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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 9, 2011?

46 free events take place on Monday, May 9 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 May 9 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 May . 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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46 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, May 9, 2011

All events are free unless otherwise noted.
        

Birdwatching | Birding Tour of the Park


Discover the varieties of birds that call Bryant Park home during the migratory season with guided tours.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Discussion | Design Development Discussion


Faculty from the School of Design Strategies host a panel of speakers to discuss the outcomes of a course addressing health and healing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
Free

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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
Free

Talk | Learn about the Peoples of the Plains


With Laura Browarny.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Gallery Talk | The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Room


An expert leads informal discussions in the room and answers questions. Two sessions: 10am-1pm and 1:30pm -3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Microsoft Office 2003: MS Word 2


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2003. Topics include tables, text boxes, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free

Workshop | Ping Pong in the Park


Test your skills at state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
Free

Discussion | Design and Management: Ventures Panel Discussion


A panel discussion by faculty and students about business development projects by students in the Parsons BBA Design and Management program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Screening | Short Films on and by Native Americans


Featuring UNRESERVED: The Work of Louie Gong, Writing the Land, Airplane, Button Blanket, and Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows. Start times are 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Talk | Learn About Taino Culture


Jorge Estevez discusses Taino culture past and present using traditional handling objects in an interactive informal setting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Getting More Out of Cloud Storage


This will be a Lecture/Demonstration. Uploading photos to Facebook? Storing documents in Google Docs? Streaming movies from Netflix? Understand what it means to store data in and access content from the Internet “cloud,” and explore its pros and cons.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
Free

Workshop | How to Get Started in Web Design


If you’ve been thinking about creating a website but don’t know where to start, this is the seminar for you. They’ll talk about how you go about creating a website and the software you would use to do it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Designing Urban Transformation


Students in the BS Urban Design program within the School of Design Strategies will present case studies of innovative urban design projects throughout the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Workshop | How to Get Started in Web Design


If you’ve been thinking about creating a website but don’t know where to start, this is the seminar for you. They’ll talk about how you go about creating a website and the software you would use to do it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Integrated Design Program Presentations and Panels


Year-end design presentations about collaborative fashion area of study projects of the Integrated Design program within the School of Design Strategies undertaken in 2010-2011.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Linda Lavin, Tony-Winning Actress, in Conversation


Lavin, star of stage, film and television, will be interviewed by Michael Riedel, theater writer for The New York Post and co-host of PBS's Theater Talk.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | MFA Design Department Exhibition


An exhibition of work by first-year students in the MFA Design Department.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Motion Graphics Screening


A screening of motion graphics projects including movie titles, advertisements, short stories and personal films from students in the School of Visual Arts' BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Alfred Goubran reads from his book Aus.


Austrian author Alfred Goubran will read from an English translation of his new novel and will engage in a conversation with his translator Ross Benjamin and moderator Martin Rauchbauer. Alfred Goubran is currently the Max Kade writer-in residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Rick Meyerowitz reads from his book Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great


Veteran illustrator, author and longtime contributor to National Lampoon magazine and the man who created the poster for the movie Animal House - offers a tribute to thirty-five of the artists and writers who kept us laughing through the ‘70s and the ‘80s.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Supervised Computer Lab


Hands on using wireless laptops. Are you having trouble with your email? Don't know how to cut and paste? Curious about Twitter? Bring Technology questions and get one-on-one assistance!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | 3 Poets: Ben Lerner / Geoffrey G. O'Brien / Chris Martin


Triptych Readings presents its final reading of the season.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Adam Hochschild reads from his book To End All Wars


Hochschild, journalist, co-founder of Mother Jones, and author, discusses his moving history of the Great War, a bloody clash of empires and individuals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Authors David Bezmozgis and Francine Prose discuss their work


David Bezmozgis, author of the story collection Natasha, and Francine Prose, whose most recent book is Anne Frank, talk about their novels The Free World and My New American Life, respectively.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman


Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman’s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it—and themselves—afloat.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Contributors read from 12th Street Magazine


Celebrate the literary magazine published by students in the New School's Riggio Writing and Democracy program. Robert Polito hosts an evening of readings by students, as well as poets Amiri Baraka and Mark Nowak.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction, discusses her work


Jane Smiley is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres, a contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear set in Iowa. Smiley will discuss her approaches to writing and the secrets of her success. A question and answer session, plus book-signing and reception will follow the lecture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Le Conversazioni Literary Festival


Presentation of the 2011 edition with Antonio Monda. Followed by a screening of the documentary about the previous edition (2010) directed by Carlotta Corradi featuring E.L. Doctorow, Chimamanda Adichie, Walter Veltroni, Colson Whitehead, Joshua Ferris, Paolo Giordano, David Byrne, Paolo Sorrentino and Adam Haslett. This event will be in English.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Out of Print: An Evening with Ugly Duckling Presse


On this evening, Ugly Duckling Presse brings live performances including a text for speaking by playwright and performer Kristen Kosmas; a surprise intervention by No Collective, a slideshow by artist and photographer Erica Baum joined by poet Kim Rosenfield; and Yevgeniy Fiks with a queer guide to Moscow's communist monuments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Stories: The Adam Wade Show


Moth storytelling favorite Adam Wade has put together many of his winning heartfelt and humorous stories for a special show. He’ll also sing a few songs, and play video shorts. No two shows will be the same. A different featured guest will start the evening off.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5

Performance | Student Graduation Comedy Show


Tonight, brilliant students take the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they're actually the stars of today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Student Production: George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara


Performed by the Graduate Acting Class of 2012.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | The Circle with Laura Day


Join Laura Day as she hosts The Circle, an introduction to healing, intuition and unconscious repatterning that will change your life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Writer Darin Strauss discusses his work


An American writer based in Brooklyn, Strauss is the the author of four books that have won awards and accolades from critics, most recently a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Half a Life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Baroque Chamber Players Spring 2011


Directed by Nancy Wilson, the Baroque Chamber Players present historically informed performances which evoke the spirit of the Baroque period through ornamentation, improvisation, and the idiomatic conventions of notation and rhythm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Film | Carl Reiner's All of Me (1984): Body Switchers


With Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin and Victoria Tennant. A dying millionaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. But something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer. 93 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance: Sasha Welsh / Brittany Bailey / Cori Olinghouse / Emma Kim Hagdahl


A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights throughout the fall/winter and spring seasons that supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Performance | Iron Sketch Comedy Show


Bleak! Comedy presents IRON SKETCH, the ultimate sketch comedy show down! Each month Bleak! Comedy and three of the hottest and wildest sketch comedy troupes enter Sketch Stadium to perform a sketch including this month's secret ingredient chosen by the audience. Every show promises 4 brand new sketches that may never be seen again. Hosted by a different Stand up Chairman every month.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | NYU New Music Ensemble


Large ensemble, electronic scores and video.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Jazz | Student Recital - Jazz Ensemble


Ryan Keberle, director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Screening | Somewhere to Disappear: Screening and Discussion


A special screening hosted by the BFA Photography program of a filmic portrait of the renowned documentary photographer Alec Soth. It will be followed by a conversation between Alec Soth and Chris Boot, executive director of Aperture Foundation. There will also be a question and answer session with the audience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Concert | Soundwalk: The Passenger


Soundwalk, an international collective known for producing cutting-edge audio works that mix fiction with reality, debuts a specially-commissioned piece named The Passenger, an immersive audio-visual installation/live concert.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Performance | BTK Band, Storytelling Rock Band


Raconteurs regale the audience with true stories from their lives while The BTK Band, NYC’s hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band, improvises music and lyrics to turn their stories into songs. As if Tom Waits and The Moth delivered a baby from the gaping maw of Chaos.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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9:00 pm
Free

Performance | Fresh Stand-Up Open Mike


Michelle Wolf and Erin Lennox host this stand up open mic. Sign up and you can be part of the show! Each week Michelle & Erin (and special guests) will be joined by additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. FRESH gives you the chance to work that new joke or rework an oldie but goodie.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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Classical Music | Choral Work by Haydn and More at a Landmark Venue

Regular Price: $59
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Play | A Play About a Famous Artist

Regular Price: $35
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