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69 free events take place on Sunday, June 21 in New York City.

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69 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Sunday, June 21, 2015

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Workshop | Tai Chi on the Hudson

Join Silvana Pizzuti on Sunday mornings to learn and practice Tai Chi, a slow moving martial art with health benefits for all fitness levels.

Upper West Side, New York, NY

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8:00 am
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Park Walk | Park Nature Walk

The park brings attention to its vital role in creating one of the scarcest resources in all of Manhattan—wildlife habitat. Learn about the park’s wildlife by joining experienced naturalists on guided nature walks along the park’s esplanade.

New York, NY

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9:00 am
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Concert | 6 Outdoor Concerts: Folk, Classical, World

Just Another Folk Singer Folk 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM Rolando R. World Latin Jazz 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM String Peddlers World Folk Americana / Bluegrass 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Grant Maloy Smith Singer/Songwriter Folk Americana / Bluegrass 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM The Raytones Blues 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM 2 Violins, 1 Cello Standards Classical Celtic 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Alphabet City, New York, NY

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10:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair

Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.

New York, NY

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10:00 am
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Concert | Make Music New York Concert Lineup

Laura Bowman - Folk 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Lynne Taylor - Singer/Songwriter Indie-Folk 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM Dark Horse Ramblers - Blues 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM The Tumble - Americana / Bluegrass 1:15 PM - 2:00 PM MikeyMoNYC - Other 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Collin Couvillion - Folk Blues Americana / Bluegrass 3:15 PM - 5:15 PM Thicket and Thistle - Musical Theater Indie-Folk Americana / Bluegrass 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM MMNY Pop-Up Musicals by Soundfly - Musical Theater 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Midtown, New York, NY

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10:15 am
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Concert | 2 Latin Music Concerts

El Taller Latino Americano Latin 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Harlem Samba World 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

East Harlem, New York, NY

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11:00 am
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Concert | 3 Concerts: R+B, Funk, World

Lamayah R&B Singer/Songwriter Pop 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM Marcela Pop Latin Funk 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Hunter Haitian Drumming Workshop World 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM

East Harlem, New York, NY

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11:00 am
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Jazz | 3 Jazz Concerts

Todd Londagin Band Jazz 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM The Brighton Beat World Jazz Funk 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM Joy on Fire Punk Jazz 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

East Village, New York, NY

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11:00 am
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Concert | Block Party Concerts

Dan Lipsitz's Late Night Snack Rock Jazz 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Ali Grieb Cabaret 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Sheron World Pop 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Larry Krone Country 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Mass Appeal Klezmer Violins World Play-Along Folk 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM El Caribefunk Reggae Latin Funk 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Bridget Barkan R&B Pop 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Stephanie McKay Singer/Songwriter 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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11:00 am
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Concert | Carrie Lane, NYC Pop Princess

Carrie Lane has been touring the country on many tours like The Creatour, Good Times Fest, Winter Lights, Stand 4 Change tour and MAD Concert. Carrie is also an accomplished model and is represented by MSA Models of New York.

East Harlem, New York, NY

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11:00 am
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Workshop | Checkmate 101

Come learn how to take your chess game to the next level with Zeebedee Collins. Best for beginners; limited boards available.

Brooklyn Heights, New York, NY

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11:00 am
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Tour | Flatiron District Walking Tour

Join professional guides on a 90-minute journey through this vibrant neighborhood, viewing some of the city’s most notable landmarks, including the New York Life Insurance Building, the MetLife Clock Tower, the Appellate Courthouse and the famous Flatiron Building.

Midtown,

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11:00 am
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Tour | Historic Orchard Street Tour

Take a historical three-hour journey through the Lower East Side and explore some of the rich history tracing the arrival of immigrants to modern times.

East Village,

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11:00 am
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Concert | Make Music New York Concert

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM AFK Trio 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Manguito 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Joe Con

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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11:00 am
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Park Walk | Mid-Park Welcome Tour

Explore the Park’s central features including the Lake and Ramble woodland, then marvel at the views from Belvedere Castle. Route involves many hills, stairs, and uneven paths. 45 minutes.

Central Park, New York, NY

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11:00 am
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Fair | Taste of Jewish Culture Street Fair

The Workmen’s Circle’s Taste of Jewish Culture Street Fair is a signature event that brings together thousands of foodies and dozens of purveyors of delicious food for a day of eating, learning, and celebrating in New York.

New York, NY

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11:00 am
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Talk | Theater of the Oppressed

Katy Rubin says, "We will open the talk with two monologues from The Housing Circus, a play we created with the Concrete Justice troupe, made up of actors with experience of homelessness, during our residency. Then I will speak, alongside the actors, about the importance of initiating social change from the direct experience of, and in the voices of, those confronting the oppressions. We will speak to our ethical understanding of Theater of the Oppressed, which is to approach social change from a position of solidarity and collective risk-taking." Katy Rubin, Executive Director of Theater of the Oppressed NYC, is a Joker, actor and circus artist. She has facilitated and directed Forum and Legislative Theater workshops and performances in partnership with various communities including homeless adults and youth; LGBT homeless teens; people living with HIV/AIDS; recent immigrants; and court-involved youth and adults. Katy trained with Augusto Boal at the Center for Theatre of the Oppressed—Rio de Janeiro, and later with Jana Sanskriti in India, Mind the Gap in Yorkshire and Cardboard Citizens in London. She has trained facilitators in Nicaragua, the Netherlands, Norway and New Orleans as well as NYC.

Lincoln Square, New York, NY

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11:00 am
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Workshop | Vinyasa Yoga

Instructors from neighborhood studios will help you get your stretch on. Please bring your own mat.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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11:00 am
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Park Walk | Waterfront Walk: Guided Park Tour

Join docents on a tour to learn about the history of the Brooklyn waterfront, the park's sustainable design, and how the park came to life.

New York, NY

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11:00 am
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Concert | 2 Make Music New York Concerts

Unigen Pop Kids Electronic 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM MakerzMark R&B Singer/Songwriter Jazz 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

East Harlem, New York, NY

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11:30 am
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Park Walk | Foraging in the Park

With naturalist/author "Wildman" Steve Brill. America's go-to guy for foraging, Brill will lead one of his world-famous foraging tours of the Park, a great place for wild foods, and the summer is an especially rich season.

Park Slope,

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11:45 am
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Concert | 2 Singer-Songwriters

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Maggie Anderson 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Kama Linden

East Harlem, New York, NY

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12:00 pm
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Concert | 2015 Bang on a Can Marathon

The 2015 Bang on a Can Marathon returns with its annual incomparable super-mix of boundary-busting music from around the corner and around the world. The 2015 Bang on a Can Marathon will feature rare performances by some of the most innovative musicians of our time side-by-side with some of today’s most pioneering young artists. FEATURING MUSIC BY Anna Clyne, Julian Day, Lainie Fefferman, Michael Gordon, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Paul Kerekes, David Lang, Lao Luo, Ivo Papasov, Tristan Perich, Pixies, Bobby Previte, Todd Reynolds, Somei Satoh, LJ White, Kendall Williams, Julia Wolfe, AND MORE. FEATURING PERFORMANCES BY Asphalt Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Crossfire Steel Orchestra Inc., Vicky Chow, Nels Cline, Corey Dargel, Dither, Florent Ghys, Gong Linna, Grand Band, Tomoko Mukaiyama, So Percussion, Third Angle New Music, AND MORE. PLUS Bang on a Can’s social engagement wing Found Sound Nation hosts its Street Studio – a mobile recording studio equipped for passersby and Marathon musicians alike to spontaneously create and record original music.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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12:00 pm
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Concert | 3 Concerts, World, Jazz, Classical

mbiraNYC World 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Roy Yegerman Jazz Blues 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Tomasz Halat Singer/Songwriter Jazz Classical 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Alphabet City, New York, NY

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12:00 pm
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Concert | 3 Singer-Songwriters in Concert

Nico Rivers Singer/Songwriter Indie-Rock Indie-Folk 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Sofia Nicole Singer/Songwriter Pop Indie-Folk 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM Jessica Graae Rock Singer/Songwriter Folk 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Alphabet City, New York, NY

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12:00 pm
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Concert | 5 Outdoor Concerts: Jazz, R+B, Pop

The Smoke People Jazz Indie-Rock 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Aurical Singer/Songwriter Indie-Rock Indie-Folk 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Sofia Nicole Singer/Songwriter Pop Indie-Folk 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM Grant Maloy Smith Singer/Songwriter Folk Americana / Bluegrass 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Lamayah R&B Singer/Songwriter Pop 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Midtown, New York, NY

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12:00 pm
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Concert | Block Party Concert

The Block Party hosts 4 choruses, brass band, fife and drum, taiko drums, dance group and individual performers.

Midtown, New York, NY

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12:00 pm
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Concert | Lin Sing Manhattan Music and Dance Association

LES community-based Chinese art group presents annual concert featuring a choir, live music, full costume dancing and singing.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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12:00 pm
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Concert | Make Music New York Concert Lineup

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Traveling Jewburys - Americana / Bluegrass 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Mobile Steam Unit - Indie-Rock 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM The New Thereminstrels - Indie-Rock Electronic Blues 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Drum and a Tantrum - Rock Folk Americana / Bluegrass 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Nico Padden - Singer/Songwriter 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Joe Hardy Wiley - Folk 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM SisterMonk - World Indie-Rock Indie-Folk

Midtown, New York, NY

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12:00 pm
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Concert | Pangean Orchestra

Pangean Orchestra will play a free performance as part of Make Music New York. Created in 2009, Pangean Orchestra unites music from all over the world into a unique style with the purpose of bringing people of different cultures together. They are based in NYC and Phoenix, Arizona.

New York, NY

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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Studio Squared: The Art of the Graphic Novel

Studio Squared is a series of informal art-making workshops aimed at making a wide range of studio practices accessible to adult audiences. Each workshop focuses on a particular theme and creative process inspired by our exhibitions, and explores methods of creative production through an experiential approach. This two-part session invites workshop participants to experiment with techniques and methods that are foundational to Trenton Doyle Hancock’s practice through hands-on tutorials. Join illustrator, painter and graphic novelist Jennifer Yvette Cruté and learn to storyboard and illustrate your own graphic novel. After a presentation on her dynamic practice — including her influences growing up and experience in commercial illustration — Cruté will provide an overview of the basics of producing visual narratives, and elaborate upon the power of the graphic novel as a tool of activism and self-expression. Materials will be provided; however, participants may also bring an iPad or laptop with drawing programs.

Upper Manhattan,

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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Big City Fishing

Fishing in New York City? You bet! Each summer, Big City Fishing offers a free program, to those as young as five who are eager to learn both how to fish and about the Hudson River environment. They provide the rods, reels, bait and instruction. Beyond teaching fishing, the program also provides participants with a first-hand opportunity to learn about river ecology and the many fish species that can be found in the river. Participants can drop in a line and relax, or engage with environmental educators on such topics such as water quality, fish biology and more. A fun and educational experience, Big City Fishing offers city-dwellers a unique option for outdoor family recreation.

New York, NY

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1:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance: Rachel Tess' These are bodies, These are motions, This is the place

In a landscape of palpable textures, performers Rachel Tess and Benoît Lachambre navigate the link between inner body and tangible object and animating the inanimate through an exploration of the senses in These are bodies, These are motions, This is the place. Skin becomes canvas, bodies become abstracted, glimpses of the recognizable are sometimes present, and the byproduct of contact with the outer environment is an acoustic/rhythmic transmission of the sensuous. Letting be, being with, and sensing the profundity of silence allows the performers to refer unobtrusively to the complexities of human relationships.

Hell's Kitchen, New York, NY

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1:00 pm
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Concert | ensemble, et al., a Brooklyn Percussion Quartet

A post-minimal percussion group. Imagine post-rock instrumentals without guitars and replaced with vibraphones, marimba and glockenspiels.

Midtown, New York, NY

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1:30 pm
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Concert | 2 Singer-Songwriters in Concert

Killy Dwyer Singer/Songwriter Electronic Cabaret 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Tomasz Halat Singer/Songwriter Jazz Classical 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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2:00 pm
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Concert | Blues and Bluegrass: Victor Weiss and Michael Abrams

An eclectic jam that features bluegrass, blues, kirtan for the solstice, and more.

Alphabet City, New York, NY

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2:00 pm
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Concert | Broadway at 92Y Chorus Concert

Hear songs from “Matilda”, “Hairspray”, “Carousel”, “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Violet”, “Peter Pan”, and “Merrily We Roll Along”. The Broadway at 92Y Chorus is over 20 years old and remains the only community chorus in New York City devoted to the classic repertory from the American musical theater, stage and screen.

Carnegie Hill, New York, NY

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2:00 pm
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Concert | Concerts: Experimental/Electronic

2500 Cicadas Experimental 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Honeychild Coleman Electronic 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Jacob Friedman Other Rock Experimental 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Sanpo Matsumoto Electronic 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Electric Djinn Electronic 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

East Village, New York, NY

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2:00 pm
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Jazz | Cynthia Scott, Jazz-Soul Singer

This Sunday is Father’s Day, so take that daddy by the hand down to the river to see singer/songwriter Cynthia Scott perform her jazz/soul original compositions. Scott is an ex (of Ray Charles fame) “Raelette” backup singer. Her own tunes about life are reminiscent of the late, great Abby Lincoln.

Upper Manhattan, New York, NY

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2:00 pm
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Lesson | Free Guitar Lessons

Ever wanted to play guitar? Got five minutes? Stop by and one of six guitar teachers will have you playing in just minutes.

Midtown, New York, NY

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2:00 pm
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**Film | George Cukor's Oscar Nominee Adam's Rib (1949): Married Attorneys**

Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday. Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband. 101 mins.

Midtown,

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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Studio Squared: Animation Basics

Studio Squared is a series of informal art-making workshops aimed at making a wide range of studio practices accessible to adult audiences. Each workshop focuses on a particular theme and creative process inspired by our exhibitions, and explores methods of creative production through an experiential approach. This two-part session invites workshop participants to experiment with techniques and methods that are foundational to Trenton Doyle Hancock’s practice through hands-on tutorials. Led by television animation producer, director and illustrator LeSean Thomas, this workshop will illuminate the building blocks of animation and highlight beginner’s techniques for character design! Thomas will begin the workshop with a presentation of his own work, including his recent contributions to Black Dynamite: The Animated Series, The Legend of Korra and The Boondocks. He will then open the floor to explore with our participants the basics of anatomy, lighting, and other techniques that bring characters to life.

Upper Manhattan,

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2:00 pm
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Concert | Make Music New York Concert Lineup

MMNY Pop-Up Musicals by Soundfly - Musical Theater 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Mass Appeal Ukuleles - World, Standards, Play-Along 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Exquisite Corpses: Hosted by David Rothenberg - Play-Along, Jazz, Experimental 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Midtown, New York, NY

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2:30 pm
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Concert | Alicia Svigals: Violin Mass Appeal

Join together with dozens of fellow violinists in a unique expression of the beauty of klezmer. Alicia Svigals, widely regarded as one of klezmer’s greatest exponents, will lead a group of violinists of all ages and of varied experience levels in a free, outdoor event on the summer solstice. Svigals has written a suite of tunes that will take players and listeners on a tour of the basic klezmer forms: horas, bulgars, freylekhs, and more. Playing the piece will start you on the path to the secrets of an authentic Yiddish playing style – the timbres and rhythmic feel, the modes and dance beats, slides, trills and krekhzn that make a violinist sound like a bonafide klezmer.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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3:00 pm
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Concert | Block Party Concert

Maoz Ezra - World Classical 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Alon Nechushtan Talat Group - 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM New York Andalus Ensemble - World 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Midtown, New York, NY

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3:00 pm
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Concert | Hip-Hop: End of the Weak

NYC's longest-running hip-hop show (and an international movement) presents their second annual showcase.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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3:00 pm
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Concert | Make Music New York Concert

DABUMRUSHKREW Other Hip-Hop Funk 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM MakerzMark R&B Singer/Songwriter Jazz 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Just Another Folk Singer Folk 4:45 PM - 5:30 PM Just-One Hip-Hop Experimental 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM

East Harlem, New York, NY

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3:00 pm
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**Staged Reading | Play Reading: Girl Peace by Patricia Floyd**

A work-in-progress which attempts to give voice to the origins of some of the pain found in the community of African-American women.

Upper Manhattan, New York, NY

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3:00 pm
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Concert | Roberto Buscarsi, Crooning Ukuleleist

Troubador singing popular songs in 11 languages including Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Indonesian, Serbian, Tagalog, Russian and Spanish.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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3:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Souleymane Badolo’s Dance my life

Inspired by the contrast in the paces of life between his native home of Burkina Faso and his adopted home of New York City, Souleymane Badolo’s Dance my life is a celebration that crosses boundaries to highlight the similarities of what we all experience. In the fast-paced world of the present, there is a sense of urgency to accomplish as much as possible as fast as possible. Yet, people everywhere still feel and think about many of the same things – including work, family, prayer, joy, and sadness. This commonality of the human experience is at the center of Dance my life.

New York, NY

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3:00 pm
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Concert | Applefeast, Pop Rockers

A pop rock band with influences in jazz, classical, and rock music that strives to write catchy and meaningful music.

Lower East Side, New York, NY

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3:15 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: Public Eye, 175 Years of Sharing Photography

Join a 45-minute docent led tour of the exhibition.

Midtown,

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3:30 pm
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Concert | Indie Sounds: Jafé / Thicket and Thistle / Justin Dean Thomas

Quazimodo Jones is the inevitable evolution of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jafé Paulino. As a founding member and lead singer of New York City's blues rock/reggae trio, VIVA MAYDAY, Jafé and co-founder Gian Stone created a unique and distinguishable sound from 2007-2013 while earning a buzz in the scene for their highly energetic live performances, opening up for legendary acts Living Colour, Dead Prez, Das EFX, Styles P, Dawn Penn, and The Burnt Sugar Arkestra Chamber. After a long hiatus intertwined with further soul searching, Jafé took on the persona of Mr. Jones as a means to share his journey of spirit vs. ego in the modern world. Thicket and Thistle is a NYC-based folk band and writing/performance collective, focused on devising new works which interweave theatre and original music. Justin Dean Thomas is a NYC singer songwriter. Originally from Boston, he cut his teeth playing everywhere he could hitchhiking his way across America immersing himself in folk, country, rhythm and blues and rock n roll. Lending his time to poetry and songwriting, he developed a sound all his own. Living in NYC, he got made his foray singing in the subways and clubs.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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3:30 pm
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Concert | 2 Indie Rock Concerts

Chris Moore Indie-Folk 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Karen Davis Indie-Rock 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Alphabet City, New York, NY

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4:00 pm
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Concert | Concerts: Rock, Jazz, Soul

Lukka Rock 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Just Pete and Francie Rock Americana / Bluegrass 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Deanna Jazz 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Faith Soul Rock 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Alphabet City, New York, NY

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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Contextualizing Comics

Bringing together innovators and seminal voices in the field of comics, this panel seeks to discuss and contextualize comics as sites of activism, black ownership and agency. Four representatives from the Women In Comics NYC Collective International will present the important work they have done in confronting and combating marginalization within the field, and expose the power of comics to rewrite women and people of color as heroes, leaders and agents of social change. Together, and with the participation of the audience, the panel will explore the particularity of black characters and develop a new vocabulary for owning authentic representation within the field.

Upper Manhattan,

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4:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance: Rachel Tess' These are bodies, These are motions, This is the place

In a landscape of palpable textures, performers Rachel Tess and Benoît Lachambre navigate the link between inner body and tangible object and animating the inanimate through an exploration of the senses in These are bodies, These are motions, This is the place. Skin becomes canvas, bodies become abstracted, glimpses of the recognizable are sometimes present, and the byproduct of contact with the outer environment is an acoustic/rhythmic transmission of the sensuous. Letting be, being with, and sensing the profundity of silence allows the performers to refer unobtrusively to the complexities of human relationships.

New York, NY

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4:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance: Trisha Brown's In Plain Site

In this newly created initiative, the Trisha Brown Company will use selected material from the company’s extensive repertoire and weave it together inspired by the beauty of park to create a memorable, site-specific performance.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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4:00 pm
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Concert | Mass Appeal Guitars

Rock Play-Along Folk, with special guest Danielle Cotton

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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4:00 pm
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**Poetry Reading | Walt Whitman's Song of Myself Marathon**

Contribute your barbaric yawp to the twelfth annual Song of Myself Marathon! Hosted by Whitman scholar and NYU professor Karen Karbiener. The event be led off by thunder-voiced poet Martín Espada set against the spectacular view of Manhattan, the Brooklyn Bridge, and New York Harbor from the Granite Prospect.

New York, NY

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4:00 pm
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Concert | Elgin Giles, R+B Singer-Songwriter

Elgin Giles, a native North Carolinian, was born Dec. 11th, 1991, in Raleigh, NC. He grew up leading the choir in church and soon began to write/arrange his own music at the young age of 10. With such a powerful ear and soul, Elgin has a level of creativity and showmanship that is rarely seen in today’s musical pop culture.

East Harlem, New York, NY

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5:00 pm
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Concert | World Premiere Performance by Brazilian Composer Valéria Bonafé

The new piece by Bonafé is site-specific, designed to complement the environment of the park, creating a path for people to follow and get close to the performers. For flute, clarinet, viola, cello, bass, accordion, percussion, and voice. Personnel to be announced. Valéria Bonafé was born in São Paulo in 1984. She studied composition at the University of São Paulo (USP) with Aylton Escobar and Silvio Ferraz and attended masterclasses with Emmanuel Nunes, Tristan Murail, Stefano Gervasoni, and Mario Garuti. Her works have been performed at contemporary music concerts and festivals such as SONiC Festival (New York), Le mois des compositeurs (Marseille, France), highSCORE (Pavia, Italy), Música Nova Festival (São Paulo, Brazil) and Bienal de Música Contemporânea Brasileira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). She finished her master's degree in 2011 and is currently pursuing her doctorate in Musicology at USP under professor Marcos Branda Lacerda.

Central Park, New York, NY

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5:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance: Trisha Brown's In Plain Site

In this newly created initiative, the Trisha Brown Company will use selected material from the company’s extensive repertoire and weave it together inspired by the beauty of park to create a memorable, site-specific performance.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Gray would be the color, if I had a heart.

This show assembles a group of artworks that evoke a particular feeling of lonely listlessness, embedded with the faint glimmer of hope that the idea of improvement might be possible. Laying in the gutter, but staring at the stars. Straining to see into the distance. The reaction to this arrested position of something potentially better just out of reach hovers between thoughtful reverie, heartbroken nostalgia, and helpless sloth. But with an increasingly gnawing discontent under the skin comes a more pressing and fevered need for an undefined change.

Bowery, New York, NY

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6:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Dance Lesson | Let’s Dance!

Learn to dance like a pro at these Salsa, Cha-Cha and Bachata lessons and group social dances led by master teachers from the Piel Canela Dance and Music School and featuring DJ Ray Colon.

Lincoln Square, New York, NY

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6:00 pm
free, no reservation required

Theater | Theater in the Park: Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

New york Classical Theatre presents this outdoor production of Shakespeare's timeless comedy.

Central Park, New York, NY

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7:00 pm
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Concert | Celebrating 150 Years of Piatti Caprices

Cellist Stephen Ballou performs the Twelve Caprices, Opus 25, for Solo Cello by Alfredo Piatti. These unique and delightful pieces from 1865, three to six minutes each, reflect the era of their creation, combining the expressive romantic idiom with a richly varied array of cello playing techniques.

Lincoln Square, New York, NY

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7:30 pm
Free

Theater | Sueño: A Latino Take on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Sueño will feature a diverse group of 20 actors, singers, musicians, dancers, and puppeteers. The show includes over 50 carnival puppets, stilt walkers and masks including “Vejigantes and Cabezudos”… folkloric characters from Puerto Rico, used in festival celebrations. The presentation of Shakespeare’s work in Latin America dates back to the 1800s, but rarely do New Yorkers get a chance to see adapted Latino versions of the master’s plays. In English. Bring your own chair or blanket or just stand.

Lower East Side, New York, NY

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8:00 pm
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**Theater | Shakespeare in the Park: The Tempest with Oscar Nominee Sam Waterston**

Academy Award nominee Sam Waterston (Newsroom, Law & Order, The Public’s King Lear) returns in THE TEMPEST, Shakespeare’s classic about young love, old enemies and the eternal magic of storytelling. Exiled to a fantastical island, Prospero unleashes a churning storm to shipwreck the traitor brother who stole his throne and settle the score once and for all. But bitter revenge is upended by newfound love in this sublime masterpiece that proves we are all “such stuff as dreams are made on.” Tony Award nominee Michael Greif (Romeo and Juliet, Our Lady of Kibeho, If/Then, Next to Normal) directs.

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