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38 free events take place in New York City on Tuesday, January 17, 2012.
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38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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Workshop | Knitting and Crochet Group


Bring your current project, your questions, your needles and your yarn to the Knitters' Table every Tuesday. Beginners and experienced knitters are welcome - crochet, too.
   
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10:00 am
free, no reservation required

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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Workshop | Introduction to MS PowerPoint


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. Students will also learn how to use some of the more intermediate features in their Powerpoint slideshow.
   
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11:30 am
Free

Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring you all your old favorites and more.
   
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12:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Concert | Bach at Noon


This Organ Meditations Series features the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
   
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12:20 pm
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Concert | Voice and Piano Works by Mozart, Bizet, Bellini, Schubert, and Hutchinson


Program: MOZART Selected Arias and Duets BIZET Selected Arias BELLINI Selected Songs BOLCOM Selected Songs SCHUBERT Der Hirt Auf Dem Felsen HUTCHINSON Selected Songs With Juilliard artists Tharanga Goonetilleke, soprano; and Nathan Brandwein, piano.
   
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required

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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1:00 pm
$6

Screening | Native American Films


Featuring films by and about Native Americans. At 1pm and 3pm.
   
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1:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Tour | U.S. Customs House Building Tour


Museum Ambassadors provide a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House.
   
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


A free Stay Well exercise session. Stay Well volunteers certified by the NYC's Department for the aging will lead participants in a well-balanced series of exercises for seniors of all ability levels. Please wear loose comfortable clothing. Exercise equipment will be provided. All participants are required to sign a personal medical waiver at the beginning of the class.
   
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Stay Well Exercise


Join a free Stay Well exercise session designed for seniors. Please wear loose comfortable clothing. Call or stop by for further details.
   
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A 45-minute in-depth look at the exhibition.
   
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Using Zotero in Your Research


This hands-on workshop offers a quick introduction to Zotero, a free bibliographic tool that resides in your Firefox browser and helps you gather, manage, analyze, and share your resources. Learn the basic functionality of the program as well as how to integrate your Zotero library with word-processing software for footnotes and bibliographies. A basic knowledge of web-based research tools and resources is suggested.
   
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4:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell


A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan’s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified “dinery server” on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other’s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.
   
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5:30 pm
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Talk | Eating Organically on a Budget


Do you want to eat more organic, locally grown foods, but don’t know where to start? Have you wanted to learn more about how an organic diet can benefit you and your family’s health?
   
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required

Opening Reception | Group Show: Interventions: Form and Letterform


An exhibition of work from past and present advertising and graphic design students in Henrietta Condak’s Typography and the Portfolio course. Presented by the BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department.
   
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Getting More Out of Cloud Storage


This will be a Lecture/Demonstration. Uploading photos to Facebook? Storing documents in Google Docs? Streaming movies from Netflix? Understand what it means to store data in and access content from the Internet “cloud,” and explore its pros and cons.
   
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Holdouts! The Buildings That Got in the Way


With Andrew Alpern, architectural historian, architect, and attorney. Visible holdouts are old buildings that get in the way of new buildings. But behind every holdout building is a human being. He or she (and they seem to be about evenly divided) may be frightened, greedy, rebellious, nursing a grudge, or sometimes totally irrational. There are almost as many different stories behind holdouts in New York as there are holdouts. They can be the bane of a real estate developer’s existence, but it is not always clear who is David and who is Goliath. In this illustrated lecture, the author will tell us about some of the colorful personalities and outrageous actions that emerge from these stark confrontations, and the sometimes hectic, sometimes pathetic, and sometimes hilarious struggles that result.
   
6:30 pm
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Discussion | The Essential Heinrich Böll


To celebrate the 2011 publication of Melville House's The Essential Heinrich Böll, a panel discussion on the life, work, politics and cultural significance of the Nobel Laureate writer. Panelists include The Wall Street Journal critic Sam Sacks, bestselling author Hugo Hamilton, and Heinrich Böll's son, the celebrated artist René Böll. The event will include an audio/video presentation by René Böll, a discussion of Böll’s literary legacy, and a Q&A session.
   
6:30 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Herschel. Destroys. Herschel.


We built cities for your enjoyment and burned them for ours. Come see Herschel bend the rules of time and space in a exciting display of self-destruction.
   
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7:00 pm
$5

Workshop | Introduction To Meditation


With Sharon Salzberg.
   
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Author Reading | Jeannette Seaver reads from her husband Richard Seaver's book The Tender Hour of Twilight


Join us for an evening of tribute to legendary editor, translator and publisher, Richard Seaver. Richard Seaver’s memoir is a stirring reminder of the passion, the vitality, and even the glamor of a true life in literature. The book follows Seaver from Paris in the 1950s, where he discovered Samuel Beckett, to New York in the 1960s, when he was a top editor at Grove Press. Grove, led by publisher Barney Rosset, published books with content that challenged censorship laws— including William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch, with its raw depictions of drug use and homosexuality; Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical chronicles of lust Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn; and the French erotic novel The Story of O, written under a pseudonym.
   
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | William Bratton & Zachary Tumin discusses their book Collaborate or Perish!


William Bratton, former LAPD and NYC Police Commissioner, discusses his new book, with co-author Zachary Tumin of the Harvard Kennedy School and event moderator John Miller.
   
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Arianna Huffington talks with Wael Ghonim about his book Revolution 2.0


The revolutions sweeping the Middle East in 2011 were unlike any the world had ever seen. Brutal regimes that had been in power for many decades were suddenly swarmed by unstoppable mobs of freedom-seekers. Now, one of the key figures behind the Egyptian uprising tells the riveting inside story of what happened and presents lessons for all of us on how to unleash the power of crowds.
   
7:30 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: Roberta Lima's Displacement


Displacement refers to Brazilian artist Roberta Lima’s ongoing process of interweaving her experiences as an architect and as a performer. As an architect she was trained to provide safety and the idea of shelter, and as a performer she was given the chance to experiment with the opposite: the idea of instability. Lima touches on many themes such as gender and bio-politics, and makes use of different elements to debate the concept of displacement. This one-night-only performance and installation will include a talk by Austrian curator and art historian Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein Roberta Lima was born in 1974 in Manaus, Brazil. After graduating with a degree in architecture in 2002, she moved to Europe where she now lives. In 2007, after earning a Master's degree in Fine Arts, she began her PhD studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Lima focuses on her own body and uses various media, such as photographs, video and installations. Additionally, she investigates space and appropriates aspects of different places and contexts – from subculture to science, from popular media to historical reference and feminist theory – for producing art and starting discussions on the role of artist and viewer. In 2008, she collaborated with Dorit Margreiter on “SynChroniCity”, the Austrian contribution at the 11th International Cairo Biennal, which was curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein.
   
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Robert Mann, Chamber Music Faculty Recital


A string performance.
   
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7:30 pm
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Concert | 11th Annual ChamberFest with Works by Bartok and Schubert


The 11th annual ChamberFest features 7 FREE concerts in six days of ensemble music-making by 87 school musicians and 4 Pre-College musicians in 20 ensembles, coached by faculty members in intensive sessions during the winter break. Many of the major works of the chamber music repertoire will be performed during this season’s ChamberFest, and several works for larger ensembles will be featured. ChamberFest opens with Bartók’s Contrasts performed by Fabiola Kim, violin; Christopher Pell, clarinet; and Alan Woo, piano; Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4 with Jiafeng Chen, violin; Hwi-Eun Kim, violin; Liyuan Liu, viola; and Jia Kim, cello; and Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A, “Trout”, D. 667 with Han Chen, piano; Xi Liao, violin; Andrew Gonzalez, viola; Bridget Pasker, cello; and Isac Ryu, double bass.
   
8:00 pm
Free

Performance | Comedy: Comic Book Club


Iron your capes, unplug the Bat Signal and set your decoder rings on awesome: the Comic Book Club is in session! The Comic Book Club is a weekly comic book talk show featuring the best comedians in New York talking shop with industry professionals from all corners of the comic book world. Hosted by Justin Tyler, Pete LePage, and Alex Zalben. The show is sponsored in part by Midtown Comics!
   
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8:00 pm
$5

Performance | Comedy: Lady Luck is a Whore


Lady Luck is a Whore follows Leanne’s journey from Waukegan, Illinois to Vegas, baby! Doesn’t every woman want to move to Vegas, sell guns and get married a few times? It would be completely made up if it weren’t totally true.
   
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8:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Paradise Blue by Dominique Morisseau


Part of the 2012 Fire This Time Festival.
   
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8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Violin and Piano Works by Beethoven, Franck and Bartok


Program: Beethoven Violin Sonata, op.12 Bartok Rhapsody No.1 Franck Violin Sonata and Arvo Part With: Akiko Kobayashi, violin and Eric Siepkes, piano.
   
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Open Mic | 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.
   
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9:00 pm
$3

Performance | Comedy: Righteous Kill


Righteous Kill is the name of the power-house comedy showcase driven by hosts Joe DeRosa and Jared Logan. Every show not only features the hardest-hitting stand-up comics in New York, but is also crammed with vaudevillian routines, improvisation, bits, skits, blood, guts and honor. Come see the show Timeout NY said is “set to become one of the city’s best and most spirited events.”
   
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9:30 pm
$5

Performance | Comedy: This Is Awkward


This Is Awkward: True Stories of Love, Lust and Lubrication. Jonathan Blank and Samara Doucette say what everyone else thinks on dates, but never says… so join them and guest comedians as they divulge all of their wildest and most embarrassing dating stories! This monthly storytelling show contains the truth and nothing but the truth. However, most of the stories are more surreal than if David Lynch directed romantic comedies.
   
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9:30 pm
$5

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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Performance | Comedy: Bring It!


Jay Welch hosts this stand up comedy open mic every Tuesday at 11pm. Sign up and you can be a part of the show! Each week, Jay and his special guests will be joined by 10 additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. Win “joke of the night” and you are guaranteed a slot on the following Tuesday. This show is free for all audiences.
   
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11:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Study Hall


STUDY HALL is an opportunity for students of all levels [and all schools] to get more time on stage to do what’s being taught in their classes. Just bring your student IDs and something to work on. Hosted by Lucas Hazlett.
   
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11:00 pm
$5
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