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25 free events take place in New York City on Monday, February 1, 2010.
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25 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, February 1, 2010

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Workshop | Daily Instructed Meditation


Learn some serenity to cope with your busy day.
   
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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.
   
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9:30 am
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Workshop | Typing And Keyboarding Basics


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn keyboard skills and practice typing.
   
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10:30 am
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Forum | Senator Chuck Schumer speaks at the 13th David Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum


Schumer, first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1999, is New York's senior senator. A Democrat, in 2005 he became chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In November 2006, he was elected to the new post of Vice Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus. In this position, he is the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate, behind Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin.
   
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Resumé Lab


Hands-on using wireless laptops. Use this supervised lab time to create and save a resume in Microsoft Word. Assistance with document formatting and proofreading will be available. Please bring a written draft of your resume and a USB drive to save and print your resume. (Please note: This is not an instructor-led class or a career advisement session.)
   
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2:30 pm
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Performance | Cast of Broadway's Finian's Rainbow performs


The cast of the Broadway revival of this American musical classic share some of the highlights from the brand new recording of the Harburg and Lane score.
   
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5:00 pm
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Lecture | The Fate of Conservatism with The New York Times' Sam Tanenhaus


Sam Tanenhaus, the author of The Death of Conservatism and editor of The New York Times Book Review, will deliver the 11th annual Irving H. Jurow Lecture, “The Fate of Conservatism," to be followed by a roundtable discussion moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Oshinsky. Panelists will include: Tanenhaus; Ellen Schall, dean of of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Martin Cherkasky Professor of Heath Policy and Management; and political consultant Bob Shrum, a senior fellow at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and author of No Excuses: Confessions of a Serial Campaigner.
   
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5:30 pm
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Lecture | The Racial Silence of the Political Theory Canon


Robert Gooding-Williams will address the racial silence of the political theory canon by reading Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois as political theorists whose analyses of race and nation reconfigure how we understand politics.
   
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Daily Instructed Meditation


Learn some serenity to cope with your busy day.
   
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5:45 pm
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Screening | Italian Cinema: Paolo Benvenuti's Confortorio (1992)


Based on a true story, Confortorio narrates the vicissitudes of two young Roman Jews who are imprisoned under the accusation of theft during the pontificate of Clement XII in 1736. The night before their execution, the fathers of the Confraternita of San Giovanni Decollato try to force them to embrace Christianity. 85 min. In Italian with English subtitles.
   
6:00 pm
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Forum | Architecture as Total Art Work: Iannis Xenakis and Le Corbusier


With: Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, GSAPP; Sharon Kanach, Co-author of Music and Architecture; and David Lieberman, University of Toronto. Moderated by Raphael Mostel, composer, Barnard College.
   
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Great Spirit Flute Circle


Facilitated by Joelle Dannant.
   
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | In the Air and on the Streets: Women Photographers in the “New” New York, 1890s-1940s


With Mary Norman Woods, author of Beyond the Architect's Eye: Photographs and the American Built Environment. Beginning in the 1890s, women photographers were creating new lives and artistic identities in New York, a vertical city of skyscrapers. At a time when few women were architects or planners, photographers Gertrude Kasebier, Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Helen Levitt, and Lisette Model constructed a modern city with their cameras from from the streets and from atop the skyscrapers. Their work melds and blurs the genres of art, fashion, documentary, and commercial photography. Through still and moving images this lecture explores the "new" woman in the "new" New York.
   
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Novelist Jackson Taylor talks about his work


Taylor’s novel The Blue Orchard will be published by in 2010. He is associate director of the Writing Program. For more than 20 years, he has also directed the Prison Writing Program at PEN American Center and has written and edited numerous versions of the program’s Handbook for Writers in Prison. His poems have recently appeared in Sleeping Fish, LIT, Witness and Barrow Street. Moderated by Robert Polito.
   
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | 4 Writers: Rachel Levitsky / Kevin Varrone / John Cotrona / Buzz Poole


Today, as traditional publishers reassess how they do business, independent presses soldier on, promoting writers they believe in by making their work available in attractive and affordable volumes. Ugly Duckling Presse and Fractious are two such publishers and tonight their authors Rachel Levitsky, Kevin Varrone, John Cotrona and Buzz Poole will read from works of poetry and fiction. Indie singer-songwriter stalwart Franklin Bruno will also perform a solo set of music.
   
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Black Women, Black Freedom


Laura Whitehorn, editor of Safiya Bukhari's The War Before, and Bukhari's daughter Wonda Jones, join Komozi Woodard and Jeanne Theoharis, authors of Want to Start a Revolution?, to discuss the unique role of black women activists.
   
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Rebecca Skloot discusses her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks


The story of a woman, raised on a farm in the south, whose cancerous cells, taken without her knowledge, have been the foundation of a century's worth of medical innovation and are even now being used in labs around the world. HeLa cells, as they are known, have helped in Polio, cancer, and radiation research to name just a few. Skloot examines the quiet life and strange afterlife of Henrietta, speaks to her children, and talks about what the story means for medical ethics. Hosted by Radiolab host Jad Abumrad.
   
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Recital: Heidi Upton and Friends


Upton received the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School. She received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Manhattan School of Music. A teaching artist for Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education since 1998, she was asked by LCI to be one of its first fulltime teaching artists. Soprano Judith Hill Bose has appeared most recently in Boston with Cantata Singers, Capella Clausura and the prestigious Church of the Advent Choir. Having spent the previous ten years in New York City, her most recent performances there were in Hic et Nunc, a new collaborative composition for two dancers, two vocalists and piano at St. Mark's in the Bowery, in recital at the Riverside Church, and as soloist in Messiah with the Riverside Church Choir. As a member of the dynamic and award-winning ensemble Flute Force, Wendy Stern has commissioned and premiered over 20 works for the flute quartet, the newest of which is Silver Halo, composed by Joseph Schwantner and premiered at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in January of 2008. Most recently, she appears on the Ford Foundation/Meet the Composer DVD of Schwantner's latest work, Chasing Light, a commission by the American Orchestra League.
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | The Memory of Murder: Mass Killing, Incarceration, and the Making of Francoism


A lecture by Helen Graham whose research interests include the 'European civil wars' of 1917-1947; the Spanish civil war, seen in that broader context; the social and cultural history of 1930s and 40s Spain, including the social construction of state power in 1940s Spain and women under Francoism; and comparative gender history. She has published widely on the Spanish left in the 1930s, and most recently a book on the Spanish Republic at war (1936-1939), which offers a new perspective on the relationship between the state, revolution and political power in Republican Spain. She is currently researching penal regimes in 1940s Spain, which will explore how state power was made and consolidated `bottom-up'. Another (biographical) project focuses on sexuality, radical subjectivity and the transition from old to new lefts. Her most recent book, The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction, is a wide-ranging ethical reflection on the war and its aftermath. Her other books are The Spanish Republic at War 1936-1939; Socialism and War: The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and Crisis 1936-1838; The French and Spanish Popular Fronts: Comparative Perspectives). A reception will follow.
   
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Artists in Residence: Windscape


Program: KYLE WERNER: Riverside (Winner, Windscape Composer Competition) BARBER (arr. Kuhlman): Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with Meghan Picerno, Soprano JANÁCEK: Mládí With Youth (Tara Helen O’Connor, Flute; Randall Ellis, Oboe; Alan R. Kay, Clarinet; Frank Morelli, Bassoon; David Jolley, French Horn) STRAUSS: Serenade in E-flat, op. 7 RAVEL (arr. Morelli): Mother Goose Suite SCHICKELE: Last Tango in Bayreuth with Harry Searing, Guest Artist, Bassoon
   
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7:30 pm
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Performance | Case of the Mondays Comedy Show


It's 2010 and Case of the Mondays is back! Come celebrate the end of Monday Night Football and the new year with these incredible comics: Mick DiFlo, Sheng Wang, Jared Logan, Michael Blaustein, Calise Hawkins, Phoebe Robinson, and James Harris.
   
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7:45 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance: Launch Movement Experiment / Tina Croll / Katie Workum


Contemporary dance.
   
8:00 pm
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Dancing | Shim Sham Open Tap Dancing Session


Tap dancer and poet Joseph Webb is known for live performances that meld his diverse musical and rhythmic influences to create a unique blend of tap dance, hip hop, soul, jazz and spoken word. An original cast member of Bring in 'Da Noise Bring in 'Da Funk on Broadway, Webb’s career has spanned the worlds of both rhythm tap and improvisational music as a vocalist and emcee. Join Webb at this free open jam session in which some of the finest of New York City’s rhythm tap community come together to share and showcase their moves. Featuring live musical accompaniment by Webb’s quartet, this evening promises to make for a unique and exciting gathering of rhythmic exchange. The jam is open to tap dancers of all levels and concludes with Leonard Reed’s famous Shim Sham Shimmy, the hoofers’ international anthem. So come enjoy the show or bring your shoes and join the jam! Featuring the Joseph Webb Quartet with Nate "NJOB" Jones (electric bass), Lakecia Benjamin (alto saxophone), Jesse Fischer (keyboards), and Corey Rawls (drums).
   
8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recital: Michael Yun, Piano


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.
   
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8:00 pm
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Jazz | The Steve Lugerner Septet


Saxophonist Lugerner leads his septet. Joining Lugerner are students Lucas Pino, tenor saxophone and clarinet, Itamar Borochov, trumpet, Angelo Spagnolo, guitar, Glenn Zaleski, piano, Ross Gallagher, bass, and Max Jaffe, drums.
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