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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 16, 2012?

42 free events take place on Tuesday, October 16 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 16 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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42 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, October 16, 2012

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Other | Tatzu Nishi: Discovering Columbus: Visit the Famous Statue Up Close and 70 Feet in the Air


This major new artwork has been created by the Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi. The work places the 13-foot-tall statue of Columbus in the center of an American living room six stories above the city streets, recontextualizing the historical monument and temporarily transforming it into a contemporary artwork. The room will feature many of the trappings of a domestic living room—lamps, a couch, a coffee table, a television, and more—as well as custom wallpaper by the artist. Through large, loft-style windows, visitors will have dramatic views of Central Park and Midtown Manhattan that will be seen from Columbus’s perspective for the first time. Pass holders are asked to climb six flights of stairs to a height of 70 feet above street level and to descend by a second set of stairs. Flat, rubber-soled shoes are strongly recommended. This exhibition is ADA accessible. If a visitor requires the use of a mobility device (e.g. wheelchair, crutches, or a cane) or has a condition that prevents him or her from using the stairs, a hoist is available. Visitors under 13 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Those between the ages of 13 and 18 may visit without an adult, however a parent or guardian must obtain a pass for them. Given the physical demands of visiting the exhibition, it is not recommended for children under the age of 5. Strollers are not permitted.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 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

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring you all your old favorites and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Talk | Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation: Half Full or Half Empty?


A presentation by Keun-Wook Paik (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies). Keun-Wook Paik's recent book, Sino-Russian Oil and Gas Cooperation: The Reality and Implications, analyses the evolution of Sino-Russian oil and gas cooperation during the 1990s and 2000s.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Concert | Piano Works by Carter and Barber


Program: CARTER Tetrouvailles CARTER Piano Sonata CARTER Caténaires BARBER Piano Sonata With: Matthew Odell, piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Park Walk | The Art of the Park Tour


Walk and learn about the intricate design of the Park's web of pastoral landscapes and formal romantic vistas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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
$6

Workshop | Blogging 101


Learn what a blog is, see examples of blogs, learn how to blog and to create your own, using Wordpress.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | SoHo, Little Italy & Chinatown Tour


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. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Medea by Euripides


This is a 60-minute abridged reading of the play, followed by a 20-minute talk back and Q&A.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | Violin Competition Finals


The winner will perform Britten's Violin Concerto with the Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden on November 16.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Apophatic Sovereignty Before the Law at Guantanamo


Allen Feldman, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, will speak. The descriptive adequacy of political thought today is challenged on how to engage the war of terror as a project of pre-programmed inadequation, that is as a counterfeit topography of a democratic or neo-liberal sublime that does not readily permit the stability, positionality and commensurations of ethical witnessing, positivistic description, nor of media or ethnographic realism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Digital Gotham: Researching New York City History Online


This hands-on class will provide an introduction to myriad online resources, from online books and newspapers to photographs and maps, that can be used to plumb the depths of our city's history. All are welcome, from the curious to the seasoned researcher, come learn something new and share your love of NYC.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Justin Cronin reads from his book The Twelve


Award-winning author Justin Cronin discusses his new book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: Medea by Euripides


This is a 60-minute abridged reading of the play, followed by a 20-minute talk back and Q&A.
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6:15 pm
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Talk | David Rees reads from his book How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers


Have you got the right kind of point on your pencil? Do you know how to achieve the perfect point for the kind of work you need out of that pencil? Deep in New York’s Hudson River Valley, the author—the world’s number one #2 pencil sharpener—still practices the age-old art of manual pencil sharpening. In 2010, he began offering his artisanal service to the world, to the jubilation of artists, writers, draftsmen, and standardized test takers. His talk will examine the many, many, many ways to sharpen a pencil and he will reveal the secrets of his craft.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Fantastic, Ridiculous, Punk, and Passion: The Flight of Frank Moore’s Painterly Hand in Dance, Performance, and Film Before AIDS


In this roundtable conversation, Frank Moore’s contemporaries and collaborators will explore fantasy, symbol, and artistic collaboration, along with the stirrings of political activism, in Moore’s dance and performance works. Moderated by Richard Elovich, a medical sociologist at Columbia University, former theater artist, member of ACT UP, Gran Fury, and GMHC, and Moore’s performance collaborator.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Joshua Henkin reads from his book The World Without You


In his third novel, Joshua Henkin offers a portrait of the repercussions of faraway wars on people who usually consider themselves to be spectators. He discusses this theme with Josh Lambert, contributing editor and comedy columnist at Tablet Magazine and academic director of the National Yiddish Book Center.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Neomaterialism: Joshua Simon and Noam Yuran on the Subjectivity and Vitality of Things


A conversation between economist Noam Yuran and curator Joshua Simon. Over the last four decades we have witnessed processes of dematerialization in various fields: money has been dematerialized with the dissolution of the gold standard, commodities have been dematerialized with the ascendance of brand names, and art practices were dematerialized by the emergence of movements such as conceptual art. This conversation addresses the economy of meaning when we are faced by various symbols that have come to behave like material things and, by doing so, have in effect taken the place of material things.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Signing | Photographer Doug Rickard signs copies of his book A New American Picture


Doug Rickard’s A New American Picture offers a startling and fresh perspective on American street photography. While on first glance the work looks reassuringly familiar and well within the traditional bounds of the genre, his methodology is anything but conventional. All of the images are appropriated from Google Street View; over a period of two years, Rickard took advantage of the technology platform’s comprehensive image archive to virtually drive the unseen and overlooked roads of America, bleak places that are forgotten, economically devastated, and abandoned.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Forum | Poetry Forum: Laura Cronk


Laura Cronk is the author of Having Been an Accomplice, winner of Persea Books’ 2011 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in poetry. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Barrow Street and WSQ and she hosted the Monday Night Poetry Series at KGB Bar for many years. Cronk is the associate director of The School of Writing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Robert Kaplan discusses his book The Revenge of Geography


In order to understand today’s current events—religious conflict, war, and political instability—one need look no further than a map. Robert Kaplan, foreign correspondent for The Atlantic and chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, discusses European debt crisis through a new lens and explains why Russia is so paranoid; why Chinese power is inexorable; why India is bedeviled by its immediate neighbors; why Iran is the true pivot of Eurasia; why the borders of Arab countries such as Syria and Iraq may not be as artificial as they seem; and how new communications technologies, such as social media, defeat the obstacle of geography in the wake of political mobilization.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Stephen Ujifusa reads from his book A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States


In the tradition of David McCullough's grand histories, the sweeping story of William Francis Gibbs' quest to build the fastest, finest ocean liner in history is set against the politics, culture, and enterprise of 20th-century America. Steven Ujifusa, a historian, serves on the Advisory Council of the S.S. United States Conservancy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | To Have And To Owe, a Research Platform and Event Series


The New York City opening of To Have And To Owe, a research platform and event series for thinking about debt. Focused on the social relations that debt engenders, To Have And To Owe has invited a range of artists, theorists, designers and more to offer lectures, workshops, performances, discussions, and visualizations to explore the subject of debt, and open up a space in which its aesthetic and social dimensions may be considered as part of its economic register. Tonight: Join artist Cassie Thornton in a conversation about the value and values of an education in art. In art school we make art and debt, but the debt is invisible and private. What are we really contributing to when we get an MFA? What happens when we look at art as the by-product of debt?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Other | Tribeca Meet & Greet


An event celebrating Lower Manhattan neighbors and the ever-growing always changing community. They expect to have a friendly group and a terrific time with a chance to learn some useful things about our neighborhood. Please feel free to bring business cards, menus, flyers and other information about you and your business.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | What Does a New Yorker Think When He Bites into a Hamburger? Debating Jean Baudrillard’s Intellectual Legacy


Please join us for a panel discussion on questions of power and communication featuring philosophers Caroline Heinrich (Germany), Mathieu Potte-Bonneville (France) and our visiting scholar Peter Engelmann. The secret of power is, that there is no power. Power is neither a truth nor a substance, but rather reversible at any time, and always threatened by its own death, thought Jean Baudrillard. On the other hand, how can we explain the reality of domination, and the stability of social order, without using the concept of power - without recognizing, at the same time, its inexistence and its efficiency? Philosopher Caroline Heinrich, author of What Does a New Yorker Think When He Bites into a Hamburger? and a friend of Baudrillard's, will meet with Foucault expert Mathieu Potte-Bonneville to discuss Baudrillard’s concepts of power, reality in the simulation, and paradoxical communication. In conversation with Peter Engelmann, philosopher and director of the publishing house Passagen Verlag, they will debate Baudrillard’s intellectual heritage and the relevance of his theories today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | David Carnoy reads from his book The Big Exit


The author of the acclaimed novel Knife Music reads from and signs copies his latest novel, a suspenseful tale about a Frank Sinatra impersonator and murder that will keep you thrilled and guessing to the very end.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Percussive Arirang by NY Korean Traditional Marching Band


Chwitawitadae(Korean Traditional Marching Band) is a group of musicians that plays Daechwita. Daechwita is the music played by royal military band and is historically used in the march of the King or high official. Daechwita consists of percussion and wind instruments as the word “chwita” literally means “to blow and to hit”.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Taking Custody: The Double Life of the Artist Mother


Artist, educator and blogger Sharon L. Butler will moderate a conversation with alumni Katherine Bernhardt (MFA 2000 Fine Arts), Suzanne McClelland (MFA 1989 Fine Arts), Rachel Papo (MFA 2005 Photography, Video and Related Media) and Amy Stein (MFA 2006 Photography, Video and Related Media), and faculty member Danica Phelps. The artists will discuss their experiences negotiating the demands of the commercial art world along with those of motherhood.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Vegan Artists Can Save the World


We all know vegan artists can save the world. Tonight they dig deep into the dastardly hypnotic marketing of junk food as a tool for our enlightenment and political action for climate change. Vegan food and performances by vegan activist artists, actors and musicians. Larry Litt is giving away 50 copies of his new book to the first 50 people who say "hello" to him. Lorin Roser will make music for eating awesome vegan burgers and goodies. Litt performs the dreaded 'Foodoo Ritual' that destroys fast food empires. Join other eco-vegan hedonists enjoying home made vegan food with spiritual imbibes. Don't miss this night of food politics and world-saving fantasy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Writer Robley Wilson discusses his work


Legendary author and editor Robley Wilson will share his tips on craft for both emerging and more advanced writers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Memphis Jazz with George Coleman and Harold Mabern


The Jazz Orchestra performs original works by Memphis-based jazz masters George Coleman, Harold Mabern, Phineas Newborn, and James Williams.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Party | The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard Launch Party


Celebrate the first compilation of literary fiction featuring transgender protagonists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Screening | Presidential Debate: Town Meeting


Watch the 2012 debates and election night.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Cold Soda


Come to the most refreshing night of stand-up comedy in the city. If calories were laughs and sticks and stones were if’s and but’s, then the only way to escape this mangled sentence would be to see this amazing show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
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Conference | Russian-Jewish Migration Across Borders, Across Time


This two-day conference brings together leading scholars from Russia, Israel, Germany, and the U.S. to explore a wealth of topics related to Russian migration of the past and present, from the exodus of inter-war Russian Jews to representations of the migrant experience in Soviet cinema to post-Soviet migrations to the U.S., Israel, and the European Union. Panels include: 'Crafting the Narrative of Russian-Jewish Migration' 'Listening to the Voices of the Fourth Wave' 'Deportation and Internal Migration, 1914-1949' 'The Problematics and Politics of Overseas Russian-Jewish Migration Between the Wars' 'Soviet and Post-Soviet Migration, 1989-2000'
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Bring It!


Jay Welch hosts this stand up comedy open mic every Tuesday at 11pm. Sign up and you can be a part of the show! Each week, Jay and his special guests will be joined by 10 additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. Win “joke of the night” and you are guaranteed a slot on the following Tuesday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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Performance | Comedy: Study Hall


Looking for more time on stage to practice your improv? Then stay after class for Study Hall, a free jam for students of all levels to work on the skills you’re learning in class. Just bring your student IDs, an apple for Teacher, and something to work on! Hosted by Patrick Cucuta & Elke Reid.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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