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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 9, 2010?

52 free events take place on Tuesday, November 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 November 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 November . 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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52 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, November 9, 2010

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Lecture | Transnationalism of the Heart: Immigrant Family Separations and Reunifications


A lecture by Dr. Carola Suarez-Orozco.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 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
9:30 am
Free

Lecture | What Makes Some Parts of the Ocean Sticky to Fish


Part of a seminar series on scientific issues related to the environmental quality and resource management of the New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary. Today, hear John Manderson, research fishery biologist.
   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

Park Walk | Exploring Hallett and the Pond Tour


Take a break to enjoy the Park! Take this half-hour walk through the Park's smallest woodland area and learn its history, enjoy its peacefulness, and discover the mystery behind the waterfall. Due to limited space in the Hallett Nature Sanctuary, the first 20 people to sign in at the beginning of the tour will be able to participate! Call for directions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | The Arts of Healing: The Work of Quilts in Grief


This visual presentation explores possible parallels between the process of grieving and the practice of quilt-making by focusing on a 1942 quilt from Gee's Bend, Alabama, created by Missouri Pettway (1902-1981). Featured in the popular traveling exhibition "The Quilts of Gee's Bend," this 7-1/2 foot by 5-3/4 foot stained "work-clothes" quilt offers lessons not only about the work of farming, but also about the work of grieving. Professor Lisa Collins presents her new work on quilts and the personal stories that they are capable of telling. Collins is author of The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past and Art by African-American Artists: Selections from the 20th Century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Jazz | The Gotham Jazzmen


Dixieland jazz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | A Little Midday Music: The New York Treble Singers


Virginia Davidson, director. A concert/forum of commissioned works by American composers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$5 suggested donation

Tour | Downtown: Where New York Began Tour


A tour of Downtown — its history, architecture, and art, and its fascinating denizens. Tour includes Federal Hall, the U.S. Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, Fraunces Tavern, U.S. Custom House, and Bowling Green. Led by a professional tour leader. Adults, please bring photo ID.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Author Reading | Mark Taylor discusses his book Crisis on Campus: Refiguring Teaching and Writing


Taylor, Chair of the Department of Religion, discusses his proposals for reinventing higher education and research. Taylor argues that higher education is facing a financial, curricular and institutional crisis that will transform teaching, research and publication. With the cost of higher education skyrocketing and the financial resources of institutions under continuing pressure, new economies of scale will become necessary. So-called traditional students and place-based education will decrease in importance. At the same time, tenure will continue to erode and will disappear at many institutions. New media and technologies will create new challenges as well as significant opportunities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Organist Ignace Michiels


Part of the free Prism Concerts Organ Series.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Piano Four-Hands by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, and Others


Program: Johannes Brahms – Sonata No. 2 in F-sharp minor Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Claude Debussy – Petite Suite: No. 1 Le Bateau & No. 4 Ballet Ludwig von Beethoven – Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110 George Bizet – Carmen (arranged for Four-hands) With Yiding Niu and Zhenni Li.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

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

Talk | Downtown Chamber Music 2010-2011, Concert 2


Mannes College chamber music ensembles present a series of free lunch-time performances.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Short Films on Native Americans


Showing: Las Ollas de San Marcos, Danzak and Desempolvando Nuestra Historia/Dusting Off Our History. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Featured Library Database: Academic Search Premier


Hands on using wireless laptops. Search for full-text articles in more than more than 4,600 magazines and scholarly journals covering a wide range of subjects.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
Free

Workshop | Internet 3: Advanced Search Strategies


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn advanced search strategies to narrow results and find the best information online.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Discussion | FDR, Eleanor, Lucy: A Great President, A Brilliant Political Marriage, A Tragic Love Affair


Authors Hazel Rowley and Ellen Feldman will present a wide-ranging conversation about FDR’s women. In Feldman’s novel Lucy, we see Franklin through the eyes of Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, the woman often said to be the love of FDR’s life. In her new biographical account of the Roosevelt partnership Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage, Rowley describes the remarkable courage and lack of convention – private and public – that kept FDR and Eleanor together. Feldman and Rowley, who greatly admire each other’s work, will discuss their different perspectives, as well as fiction versus biography.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Party | The Soiree: An Artists and Authors Reception


A soiree to meet some of the artists and authors whose works are featured in the Museum Shop. Special guests will be on hand to discuss their projects and autograph copies of their works. Participating artists and authors include Lori Savastano, Ellen Fisch, Hedy Page Pagremanski, Albert Crudo, Alan Messer, Jenna Lash, Mike Rollins, Inga Poslitur, Robert Gambee, Barbara Rizek, Randy Smith, Lloyd Fields, Richard Panchyk, Randall Gabrielan and Dorothy Laager Miller, among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: Rich Cohen's Sweet and Low


Cohen, the disinherited grandson of the artificial sweetener Sweet 'n' Low's inventor, combines two parts Horatio Alger-memoir, one part cultural commentary and three parts personal criticism into a snapshot of American life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | 5 poets read their work


With Gary Heidt, Ken Chen, Rodrigo Toscano, Sarah Gambito, and Katy Lederer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | An Evening with Wave Farm


Galen Joseph-Hunter and Tom Roe are co-founders of the transmission arts organization Wave Farm. In 2005, the two, then co-directors of the organization free103point9 transmission arts in Brooklyn, acquired 29 acres in the foothills of Catskill Mountain Park. There they established Wave Farm, a site for artist residencies, performances, and exhibitions that includes a sculpture garden and a planned study center. This September, a community FM radio station, WGXC: Hands On Radio, was launched at Wave Farm. Galen Joseph Hunter has curated transmission arts events internationally, most recently the exhibitions [silence], at Gigantic ArtSpace in New York City (2007), and Off the Grid, at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York (2008). Tom Roe is a sound artist who performs with transmitters and receivers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Five Effective Sales Techniques for Your Job Search


Susanne Rhow, certified Career Coach, will show you how to use 5 Effective Sales Techniques in your career search. Discover the insights and impact behind each of these steps that will set you apart from the competition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | How to Write a Book


The book. Rumors of its demise not withstanding, it remains the Holy Grail of every would-be writer. But how to do it? What's a valid idea? How do you pitch it? What kind of superhuman discipline does it require? How do you solve "writer's block"? Veteran author and editor Mark Lamster can walk you through the process, from the inception of your idea, to the formatting of your last footnote. Lamster is at work on a biography of the late architect Philip Johnson. His last book, Master of Shadows, was a political biography of the painter Peter Paul Rubens. For more than a decade, Lamster was an editor at Princeton Architectural Press in New York. His writing on architecture and design appears regularly in magazines, newspapers, and online.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation at the Library


Sahaja Yoga Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience of inner silence, calm and contentment. Sahaja Yoga is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue is facing us - frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness - Sahaja Yoga Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment. Classes are taught by experience volunteers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Abraham Foxman discusses his book Jews, Money, and Anti-Semitism: The Story of a Stereotype


The Anti-Defamation League National Director takes a hard look at the myths surrounding the relationship between Jews and money, placing the issue in an historical context and in the context of bigotry around the globe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Constance Rosenblum discusses More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section


Rosenblum brings together some well-known voices from the pages of the beloved and now defunct City section of the Sunday New York Times. On hand to share their stories are Kevin Baker, Robert Sullivan, Amy Fox, and William Zinsser.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959


With Debra Pickrel. This illustrated lecture will examine a momentous five-year period over fifty years ago when one of the world's greatest architects and one of the world's greatest cities dynamically coexisted. Each of these unequalled characters will be brought to life by exploring the fascinating contradiction between Wright's often-voiced disdain of New York and his pride and pleasure in living in a great Manhattan landmark: the Plaza Hotel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Fred Ritchin discusses his book In Our Own Image


Join author, former New York Times editor, and director of PixelPress Ritchin and journalist, photographer, and filmmaker Brian Palmer for a discussion on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary edition of Ritchin's groundbreaking book. This seminal text, the first to address "the coming revolution in photography," was originally published twenty years ago, poignantly the same year that Photoshop was released. This twentieth-anniversary edition features a new preface by the author that contextualizes the book for a contemporary audience. The conversation will focus on the book's pointed and sometimes chilling questions that are increasingly relevant today, including whether democracy can survive the erosion of media accelerated by facile use of digital means.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | International Careers with the U.S. Government


Intrigued by an international career? Ready for life with at least one foot across sovereign borders? Are you a new job seeker or transitioning to a new career? This popular series provides an opportunity to meet international insiders who offer practical advice and share their real-life experiences. Moderated by Judith Siegel, former deputy coordinator of the Bureau of International Information Programs (U.S. Department of State).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Forum | Maturity in Art - Alternative Reflections on Generational Differences


A special art forum with five invited panelists who have diverse backgrounds in the New York art world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | MS PowerPoint


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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Pen Parentis Reading: Larry Doyle / Jessica Francis Kane


Two notable writers who successfully balance literary careers with the demands of parenting read from their work in an elegant salon-like atmosphere; readings followed by intimate and inspiring Q&A, networking, and signing sessions. See Larry Doyle, a longtime producer and writer for The Simpsons with his new book, Go, Mutants!, and Jessica Francis Kane, celebrated author of The Report.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Photojournalism: The Power of the Image


Nothing captures the drama and immediacy of the moment better than a great photograph. Photojournalism can leave a profound impression on the viewer that lasts a lifetime. Award-winning news photographers talk about the field and ways it has changed with the advent of new technologies. With: Susan Meiselas, freelance photojournalist; Susan Watts, staff photographer at New York Daily News; Allan Tannenbaum, photojournalist at SoHo Blues. Moderator: Jeremy McCarter, senior writer at Newsweek.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | The Changing Media Landscape 2010


A panel discussion. Speakers include ADAM OSTROW, editor-in-chief, Mashable; MARK LUCKIE, national innovations editor, Washington Post; and BETTY WONG, global managing editor, Reuters.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Forum | Writing for Children Forum with Maryann Macdonald


Macdonald is an acclaimed author of picture books and middle school fiction, including Costume Copycat and Little Piano Girl, which Publishers Weekly called “a touching memorial to a jazz great who is not yet a household name.” Macdonald speaks to children in schools, libraries, and hospitals.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
$5

Screening | Alexander Kluge's Documentary News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital (Part 1) (2008)


News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx – Eisenstein – Das Kapital will be screened in three parts, over three days and at three different locations. The film begins with the ambitious but unrealized plan of Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein to combine Karl Marx’s Das Kapital and James Joyce’s Ulysses. This is the first part, "Marx and Eisenstein in the Same House." In German with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | An Evening with Curator Glenn Phillips


As Consulting Curator and Principal Project Specialist at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, Phillips will present an evening talk exploring the performances, time-based works, and public art that have most intrigued him during his research for the upcoming exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Art and L.A., 1945-1980, a large-scale exhibition featuring time-based and public works organized at venues across Los Angeles in 2011.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Benjamin Danglr reads from his book Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America


Journalist Dangl exposes the influence of social movements on seven leftist Latin America governments. With dynamite-wielding miners in Bolivia and farmers squatting plantations in Brazil, Dangl provides examples of inspired resistance, but most importantly, he also identifies the strategies used by these movements.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Contributors read from A Moveable Feast; Life-Changing Food Adventures Around the World


This travel lit anthology, edited by Don George, is a collection of travelers' tales written by a well-seasoned spectrum of contributors, from celebrity chefs to best-selling travel writers, including Anthony Bourdain, Mark Kurlansky and Simon Winchester, among many others. George will host the event which will include readings by William Sertl, one of the founding editors of Gourmet magazine and the former travel editor of Saveur; Andrew McCarthy, of "Pretty in Pink" fame who is now a travel writer for Bon Appetit and Travel + Leisure and a contributing editor for National Geographic Travel, Elisabeth Eaves, whose writing has appeared in The Best American Travel Writing 2009, The New York Times and Slate and best-selling author Simon Winchester.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Documentaries by George C. Stoney


Celebrate and honor the pioneering career of legendary documentary filmmaker George C. Stoney with a retrospective screening of some of his films. Stoney will attend each screening and presenters will introduce each set of films. Stoney has been called the dean of American documentary filmmakers, the Johnny Appleseed of documentary, and the father of public access television. His career spans more than 70 years as a filmmaker, educator, and social activist. And at the age of 94 he continues to make films of social relevance. Tonight: The Invader, Still Going Places, Second Chance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Hidden Fresco: New Music on Ancient Instruments


With: Albrecht Maurer, Gothic fiddle; and Norbert Rodenkirchen, Medieval transverse flutes, lyra. Leonardo da Vinci´s famous lecture about the stained walls from the Treatise on Painting is the thematic centre of this program. The mysterious text which was of tremendous importance for the surrealist painter Max Ernst and which is about awakening the imagination by discovering all kinds of faces, landscapes, costumes, battles and much more in the stained mud of an old wall was the initial inspiration for the two Cologne based musicians to work on a program with a similar process of discovering new sounds in ancient instruments. Leonardo added to his lecture the comparison of sounding bells in which the listener thinks to depict human voices. Thus Rodenkirchen and Maurer present with Hidden Fresco a program with experimental improvisations and own compositions in which the archaic layers are sounding through.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction To Meditation


With Sharon Salzberg.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Author Reading | Janice Shapiro reads from her book Bummer


Shapiro's debut collection is a humorous look at women (a cast of outsiders) who have one thing in common: They're having a terrible day.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Julie Klam reads from her book You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness


Klam recounts the hidden surprises, pleasures and revelations of letting a mutt into your world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Nora Ephron discusses her book I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections


The writer and filmmaker talks about her latest collection of comic essays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | Organist Jennifer Pascual


Pascual (St. Patrick's Cathedral) performs works by Dupré, Langlais, Consolación.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Science and Theater


Each year. this project invites playwrights to join a panel of scientists and science journalists to discuss science advancements, developments, and the stories that might make great plays. The event is designed to stir and inspire theatre artists to consider issues of science in their work, and to encourage writers to develop projects. Panelists include monologist Mike Daisey, science journalist Robin Marantz Henig, New York Times writer Dennis Overbye, research scientist Deepti Pradhan and neuroscientist Daniela Schiller.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Why Stieglitz?


A lecture on Alfred Stieglitz by art historian and curator Bonnie Yochelson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Classic German Film: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lili Marleen (1981)


With Giancarlo Giannini. In Switzerland, a German singer falls in love with Jewish composer who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that she is also a Nazi and may be a risk for them. 120 min. Award-winning filmmaker Tom Kalin will introduce the film and lead a discussion following the screening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Author Reading | Sam Irvin discusses his book Kay Thompson


Biographer Irvin celebrates the life of an extraordinary lady -- composer, musical arranger, writer, performer and wit Kay Thompson -- via film clips, live musical performances and conversation with her Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Student Recital


Student instrumental & vocal performances.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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