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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 30, 2013?

56 free events take place on Wednesday, October 30 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 30 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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56 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, October 30, 2013

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Tour | Greenwich Village Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | 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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10:00 am
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Other | Attend a Taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, with Cedric “The Entertainer”


Attend a live taping of Who Wants to be a Millionaire with new host Cedric "The Entertainer." You are guaranteed to laugh yourself silly. Studio audience members will also have the opportunity to audition to be on the show.
   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
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Workshop | Elements of Nature Drawing


Enjoy drawing nature in the parks and gardens with an artist/educator. Materials provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 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" 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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Film | Tod Browning & Karl Freund's Dracula (1931): Classic Horror


With Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler. The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina. 75 mins.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:15 am
Free

Tour | City Hall Lunchtime Tour


Constructed from 1803 to 1812, New York's City Hall is one of the oldest continuously used city halls in the nation and one of the finest architectural achievements of its period. In 2010, the Bloomberg Administration launched a rehabilitation project to correct structural issues and preserve the historic building. This tour is limited to 20 people and is offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | Garden Tour


Experience the Park's only formal garden with the Garden staff. See exuberant perennial and annual beds, and delight in an abundance of color and fragrance while learning about the Garden's history and design.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | West Side Stories Tour


Walk through a scenic area on the western edge of the Park, much of which is off the beaten track for most visitors. See rolling meadows, lake views, bridges of different styles, and a garden with flowers and plants mentioned by Shakespeare.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 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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Concert | Janet Yieh, Organist


A free, 40-minute organ recital. The mechanical-action pipe organ was built in 1964 by the Schlicker Organ Company of Buffalo, New York, and rebuilt by the Andover Organ Company of Methuen, Massachusetts in 1981. It boasts the oldest pipe organ case in New York City, made of mahogany and dating from 1802, and contains 1,632 pipes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Juilliard Students' Concert


Juilliard students share their talent with the community in this free hour-long lunchtime concert.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Midtown Jazz


A jazz concert for the midtown community. These popular midday concerts feature well-regarded artists. The programming is overseen by jazz pianist Ronny Whyte.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Screening | The Dance Historian Is In: Films by and with Carolyn Brown


David Vaughan will introduce and screen Carolyn Brown’s film Dune Dance (1978), her ballet West Country (Juilliard School, 1970), and two duets with Merce Cunningham, Suite for Five (1975) and the recently rediscovered video of Night Wandering (Stockholm, 1964), as well as other excerpts. Carolyn Brown is scheduled to be on hand to talk about her work in dance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Investing In Stocks: The Basics


Introduces basic investment terms and concepts such as risk and reward, IPO’s, p/e ratios, and relative p/e ratios. Ways to approach the investment decision and alternative stock investments such as mutual funds and ETF’s are discussed.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Jazz | Bill Wurtzel, Jazz Guitarist


Enjoy free live music performed by jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guest musicians.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Lower Manhattan Tour


It is here, as much as anywhere, where American history started. It's where the first US Congress assembled and produced the Bill of Rights and where President George Washington took his first oath of office. It's here where the world's most important stock exchange and one of the most famous bridges stand. And it is here where an unspeakable tragedy took place and where a rebirth is underway.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Other | Attend a Taping of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, with Cedric “The Entertainer”


Attend a live taping of Who Wants to be a Millionaire with new host Cedric "The Entertainer." You are guaranteed to laugh yourself silly. Studio audience members will also have the opportunity to audition to be on the show.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Figure Al Fresco


Learn figure drawing outdoors with a clothed model and an artist/educator. Materials provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Author Reading | Book Launch: Padma Desai's Breaking Out


Celebrate the U.S. publication of Padma Desai's memoir, published in September 2013 by MIT Press. Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, India, where she had a sheltered and strict upbringing in a traditional Gujarati Anavil Brahmin family. Her academic brilliance won her a scholarship to Bombay University, where the first heady taste of freedom in the big city led to tragic consequences—seduction by a fellow student whom she was then compelled to marry. In a failed attempt to end this disastrous first marriage, she converted to Christianity.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Master Class | Chamber Music Master Class with Philippe Entremont


Philippe Entremont (born 7 June 1934) is a French classical pianist and conductor. His recordings as a pianist include concertos by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saëns and others.
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4:00 pm
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Master Class | Viola Master Class with Sheila Browne


Violist Sheila Browne has performed in many of the world’s major halls as soloist, chamber musician, and as an orchestral principal. Hailed by the New York Times as a “stylish player” and by Robert Mann as “one of America’s most important violists,” Browne has soloed with the Juilliard Orchestra, Kiev Philharmonic, New World Symphony, New York Women’s Ensemble in Carnegie Hall, South African International Viola Congress Festival Orchestra, and the Viva Vivaldi!, Reina Sofia, and German-French chamber orchestras, among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Master Class: Nicholas McGegan, Harpsichordist


Conductor, harpsichordist, and early music authority Nicholas McGegan hosts a public master class featuring instrumental period performances by college musicians.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
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Park Walk | The High Line Night Tour


The area around the High Line Park was a vital business district of New York City, supplying fresh fruits, French Cheeses and Russian caviar as well as fresh meats to City markets. The hustle and bustle of the streets induced the City to elevate the railroad trains delivering goods to the commercial buildings. When interstate truck traffic made the railway outdated, it fell into ruin, only to be regenerated as a park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Author Reading | Ann Pellegrini & Michael Amico discuss their book You Can Tell Just by Looking


You Can Tell Just by Looking unpacks enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Some of these myths have been used to justify discrimination and oppression of LGBT people. Other myths have been adopted by LGBT communities and their allies. By discussing and dispelling these myths–including gay-positive ones–the authors challenge readers to question their own beliefs and to grapple with the complexities of what it means to be queer in the broadest social, political, and cultural sense.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Art Show: Olivier Mosset's Exposition de groupe


Includes Paintings, New York and Arizona Musicians, and Serge Bard Film.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Book Group: NOS4A2 by Joe Hill


Join a spooky discussion of this novel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Director Jon Turteltaub talks about his film Last Vegas


Join director Jon Turteltaub ("National Treasure") as he discusses his new comedy, "Last Vegas." The movie tells the story of four best friends (Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline) who decide to escape retirement and throw the ultimate Las Vegas bachelor party for the last single member of their group.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Curate NYC


With 17 exhibiting artists selected from over 1,900 online entries.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Insects and Artwork


Artists Joianne Bittle, Emilie Clark, Julia Oldham, and Benjamin Snead will discuss how their fascination with insects impacts their artwork.
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Shirazeh Houshiary's The eye fell in love with the ear


Shirazeh Houshiary’s sixth solo show features a selection of new paintings that continue to demonstrate the artist’s scale of effort and process which unites line, color, and light to shape a meditative visual experience. The eye fell in love with the ear will also include Houshiary’s new animation Dust in addition to a series of anodized aluminum twisting helical sculptures. The artist will be present for the opening reception.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | What Do We Mean When We Talk about Art?


Translation? Interpretation? Mediation? Join art historian Robert Atkins and artists Jordan Crandall, Pablo Helguera and Mireia Sentís for a wide-ranging discussion of the relationship between art and language today, and the thorny task of choosing the words to encapsulate the last quarter-century of contemporary art. This event celebrates the publication of the revised and updated twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Atkins's best-selling ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Working with Style: On Translating Boccaccio's Decameron


A lecture by Wayne A. Rebhorn, University of Texas-Austin. The title involves (of course) a pun. Boccaccio was a great stylist, a figure usually thought of as the "father" of Italian prose. But his style also makes the reader work, both to get at the meanings of specific words and phrases and to make sense of the complex, latinate structure of his prose. Boccaccio's readers become partners in creating the meaning of his stories--from the first tale about the ambiguous wickedness of Ciappelletto, to the last tale about the equally ambiguous saintliness of patient Griselda. A talk for Italianists, comparatists, and all who are interested in the journeys a translator makes going from one language and one period to another.
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Lecture | Art critic Lucy Lippard discusses her work


Writer, activist, and curator Lucy Lippard delivers a talk for this year's AICA Distinguished Critic Lecture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Dramatic Writing Gallery Prize


Student actors will perform the best short theatrical piece written by a graduate student in response to the exhibition. Introduced by Janet Neipris, contest judge and Professor of Dramatic Writing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Forum | Fiction Forum: David Samuel Levinson


David Samuel Levinson is the author of the collection of stories, Most Of Us Are Here Against Our Will, and the novel, Antonia Lively Breaks The Silence. He's been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize and won an award for fiction in The Atlantic Monthly. He's received multiple fellowships from Yaddo, the Jentel Foundation, the Millay Colony, Ledig House, Pouch Cove, the Santa Fe Arts Institute, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Kevin Baker discusses his book The Big Crowd


As we approach New York’s mayoral election, come learn about the fictionalized history of former New York Mayor William O’Dwyer. Award-winning author Kevin Baker discusses his new book, The Big Crowd, which delves into the politics and organized crime of the 1940s and uncovers little known stories about one of the first corrupt mayors in America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Mitch Horowitz discusses his book Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation


Esoteric philosophies and movements – such as Freemasonry, Spiritualism, Theosophy, and New Thought – have wielded a tremendous influence over America’s past and present. From its earliest days, the U.S. served as a laboratory for the revolutions in alternative spirituality that eventually swept the globe.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Queer Asia in Media Culture


Join this cross-disciplinary panel of professors for a discussion of gender-bending elements and LGBTQ topics relevant to contemporary Asian art and society. Topics of gender ambiguity and sexual identity will range from cross-dressing in Korean dramas to K-pop to the bishonen (beautiful boys) of Taiwanese cinema.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Two Types of 19th Century American Reform Judaism: Issac Mayer Wise, David Einhorn, and their Significance for Reform Judaism Today


Talk by Rabbi David Ellenson, President of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! on PBS: Downton Abbey to Sherlock Holmes and more


Rebecca Eaton, the Emmy Award-winning producer of PBS's Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! and author of Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind the Scenes at Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! on PBS dishes about everything from Downton Abbey to Sherlock Holmes and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Hrafnhildur Arnardottir a.k.a. Shoplifter


Shoplifter is an artist from Iceland whose work has been shown and published all over the world, especially in New York City where she lives with her family. Her body of work as a whole exists in the gray area between visual art, performance, and design.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk: Leslie Hewitt


Working with photography, sculpture, and site-specific installations, Leslie Hewitt addresses fluid notions of time. Her work oscillates between the illusionary potential of photography and the physical weight of sculpture. In her photographed arrangements, she isolates personal ephemera and the residue of mass culture to consider the fragile nature of quotidian life.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opera | Operatic Works by Richard Strauss, Verdi and Handel


Program: R. Strauss Capriccio Handel Giulio Cesare Verdi La Traviata (premiere) Russian pianist Konstantin Soukhovetski presents a program of his own arrangements of music from operas by Richard Strauss, Handel, and Verdi in a staged recital directed by Tabitha Holbert.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: Born for Nothing by Lydian Junction


Lydian Junction creates intense, irreverent, interdisciplinary live art. The audience is invited to watch and participate in their open creation process to explore the following ideas: how an individual encounters a city, NYC as the Wild West, the challenge of being fully present in the moment, what happens to the body when we're really hungry, how a person's minute everyday actions can lead to monumental moments of change for an entire civilization, and many more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Performance: Notebook of a Return to My Native Land by Aimé Césaire


Live stage performance by Jacques Martial, in English. This year marks the centennial of the birth of Aimé Césaire, one of the greatest French-speaking writers of the 20th century. Born in 1913 on a small island in what was then known as the French West Indies, Césaire published Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a Return to My Native Land) in 1939, at age 26. It would become a seminal text in the renaissance of black dignity and black pride throughout the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Susan Katz Miller reads from her book Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family


Susan Katz Miller, an interfaith advocate, discusses her new book and shares her own and the experiences of others who were raised and are raising children in two faiths.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | College Piano Recital


Jiayan Sun, Fortepiano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Master Class | Jazz Master Class: Kenny Werner, Piano


The Jazz Master Class fosters a dialogue between the music world’s most significant and inspired artists and students from the Jazz Studies Program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Sean Nowell & His Kung Fu All-Stars


Sean Nowell is a tenor saxophonist and composer from Birmingham, Alabama steeped in the southern traditions of blues, gospel, jazz, and funk fused with the complex harmonic and world rhythmic concepts that permeate the music of New York City. While in Alabama, he sang in cathedrals with a national touring a cappella choir and was exposed to vocal music from Germany, Eastern Europe, and Africa.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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