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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 29, 2015?

42 free events take place on Thursday, October 29 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 29 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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42 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, October 29, 2015

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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing. This tour takes place every day at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Federal Hall National Memorial Guided Tour


Ranger-guided tours are available to the public during operating hours. Times: 10:00AM, 11:00AM, 1:00PM, 2:00PM, 3:00PM. This tour is available Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from September through December 30.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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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10:00 am
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. This workshop occurs every day through December 31.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 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 | Flottbeker Kantorei, German A Cappella Choir


The performances span a wide range of music by European composers including Felix Mendelssohn, Anton Bruckner, Heinrich Schütz, and others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Founders: Reimagining Chamber Music Through Songwriting


The group Founders seeks to bring classical instruments to a wider audience of music lovers, defying the stereotype that because someone is classically trained, they can't "rock out." Although classical instruments are frequently used in the background of rock music, in Founders classical instruments are the sound of the band, coupled with memorable songs and vocals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Tour of the Exhibition: Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet


A tour led by the museum’s gallery guides. This tour repeats Thursday October 22, Thursday October 29, Saturday October 31, Thursday November 5, Thursday November 12, Saturday November 14, Thursday November 19, Saturday November 21, Thursday December 10, Saturday December 12, Thursday December 17, Saturday December 19, and Saturday December 26.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Bläser Band presents Viennese and American Harmonie


Ever since Louis XIV made oboes and bassoons his morning alarm clock, wind ensembles worked for aristocracy across Europe, the “ipods of the élite.” In America, bands became “MP3s for the masses,” playing music and instruments from America and abroad. Bläser Band presents a New Hampshire quintet and Mozart serenade. Performers: Nina Stern, Ed Matthew, clarinets; Todd Williams, Linda Dempf, horns; Stephanie Corwin, Clay Zeller-Townson, bassoons
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
$10 suggested donation

Film | Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1954): Murderous Hubby


Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings. An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B. 95 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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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. This tour takes place Thursdays through Sundays at 2pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 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, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 2pm, Wednesdays at 4pm, and Saturdays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: The Seven Year Itch


Book and Lyrics by Jeffrey Monday. Music by Fred Werner. Based on the play George Axelrod. Step back to the 1950's when Richard Sherman, a publisher of paperback books whose mind is drenched with lurid notions of sin and fatality, finds himself face to face with the lovely creature who has sublet the upstairs apartment for the summer. His fertile imagination goes wild. This reading takes place Wednesday October 28 and Thursday October 29.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963): Spooky Mansion


Stars: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson. A scientist doing research on the paranormal invites two women to a haunted mansion. One of the participants soon starts losing her mind. 112 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Symposium | Speech unbound / Ungebundene Rede: On Prose and the Prosaic


A two-day symposium with Christopher Wood, Shira Brisman, Richard Halpern, Florian Fuchs, Avital Ronell, Moritz Bassler, Christiane Frey, Adrian Renner, Doreen Densky, Eyal Peretz, Juliet Fleming, Susanne Lüdemann, Lydia Goehr, and Anastasiya Osipova. This symposium takes place October 29-30.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Victor Halperin's Supernatural (1933): Murderess' Revenge


Stars: Carole Lombard, Randolph Scott, Alan Dinehart. A serial black widow murderess returns to life in the body of a young woman to exact revenge on a former lover, a phony spiritualist who betrayed her. 65 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | #ClimateCitizen Conversation


Hear from TEDC's Fall 2015 #ClimateCitizen Scholars as they explore the environmental justice dimensions of the USEPA Clean Power Plan. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Ana Baptista, Associate Director of TEDC and Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | American Miniatures: Carolyn Enger in Recital with Guest of Honor Ned Rorem


Visionary American composers Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, and Ned Rorem all captured the American character with masterful efficacy and originality. Pianist Carolyn Enger, whose recording of Rorem’s Piano Music was one of the New York Times favorite classical recordings of 2013, comes to Library to offer a recital of American miniatures, including beloved short works by Copland, Bernstein’s Anniversaries, and Ned Rorem’s brilliant Piano Album 1. The esteemed Mr. Rorem will be our guest of honor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Art Show: Alfred Leslie: Abstraction 1951-1962


The exhibition features paintings and works on paper by one of the seminal artists of the New York art world in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Early in his career, Leslie was an Abstract Expressionist who experimented ambitiously with collage, grid compositions, and gestural and geometric abstraction. The incorporation of chance and control, of hard and soft, of active and passive modes, express the artist’s singular reaction to the explosive aftermath of abstract art in Postwar America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Documentary: Franck Vogel's Transboundary Rivers


Water's value, as precious as it is today, will only increase as time passes. Jean-Michel Cousteau, the famous seafarer’s son, likes to remind everyone that there is only one water cycle, and that Humans are unable to create water molecules. Unfortunately, we never stop polluting rivers, seas and oceans, and many countries are fighting for water rich territories. Most tensions and water wars are found on trans-boundary rivers. These issues pushed French photographer Franck Vogel to produce a project launched in 2012 focusing on seven key rivers: the Nile, the Brahmaputra, the Colorado, the Mekong, the Jordan, the Amazon and the Ganges. Franck Vogel presents his work in progress through astounding photography and commentary, and is joined by Professor Upmanu Lall, one of the world’s leading experts on water.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Drawings: Mateo López’s A Room Inside a Room


A draughtsman by nature, López operates on a plane wavering between architecture and drawing, teasing the line between two and three-dimensional realms. Commencing his career as an architect in his hometown of Bogotá, Colombia, López began his understanding of drawing through blueprints, in which the physicality of the line was synonymous to a wall or a tree. Curious about the development of manmade construction and its symbiotic relationship to the natural world, López soon immersed himself in research considering the strength and limitations of mark-making through notions of progress and advancement in a country plagued by fragile social issues and a complex geographic locale.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Europe on the Edge


An evening with Gregor Gysi, a longtime leader of Germany’s Die Linke party, and Socialist Register co-editor Leo Panitch. They will discuss the dilemmas facing the European left, including Greece’s unbearable debt, the deepening refugee crisis, and the damage austerity has wrought on the European working class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: GAMA: Idylls of the Kings


GAMA was born in Mongolia in 1977 and currently lives and works in Berlin. Raised in a traditional nomadic family, GAMA and his parents would move every four months as the seasons changed. His great aunt was an important shaman whose ability to connect with the supernatural world had a profound impact on the young boy. He eventually enrolled at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing where he studied oil painting. Finding that the prevailing academic approach did not satisfy him, he started looking at the works of European Old Masters in art books and pondering the works of contemporary German painters such as Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Thomas Roma: In the Vale of Cashmere


This exhibition of Roma’s most recent project consists of an intricate sequence of 75 black and white portraits and landscapes photographed in a secluded section of Prospect Park where black gay men cruise for sexual partners.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Sonatenabend Recital


Artists from the collaborative piano department perform sonata repertoire with instrumentalists. This event takes place October 8th and 29th, 2015.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Virginia Cox discusses her book A Short History of the Italian Renaissance


The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In her elegant new introduction, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic moment in European cultural history, when – between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries – Italy led the world in painting, building, science and literature.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Japanese Experimental Photography of the 1970s and Beyond


Yasufumi Nakamori, curator of the exhibition and associate curator of photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and Shelley Rice, professor of history of photography, NYU, will explore issues in Japanese experimental photography of the 1970s and beyond, in a global context.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Robert Pigott discusses his book New York's Legal Landmarks: A Guide to Legal Edifices, Institutions, Lore, History, and Curiosities on the City's Streets


This illustrated lecture provides a detailed history of the City’s courthouses past and present with sites of sensational trials (both actual and in film), locations that figured in the nation’s constitutional history, law firms where great Americans practiced law and the homes, schools and final resting places of Supreme Court Justices.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Sexy Motherf**ker: Queering Incest and the Mother


A lecture by Amber Jamilla Musser, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Washington University. If homosexuality is the love that dare not speak its name, this talk argues that incest, in the form of taboo and metaphor, offers a plethora of possibilities for thinking desires, belonging, and gender. It examines the fantasies and schisms that appear when we queer our love for our parents. Beginning with an inquiry into queers’ attachment to daddy and the state, this talk positions incest at the center of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s and Judith Butler’s queer break from feminism. It then asks what it might mean to love the mother instead, and it begins to approach ways of doing so by using Audre Lorde to rethink Oedipus, lesbian feminism, and touch.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Spanish Cinema: Albert Serra's Story of My Death (2013)


In this Locarno International Film Festival Golden Leopard winner, Casanova meets Dracula in beautiful chiaroscuros reminiscent of Caravaggio tableaux.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Amy Ellis Nutt discusses her book Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family


Granted wide access to personal diaries, home videos, legal documents and the Maineses themselves, author Amy Ellis Nutt spent almost four years reporting this immersive account of an American family growing to understand and celebrate their transgender daughter. Transgender people are still oppressed today. Nicole Maines' story challenges misconceptions and encourages the fight for equality.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Madhur Jaffrey discusses her book Vegetarian India: A Journey Through the Best of Indian Home Cooking


For more than 40 years, Madhur Jaffrey, the "godmother of Indian cooking," has introduced Western home cooks to the vibrant cuisines of her homeland. Now, the seven-time James Beard Award--winning author shares foods enjoyed around the Indian subcontinent.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Poets Read: Rosanna Warren / Meg Tyler / Fiona Wilson


Rosanna Warren is the author of five books of poetry as well as books of essays and translations. “Rosanna Warren lives in our tarnished, everyday, ramshackle world of loss, anguish, and sacrifice but she inhabits almost as vividly a realm of classic purity,” writes Anthony Hecht. She is the Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Meg Tyler’s first book of poetry, Poor Earth (2014), is “elliptical and mortally clear-minded,” circling “around the mystery of a central death…Her language is a marvel of chastity and tact” (Rosanna Warren). She is also the author of A Singing Contest: Conventions of Sound in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney. She teaches at Boston University and Chair of the Institute for the Study of Irish Culture. Fiona Wilson was born in Scotland. “Channeling birdsong, the hum of rivers, ‘the mad shush / of sound’ from the Highlands to the Hudson River,” Maureen N. McLane writes of her first book, A Clearance, the poems “are gorgeous and perfected distillations.” She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Rasnable (Come Together!): New York's Finest Haitian Dancers, Singers and Drummers


A group of New York's finest Haitian dancers, singers, and drummers come together to share a sampling of the rich heritage of Vodou ceremonial dances, rhythms, and songs honoring the spirits of nature and the ancestors. With choreographer/dancer/dance educator Peniel Guerrier, KONGO Haitian Roots Ensemble directed by Oneza Lafontant, and other special guests.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Rowan Ricardo Phillips reads from his book Heaven


Rowan Ricardo Phillips is also the author of The Ground. This event is hosted by Ishion Hutchinson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Sándor Jászberényi discusses his book The Devil Is a Black Dog


War correspondent and short story writer Sándor Jászberényi, a native of Hungary who has covered the struggle against ISIS, the Arab Spring, and the Ukraine War, will read from, and discuss his new short fiction collection which has been praised by Kirkus Reviews as "heady, dizzying writing . . . A master class in how to tell a war story."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Mexican Sounds: Torreblanca / Ulalume and Carlo Nicolau


Torreblanca is a Mexican indie band is known for its unique, fresh sound that folds in the members’ diverse musical backgrounds and its collaborative spirit. The band’s four core members have performed with numerous musicians including Andrea Balency, Carmen Ruiz (Centavrvs), Dan Zlotnik, Didi Gutman, Javiera Mena, Peter Buck, Iraida Noriega and Natalia Lafurcade. Currently, the band is playing with Natalie Reyes (Tigria), Sergio Silva (Furland) and Nestor Varela. Their latest album, El polvo en la luz (Arts & Crafts Mexico, Nacional Records) promises to position the band as one of today’s most important Latin American acts. Ulalume and Carlo Nicolau is an avant-garde, New York-based ensemble consisting of violin, keyboards and vocals that evokes an obscure cabaret atmosphere, expressionist landscapes, and a journey through a non-specific time period.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Master Class | Master Class with Grammy-Nominated Pianist Ursula Oppens


Ursula Oppens has long been recognized as the leading champion of contemporary American piano music. In addition her original and perceptive readings of other music, old and new, have earned her a place among the elect of today’s performing musicians. Piano master classes take place every Thursday from September 10 to December 10.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:45 pm
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Film | Austrian Film: Paul Poet's Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container (2002)


The film documents one of Christoph Schlingensief's most controversial projects, realized in 2000 as part of the "Bitte lieben Sie Österreich" (Please Love Austria) series. Simulating the format of reality TV shows à la Big Brother, the project is a wry comment on the xenophobic program of one of Austria's major political parties. A container inhabited by a group of asylum seekers was set up in the city of Vienna, the events in the container were broadcast live on Austrian TV, and viewers were invited to vote their least favorite participants out of the show — and the country. 90 min. In German with English subtitles. A moderated discussion will follow the screening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:15 pm
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Concert | Miss Kitty's Cabaret


Music of Mozart, Sondheim, Poulenc, Barber, Adele, Al Jolson, and many more - as sung by students of Cathy "Ms. Kitty" Lawrence. There will be songs, old and new.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | What Happened Was…: An Improv Performance


Watch as the students from Working Actor Studio’s Improvisation Class, taught by Improv Legend John Monteith, wow you with their ability to make you laugh while coming up with impromptu scenarios during the many games throughout the night.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
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