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47 free events take place in New York City on Friday, November 18, 2011.
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47 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, November 18, 2011

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Other | Ice Skating in the Heart of the City


Manhattan's first and only free-admission ice skating rink. Back for it's seventh season, it is one of NYC's most treasured winter destinations. Whether you enjoy a day of family skating, share a romantic evening spinning under the stars, celebrate the holidays at a company bash, or join us for the many special events and ice activities this season, ice skating truly offers a bit of magic for everyone. Bring your own skates and you can rent a pair.
   
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8:00 am
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Park Walk | Fitness Walk NYC


This free fitness walk is one hour long and led by experienced Instructors.
   
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9:00 am
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Conference | In the Tracks of Memory


9:30 a.m.: Introduction Edward Berenson, co-director, NYU/CNRS UMI “Transitions”; Clifford Chanin, National September 11 Memorial and Museum; Denis Pechanski, CNRS; Chair, Scientific Advisory Board, Mémorial de Caen 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.: Children and Traumatic Memory Chair: Edward Berenson Henry Parens, Psychiatrist; Daniella Doran, Colgate University; Jack Saul, Columbia University 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.: Memory and Its Discontents, Chair: Denis Pechanski, Katherine Fleming, NYU; Ophelia Deroy, London; Adam Brown, NYU School of Medicine
   
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9:30 am
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Workshop | Open Computer Lab


Are you having trouble with your email? Don't know how to cut and paste? Curious about Twitter? Bring your technology questions and get one on one assistance!
   
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10:00 am
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Other | Bridge Club for Advanced Beginners


Are you a Bridge buff? Put on your game face and show off your best moves. For advanced beginner players only.
   
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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

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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Workshop | In the Loop Knitting & Crocheting Club


Are you a crafter? Join this knitting and crocheting club, led by teacher and designer Ina Braun of Tante Sophie Knitting Studio, to create garments for charitable organizations.
   
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12:00 pm
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Video | Video: Nicoline van Harskamp's Any Other Business - A Scripted Conference


Any Other Business is a fully scripted conference recorded for a live audience in an Amsterdam convention center. In each of its nine meetings, based on original political debates and speeches, a productive type of miscommunication occurs.
   
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


This Organ Meditations Series features the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
   
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12:20 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   
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12:30 pm
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Park Walk | “Amble Through the Ramble” Tour


Over streams, under arches, through the woods along a maze of pathways in a 38-acre woodland respite. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   
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12:30 pm
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Talk | A Photographic Journey with Yuri Dojc


The Canadian photographer Yuri Dojc has earned international recognition for his work, which ranges from cityscapes to nudes. Last Folio, his recent multimedia installation at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, was described as "a theater piece" and "a tableau vivant" by Richard McBee of the Jewish Press. In this lecture, Dojc presents a series of his photographs, becoming our lens on history and memory. Co-sponsored by the MFA Photography program in the School of Art, Media, and Technology.
   
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1:00 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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1:00 pm
$6

Workshop | Ed Harris' Oscar Winner Pollock (2000): Life of the Painter


With Mary Gay Harden, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. A film about the life and career of the American painter Jackson Pollock. 122 min.
   
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1:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Cynthia Phelps, viola



   
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Native American Films


Featuring The Gift and Hanondagonyes "Town Destroyer". At 1pm and 3pm.
   
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1:00 pm
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Tour | U.S. Customs House Building Tour


Museum Ambassadors provide a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House.
   
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Holiday Screenings of Native American Films


Featuring Return of the Buffalo and Bounty of the River’s Edge.
   
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2:00 pm
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Film | Hungarian Cinema: Márta Mészáros' Adoption (1975)


Approaching 43, Kati wants a child, but her married lover won't agree. So it falls to young Anna, her newfound friend, to help Kati make the decision to adopt a child and learn to love and survive. 89 min. In Hungarian with English subtitles.
   
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2:00 pm
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Talk | Learn About The Buffalo


Learn about the importance of the Buffalo to Nations of the Plains with William Chimborazo.
   
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Guided Tour of the Exhibition Infinity of Nations


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
   
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Clues from Family Photos


The best clues about old family photographs are found in the images themselves. This class introduces techniques for dating images as well as resources for researching photographs.
   
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3:15 pm
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Film | Thai Cinema: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang's Last Life in the Universe (2003)


This beautifully photographed film illustrates Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s profound understanding of the aimless spirit and cautious dreams of Asia’s youth. The fortunes of Kenji, a suicide-obsessed Japanese man living in Bangkok, take a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills a Yakuza gang member. 112 min. In Thai and Japanese with English subtitles.
   
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Up for Interpretation


Quentin Skinner and Christopher Ricks discuss evidence—and reasoning about evidence—within literary studies and the history of ideas. Quentin Skinner is Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London, and is the author or coauthor of more than 20 books. His study, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, was named by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the hundred most influential books published since the Second World War. Christopher Ricks (below) is Warren Professor of the Humanities and codirector of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and was professor of poetry at Oxford from 2004-2009. He has an “unrivaled critical intelligence” (Geoffrey Hill) and is “exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding” (W. H. Auden, commenting on Ricks’s study of Tennyson).
   
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4:15 pm
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Talk | Performance Art: Liam Gillick & Anton Vidokle's A Guiding Light (Part II)


A Guiding Light was first produced as a collaboration between Performa and the Shanghai Biennale in 2010. Gillick and Vidokle will re-frame the piece by creating a ‘behind-the-scenes’ conversation that will be part screening, part critique, and part mock staging for the film. With Gao Shiming, Tim Griffin, and other “actors” on site.
   
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5:00 pm
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Concert | Free Music Fridays


5:30 Hawke and Owl 6:05 Joe Whyte 6:40 Valerie June Hosted by Lara Ewen
   
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5:30 pm
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Symposium | Climate Change and Everyday Religion in the Himalayas


The India China Institute hosts the international symposium. Participants include leading scholars and experts from India, Nepal, Pakistan, and China. The event is part of the multiyear initiative Everyday Religion and Sustainable Environments in the Himalayas, launched by the India China Institute last year. The initiative is intended to foster knowledge sharing and interdisciplinary critical inquiry on religion and environmental sustainability.
   
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Reading Hip-Hop: Off the Records, In the Books


An interdisciplinary hip-hop lecture series that provides a forum for discussion with authors who chart what we know and understand about hip-hop. Lecture topics cover hip-hop fiction, the business of hip-hop, sampling, fashion, music politics and culture. Erin O. Patton is adjunct lecturer at SMU Cox School of Business and author of "Under the Influence: Tracing the Hip-Hop Generation's Impact on Brands, Sports, & Pop Culture."
   
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Ann Beattie discusses her book Mrs. Nixon


Dazzlingly original, Ann Beattie's Mrs. Nixon is a riveting exploration of an elusive American icon and of the fiction writer's art. Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her generation, dismissed Richard Nixon's wife: "interchangeable with a Martian," she said. Decades later, she wonders what it must have been like to be married to such a spectacularly ambitious and catastrophically self-destructive man.
   
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7:00 pm
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Film | Chinese Cinema: Zhang Yang's Shower (1999)


Evoking the sharp contrasts of China’s rapid transition from traditional living to ultramodernization, Shower opens with a wondrous fantasy of a high-tech automated shower, which then slams into a vision of a traditional bathhouse—a couple thousand years old and a culture unto itself. 92 min. In Mandarin with English subtitles.
   
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Concert | Faculty Recital: Nnenna Ogwo, Pianist


Music by Bach, Chopin, Granados and Rudd-Moore.
   
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7:00 pm
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Performance | No Name and A Bag O’ Chips Comedy/Variety Show


Now in its 12th year, the show will also feature the funky sounds of "No Name" house band The Summer Replacements. With Jim Mendrinos (author "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Comedy Writing"), Harry Terjanian (New York Comedy Festival') and Lori Sommer (Red Tie Mafia Improv Troupe).
   
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7:00 pm
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Theater | One-Man Show: Andrew Goffman's The Accidental Pervert


The Accidental Pervert tells the true story of an 11-year-old boy who discovered his father's pornography collection in a bedroom closet, just to the right of his golf clubs, above the cowboy boots, behind the sweatshirts, all the way up in the top left hand corner and how this discovery controlled his life until he was 26, the year he met his wife.
   
7:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Photographer Molly Landreth discusses her work


A talk with artist Molly Landreth, with an introduction by curator Tema Stauffer. Landreth will present both work from the Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America series, as well as other bodies of work.
   
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Sideshow Goshko Storytelling Show


Award-winning storyteller Leslie Goshko (Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion, Sirius XM, WNYC) invites some of NY’s top writers and storytellers to share true, bizarre tales about their lives. There’s live accordion music, a challenging trivia game, and a free wine giveaway where one lucky audience member will walk away with their very own bottle of Sideshow Sauce! Tonight's stellar lineup includes stories from: David Dickerson (author “House of Cards", This American Life), Jim O’Grady (WNYC, Moth GrandSlam Champion) and Selena Coppock (author “The New Rules for Blondes").
   
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7:00 pm
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Other | Stargazing in the Park


You do not need to bring a telescope. They will provide a 15" Obsession Telescope to look through. It is an amazing view of the heavens. You'll see planets, stars and nebulae! Weather permitting.
   
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Student Recital: Guitar Duos


Directed by Steve Cardenas.
   
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recital: Wim Leysen, piano


   
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Student Recital: Aaron Patterson, saxophone


   
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Student Recital: Pavlo Gintov, piano


   
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7:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Thrown and Other Works by Choreographer Gina Gibney


Known for intricately crafted, powerful performances and groundbreaking community action, Gibney Dance is dedicated to exploring the potential of human communication through movement.
   
8:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Art Opening & Comic Book Release Party: World War 3 Illustrated


World War 3 Illustrated, the independent political comix magazine, presents its new issue, dedicated to the Arab Spring and the spirit of world-wide revolt it has inspired, at a gallery opening exhibiting original art and new work made in conjunction with the Occupy Everywhere movement.
   
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Amy Burton, soprano


A stellar musical event. A concert showcasing the artistry of internationally acclaimed performers and distinguished faculty members at a leading New York conservatory.
   
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8:00 pm
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Concert | New Student Cabaret


From the Program in Vocal Performance.
   
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8:00 pm
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Concert | JG Thirwell’s Manorexia, Experimental Music


A fearlessly original artist with commissions from Kronos Quartet, Bang On A Can All-Stars, and others, JG Thirwell is a master sculptor of cinematic sound, with works embracing everything from ambient electronic soundscapes to cathartic noise rock. Manorexia—featured on John Zorn’s hallowed Tzadik label—reveals Thirwell at his most experimental, presenting haunting studies in sonic space and texture for string quartet, piano, percussion, and laptop.
   
9:30 pm
No cover

Performance | Thank You, Robot’s Summer Fridays Comedy Show


Summer Friday’s is a showcase for independent and established improv teams. For each show, two teams join Thank You, Robot to perform sets of unscripted comedy, never seen before and never to be seen again.
   
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10:30 pm
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