner, People Engagement Coordinator, Transparency International, and Michael Okai, National Project Coordinator, Ghana Integrity Initiative, Transparency International
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Other | Nature Sanctuary Open Hours


During these limited hours, visitors can explore the normally closed sanctuary at their own pace along the rustic trail. See how the conservancy has restored this native woodland garden for birds and other wildlife. The wood-chipped trail is uneven; please wear appropriate shoes. This ecosystem is a protected area and home to many flora and fauna. No groups, dogs, bikes, or strollers. Free and self-guided. Space is limited.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments. This tour takes place Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 2pm, and Saturdays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Melvin Frank's Oscar Winner The Facts of Life (1960): Affair in Mexico


Stars: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey. When their spouses are unable to join them on a planned group trip, longtime friends Larry Gilbert and Kitty Weaver find themselves thrown together and falling in love under the sun in beautiful Acapulco. With their vacation coming to an end, both Larry and Kitty find themselves torn about whether or not to end the affair. 103 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | On a Budget? Learn Inexpensive Ways to be Healthy


Cut your monthly bill in half while losing weight and getting healthier 10 ways to make smart, healthy choices that will support your long-term health and prevent disease.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Choral Concert: Tualatin Youth Choir


Program: Franz Biebl Ave Maria Neil Ginsberg Hine Ma Tov Josef Rheinberger Abendlied James Erb Shenandoah Jean Berger A Rose Touched by the Sun's Warm Rays
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
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Lecture | Starting from Injustice: Political Theory for the Disadvantaged


From Plato to Rawls, political philosophers have focused on justice. And from Cicero to Dwarkin, they have assumed or posited equality as a fundamental requirement for justice, although universal human equality is a very recent posit in comparison to equality within privileged groups. But neither ideals of justice nor equality address injustice when some are treated justly and others are not. Sometimes this contrast in treatment motivates inquiry. For instance: How can formal equality coexist with practical inequality? When is practical inequality unjust? Applicative justice may bridge the gap between those justly and unjustly treated, by applying the rules and practices of justice enjoyed by the former, to the latter. More generally, the progressive theorist should provide a theory of injustice, instead of a theory of justice––there is little if any justification for the claim that we need to understand what ideal justice is, before we can correct injustice. Between ideal justice and real injustice, there are many contending interests and practices and a theory of injustice is thereby required to address those dynamic social structures which result in injustice. Injustice theory should also be able to explain why some forms of disadvantage are unjust, while others may be purely unfortunate, and determine whether this difference between deserts and luck even matters.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Talk | Learn More About Diabetes


Dr. Jason C. Baker, M.D. will talk about diabetes. Dr. Baker is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine for Weill Cornell Medicine and is board certified in Internal Medicine, and Endcrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Baker, who himself has type 1 diabetes, has interests and expertise in disease management through education and lifestyle interventions, prevention of type 1 diabetes, and the impact of diabetes on international health.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Monthly Meditation - Spring into Meditation


Jim Rose, retired executive of Johnson and Johnson and long time meditator will show you how meditation can grant you the peace you seek. You already have within you everything you need to be completely happy. Enjoy the Spring by learning a simple technique leading to the deepest levels of peace and joy. Rose has been meditating for over 30 years and will demonstrate how meditation can enrich one's life, personally, professionally and spiritually.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Classical Music | Canadian Guitar Quaret performs Vivaldi, Beethoven, Brahms, Saint-Saëns


Program: Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Concerto RV.531 Hans Brüderl (1959-) Octopus Renaud Côté-Giguère (1990-) Fille de Cuivre Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) String Quartet Op. 59, No. 3 Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Danse Macabre Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Hungarian Dances Nos 1, 4, and 5 Patrick Roux (1962-) Concerto Tradicionuevo Featuring: Julien Bisaillon, Renaud Cote-Giguere, Bruno Roussel, and Louis Trepanier Since 1999, this ensemble has performed a dynamic mix of original music and classical repertoire that have earned them a reputation as one of the finest guitar ensembles in the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Conference | David Pettigrew's The Geography of Genocide in Bosnia: Redeeming the Earth (2009): Documentary on Genocide in Bosnia


This documentary film explores the extent to which the perpetrators of the genocide in Bosnia (1992-1995) violently transformed the terrain. Natal villages were destroyed and over 1,000 Mosques and other cultural institutions were razed. In many cases, the Mosques were replaced with Serbian Orthodox Churches. Approximately 70,000 Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) were murdered. More than 500 mass graves containing the bodies of the victims have been discovered. Approximately one million Bosniaks were forced into exile. 50 min. Followed by a Q&A with David Pettigrew, filmmaker and professor of Philosophy and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Southern Connecticut State University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | From Teacher-Scholar to Scholar-Teacher: Barnard Faculty and the Research Imperative Since 1950


Formed in 1900, the Barnard College faculty operated its first half-century largely as a colony ruled by its male minority and subject to the all-male graduate faculties at Columbia. This remained true into the 1950s. Since then, Barnard’s faculty has been successfully liberated, achieving substantial institutional autonomy and gender parity within its ranks. In the course of doing so, it has adopted the research imperative prevailing at Columbia and other research universities. While this is mostly to good effect for an undergraduate institution with a tradition of teaching excellence, it’s not without its challenges. Those interested in the history of Barnard and its unique teaching model won’t want to miss this discussion with one of the College’s finest historians, Professor Robert McCaughey.
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6:00 pm
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Film | George Cukor's Bhowani Junction (1956): Woman Tries to Find Herself


Stars: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers. Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India. 110 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Interspace: A Curator-Artist Discussion


Xavier Acarín is a curator and researcher from Barcelona based in New York. He has worked as an art producer for various institutions in Spain and in the United States and received his MA from the Center of Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Baseera Khan is a New York-based artist. Her visual and written work focuses on performing visualized patterns of emigration and exile that are shaped by economic, social, and political changes throughout the world with a special interest in decolonization practices. Khan is preparing for her first solo exhibition at Participant Inc., New York City (2017).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Songbook: Broadway's Future


A concert of new music by Broadway composers and lyricists sung by Broadway vocalists, Presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul and directed by John Znidarsic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | The Future of Digital Journalism: What's At Stake?


Join journalists and professors from around New York in discussing the way that journalism is changing under the Trump administration and in our global political climate. With so much at stake, how can our media counter efforts that threaten freedom of speech and truth? Some subjects to be discussed include what to do when news outlets and journalists are silenced; how to holding governments and representatives accountable for providing the truth to its citizens, and how to recognize and understand propaganda and the role of fake news. The media’s role in this climate is multifaceted and, perhaps now more than ever, of the utmost importance. Speakers will give a broad spectrum of opinions in the many ways digital media is addressing our most pressing issues. With: - Terence Moran, Professor of Media Ecology in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University - Susan McGregor, Assistant Professor & Assistant Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism - Jack Smith IV, from Mic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Understanding Media Studies: Power Plays with Data


A talk with Zara Rahman, Fellow, Data and Society, and Mimi Onuoha, Artist and Research Resident, Eyebeam.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Close Encounters: The Dilemmas of Contact for Isolated Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon


The Peru–Brazil border region harbors perhaps the world's largest remaining refuge for isolated indigenous peoples, sometimes referred to as "uncontacted tribes." Over the past few years, an increasing intensity of sightings, encounters and conflicts as well as sensational international media coverage has raised international awareness about their status, their unique vulnerabilities and the growing threats to their territories and ways of life. This presentation pieces together what little is known about the cultural history of isolated indigenous peoples in the Madre de Dios region of Peru, separates fact from fiction in popular media representations about them, analyzes their rapidly evolving interactions with outsiders, and weighs the complex opportunities and threats they face over the next decade. Speakers: Glenn H. Shepard Jr. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém do Pará, Brazil
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Gergely Baics discusses his book Feeding Gotham: The Political Economy and Geography of Food in New York, 1790–1860


This illustrated lecture explores how America’s first metropolis grappled with the challenge of provisioning its inhabitants.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Bestselling author Augusten Burroughs reads from his book Lust and Wonder


From the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author comes an intimate look at the driving forces in one man's life. With his unique and singular observations and his own unabashed way of detailing both the horrific and the humorous, Augusten Burroughs' Lust and Wonder is a hilariously frank memoir that will resonate with anyone who has loved and lost and loved again.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Classical Music | Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble + Attacca Quartet: Last Words


Program: Schütz Excerpts, Seven Last Words of Christ and St. Matthew Passion Haydn Excerpts, Seven Last Words of Christ (version for string quartet) Wolfgang Rihm Seven Passion Texts (New York premiere) David Lang little match girl passion The extreme emotional terrain of the Passion story has long inspired composers and continues to do so today. The “brilliant” vocal ensemble Ekmeles (New Yorker) leads a program of classics by Schütz and Haydn (from the “deeply moving” Attacca Quartet, New York Times) interwoven with two strikingly different contemporary accounts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Control Syntax Rio


Rio de Janeiro is one of the most visible sites of “smart city” experimentation. In response to catastrophic natural disasters, calamitous traffic congestion, and urban health epidemics, the Centro de Operações Rio (COR) was designed as a corrective tool and as a new command and control hub that would allow the city to prepare for the 2016 Olympic Games. Launched in 2010, COR now monitors its urban camera network and information sensors, gauges optimal traffic patterns, determines landslide risk zones, predicts weather disruptions, and maps disease paths. The exhibition shows Rio structured through COR’s control syntax and smart city command processes. This syntax is assembled from seemingly banal “if-then” statements that become surprisingly charged by their encounters with the political and circulatory life of the city. Through COR, the exhibition sees traffic engineering as urban politics and as haunted by potential catastrophe. The exhibition also understands COR as indicative of an important new space of representation for the 21st century city and its emerging computational governmentality.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Jewish Identity in Question: The Legacy of Author Irene Némirovsky


Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942) was a Russian Jewish immigrant to France who achieved a brilliant career as a novelist during the 1930s but was deported as a “foreign Jew” in 1942 and died in Auschwitz. Némirovsky’s tragic fate mirrors that of many assimilated Jews in Europe who had abandoned Jewish religious practice (sometimes to the point of conversion to Christianity), only to be treated like all other Jews by the Nazis. Némirovsky’s portrayals of Jewish characters in her fiction are controversial, for some readers consider them to be antisemitic. Lecturer Susan Rubin Suleiman, the author of a new book, The Némirovsky Question, argues instead that her Jewish characters exemplify the dilemmas and contradictions of Jewish existence in the 20th century, in Europe and beyond.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Patty Yumi Cottrell reads from her book Sorry to Disrupt the Peace


Sorry to Disrupt the Peace is hilarious, unsettling and poignant. Helen Moran is 32, single and partially employed. She receives shocking news: her adoptive brother is dead. She returns home and tries to uncover why he chose to die. She confronts her estranged family, her brother's few friends and an overzealous grief counselor. She may also discover what it truly means to be alive.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Tour | Ghosts on Broadway Tour


For some performers, the show must go on… even after death! The Ghosts on Broadway Tour, led by a veteran New York City talent agent, will introduce you to these notorious theater legends who appear after the lights go dim. You’ll hear about the Broadway impresario who haunts the theater that bears his name. His apparition shows up on opening nights to congratulate the cast or “pinch” the leading ladies’ bottom. Jazz age parties are heard almost nightly from his long abandoned apartment over his theater.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance Works-in-Progress


A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights. Movement Research supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists. Tonight: Hadar Ahuvia, Nora Alami, Miriam Gabriel & Carlo Antonio Villanueva, The Testourmonials Project
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Tour | Midtown Manhattan Night Tour


New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline. NOTE** THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS. Please note they do utilize the subway on this tour so you will need $5 for subway. Takes place Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Student Piano Recital


Tyler Walker, piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Student Recitals


Matthew Robert Swensen, Tenor 8 p.m. Composition Concert 8 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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