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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 21, 2010?

63 free events take place on Thursday, October 21 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 October 21 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 October . 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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63 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, October 21, 2010

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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
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9:30 am
Free

Workshop | Job Seekers Resources Online


Discover the best websites to help in your job search. Post your resume to Monster & Career Builder. Introduction to the Internet is a prerequisite.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Midtown Manhattan Walking Tour


This approximately two-hour tour will take you from the pulsating beats of Times Square and Grand Central Terminal to the majesty and tranquility of St. Patrick's Cathedral. Sights on the tour: * Times Square * Theater District * Bryant Park * New York Public Library * Grand Central Terminal * The Chrysler Building * Rockefeller Center * Radio City Music Hall * Saks Fifth Avenue * Waldorf-Astoria Hotel * St. Patrick's Cathedral
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Online Social Networking Workshop


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn about online social networks and explore some of the most popular websites, including Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
   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

Other | Play Petanque in the Park


Learn to play petanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie, from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC's championship club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Other | Lunchtime Skating


Autumn is a great time to skate! Get a head start on your skating skills or just enjoy skating in the warm fall weather.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
$5

Lecture | Embodied Agriculture: Descartes Never Killed Baby Carrots!


A Brown Bag Lunch with Jean Gardner.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Talk | Recent Developments in the Wireless Industry


A talk by Klaus-Peter Statz, CEO, Deutsche Telekom Inc. North America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Advanced MS Word


Learn to create documents and reports using this word processing program. Topics include: mail merge, headers & footers, footnotes & endnotes. Introduction to MS Word is a prerequisite. This is a two-session workshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Daily Screenings: Spooky Tales


Showing: The City, The Flying Head, Qulqi Chaleco/Vest Made of Money, and The Winter Chill. Starts at 1pm, 3pm and 5:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Moon-Kyung Chae, Organist


Professor Moon-Kyung Chae will be playing works by Huber, Bach, Mendelssohn, Behnke and Lee. She is one of the leading and most respected organ teachers, performers and church musicians in South Korea. As a performer, Chae has played a significant role of introducing a large body of organ repertoire from various historical periods to the audiences in South Korea. Equally in demand as a solo recitalist and a chamber musician, she has performed with such prominent orchestras as KBS Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and Korean Symphony.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$2 suggested donation

City Walk | Historic District Walking Tour


A relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Sites we cover on the tour: * SoHo's Cast Iron District * Haughwout Building * Heath Ledger's Apartment Building * Little Italy * Lombardi's Pizza * Canal and Mott Streets * Former Five Points District (Gangs of NY) * Film and tv locations, including Ghost, Sex in the City and Men in Black
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | Researching with E-resources: Catalogs


This introduction to research concentrates on the Library's integrated online catalog as well as basic navigation of WorldCat, an online catalog of materials held in libraries worldwide.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:15 pm
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Workshop | Computer Safety Workshop


This will be a Lecture/Demonstration. Learn about threats to computers and their users, such as viruses, hackers, and spam, and solutions to minimize them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Articles: How to Find Them Electronically


Share RecommendEmailPrintShare Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL), Training Room 3 (Map and directions) Lower Level Fully accessible to wheelchairs Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm Search online databases & locate articles in thousands of magazines & newspapers and journals. Seating is limited and is on a first come, first seated basis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Discussion | Andre Previn, Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer/conductor, discusses his DVD A Bridge Between Two Worlds


Previn, whose career has ranged from the concert hall to Hollywood to Broadway to jazz clubs, will be in conversation with Julliard's Ara Guzelimian to celebrate the DVD profiling his remarkable life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Chess & Games Club


A Beginning and Intermediate Chess Program for Adults. Show off your best moves against other chess fans! Or simply learn from other chess fans! Whether you're a chess master or just starting out, come for some board time. They also welcome board games and strategy games as well.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Ben Aronson's Risk and Reward


Paintings depicting New York cityscapes, auction house floors, the stock trading floor, and restaurant interiors. Also showing: selected works by Biala, Nell Blaine and Jane Freilicher.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Kristen Morgin talks about her work


Morgin uses a mixture of clay, cement, and glue applied over armatures of wood and wire to create true-to-scale objects that appear to be in a late stage of decomposition. Conjuring up a post-apocalyptic vision, the Los Angeles based artist's sculptures are, however, as elegant as they are crude. Her techniques give the work exceptional complexity while avoiding the refined perfection traditionally associated with the ceramic arts. Morgin’s work has made its way into such notable collections as LACMA, UCLA’s Hammer Museum and The Rubell Collection.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Other | Clutter Support Group


Do you feel overwhelmed by the possessions, papers and piles that have taken over your life and space? Don't know how or where to start to make changes? You're not alone. Join the Clutter Support Group, an educational support group for individuals who are struggling with clutter and disorganization. The Clutter Support Group will be a member based group facilitated by organizing expert AJ Miller. The group will meet on alternating Thursdays to address clutter and disorganization related issues and offer support, information, tips and techniques to combat clutter and become better organized. Open to people of all ages with any degree of disorganization.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | Performance and Interpretation


Alfred Brendel in conversation with Michael Beckerman, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor and Chair, Department of Music; Paul Boghossian, Silver Professor of Philosophy; and Kit Fine, Silver Professor of Philosophy. Renowned pianist and author Alfred Brendel has enjoyed a distinguished international career in music, concentrating on the works of central European composers from Bach to Schoenberg, but also featuring many works by Liszt. He was the first pianist to record Beethoven’s complete piano works and was highly influential in getting Schubert’s Piano Sonatas and the Schoenberg Piano Concerto recognized as integral parts of the piano repertoire. His final concert appearance was with the Vienna Philharmonic on December 18, 2008. * Thursday, October 21, 5:30 pm: “Performance and Interpretation”—
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Faculty & Staff Exhibition 2010-2011


An exhibition of approximately 80 works comprising a wide range of perspectives and media, including but not limited to traditional black-and-white and color photographs, publications, net art, video, painting, and multi-media installations ­explores contemporary images and themes related to family, domestic space, social space, abstract nature, politics, memory, the body, landscape and light. The 2010-2011 faculty and staff represented in the exhibition are: M. Liz Andrews, Matthew Baum, Michael Berlin, Wafaa Bilal, Derrick Biney-Amissah, Terry Boddie, Isolde Breilmaier, Kalia Brooks, Mark Bussell, Edgar Castillo, Irene Cho, Yolanda Cuomo, Kristin Norgaard, Cheryl Yun, Neil Selkirk, Christina Caputo, Akintoye Moses, Erika deVries, Thomas Drysdale, Cate Fallon, Nichole Frocheur, Melissa Harris, Mark R. Jenkinson, Elizabeth Kilroy, Peter Lucas, Editha Mesina, Lorie Novak, Paul Owen, Karl Peterson, Christopher Phillips, Shelley Rice, Fred Ritchin, Joseph Rodriguez, Jeffrey Henson Scales, and Deborah Willis, chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Simply Beautiful, Prints from the National Geographic Image Collection


The show will feature thirty-five large-scale color photographs by over 25 National Geographic photographers. For the first time, the Image Collection’s vast archive of over 11 million images has been culled down to a concentrated selection representing the essence of beauty. These singular photographs have been transposed from their original National Geographic documentary narrative context into the realm of fine art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Alla Kovgan, David Hinton, & Nora Chipaumire's Documentary Nora (2008): Life of a Dancer


Based on true stories of dancer Nora Chipaumire (born in Zimbabwe in 1965). Using performance and dance, her history comes to life in swiftly-moving poetry of sound and image. Nora returns to her childhood landscape, a journey through vivid memories of family dramas, difficult love affairs, and militant politics which moves back and forth between the comic and the tragic, the joyful and the mournful. A film about a girl who struggles against intimidation and violence, but slowly gathers strength, pride, and independence. Shot entirely on location in Southern Africa, it includes a multitude of local performers of all ages with a specially composed legend of Zimbabwean music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Book Launch: Colin McDowell's Matthew Williamson


Join fashion designer Matthew Williamson, Laura Brown, features/special projects director at Harper's Bazaar, and Patricia Mears, musueum deputy director, for a lively conversation to mark the release of Matthew Williamson, a new book by fashion historian Colin McDowell. A signing of the book will follow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Signing | Comic Book Legend Neal Adams


Adams will be signing and presenting original comic book pages from his new DC series Batman: Odyssey. Adams will be giving a signed copy of his new book as a gift with art purchase. An exclusive Marvel poster will also be available.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Design and Existential Risk


A lecture by Robin Hanson, associate professor of economics at George Mason University and research associate at the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute. The lecture is part of a series of conversations with leading thinkers, designers, authors, and educators that critically questions how the practice of design can imagine and prepare for extreme existential risks. The events will explore the ways design thinking engages sustainability and humanity’s survival in the future.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Do Human Rights Make Any Sense?


Wiktor Osiatynski will be speaking on the limits of the concept of human rights and suggesting a more comprehensive understanding of human rights. He holds degrees in Law and Sociology and is currently on the faculty of Central European University's Legal Program. He is the author of Human Rights and their Limits (2009) and numerous articles and books on human rights, law, and constitutionalism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Expert Typography for Print & Web


One of the victims of desktop publishing and web design accessibility has been the art of typography. Now that we can all do it ourselves, we do it without the style that artisan typographers were using for years. This seminar will give you a primer on basic typography rules and strategies for perfect type. They’ll cover print and web, Mac and PC.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Gino DiIorio's Play Reparation: Mindful of What Went Before


William Patterson, the "mayor" of an old Black housing development, teaches Chrissy Aurora, the current owner of the complex, and David Burns, an inquisitive Black businessman, about life, Black History, and the responsibility of saving our antiquities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Handmade Paper Works: Ursula von Rydingsvard's Deckle Deckle


The artist will be present for this exhibition which highlights a selection of her most recent body of work in paper. The artist, widely known for her massive and totemic sculptural works, collaborated with Artistic Director and master papermaker, Paul Wong, to create a series of unique works over the term of her residency.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | New Paintings by William Villalongo


Paying tribute to the ornate stylings of the Late Baroque period, Villalongo fills his canvas with frolicking maidens, nymphs and satyrs. Wooded glades, iridescent pools, and leafy bowers set the stage for what were traditionally fanciful idylls. Villalongo’s tales however take place not in the time of Louis XV’s Regence debauchery but in our own present-day equivalent. Not simply a pretty picture, they tell a tale of lust and depravity, greed and envy. Villalongo first emerged with an appearance in Frequency at the Studio Museum in Harlem followed by Greater New York at MOMA PS1. Villalongo’s work has recently been included in museum exhibitions at the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Princeton University, the University of South Florida, Tampa, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Open Computer Lab


Bring your technology questions and get one-on-one assistance. Pre-register with librarian at the Information Desk. If you have your own lap top you can also bring it to the class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Painting: Allison Stewart's Sign and Flow


A solo exhibition of oil-on-canvas works from the longtime resident of Louisiana. Stewart's work is a biologist's meditation on the region. Through sticks of graphite, layers of pigment, glazes and varnish, Stewart renders ephemeral, organic forms that haunt and hint at the history of the coastline. Black rivers and swampy vascular systems are the result of Stewart's millings through the nature of our relationship with nature: the negotiations, the neglect, the tantrums and the tenderness.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Painting: Linda Lippa's Fleeting Moments


Lippa's new series of oils examines contemporary culture's state of continuous motion. She posits the notion that we have lost the ability to punctuate time, and that our individual experiences are no longer distinct, but instead blend into the miasma that is the passage of time. Juxtaposing highly rendered backgrounds with blurred subjects in the foreground, the artist conveys the sense of speed and perpetual motion that is our present day reality. Many canvases depict night scenes, providing the added drama of neon, and the luminous glow of car and street lights. Lippa's recent group exhibitions include Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, which acquired a painting for their collection; UBS Art Gallery, NYC; Dana Gallery, Newark, NJ; Longview Museum, Longview, TX; Belskie Museum, Closter, NJ; Traveling the Carolinas, National Association of Women Artists, NYC; Cambridge Art Association, MA; Cornell Museum, Del Ray, FL. Recent solo exhibitions include the Museo de Arte Acariqua-Araure in Venezuela; Gallery Galou, NYC; Gallery on the Vineyard, Martha's Vineyard, MA; Gallery Magritte, Tucson, AZ; Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and John Harms Center for the Arts, all in NJ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Sunset Pilates


Join Lou Cornacchia, founder of Cobble Hill's Body in Balance Studio, for sunset pilates on Pier 6 for an Intermediate Pilates Mat Class. His teaching remains true to the basic tenets established by Joseph Pilates. Students will learn proper technique, core muscle strength, spinal alignment and shoulder stabilization. Classes are open to all, but Pilates experience is suggested. Students should bring a good thick mat and a Dynaband.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | The Necessity of Madness and the Possibility of History: Reason and Power in Foucault's History of Madness


Amy Allen of Dartmouth University will present this lecture. In the preface to the 1961 edition of The History of Madness, Foucault claims that "the necessity of madness in the history of the West is linked... to the possibility of history." Allen's aim in this talk is twofold. First, she attempt to illuminate this claim by analyzing the complex relationships between madness, unreason, reason, power and history in Foucault's text. The goal here is to reconstruct the project of The History of Madness as an historical inquiry into the conditions of possibility of history itself. Second, in light of the trenchant criticisms of this aspect of The History of Madness offered by Derrida and Habermas, she'll consider whether such a project is possible, and, if so, what insights it might yield into the ambivalent relationship between power and reason.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Park Walk | Walk NYC


A walking program that encourages New Yorkers of all ages to get fit while enjoying the outdoors. With funding provided by Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Parks hired trained walking instructors who will keep participants active, exercising and having fun.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Works for piano by Schumann and Beethoven


In celebration of the bicentennial of Robert Schumann (1810-1856), pianist Earl Buys will perform Schumann's Phantasie, Op. 17. Also on the program will be Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 23, Op. 57 ("Appassionata").
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Works on Paper: Dusty Boynton's Out of Line


The artist's fifth solo show at the gallery. Boynton's new series of works on paper are rendered with exuberant, gestural zest, as she continues to delve deep into the realms of the inner child, emotional conflict, and psychology. Boynton approaches her work with a sense of immediacy, transparency, and vulnerability. As Donald Kuspit notes in his essay, "Boynton's works are as timelessly fresh as ever: the inner child remains alive and well in her art." He goes on to add that she is "a masterful colorist and gesturalist, but above all, her works are painterly drawings."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | AdDRESSing Style: Fashion in the Global Age


A panel discussion with: Harold Koda (Curator in Charge, The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Stefano Tonchi (Editor in Chief, W magazine). Fashion is an economic force and a key component of the visual arts. A site for style, fantasy, negotiations of gender, individual and collective identities in space and time. This conversation, the first in a series, will focus on the globalized world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | All About Computers: PC vs. Mac


This class is a lecture/demonstration. Are you a Mac, PC... or neither? This class discusses the differences between Apple's Mac computers and Windows-based PC computers by highlighting the advantages, and limitations, of each platform.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performance | Dance Theatre of Harlem Open Rehearsal


The performances will be comprised of 90-minute open rehearsals, providing patrons with rare views of ballet works-in-progress as well as panel discussions, and a chance to speak with choreographers, historians and dancers during a wine and cheese reception following each event.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Slide Lecture | Hawaiian Music and American Culture


With Gary Y. Okihiro. In the United States during the 1920s and 30s, Hawaiian music was one of the most popular of genres. Record, sheet music, and guitar sales, music schools, and performances on Broadway, in Hollywood films, and in concerts and clubs all added to the immense popularity of Hawaiian music. This illustrated lecture recalls that history, along with Hawaiian music's influences on jazz and the blues and country among other uniquely American forms of music. You will hear historical recordings from the 1920s and 30s.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Local Food Panel


Join us for a panel discussion on the importance of sustainable agriculture and the local movement in the fight against climate change with experts in the movement- from community gardening, to local markets, to food preparation, to the global connection. Panelists: Anna Lappe (author), Louisa Shafia (local food chef), Karen Washington (community gardens), Michael Hurwitz (Greenmarkets).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | An Artist's Talk with Denis Kitchen


Kitchen was one of the pioneer underground cartoonists in the late '60s. But he "joined the dark side," becoming a publisher (Kitchen Sink Press) and reducing his drawing. A new book, The Oddly Compelling Art of Denis Kitchen, shows that he still had a surprisingly productive and diverse career.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Xaviera Simmons as she discusses her exhibition junctures (transmissions to)


A lively conversation with the artist, Associate Curator Naomi Beckwith and Dr. Stephan Wackwitz, Deputy Director at the Goethe-Institut New York, about the collaborative process behind her site-specific, interactive exhibition in the East Village.
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Poetry Reading | Award-winning poet Indigo Moor reads his work


Cave Canem celebrates the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize with 2009 winner Indigo Moor as he reads from “Through the Stonecutter’s Window.” Introductory readings by Remica L. Bingham and Joanne McFarland, who each received honorable mention.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Charles Burns discusses his book X'ed Out


From the creator of Black Hole, the first volume of an epic masterpiece of graphic fiction in brilliant color. X'ed Out, unlike Black Hole, has not been previously serialized, and every unnervingly meticulous panel is more tantalizing than the last. Drawing inspiration from such diverse influences as Herge and William Burroughs, Burns has given us a dazzling spectral fever-dream and a comic-book masterpiece
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Christianity and the Global Politics of Sexuality


This panel looks at gender, sexuality, religion, and politics. Focusing specifically on sexuality, panelists will discuss the ways in which transnational and non-governmental Christian organizations have an impact on legal and social policies in different areas where Christians may comprise a small minority or a larger percentage of the population. In addition, sexuality continues to rankle and even divide Christian churches themselves, as evidenced by the recent tensions in the Anglican Communion over LGBT clergy members. This panel will explore debates about sexuality within Christian churches and the global reach of Christian claims about sexuality. Panelists: Elizabeth Castelli, moderator, is Professor and Chair of Religion. Her most recent book is Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making, and she is the editor of Women, Gender, Religion: A Reader. She is a specialist in biblical studies, early Christianity, and feminist/gender studies in religion. Eng-Beng Lim is Assistant Professor of Theater at Brown University. He specializes in theater, drama and performance studies with a focus on transnational, Asian and queer issues. He has lectured widely at universities in the U.S., U.K., and Asia, and has published essays and reviews in Theatre Journal, Asian Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, and Theatre Survey. Ju Hui Judy Han is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography at the University of British Columbia, and received her PhD in geography from UC Berkeley. She is currently preparing a book manuscript based on her doctoral research, which examined multiple sites of contemporary Korean/American evangelical Christian missions and the politics of mobility, humanitarianism and developmentalism. Her writings and comics have been published in Geoforum and Aether: Journal of Media Geography, and in several edited books, including Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Imaginations. Mary-Jane Rubenstein is Assistant Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University, where she is also core faculty in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. She is the author of Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe, and of numerous articles and chapters on continental philosophy, negative theology, and the crisis over sex and gender in the global Anglican Communion. Jordan Alexander Stein teaches early American literature and queer theory in the department of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He recently co-edited a special issue of Early American Literature on "Methods for the Study of Religion" and his essay "Mary Rowlandson's Hunger and the Historiography of Sexuality" received honorable mention for the 2009 Norman Foerster Prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Jewish Art Salon: Richard McBee's Sarah's Trials


The Jewish Art Salon is pleased to welcome artists Tobi Kahn, Archie Rand, Janet Shafner and Richard McBee for an evening discussion on McBee's current exhibit Sarah's Trials and what it means to make Jewish art today. The panel will be moderated by Joel Silverstein.
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Author Reading | Jill Lepore discusses her book The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's Revolution and the Battle Over American History


The Harvard professor and prolific author explores what she believes is the far right's imagined and anti-intellectual read on American history.
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Author Reading | Jonathan Lippincott reads from his book Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s


Prior to the spring of 1966, if artists wanted to create works larger than their studios, they had to turn to industrial manufacturers, usually steel fabricators or boat builders, who, not surprisingly, were often unable to accommodate the creative process. The opening that spring of Lippincott, Inc. changed all that and the direction of American art in the process. Functioning as an extension of the artist’s studios, Lippincott, Inc. was also a new kind of all-in-one sculpture production center that put the tools of industrial fabrication in the hands of artists, allowing them to produce at a scale they had previously only dreamt of on paper.
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Lecture | Photographer Martine Fougeron discusses her work


Fougeron began her Tête-à-Tête project in 2005 as a student at the International Center of Photography. In this series of intimate portraits of her two adolescent sons and their friends in New York and in France, she reveals the face-to-face engagement of the mother-photographer with the private world of two brothers and their teen tribe. Curator and critic Charlotte Cotton has called the project “one of the best biographical stories that photography has crafted in the 2000s.” A Q&A session will follow the lecture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Religious Truth Claims and Liberal Democracy: Contribution or Contest?


Participants: Jose Casanova, Muqtedar Khan, Adrian Pabst, Marcia Pally, and Rolf Schieder.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Ted Rall reads from his book The Anti-American Manifesto


Well-known for his political cartoons and opinion columns, award-winning journalist Rall has written the book he has long intended: a manifesto for America. With daily economic woes and a political center seemingly lost to a crazy ascendant right-wing, Rall offers that a revolution by the people is the necessary remedy. Come learn why Rall believes that we must pursue a new path for ourselves and one another... now.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Gail Collins reads from her book When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present


The New York Times columnist's rich, readable account of the last 50 years of the women's movement is a tribute to the people and the triumphs, failures and humor of the early decades of women's struggle for equality.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | In the Flesh: Erotica Reading Series


In The Flesh turns 5 and celebrates orgasms with readings from host Rachel Kramer Bussel's Orgasmic: Erotic Stories for Women, an insider look at boudoir photography and more. Featuring boudoir photographer Laura Boyd, Graydancer, novelist Daniel Allen Cox, gambling memoir author Beth Raymer and contributors Neve Black, Heidi Champa, Lana Fox and Velvet Moore.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Lives of the Piano: The Piano and 10!


A celebration of the series’ 10th anniversary. Lisa Yui, Coordinator.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Soul Glo Comedy Show


Soul Glo is a variety show starring the all-African-American cast of "Nobody's Token" performing a completely improvised sitcom. The show also features multicultural stand-up and sketch comedy by some of the most talented underground comics in New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 pm
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Jazz | 5/5/5 After Hours Set


A great way to hear some of the most talented young lions of jazz while enjoying spectacular views of Manhattan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:30 pm
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