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40 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, March 19, 2014
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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: 10:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
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10:00 am
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood 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.
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10:00 am
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Gallery Talk | Curator's Tour of Trend-ology
Join Ariele Elia for a guided tour of the exhibition.
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10:30 am
Free
Free
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.
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11:00 am
$6...
$6...
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!
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12:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
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
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
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.
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12:20 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter
Enjoy a 45-minutes docent-led tour of the exhibition.
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12:30 pm
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free, no reservation required
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.
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1:00 pm
$6...
$6...
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.
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
$10 suggested donation
Film | Richard Weise's Harold of Orange (1984): Comedic Short Film
The beloved comedian Charlie Hill (1951-2013) plays an Anishinaabe trickster extraordinaire who knows how to fund his latest project, a chain of “pinch-bean” coffeehouses to be built on reservations around the world.
35 min.
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1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Reading | Story Time for Grown-Ups
Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two.
Featuring the stories of Alice Munro.
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1:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Concert | Pipes at One Concert
The church's mechanical-action pipe organ was built in 1964 by the Schlicker Organ Company of Buffalo, New York, and re-built 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.
Following the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, the organ was silenced, but in 2009 the organ was partially cleaned and made playable by Mann & Trupiano of Brooklyn so that it could be used on Easter Day 2009.
Today: Mark Pacoe, Director of Music, St. Malachy’s “The Actor’s Chapel,” NYC
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1:15 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Jazz | Bill Wurtzel, Jazz Guitarist
Enjoy free live music performed by jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guest musicians.
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2:00 pm
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free, no reservation required
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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2:00 pm
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Master Class | Joy in Singing
Art Song Master Class with American tenor Paul Sperry.
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2:30 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Gallery Talk | Curator's Tour: Sky High and the Logic of Luxury
Director and curator Carol Willis will lead a tour of the current exhibit SKY HIGH & the logic of luxury.
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3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
Film | Richard Weise's Harold of Orange (1984): Comedic Short Film
The beloved comedian Charlie Hill (1951-2013) plays an Anishinaabe trickster extraordinaire who knows how to fund his latest project, a chain of “pinch-bean” coffeehouses to be built on reservations around the world.
35 min.
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3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
free, no reservation required
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.
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4:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Thomas Hampson, Voice
Thomas Hampson enjoys a singular international career as a recitalist, opera singer, and recording artist, and maintains an active interest in teaching, research, and technology. The American baritone has performed in all the world’s most important concert halls and opera houses with many renowned singers, pianists, conductors, and orchestras. Praised by the New York Times for his “ceaseless curiosity,” he is one of the most respected, innovative, and sought-after soloists performing today.
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4:00 pm
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free, no reservation required
Gallery Talk | Curator's Tour of City as Canvas
Join curator Sean Corcoran for a tour of the exhibition of graffiti and street art. Learn about Martin Wong, a visionary collector who compiled and later donated works by graffiti writers and street artists to the Museum. The tour also covers the origins and evolution of the graffiti writing movement and its influence on contemporary culture.
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5:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Emmy and Tony Award winner Debra Monk talks with Ken Womble about Inside Act: How Ten Actors Made It — And How You Can Too
Debra Monk will be interviewed by Ken Womble, followed by a book signing.
Debra Monk has appeared on film in: This Is Where I Leave You (Fall 2014); Reaching Home; One For the Money; Ass Backwards; The Great Buck Howard; The Savages; Palindromes; Center Stage; Devil's Advocate; In & Out; Extreme Measures; The Bridges of Madison County; Jeffrey; and Fearless. She has starred on Broadway in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Curtains (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination); Chicago; Reckless; Thou Shalt Not; Ah, Wilderness!; Steel Pier (Tony nomination); Company; Picnic (Tony nomination); Redwood Curtain (Tony Award); Nick and Nora; and Pump Boys and Dinettes (Co-Author, Tony Nomination).
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5:00 pm
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free, no reservation required
Film | Nepalese filmmaker Kesang Tseten screens his documentary The Desert Eats Us
The film provides a rare glimpse of the migrant workers' experience in Qatar, site of the 2022 World Cup, where Nepalis outnumber natives several times over. While poverty compels them to go, it doesn't justify their treatment. The struggle to endure long working hours, the stultifying heat, the burden of loans and high expectations back home is the lot of the migrant, confronted by overwhelming upheaval and fractures.
Screening of the film will be followed by a discussion with the director.
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5:00 pm
Free
Free
Park Walk | Central Park Tour
Stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find
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6:00 pm
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Concert | College Cello and Bass Recitals
6p Michael Unterman, Baroque Cello
8p Luke Sellick, Jazz Bass
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6:00 pm
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free, no reservation required
Opening Reception | Group Show: Coding the Body
Featuring work by: Francis Bitonti, Kelly Dobson, Ben Fry, Yves Gellie, Eunsuk Hur, The Laban Institute of Movement Studies, Nervous System, Cait and Casey Reas, Diane Willow, Amit Zoran.
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Photographers Martha Rosler and Philip-Lorca diCorcia in Conversation
Author and curator Katherine Bussard joins two leading lights of contemporary art, Martha Rosler and Philip-Lorca diCorcia, to discuss how cities, especially New York, have shaped their practice's engagement with street photography.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photography: Pierre Le Hors' Period Act
Born in France in 1981, Pierre Le Hors graduated from the ICP-Bard MFA Program in 2010. His book Firework Studies was published by Hassla in 2011, and his work was recently included in the exhibition Vague Storytelling at CCNY. An upcoming zine published by Dashwood Books, Byways & Through Lines, is due out in early 2013. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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free, no reservation required
Author Reading | Anya von Bremzen discusses her book Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
James Beard Award-winning author Anya von Bremzen immigrated to the United States as a young girl from the Soviet Union. In this memoir, von Bremzen shares recipes, family stories and her perspective on the political and emotional meaning of food.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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free, no reservation required
Discussion | MFA vs. NYC
In a widely read essay entitled “MFA vs NYC,” bestselling novelist Chad Harbach argued that the American literary scene has split into two cultures: New York publishing versus university MFA programs. The book MFA vs NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction brings together established writers, MFA professors and students, and New York editors, publicists, and agents to talk about these overlapping worlds, and the ways writers make (or fail to make) a living within them. This panel discussion assembles a handful of contributors to discuss the book and the subject at large.
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6:30 pm
$5
$5
Talk | Orson Welles: Genius of Stage and Screen
He was a CBS Radio star at age 20. He staged Macbeth in Harlem at age 21. He terrified Middle America with his legendary “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast at age 23 and directed Citizen Kane for RKO Radio Pictures at age 25. Max Alvarez talks about none other than the great Orson Welles (1915-1985), actor extraordinaire and visionary stage and screen director who remains one of the most maligned cineastes in history.
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6:30 pm
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free, no reservation required
Talk | Artist Talk: Lisa Sigal
LISA SIGAL is an artist living and working in Brooklyn.
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jonathan Allen reads from his book HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton
The mesmerizing story of Hillary Clinton's political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circle Hillary Clinton’s surprising defeat in the 2008 Democratic primary brought her to the nadir of her political career, vanquished by a much younger opponent whose message of change and cutting-edge tech team ran circles around her stodgy campaign. And yet, six years later, she has reemerged as an even more powerful.
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7:00 pm
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Theater | New Voices Playwrights Festival: The Ladder by Matthew Herzfeld
Tensions flare between the student workers over the course of one night at Tate University's annual Phonathon, where jealousies, crushes, and financial worries all collide into a hurricane of undergraduate angst.
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7:00 pm
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Party | Slaughterhouse 90210 Fifth Birthday Party
Celebrate Slaughterhouse 90210, the Tumblr that combines the best of literature with the best of TV with readings from Aryn Kyle (The God of Animals), Ariel Schrag (Adam) and Adelle Waldman (The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.). Hosted by the Slaughter-ess herself, Maris Kreizman.
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7:00 pm
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free, no reservation required
7:30 pm
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Concert | College Voice Recital
Sean Sullivan, baritone. Experience the freshness and excitement of a solo performance by a gifted young artist - a uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers. The program for this event is TBA.
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8:00 pm
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free, no reservation required
Concert | The New York Woodwind Quintet in Recital
Widely regarded as the world’s preeminent woodwind quintet, the New York Woodwind Quintet continue their
legacy as performers and pedagogues as they enter their 66th season.
Carol Wincenc, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; Charles Neidich, clarinet; Marc Goldberg, bassoon; William Purvis, horn
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8:00 pm
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Free tickets required
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!
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9:00 pm
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Theater | New Voices Playwrights Festival: Standard Aptitude by Sam Byron
Four years after he was caught and publically ostracized for taking the SATs for other students at his high school, Zach tries to rekindle his sense of hope when his childhood friend, Becca, returns from college wanting to make amends.
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9:30 pm
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