Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 9, 2011?
46 free events take place on Monday, May 9 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 May 9 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 May . 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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46 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, May 9, 2011
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.
Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2003. Topics include tables, text boxes, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes.
Featuring UNRESERVED: The Work of Louie Gong, Writing the Land, Airplane, Button Blanket, and Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows. Start times are 1pm and 3pm.
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.
If you’ve been thinking about creating a website but don’t know where to start, this is the seminar for you. They’ll talk about how you go about creating a website and the software you would use to do it.
Students in the BS Urban Design program within the School of Design Strategies will present case studies of innovative urban design projects throughout the world.
If you’ve been thinking about creating a website but don’t know where to start, this is the seminar for you. They’ll talk about how you go about creating a website and the software you would use to do it.
Year-end design presentations about collaborative fashion area of study projects of the Integrated Design program within the School of Design Strategies undertaken in 2010-2011.
Lavin, star of stage, film and television, will be interviewed by Michael Riedel, theater writer for The New York Post and co-host of PBS's Theater Talk.
A screening of motion graphics projects including movie titles, advertisements, short stories and personal films from students in the School of Visual Arts' BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department.
Austrian author Alfred Goubran will read from an English translation of his new novel and will engage in a conversation with his translator Ross Benjamin and moderator Martin Rauchbauer. Alfred Goubran is currently the Max Kade writer-in residence at Deutsches Haus at NYU.
Veteran illustrator, author and longtime contributor to National Lampoon magazine and the man who created the poster for the movie Animal House - offers a tribute to thirty-five of the artists and writers who kept us laughing through the ‘70s and the ‘80s.
Hands on using wireless laptops. Are you having trouble with your email? Don't know how to cut and paste? Curious about Twitter? Bring Technology questions and get one-on-one assistance!
Hochschild, journalist, co-founder of Mother Jones, and author, discusses his moving history of the Great War, a bloody clash of empires and individuals.
David Bezmozgis, author of the story collection Natasha, and Francine Prose, whose most recent book is Anne Frank, talk about their novels The Free World and My New American Life, respectively.
Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman’s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors and executives of an international English language newspaper as they struggle to keep it—and themselves—afloat.
Celebrate the literary magazine published by students in the New School's Riggio Writing and Democracy program. Robert Polito hosts an evening of readings by students, as well as poets Amiri Baraka and Mark Nowak.
Jane Smiley is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of A Thousand Acres, a contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear set in Iowa. Smiley will discuss her approaches to writing and the secrets of her success. A question and answer session, plus book-signing and reception will follow the lecture.
Presentation of the 2011 edition with Antonio Monda. Followed by a screening of the documentary about the previous edition (2010) directed by Carlotta Corradi featuring E.L. Doctorow, Chimamanda Adichie, Walter Veltroni, Colson Whitehead, Joshua Ferris, Paolo Giordano, David Byrne, Paolo Sorrentino and Adam Haslett. This event will be in English.
On this evening, Ugly Duckling Presse brings live performances including a text for speaking by playwright and performer Kristen Kosmas; a surprise intervention by No Collective, a slideshow by artist and photographer Erica Baum joined by poet Kim Rosenfield; and Yevgeniy Fiks with a
queer guide to Moscow's communist monuments.
Moth storytelling favorite Adam Wade has put together many of his winning heartfelt and humorous stories for a special show. He’ll also sing a few songs, and play video shorts. No two shows will be the same. A different featured guest will start the evening off.
An American writer based in Brooklyn, Strauss is the the author of four books that have won awards and accolades from critics, most recently a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Half a Life.
Directed by Nancy Wilson, the Baroque Chamber Players present historically informed performances which evoke the spirit of the Baroque period through ornamentation, improvisation, and the idiomatic conventions of notation and rhythm.
With Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin and Victoria Tennant.
A dying millionaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. But something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer's body - together with the lawyer.
93 min.
A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights throughout the fall/winter and spring seasons that supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists.
Bleak! Comedy presents IRON SKETCH, the ultimate sketch comedy show down! Each month Bleak! Comedy and three of the hottest and wildest sketch comedy troupes enter Sketch Stadium to perform a sketch including this month's secret ingredient chosen by the audience. Every show promises 4 brand new sketches that may never be seen again. Hosted by a different Stand up Chairman every month.
A special screening hosted by the BFA Photography program of a filmic portrait of the renowned documentary photographer Alec Soth. It will be followed by a conversation between Alec Soth and Chris Boot, executive director of Aperture Foundation. There will also be a question and answer session with the audience.
Soundwalk, an international collective known for producing cutting-edge audio works that mix fiction with reality, debuts a specially-commissioned piece named The Passenger, an immersive audio-visual installation/live concert.
Raconteurs regale the audience with true stories from their lives while The BTK Band, NYC’s hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band, improvises music and lyrics to turn their stories into songs. As if Tom Waits and The Moth delivered a baby from the gaping maw of Chaos.
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.