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51 free events take place in New York City on Friday, July 23, 2010.
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51 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, July 23, 2010

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Concert | John Mayer, Grammy-Winning Singer/Songwriter


Despite his tendency to stick his foot in his mouth (and to pen songs that sound suspiciously like other people's songs), Mayer has racked up some hits, like "Heartbreak Warfare," "Waiting on the World to Change" and "Say." His latest LP is Battle Studies.
   
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7:00 am
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Concert | Sheryl Crow, Rock Singer/Songwriter and Grammy Winner


With hits like "Strong Enough," "All I Wanna Do" and "If It Makes You Happy," Crow has been awarded 9 Grammys. Her latest album, 100 Miles from Memphis< will be released this month. Those attending are advised to arrive at 6:00am.
   
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7:00 am
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Other | Skateboarding and Roller Blading


Free and open to all skateboarders and roller bladers, weather permitting. WARNING: This is an unsupervised facility. Enter the skatepark at your own risk. You must wear a helmet at all times.
   
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8:00 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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Other | Big City Fishing


Yes, you can fish in the Hudson River! They provide rods, reels, bait and instruction. So come on down and try your luck at fishing while enjoying the warm sun and cool breezes.
   
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Lower Manhattan Walking Tour


New York City's best and funniest walking tour. This high-energy tour will take you through the heart of the Lower Manhattan, entertaining you, your friends and family with stories, hidden secrets and relevant information about the Big Apple. The USA’s first capital city, a center of global finance and a tribute to over two centuries of immigration and the American experience - New York City's history is the history of America. And on every step of our tour, expert guides - part professors, part performers - will explain why.
   
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10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Open Computer Lab


Do you want to practice your computer skills? Do you need to create a resume? Do you want to open an email account? Do you want to practice your mouse skills?
   
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Open Computer Lab


Do you want to open an email account or need help sending attchments? Do you want to practice your computer skills? Come to ask your questions and practice at your own pace. Sign up at the Information Desk to guarantee your spot.
   
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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

Workshop | Email Basics


Learn how email works, sign up for a free email account, and learn about sending, replying to and forwarding messages.
   
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11:00 am
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Park Walk | From the Maine to the Mall Tour


Explore the south end of the park, including the Children's District, Lake, and the Mall.
   
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11:00 am
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Other | Play Petanque in the Park


Learn to play petanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie, from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC's championship club.
   
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11:00 am
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Other | Play Ping Pong


Hone your ping pong skills at one of two state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge. Sign up with an attendant in the park to reserve a time slot.
   
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11:00 am
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Other | Rent a Bike for Free to Explore Governors Island


Borrow a bike for free for up to one hour. Call for complete info.
   
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11:00 am
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Dance Lesson | Summer Native American Dance


Interactive dance programs with different Native American artists each week.
   
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11:00 am
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Tour | Times Square Tour


Learn about history of world-famous neighborhood with its 40 miles of neon supersigns, prominent theaters, and multiple megastores. Rain or shine.
   
12:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Concert | Blues Rock: The Kerry Kearney Band


The Kerry Kearney Band has performed internationally, including at The Guinness Blues Festival in Ireland and are "favorites" performing at numerous music festivals all across the country, including The Crossroads Music Festival in Memphis. They have toured nationally with the Allman Brothers and Dickey Betts and have performed with contemporaries such as Sonny Landreth. The Kerry Kearney Band continues to play regularly in the New York area and throughout the Northeast.
   
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Jon Weber, Jazz Pianist


Weber has recorded and toured all over the world, winning numerous accolades for performance and composition - and scoring extensively for television since 1987. Gary Burton, Roy Hargrove, Niels-Henning Orsted Pederson, and Avishai Cohen have all recorded his music. His newest critically-acclaimed release, Simple Complex, rose to #1. He lives in New York City.
   
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Urban Folk/Jazz: KJ Denhert


Denhert has been making audiences laugh, dance and cry for over three decades. Her special blend of urban folk and jazz has earned her multiple Independent Music Awards and in 2009 she was named as one of the top female vocalists. Her pathos, originality and impeccable musicianship make her one of a kind, not to be missed.
   
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12:30 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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1:00 pm
$6

Screening | Classic French Film: Luis Buñuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)


With Fernando Rey. A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together. 101 min.
   
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Short Films by Native Americans


Native directors capture the spirit of the exhibition Hide: Skin as Material and Metaphor. Gesture Down (I Don't Sing) (2006, 10 min.) The filmmaker shares a poetic and personal reflection of his journey south from California to Mexico in search of the “last” traditional Kumeyaay singer. The work was inspired by James Welch’s poem, “Gesture Down to Guatemala.” Good Looking (2007, 21 min.) A struggling young actor finally lands a role. Unfortunately, it’s as a bimbo in a zombie film. Now she must decide: take the part or maintain her self-respect? My Métis Grandmother (2008, 30 min.) All her life, Cecile St. Amant concealed her Métis heritage. Now, her granddaughter, the filmmaker, lovingly begins to lead her to a new way of thinking. Female Rain (2006, 2 min.) In a piece based on a poem by Navajo writer Laura Tohe, the filmmaker expresses her love of the Navajo language. Writing the Land (2007, 8 min.) A celebration of Musqueam elder Larry Grant’s experience of rediscovering the Hunkamenum language and cultural traditions in the cityscape of Vancouver, located on ancestral Musqueam lands.
   
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1:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Summer Native American Dance


Interactive dance programs with different Native American artists each week.
   
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1:00 pm
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City Walk | Midtown Manhattan Walking Tour


New York City's best and funniest walking tour…..and it’s Free! 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 is just waiting to be peeled away.
   
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | Strawberry Fields Forever Tour


Begin with the tranquility and beauty of Strawberry Fields then enjoy Bethesda Terrance and the Mall as the tour takes you east, across the park.
   
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Featured Database: What Do I Read Next?


Hands on using wireless laptops. Book Lovers, bibliophiles, bloggers, bookworms and library fanatics - Explore fun sites, tools and links connecting readers of every genre and age to the next great read!
   
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2:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Young Dancemakers Company performs original works


Young Dancemakers Company is a one-of-a-kind student summer ensemble brought together to create and tour original student-choreographed works. In addition to their own work, the students will perform an excerpt from Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s master work Continuous Replay, restaged by Catherine Cabeen, former company member. Now in its 15th year, YDC selected 17 talented dancers from ten public high schools throughout the boroughs of New York.
   
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2:30 pm
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Screening | Short Films by Native Americans


Native directors capture the spirit of the exhibition Hide: Skin as Material and Metaphor. Gesture Down (I Don't Sing) (2006, 10 min.) The filmmaker shares a poetic and personal reflection of his journey south from California to Mexico in search of the “last” traditional Kumeyaay singer. The work was inspired by James Welch’s poem, “Gesture Down to Guatemala.” Good Looking (2007, 21 min.) A struggling young actor finally lands a role. Unfortunately, it’s as a bimbo in a zombie film. Now she must decide: take the part or maintain her self-respect? My Métis Grandmother (2008, 30 min.) All her life, Cecile St. Amant concealed her Métis heritage. Now, her granddaughter, the filmmaker, lovingly begins to lead her to a new way of thinking. Female Rain (2006, 2 min.) In a piece based on a poem by Navajo writer Laura Tohe, the filmmaker expresses her love of the Navajo language. Writing the Land (2007, 8 min.) A celebration of Musqueam elder Larry Grant’s experience of rediscovering the Hunkamenum language and cultural traditions in the cityscape of Vancouver, located on ancestral Musqueam lands.
   
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3:00 pm
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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.
   
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3:15 pm
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Screening | Brazilian Film: Esmir Filho's The Famous and the Dead (2009) (airconditioned)


In rural Brazil, a sixteen-year-old Bob Dylan fan reaches out to the world through the Internet while coping with traumatic memories of loss and death. Filho’s multiple-award-winning debut feature powerfully transmits the outsider feelings of a desperate teenager. 90 min.
   
4:30 pm
free, no reservation required

Concert | Free Music Fridays: John Brodeur / Lisa Jaeggi / Sara Bouchard


Explore the galleries free of charge, have a refreshment in the café, and enjoy live music in the stunning atrium. Free Music Fridays are hosted by Matt Jones.
   
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Midtown Art Bazaar


Featuring Luis Alves, Vann Apragal, Bernard Beckford, Lemia Bodden, Mary Jean Canziani, Shawn Cupid, Jeramy Fletcher, Jamie Martinez, Peter V. Milo, Mary Newton, Haruto Robert, Lorin Roser, Waylon Tait, Paul Vogeler, Tracy Von Becker, Charlotte Walters, Elizabeth Winnel, Vincent Zambrano, and Jane Zweibel.
   
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Rock Music: Free Energy / Best Coast / Loose Limbs


Free Energy (pictured), dubbed “one of the best live bands in America,” by Spin, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone, delivers “guitar-heavy and totally unironic AM-rock sound” reminiscent of Tom Petty and Mick Jagger. Best Coast, among the most promising new indie acts of 2010, draws its sound from the 50’s and 60’s aesthetic of The Beach Boys and The Everly Brothers. Loose Limbs starts the night off.
   
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Sunset Jam on the Hudson: Drumming Circles


Improvise on African, Latin and Caribbean rhythms at the SUNSET JAM ON THE HUDSON drumming circles. The gatherings are led by master drummers MAGUETTE CAMARA, MARY KNYSH and PAMELA PATRICK. After beginning with the teaching of traditional drumming patterns, and establishing a steady heartbeat pulse, participants are then asked to contribute their own rhythmic patterns as part of a call-and-response chanting and drumming.
   
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6:30 pm
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Concert | Bach Sommerfest 2010: Organ Concert


Part of Bach Vespers’ three-day Bach Sommerfest 2010, this concert features organ preludes based on Lutheran Chorales. Included are, most notably, the “King and Queen of Chorales” (the theme of this year’s Sommerfest) Wachet auf and Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, plus several other chorales, in works by J. S. Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, Johann Nepomuk David, Johann Matthias Michel, and more. Preceding the concert at 5:30 p.m. there is a talk in the organ loft with organist, Prof. Mark Bighley, discussing “the history of the Lutheran chorale”. Organists: Joseph Arndt, Mark Bighley, Claudia Dumschat, Rick Erickson and Avi Stein.
   
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Screening | German Documentary: Martina Kudlácek's In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2003)


This revealing documentary about Deren’s vivid life and poetic work includes excerpts from her films and footage from an unpublished choreographic work, Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951), along with intimate conversations with Alexander Hammid, Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Miriam Arsham, and other contemporaries. 103 min.
   
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Guitarist David Ippolito


New Yorker Ippolito, known as "That Guitar Man from Central Park," has self-released eight albums. His concerts are attended by thousands of people.
   
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Indie Rock: Bear Hands / Darlings (airconditioned)


In August 2006, Dylan Rau (vocals/guitar) brought together Wesleyan schoolmates Ted Feldman (guitar), Val Loper (bass) and TJ Orscher (drums) to form Bear Hands. They find ways to use driving beats, contemplative lyrics, and inventive guitar lines to create danceable indie rock. This year they embarked on an exhaustive touring schedule and are finally home in NYC this summer. Darlings has a rather typical-sounding story: a band started by four friends in the front room of a fifth-floor walkup on Bleecker Street in New York City. With singer/guitarist Peter Rynsky, drummer Matt Solomon, bassist Joe Tirabassi, and guitarist/singer Maura Lynch, the group has perfected a cross-pollination of the past five decades of rock while still managing to conjure a sound that is very current and very much their own.
   
7:00 pm
Pay-as-you-wish policy

Jazz | Jazz Standards: Alex Levin Trio


Originally from Philadelphia, Alex Levin has performed in Philadelphia and New York as a leader and a sideman for the last fifteen years. He has appeared at clubs throughout the city, and can most frequently be found leading his own trio at such clubs as Kavehaz, Detour, Rue B and Night and Day. Besides leading his trio, Alex performs regularly with vocalists Ayana del Valle and Heather Moran. He has composed numerous pieces, and has arranged music for top vocalists.
   
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Latin Music: Bomba Estereo / La Secta Allstar / Navegante


Masterminded by bassist-producer Simón Mejía and featuring by the rapid-fire delivery of the enchanting singer Liliana Saumet, Bomba Estéreo have exploded out of Bogotá to the forefront of the Latin alternative scene. The band merges traditional sounds from Colombia’s Caribbean coast like cumbia, bullerengue and champeta with electronica, reggae and hip-hop to conjure “homegrown folkloric music being etched upon the global DNA of urban beats.” (Hispanic Magazine) With La Secta Allstar, the kings of Puerto Rican rock en Español, Navegante, the funky and cutting-edge electronic duo who Carlos Santana has said "will carry the torch into the future."
   
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7:00 pm
$3 suggested donation

Workshop | Open Music Ensemble: Music And Meditation Program


The Open Music Ensemble returns to lead an evening meditation with improvised music - all are welcome. The evening begins with a guided meditation, awakening the senses. After a brief spoken introduction, members of the audience will be invited to place their attention on the sounds and silences especially created for the group by the Ensemble or to engage in any other meditative practice they might prefer while the musicians perform. After the musicians have finished playing there will be a short period of silence. At the end of the evening participants will be invited to share their meditation experiences with others present. Open to all levels of interest.
   
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Ray Mantilla, Jazz Drummer


Mantilla has played as a session musician and toured with some of the most significant jazz musicians of his time. Mantilla has been bandleader of his own ensembles and was a founding member of the percussion ensemble M'Boom, with Max Roach.
   
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing: A Comedy of Two Couples


Benedick and Beatrice are engaged in a "merry war"; they both talk a mile a minute and proclaim their scorn for love, marriage, and each other. In contrast, Claudio and Hero are sweet young people who are rendered practically speechless by their love for one another. Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confessing their love for each other, and Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero at the altar.
   
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Dance Performance | Third Rail Projects' Undercurrents & Exchange


Undercurrents & Exchange is a rumination on the conundrum of love, infatuation and connection in modern America. Undercurrents & Exchange is created in correspondence with The Drifting Encyclopedia, an art exhibition.
   
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Theater | Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice, Directed by Daniel Sullivan


The Oscar winner returns as Shylock in this classic. Also with Gerry Bamman, Francois Battiste, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Bill Heck, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Byron Jennings, Heather Lind, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, Nyambi Nyambi, Lily Rabe, Matthew Rauch, Richard Topol, and Max Wright.
   
8:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater


One of the world‘s favorite dance companies shows off the brilliant artistry and passionate energy that bring audiences around the globe to their feet night after night. What makes this phenomenal company so special is the incomparable sense of joy, freedom and spirit that the dancers and audiences share. Discover for yourself what millions of fans already know – you don‘t just see an Ailey performance, you feel it.
   
8:00 pm
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Screening | Brazilian Film: Carlos Diegues' Xica da Silva (1976)


A romanticized retelling of the true story of Xica da Silva, an eighteenth-century African slave in the state of Minas Gerais, who became the lover of the Portuguese royal agent in possession of the region’s exclusive diamond-mining contract. 107 min.
   
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Film | Jim Henson's Oscar-Nominated The Great Muppet Caper (1981): Children's Musical


With the voices of Jim Henson, Charles Grodin and Diana Rigg. Kermit, Gonzo and Fozzie are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy. 95 min. Movie begins at dusk (around 8:30pm.) Free Popcorn.
   
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Theater | Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost


The Bard's comedy in an unusual outdoor setting: a parking lot.
   
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Film | Watch The Goonies on an Aircraft Carrier


With Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman and Martha Plimpton. A group of seven young friends from a small Northwest town find themselves on a thrilling underground adventure filled with humor and heart-pounding peril as they seek the secrets behind the treasure of the notorious pirate. 1985, 111 min. Doors open at 7:30pm and the movie starts at sunset.
   
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