Workshop | Park FitClub: Boot Camp with The Rise NYC

Energize your day with a workout before work. Join The Rise NYC, a community-driven pop-up fitness group, for a Boot Camp. Rotations through exercises like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back - and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high-fives encouraged. Rain or shine.

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6:30 am
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Workshop | Morning Crunch Fitness

The Crunch Gym will be holding FREE fitness classes. Schedule: Mondays: Yoga, Sunrise Salutations Tuesdays: Breakfast Bootcamp w/ Personal Trainers Wednesdays: Wellness Wednesday with a Yoga/Pilate’s fusion Thursdays: Throwback Thursdays w/ Retro-Robics Fridays: Zumba or Dance classes

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7:00 am
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Workshop | Blogging for Beginners Workshop

Learn what a blog is, see examples of blogs, learn how to blog and to create your own using Blogger/Word Press.

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10:00 am
Free

Park Walk | Central Park Tour

Stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. 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 amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find

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10:00 am
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Workshop | Chess, Checkers and Board Games

Stop by to play some brain games like chess, checkers, and other board games. All Ages.

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10:00 am
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Workshop | Early Bird Game Social

Join to meet up with like-minded players interested in the same games as you. The Early Bird Game Social gives you a chance to start the day in the park, and warm up your mind with games that get you thinking like dominoes, Scrabble, cards or Boggle.

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10:00 am
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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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 10:00am, 1:00pm, 2:00pm.

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10:00 am
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour

Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.

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10:00 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour

Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.

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11:00 am
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Workshop | Elements of Nature Drawing

Enjoy drawing nature in the parks and gardens with an artist/educator. Materials provided.

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11:00 am
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Workshop | Advanced MS PowerPoint 2010 Workshop

Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Powerpoint 2010. Topics include using transitions, animations, etc.

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12:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Dance/Live Arts Workshop

With Danielle Russo. Dancers and non-dancers welcome.

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12:00 pm
Free

Park Walk | Garden Tour

Learn about the thousands of trees, flowers, shrubs, and perennials that decorate the Garden from horticulturalists who take care of this special place within the Park. Route involves a few stairs. 75 minutes.

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12:00 pm
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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. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!

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12:00 pm
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Concert | Lunchtime Concert: Brass and Buckets

12:00 – 1:00 - Lucky Chops Brass Band 1:00 – 2:00 - Drumadics

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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Lunchtime Reset: 30-Minute Moving Meditation

A mid-day, 30-minute moving mediation. Take your lunch break in the garden, and breathe. No mat or clothing change required.

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12:00 pm
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Author Reading | April Bloomfield discuss her book A Girl and Her Pig: Recipes and Stories

The Spotted Pig-founder, renowned chef and cookbook author comes to the park for a special lunchtime edition of Taste Talks.

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12:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibit Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter

Join a 45-minute docent-led tour of the ABC of It exhibition. Start times: 12:30pm, 2:30pm.

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12:30 pm
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Concert | New Directions in Solo Piano: Vadim Neselovskyi

Critics have praised NY-based pianist and composer Vadim Neselovskyi for “extraordinary playing” (Los Angeles Times), “exceptional composition skills” (musicweb-international.com) and “feathery touch” (New York Times). While mostly known as one of the key members of Gary Burton’s Quintet, and as a featured pianist and composer on Burton’s Concord Records release Next Generation, Vadim is rapidly gaining reputation as a bandleader, creating a “thrilling blend of classical and jazz” (jazzreview.com).

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12:30 pm
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Concert | Piano in the Park: Victor Lin

A former student of jazz legend Kenny Barron, Victor Lin is currently a jazz music instructor at Columbia University, Teachers College, and The Calhoun School.

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12:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour

Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.

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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Midday Jazz

A jazz concert for the midtown community. These popular midday concerts feature well-regarded artists. The programming is overseen by jazz pianist Ronny Whyte.

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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Reading | Story Time for Grown-Ups

Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two.

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1:00 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy & 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.

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2:00 pm
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**Film | Billy Wilder's Oscar Winner The Fortune Cookie (1966): Flim Flam Men**

Stars: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich. A TV cameraman, trampled by a half-back while shooting a football game, and his shyster brother-in-law team up to defraud an insurance company in a million-dollar lawsuit. 125 min.

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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Facebook Basics

Learn about the online social network Facebook.

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2:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Figure Al Fresco: Drawing Outdoors

Learn figure drawing outdoors with a clothed model and an artist/educator. Materials provided.

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2:30 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.

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4:00 pm
Free...

Workshop | Advanced MS Word 2010 Workshop

Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2010. Topics include mail merge, tables, and headers and footers.

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4:30 pm
Free

**Book Discussion | Book Group: Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler**

Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser Dorrie Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mom in her thirties, to drop everything to drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati. With no clear explanation why.

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6:00 pm
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Dance Performance | The 33rd Annual Downtown Dance Festival

The Downtown Dance Festival is one of lower Manhattan’s most highly anticipated summer events. Initiated in 1982 by Battery Dance Company, the Festival has thrilled audiences in the hundreds of thousands and showcased great dance companies from around the world as well as the best New York City has to offer. The Downtown Dance Festival is NYC’s longest-running dance festival. Tonight: 6pm: Indo American Arts Council: Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance; Yamini Saipalli; Sanjukta Sinha; Prabal Gupta; Noopur Singha; Sattriya Dance Company; Srishti Dances of India 7:45pm: Everybody Dance Now

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6:00 pm
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Concert | Thiefs, Gritty and Rousing Trio

These three artists weave processed and acoustic sounds into gritty and rousing jazz, R&B, and electronica compositions: an eclectic sonic collision of beats.

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6:00 pm
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Concert | Upright Citizens Brigade Theater

Improv show consisting of interconnected scenes, characters, and ideas completely made-up on the spot with no pre-planning or pre-writing.

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6:00 pm
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Performance | Upright Citizens Brigade Theater Improv Show

Consisting of interconnected scenes, characters, and ideas completely made up on the spot with no pre-planning or pre-writing.

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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Volleyball After Work

Leave your workday behind and join other adults for good-natured and fun pick-up games of VOLLEYBALL overlooking the Hudson River. Everyone gets to play. Participants will also learn the basic rules and strategies of volleyball. Scorekeeper and volleyballs are provided. No experience is necessary.

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6:00 pm
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**Film | Chinese Documentary: Wang Jiuliang's Plastic China (2014)**

A screening of excerpted scenes from a work-in-progress that is forthcoming in late 2014. From 2008 to 2011, photographer and filmmaker Wang Jiuliang documented over 460 landfills around Beijing, culminating in the award-winning film Beijing Besieged by Waste (2011) and prompting the Beijing municipal government to invest 10 billion RMB to regulate the waste disposal industry. Wang's new work continues to look at waste in China, but this time uncovers the human and environmental costs of imported plastic waste in China. Wang Jiuliang will screen highlights from the forthcoming film and discuss his experience documenting the handling of domestic and imported waste. Reception to follow.

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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | John L. Sprague discusses his book The Birth of Electric Traction: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Inventor Frank Julian Sprague

In this illustrated lecture, the speaker discusses the importance of 'the father of electric traction,' his grandfather, to New York City and the electrification of Grand Central Terminal and to electric transportation systems, both vertical and horizontal, and industry all across America and much of the rest of the world.

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6:30 pm
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Tour | Wednesday Night Tour: Designing the Park

Hear directly from one of the innovative minds behind the Park’s award-winning design. Tour led by Matt Urbanski, Principal, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.

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6:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Yoga: Evening Salute to the Sun

End your day with relaxing Hatha yoga in a beautiful sunset setting. Suitable for all fitness levels. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring your own mat.

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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Yogamaya Yoga

Yogamaya invites you to flow, sweat, chant, and breathe with us - to move dynamically, with grace and precision - here on the mat and out in the world. Yogamaya Yoga is a workout for your body, mind, and spirit. Classes are limited to 75 people. Bring your own mat.

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6:30 pm
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