27 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, June 20, 2011
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international ...
more >> 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.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Meet with traditional pottery artist Josephine M. Seymour, currently featured in the documentary GRAB ...
more >> by Billy Luther. Starts at 10am and 1pm.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
An expert leads informal discussions in the room and answers questions. Two sessions: 10am-1pm and 1:30pm ...
more >> -3pm.
10:00 am
free, no reservation required
Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn the basic features of Microsoft Word 2003, a word processing program ...
more >> you can use to create documents. Topics include entering and editing text, saving files, and formatting.
Test your skills at state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge.
New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
free, no reservation required
Joel Forrester is a contemporary two-handed piano player, essaying the stride, boogie woogie, and trance ...
more >> styles. He wrote the theme to NPR's Fresh Air, studied composition with Thelonious Monk, co-founded the Microscopic Septet, and did music for the early films of Andy Warhol. On the first Sunday evening of each month, he plays for silent movies (of his own choosing) at the Gershwin Hotel.
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Editor's Pick
12:30 pm
free, no reservation required
1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Jorge Estevez discusses Taino culture past and present using traditional handling objects in an interactive ...
more >> informal setting.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Hands on using wireless laptops. Enhance your genealogical research by using historical newspapers, records, ...
more >> maps and databases.
2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
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6:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel ...
more >> 2003. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.
In 2001, the U.N. General Assembly designated June 20 as World Refugee Day. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's ...
more >> message on that day in 2010 urged the world to "...reaffirm the solidarity and burden-sharing by the international community." He added that, "Refugees have been deprived of their homes but they must not be deprived of their futures." A panel of representatives of national and international organizations involved in refugee resettlement will speak and answer questions like: What is a refugee? Where do they come from? Where do they go to, and for how long? What kinds of problems do they have? What kind of help is out there for them? and What do their futures hold? This program is being co-sponsored by the Ethnic Services Round Table of the New York Library Association.
6:30 pm
free, no reservation required
Inspired by the Public Art Fund's installation of Sol LeWitt structures in City Hall Park, an evening ...
more >> of poetry and music. Noted poet Ann Lauterbach will share her words and wisdom followed by a performance of Steve Reich's "Tehillim" by acclaimed youth ensemble Face The Music.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Bob Smith, essayist, novelist and comic performer (first openly gay comedian to appear on The Tonight ...
more >> Show) joins fellow performers Eddie Sarfaty, Susan Blackwell and Lea DeLaria for a reading of Smith's new novel.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Join the conversation with resident film experts Scott Adlerberg, film connoisseur and Steven Arvanites, ...
more >> screenwriter. Milos Forman's 5-Time Oscar winner from 1975 is the topic.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
Come down to the park and play for fellow visitors! Sing for Hope, a NYC-based non-profit, will place ...
more >> 88 pianos in parks and public spaces throughout the five boroughs from June 18 - July 2. A symbol of Sing for Hope's commitment to make the arts available to everyone, the Pop-Up Pianos will unite and engage diverse communities throughout the city. After their public residency, each piano will be donated to local schools, hospitals, and community centers to be enjoyed for years to come.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
The Boombox Kids - New York's newest musical/rap improv group. Riffing on styles of rap, musical theatre, ...
more >> Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Opera and Techno, the Boombox Kids create scenes, song selections and musicals in the moment based on whatever the audience gives us. With members from the PIT, UCB, Chicago City Limits; Texas, Florida, Vegas and the such ethnic locales as...Canada...the Kids bring their brand of in-your-face music to the NY scene. Come for the Boombox. Stay for the kids.
33 1/3 is a series of books focusing on music albums. Bryan Waterman will talk about the origins of ...
more >> the New York City punk scene, focusing on Television and their debut record. Cyrus R.K. Patell will talk about the Rolling Stones in the late 70s.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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A concert of Berauer, Dvorak, and Haydn. Brothers Florian, Christoph and Georg Eggner have performed ...
more >> and won numerous awards all over the globe, giving dazzling, memorable concerts with the help of a violin, a cello and a piano.
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A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights throughout the fall/winter and spring seasons that ...
more >> supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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With Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and Danny DeVito.
Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash ...
more >> rebel rallies the patients to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched. Based on Ken Kesey's novel.
133 min.
The lawn opens at 5:00pm for blankets and picnicking. Film begins at sunset (between 8pm and 9pm). All packages, bags, briefcases, backpacks, etc. subject to inspection.
8:00 pm
free, no reservation required
All's Well That Ends Well is a fairytale for grown-ups. This beguiling fable follows the low-born Helena, ...
more >> one of Shakespeare’s most resourceful heroines, as she inventively surmounts obstacle after impossible obstacle in order to win the love of the aristocratic and haughty Count Bertram. Directed by Daniel Sullivan.
With Madonna, Roseanne Arquette and Aidan Quinn.
A bored suburban housewife accidentally gets hit on ...
more >> the head, wakes up with amnesia, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan.
104 min.
Also showing: shorts including Eat my makeup! and Flying Saucey! by Marie Losier.
Michelle Wolf and Erin Lennox host this FREE stand up open mic. Sign up and you can be part of the show! ...
more >> Each week Michelle & Erin (and special guests) will be joined by additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. FRESH gives you the chance to work that new joke or rework an oldie but goodie. This show is FREE for all audiences.
11:00 pm
free, no reservation required