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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 4, 2011?

38 free events take place on Monday, April 4 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 4 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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38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, April 4, 2011

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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
9:30 am
Free

Gallery Talk | The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Room


Jennifer Williams leads informal discussions in the room and answers questions. Two sessions: 10am-1pm and 1:30pm -3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Microsoft Office 2003: MS Word 1


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn the basic features of Microsoft Word 2003, a word processing program you can use to create documents. Topics include entering and editing text, saving files, and formatting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free

Lecture | Youth Interactions with Contemporary Political-Economic Circumstances of the Post-War Western Balkans


A lecture by Colette Daiute, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Drawing on research reported in Human Development and Political Violence, this talk depicts the contemporary situation in BiH, Croatia, Serbia, and a Bosnian community in the United States from the perspective of young people growing up during 1990s wars. With examples from a six-year ethnographic study and community social history project, Daiute will present results of an analysis indicating young people’s intense focus on present and future political-economic issues, rather than on the often-assumed residual trauma caused by past events or social reproduction of past ideologies. This discussion of youth narratives addresses the importance of their interactions with local threats and opportunities in relation to national and international political narratives.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Paraconsistent Vagueness


A philosophy lecture by Zach Weber of the University of Melbourne.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Screening | Short Films on and by Native Americans


Featuring Cry Rock, ?E?anx/The Cave and Shimásání. Start times are 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Arts Festival: Dorothy H. Hirshon Film Festival Masterclass


A lecture and conversation with Hirshon festival director-in-residence Guy Maddin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free

Talk | Learn About Taino Culture


Jorge Estevez discusses Taino culture past and present using traditional handling objects in an interactive informal setting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Computer Surfing for 50+


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore websites of special interest to active older adults.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
Free

Workshop | HTML Email Seminar


HTML email has become a popular form of communication for Enewsletters, advertisements, and other forms of information. This seminar will show you how to send HTML email in a variety of ways.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free

Staged Reading | Student Playwriting: Bleedin' Trees by Scott McCarrey


The Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing debuts the 2011 winners of the prestigious Goldberg Award for Playwriting. The Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Award was established in 1998 to celebrate and honor the best plays of the graduate and undergraduate students in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University. The Goldberg Playwriting Award includes a $10,000 cash prize and a concert reading of the winning play. The concert reading affords the playwright the opportunity to work with a director and cast in the rehearsal process, as well as to develop the play with a professional dramaturge.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Discussion | Roundtable on Emma Gilligan's Terror in Chechnya: Russia and the Tragedy of Civilians in War


Terror in Chechnya is the definitive account of Russian war crimes in Chechnya. Emma Gilligan provides a comprehensive history of the second Chechen conflict of 1999 to 2005, revealing one of the most appalling human rights catastrophes of the modern era--one that has yet to be fully acknowledged by the international community. Drawing upon eyewitness testimony and interviews with refugees and key political and humanitarian figures, Gilligan tells for the first time the full story of the Russian military's systematic use of torture, disappearances, executions, and other punitive tactics against the Chechen population. This panel brings together a group of distinguished scholars and experts to discuss the arguments and findings of Gilligan's book. Panelists: Emma Gilligan, Assistant Professor of Russian History and Human Rights, University of Connecticut. She is also the author of Defending Human Rights in Russia: Sergei Kovalyov, Dissident and Human Rights Commissioner, 1969-2003. Jason Lyall, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University Kimberly Marten, Professor of Political Science, Barnard College Diederik Lohman, Senior Researcher, Human Rights Watch
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:15 pm
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Concert | Student Recital - Noriko Allen, piano


   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Symposium | Between Stalin and Hitler: Mass Murder in Central and Eastern Europe


An international symposium with Timothy Snyder (Yale University), bestselling author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and leading historians István Deák (Columbia University), Pawel Machcewicz (University of Warsaw), and Yaroslav Hrytsak (L’viv University) to discuss Snyder’s recent book. Bloodlands is a lucid, humane, and moving account of the history of the region - rather than of a single country - between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union, written with new information from formerly classified archives and rich with individual accounts of the consequences of horror perpetrated in these lands from both directions. Snyder proceeds from individual stories of the tragedies of the “Bloodlands” between Germany and the Soviet Union, and then he multiplies those stories by the millions who were killed due to policies of famine and mass starvation, death camps, deportations, hard labor, gassings, and executions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Signing | Jesse Ventura signs copies of his book 63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read


Ventura embarks on a pursuit for truth to unveil what our government is doing behind closed doors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | On the 1946 Film The Big Sleep


James Naremore, author of More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts and The Magic World of Orson Welles, lectures on the 1946 noir film The Big Sleep, adapted from Raymond Chandler’s 1939 novel of the same name. Naremore is Chancellor’s Professor of Speech Communication, Comparative Literature, English, and Film Studies at Indiana University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Open Mike | RISK! Storyslam


Kevin Allison of the RISK! storytelling show hosts this free slam where anyone can put their name in the hat to tell a five-minute true story. They record the slam too, so all tellers have a shot at being included on an episode of the RISK! podcast.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Signing | Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria signs copies of her book Eva's Kitchen


Another entry in the celebrity cookbook sweepstakes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Carla L. Peterson reads from her book Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in 19C New York City


Carla L. Peterson, author of Doers of the Word: African-American Women Speakers and Writers in the North, "travels the well-known streets of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn to uncover the rich and hidden history of New York’s black elite in the nineteenth century. That the book arose from her research into her own family history reminds us that in all of our families lies the story of this country.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Microsoft Office 2003: MS Excel 1


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel 2003. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | On Artist Hanne Darboven


A lecture by artist Josephine Meckseper.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
$6

Workshop | Recycling in New York City - Beyond the Basics


With Christine Datz-Romero, the co-founder and executive director of the Lower East Side Ecology Center. Learn what types of materials can be recycled in New York City and why it is important to recycle. You will learn about opportunities to recycle anything from your batteries, electronic waste, kitchen-scraps, paint and plastics, to how to reuse and re-circulate unwanted materials. You will walk away with information on how to reduce your waste basket and carbon footprint.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | The Situation Is Catastrophic, but Not Serious


To launch its new Committee on Globalization and Social Change, a special lecture by philosopher and critic Slavoj Žižek, who will give a talk entitled "The Situation Is Catastrophic, but Not Serious." The Committee on Globalization and Social Change is an interdisciplinary working group composed of a core group of faculty interested in reflecting on globalization as an analytic category for understanding social change.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | W.B. Yeats Society of New York Poetry Winners


Readings by winners of the 2011 W.B. Yeats Society of New York Poetry Competition, along with judge Samuel Menashe, recipient of the Poetry Foundation's $50,000 First Neglected Masters Award, and award-winning Irish poet Eamon Grennan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Theater | 2011 First Light Festival: Please Continue by Frank Basloe


Yale, early 1960s. Professor Stanley Milgram's "obedience experiments" test if people will commit cruel acts if they are following orders. Milgram gets the data he needs, but the lab assistant who conducted the experiment is left to grapple with his own cruelty, a dilemma echoed by unexpected crimes on campus. Please Continue examines the conditions under which we allow ourselves to inflict harm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Workshop | Hands-On Demo of the Alexander Technique


Join a team of posture and movement specialists on the first Monday of each month. A brief presentation of how the Alexander Technique helps people manage posture, pain, and performance issues will be followed by "hands-on work" as attendees break up into small groups to get personal attention from one of the Alexander Technique teachers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Kristin Hannah reads from her book Night Road


In her new novel, which is at once both moving and terrifying, the author of the previous Winter Garden, explores a strained friendship.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Student Graduation Comedy Show


Tonight, brilliant students take the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they're actually the stars of today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5

Lecture | The 1960s: The Struggle for Justice Intensifies


What were the real 1960s? Was it the successful struggle for Civil Rights and voting rights? Was it the expansion of Social Security with the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid? Was it nine years of uninterrupted prosperity and economic growth? Or, was it the eruption of riots in all of our major cities? Was it a divisive war that led to terrible domestic disunion? Was it the decade of horrifying political assassinations? Was it sex, drugs and rock "n" roll? This series of lectures will confront these issues head on. We will feature individuals of great artistic and scholarly achievement. Many were also active participants in one or more of the struggles that occurred in that decade.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Blood Simple: Screening and Conversation with Academy Award-Winning Actress Frances McDormand


A screening of the 1984 American neo-Noir Blood Simple — the first feature film by the Coen brothers — is preceded by a conversation with McDormand, who made her screen debut in the film.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance: Karen Bernard / Katrina Erikson & Friends / Mariana Valencia & Rhinoceros Event / JoeLuv


A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights throughout the fall/winter and spring seasons that supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Gay Camp Comedy Show


It's gay. It's camp. It's Gay Camp! Every summer, confused, young campers are sent away to Camp Acceptance to "cure" their homosexuality. Start with a deliciously evil headmaster and a closeted lesbian guidance counselor, throw in a few electrified fences, disco balls, white girls rapping, boy-boy love, girl-girl love, gay Twister, Sarah Palin, slow-motion fantasies, whips, handcuffs, flannel, and more innuendos than you can shake a dildo at, and you've got Gay Camp. Gay Camp is fast, funny, and not pulling its punches as it takes on the anti-gay morons in America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
$5

Concert | Mannes Chorus


Under the direction of Frank Nemhauser, the Mannes Chorus performs choral literature from the 15th century to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recital - Rob Keiser, piano


   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Tango Trial Class for Total Beginners


A 45-minute class introducing you to all the basic fundamentals of tango. It is guaranteed you will be dancing at the end of the class. It is a good way to start out with tango for those that have never danced it before. No Partner required. Bring comfortable shoes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
$5

Dance Performance | The Second Avenue Dance Company


Works choreographed by guest artists and members of the Second Avenue Dance Company. The Second Avenue Dance Company comprises of graduate and undergraduate students in their final year of study.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Performance | Student Graduation Comedy Show


Tonight, brilliant students take the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they're actually the stars of today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
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Performance | Fresh Stand-Up Open Mike


Michelle Wolf and Erin Lennox host this stand up open mic. Sign up and you can be part of the show! Each week Michelle & Erin (and special guests) will be joined by additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. FRESH gives you the chance to work that new joke or rework an oldie but goodie.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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