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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 13, 2011?

55 free events take place on Wednesday, April 13 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 13 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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55 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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Forum | The Shifting Sands of Redistricting Law: Unanswered Questions


To what extent should race and ethnicity be considered when developing a redistricting plan? Some of the leading academics, advocates and decision makers will discuss the current state of the law and the role of the Voting Rights Act in the 2010 redistricting cycle.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 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" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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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
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Workshop | Genealogy 1: An Introduction


Hands on using wireless laptops. Exploring your family history? Learn how to trace your roots in this introduction to genealogy. Discover library and web resources for genealogical research.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 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

Video | 40 Years of Video Art on a Giant Screen


Electronic Arts Intermix celebrates its 40th anniversary by partners with MTV to present artists' video in an astonishing visual landscape. EAI will highlight the remarkable creative media interventions of artists on a spectacular scale. Works by Vito Acconci, Dan Asher, Phyllis Baldino, Dara Birnbaum, Gary Hill, Shigeko Kubota, Takeshi Murata, Nam June Paik, Martha Rosler, Stuart Sherman and William Wegman will be seen daily on the outdoor large-format LED screen. A different short video will be played at the top of the hours from 12pm-4pm and 6pm to 11pm. Program Schedule: Noon Takeshi Murata, EAI 40th Anniversary Intro (2011, 1:05 min) 1 pm Shigeko Kubota, Rock Video: Cherry Blossom (1986, 3 min) 2 pm William Wegman, Dog Duet (1975, 2:37 min) 3 pm Martha Rosler, Backyard Economy I (1974, 3:20 min) 4 pm Stuart Sherman, Chess (1982, 30 sec) 6 pm Dara Birnbaum, Artbreak, MTV Networks, Inc. (1987, 30 sec) 7 pm Vito Acconci, Three Frame Studies: Push (1969-1970, 2:59 min) 8 pm Nam June Paik, Hand and Face (1961, 1:25 min) 9 pm Phyllis Baldino, Suitcase/Not Suitcase (1993, 36 sec) 10 pm Gary Hill, Objects With Destinations (1979, 3:41 min) 11 pm Dan Asher, Artificial Illuminations: Calligraphic (1997, 55 sec)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | The Lenape: Lower New York's First Inhabitants


A lecture by Dr. David M. Oestreicher, curator (In Search of the Lenape: The Delaware Indians, Past and Present), lecturer, consultant, and independent scholar. Combining archaeological and historical evidence with decades of firsthand ethnographic and linguistic research, this lecture covers the culture, prehistory, and history of the Lenape (Delaware Indians) in this region as well as their subsequent displacement and emigration to enclaves in Oklahoma, Ontario, and Wisconsin in the 18th and 19th centuries. Pershing Hall, one of the many historic buildings on Governors Island, features WPA murals depicting American military history. Free luncheon provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Unemployment Benefits and Work Incentives


A lecture by David Howell (Urban Policy Analysis and Management; Doctoral Program) and Bert Azizoglu (Ph.D Student).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Grand Central Terminal Tour


Tour of this magnificent Beaux-Arts landmark.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | John Oates performs from his CD Mississippi Mile


At first blush, Mississippi Mile might seem like a surprising title for an album that promises to take John Oates back to his deepest influences. Nearly everyone who’s paid attention to pop radio over the last four decades knows Daryl Hall & John Oates built much of their foundation on Philadelphia soul. If that superstar duo’s darker-haired half was going to make a back-to-roots move, shouldn’t it be called Philly Mile? But it’s no geomapping accident that gave Oates’ new solo album its name.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Master Class | Joy In Singing Concert


An afternoon of mini-recitals by selected performers from the 2011 Joy In Singing master class series.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 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
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Concert | Charites Vocal Ensemble performs “17th-Century Female Perspectives on the Dissolution of Beauty”


The program serves a musical vanitas, staged with period gesture, investigating the transient nature of youth and beauty in virtuosic music and poetry by seventeenth-century women composers and writers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Lecture | Shakespeare's Mappery


Since the 1990s, critics have argued that Shakespeare was alert to the cartographic developments and innovations of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In a number of plays his characters employ maps for military, monarchic, and mercantile purposes, practices which were increasingly common in his period, and practices that align cartography with power and possession. Less critical attention has been paid to the ways in which Shakespeare’s maps act frequently as indexes of loss and death: Shakespeare’s cartographers frequently end up dead, with what they lay claim to slipping through their grasp; when used figuratively, “map” (meaning emblem or epitome) frequently stands for something ephemeral, out of reach, or already passed. Shakespeare’s “mappery” engages not only with the vast possibilities of a rapidly expanding world—possibilities to which the contemporary map-reader was readily attuned—but also the limits of such longings and desires. The lecture is by Writer in Residence Gavin Hollis, an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Hunter College, CUNY. He has published on cartographic literacy in King Lear, Native American and European mapping in 1670s Virginia, and has articles forthcoming on White Europeans dressing up as Native Americans in early modern drama. Directly after the lecture, the Library’s Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division invites you to peruse in the auditorium foyer a selection of maps and atlases printed in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Screening | Gracie's Afternoon Playhouse


Your host Chris Grace always brings you something worth watching. Most will be movies, some will be television, some will be populist and unapologetically entertaining, some will be hard to find and harder to understand. But you will always leave saying, "I am glad that I saw that." Chris Grace is out of town, so today's selection is Artistic Director Jeff Lepine's Choice! Come and be surprised!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Performance | Recess Comedy Show


House Team members take a break from the norm. Come and watch as they play and explore new forms during recess.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


A free Stay Well exercise session. Stay Well volunteers cetrified by the NYC's Department for the aging will lead participants in a well-balanced series of exercises for seniors of all ability levels. Please wear loose comfortable clothing. Exercise equipment will be provided. All participants are required to sign a personal medical waiver at the beginning of the class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | Toshi Reagon, Singer/Songwriter


Described by Vibe magazine as “one helluva rock’n’roller-coaster ride” and by Pop Matters as “a treasure waiting to be found,” Toshi Reagon is a one-woman celebration of all that’s dynamic, progressive, and uplifting in American music. Since first taking to the stage at age 17, this versatile singer-songwriter-guitarist has moved audiences of all kinds with her big-hearted, hold-nothing-back approach to rock, blues, R&B, country, folk, spirituals, and funk.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Three Revolutions of Liberty: England, America, and France


Over the last few decades, the revival of political liberalism has gone hand in hand with a reassessment of the commonalities and differences subtending the eighteenth-century trans-Atlantic revolutions. A comparative perspective allows us to better appreciate the standpoints of both the revolutions’ leading intellectual progenitors (Locke, Montesquieu, and Jefferson) as well as of their leading critics (Edmund Burke, Madame de Stael, and Alexis de Tocqueville). In Three Revolutions of Liberty (2009), Philippe Raynaud, one of the protagonists of the French liberal revival, has fashioned a unique interpretation of the intellectual lineage that defines this trans-Atlantic revolutionary heritage – a heritage that, in so many ways, continues to define the central terms of modern politics. Join Prof. Raynaud (Political Science, University of Paris II), Nadia Urbinati (Political Science, Columbia University), Jeremy Jennings (Political Science, Queen Mary, University College London), and Richard Wolin (Political Science and History, The Graduate Center, CUNY) for a vigorous debate on the implications and relevance of the revolutionary legacy for both the history of ideas as well as contemporary politics
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Guided Tour of the Exhibition Alpine Desire


A curator-led gallery talk and walkthrough of the ongoing exhibition examining the various desires associated with and the abysses hiding behind the cultural-historical subject of the Alps and the “alpine”. It juxtaposes art-historical icons of 19th century Romanticism and early 20th century paintings with contemporary art from Austria and the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Guided of the Exhibition Luis Camnitzer


Artist-led walkthrough with Alejandro Cesarco.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Screening | Lerone Wilson's Documentary Colored Frames


A look back at the last fifty years in African American art, Colored Frames is an unflinching exploration of influences, inspirations and experiences of black artists. Beginning at the height of the Civil Rights Era and leading up to the present, it is a naked and truthful look at often ignored artists and their progenies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Author Reading | T.J. English discusses his book The Savage City


On August 28, 1963—the day Martin Luther King, Jr. declared “I have a dream” on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. Dubbed the “Career Girls killings,” the crime sent ripples of fear throughout the city and ignited a 10-year saga of racial violence and turmoil. The Savage City explores this pivotal event and the traumatic decade it defined through the stories of three very different men.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | 2 Exhibitions: Climb the Black Mountain / New Monuments


Gallery 1: Elisabeth Condon’s new paintings introduce the randomness of poured paint into the measured aesthetic of Chinese scrolls and sketchbook drawings of her travels around the world. Collectively entitled Climb the Black Mountain, the paintings redefine place as a unifying concept rather than a locality -- a mental projection of overlaid and overlapping locations, past and present. Reconfigured into hybrid combinations of abstract and recognizable, Condon’s landscapes heed the Chinese principle that landscape synthesizes memory and experience in the rhythmic, visual conveyance of internal and external perceptions. Conflating influences as diverse as the writings of the American Beat poets, the musical compositional form known as “fantasia,” and Taoist philosophy, Condon’s compositions pay tribute to the layered memories and impressions that travel and nomadism create in the landscape of the consciousness. Gallery 2: New Monuments, curator and sculptor Ben Godward has assembled a group of artists who upend traditional notions of landscape and sculpture, working toward a new set of rules that incorporates the use of industrial discards, construction materials, recyclables and other relics of castoff culture, as well as more traditional media used in non-traditional ways. As the exhibition title suggests, the works shown here are both new and monumental, with an attitude toward the cherished institutions of past practice that is irreverent, but stops short of disrespect or outright dismissal.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | A Conversation with Violeta Urmana, Met Soprano


The sixth and final Adventure of this season will feature Sorpano Violeta Urmana, starring at the Met in Tosca and Ariadne Auf Naxos.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Adult Yoga


Join us on Wednesday evenings for open-level yoga with a certified instructor! Please wear comfortable clothes and bring your yoga mat or a beach towel. All participants must sign a waiver form before they join in. For adults 18+.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Student Exhibition: Poisoned Apples and Smoking Lamps: Interpreting Fairy Tales and Adventure Stories


An exhibition of works by third-year students in the BFA Illustration and Cartooning Department inspired by classic fairy tales. Curated by Department Chair Thomas Woodruff.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Why French Matters


Does French still matter? If so, why? This roundtable discussion is a response to recent concerns about the status of the study of French and other foreign languages and cultures in U.S. higher and secondary education at a time of increasing globalization. Five leading voices in different fields bring a variety of perspectives to bear in a lively discussion about why French matters today. With: •Adam Gopnik, writer and essayist for The New Yorker magazine •Charles Kolb, President of the Committee for Economic Development •Rosemary Feal, Executive Director of the Modern Language Association and Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages, University at Buffalo, SUNY •Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French and Philosophy at Columbia University •Antonin Baudry, Cultural Counselor, French Embassy in the U.S.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk with Painter Deborah Kass


A lecture by Deborah Kass, an artist whose paintings examine the intersection of art history, popular culture, and the self. Kass’ work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Guggenheim Museum; the Jewish Museum; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Cincinnati Museum; the New Orleans Museum; and the Weatherspoon Museum, among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Haptic Urban Ethnoscapes in the City


With Rajinder Dudrah, University of Manchester, UK. Drawing on the author's theoretical framework of the "haptic urban ethnoscape," which develops multi-sensory understandings of film and media in relation to urban cultural geography (Dudrah, 2010), this paper will situate and advance the study of Bollywood cinema-going and related popular cultural activities in the city of Manchester, UK. The social act of Bollywood cinema going at the Trafford Centre mall, the cultural geography of the Wilmslow Road in which South Asian music and video stores are located, and the dancing to Bollywood songs and music at a South Asian queer club night will be considered as producing an affective sensation in and of the city.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Book Club: Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen


A novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life that matter most.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Croatian Cinema: Zvonimir Juric & Goran Devic's The Blacks (2009)


Winter 1991. The recent war in Croatia. Although a truce has just been signed, the members of the “Blacks”—a paramilitary squad who were used to doing the dirty work—are preparing to retrieve the dead bodies of their fellow fighters and blow up a dam upriver to disable the enemy. They are still under siege when they hear from headquarters in Zagreb that, due to the ceasefire, their squad will now be disbanded. 75 min. In Croatian with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | From the Autopsy Room to the Courtroom: How Medical Examiners and Lawyers Speak for the Dead


With moderator, Bernard Whalen, and panelists, Alafair Burke, Linda Fairstein, Jonathan Hayes and Robert Knightly of Mystery Writers of America. The cops find a body. The Medical Examiner determines it’s a homicide. A suspect is arrested. The district attorney prosecutes. Bad guy goes to jail-case closed. This format had provided the framework for countless murder mystery novels. But what happens when the writers of these stories are real cops, medical examiners and prosecutors. Listen and learn from a distinguished panel of law enforcement professionals who bring their day jobs to their writing to solve their cases.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Microsoft Office 2003: MS Excel 2


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Excel 2003. Topics include using formulas and functions, data sorting and conditional formatting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Monuments, Urbanism and Modernity in Post-Colonial Mali


Bamako, the capital city of Mali, is a vibrant metropolitan area with large scale public sculptures in a variety of architectural forms and artistic styles. Between 1995 and 2002, Mali's Third Republic built over forty-four public monuments within the city, intended to re-inscribe and re-imagine the urban landscape. Most of the monuments have been placed within the city to resonate with their surrounding political and social geography. Mary Jo Arnoldi, Curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, will share how Bamako's monuments and built environment express the residents' vision of modernity. Dr. Arnoldi was in the Peace Corps in Dakar and has extensive experience in West Africa. She has been conducting research in Mali since 1978 and has published widely on its arts and performance, cultural heritage, social life, and history.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poets Tina Chang and Ross Gay discuss their work


Tina Chang, the Poet Laureate of Brooklyn, has a new book of poems, Of Gods & Strangers, forthcoming in 2011. She is the author of the poetry collection Half-Lit Houses and co-editor, with Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar, of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond. Ross Gay’s first collection of poems, Against Which, was published in 2006. A Cave Canem fellow and former Bread Loaf scholar, he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize three times and has received the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the New Millennium Poetry Prize, and the Sow’s Ear Poetry Prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Warhorse: The Puppeteers Speak


From South Africa via London comes Warhorse, the extraordinary collaboration between Cape Town’s Handspring Puppet Company and the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, which is playing at Lincoln Center this spring. Based on the celebrated novel by British writer Michael Morpurgo, Warhorse speaks of the immense slaughter of soldiers on all sides as observed by a drafted English farm horse. The founders of Handspring Puppet Company, Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, will discuss puppetry as a medium of communication and advocacy, the object as verb, movement as thought, and the audience as author.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Worldly Perspectives with Clyde Haberman


In this popular and candid series that cuts to the heart of world affairs, Clyde Haberman, New York City columnist for the New York Times and veteran foreign correspondent, talks with renowned journalists. Avoiding sound bites and the clichés of studio-bound pundits, Haberman’s more leisurely approach consistently yields thoughtful conversation and insightful observations from many corners of the world. Sabrina Tavernise is an American journalist who is the Istanbul bureau chief of The New York Times. She previously reported for the Times from Iraq, Lebanon, and Russia. She received an honorable mention in the 2003 Kurt Schork awards for “her depth and human insight in covering Russia”. Tavernise graduated in 1993 with a B.A. in Russian Studies from Barnard College. She speaks Italian and Russian.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Younger than Methusaleh: Sustaining the Work of Mature Artists


Today, a diverse range of organizations promote established artists whose work merits greater recognition. Through exhibitions, publications and collections, these organizations and institutions highlight the work of groundbreaking artists whose work continues to influence new generations of artists. El Museo del Barrio brings together curators and art professionals from across this spectrum for this roundtable including Mitchell Algus, Co-founder and Director, Algus Greenspon Gallery; and Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Director, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; moderated by E. Carmen Ramos, Curator for Latino Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum. They will discuss the importance of artists who emerged in the avante-garde movements of the 60s and 70s, the challenges they face today, and strategies for supporting their ongoing work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Prints and Paintings, a Group Show


With Lonnie Heller, Charlotta Janssen, Mick Cantarella, and Donald McKenzie.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Billy Collins reads from his book Horoscopes for the Dead


The former U.S. poet laureate joins us to read from his latest collection of engaging, conversational, funny, and surprising poems.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Great Thinkers of Our Time Series: Freeman Dyson


Freeman Dyson is one of the world’s legendary scientists whose incredible gifts in mathematics and theoretical physics are equaled only by his imaginative visions of the future. His many prestigious awards include being named a Fellow of the Royal Society. A question and answer session, plus book signing and reception will follow the lecture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | H.G. Adler's Panorama: A Conversation


Join us for a conversation about the first novel by Czech Holocaust survivor, H. G. Adler, which has just been published in English. The volume’s translator, Peter Filkins, and Ruth Franklin, author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, will discuss the impact of the novel on German postwar literature and why the novel was neglected for many years as a central part of Holocaust literature.
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Concert | Organ Works by Debussy, Bach and Liszt


Program: Bach: Passacaglia, BWV 582 Debussy: Andantino, from String Quartet, opus 10 Alain: Deuxieme Fantaisie, JA 117 Saint-Saëns: Fantaisie in E-flat Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam" With Christopher Houlihan (Juilliard School), organ. Master's degree recital.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Signing | Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine signs copies of her book I'm Over All That: And Other Confessions


Legendary entertainer and author Shirley MacLaine joins us to discuss her new book. No memorabilia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Simon Schama reads from his book Scribble, Scribble, Scribble


The ever erudite, always delightfully curious Simon Schama returns with a wonderful compendium of thirty provocative, witty, enlightening, and stimulating essays previously published but collected in a single volume for the first time. One of our most distinguished historians and commentators, Schama, the acclaimed author of The American Future: A History, explores an amazing diversity of topics—from the political to the personal, from the earth shaking to the mundane, from ice cream to Churchill to Hurricane Katrina and everything in-between.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Thomas Pletzinger reads from his novel Funeral for a Dog


Author and journalist John Wray will meet with Pletzinger and the novel’s translator Ross Benjamin to present this novel and talk about the emergence of its translation. They will also discuss and explore what it means to successfully work in the literature scenes in Berlin and New York, and outline the differences and similarities of ways of living and life plans.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance: Barbara Mahler / Dahlia Nayar / Katherine Moore / Cara Surico


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where they will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists’ process.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
$3 suggested donation

Screening | Film from Bosnia and Herzegovina : Aida Begic's Snow (2008)


Only women, children, and one old man remain in a remote Bosnian village, shortly after the 1995 Dayton Agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. We watch as they drive away the sorrow and pain of the loss of their husbands and fathers in the menial tasks necessary for survival, making jams and pickles from the fruits of the local gardens. Through their support for each other, they create an informal family. But their peace and camaraderie are disturbed when a pair of Serbian "money men" offer to buy out the surrounding land, giving them a possible way out of the situation. 100 min. In Bosnian with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Students in Repertory Productions


The Actors Studio Drama School presents its annual Repertory Season at Pace University, in five weeks of theatre designed to introduce graduating students to the professional world and the public in full productions of the work they have created during their three years of study. Here you will witness a weekly series of scenes, one-act plays and full-length plays, some of them written by our playwrights, and all of them directed and acted by students.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Jazz | Anders Holst, Jazz Singer


"Anders Holst is a regal contender to become the new crowned prince of contemporary romantic music. The original compositions across Romantika glide with the ease and beauty of a springtime drive through the countryside. Utilizing the gloss of majestic grand piano, breezy horns, sweet sax and whispering strings, Holst accompanies with a vocal style that sweeps the listener along, even as he offers a frank lyrical portrait of decidedly grown-up themes: love gone wrong, resulting sorrow and isolation along with hints of resolve and redemption." - All About Jazz
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 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!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Sketch Block Comedy Show


Sketch Comedy meets Block Party. This show features a guest host comedian, three guest sketch troupes and drinking. Come meet, mingle, and perform!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
$5

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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11:00 pm
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