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53 free events take place in New York City on Wednesday, February 13, 2013.
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53 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, February 13, 2013

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Park Walk | Central Park Tour


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
   
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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.
   
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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.
   
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11:15 am
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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!
   
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12:00 pm
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Book Signing | Nicholas Sparks signs copies of his book Safe Haven


When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past.
   
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Grand Central Terminal Tour


Tour of this magnificent Beaux-Arts landmark.
   
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Film | Movies Celebrating Black History Month


In the Heat of the Night at 12:30 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner at 2:30 A Raisin in the Sun at 4:30
   
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12:30 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.
   
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12:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


Museum Ambassador Asia Tail gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition
   
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Midtown Jazz


A jazz concert for the midtown community. These popular midday concerts feature well-regarded artists. The programming is overseen by jazz pianist Ronny Whyte.
   
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Workshop | Photography 101


The basics of photography - for the beginner wanting to know how to take better images. Learn the proper way to shoot good photos with any camera. It isn’t all about the camera settings and gear, it starts with the simple do’s and don’ts that many beginners have yet to learn. Where are the best places to take portraits (with the proper lighting), where to focus, proper composition, when to use your flash… These are some of the basics you will learn in this session.
   
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Featured Library Database: Morningstar Investment Research Center


Hands on using wireless laptops. Get an introduction to Morningstar Investment Research Center, a great resource for researching Stocks, ETFs, Mutual Funds, Industries and more, available from home with your NYPL card. Use the educational materials to teach yourself the basics of investing.
   
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1:15 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: The Article In Question by Tom Rowan


When an article on global warming was published bearing the names of two well-known scientists, its authorship was disputed. Had one of the credited authors, a respected pioneer in the field, changed his mind about the causes of global warming, or was his name used without his approval? This play examines the conflicting pressures placed on scientists, and investigate how science may be manipulated to political ends. Directed by Tom Rowan; with Adam Arian, Brad Bellamy, Eric Conger, Jane House, Abigail Gampel, Martin LaPlatney, and Rebecca Whitehurst.
   
2:00 pm
Free

Master Class | Joy in Singing: Art Song Master Class


An art song master class led by American tenor Paul Sperry. JOY IN SINGING is a not for profit organization and award program devoted to helping young singers. Its mission is “to promote knowledge and love of art song literature, assist the careers of recitalists and composers, and educate a wider audience in the joy of song.”
   
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2:30 pm
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Master Class | Flute Master Class


With Emily Beynon.
   
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3:00 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


Museum Ambassador Yvonne provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   
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3:00 pm
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Master Class | Violin Master Class


One of the most prominent American concert artists of his generation, Glenn Dicterow joined the New York Philharmonic as Concertmaster in 1980 and has since performed as its soloist every year. He made his solo debut in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the L.A. Philharmonic at the age of 11 and went on to win the Young Musicians Foundation Award, the Julia Klumpke Award, and the Bronze Medal in the International Tchaikovsky Competition.
   
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4:00 pm
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Other | Winter Whiskey Festival: Free Whiskey Tasting Every Day in February


A whiskey a day keeps the winter blues away. The first annual Winter Whiskey Festival offers a free tasting of at least one whiskey each day for the entire month of February. Customers will have the opportunity to sample whiskeys from around the globe: American small batch bourbons and ryes, peaty Scotches, smooth Irish whiskeys and even a new whiskey from the Bronx. Free and fun, drop by every day and take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to educate your palate.
   
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5:00 pm
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Opera | Circle of Haunts, a Ghost Opera with Dance


Perfomed by Xoregos Performing Company.
   
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5:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | 4 Poets: Tina Chang / Michael Klein / Owen Lewis / Eileen Myles


Tina Chang - author of Gods & Strangers, Four Way Books Michael Klein - author of The Talking Day, Sibling Rivalry Press Owen Lewis - author of March in San Miguel, Finishing Line Press Eileen Myles - author of Snowflake / Different Streets, Wave Books
   
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6:00 pm
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Concert | A Concert of Classical Arabic Music


With Ahmad Gamal, vocalist.
   
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | A Conversation with Artist Lothar Baumgarten


A conversation with artist Lothar Baumgarten and Kaira M. Cabañas, Lecturer and Director of MA in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies.
   
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: The Canvas by Benjamin Stein


Loosely based on the true story of Binjamin Wilkomirski, whose fabricated 1995 Holocaust memoir transfixed the reading public, The Canvas has a singular construction—its two inter-related narratives begin at either end of the book and meet in the middle.
   
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Brooke Kroeger discusses her book Undercover Reporting: The Truth about Deception


Brooke Kroeger (Professor, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute) speaks on her latest book and its companion database, which chronicles undercover journalism dating back to the 1800s. Kroeger posits that this type of journalism is not separate from the profession’s conventional practices but, rather, embodies some of its most important tenets—the ability to extract significant information or to create indelible, real-time descriptions of hard-to-penetrate institutions or social situations that deserve the public’s attention. A reception will follow.
   
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Digital Disruption: with the Met (both of them) and PBS!


PBS is celebrating its most watched series in decades with Downton Abbey,. The Metropolitan Opera is expanding audiences with its Live in HD series. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the USA. How their innovations in production and promotion are transforming the industry. With William Baker, President Emeritus WNET / Channel 13 (PBS); Don Undeen, Manager of the Media Lab, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Suzy Gooch, Director of Website & Presentations, Metropolitan Opera. Sponsored by: Fordham’s U. Media & Entertainment Alliance
   
6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Drawings: Mark Mulroney's We're Never Getting Rescued With That Attitude


Mark Mulroney’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. The drawings, carved wood panels, murals, and objects shows began with the simple vision of a man stranded on a desert island with a palm tree, two coconuts, and maybe a girl. Mark Mulroney received his MFA from The University of California at Santa Barbara. Other solo show venues include Galleries Goldstein, London, England; Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Ever Gold, San Francisco, CA; ebersmoore gallery, Chicago, IL; ArtSpace, New Haven, CT; Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Richard Heller, Los Angeles, CA; and The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art.
   
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings by Paul Pretzer


Paul Pretzer's images are interconnected with one another in subtle narrative strings and become something larger; a psychological rebus. A Pretzer painting contains humor and aversion. Its bizarre configurations evoke association and abstraction at once. Centrally fusing monkeys with eminent portrayals, the artist continuously sources the uncanny while pushing the boundaries of contemporary painting further. His work is always immediately recognizable. It is rude and irreverent, playful and beautiful.
   
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Pamela Druckerman reads from her book Bebe Day by Day: The Wisdom of French Parenting


The book has been called a primer on the wisdom of French parenting and offers a different view for parents.
   
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Watercolors: Suzan Frecon's paper


This exhibition consists of over forty watercolors. Each provides an arresting autonomy that focuses attention onto the unique interaction of paper and paint; as a group, the works form subtle relationships to one another and bring forward issues of horizontality and verticality, recurring shapes, and interacting arrangements of color.
   
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Top Chef contestant Candice Kumai discusses her book Pretty Delicious: Lean and Lovely Recipes for a Healthy, Happy New You


Former Top Chef contestant and the host to TLC’s “Home Made Simple”, food TV personality for Cooking Channel’s “Unique Eats” divulges delicious secrets for staying slim, saving money, and cooking and eating well. Coined as the next inspiring food guru of her generation, she encourages men and women of all ages to obtain optimum health and wellness through their food.
   
6:30 pm
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Lecture | Blink and Burn: Cinema, Materiality, and the China Girl


With Genevieve Yue. The 'China girl', sometimes called a 'China doll' or 'girl head', has appeared in more films than any actress, though these women are almost never seen, save for a fleeting glimpse an audience might catch at the end of a film reel. Since the late 1920s, China girls — women posed demurely next to color swatches — have appeared on the leader of every commercial manufactured film. While they are instrumental in determining exposure, image density, and color balance in film print stocks, their images have lingered in production facilities despite the contemporary use of digital technologies that otherwise render them obsolete. This presentation addresses the China girl's appearance in two registers: as an image both central to, and invisible within, the history of industrial film production, and as a subject recuperated by a number of avant-garde films and digital works. It argues that in both industrial and experimental contexts, the China girl expresses an enduring association between filmic materiality and femininity that, in a predominantly digital production context, persists despite the newer technologies' connotations of objectivity and accuracy, and their supposed immateriality.
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Judy Collins and more


Words and music of the Civil War era will fill the site of Lincoln’s 1860 “Right Makes Might” speech, in a celebration of the birthday of our 16th president, starring Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Judy Collins and featuring Tony Award-nominated and film actor Stephen Lang (Avatar, The Speed of Darkness, Gettysburg, Gods and Generals), Tony and Obie Award-winning actor/singer André De Shields (The Wiz, The Full Monty), pop folk singer/songwriter Dar Williams, members of The Classical Theater Of Harlem and nationally renowned Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer. Collins will perform popular songs of the era, including some of Lincoln’s favorites: Beautiful Dreamer, Johnny I Hardly Knew You and The Last Rose of Summer, as well as composer Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, featuring excerpts from Lincoln’s great documents including the Gettysburg Address. Williams will sing, as well. Lang and De Shields return to reprise their roles as Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, respectively, and engage in a riveting dialogue constructed from historical documents, personal letters and speeches. Holzer, chairman of the national Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and a consultant on Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film, Lincoln, compiled the dialogue and will serve as master of ceremonies.
   
6:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento’s The Art & Law Codex, a Show of Stacked Boxes


The Art & Law Codex invites a group of artists, writers, curators, lawyers, and legal scholars to participate in this ongoing project. The Codex consists of portable letter-size file boxes (approximately 11.5” x 14” x 18” each), which can be stacked with other similar file boxes, allowing for the Codex to grow in size and expand in content with time. For the initial box of the Codex, Volume I: Definition, the participants were asked to submit a document that they think defines art & law. Participants include: Amy Adler, Greg Allen, Daniel Brooks, Christoph Büchel, Eric Doeringer, Cora Fisher, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Lauren van Haaften-Schick, Nate Harrison, Bettina Johae, Soda Jerk, Alfred Steiner, Ruben Verdu, Alex Villar, Angie Waller, Ai Weiwei, and Donn Zaretsky.
   
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Sexuality and Urban Space in the Work of Sciopione (1904-1933)


A lecture by Anthony White, University of Melbourne, Senior Lecturer and Research Coordinator in Art History at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Lucio Fontana: Between Avant-Garde and Kitsch (MIT Press, 2011) and has published peer-reviewed articles in October, Grey Room, Papers of Surrealism, and The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art.
   
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6:30 pm
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Concert | Student Piano Recitals


Featuring Steinhardt painists.
   
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk with Johan Grimonprez


Named one of the top 50 filmmakers, Johan Grimonprez's award-winning films include dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997) and Double Take (2009). Traveling the main festival circuit from the Berlinale to Sundance, they have garnered several Best Director awards, the 2005 ZKM International Media Award, a Spirit Award and the 2009 Black Pearl Award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
   
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7:00 pm
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Film | Chinese Cinema: Wong Kar-Wai's Award-Winning Happy Together (1997)


Happy Together depicts a turbulent romance between two men. The English title is inspired by The Turtles' 1967 song, which is featured in the film and on the soundtrack. Happy Together was winner of Best Director at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.
   
7:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: True Story With The Moscow River Sharks


The Moscow River Sharks invite their favorite storytellers to share their own true stories with audiences. Following each personal tale, the improvisers will perform a unique one act play using themes and details of the story. Join The Moscow River Sharks and guests for an evening of storytelling and improv!
   
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Eisenberg-Fried Woodwind Competition



   
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Lars Iyer reads from his book Exodus


Lars and W., the two preposterous philosophical anti-heroes of Iyer's previous novels, Spurious and Dogma—called “uproarious” by the New York Times Book Review—return and face a political, intellectual, and economic landscape in a state of total ruination.
   
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Pulitzer winner Tony Kushner talks to Urvashi Vaid about her book Irresistible Revolution: Confronting Race, Class and the Assumptions of LGBT Politics


Social activist Urvashi Vaid is joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner for the release of her latest book.
   
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7:00 pm
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Concert | The Gerard Edery Ensemble performs classical, folk, and popular songs from around the world


Recognized as a leading musical folklorist and a master singer and guitarist, Gerard Edery and his trio seek to uncover and preserve songs, stories, and melodies from Europe, the Middle East, South America, and ancient Persia, interpreting them for contemporary audiences. Edery’s warm baritone smoothly travels between a variety of languages and styles. You will be thrilled by his unique musical arrangements of classical, folk, and popular songs from around the world.
   
7:00 pm
Free

Jazz | Cafe Jazz


A performance from Jazz Arts Program.
   
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7:30 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Eugene Jarecki's The House I Live In (2012)


As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans. Over forty years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. 108 min.
   
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Concert | MSM Brass Orchestra


Mark Gould, Conductor, and Peter Evans, Trumpet, presents BAD BOYS OF MUSIC.
   
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7:30 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Please Don’t Let Me Die Alone


Does lonely New York living ever make you want to open your tiny window and scream “F$%@!!!” at the brick wall? Meet Susan and George, lovelorn neighbors with tired voices and weary souls who plunge crotch-first into the dark world of dating. Guided by Jolly Bean, the magical-musical hobo who lives outside their building, Susan and George brave psychos, stalkers and sex addicts, only to find that love might be right next door. Shawn Shafner and Amanda Miller perform all 30 parts in this 50-minute dark comedy.
   
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8:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro Class: The Alexander Technique


The Alexander Technique is a hands-on method of movement re-education that teaches us to recognize and change long term postural and movement patterns that may interfere with our natural ability to move with ease and fluidity. We will learn to observe the habitual ways that we hold tension in our bodies and how to release that tension and rediscover our inner sense of grace and coordination. We will work with applying the alexander principles to everyday activities, as well as to specialized skills, and explore how Alexander can be a tool for enhancing awareness in all aspects of our lives. With Hope Martin.
   
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Violin Recital


Featuring Matthew Tosca.
   
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8:00 pm
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Theater | Williams in Transit: Short Plays by Tennessee Williams, 1943-1973


Featuring Drama's 4th-year actors, Williams in Transit is an evening of five short plays by beloved American playwright Tennessee Williams that span nearly thirty years, including The Pretty Trap (1941), Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen… (1953), and I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays (1970).
   
8:00 pm
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Concert | “Tracing Our Roots” with Eduardus Halim and Friends


From the Program in Piano Performance.
   
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: The Weekly: A Sketch Show


Every Week Justin Kiernan Byrne and Josh Sorokach get together to write a comedy show. The next day they rehearse it with co director Dylan Snowden and a rotating cast. The next day they perform the show. Check out Weekly every week, and you’ll never see the same thing twice.
   
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9:00 pm
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Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
   
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9:00 pm
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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.
   
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11:00 pm
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