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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 1, 2010?

45 free events take place on Thursday, April 1 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 April 1 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 April . 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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45 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, April 1, 2010

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Video | Creative Time's 44 1/2: Video Art on an Outdoor Screen


At 44 1/2, Creative Time’s presentation of video art on MTV’s outdoor, gilded screen, will showcase the work of groundbreaking performance artist Marina Abramovic. Opening concurrently with her retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, Creative Time’s presentation includes Light/Dark (1977), Rest Energy (1980) and Dissolution (1997). Ambramovic has influenced other artists for more than three decades. One of the videos will play at the top of the hour, every hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 am
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Workshop | Daily Instructed Meditation


Learn some serenity to cope with your busy day.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 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" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Conference | Neo-Liberalism, Secularism, and the Future of the Left in India


Javeed Alam, C.P Chandrasekhar, Jayati Ghosh, Prabhat Patnaik, and Sitaram Yechury gather to discuss neo-liberalism, secularism, and the future of the political left in India.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Park Walk | “Cross Park Promenade”


You'll be amazed at what you'll see.... a hidden bench that tells time, miniature boats powered by the wind, a magnificent sculpture celebrating fresh water, and a glorious drinking fountain for the city's equine population. These are just some of the the sites along the way on this east to west walk through the park. Tour is approximately one hour long.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

Tour | “Waterways and Vistas”


Walk from the Dairy to Belvedere Castle, and learn about the intricate design of Central Park's web of pastoral landscapes and formal romantic vistas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Viruses, Hackers, and Spam


This will be a Lecture/Demonstration. This class examines these threats to computer users and software and discusses solutions to minimize them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Legacy of the Holocaust: Intimate Relations


Directors Andreas Robertz and Mario Golden of OneHeart Productions lead the Intimate Relations project, unearthing silenced memories about the Holocaust using theater techniques. Two ensembles with non-Jewish German and Jewish-American actresses, each third-generation relatives of victims and perpetrators, worked with the two directors, playwrights, and a choreographer to explore autobiographical material in 2008 and 2009. This process yielded two plays, excerpts of which will be read as part of this presentation: Luna’s Bracelet (developed in Berlin) and Searching for a New Sun (developed in New York).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Talk | Permutations of the Species: Towards an Anthropology of Independent Disability Film Festivals


With: David Mitchell, Institute on Disabilities, Temple University; and Sharon Snyder, Brace Yourselves Productions. In this co-presentation, Mitchell and Snyder analyze the ideological, aesthetic, and pedagogical effects of disability film festivals. Mitchell and Snyder are particularly interested to explore the way such festivals, by screening an array of international films, manage to respond to newly evolving concepts of “being disabled” even as they resist articulating a shared identity based on collective coherence of experience, affect, or diagnosis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Other | Chess for Beginners and Intermediate Players


A Beginning and Intermediate Chess Program for Adults. Show off your best moves against other chess fans! Or simply learn from other chess fans! Whether you're a chess master or just starting out, come for some board time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Conference | New Directions in Transportation and Development in Africa


A joint event with DP World focusing on the various impact of transportation-related infrastructure in Africa. Seminars will look at, among other topics, the contribution of Public-Private sector partnerships to African development, governance and anti corruption measures within the transport sector, and the difference between various approaches to transportation infrastructure development.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Shirin Neshat talks about her work


Neshat is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York. She is known primarily for her work in film, video and photography.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:15 pm
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Workshop | Business Planning Basics


Learn the basics of a strong business plan in just three hours! This course will teach you how to organize your business idea into a structured plan, identify and promote your business to potential customers, understand the legal requirements of starting your business, and develop your financial projections.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Lecture | Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century


A lecture with Abraham M. George, the founder of The George Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Bangalore, India, that takes a multi-pronged approach to poverty alleviation and empowerment of India's most disadvantaged populations. Addressing the educational, medical, livelihood and income generation needs of the communities in which it works, TGF implements a wide array of programs including. His most recent book India Untouched: The forgotten face of rural poverty, based on his initial 10 years of experience working in rural India, has gained wide acclaim in India and abroad.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Daily Instructed Meditation


Learn some serenity to cope with your busy day.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:45 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Solo Shows: Fred Herzog's Whisper and Shadows / Phillippe Halsman's Jump


Jump is a quirky and fun-filled series of over fifty vintage photographs taken five decades ago of movie stars, politicians, royalty, entertainers, artists, and authors, all jumping before Halsman’s camera. Whispers and Shadows is an intimate selection of color photographs made by Fred Herzog in Vancouver 1959 – 1989. Although these images make up a detailed visual record of the city and its transitions, they transcend those very details to become an elegiac musing on the nature of humanity itself.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Addressing AIDS in Haiti after the Earthquake


A panel discussion about the challenges of addressing AIDS in Haiti after the earthquake. According to the United Nations, AIDS healthcare in Haiti is “under serious threat” and it is “imperative” that relief efforts address AIDS. Yet neither the Haitian government, the U.N. nor the U.S. has a plan for doing so. The panel will feature five activists from PHAP+, Haiti’s coalition of community-based AIDS organizations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Conference | Divining the Message, Mediating the Divine


A graduate conference on how new media technologies have transformed the way people imagine and communicate with the divine. Keynote speakers include Bernard Stiegler, Director of the Department of Cultural Development at Centre Georges-Pompidou; Mark C. Taylor, Chair of Religion; Brian Larkin, Professor of Anthropology;, and Samuel Weber, Professor of German at Northwestern University. Whether sacred symbols or sanctioned authorities, intermediaries have been both conduits for and barriers to access to the divine. Mediating objects, forms, rituals, and people have long been central to religious practice and belief. They are conditions of both possibility and impossibility, at one and the same time providing glimpses of the heavens and anchoring us to the earth.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibiition: Extra-Ordinary Life


A group exhibition curated by Stefania Carrozzini featuring by eleven artists mostly from Italy. The exhibition is composed of 26 artworks: photographs, paintings, installations, sculptures, collages. The artists developed the idea of extra-ordinary life looking into the conflicts of contemporary culture and into their own personal experiences. With: Nicola Bortolussi, Pino Chimenti, Miriam De Berardis, Isa Di Battista Gorini, Barbro Eriksson, Franca Faccin, Claudio Martini, Shinichi Nakahata, Clara Scarampella Lombardi, Bruno Petronzi, Gianni Testa.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings on Aluminum: Terry Rose's In Flux


The artist's first New York City solo exhibition features a new suite of paintings executed on aluminum. Residing in the liminal space between abstraction and representation, Rose's imagery emerges, elides, and expands in a constant state of becoming. There is a magical sense of momentary arrival, then a whisper, urging us to remain in the present, as change is inevitable. Conjuring evolving galaxies, the work explores the microcosm and the macrocosm, and their undeniable interconnectedness. Rose has mounted solo shows at Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA; Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI; Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA; Jill Thayer Gallery, Bakersfield, CA; and the Pasadena Arts Space, Pasadena, CA. Selected group exhibitions include University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; and the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. His work is held in public and private collections including the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA; the Four Seasons Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Bellagio Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV; St. Regis Hotels in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Shenzen, China, and Dubai.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Colloquium | People in Support of Women in Philosophy: 3rd Annual Colloquium


Tina Chanter, who will present the lecture, was educated at The State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is author of Ethics of Eros: Irigaray’s Re-writing of the Philosophers; Time, Death and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger; Gender: Key Concepts in Philosophy; and The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference. She is editor of Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas, co-editor of Revolt, Affect, Collectivity: The Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva’s Polis, and co-editor of Sarah Kofman’s Corpus. The discussion is moderated by Maria Pia Lara, visiting professor of philosophy. Reception to follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | 2 Writers: Lenore Skenazy / Martha King


Lenore Skenazy writes a syndicated column that appears in more than 100 papers and takes a skeptical look at a culture that has brought us bottled water for dogs, pole dancing for grannies and an S.A.T. vocabulary shower curtain for kids. A big city newspaper vet (New York Daily News, New York Sun), she has also written for everyone from Reader’s Digest to The Washington Post to Mad Magazine. During the 1980s, Martha King edited the 8-page zine, Giants Play Well in the Drizzle, which she sent free to interested readers. She also briefly produced Northern Lights/International Poetry/Brooklyn Series and SpotS poetry chaplets. She worked in mainstream book publishing, for nonprofit literary organizations (most notably Poets & Writers), and later as an editor and writer for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She currently edits a prize-winning quarterly magazine for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | An Inside View: The Architecture of Manhattan's Private Clubs


Focusing on architecture and interior design, this illustrated lecture traces the unique building type's grand evolution from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, including both forgotten and major works by Peabody & Stearns, McKim, Mead & White, and Warren & Wetmore. With Matthew A. Postal, a researcher at the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Author Reading | Anna Lappé discusses her book Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It


Author and sustainable food advocate Lappé deftly explains the links between the global food system and climate change, laying out sustainable food choices that can help preserve the environment. Celebrate the launch of the book and honor the good work being done to make the food system more sustainable and healthy for all. The event features a talk and Q&A with the author, followed by a book signing and reception.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Nancy Sherman discusses her book The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds and Souls of Our Soldiers


Sherman, university professor at Georgetown University, served as the inaugural distinguished chair in ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy. Trained as both a philosopher and a psycho-analyst, she lectures on resilience, trauma, and military ethics. Her book explores the psychological and moral burdens borne by soldiers, illuminating the extent to which wars are fought internally, as well as externally, and expanding the national discussion about war and the men and women who fight our nation’s battles. In conversation with Foreign Affairs editor James F. Hoge, Jr.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | W.B. Yeats Tribute


In conjunction with the W.B. Yeats Society of New York, Wes Davis will read poems by Yeats, as well as selections from his own Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, and poet Marie Ponsot (Easy) will present the group's annual poetry awards.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | 2 Poets: Henri Cole / Ed Sanders


Henri Cole, author of Pierce the Skin, and Ed Sanders, author of Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, kick off poetry month. Cole is one of the nation's great poets, and an artist of clarity rather than obfuscation. Sanders, meanwhile, is a giant of the counterculture and the Village scene, a founder of Fuck You/ A Magazine of the Arts and the band The Fugs and the author of The Family.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Paris Review Fiction Salon with André Aciman and Kenneth Calhoun


Aciman is a memoirist, novelist, and essayist whose works include Call Me by Your Name, his debut novel; Out of Egypt, a memoir; and the recently published Eight White Knights. His story “Monsieur Kalashnikov” first appeared in The Paris Review. Calhoun’s stories have appeared in Fence, Fiction International, and The St. Petersburg Review, among others. His story “Nightblooming” appeared in the summer 2009 issue of The Paris Review. Hosted by Paris Review Editor Christopher Cox.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Apertures of Awe: Windows to the World Made Strange by Images


Art historian Shira Brisman, photographer Jason Eskenazi and art scholar Joel Upton will discuss the relationship between image and imagination, sight and insight, surprise and recognition; moderated by poet Ashley Makar. Presented by the Honors Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Graveyard of Empires


As the American military presence in Afghanistan grows, come out for a presentation by Afghan-American sisters Laimah and Wazhmah Osma and learn about the present realties in a country that is the graveyard of empires. Laimah examines the role of western media in the war on terror. Wazhmah is completing her dissertation fieldwork in Afghanistan and directed the film Postcards from Tora Bora.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested admission

Theater | New York Classical Theatre performs Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark


New York Classical Theatre creates a new experience for theater enthusiasts with their production of Hamlet using its signature staging style, panoramic theatre. Audience members will enter the world of the play as they follow the actors from place to place.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Jazz | Student Recital: Peter Matson, guitar



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Author Reading | Tom Mendicino reads from his novel Probation


A so-called perfect marriage is turned upside down by an anonymous tryst at a roadside rest area and a journey into the dark side of self-discovery begins.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | 3 Poets: Karen Weiser / MacGregor Card / Lucy Ives


KAREN WEISER lives in New York City where she is studying for her doctorate in English. Her chapbooks include "Placefullness" and "Eight Positive Trees." She has published in 6X6, Lungfull! Magazine and Cypress Magazine, and her new book, To Light Out, was just released. MACGREGOR CARD is a poet, translator, and editor living in Queens. He used to edit the fantastic The Germ and Firmilian: A Spasmodic Knowledge Base. His new book, Duties of An English Foreign Secretary, was released. LUCY IVES' poems and criticism have appeared in The Colorado Review, Fence and Verse. She lives in Bushwick and runs, with Ben Gocker, the great reading series Poetry Time at Space Space. Her debut collection, Anamnesis, is just-released.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Accompanying Seminar Concert



   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Café Jazz: Student Combos


Student jazz combos in an intimate setting. Refreshments provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Mannes Upperwest Chamber Music Concert


PROGRAM: Astor Piazzolla: Work TBA Bohuslav Martinů: Trio for flute, cello and piano J. S. Bach: Aria from Coffee Cantata Georg Philipp Telemann: Wood Wind Quartet in D minor
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Student Composers’ Concert


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   New York City, NY; NYC
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Master Class | Piano Master Class: Sarah Rothenberg


The Artist Master Class Series features the pianists of Steinhardt performing and interacting with renowned artists from around the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:45 pm
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Performance | Student Productions: The Pillowman / The Lobby / / The Muted Plantation


The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University presents: a scene from The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh; L.B> Roberts' new one-act play The Lobby; and Carston Turner's new one-act play The Muted Plantation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Jazz | Student Recital: Seung Bum Kim, guitar



   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Performance | God Tastes Like Chicken Comedy Show


The brainchild of erotic balloon artist John Murdock, God Tastes Like Chicken is comprised of pedophiles, lunatics, felons and other degenerate types. Featuring improv, sketch comedy, stand-up, chickens, and heresy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:30 pm
Free

Jazz | 5/5/5 After Hours Set


A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of Manhattan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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