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38 free events take place in New York City on Monday, April 16, 2012.
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38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, April 16, 2012

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Birdwatching | Birding Tour of the Park


Discover the varieties of birds that call the Park home during the migratory season with guided tours.
   
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8:00 am
free, no reservation required

Talk | Learn About the Peoples of the Plains


With Laura Browarny.
   
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10:00 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   
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11:00 am
$6

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" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   
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11:15 am
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Screening | Native American Films


Featuring films by and about Native Americans. At 1pm and 3pm.
   
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1:00 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.
   
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2:00 pm
$6

Talk | Learn About Taino Culture


Jorge Estevez discusses Taino culture past and present using traditional handling objects in an interactive informal setting.
   
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Wii Fit for Adults


Calling all Adults who want to lose or maintain current weight: Join Wii Fit for Adults and benefit from burning calories, socializing, maintaining current weight and/or tracking your BMI. Use the various workouts including yoga, strength training, boxing, stepping, hula hooping, running, and regaining balance through using the balance exercises. The Wii tracks your weight and BMI as well as your progress and allows you to compete with others. It is a fun way to keep a record of your progress while exercising.
   
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Magazines & Newspapers Online 2


This class will be a lecture/demonstration. Explore more advanced search features of the database EBSCOhost to find full-text articles from thousands of magazines, newspapers, and journals.
   
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2:30 pm
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Concert | Faculty Cello & Piano Recital


Bonnie Hampton, Cello, with Julio Elizalde, Piano.
   
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4:00 pm
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Concert | College Violin Recital


With Julia Ahyoung Choi.
   
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Doing “Community”: Excitement, Emphasis and Repetition in Los Angeles' Civic Life


A lecture by Mathieu Berger.
   
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Building Stamina, Easing Tension and Healing the Body with Rosen Method Movement


Rosen Method Movement, a unique approach to health and wellness based on unhurried, fluid range-of-motion and stretching exercises set to music in an atmosphere of camaraderie, well-being and safety, is an invaluable tool to prevent and heal injuries, enhance athletic and artistic performance and deepen pleasure in everyday life.
   
6:00 pm
Free

Concert | College Violin Recital


Featuring Jiyoung Kim.
   
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6:30 pm
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Open Mic | Comedy: The Dump!


Did heartbreak ever propel you to greatness? Did you have to flee the state because Dad said so? Did a trip to the laundromat end with gypsies placing a curse on your genitals? Either way, YOU HAVE A STORY AND THEY WANT TO HEAR IT! Jake Hart hosts The Dump-an open mic storytelling hour where 3-4 lucky names get chosen from the vault (bucket) to have 7 minutes to tell whatever story they deem worthy. Grab a beer and confess your sins among friends before the world ends!
   
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Diana Reiss discusses her book The Dolphin in the Mirror: Exploring Dolphin Minds and Saving Dolphin Lives


In her illustrated lecture, the author, a Cognitive Psychology Professor at Hunter College in New York City who directs a program of dolphin research at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, will talk about just how smart dolphins really are and why we must stop mistreating them. The audience will be astonished at their sophisticated lifelong creativity and playfulness, their emotional intelligence, their level of self-awareness, and their ability to communicate with humans. Her presentation is both a scientific revelation and an emotional eye-opener, revealing one of the greatest intelligences on the planet.
   
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Life after the MFA


A discussion about life after the MFA with poets Jill Bialosky, Robert Casper, and Ken Chen; editor Mya Spalter; fiction writer and Granta editor Patrick Ryan; and Literary Agent Sarah LaPolla.
   
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6:30 pm
$5

Workshop | MS PowerPoint 1 Workshop


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn how to create a slideshow presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003. Topics include creating and editing slides, inserting images and clipart, and running your slideshow.
   
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | On Producing: Broadway’s Roger Berlind in Conversation


In a Broadway career spanning more than thirty years, Roger Berlind has produced or co-produced more than forty plays and musicals, in addition to a prolific Off-Broadway and regional theatrical career. From Amadeus to Long Day’s Journey into Night, from Copenhagen to Anna in the Tropics, Berlind’s Broadway productions have won Tony Awards beyond count. In 2003, Princeton University named the McCarter Theatre Center’s 360-seat Berlind Theatre for the producing legend. Roger Berlind will share his secrets for surviving on the Great White Way and give us his perspective on contemporary American theatre. The conversation will conducted by Mara Isaacs, Producing Director at McCarter Theatre.
   
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6:30 pm
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Screening | Disappearing Act IV European Film Festival


The festival showcases 25 contemporary European films from Austria, the Wallonia-Brussels and Flanders regions of Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
   
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Eric Alterman reads from his book The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama


Eric Alterman, Nation columnist and author of Kabuki Democracy, talks about his latest book, an exhaustive and provocative history of liberalism in America over the past 70 years.
   
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Great Thinkers of Our Time: Seth Lloyd


Take advantage of this rare opportunity to connect with brilliant speakers from the worlds of science, philosophy, psychology, and the arts with the College's ongoing series, Great Thinkers of Our Time. This evening they welcome Seth Lloyd. Seth Lloyd is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his book, Programming the Universe, Lloyd contends that the universe itself is one big quantum computer producing what we see around us, and ourselves, as it runs a cosmic program. A question and answer session, plus a book-signing and reception will follow the lecture.
   
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | New York Philharmonic Offstage: Jaap van Zweden and Yuja Wang


Conductor Jaap van Zweden and Pianist Yuja Wang will be interviewed by WQXR host Jeff Spurgeon. Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden will make his New York Philharmonic conducting debut leading Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with Yuja Wang as soloist, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, on April 12.
   
7:00 pm
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Talk | Photographer's Talk: Gerald Cyrus


Photographer and alumnus Gerald Cyrus is best known for his body of work exploring the nightclubs and jazz musicians of Harlem, which was published in the monograph Stormy Monday: New York’s Uptown Jazz Scene (2008). He will present an overview of past and recent projects, including new works from Camden, New Jersey and Bahia, Brazil. His talk is part of the i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration lecture series, which features presentations by cutting-edge digital photographers, hardware and software developers and industry experts.
   
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | When a Text is a Song: Translating Kabir Oral Traditions in North India


A lecture by Linda Hess, Stanford University The towering figure of Kabir, arguably South Asia’s best known early-modern poet, is ambiguously located between Hindu and Muslim cultures. He retains a powerful presence in the religious and social life of India and Pakistan today — through oral and musical performance even more than by means of any written text. In this talk, Linda Hess will reflect on what it means to translate Kabir from Hindi/Urdu into English. But more than that, she will explore as sites of translation the shifts that occur across oral, written, performative, and media divides wherever Kabir is intoned.
   
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Chamber Music Department 2011-2012, Evening Recital 7


This concert is a chamber music recital featuring ensembles from the College Division Chamber Music Program.
   
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7:30 pm
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Concert | College Piano Recital


Featuring Chun-Han Lin.
   
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7:30 pm
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Screening | Korean Film: Hong Sang-soo's Oki's Movie (2010)


Documentary and narrative filmmaking elegantly merge in Oki's Movie, a quartet of interlocking vignettes by Korean auteur director Hong Sang-soo and one of the most elegant films of his oeuvre. A young woman hikes Seoul's Mount Acha twice, accompanied by different boyfriends: one a fellow student, the other a professor. She documents the trips and then edits together corresponding locations on the mountain: the parking lot, a small pavilion, a wooden bridge; her juxtapositions are revelatory, both of her relationship with each and of the power of cinema.
   
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Concert | Quatuor Diotima String Quartet performs works by Ligeti and others


PROGRAM: György Ligeti - No.2 (1968) Christian Ofenbauer - Bruch Stück IX (2010) Arturo Fuentes – Liquid Crystals (2011) Quatuor Diotima is an internationally acclaimed Paris-based string quartet whose reputation rests on their rare ability to perform at the highest level both, classical as well as most demanding contemporary pieces. With: Yun-Peng Zhao, violin I Guillaume Latour, violin II Franck Chevalier, viola Pierre Morlet, violoncello
   
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7:30 pm
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Concert | College Double Bass & Flute Recital


With Cecile-Laure Kouassi, Double Bass, and Rosie Gallagher, Flute.
   
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: The Complete First Season / Cash Only


THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON is Joe Albano, Emily Morrow, Shawtane Bowen, Kelly Kapron, Dion Flynn, Michael Cirelli, Michael Newman, and Christine DeNoon. CASH ONLY! is Paul Gutkowski, Dan Hartlet, Beth White, Joanna Flamm, Darcy Burke, Ben Jaeger-Thomas, David Rysdahl, and Sarah Williams.
   
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8:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance: Jessica Ray / PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER / Megan Byrne / Rebecca Davis


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.
   
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Concert | Student Guitar Recital


With YeEun Lee.
   
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Improvisational Repertory Theatre Ensemble's vIRTEgo, a Whirlwind Audience Participation Event


Seasoned professional actors, writers, and improvisers have banded together to create IRTE, The Improvisational Repertory Theatre Ensemble, an ensemble of theatrical actors and writers who will develop, produce, and perform a season of original themed improvisational shows and video sketches following the basic model of traditional repertory theatre.
   
8:30 pm
No cover

Concert | College Piano Recital


Featuring Erica Murase.
   
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9:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Haberdasher / 1-800-LONDON


HABERDASHER is Patrick Cucuta, Ryan Stadler, Anna Moore, Kevin Kelly, Devin Horne, Kindel Ingham, Nicole Ayache, and Evan Leed. 1-800-LONDON is Jason Specland, Colin Longstaff, James Coker, Michael Greene, Kathryn Dunn, Suni Reyes, Amy Albert, and Greg Wilker.
   
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9:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Base Jam


Leap — and then look! — into the newest open-improv session. Base Jam lets improv students of all stripes to jump head-first into the wonderful and frightening world of long-form improvisation. Let’s face it: Getting better at improv is about flight hours — the time spent on a stage, in a scene, in front of people — leaping first, and then looking for a place to land. Or to keep flying. Hosted by Gary DeNoia and Keith Huang.
   
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10:30 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Fresh


Michelle Wolf and Erin Lennox host this FREE stand up open mic every Monday night at 11PM. 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. This show is FREE for all audiences.
   
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