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31 free events take place on Monday, June 6 in New York City.
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31 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, June 6, 2011

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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Talk | Learn about the Peoples of the Plains


With Laura Browarny.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Gallery Talk | The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Room


An expert leads informal discussions in the room and answers questions. Two sessions: 10am-1pm and 1:30pm -3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Microsoft Office 2003: MS Word 1


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn the basic features of Microsoft Word 2003, a word processing program you can use to create documents. Topics include entering and editing text, saving files, and formatting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Ping Pong in the Park


Test your skills at state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Concert | Emilio Magnotta, Accordionist


Enjoy a taste of Paris in the park at lunchtime with musette style accordion music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Park Walk | Garden Tour


Offering constantly changing floral displays, the park's gardens contain more than 400 species of perennials, shrubs, and trees. On these garden tours, horticulturists share their considerable knowledge of plants, pointing out the species that give each garden its own identity and style.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Luiz Simas, Jazz/Brazilian Pianist


Brazilian/American pianist Luiz Simas is a versatile performer who feels totally at ease with both the music of his native Brazil and the American genres of jazz, ragtime and stride. Keyboard Magazine has described his playing as "sassy, clear and vibrant," and his music as sounding "fresh, smart and witty."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Screening | Short Films on and by Native Americans


Featuring Horse You See and Miss Navajo. Start times are 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Talk | Learn About Taino Culture


Jorge Estevez discusses Taino culture past and present using traditional handling objects in an interactive informal setting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Health Information Online


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn to find consumer health information online, including doctors' credentials, hospital information, drug side effects, conventional and alternative medical treatments of diseases, diets, weight loss, nutrition and exercises, and how to evaluate these websites.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Festival | 18th Annual Taste of Times Square Festival


ENJOY INTERNATIONAL TASTES FROM AROUND THE WORLD. This is one of New York City's most mouth-watering outdoor food festivals. Top restaurants will be offering dishes from around the world at the Crossroads of the World, at the 18th annual Taste of Times Square outdoor food and music festival. In addition there will be live entertainment, including special musical guests.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Student Exhibition: Social Realms


An exhibition of photography, painting and prints by current SVA students and recent alumni that examines cultural legacies and current global conditions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Author Reading | Ellen Horan discusses her book 31 Bond Street


Join Ellen Horan for a talk, question and answer session and booksigning for her debut novel. An unforgettable literary debut from Ellen Horan, 31 Bond Street is based on the true story of a brutal murder, a desperate mother and mistress, and the vicious constraints of 19th century society.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Concert | Molly Says No!, a Dramatic Recital by Soprano Judith Mok


A dramatic recital performed by the soprano Judith Mok, based on the character of Molly Bloom from James Joyce's Ulysses. But this is a modern, liberated Molly, mother, immigrant, professional singer, escaped from the bed where her creator kept her. This is Molly on stage, telling her own story, singing the music she loves!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Charles A. Kupchan discusses his book How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace


Through compelling analysis and rich historical examples that span the globe and range from the thirteenth century through the present, the foreign policy expert explores how adversaries can transform enmity into amity—and he exposes prevalent myths about the causes of peace. In a world where conflict among nations seems inescapable, the author offers critical insights for building lasting peace.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Dance Lesson | Movement Research Festival Spring 2011: Hello, My Name Is. . .


Created for dancers and dance enthusiasts, Hello, My Name Is... riffs on current models of conferences, conventions, and symposiums, to transform Monday night into a trade show for dancers and dance institutions. Discover new connections and moments of glory in awkward embraces, with games, raffle prizes, drinks, snacks, and pamphlets. Come be part of our wide, wide community!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Andrew Krivak discusses his book The Sojourn with Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding


Paul Harding, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, will talk to Andrew Krivak about Krivak's breakout new novel. A stirring novel of brotherhood, survival, and coming-of-age during World War One, Mary Doria Russell describes The Sojourn as "a work of uncommon strength by a writer of rare and powerful elegance about a war, now lost to living memory, that echoes in headlines of international strife to this day."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Beefstock 1969 Comedy Show


Wow man. Welcome to BEEFSTOCK 1969! There's free love, free music, and free peace blankets by the first aid ten man. Come dig our musical sketch show man. Oh man. With this many hippies on one cattle farm things are bound to get really wild! Just don't eat the brown acid man. Oh MAN! THIS IS LOVE MAN. AHH! IM FLYING MAN. I'm flying man this is wild. yeeaaaaAHH!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5

Book Discussion | Book Club: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak


Set during World War II in Germany, Zusak's groundbreaking novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing, encounters something she cant resist: books.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Book Release Party: Encyclopedia Vol 2 F-K


An evening of readings, visual art and music to celebrate the release of Encyclopedia Vol 2 F-K, the second installment in the five-part hardcover book series The Encyclopedia Project. Hosted by editors Tisa Bryant, Miranda Mellis andKate Schatz, the evening-like the Project-will cover subjects ranging from Fable to Guitar toHölderlin, Influence to Kincaid, Jamaica.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | French Film: Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)


A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. 201 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Workshop | Hands-On Demo of the Alexander Technique


Join a team of posture and movement specialists on the first Monday of each month. A brief presentation of how the Alexander Technique helps people manage posture, pain, and performance issues will be followed by "hands-on work" as attendees break up into small groups to get personal attention from one of the Alexander Technique teachers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | History Channel's Rick Harrison reads from his book License to Pawn: Deals, Steals, and My Life at the Gold and Silver


The star of The History Channel's Pawn Stars recounts his most seedy and entertaining stories from Las Vegas' World Famous Gold and Silver Pawn Shop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Pulitzer winner Oscar Hijuelos reads from his book Thoughts Without Cigarettes


Oscar Hijuelos, the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, discusses this memoir of his childhood and his path to writing and acclaim that captures the ordinary and extraordinary elements of a literary life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Staged Reading | Staged Reading: Man In Boat by Kimberly Barrante


Set in the media-saturated world of postmodern America, this absurdist dark-comedy centers on Daniel who is stranded in a rowboat in the middle of the desert, unable to remain a child yet unable to grow-up.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings


The Center for Jazz Studies and the American Composers Orchestra will present the first-ever Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute Readings, the culmination of a process that began with a week-long Intensive held in July 2010. Eight composers were selected to create new works for orchestra and to work further with mentor composers and conductors in developing these works: Harris B. Eisenstadt, Brooklyn, NY; Mark F. Helias, New York, NY; Adam R.Jenkins, Davis, CA; Erica J. Lindsay, Rosendale, NY; Nicole M. Mitchell, Chicago, IL; Rufus I. Reid, Teaneck, NJ; Jacob A. Sacks, Brooklyn, NY; and Marianne Trudel, Montreal, Canada. This will be a run-through..
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Theater | Shakespeare Outdoors: Measure for Measure


Measure for Measure sweeps from the corridors of national power to the intimate confines of the bedroom, and from the convent's chapel to the executioner’s block. It is Shakespeare at his grittiest: a bracing and bawdy glimpse of what happens when those in power allow their basest human impulses to range unchecked. Directed by David Esbjornson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Filmmaker David Lynch joins Norman Rosenthal as he reads from his book Transcendence: Healing and Transformation through Meditation


Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D., a twenty-year researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and the celebrated psychiatrist who pioneered the study and treatment of Season Affective Disorder, brings us the most important work on Transcendental Meditation since the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Science of Being and Art of Living-and one of our generation's most significant books on achieving greater physical and mental health and wellness. Rosenthal will be joined by filmmaker David Lynch), one of his devotees.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Performance | Student Graduation Comedy Show


Tonight, brilliant students take the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they're actually the stars of today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
$5

Performance | Fresh Comedy Show


Michelle Wolf and Erin Lennox host this FREE stand up open mic. Sign up and you can be part of the show! Each week Michelle & Erin (and special guests) will be joined by additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. FRESH gives you the chance to work that new joke or rework an oldie but goodie. This show is FREE for all audiences.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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