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27 free events take place in New York City on Monday, March 21, 2011.
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27 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, March 21, 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.
   
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9:30 am
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Lecture | The Peoples of the Plains


Learn about the peoples of the Plains with Laura Browarny.
   
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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.
   
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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.
   
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11:00 am
$6

Lecture | Sovereign Debt and the IMF: The Case of Russia


A lecture by Martin Gilman, Professor of Economics at the National Research University — Higher School of Economics and the Director of its Centre for Advanced Studies. Previously he was with the International Monetary Fund for 24 years where he was assistant director in the IMF’s policy department. In his last position before taking early retirement in late 2005 to join HSE in Moscow, he was responsible for sovereign debt issues and was the IMF’s representative to the Paris Club. His extensive experience with Russia began as the adviser from the policy department on the negotiating missions from June 1993, and then he moved to Russia in November 1996 as the director of the IMF’s Moscow Office. Along with his close involvement in the Russian economy and policy issues for over 17 years, he is married to Russian journalist, Tatiana Malkina. He is the author of the recent book, No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia's 1998 Default, published by MIT Press. In addition to his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, Gilman attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, and the School of Advanced International Studies of the John Hopkins University.
   
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12:00 pm
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Screening | Daily Screenings: Infinity of Nations | Celebrating the Pacific North Coast


With: The Story of Priest Point and Laxwesa Wa: Strength of the River. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | The Moderns and Gertrude Stein


The legendary modernist Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was famous not only for her writing but also for her art collection, acquired as an American expatriate in Paris during the interwar period with her brother Leo Stein. Gertrude Stein’s Salon de Fleurus is featured in The Making of Americans exhibition as a formative precursor for collections including the Museum of Modern Art. This lecture will focus on how Gertrude Stein’s embrace of these international artists prompted a new American modernist narrative.
   
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | MS PowerPoint Workshop


Hands on using wireless laptops. 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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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Intro to Adobe InDesign


InDesign has proven itself to be the undisputed champion in the page-layout wars. In this seminar we’ll demonstrate the ease and power of InDesign. We’ll create some layouts from scratch, as well as demonstrate some of the more powerful functions on existing layouts.
   
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3:00 pm
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Discussion | Sonja M. Hedgepeth & Rochelle G. Saidel discuss their book Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust


Join a panel discussion with EVA FOGELMAN, SONJA HEDGEPETH ROCHELLE SAIDEL, and NAVA SEMEL. Celebrate the publication of this new book.
   
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro to Adobe InDesign


InDesign has proven itself to be the undisputed champion in the page-layout wars. In this seminar we’ll demonstrate the ease and power of InDesign. We’ll create some layouts from scratch, as well as demonstrate some of the more powerful functions on existing layouts.
   
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | John Mariani discusses his book How Italian Food Conquered the World


The delicious new chronicle by Esquire food and travel columnist, John Mariani. Mariani, in his new book, explores how Italy’s regional fares morphed to become the most stylish and influential food type in the world. Joining him on the stage to discuss the book and this always lively topic are: Tony May, one of the nation’s most respected restaurateurs, owner of SD26 Restaurant & Wine Bar and Chairman of Gruppo Ristoratori Italiani, and Marco Maccioni, Co-owner and director, Le Cirque, and along with his father and brothers is considered one of the most powerful and charismatic families in the business.
   
6:00 pm
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Open Mic | RISK! Storyslam


Kevin Allison of the RISK! storytelling show hosts this free slam where anyone can put their name in the hat to tell a five-minute true story. They record the slam too, so all tellers have a shot at being included on an episode of the RISK! podcast.
   
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Transgressing Borders in the Balkans


This panel, part of the week-long Perforations Festival New York, offers insight into practices and ideas of contemporary drama, dance, and performance arts in Southeastern Europe (Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Macedonia). The established and emerging artists taking part in the festival are active in the independent art scenes of their respective countries and regularly cross borders—both those between states and those between different art forms; they will be joined by academics and other experts on the region for this close look at the state of contemporary art in the Balkans today. Panelists for the event include Zvonko Dobrovic, producer and artistic director of Perforations and Queer Zagreb festivals in Croatia; Ivica Buljan, one of the region’s most prolific and recognized theater directors; Igor Josifov, body artist from Macedonia; Petra Kovačić, performance installation artist; and Fritzie Brown, director of ArtsLink international exchange program. The panel will be moderated by Vesna Kesic, Croatian journalist, activist, and researcher.
   
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6:00 pm
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Reading | 5th Annual Writers on View


Join artist Sebastian Mendes and writers and poets Terese Svoboda, Willie Perdomo, Ken Chen, Janet Kaplan, Aldina Vazão Kennedy, Matthew Thorburn, Rachel Zucker, Tracy K. Smith and Sima Rabinowitz for original poems and stories in dialogue with the exhibition There is a Mirror in My Heart, an installation by Sebastian Mendes currently on view.
   
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | All About Computers: PC vs. Mac


This class is a lecture/demonstration. Are you a Mac, PC... or neither? This class discusses the differences between Apple's Mac computers and Windows-based PC computers by highlighting the advantages, and limitations, of each platform.
   
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | On Joseph Beuys


A lecture by artist Laylah Ali.
   
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6:30 pm
$6

Slide Lecture | Sheila Isenberg discusses her book Muriel's War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance


Who was Muriel Gardiner? She was the remarkable woman who inspired Lillian Hellman's Julia. She was a product of Chicago's high society and daughter of a dynasty of millionaire meat packers. Most importantly, she was the benefactor of countless WWII refugees, a daring woman who smuggled passports and money and offered her home as a safe house for anti-Fascist dissidents. Meet the author as she tells in an illustrated lecture the true story of a woman who gave all she had to make the world a better place.
   
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6:30 pm
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Performance | Cartoon Polymaths: Carousel with R. Sikoryak


A special edition of “Carousel,” a long-running comics performance series by cartoonist and illustration faculty member R. Sikoryak. Sikoryak and a bevy of talented cartoonists will read from and perform their projected work, and Sikoryak will discuss the relationship between comics and performance. Attendees are advised to arrive 6-6:30pm.
   
7:00 pm
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Discussion | Imagination and the Changing Mind


In this panel discussion, Dr. Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize–winning medical researcher; Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art; David Shenk, author of The Forgetting and The Genius in All of Us; and Dr. Anne Basting, director of the Center on Age & Community at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, consider how innate differences or changes that develop later in life can beget creative engagement and meaningful contribution to society. By drawing on a range of experiences, theories, and practices, we can gain insight into how humans process and interact with the world, and how they create original paths of discovery and action. Amir Parsa will moderate.
   
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7:00 pm
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Concert | New York New Music Ensemble


Program: Ricardo Zohn Muldoon Páramo Javier Alvarez Asi el acero Felipe Lara Livro dos Sonhos I Alejandro Viñao Formas del Viento Ezquiel Viñao new work Since 1976, the New York New Music Ensemble (NYNME) has commissioned, performed, and recorded the important and upcoming composers of our time, helping many of these composers to become known and appreciated. The Jerome Foundation, the Fromm Foundation at Harvard, the Mary Flagler Cary Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Koussevitzky Foundation, the NEA and NYSCA are among the significant U.S. foundations to recognize and support the NYNME's work. They have appeared at major festivals and their extensive discography covers significant chamber works. Thus far, they have traveled to Europe, Asia, and South America to perform, teach, and record. Their work also includes theater music as well as adventurous electronic and interactive technologies.
   
7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Staged Reading: Cecilia Copeland's Light of Night


Stephanie’s poetic descent into the dark underworld of marriage. Her charismatic husband and seductive best friend fight over who she should be. This Persephone-inspired journey reflects our darkest natures. In the end, Stephanie must decide which windows and doors to leave open for light.
   
7:30 pm
Free

Performance | Headless Body in Topless Bar: Improv Comedy Inspired by Actual New York Post Headlines


The New York Post is famous for its headlines. Tonight we take those headlines (fresh from today's paper) and use them for the impetus of our improv.
   
8:00 pm
$5

Concert | Music Under Construction 2011


The group Music Under Construction makes its annual appearance at for an evening of New Music.
   
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8:00 pm
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Concert | The Pianists of NYU Steinhardt


The pianists of NYU Steinhardt perform music from all eras.
   
8:00 pm
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Performance | Zamboni! Musical Improv Comedy Show


In the great tradition of Rogers & Hammerstein and Hall & Oates, Zamboni! takes a single word suggestion and creates an entire musical from it. With made-up choreography that rivals Busby Berkeley and collective vocal power that rivals "We Are the World", Zamboni! will rock you out of your seats and make you feel things you've never felt before.
   
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9:30 pm
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Open Mic | Fresh Stand-Up Open Mike


Michelle Wolf and Erin Lennox host this 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.
   
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11:00 pm
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