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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 30, 2013?

46 free events take place on Tuesday, April 30 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 30 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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46 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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Workshop | Park Tai Chi


Tai Chi and Eternal Spring are instructed by members of the Tai Chi Chuan Center for all ages and experience levels. Classes are rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
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City Walk | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Catch & Release Fishing


Grab a pole and relax on the Harlem Meer while you wait for a bite from one of the many species of fish that live in its diverse aquatic ecosystem! Poles available to borrow; must release fish after catching them. Free for families and individuals; groups larger than 5 must reserve at least 2 weeks in advance. Adult with photo I.D. must accompany all children.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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. Tour times: 11am & 1pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | West Side Stories Tour


Walk through a scenic area on the western edge of the Park, much of which is off the beaten track for most visitors. See rolling meadows, lake views, bridges of different styles, and a garden with flowers and plants mentioned by Shakespeare.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
Free

City Walk | Greenwich Village Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Concert | Mannes Downtown Chamber Music 2013-2013, Concert 10


Mannes College chamber music ensembles in a series of free lunch-time performances.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Tour of 2 Folk Art Shows


Free tour of Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior and Women’s Studies with the museum’s gallery guides.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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City Walk | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | SoHo, Little Italy & Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Screening | Silent Film: William Desmond Taylor's Johanna Enlists (1918)


Stars Mary Pickford, Anne Schaefer, Fred Huntley. A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment come to train in the area. 72 min. Christel Schmidt, author of “Mary Pickford: Queen of the Movies,” will screen and discuss the film.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:30 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Lecture | Global Mayors Forum: Park Wan-su, Changwon, Korea


The Global Mayors Forum showcases the leaders of the worlds most dynamic cities and the Schools conviction that cities are the worlds most important laboratories for creative policymaking.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Park Walk | Central Park Sunset Tour


Join Free Tours by Foot as they stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find something to enjoy in Central Park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Citizen Cartography Workshop: Building a Virtual Atlas


Help build the geospatial library of the future! This workshop will get you oriented with the a set of tools the Library has developed that enables librarians and the general public to add valuable geographic context to old maps. The workshop will focus on the core activity of the website: georectification, or "warping" maps. This means overlaying digital images of historic maps onto a contemporary digital map (similar to Google Maps), transforming them into tiles of a virtual atlas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Speak, Memory, a Group Show


An exhibition in two parts offers a provocative exploration of the subject of memory in art that spans the past 45 years. In his autobiography, Vladimir Nabokov likens memories to glimmers of light that shoot up in a vast darkness without warning or explanation. Focusing on each glimmer of memory as it appears, associatively and in a non-linear fashion, the author gradually constructs his identity. The exhibition draws upon Nabokov's questioning of time and personal history in order to examine the ways in which memory is constructed and represented in contemporary art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Architect Daniel Libeskind on The Art of Memory


World renowned architect Daniel Libeskind speaks at his alma mater. The master planner for Ground Zero and the architect of one of Europe’s most visited museums, the Jewish Museum Berlin, explains the role that memory played in his work on those projects and others, including the Danish Jewish Museum, Manchester’s Imperial War Museum and Dresden’s Military History Museum. He also speaks about the acute sense of responsibility he feels when accepting commissions for projects addressing Jewish history, to create work that testifies to both the traumas of that history and the resilience of the Jewish spirit.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Concert | Bolivian Baroque in Concert


Meridionalis teams up with the Clarion Society for a concert of music written in the Jesuit missions of eastern Bolivia. Missionary activity in the region started in the late seventeenth century and continued in earnest until the expulsion of the order from Spanish territory in 1767.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation at the Library


Sahaja Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience of inner silence, calm and contentment. Sahaja Meditation is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue facing us—frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness—Sahaja Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment .
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Tuesday Night Yoga


In this Basic-Level Vinyasa Flow class for adults and seniors of all ability levels, break down the basics of individual movements and teach basic fundamentals. The class is geared toward the beginner, but great for students with more experience looking to further develop basic postures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Adventures in Italian Opera: A Conversation with Fabio Luisi


The seventh and final Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin will feature the Metropolitan Opera's Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi, one of the most prominent Italians in the opera world. This season at the Met he is conducting Un Ballo in Maschera, Aïda, Les Troyens and Wagner's Ring Cycle.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | Documentary: Ruth Zylberman's Artisans of Liberty: Political Dissidents in Eastern Europe (2010)


Artisans of Liberty traces the political and moral combat waged by Eastern European dissidents from 1956 to 1989. The film focuses on the creation of the democratic opposition and the Solidarity movement in Poland, on Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia, and on the rise of the underground literary movement in Hungary. 100 min. The director will be in attendance to introduce her film and to answer questions following the screening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Her Royal Highness Princess Norodom Buppha Devi of Cambodia in Conversation


Her Royal Highness Princess Norodom Buppha Devi, Cambodia’s esteemed prima ballerina of the 1960s and a genuine pioneer in the revival and preservation of Cambodian classical court dance talks candidly about her art form, its mercilessly demanding training, and its warn-torn history with path-breaking theater and opera director Peter Sellars. There will also be screenings of excerpts of the Library’s archival videotapes of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia and preview excerpts from the Khmer Dance Project.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Slide Lecture | Little Syria: Lower Manhattan Before the World Trade Center


Before the construction of the World Trade Center and even before the establishment of Radio Row, the stretch of land between the WTC site and the Battery was home to our nation’s first large community of Arabic-speaking immigrants. Speakers will include historian Linda Jacobs, preservationist Todd Fine, and museum curators who will present photos and video from the exhibit.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Mystery Characters


With moderator, Catherine Maiorisi and panelists, Lyndsay Faye, Sharon Linnea, Julia Pomeroy and Cornelia Reade of Mystery Writers of America -- New York Chapter. What is it that really draws you into a book and doesn’t let go until the end? Is it plot, the setting, or the writing itself? For most readers, it’s the characters.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | The Necrological Side of Francoism: José Antonio Primo de Rivera and the Cult of the Dead”


Vicente Sánchez-Biosca (Professor of Film Studies, University of Valencia, Spain and University of Paris III, France) delivers this lecture. Reception to follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk with Alice Aycock


Lecture by artist Alice Aycock. Offered in conjunction with the exhibition “Alice Aycock Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Director Jared Moshé discusses his film Dead Man’s Burden


Join writer/director Jared Moshé and actors David Call and Barlow Jacobs for a moderated discussion with Brian Brooks about their new film, "Dead Man’s Burden." Set in the aftermath of the Civil War, the film tells the story of Martha (Clare Bowen) and her husband Heck (David Call), whose struggle to make ends meet on their New Mexico homestead is complicated by the return of Martha’s brother Wade (Barlow Jacobs), believed lost in the war.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Frenzy: A Riot Decade - New Filmmaking Voices in the 1990s


Some say it started with the call to arms, "we need to start a girl RIOT." In the 1990s, a generation of new voices—young, feminist, queer—took culture by storm through zines, music, and filmmaking. FRENZY traces that surge, from its adolescent stirrings and early inspiration in cinematic bad girl archetypes to the formation of a movement and entry into the consciousness of the mainstream, from works shot in a bedroom in Middle America to the dive bars of New York City, the streets and subways of Tokyo, and a high school in Santa Monica. PROGRAM: Jennifer Reeves, Monsters in the Closet, 16mm, 15min, 1993 Sadie Benning, It Wasn't Love, PixelVision, 20min, 1992 Jill Reiter, Frenzy, Super 8 on digital video, 12min, 1993 Shu Lea Cheang, Fingers and Kisses, video, 4min, 1995 Michael Lucid, Dirty Girls, video, 18min, 1996/2000 Filmmakers Sadie Benning, Michael Lucid, Jennifer Reeves, and Jill Reiter will be in attendance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


With Miles Neale.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Reading | Spring Student Reading


Come hear students currently enrolled in Creative Writing courses read from their work. A reception will follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Temple Grandin reads from her book The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum


Grandin reports from the forefront of autism science, bringing her singular perspective to a thrilling journey into the heart of the autism revolution.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Triggering Wounds (2013), a Documentary on Gun Violence


The moving real-life story of a young man from Harlem coming to terms with the impact of gun violence on his life and his community. Scenes with families, emergency responders, community leaders, and law enforcement interweave in this youth-produced documentary film to provide an intimate portrait of a community struggling to understand, heal, and transform in the face of this devastating violence.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Concert | Student Flute Recital


Recital: Melissa Keeling, Flute
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | 2013 Contemporary Music Festival: NewMusicMannes


Under the direction of Madeleine Shapiro, NewMusicMannes concerts feature solo and chamber works of new music performed by students.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College Voice Recital


Yang Liu, Soprano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | The Livia Scott Sketch Program


Livia Scott ("One of our favorite female comedians" - The Huffington Post) in collaboration with former producers of The Onion News Network, leads a cast of favorite performers and alternative comedy stars in this unconventional and imaginative multi-media sketch show celebrating humanity in our modern times. STARRING: Emily Altman, Gary Berard, David Bluvband, Shannon Coffey, Shaun Ditson, John Early, Naomi Ekperigin, Frank Hejl, Aaron Glaser, Matt Mayer, Dom Manzollilo, Zack Poitras, Livia Scott, Ahna Tessler, Evan Thompson, Sasheer Zamata & Jackie Zebrowski
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
$5

Reading | Lamprophonic Emerging Writers Series


The mission of Lamprophonic is to present and promote new voices in the New York writing community. They prepare a diverse and entertaining reading each month that demonstrates the quality and variety of emerging New York writers. In a typical reading, hear poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, and be open to anything that thoughtfully engages listeners.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Jazz | College Jazz Saxophone Recital


Jazz student Steven Frieder (saxophone) presents his senior recital.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Performance | Penny’s Open Mic


Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents in at this weekly gathering hosted by Penny Pollak.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Screening | At Midnight the Moon Says I Love You: A Toast to American Poet Frank Stanford


Host Ariana Reines and special guest, filmmaker and author Irv Broughton, present a rare screening of the 1974 film, It Wasn't a Dream, It Was a Flood. The film, a dream-like documentary about poet Frank Stanford, won the NW Film and Video Festival in 1975. Broughton will also read from his just-completed novel, The Levees that Break in the Heart, loosely based on Stanford's family years growing up in Memphis and in levee camps along the Mississippi and other rivers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:59 pm
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