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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 12, 2014?

46 free events take place on Sunday, October 12 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 October 12 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 October . 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 Sunday, October 12, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Autumn Crafts Festival
free events nyc 12th Annual Open House New York Weekend
free events nyc Brass Quintet Fall Overlook Concert
free events nyc Windwood Works by Strauss, Gounod, Stavinsky, Mozart
free events nyc Splendors and Miseries of (Un)conscious Thoughts: A Story of Psychology, Neuroscience and Live Performance
        

City Walk | Fulton Street Walk


Approx. 12 miles. Begin in Manhattan and walk the length of Fulton Street, cross the Brooklyn Bridge and continue walking Fulton Street through Brooklyn and ending in Queens. Many subway line stops near the start of the walk. Bring lunch. Brisk, steady pace.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:15 am
$3

City Walk | Liz And Jack’s 1 Bridge, 2 Fulton Streets, 3 Boroughs Walk


Approx. 12 miles. Begin in Manhattan and walk the length of Fulton Street, cross the Brooklyn Bridge and continue walking Fulton Street through Brooklyn and ending in Queens. Many subway line stops near the start of the walk. Bring lunch. Brisk, steady pace.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:15 am
$3

Festival | Autumn Crafts Festival


250 juried craft displays selected from every region of the United States. Continuous entertainment, craft demonstrations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Tour | Baylander Tour


Join a public tour of this historic U.S. Navy vessel that was originally deployed during Vietnam and later used to train U.S. helicopter pilots.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Birdwatching | Birding for Families


Experience the coming of Fall in Central Park when it becomes a precious bird habitat and migration hot spot! Join experts from NYC Audubon Society and Conservancy Discovery Guides on this walk to learn how to spot our feathered neighbors and their foreign cousins as they make their trip across the globe. Binoculars can be borrowed from the Dana Discovery Center. Ages 5+.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Brooklyn All-in-One Tour


Brooklyn is New York City’s largest and most populous borough. Once a separate city from New York, Brooklyn still retains an independent streak and possesses an atmosphere quite unique from the island of Manhattan. And at roughly 70 square miles (180 sq. kilometers) it’s the city’s second largest borough. It’s so large, you could spend your whole trip to New York just here. If you want to get to know the Boogie Down, but you only have a short time to visit, then this is the Brooklyn tour for you.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Park Walk | Central Park Tour - Lower Section


Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today among the world's most famous and beloved public parks. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Open House New York: Historic Synagogue


Take a tour of the synagogue’s authentically restored main sanctuary and learn about its architecture and history as part of openhousenewyork, America’s largest architecture and design event. Family-friendly activities offered all day.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Flatiron District Walking Tour


Join professional guides on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the city’s most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Gotham Writers’ Workshop: Article Writing


Free article writing class with Ken Derry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | Historic Orchard Street Tour


Take a historical three-hour journey through the Lower East Side and explore some of the rich history tracing the arrival of immigrants to modern times.
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11:00 am
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Talk | How America's Values and Institutions Shape Our Influence


With Dr. Joseph Chuman. We are at war again. The rationale is our security. But the regardless of aims, dropping bombs and wreaking destruction on others with a ferocity hard to imagine inevitably generates backlash, resentment and hatred of American power. Making war in the service of protecting our interests is an example of America's hard power. But there is another way to influence foreign peoples and that is through our values and our example; so-called "soft power." To inspire others to want to emulate who we are is in the long run of greater power than to coerce to them to conform to our policies and objectives through brute force. But is America a shining example to the rest of the world?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Other | Mansion Open House


Celebrate Open House New York weekend, enjoy free admission and events including docent led tours, scavenger hunts, and family art activities or dress up in colonial style costumes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | Open House New York: Behind the Scenes of a Curatorial Center


Join museum archivists for a tour of the collections of rare photography and works on paper. Highlights from the Manuscripts and Ephemera Collections and the Theater Collection — including props, posters, and annotated manuscripts from the museum’s Broadway Production files — will be on view. Tours will be given every 30 minutes and are limited to 12 people.
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11:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


Manhattan’s favorite artisan market is back for a fifth season of amazing vintage finds, artisan creations and delicious local food.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Festival | 12th Annual Open House New York Weekend


From private residences and historic landmarks to rooftop farms and sustainable skyscrapers, OHNY Weekend offers you rare access and insight into hundreds of architecturally and culturally significant sites in all five boroughs. This annual weekend of urban exploration and architectural discovery also includes free talks; fun youth and family activities; and tours on foot, bicycle, and even by canoe. Join us in exploring and discovering the history, diversity and architecture of our city. Become inspired and enjoy your OHNY Weekend.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Festival | Fall Fling: An Italian Style Celebration


To celebrate the first few weeks of Fall and Italian Heritage Month, a Mediterranean-inspired market and café will host its first Fall Fling: An Italian Style Celebration, featuring festivities that are free, family-friendly and open to the public. To round out festivities, live music will be provided by world renowned Venetian singer, Luca Foffano, and complimentary apple cider from upstate New York will be served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Art Walking Tour


Harlem Art Walk Tour is celebrating its 10 year anniversary! Come experience the art and artists Central Harlem. Spend Saturday or Sunday afternoon of Columbus Day Weekend immersed in Central Harlem and gaining inside access to the studios of local artists. Get to know the people creating vibrant art in this often overlooked art destination. Visit local restaurants and cafes when you need a break from the action in this charming neighborhood. Come discover the warmth of the venues and people in this part of NYC. Highlights include architectural and historical tours as part of Open House NY, environmental workshops, community gardening projects (including bee keeping in the heart of the city) and most importantly the opportunity to view the work and talk to established and emerging artists living and creating in Central Harlem.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | The Brooklyn Waterfront Tour


Join docents on a tour to learn about the history of the Brooklyn waterfront, sustainable design, and how the park came to life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama presents The Grass Is Always Greener


Lenzu will perform alongside Lauren Ohmer. The two worked in collaboration with Daniel Pettrow (voice/acting) and Jennifer Johanos (costumes) on this event. The Grass is Always Greener is a gripping, polemical piece of dance theater that hashes the personal, practical, and political struggles of immigrants to the USA. The piece moves in between the turn of the twentieth century, during the great waves of immigration at Ellis Island, and modern day.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: Vantage Point: Expanding the Walls 2014


Enjoy an interactive and informative tour led by a knowledgeable Museum educator. Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History and Community is an annual, eight-month program in which New York high school students explore history and community through photography. Vantage Point presents the students' perspectives and awareness of complex power dynamics, definitions of community, internal conflicts and victories. The tour will have something for everyone: adults, families and kids of all ages are welcome.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Yoga at the Mansion


Join Chelsea for sessions appropriate for all levels of fitness. Awesome Asana is a budding yoga project in Washington Heights developed by teacher Chelsea Best.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$5

Tour | Yorkville-'Once a Suburb' Tour


Highlights: Glazer's Bakery, Gracie Mansion, The Henderson Place Historic District, The John Finley Walk
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Brass Quintet Fall Overlook Concert


This week’s performer: Manhattan School of Music Brass Quintet. A glorious sound floats over the park as these skilled players present traditional and contemporary brass music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Tour | Bushwick Graffiti and Street Art Tour


New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Edmund Goudling's The Old Maid (1939): Wedding Weepie


Stars: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent. The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever. 95 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Jazz | Manhattan School of Music Brass Quintet


A glorious sound floats over the park as these skilled players present traditional and contemporary brass music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Southern Park Welcome Tour


Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | The High Line Tour


The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Autumn Harvest: Chamber Orchestra Music by American Composers


With: North South Consonance - Elizabeth Bell; Raoul Pleskow; Douglas Ovens; and Max Lifchitz.
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3:00 pm
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Discussion | The Harlem-South Africa Connection


Celebrate Harlem's connection to South Africa and the role Harlem played in fighting the war against apartheid in South Africa. New Heritage Theatre's involvement in bringing South African theater and music to Harlem and New York City will be discussed. With former Mayor David Dinkins, Harry Belafonte, Dr. Felicia Mabuza-Suttle, and others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | Carlos Pavan, Composer/Guitarist


Program: Program: All compositions by Carlos Pavan Special guest: Jessica Schmitz, flute
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Sunday Afternoon Organ Meditation


The program features the great repertoire of the Organ on the 101 rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor & Boody Organ Builders.
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | The Trials of Galileo


The first flowering of scientific truth trampled by the bully church. The Trials of Galileo focuses on the events surrounding his trial for heresy in 1633.
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4:00 pm
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Concert | The Great Organ: Mickey Thomas Terry


In celebration of the restored Great Organ, the cathedral presents a concert series following Sunday Evensong. This recital is free and open to the public. With: Mickey Thomas Terry, Washington DC.
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Windwood Works by Strauss, Gounod, Stavinsky, Mozart


Program: STRAUSS Serenade in E-flat Major for 13 Winds, Op. 7 GOUNOD Petite Symphonie STRAVINSKY Octet MOZART Serenade in C Minor, K. 388 Michael Parloff, conductor
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Concert | Works for Piano and Cello


Nada Radulovich, cello; Cullan Bryant, piano
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Organ Recital: Thomas Dahl


Today's recital is by Thomas Dahl of Hamburg, Germany. He performs works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Daniel Roth, Max Reger, and one of his own compositions: "Improvisation on a given theme."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan's Newspaper Reading Club


First established in 2011 by Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan, Newspaper Reading Club is an ongoing project that takes many forms including; performances, radio broadcasts, publications and posters. Central to the project is an investigation of how people retrieve their news and how they engage with larger narratives of current affairs. In this instance, 10 posters will be pasted based on readings that will take place throughout New York City and the five boroughs, in public and semi-public spaces between October 2 and October 15, 2014. Recordings of these readings are transcribed, and pasted back as posters up in the same spot as the reading was conducted. The posters are site-specific, localized mediations of domestic and international news by individual readers. Their insertion and display in public spaces marks their return to the built environments in which their language and content was generated. Connor and Paludan ask participants to read from newspapers and periodicals of their choice, as they normally would, but to verbalize the process of skimming, commenting and personal editorializing that naturally occurs. A recording is made of the participants as they read through articles and make accompanying comments. These recordings are later transcribed to produce texts which become personalized documents of wider political trends, and which make visible the structures by which information is transmitted and absorbed. Through this process each edition of the Newspaper Reading Club comes to speak to the location in which it is held and the particular events present on the day of the reading.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Fat Pig by Neil LaBute


Cow. Slob. Pig. How many insults can you hear before you have to stand up and defend the woman you love? Tom faces just that question when he falls for Helen, a bright, funny, sexy young woman who happens to be plus sized-and then some. Forced to explain his new relationship to his shallow (although shockingly funny) friends, finally he comes to terms with his own preconceptions of the importance of conventional good looks.
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Tour | 9/11 Memorial and Brooklyn Bridge Night Tour


A renaissance is taking place on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, a concerted effort has been undertaken to redevelop this part of the city, with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the construction of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. And from twilight into the night is the right time to pay a visit to this part of New York City. From the Memorial to the Woolworth Building, City Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge, some of the your most memorable experiences in the city await you.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Performance | Splendors and Miseries of (Un)conscious Thoughts: A Story of Psychology, Neuroscience and Live Performance


French neuroscientist Lionel Naccache discusses conscious and unconscious cognition. Following the talk, French company Oh! Oui... (Joachim Latarjet and Alexandra Fleischer) will perform Songs for My Brain, a performance based on the research of Lionel Naccache. Songs for My Brain explores the power of the mind which at any given moment is creating fiction and inventing scenarios — What tomorrow will bring? What your friend thinks of you? What was that ruckus you heard last night? — in a never-ending stream of thought provoking stories that fuel our consciousness.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Park Walk | The Dark Side of the High Line Tour


The skeletal remains of the High Line’s elevated tracks set the perfect scene for a spooky evening. Join a journey to the creepier side of New York City’s most unique park. On this tour you’ll hear tales of the strange eccentric who lived below the tracks and saved them from demise, the curse of a West Side Cowboy who fell to his death from the elevated track, and the children who haunt the street formerly known as Death Avenue. If the moon hangs right perhaps you’ll witness the spectacle of a ghostly ship floating down the Hudson River; is it the long forgotten crew of Henry Hudson’s Half-Moon warning sailors not to go to sea? Or is it Captain Kidd protecting the treasure he buried on Liberty Island? Venture at your own risk through the dark side of High Line.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Classical Music | Choral Work by Haydn and More at a Landmark Venue

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Musical | Hit Show Musical Parody

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