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41 free events take place on Friday, March 19 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out March 19 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of March . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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41 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, March 19, 2010

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Video | Creative Time's 44 1/2: Video Art on an Outdoor Screen


At 44 1/2, Creative Time’s presentation of video art on MTV’s outdoor, gilded screen, will showcase the work of groundbreaking performance artist Marina Abramovic. Opening concurrently with her retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, Creative Time’s presentation includes Light/Dark (1977), Rest Energy (1980) and Dissolution (1997). Ambramovic has influenced other artists for more than three decades. One of the videos will play at the top of the hour, every hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 am
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Workshop | Daily Instructed Meditation


Learn some serenity to cope with your busy day.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Gallery Talk | Native American Beading Styles


Patrick Scott will discuss the finer points of the peyote bead stitch with visitors and discuss the various beading styles in the A Song for the Horse Nation exhibit.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Conference | 2nd Annual Conference on Biography


Why read biography? For information? Aesthetic pleasure? What can biography contribute to a compassionate knowledge of our world, what understanding of ourselves or of the past? What is its relation to the said and the not-said? Mull over these questions at the Second Annual Conference on Biography, with distinguished guests including keynote speaker Arnold Rampersad (Stanford University, author of acclaimed biographies of Langston Hughes, Jackie Robinson, and Ralph Ellison). Other participants include Gary Giddins, Molly Haskell, Langdon Hammer, Richard Howard, D.T. Max, Jed Perl, Andrew Sarris, Eric Salzman, Ileene Smith, Amanda Vaill, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Learn ESOL Using Online Resources


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore websites that will help you improve your English language reading, writing, speaking, and listening. This class is for non-native speakers of English who have basic (or higher) proficiency in English, as well as mouse and keyboard skills.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Long Beach Walk


5 miles. Walk through town and along boardwalk, return passing canals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Other | Autograph Signing with Singer Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders


He was working at his regular job at a bakery when Paul Revere came in to buy supplies for a hamburger restaurant that he owned. This chance meeting began their professional relationship. Lindsay became lead singer and saxophone player in a band with Revere and several others. He suggested they call themselves The Downbeats after a magazine with the same title. Paul Revere and the Raiders scored their first national hit with the piano/sax instrumental "Like, Long Hair" which peaked at #38 in the Billboard charts on April 17, 1961. They went on to have hits including "Kicks," "Good Thing" and "Indian Reservation."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Knitting and Crocheting Club


Are you a crafter? Join this knitting and crocheting club, led by teacher and designer Ina Braun of Tante Sophie Knitting Studio, to create garments for charitable organizations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art:: Erika deVries' Beginning Accordion


The artist invites you to join in the public performance of being a beginner. Knowing nothing about music, deVries hosts Beginning Accordion. Erika deVries is a photography, performance and video artist in Brooklyn. She has lectured and exhibited internationally including: Halifax University, Nova Scotia, Canada; Los Angeles Center For Photographic Studies; Point of View Gallery, Chicago, IL; and Gemachtschule Universitaet, Kassel, Germany. She recently had a solo exhibition at LaSalle University Art Museum, Philadelphia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Book Signing | TV host Duane “Dog” Chapman signs copies of Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given


The star of Dog the Bounty Hunter returns to answer the questions fans have been asking.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

Gallery Talk | Native American Beading Styles


Patrick Scott will discuss the finer points of the peyote bead stitch with visitors and discuss the various beading styles in the A Song for the Horse Nation exhibit.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Short Films: Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers / Yukon Circles


Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers (2008, 30 min.) A collaboration between indigenous filmmakers (a central Brazilian Xavante and a Wayuu from Venezuela) and an anthropologist explores a campaign headed by the Xavante to protect the Rio das Mortes River Basin from the uncontrolled soy cultivation that brings deforestation and pollution to the watershed. The Xavantes' May 25, 2006 blockade of a national highway in Mato Grosso raises awareness of their concerns and builds support for their efforts. In Xavante and Spanish with English subtitles. Yukon Circles(2006, 30 min.) The 2300–mile Yukon River flowing through Canada and Alaska is threatened by pollution from military installations, mining, manufacturing, and settlement, and the tribes and First Nations develop a historic agreement to work together to protect it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Cuban Film: Sara Gómez's One Way or Another (1977)


This first Cuban film by a woman analyzes human relationships, especially relations between the sexes, in 1962 Cuba, during the early years of the revolution. The setting is a new housing district built and inhabited by former residents of a shanty town outside Havana. Yolanda is a young, middle-class schoolteacher who fully identifies with the revolution. Mario, a young worker raised in the slums, is engaged in a romantic relationship with Yolanda that impels him to question his macho attitudes. Humberto, Mario's friend, has nominally accepted the Revolution but still tries to live by the old ways. 78 min. In Spanish with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Richard Thorpe's Oscar-Nominated Ivanhoe (1952): Walter Scott's Medieval Hero


With Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor and George Saunders. Ivanhoe returns to England from the Third Crusades determined to raise the ransom for the captured King Richard. 106 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Duo Mahler-Floril performs works by Brahms, Mahler and Beethoven


PROGRAM: LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827): Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major Op. 106 « Hammerklavier » GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911): Kindertotenlieder JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897): Zwei Gesänge Op. 91 for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano With: Thérèse Mahler, Mezzo-soprano; Jonathan Floril, piano; and Pascal Archer, clarinet (guest artist).
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
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Book Signing | Kata Golda signs copies of her book Hand-Stitched Felt: 25 Whimsical Sewing Projects


Meet the author as she signs her book, and learn more about her whimsical line of products! She will do craft demonstrations, including her mouse finger puppet!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Screening | Short Films: Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers / Yukon Circles


Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers (2008, 30 min.) A collaboration between indigenous filmmakers (a central Brazilian Xavante and a Wayuu from Venezuela) and an anthropologist explores a campaign headed by the Xavante to protect the Rio das Mortes River Basin from the uncontrolled soy cultivation that brings deforestation and pollution to the watershed. The Xavantes' May 25, 2006 blockade of a national highway in Mato Grosso raises awareness of their concerns and builds support for their efforts. In Xavante and Spanish with English subtitles. Yukon Circles(2006, 30 min.) The 2300–mile Yukon River flowing through Canada and Alaska is threatened by pollution from military installations, mining, manufacturing, and settlement, and the tribes and First Nations develop a historic agreement to work together to protect it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Basic Internet


Introduction to the internet and how to perform basic searches.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Screening | Contemporary Canadian Cinema: Denis Villeneuve's Polytechnique (2009)


In 1989, a decade before Columbine, the unthinkable happened in Montreal: a twenty-five-year-old gunman, who claimed “feminists” had destroyed his life, entered the École Polytechnique with a rifle and killed fourteen female students. This compellingly dispassionate black-and-white film serves as a memorial of sorts for the victims, and describes what followed for the survivors. 76 min. In French with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz: Roy Meriwether Trio


A multi-dimensional and self-taught virtuoso, Roy Meriwether blends jazz, blues, and gospel with classical elements in a unique and innovative style that has drawn enthusiastic crowds to night clubs, colleges, and concert halls across the country.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Meet the Working Waterfront


Enormous numbers of both people and goods move across our harbor waters every day, yet the professionals who accomplish this often work behind the scenes. Meet working captains, maritime engineers, and other New York waterfront workers in person to hear their stories.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Contemporary Canadian Documentary: Peter Mettler's Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (2009)


Located beneath 4.3 million hectares of boreal forest in Alberta, Canada, the tar sands are a mixture of sand, clay, and a heavy crude oil called bitumen that is either mined in open pits or extracted from underground by injecting superheated water. Mettler, one of Canada’s leading media artists, aerially filmed a mining area the size of England, and his images speak far louder than words. Made for Greenpeace Canada. 43 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Mixed Media Works: Anthony Lister's How to Catch a Time Traveler


Known in the Low Brow movement for his intriguing, playful hybrid of street art, expressionism, and cubism all manifested in non-traditional media such as spray paint; Lister's new body of work shows the tongue-in-cheek frivolity of his earlier pieces developing (or decaying) into a more mature and disturbing direction. Anthony Lister has shown widely internationally in solo exhibitions at Metro 5, Melbourne; K Gallery, Milan; Spectrum Gallery, London; Criterion Gallery, Hobart; and the Wooster Collective. Lister's work is present in many reputable collections including the National Gallery of Australia, the David Roberts Collection, the TVS Partnership and the BHP Collection. Lister is the receipient of the Prometheus Award (2009, 2005), the Dobell Prize for Drawing (2008) and the ABN Amro Art Award (2007).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Muti Media Works: Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller


An exhibition of new work by the collaborative team Cardiff & Miller. They are internationally recognized for their immersive multimedia works. Incorporating dramatic audio tracks into their visually striking installations, the artists create engaging and transcendent multisensory experiences which draw the viewer into ambiguous and unsettling narratives.,/br> Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller live and work in Grindrod, British Columbia and Berlin, Germany. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at The Hamburger Banhoff, Berlin, Modern Art Oxford, The Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, the Miami Art Museum, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, the Mathildenhöhe, Darmstatdt, as well as numerous other international venues. Their work has been presented at several prestigious institutions, including MoMA, New York, the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, San Francisco MOMA, the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, and the Tate Modern, London. Representing Canada at the 2001 Venice Biennale, Cardiff and Miller received the Biennale's Premio Prize and Benesse Prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Solo Show by Shaun O'Dell


San Francisco-based artist O’Dell in his second solo exhibition. The reception features the artist’s band, Words. Herman Melville’s great American novel Moby Dick is many things, not least of which an examination of Man’s place in the Universe. Using Melville’s novel as personal guide, O’Dell here appropriates the author’s use of mirroring and vortex to illustrate the boundless nature of these metaphysical concerns. The artist channels the same volatile dynamic into his drawing and film. Capitalizing on a phenomenon inherent to video feedback, O’Dell, in collaboration with video artist Nate Boyce, produces polygonal geometric forms and spiral motifs using sections of John Huston’s 1956 film Moby Dick. By projecting the film back onto itself during moments when the narrative portrays themes of mirroring and the vortex, the artists create an iterative system that literally models metaphysical questions within the novel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | 7th Biennial Building-Wide Exhibition


Over 50 Artists on 4 Floors including:Cesar Arredondo, Fabian Berenbaum, Doris Cacoilo, Kevin Caplicki, Christopher Cardinale, Michael Cataldi, Chris Clary, Barrie Cline, Peggy Cyphers, Michael De Pasquale, Nanna Debois Buhl, Charlotte Doglio, Ian Dolton-Thornton, Jade Doskow, Es Muss Sein Quartet, Mike Estabrook, Lambert Fernando, Fred Fleisher, Flux Factory, Julie Hair, Suckzoo Han, Joann Harrah, Rebecca Howland, Akiko Ichikawa, it/EQ Community Arts Collaborative, Vandana Jain, Darren Jones & Ryan Roa, Christina Kelly, Sarah Kipp & Phyllis Kipp, Ben Knight, Vikki Law, Emilie Lemakis, Liz N Val, RTST, Jens Maier-Rothe, Julie McCabe, Judith Modrak, Alan Moore, Nsumi Collective, Jann Nunn, Olek, Angela Organ, Douglas Einar Olsen, Perfect 8, Dave Powell, Dave Pugh, Ed Radford & Rob Shepperson, Michelle Rollman, Scott Seaboldt, Chanika Svetvilas, Subject to Change, Three Wise Goats, Cat Tyc, Vydavy Sindikat, Carol Warner, Jen Zarkzewski & Kristen Rhea van Liew, and Z Collective with Insurgent Theatre.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Blues/Jazz Band: Alex Levin Trio


Originally from Philadelphia, Levin has performed as a leader and a sideman for the last fifteen years. He has played with multiple vocalists and instrumentalists since returning to New York in 2001. 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, he performs regularly with vocalists Ayana del Valle and Heather Moran. He has composed numerous pieces, and has arranged music for top vocalists, including Paulette McWilliams.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Film | Bob Kelljan's Scream Blacula Scream (1973): Biting Horror


With Pam Grier, Michael Conrad and Lynne Moody. The sequel to the blaxploitation horror classic Blacula, in which the titular black prince of shadows is awakened by voodoo powers to stalk the earth once again. 96 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Contributors read from Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It


Award-winning female novelists, academics and actresses have come together to celebrate Doctor Who. Join contributors Francesca Coppa, Catherynne M. Valente, Deborah Stanish, Katy Shuttleworth, and K. Tempest Bradford for a reading and discussion of their inventive involvement with the show's fandom and an examination of their adoration of the series.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Video | Emily Armstrong and Pat Ivers' Nightclubbing: The Punk Rock Archives: Groundbreaking Bands


Armstrong and Ivers will reach into their video archive of over 100 live performances to present the groundbreaking punk, new-wave, and hard-core bands of the late 1970s.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Filmmaking: And the moral of the story is... (Part 2)


An extract from the eponymous non-stop film program that took place Feb. 4-7, 2010, as part of the year-long Morality project at Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam. With films/videos by: Guy Ben-Ner, Olaf Breuning, Sunah Choi, Martha Colburn, Joost Conijn, Stefan Constantinescu, Chto Delat, Cyprien Gaillard, Ivan Grubanov, Renzo Martens, Valerie Mrejen, Ciprian Muresan, Chim Pom, Julika Rudelius, Deborah Stratman, Pilvi Takala, Stefanos Tsivopoulos, Wendelien van Oldenborgh.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Latino Artists Round Table


A reading by and conversation with Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, Daughters of the Stone, Eva C. Vasquez, and Lagrimas Negras. This event will be in English and Spanish.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Contemporary Canadian Cinema: Rob Stefaniuk's Suck (2009)


With Iggy Pop, Malcolm McDowell and Henry Rollins. The curious journey of a Canadian rock band that achieves celebrity by becoming vampires, a move that seriously complicates the musicians’ itinerary. How can they travel by day? And how can the undead get past the U.S. Department of Homeland Security? Laden with super-cool rock ’n’ roll cameos, Suck is as lively as a recently nourished creature of the night.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:15 pm
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Concert | Compositions and Arrangements by Pianist Hugh Sam


With Sam; Mary Lou Francis and Margaret Mills, piano; Marla Waterman, soprano; Dale Smith, tenor; Greg Sam, guitar; and André Sam, bass.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Beyond the Machine 10.0: InterArts - Multidisciplinary Performances


The annual festival of multidisciplinary performances featuring advanced technologies and electronics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Jazz | Nation Beat: New Orleans/Brazil Jazz


Nation Beat's core sound relishes in a fusion of ebullient street beats from New Orleans and puzzle-piece grooves from Brazil. Expect crowd-frenzying bursts of Carnival drumming from “the most original and alluring fusion group heard in years” (NPR).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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