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35 free events take place on Wednesday, February 18 in New York City.
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35 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, February 18, 2015

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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.
   Midtown,
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6:30 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.
   Midtown,
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10:00 am
Free

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.
   Upper Manhattan,
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10:00 am
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Workshop | iPad Basics Workshop


This course will cover some basic features of the iPad. Learn the hardware, some settings, navigation and app basics.
   Midtown,
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10:30 am
Free

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.
   Midtown,
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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.
   Lower Manhattan,
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12:20 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey


In 1977, Romare Bearden (1911-1988) created a cycle of 20 collages and watercolors (miniature variations of his collages) based on Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey. Rich in symbolism and allegorical content, Bearden’s “Odysseus Series” created an artistic bridge between classical mythology and African-American culture. The works conveyed a sense of timelessness and the universality of the human condition, but their brilliance was displayed for only two months in New York City before being scattered to private collections and public art museums.
   Upper Manhattan, New York, NY
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Juilliard Student Concert: Artist Diploma Recital


Juilliard artists share their talent with the community in these free, hour-long lunchtime concerts on Wednesday afternoons throughout the season.
   Lincoln Square,
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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.
   Midtown East,
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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.
   Midtown,
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | eBook Help Hour: Get Started with eBooks


Need help getting started with eBooks? Bring your laptop, eReader, tablet or smart phone to eBook Help Hour. Get assistance loading electronic library books on your Kindle, create your free Adobe ID, learn about 3M Cloud Library, and so much more. Make sure you bring your library card and any necessary access passwords for your devices so they can help you as quickly as possible.
   Midtown,
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1:15 pm
Free

Jazz | Bill Wurtzel, Jazz Guitarist


Enjoy free live music performed by jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guest musicians.
   Lincoln Square,
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2:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Joy In Singing


Art song master class with Paul Sperry.
   Lincoln Square,
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | MS PowerPoint 2011 for Mac for Beginners


Learn how to create a slideshow presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. Topics include creating and editing slides, inserting images and clipart, and running your slideshow.
   Midtown,
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2:30 pm
Free

Master Class | Master Class: Weicong Zhang, Instrumental Accompanying


Born in Shanghai, China, pianist Weicong Zhang began her piano studies at the age of three. She made her first concert appearance in the Spring of Shanghai Music Festival when she was six. She won first prize in the Shanghai Young Pianist Competition and third prize in the Pearl River National Competition. She also recorded and published two solo albums, Butterfly and For Children.
   Upper Manhattan, New York, NY
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Writing for Magazines: The Art of the Feature Story


Whether you’re writing an essay, a business letter, a research report, copy for an ad agency or a short story, writers go through a process to get to an excellent finished product. Lisa Stahl will teach you how to go through that process – and the three stages of the writing process.
   Upper Manhattan, New York, NY
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | A Discussion of the Exhibition The City Lost and Found


Join authors Katherine A. Bussard, Alison Fisher, Greg Foster-Rice and Max Page as they discuss their groundbreaking project The City Lost and Found, an exhibition on view this spring at the Princeton University Art Museum. The accompanying publication considers how photographers, architects, activists, performance artists, and filmmakers turned conditions of urban crisis in the 1960s and 1970s into sites for civic discourse and artistic expression.
   Midtown,
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Alumni Reading with Rufi Thorpe and Emily Gould


A reading and conversation with authors Rufi Thorpe and Emily Gould. Both authors' most recent works focus on female friendship, motherhood, and women’s rights -- topics they explored while at Lang.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


Hea Youn Chung, Collaborative Piano 6 p.m. Jordan James, French Horn 8 p.m.
   Lincoln Square, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Cuba and Its Music


Composer, musicologist and record producer Ned Sublette will talk about Cuba, its music, and the future of its artists in light of the recent normalization of diplomatic relations with the United States.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Concert | Himalayan Happy Hour: Sprial Music


A free concert with artists specializing in music from the Himalayas and South Asia.
   Midtown, New York, NY
6:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Opening Reception | John Newsom's Powerful Paintings


John Newsom is a mid-career painter in full power. Beneath his thick and sensuous painted renderings of flora and fauna, is a grappling with the giants of abstraction. In Newsom's 2015 catalog of work from the past 10 years to the present exhibition, critic Barry Schwabsky writes in his essay, "what keeps ‘strong painting’ from becoming merely muscle bound - is Newsom’s secret weapon: the discipline that comes from considering himself, not a painter of images, but rather an abstractionist…to appreciate his paintings is…to engage with their surfaces of purely sensual incident.”
   Bowery, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Marc Solomon reads from his book Winning Marriage: The Inside Story of How Same-Sex Couples Took on the Politicians and Pundits - and Won


Marc Solomon is the national campaign director for Freedom to Marry where he directs programs to win marriage equality nationwide. In Winning Marriage, he gives the reader a seat at the strategy-setting and decision-making table in the campaign to win and protect the freedom to marry. With depth and grace he reveals the inner workings of the advocacy movement that has championed and protected advances won in legislative, court, and electoral battles over the decade since the landmark Massachusetts ruling guaranteeing marriage for same-sex couples for the first time.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Speculation, Now Book Launch


What needs to change in our understanding of reality for reality to change? The entanglement of cause and effect, affirmation and disavowal, and past and future is the premise of this collection of original essays and artwork on speculation.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Adventures in Italian Opera: A Conversation with Mezzo-Soprano Daniela Barcellona


The fifth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season will feature Italian mezzo-soprano Daniela Barcellona, who has thrilled audiences in starring roles at La Scala and in London, Paris, Turin and elsewhere. She is the prima donna of the Rossini Festival in Pesaro and will sing the bravura role of Malcolm with an all-star cast in the Met’s new production of La Donna del Lago.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Unseamly by Oren Safdie


A young woman seeks legal advice after she is sexually harassed by her boss.
   Midtown, New York, NY
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poetry Forum: Denise Duhamel


Denise Duhamel’s books of poetry include Blowout, Ka-Ching!, Two and Two, Mille et un Sentiments, Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems, and A Star-Spangled Banner, which won the Crab Orchard Award Series for Poetry. She was the guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2013.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
6:30 pm
$5

Author Reading | Allison Pataki discusses her book The Accidental Empress


Bestselling author of historical novels (The Traitor's Wife) Allison Pataki turns to the 15-year-old who wins the love of Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph and becomes his wife in her new novel.
   Upper West Side,
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Brad Garton's The Books of Music, Dreams, and Memories, a Multimedia Performance:


Prof. Brad Garton, Director of the Computer Music Center, has assisted in the establishment and development of a number of computer music studios throughout the world, and is an active contributor to the greater community of computer musicians/researchers, formerly serving on the Board of Directors of the International Computer Music Association as editor (with Robert Rowe) of the ICMA newsletter and as artistic director/co-organizer of several high-profile festivals and conferences of new computer music. His current work includes focused research on the modeling and enhancement of acoustic spaces as well as the modeling of human musical performance on various virtual "instruments." He is also the primary developer (with Dave Topper) of RTcmix, a real-time music synthesis/signal-processing language.
   Upper Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Brain Games


Don’t just play them, learn with them. Reward and exercise your brain the fun way. Master your strategy skills with Chess or Go. Learn about finance with Monopoly and The Game of Life. With many games to choose from, it’s not all just fun and games.
   Midtown,
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7:30 pm
Free

Film | Oscar-Nominated Documentary: Al Hicks' Keep On Keepin' On (2014)


Keep on Keepin' On depicts a 23-­year­-old blind piano prodigy, Justin Kauflin, and music legend and teacher Clark Terry, 89. After a life spent working with and teaching the most totemic figures in jazz history, Terry continues to attract and cultivate budding talents. 84 min. Skype Q&A with director Al Hicks and producer Paula DuPre' Pesmen.
   Upper Manhattan,
7:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | Traversing Time and Trade: Fifteen Years of the Silk Road


Meet members of the Silk Road Ensemble and the music traditions from across the globe and ages that inspire them. What can we learn from cultures far removed from our own and what does it sound like when the Philharmonic collaborates with them?
   Lincoln Square,
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7:30 pm
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Screening | Blancanieves, a Silent Film with a New Live Soundtrack


Experience an unforgettable evening of contemporary and classic silent film screenings accompanied by live music. This evening showcases the award-winning silent hit Blancanieves based on the “Snow White” fairy tale, written and directed by acclaimed Spanish director Pablo Berger in 2012. Alfonso Vilallonga's original soundtrack will be performed by the composer himself along with the acclaimed new-music ensemble Wordless Music Orchestra. Set in a romantic version of 1920’s Andalusia, the silent black-and-white fantasy swept the 2013 Gaudí awards (known as the Spanish Oscars) winning Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, and Best Catalan-Language Film, among others, and was one of the year's most popular films in Spain.
   Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College Viola Recital


Jean Ryoo, viola
   Upper West Side, New York, NY
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
   Lower East Side, New York, NY
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9:00 pm
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