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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on May 7, 2012?

39 free events take place on Monday, May 7 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 7 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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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, May 7, 2012

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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

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" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Workshop | Laptop Dissection Lab


Curious about what makes a laptop computer run? Want to know what you can do with all those parts in your computer? Get a chance to open up a burnt out computer and explore what's under the hood. Following the tutorial, bring your technology questions for some one on one help. Laptops are provided but you can bring your own too.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Workshop | Laptop Dissection Lab


Curious about what makes a laptop computer run? Want to know what you can do with all those parts in your computer? Get a chance to open up a burnt out computer and explore what's under the hood. Following the tutorial, bring your technology questions for some one on one help. Laptops are provided but you can bring your own too.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 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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2:00 pm
$6

Workshop | Wii Fit for Adults


Calling all Adults who want to lose or maintain current weight: Join Wii Fit for Adults and benefit from burning calories, socializing, maintaining current weight and/or tracking your BMI. Use the various workouts including yoga, strength training, boxing, stepping, hula hooping, running, and regaining balance through using the balance exercises. The Wii tracks your weight and BMI as well as your progress and allows you to compete with others. It is a fun way to keep a record of your progress while exercising.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | How to Get Started in Web Design


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. They’ll talk about what HTML is and how to use Adobe Dreamweaver to layout your webpages and style your text. They’ll show how to use Adobe Fireworks to create buttons and other graphics for your webpages. Don’t know the difference between a GIF and JPEG image? Don’t worry, they’ll explain that too.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | Saint Brigid Catholic Church Choir


The traditional choir from Johns Creek, Georgia performs works by Pitoni, Farrant, Hassler, Arcadelt, Dubois, Stainer, Boyce, Lambillotte, Kopylow, Thompson, Parker/Shaw, Duruflé, Lange and Ramsey.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | College Flute Recital


Featuring Kathleen Ellingson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | MFA Designer as Author/Entrepreneur Class of 2013


An exhibition of work by students in the MFA Design Department. Curated by 3D Design Chair Kevin O’Callaghan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | How to Get Started in Web Design


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. They’ll talk about what HTML is and how to use Adobe Dreamweaver to layout your webpages and style your text. They’ll show how to use Adobe Fireworks to create buttons and other graphics for your webpages. Don’t know the difference between a GIF and JPEG image? Don’t worry, they’ll explain that too.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | AAS Graphic Design Show


An exhibition highlighting the best work from the last three years of the AAS Graphic Design program, a fast-track approach to creating world-class design thinkers. Its graduates go on to work in major design firms and companies throughout the world, including Chermayeff & Geismar, Pentagram, The New York Times, Random House, Nylon magazine, and V magazine, among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Other | Cinco de Mayo Night


Celebrate Cinco de Mayo in style with music and refreshments including quesadillas. Everyone is invited to come take part in the festivities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | College Voice Recital


Featuring Casandra Caminiti.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Open Mike | Comedy: The Dump!


Did heartbreak ever propel you to greatness? Did you have to flee the state because Dad said so? Did a trip to the laundromat end with gypsies placing a curse on your genitals? Either way, YOU HAVE A STORY AND THEY WANT TO HEAR IT! Jake Hart hosts The Dump-an open mic storytelling hour where 3-4 lucky names get chosen from the vault (bucket) to have 7 minutes to tell whatever story they deem worthy. Grab a beer and confess your sins among friends before the world ends!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Emmy-winning journalist Catherine Crier discusses her book Patriot Acts: What Americans Must Do to Save the Republic


The author's mission is to alter the very framework of the nation’s political dialogue. She examines the current political environs and presents her thoughts on politics in a less divisive government. Crier discusses a range of issues, including the economy, health care, and political debate and will respond to questions from members of the audience
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Performance | 4th Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition


The event features high school students from Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh and Seattle performing monologues by the late, legendary American playwright. Judges for the 2012 Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition will include Pauletta Washington (actress), Lynn Nottage (playwright), Jasmine Guy (actress, singer, and dancer), James A. Williams (actor), and David Gallo (scenic designer). The evening will feature a performance from Wilson's Gem of the Ocean by Phylicia and Condola Rashad. Founded in 2007, the Annual August Wilson Monologue Competition aims to expose a new generation of creative minds to the life's work and artistic legacy of this seminal American playwright. Program participants in cities across the country encounter Wilson's ten-play cycle and receive coaching from teaching artists as they prepare their monologues for local, city-wide and national competitions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Matt Wolf's I Remember: A Film about Joe Brainard


Modesty, whimsy and clarity of design grace the work of Joe Brainard (1941-1994), an artist and writer whose evocations of memory and desire perhaps found their greatest expression in his memoir-poem, I Remember. Brainard's many drawings, collages, assemblages, and paintings, as well as his short essays and verbal-visual collaborations, were celebrated throughout his lifetime and ever since. Filmmaker Matt Wolf returns to this iconic poem in his film. His archival montage combines audio recordings of Brainard reading from the poem, as well as an interview with his lifelong friend and collaborator, the poet Ron Padgett.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Michael Montlack discusses his book Divining Divas: 100 Gay Poets on the Women Who Inspire Them


Michael Montlack, whose My Diva was a Lambda Award nominee, joins Hansa Bergwall, Guillermo Castro, Lonely Christopher, Jee Leong Koh and Rigoberto Gonzalez, contributors to his new book, Divining Divas, for a night of daring and appreciative poetry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Music of Charlie Parker


Directed by Dave Glasser.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Signing | Robert A. caro, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, signs copies of his book The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson


Celebrated historian Caro presents the fourth book in his multi-volume Pulitzer Prize-winning biography on LBJ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Seeing Power Seeing: Two Films by Martin Lucas


These two very different films (Cold Shutdown: Fukushima One Year After and Beyond Recognition), both look at the current state of the encounter between people and technology and ask how our lives are dictated (even dominated) by complex technologies, technologies that prioritize our lives while masking the games of profit and desire that they involve us while hiding the way that they force us to employ our own humanity in the service of dubious and ultimately sterile goals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | String quintets by Mozart and Schoenberg


String ensemble Concertante in a rare free performance. Program: Mozart String Quintet in B-flat Major, K. 174 Shulamit Ran For Dear Life (Linda’s Music) (New York Premiere)/i> Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Screening | The 23rd Annual Dusty Film & Animation Festival


The festival highlights more than 100 films by students graduating from the BFA Film, Video and Animation Department. The program includes screenings of short films, videos and animations, and culminates in an awards ceremony with notables from the film and animation industries.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | College Accompanying Recital


Featuring Kyoung Im Kim.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Opera | Opera Feroce performs Amor & Psyche featuring the Music of Handel


A fast-paced and whimsical pasticcio opera telling a timeless tale of love, loss, reconciliation and jealous in-laws. Staged and set to the music of Handel, Dowland, Porpora and ten other masters of the 17th and 18th centuries, Amor & Psyche has been hailed as a ‘masterful hodgepodge.’ It is based on the Roman myth of the lovely mortal Psyche (Beth Anne Hatton, soprano), her on-again, off-again, on-again romance with Cupid, the god of love (Hayden DeWitt, mezzo-soprano), and their dealings with Venus, Psyche’s father, Psyche’s sister, Pan, and Jove (all played by Alan Dornak, countertenor).
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Pay-what-you-can admission policy

Performance | Comedy: The Complete First Season / Cash Only


THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON is Joe Albano, Emily Morrow, Shawtane Bowen, Kelly Kapron, Dion Flynn, Michael Cirelli, Michael Newman, and Christine DeNoon. CASH ONLY! is Paul Gutkowski, Dan Hartlet, Beth White, Joanna Flamm, Darcy Burke, Ben Jaeger-Thomas, David Rysdahl, and Sarah Williams.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Composing for Piano Workshop Recital


This event is a semester-end performance by students from the Composing for Piano Workshop class, instructed by Noam Sivan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance: HeJin Jang / Anna Mendelssohn / Anna Azrieli / James Morrow


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Kippenberger in America


On the occasion of the publication of Susanne Kippenberger’s book, Kippenberger: The Artist and His Families, a panel discussion on the artist Martin Kippenberger's legacy and influence in the United States. Whether in America or Europe, Martin Kippenberger was a polarizing figure. Since his death, he has become a major influence on a new generation of artists around the world. Peter Pakesch, Ann Temkin, and John Miller will discuss American and European perspectives on Martin Kippenberger and his work. The event will be moderated by Robert Storr.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | NYU New Music Ensemble


From the Program in New Music Performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Student Baroque Chamber Players


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College Voice Recital


Featuring Nadia Petrella.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Jazz | College Jazz Guitar Recital


Featuring Sebastian Boehlen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Concert | College Voice Recital


Featuring Kasondra Kazanjian.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Haberdasher / 1-800-LONDON


HABERDASHER is Patrick Cucuta, Ryan Stadler, Anna Moore, Kevin Kelly, Devin Horne, Kindel Ingham, Nicole Ayache, and Evan Leed. 1-800-LONDON is Jason Specland, Colin Longstaff, James Coker, Michael Greene, Kathryn Dunn, Suni Reyes, Amy Albert, and Greg Wilker.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Jazz | Music of Herbie Hancock


Directed by George Cables.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Base Jam


Leap — and then look! — into the newest open-improv session. Base Jam lets improv students of all stripes to jump head-first into the wonderful and frightening world of long-form improvisation. Let’s face it: Getting better at improv is about flight hours — the time spent on a stage, in a scene, in front of people — leaping first, and then looking for a place to land. Or to keep flying. Hosted by Gary DeNoia and Keith Huang.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Fresh


Michelle Wolf and Erin Lennox host this FREE stand up open mic every Monday night at 11PM. 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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