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38 free events take place on Monday, October 6 in New York City.
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38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, October 6, 2014

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free events nyc American String Quartet performs an all-Brahms program
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Symposium | Da Ponte Day: Power and Seduction


In 1805, at the age of 56, Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838) left “Old Europe”, to emigrate to the United States, where he lived until his death. Da Ponte tried to establish Italian culture in New York: as private teacher, as bookseller at the Broadway, as editor and author, as co-impresario of an Italian opera enterprise, and as teacher of Italian language and literature at the Columbia College. In 1826, Da Ponte and Mozart’s Don Giovanni was performed in New York at the Park Theater. In that very year Da Ponte edited three of his libretti written in Vienna during the reign of Joseph II, a decisive selection of his theatrical work: Figaro (1786) and Don Giovanni (1787) written for Mozart, as well as Axur, re d’ Ormus (1788) written for Antonio Salieri and one of the most successful operas at the end of the 18th century.
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9:00 am
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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.
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10:00 am
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and 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.
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Advanced MS Word 2010 Workshop


Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2010. Topics include mail merge, tables, text boxes, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Pages for Mac Workshop


Get acquainted with Apple's powerful word processor that gives you everything you need to create documents that look beautiful, read beautifully, and let you work seamlessly between Mac and iOS devices, as well as with colleagues, friends, and family who use Microsoft Word.
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10:30 am
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Tour | Southern Park Welcome Tour


Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45 minutes.
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Piano in the Park: Bertha Hope


Bertha Hope is an American jazz pianist, teacher, composer and arranger who has traveled around the world, and worked with a diverse group of artists, from Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Foster, to Nat Adderley and Philly Joe Jones. In addition to being leader of The Bertha Hope Trio, she is composer and arranger of several recordings including: In Search of Hope and Elmo’s Fire (Steeplechase); Between Two Kings (Minor Records) and her latest on the Reservoir label, Nothin’ But Love.
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12:30 pm
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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. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
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1:00 pm
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Concert | The Great Organ: Midday Monday


Cathedral organists provide a 30-minute break for mind, body and spirit on Mondays at 1 pm with an entertaining and informative demonstration of the Cathedral’s unparalleled Great Organ.
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1:00 pm
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Talk | ‘The Turks Were Killing the Body, the Austrians Kill the Soul’: Suffering as a Patriotic Sentiment in Bosnia, 1840-1914


In the wake of Romanticism, early nationalist projects proclaimed a new age of happiness of the folk, yet by the middle of the nineteenth century, national activists across Europe were busily chronicling the agonizing pain of their "miserable homelands." How did new literatures dedicated to national wounds come about? What can historians do with the vast archives of national suffering that patriotic activists produced over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Building on the history of emotions, this talk analyzes and traces the Croatian and Serbian national activist strategies devoted to documenting and publicizing the suffering of the Bosnian peasants during late Ottoman and Habsburg rules (ca. 1840-1914). Instead of dismissing suffering as a mere rhetorical convention, this talk argues that the monumental body of literature on this national suffering carried immense political significance, underpinning the constitution and mobilization of South Slavic nationalist sentiments throughout the nineteenth century. Speaker Edin Hajdarpašić is Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago.
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1:00 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and 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.
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2:00 pm
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Tour | 'Playing with Steps' Walk


For Playing with Steps, participants will use unusual equipment devised by Michel Groisman to touch and be touched by the ground. And the ground can be anything: a pillow, a sheet of paper, a sound, the simple presence of another. Michel will lead the group in experimenting with different ways of walking—simultaneously outside and in, as every step outwards is a step inwards and vice-versa. All ages.
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4:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith


Book discussion group for fans of mysteries set in distant lands.
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | The Dark Age of Nyāya: The Retreat, Resurgence, and Reformation of Brahmanical Logic


A talk by Lawrence McCrea (Cornell).
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Human Rights in East Asia and Beyond: Critical Perspectives


"Critical Perspectives: Before and After the 19th Party Congress: Political Trends in Xi Jinping’s First and Second Terms" with Li Weidong, Visiting Scholar. This lecture will be in Chinese with an English translation.
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4:10 pm
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Discussion | Forever Young: A Public Dialogue between bell hooks and Gloria Steinem


Join bell hooks and Gloria Steinem in a discussion about how feminism encourages transgression, or not.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:30 pm
Free

Discussion | 50 Years of Fiddler on the Roof with Lyricist Sheldon Harnick and Others


Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof's Broadway premiere with an evening of stories about the creation and legacy of one of history’s most beloved musicals. Guests include Fiddler lyricist Sheldon Harnick; cultural historian (and son of set designer Boris Aronson) Marc Aronson; Jerome Robbins biographer Amanda Vaill; and Alisa Solomon, author of the critically acclaimed new book Wonder of Wonders. Rare materials from the library's theatre, dance, and music collections will also be on display.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | An Evening of Moving Image and Spoken Word


Hyperplace Harlem hosts works by intergenerational and international artists. The night aims to bring together discrete and diverse practices that complicate and expand notions of place as represented via a wide range of forms-from Machinima to documentary, animated historical footage to spoken word. These films, videos, written works & performances address themes such as relationships between public and private bodies, memory and loss, transferred history, and space as public domain. Participating artists include: Albert and David Maysles, Carolyn Lazard, Dirk de Bruyn, Ephraim Asili, eteam, Jenny Gräf, João Enxuto & Erica Love, LaTasha Nevada Diggs, Randall Horton, Stacy Parker Le Melle, and Zefrey Throwell. Artists will be present and there will be a Q&A with Albert Maysles.
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6:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Workshop | Intro Class: Reiki System of Natural Healing


The Reiki System of Natural Healing was developed in the early 20th century by Mikao Usui, a Japanese Buddhist monk. The word “rei-ki” means “spiritual energy” or “transcendent life force” in Japanese, and the Reiki System was brought to the West over 80 years ago.
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6:00 pm
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Film | Julien Temple's Absolute Beginners (1986): Model Musical


Stars: Patsy Kensit, Eddie O'Connell, David Bowie. A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. 108 min.
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Present at Birth? Israel and Harry Truman, 1948


President Harry Truman is often portrayed as Israel's champion, but he wanted a state that was neither Jewish nor Arab. He feared that one people would dominate the other and that decades of war would ensue. Truman failed to achieve his solution, but his fears for the future have been realized. Join John Judis, senior editor at The New Republic and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in conversation with Oz Frankel, associate professor of History, to discuss Israel's past, present and future. Moderated by Val Vinokur, associate professor and director.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Park Walk | The High Line 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.
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6:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra


With Mel Haber. This illustrated lecture features a brief biography of one of the finest popular singers of the twentieth century with videos of some of his finest performances from movies, television, and concerts, including "The Lady is a Tramp," "One for My Baby," "Send in the Clowns," "I Get a Kick out of You," "That's Life," "Night and Day," "Blues in the Night," "Fly Me to the Moon," and "My Way."
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Fierce: The Work and Life of Manuel Ramos Otero


On the occasion of the acquisition of the archives of Manuel Ramos Otero, a discussion of the writer's work with Arnaldo Cruz-Malav, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Fordham University.
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | MS PowerPoint 2010 for Beginners Workshop


Learn how to create a slideshow presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. Topics include creating and editing slides, inserting images and clipart, and running your slideshow.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | What Is 'Narrative'?


Join artists Claire Chase, Ellie Ga, Alex Kitnick, Agnieszka Kurant, and Anna Moschovakis as they discuss the term "narrative."
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6:30 pm
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Book Signing | Alan Cumming, Tony-winning actor, signs copies of his book Not My Father's Son


Acclaimed actor Alan Cumming discusses his memoir, which shares the emotional story of his relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Carla Kaplan reads from her book Miss Anne in Harlem


The writer and literature professor Carla Kaplan talks about her latest book with the historian and artist Nell Painter.
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Dorothea Lasky reads from her book Rome


With each new book, from the grand religiosity of AWE to the flat sadness and nihilism of Black Life to the witchery of Thunderbird, Dorthea Lasky's poems have kept gaining an increasingly robust readership and have influenced an entire generation of new poets, fusing the transcendent vision of the New York School with a kind of performative confessionalism, bringing the force and power of the classical world into the everyday.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Martin Amis reads from his book The Zone of Interest


"An absolute soul-crusher of a book, the brilliant latest from Amis (Lionel Asbo: State of England) is an astoundingly bleak love story, as it were, set in a German concentration camp..." - Publishers Weekly
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7:00 pm
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Reading | National Coming Out Day: Storytelling with Tumblr and Everyone Is Gay


Featuring coming-out stories by Dannielle Owens-Reid, Kristin Russo, and Broderick Greer, and Jenny Owen Youngs. Free drinks while they last.
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Story Time for Grown-Ups


Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two. Featured: scary stories for Halloween.
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7:00 pm
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Concert | American String Quartet performs an all-Brahms program


Program: Brahms: Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, op. 67; Quartet no. 2 in A Minor, op. 51, no. 2; Piano Quintet in F minor, op. 34 American String Quartet: Peter Winograd and Laurie Carney, Violin; Daniel Avshalomov, Viola; Wolfram Koessel, Cello; Guest Artist Andre-Michel Schub, Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Concert | Arias and Duets by Mozart


A concert performed by members of the Mozarteum University Salzburg: arias and duets from the Da Ponte operas written for Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte, as well as piano variations and paraphrases on themes of Mozart’s Figaro and Don Giovanni by Johann Baptist Cramer, Franz Xaver Mozart, Camille Pleyel and Joseph Woelfl.
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7:30 pm
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Tour | Ghosts of Greenwich Village Tour


New York Ghost tours capture the spiritual side of the Big Apple through stories. famed explorers, native tribes, lost opportunities and political intrigue. With almost every step one takes through the West Village, one encounters the ghosts and spirits of New York City’s past. Every corner has its stories, every building has its haunted spirits.
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Imani Winds performs works by Stravinsky, Carter, Mendelssohn


Program: Stravinsky Rite of Spring (arr. Jonathan Russell) Wayne Shorter Terra Incognita Mendelssohn Overture to Midsummer Night's Dream (arr. Friedrich Gabler) Elliott Carter Quintet for Winds Simon Shaheen Dance Mediterranea (arr. Jeff Scott) Valerie Coleman, flute | Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe | Mariam Adam, clarinet | Jeff Scott, horn | Monica Ellis, bassoon
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Tour | Midtown Manhattan Night Tour


New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline. NOTE: THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Nat Towsen’s Downtown Variety Hour Featuring Janeane Garofalo


With: Janeane Garofalo, Downtown History with Michael Haar (host of WFMU's The Ragged Phonograph Program), Aaron Glaser (The Wolf of Wall Street), NYC Trivia (win pizza and comics from sponsors).
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
$5
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