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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 21, 2011?

44 free events take place on Thursday, April 21 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 21 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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44 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, April 21, 2011

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Park Walk | Weekday Fitness Walking Program


One hour of walking, stretching, strengthening, and body toning using only the park, our own bodies, and gravity. All levels welcome; we modify the program to meet your level of ability.
   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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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 | Online Social Networking


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn about online social networks and explore some of the most popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
   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

Concert | Organ Performance Class


Students of Paul Jacobs, Chair of Organ Dept.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Lecture | Humanitarianism at the Edge of Empires: Refugee Aid and Civil Society along the Croatian-Bosnian Border, 1875-1878


A talk by Jared Manasek, Department of History, on the mobilization of civil society in Croatia and Slavonia to aid refugees from the 1875-1878 uprisings in Bosnia and Hercegovina. It examines the competing interests of state and civic aid efforts, and looks at the organizational development of aid societies along the border. Finally, it looks at the tensions between refugee aid and aid to support the uprising in Bosnia and Hercegovina, and argues that local activists sought to unite both efforts under the same umbrella concept of humanitarianism.
   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
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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, 3pm and 5:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Russian Cinema: Andrei Tarkovskii's Stalker (1979)


At the center of an outlawed region called The Zone lies a mystical room altered by unnatural forces. Armed guards are the first in a series of lethal obstructions that prevent outsiders from reaching the place where fantastic powers can fulfill man's greatest desires. Only the Stalker can lead a scientist and writer through The Zone, where an obstacle course of mental and physical barriers tests the limits of their endurance. 163 min. In Russian with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | “The Castle and its Kingdom” Tour


Take a walk around the lands dominated by the Castle, situated high on Vista Rock. Visit the tiny 55-acre realm on an eclectic tour of history and nature. Tour is approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Striving for Beauty: Poetics and Ethics in Muslim History


A talk by Ayesha Jalal, the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University where she teaches in the History Department and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Jalal obtained her doctorate in history from Cambridge University, and has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as Tufts, Columbia, and Harvard Universities. She has been Fellow at Trinity College and the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Dr. Jalal was a MacArthur Fellow, 1998-2003.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Open Mike | Uptown Teen Open Reading


Calling all teen poets, spoken word artists, emcees, scholars and activists with something to say! Sign up to share your powerful and important voices in this open mic monthly series, outfitted with youth DJs, this safe, uncensored space provides a platform for you speak up. And if you're simply young at heart, come show some love for the next generation of performing artists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk with Kamrooz Aram


Kamrooz Aram (born in Shiraz, Iran, 1978) is a contemporary artist whose work explores themes relating to systems of belief, including nationalist, religious, and artistic ideologies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Exhibitions: Altered States of Reality / Vers la Lumière


The full glory and complexity of fine art photography will be found in Altered States of Reality: An Exhibition of Analog and Digital Fine Art Photography. Subtle yet clear-eyed, these artists show their unique perspective on the world through the power of their lenses, creating images that are sometimes haunting, and often breath-taking, but always memorable. Enjoy the passionate work of Paul M. Cote, who returns in Vers la Lumière following the success of his previous solo exhibition. Viewers will be grabbed by the emotion contained in these artistic creations and emerge refreshed by his energetic, illuminating talent.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Drawing and its Double: Selections from the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica


This landmark exhibition, co-organized with the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica (ING) in Rome, is comprised of fifty-nine rarely-exhibited engraved metal printing plates dating from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth century, culled exclusively from the collections of one of the world’s most important museums devoted to the Graphic Arts. Presenting the plates on their own, without the resultant prints, this exhibition advocates for a broadly conceived understanding of drawing that addresses several pressing issues in historical and contemporary art, including: the concept of the unique artwork, the translation of an original picture to an engraving, the presentation of unconventional media as drawing, and finally the role of the archive in preserving and disseminating history.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Luciano Blotta's Rise Up - Reggae Underground


A journey into the heart of Jamaica - the island that gave birth to the worldwide cultural phenomenon of Reggae. In a society where talent abounds and opportunity is scarce, three distinct and courageous artists fight to rise up from obscurity and write themselves into the pages of history. With music and appearances by legends Lee “Scratch” Perry, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, and a slew of soon-to-be superstars, Rise Up follows artists in the dangerous streets, back alleys and crowded dancehalls of Kingston and the countryside. These artists demonstrate the raw power of hope and courage in a land which is largely unseen, but certainly not unsung. Welcome to the Jamaican underground music scene.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Dreamweaver and CSS Workshop


Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are *essential* on websites. If you have been avoiding them up to now, here’s a chance to bring yourself up to date. If you are using them now, you still may want to attend to see their full potential. Style sheets allow you to easily style text and more. They also save time and money since you can make global changes throughout your site with one change! In this seminar we’ll cover the different types of style sheets and when you’d use each; how to create and use styles, as well as why every piece of text on your website should have a style! Get up to date on using CSS in Dreamweaver.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photography Group Show: Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic.


Exploring various intersections between photography and writing, the exhibition is presented alongside the release of Blind Spot magazine No. 43, which has been jointly edited by Davey and Leonard. The show brings together works by Josh Brand, Roy Colmer, Pradeep Dalal, Shannon Ebner, Joy Episalla, William Gedney, Roni Horn, Katherine Hubbard, Babette Mangolte, Mark Morrisroe, Adrian Piper, Claire Pentecost, James Welling, and David Wojnarowicz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Tribeca Film Festival: Fame (1980) by Alan Parker


Fame chronicles the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts. Come early to show off your best moves onstage at Tribeca’s Got Talent, an all-ages, open-call song and dance “competition” where everyone is a winner.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Video Art: Kara Walker's Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale


Walker will present three new video works, which draw on her own experience in the Mississippi Delta, “a region mythologized in song and popular culture but tragically depressing.” She explains, “I drove down to the Delta thinking about the terrors of Jim Crow and slavery, yet the silent indifference of the landscape and the economic stasis, lack of mobility, and the persistence of a racist memory in the area was what stuck.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Screening | 4 Short Films on the Irish Experience


Glimpses of Erin (USA) 1934, 8 minutes, James A. Fitzpatrick Traveltalks series March of Time: Ireland (USA) 1946, 15 minutes Look Up and Live: Ireland in Transition (USA) 1965, 25 minutes Directed by Portman Pagett for CBS Ireland: New Convention Country (Ireland) 1966, 15 minutes Directed by Robert Monks
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Bill Smoot reads from his book Conversations with Great Teachers


A collection of interviews that the author, who teaches English at the Castilleja School in Palo Alto, where he has received the Outstanding Teacher Award, conducted with 51 exceptional teachers (K-12, college, professional courses, military, political mentors) to find out what makes them so effective. These most fascinating teachers in America discuss their various styles as well as what makes their work meaningful to them. The author's insightful questions elicit thought-provoking reflections about teaching as a calling and its aims, frustrations, and satisfactions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: The Frog Was Singing by Rita Rosa Ruesga


A parent's dream collection of the best-loved nursery rhymes from Latin America, including Señora Santana, La pájara pinta, Cucú Cucú, and many others. With a song on every spread, lyrics in Spanish and English, beautiful illustrations and the corresponding music notation, this collection is an ideal introduction to the rich musical tradition of the Spanish-speaking countries.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Images of America, Made in Austria: Franz Kafka


Professor Wolfgang Müller-Funk's lecture revolves around the idea that Kafka's symbolic construction of the United States must be seen within a long tradition of Austrian literature and culture, starting with the Romantic Nikolaus Lenau and ending with Joseph Roth's Leviathan. As Peter Henisch's witty novel on Kafka's travel to America along with Karl May shows, new images of the New World have emerged since the 1970's. The close reading of Kafka's unfinished novel, Amerika, is based on theoretical concepts that deal with auto- and hetero-images in transcultural relations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | Poets Michael Lally and Brenda Iijima read their work


Michael Lally is an American-born poet and the author of twenty-seven books of poetry. He is considered part of the New York School of poetry, which began in the early 1950s and is acknowledged as one of the most influential movements of American poetry. Brenda Iijima (pictured) grew up in North Adams, Massachusetts. She moved to Brooklyn, where she teaches and edits for Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, a publisher of poetry. Iijima’s collections of poetry include Around Sea, Animate, Inanimate Aims, Subsistence Equipment, Revv. You’ll—ution, and If Not Metamorphic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Spring 2011 Lang Coffee House Cabaret


The Coffee House Cabaret features evenings of music, dance, poetry, visual art, and video shorts by Lang students. Bring your friends and join the community in a casual coffee house atmosphere, with great performances, raffled prizes, and free food and café drinks. After the show, the floor is open for all to perform individually or spontaneously mix.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Authors Lynne Tillman and Kio Stark read their work


Cursor, the brainchild of former Soft Skull Press publisher Richard Nash, is a start-up portfolio of social publishing imprints. Nash will be joined by Cursor authors Lynne Tillman and Kio Stark for a discussion about this new venture, and the authors will read from their work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Bums, Slummers and Swells: American Social Class and the Birth of Popular Culture on the Lower East Side, 1825-1855


Join historian Warren Shaw for a talk on the development of the class structure that we still live under in the United States, and the beginnings of what we now call Pop Culture. These transformations occurred simultaneously in the Lower East Side of nearly two centuries ago.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Diane Ackerman reads from her book One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing


Poet and author (Zookeeper's Wife) Ackerman discusses her memoir, the story of her relationship with her husband, novelist and critic Paul West, and their struggles with his aphasia (loss of language) after a stroke.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Hester Eisenstein discusses her book Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World


Hester Eisenstein, a native New Yorker, is a professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her previous books include Contemporary Feminist Thought and Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | No Name Comedy Show Presents “The Uptown Cabaret”


No Name producer Eric Vetter calls the Cabaret an opportunity for musical talent to try out new material in a safe and fun place. Hosted by the multi-talented Alex deSuze, whose background includes acting, directing and singing at venues throughout the NYC-metro area, with NY-based composer and teacher Rich Campbell providing the "fierce" musical accompaniment on piano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Rae Meadows discusses her book Mothers and Daughters


"Meadows (Calling Out) lightly explores the interplay between mothers and daughters in this thin intergenerational drama." - Publishers Weekly. In conversation with Darin Strauss.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Richard Pearson reads from his book Driven to Extinction: The Impact of Climate Change on Biodiversity


Scientist Richard Pearson (American Museum of Natural History) is here to discuss his book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Poetry Reading | Sound Poetry with Jean Pierre Bobillot


An evening with the celebrated French sound poet Jean-Pierre Bobillot, who defines himself as a “Poëte bruyant, non-métricien tendance pro-Dada, chercheur de poux” (“a noisy Poet, non-metrical and with pro-Dadaist leanings, who (re)searches (for) lice.” The author of more than twenty books and CDs of poetry, as well as of a number of books about authors such as Rimbaud, Bobillot both performs and talks about poetry in this unique event. All are welcome to participate in Bobillot’s live “action reading.” Please note: this lecture and performance will take place in English and French.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Wayne Pacelle reads from his book The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them


A heartfelt, eye-opening exploration of the special relationships between animals and humans by the president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Chamber Music Department 2010/2011 - Evening Concert 6


This concert is a chamber music recital featuring ensembles from the College Division Chamber Music Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Screening | French Cinema: Ousmane Sembene's Black Girl (1966)


Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman takes a job as a governess in a French family, but is confronted with the hardships of racism and mistreatment. 55 min. In French with English subtitles. With guest moderator Professor Gregory Mann and commentary by Marie-Hélène Koffi-Tessio and Mariame Sy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Grant Wenaus, Piano


World-renowned performers and pedagogues coach the pianists of tomorrow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:45 pm
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Concert | College Division Student Composers 2010/2011 Concert 3


This concert will feature performances of new works by College Division composition students.
   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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Concert | Filipino Trip-Hop with Electric Kulintang


In many cultures, people communicate to neighbors and disparate villages alike through the musically coded language of drums and gongs. Electric Kulintang echoes stories from around the world told in the vernacular of rhythm, drums, and gongs, capturing them in field recordings and reinventing them in song and music. These echoes are both ancestral myths and reflections of the present day. The duo Electric Kulintang consists of Susie Ibarra (composer/percussionist, vocals) and Roberto Rodriguez (composer/percussionist, beat maker) who collaborate in the blending and creation of this Filipino trip-hop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 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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11:00 pm
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Performance | New Team Lunacy Comedy Show


All you need to do is show up. Don't have an improv group? We'll put you in one! Have a team then bring them down! Five teams get to play for ten minutes each, and everyone has fun. Work on your skills and meet some great new people. New Team Lunacy, hosted by Kelly Kreye and Chris O'Neil!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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