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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 25, 2011?

30 free events take place on Monday, April 25 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 25 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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30 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, April 25, 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

Master Class | Master Class - Andres Diaz, cello


An extraordinary opportunity for connoisseurs of great music and young talent. An outstanding artist of today discusses and critiques performances by outstanding artists of tomorrow at a world-renowned conservatory.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 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 2


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2003. Topics include tables, text boxes, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Lecture | Recent Fatwas from the Ulema Council of Afghanistan: The Role of Islamic Jurisprudence in Afghanistan in the Post-9/11 Era


A talk by Dr. Emily Jane O'Dell. Since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the Ulema Council of Afghanistan has been playing an influential role in political affairs and civil society. Recent fatwas (religious opinions) from the Ulema Council of Afghanistan demonstrate the Council's influence over legislative and judicial matters, and illustrate how the Ulema Council attempts to reconcile Afghanistan's constitution with Islamic law. This talk will analyze how recent fatwas from the Ulema Council promote a distinct brand of Islam for the nation and adjudicate agendas of secularization and reform in domestic politics, international relations, human rights, and the media.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Film | Classic Italian Cinema: Vittorio De Sica's Oscar-Winning The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)


Based on the autobiographical novel by Giorgio Bassino, this film tells the story of the narrator [Giorgio's] relationship with the Finzi-Continis in the northern Italian city of Ferrara. 94 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Pen to Paper: Writing the Documentary


A panel on how writers create structure for documentaries which, like feature films, also begin with the blank page and an idea that needs to be turned into a narrative.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

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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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

Film | John Greyson's Fig Trees (2009): Fighting for AIDS Drugs


A feature-length docudramatic opera about antiretroviral drug activism in South Africa and Canada (based loosely on Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's 1934 opera Four Saints in Three Acts), and a tour-de-force of political and artistic filmmaking. 100 min. Followed by a discussion with the director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
Free

Other | BFA Fine Arts Department Open Studios


Open studios are an opportunity to see new works by current students in the studio setting and are free and open to the public.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Acts of War: Iraq and Afghanistan in Seven Plays: Performance and Book Signing


George Bartenieff, Kathleen Chalfant, Brendan Donaldson, Najla Said and Loren Sharpe are to be featured in a performance of excerpts of plays from this new collection of American and British drama.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Lecture | Ethics for Communication: Speech Rights and Speech Wrongs


A lecture by Onora O'Neill, Cambridge University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free

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
Free

Lecture | Waging Peace in Sudan: Scenarios for the Two Sudans


A lecture by Hilde Frafjord Johnson, Minister for International Development of Norway for two periods, 1997-2000 and 2001-2005. She played a pivotal role in the Sudan peace process, leading up to the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM/A) in January 2005. In 1998 Hilde F. Johnson formed the so‐called Utstein‐ group, comprising four development ministers from the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Norway, spearheading crucial changes in development policy and practice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Can Social Journalism Make a Difference in Russia?


A talk by Katya Kronhaus, Deputy Editor of Bolshoi Gorod—the popular magazine dedicated to modern life and culture in Moscow—as she discusses what it is like to investigate Russia’s pressing social issues with characteristic wit and humor. Previous articles of hers have covered a wide range, from cyber culture to neglect of aging veterans. Her satirical portrayal of able-bodied citizens trying to navigate city streets in wheelchairs prompted Moscow authorities to begin building much-needed access ramps.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
Free

Author Reading | Andrés Torres reads from his book Signing in Puerto Rican: A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family


The book is a family memoir about the author's experience growing up in New York City among a deaf extended family. He was born in the South Bronx of deaf parents who emigrated from Puerto Rico during the 1930s and 1940s. His first language was sign language and he was raised in a tri-cultural environment in which Spanish, English and sign were used to communicate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free

Lecture | Beyond the Bulldozer: Urban Renewal, Preservation, and the Legacy of Urban Planning since the 1960s


Fifty years ago, Jane Jacobs stated that city planning had “stagnated” since the 1930s. “It bustles but it does not advance,” she wrote in The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Jacobs’ book inspired a rethinking of planning and urban design. Her devastating critique of urban renewal, together with her activism, helped launch a movement in opposition to the bulldozer and the wrecking ball. Historian Alison Isenberg offers a fresh perspective on planning and urban design from 1950 through the 1970s, years when design professionals challenged urban renewal and struggled to offer Americans something better. The talk focuses on San Francisco, exploring the city’s reaction to the prospect of “Manhattanization” and its efforts to forge an alternative model.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | New Perspectives on African Architecture and Urbanism


Renowned anti-apartheid activist and South African Constitutional Court Justice Albie Sachs played a critical role in ensuring that healing and hope were expressed by both the architecture and the art collection of the new Constitutional Court building, opened in 2004 on the site of the notorious Old Fort Prison Complex, on Johannesburg's Constitution Hill. This discussion between Justice Sachs and international-affairs expert James Hoge will include a screening of the film A Light on a Hill: A Tour of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Sachs and Hoge's conversation will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poetry Forum: Julie Sheehan


Julie Sheehan’s most recent poetry collection is Bar Book: Poems & Otherwise. She is also the author of Orient Point and Thaw. Sheehan has received the Whiting Writer’s Award, the Robert H. Winner prize from the Poetry Society of America, and the Bernard F. Connors Prize from The Paris Review. She teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Comedy Central's Demetri Martin reads from This Is a Book


The comedian, actor and star of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin shares his new collection of essays, musings and drawings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Other | Monkey King: Journey to the West


Storyteller Diane Wolkstein and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Greene perform.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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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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Concert | Chamber Music Department 2010/2011 - Evening Concert 7


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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Performance | Comedy Show: Life Isn't Always Black and White...


In this award-winning solo show, Robert King takes the audience on the journey of a young man growing up bi-racial. Energetic, hilarious, and at times quite poignant, Halfrican-American will take you into a world of both comedic characters and heart-wrenching life lessons, as that young man must ultimately decide if his ethnicity will define the man he will become.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
$5

Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance: Laura Arend & Dana Marcolina / Yina Ng / Kate Watson-Wallace / Brittany Bailey


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
Free

Concert | NYU Marimba Ensemble: Wooden Music


Program in Percussion Performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Student Recital - Yoojin Lee, soprano


A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 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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9:30 pm
$5

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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