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35 free events take place in New York City on Monday, May 21, 2012.
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35 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, May 21, 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.
   
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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.
   
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11:15 am
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Concert | Todd Robbins, Ragtime/Tin Pan Alley Pianist


Todd Robbins plays Ragtime and classic Tin Pan Alley songs. He is often heard on Monday nights playing piano with Woody Allen's Jazz Band and has recorded two albums with that group.
   
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12:30 pm
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Workshop | Online with Morningstar and Value Line


You will retrieve important information on individual stocks and mutual funds, including analysts’ reports and opinions, and demonstrate the advanced search capabilities of each database. Join to learn how to turn an investment concept into a short list of potential investments.
   
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1:15 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.
   
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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.
   
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro to Adobe Photoshop


Photoshop may be a household word, but not everyone knows how to use it. In fact it is still one of our most popular classes. In this seminar they'll cover the basics of Photoshop so you can get started using it for photo retouching, or web and print design.
   
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3:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Chess Circle


Are you a chess champion? Show off your best moves against other chess fans! Whether you're a chess master or just starting out, come join us for some board time.
   
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3:30 pm
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Talk | Engaging the Text: Literary Marginalia in the Berg Collection


Marginalia are book grafitti that offer a permanent record of the life of a book, and the life of its readers. On the outskirts of the printed text, readers throughout time have offered both scholarly and not so scholarly asides--heartily concurring, objecting, ranting and raving in conversation with the printed page. The Berg Collection houses some remarkable examples of literary annotation. Among the most intriguing examples of marginalia here are Sylvia Plath's copy of The Four Quartets, Dickens's prompt copy of A Christmas Carol, Ezra Pound's emendations of The Wasteland, and Vladimir Nabokov's annotations of Kafka's Metamorphosis.
   
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3:30 pm
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Concert | Choir Works by Tallis, Schütz, and Others (in the Cathedral)


The Concert Choir and Chamber Singers from the University of Dubuque in Dubuque, Iowa sing works by Eby, Christiansen, Tallis, Gjeilo, Schütz, Hogan, Kirchner, Tate, Rheinberger, Dawson and Lutkin.
   
4:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Author Reading | Stephanie Hart reads from her book Mirror Mirror


A series of fast-paced vignettes that explore childhood, youth, family, and ancestral background through a mix of real and imagined memories and events.
   
5:30 pm
free, no reservation required

Concert | College Cello Recital


With Lila Yang.
   
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6:00 pm
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Concert | College Piano and Violin Recital


With Suejin Jung, Piano, and Seung-Jung Oh, Violin.
   
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking and Social Anxiety


In this class, learn to face your fears of speaking in public in a supportive environment. Moving in manageable steps, at our own pace, gradually be exposed to answering simple questions while seated until comfortable, then learn to do so standing.
   
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Developing Your Intuition: An Introduction


With Constantina Rhodes. Intuition is being increasingly appreciated as a key component of decision-making. In this class, one of New York’s most experienced intuitive consultants and teachers of intuition will help you begin to develop a range of intuitive skills. She will teach meditation and visualization exercises designed to activate and hone specific capacities which use techniques to heighten your senses of seeing, hearing, and touch, and develop your skills in telepathic communication.
   
6:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Integrative Hypnosis for Sleep


With Melissa Tiers. In this class, learn how to use hypnotic approaches to overcoming sleep issues of all kinds. Whether you have trouble getting to sleep, staying asleep or waking up, this class is for you.
   
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Intro to Adobe Photoshop


Photoshop may be a household word, but not everyone knows how to use it. In fact it is still one of our most popular classes. In this seminar they'll cover the basics of Photoshop so you can get started using it for photo retouching, or web and print design.
   
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Songbook: Broadway’s Future


A concert of new music by Broadway composers and lyricists sung by Broadway vocalists. Presented by Arts and Artists at St. Paul, directed by John Znidarsic.
   
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6:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Bill McKibben discusses his book Eaarth: Making A Life On A Tough New Planet


Bill McKibben is a well known environmental author and activist, the founder of 350.org and the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College. The longtime environmental activist and respected author argues that growth as an economic principle must be abandoned to save Earth. As a co-founder of the climate action group, 350.org, he believes that humankind, because of its actions, now lives on a fundamentally different world, which he calls Eaarth. This celestial body can no longer support the economic growth model that has driven society for the past 200 years. To avoid its own collapse, humankind must instead seek to maintain wealth and resources, in large part by shifting to more durable, localized economies—especially in food and energy production.
   
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6:30 pm
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Performance | Christopher Knowles performs The Sundance Kid Is Beautiful


Christopher Knowles first became widely known in the theatrical community as an early collaborator of Robert Wilson, when he provided the libretto for Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s genre-changing opera Einstein on the Beach while a teenager in 1976. Knowles has continued to cultivate an astoundingly diverse and prolific arts practice that includes his infamous “typings.” Seize this opportunity to witness the rarely glimpsed artist perform The Sundance Kid Is Beautiful and a second performative piece in a setting of his own sculptural design, staged by Noah Khoshbi, and then stay to hear the artist in conversation with Lauren DiGiulio.
   
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Cindy Sherman: From 1975 to Now


To coincide with the Cindy Sherman retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art and the publication of Cindy Sherman: The Early Works, 1975–1977, this is a lecture covering Sherman’s extensive, prolific career. Gabriele Schor, author of the catalog, discusses Sherman’s early works. Eva Respini, curator of MoMA’s Cindy Sherman exhibition, explains the connections between Sherman’s early and more recent work, emphasizing the central place of identity, feminine roles, and the artifice of photography in her artistic practice.
   
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6:30 pm
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Open Mic | 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!
   
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Early Hollywood Censorship: The Rise & Fall of the Production Code


This visual talk takes the audience (via DVD clips and slides) on a colorful tour of Hollywood film censorship during the early 20th century and its official demise by the 1960s. Although a Production Code of Ethics was in place by 1930, studios paid little attention to this Code and produced countless Depression era melodramas and comedies depicting gangsters, drugs, bootleg gin, prostitution, political corruption and other society ills. As Barbara Stanwyck, Mae West, James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward G. Robinson--and even Betty Boop--gleefully ignored various laws and religious commandments, morality watchdogs plotted ways to enforce the rigid Code to “clean up” the movies. Max Alvarez is a New York writer, film historian and frequent speaker on the subject of world cinema culture.
   
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | 2 Authors: Roxane Gay / Brian Evenson


Writers Roxane Gay (Ayiti) and Brian Evenson (Windeye) read from their books.
   
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Bestselling author Stuart Woods talks about his work


Stuart Woods has produced twenty-eight straight bestsellers on The New York Times list. For his novel, Chiefs, he was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Prize from the Mystery Writers of America, and he was later nominated again for Palindrome. Woods was also awarded France's Prix de Literature Policiere for Imperfect Strangers.
   
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Former Senator Bill Bradley talks with Charlie Rose


Former New Jersey Senator, NBA great and New York Times bestselling author Bradley talks to Charlie Rose about the state of the nation via his new book, We Can All Do Better.
   
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Pulitzer winner Steve Coll discusses his book Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power


The mega corporation ExxonMobil is the focus of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll's investigation in a book that also examines the symbiotic relationship between politics and big business.
   
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Kevin Macdonald's Marley (2012)


Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. Marley is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise to international superstardom. 145 min.
   
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested admission

Staged Reading | Play Reading: Bluebeard—Hope of Women by Dea Loher


What is love? How does it change us? And how far are we willing to go for it? To answer these questions, Dea Loher used a decidedly unconventional source: Bluebeard, the 17th-century French folktale of a brutal nobleman with a penchant for murdering his wives. Loher reimagines Bluebeard as a simple and mediocre women's shoe salesman with none of the power of his literary namesake. Dea Loher is one of Germany’s most widely produced and celebrated contemporary playwrights. Her nearly 20 plays have been awarded virtually every major award in the German-speaking theater world and have been translated into 28 different languages.
   
7:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Staged Reading: Jonathan Vidal's Believe


Basketball courts: failure, success, NBA and inner demons. Like his predecessors Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett and Lebron James, Peter Thomas wants to make the jump from high school to the NBA. It’s not his lack of experience or injury that detours his goal but his inner demons. Will he accept his failure or deal with himself? This piece is written as a screenplay—in the spirit of Todo Vanguardia, IATI Theater takes on a challenge and will present it as a staged reading.
   
7:30 pm
$5

Concert | College Flute Recital


With Kathryn Farenish.
   
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8:00 pm
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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.
   
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8:00 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.
   
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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.
   
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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.
   
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